Chapter 109 Section 3 Pirate Zheng Zhilong

Compared with these generals, Zheng Chenggong is more familiar with the sea and the Dutch. Counting the national heroes before modern China, no one has such a complicated "overseas relationship" as Zheng Chenggong.This can be fully proved from the following facts: Zheng Chenggong's father was named "Nicolas Gasbard", which is his Catholic name; his real name is Zheng Zhilong, and he is proficient in Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese.It is said that he married a daughter to a foreigner living in Macau, so Zheng Chenggong has a Portuguese brother-in-law.Zheng Chenggong himself is half Japanese, and grew up in a foreign country before the age of seven.

This family was the most westernized family of Chinese politicians before the emergence of the Chiang Kai-shek family.Both Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong had close contacts with Catholic priests.In the museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, there is a letter written by Zheng Chenggong to the Dutch. The content of the letter is to ask the Dutch doctor Philip Hellmans to see him.Because this doctor had treated his father Zheng Zhilong ten years ago, he won the trust of the Zheng family. The reason why this family has such a broad international background is that Zheng Zhilong is the most famous "pirate" on the East Asian ocean.