Zheng Chenggong in the southeast, Li Dingguo in the southwest, are two outstanding famous generals in the Southern Ming Dynasty, in the last trace of blood to protect the mantle of the Han people, they can be said to be the mainstay, they caused the greatest loss to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are Li Dingguo's two famous kings, and Zheng Chenggong's southeast coastal series of victories.

Of course, the author also admits that Li Dingguo's talent is above Zheng Chenggong, and Li Dingguo eliminated the most hated traitor Kong Youde, and no one can deny these merits.

Some people believe that Zheng Chenggong's selfishness was too heavy, which led to Li Dingguo's victory failing to expand the results, and a series of Ming generals who had originally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty were defeated again because of Zheng Chenggong's selfishness.

The author believes that the above evaluation of Zheng Chenggong is very one-sided, in fact, Zheng Chenggong is not a very selfish person. These are not because the author is a talented person in Xiamen who favors Zheng Chenggong, but uses historical facts to speak.

First of all, if Zheng Chenggong was a very selfish person, when his father surrendered to the Manchus, why was he able to break off his father's kindness? This just shows Zheng Chenggong's loyalty to the imperial court and the nation. He didn't want to become a traitor himself, and he didn't want to be infamous through the ages, so he chose to break off with his father and decisively stay to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty.

As for why the Nanming army would not save or even kill each other? These are not Zheng Chenggong's selfishness, but Nanming at that time was not a unified whole. Since the moment Emperor Chongzhen was unable to move the capital to Nanjing and chose the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain, Nanming has lost a unified core figure with enough prestige to gather people's hearts.

Whether it is King Fu, King Lu, Emperor Longwu, or Yongli, they are all supported by warlords of different factions.

Zheng Chenggong was loyal to Emperor Longwu, not to the Yongli Emperor in the southwest. Zhang Huangyan was loyal to the King of Lu, Yuan Chuang was loyal to the King of Shu, and Li Dingguo was loyal to the Yongli Emperor.

Since Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army entered Fujian without bloodshed, without any resistance, and Emperor Longwu Tingzhou suffered, Zheng Chenggong lost his allegiance to the goal. Although in desperation, he still had to be loyal to Yongli in his mouth, but he was not convinced in his heart. At this time, Zhang Huangyan sent King Lu over again.

Although Zheng Chenggong didn't like King Lu, he still raised him.

As for Zheng Chenggong's attack on Guangdong's army anyway, it was completely instigated by Shi Lang.

If it is said that because of selfishness, they attacked friendly forces, then Li Dingguo also did such a thing, and Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang also failed because of civil strife, which made the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty fall short.

In terms of comprehensive ability, Zheng Chenggong is inferior to Li Dingguo, but Zheng Chenggong is the strongest in naval combat ability. After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was placed under house arrest in Beijing, and none of the remaining Qing army generals were Zheng Chenggong's opponents, as long as they fought with Zheng Chenggong on the water, they were all defeated. Even Shi Lang, the admiral of the navy who was later boasted of being invincible, was also defeated by Zheng Chenggong.

Besides, Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty is not actually for glory and wealth, he is already very rich, why should he send it to the door to send money to others? In fact, what he hopes most is to get the support of the imperial court and realize his desire to have a strong maritime frontier. But it was impossible for the Qing court to give him these.

Zheng Chenggong inherited his father's business, although he was inferior to his father in terms of talent, but he also had lofty ideals. If it weren't for Zheng Chenggong's untimely death, he would have thought about gaining a foothold on Luzon. It was impossible to capture Manila, but Luzon was very large, and the Spaniards controlled only a little bit, and Zheng Chenggong wanted to develop the territory north of Luzon.

If Zheng Chengcheng lived a little longer, he would really fight with the Dutch for the South China Sea, and the Natuna Islands would not fall into the hands of the Dutch.