Why do history books praise Zheng Chenggong and ignore Li Dingguo, the mainstay of anti-Qing?

Such a silly thing as history is always changed according to what later generations say, and how it is beneficial to today's politics. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, without exception.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Daming's luck was exhausted. Despite his tenacious resistance, he still couldn't stop the wheel of history. Damn it, he's still dead. As the last afterglow of the Ming Dynasty, Nanming still flashed the indomitable fighting spirit of the Han people in the last days of the dynasty. The solar terms and beliefs of this nation have been passed down in China for thousands of years.

There are two important generals in the late Ming Dynasty who should go down in history. They are Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo. As the last resistance of Nanming to the Qing court, these two men played an important role, which lasted at least ten years. But now, their reputations among historians and people are completely different.

As far as the contribution to Nanming is concerned, Li Dingguo is higher than Zheng Chenggong. Although both of them were the pillars of Nanming, their ways and influences against the Qing army were different.

Li Dingguo has been active with Guangxi and Yunnan for generations, and used the advantages of natural geography to confront the Qing army for several years. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian dynasties, Zheng Chenggong mainly used the water army and the Qing army to resist and fight.

The difference between Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong is that they are both ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but their political tone is different. Li Dingguo maintained Li Yong as orthodoxy, and Zheng Chenggong maintained Emperor Longwu as orthodoxy. At this time, the opinions of the Ming Dynasty were not unified, and Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong did not cooperate, but cooperated with each other to fight against the Qing Dynasty. This situation is very unfavorable to the stability of Nanming, so the Qing army used this dispersion of resistance to divide and rule.

In the end, Li Dingguo and Li Yong fled to Myanmar and died in a foreign land. Li Yong was escorted to Kunming by the then King Wu Sangui and strangled with a bowstring.

However, after Chinese mainland's resistance failed, Zheng Chenggong led the water army to flee to Taiwan Province Province, drove away the Dutch, occupied the island of Taiwan Province Province, and continued to fight against the Qing court until his son Zheng Jing surrendered to the Qing court. Since then, Taiwan Province Island has returned to the Central Plains Dynasty from the Dutch.

Back to the point, in fact, this aspect is very embarrassing, so Li Dingguo won't talk about it. Although the contribution is great and the national spirit and integrity are better, it does not conform to the historical theme at this stage. Li Dingguo's loyalty and ability were only loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and he prevented the historical process of the Qing Dynasty's unification of the Central Plains. It is not good to do too much publicity in this regard.

Zheng Chenggong, on the other hand, recovered the island of Taiwan Province Province from foreign countries and made important contributions to the interests of the nation. Although Zheng Chenggong's personal motivation is not necessarily simple, he just wants to find a place to continue the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he hoped that his descendants could occupy Taiwan Province Province from generation to generation, but his son was disappointing, and he could not escape the historical trend. China's land will eventually be unified.

Combining the needs of modern society and the selectivity of propaganda, Zheng Chenggong's contribution has been greatly improved, but the historical position of Li Dingguo is almost unknown. Everything is a political need.