Zheng Chenggong / 郑成功

Zheng Chenggong is the maritime military leader in No.207 闽南往事：众神人间办事处，涨海声中万国商 whose story connects Ming-Qing transition, anti-Qing resistance, trade networks, intelligence routes, and Taiwan. The episode describes him as splitting from Zheng Zhilong / 郑芝龙 after his father submitted to the Qing, then using Kinmen and Xiamen as bases before turning to Taiwan after the failed northern campaign.

The source treats the Taiwan campaign as more than a simple nationalist recovery narrative. It is also a strategic search for a stable rear base for a maritime regime under military pressure. That places Zheng Chenggong inside Minnan Maritime Commercial Culture: politics, family split, sea power, trade routes, and settlement all become parts of one maritime system.

Source Position

• Zheng Chenggong’s resistance depends on maritime logistics and commercial networks, not only battlefield legitimacy.
• Taiwan appears as both symbolic territory and practical base for a sea power under pressure.
• The later Qing coastal relocation policy is framed as an attempt to cut off support to Zheng power, intensifying migration and coastal suffering.

Connections

• Zheng Zhilong / 郑芝龙 — father and contrast case.
• Haijin and Maritime Smuggling — broader sea-control environment that shaped Zheng-family power.
• Minnan Maritime Commercial Culture — umbrella for sea trade, migration, and political survival.
• Overseas Chinese Mutual Aid Networks — later diaspora institution layer that follows from the same migration and maritime world.