At that time, Huanglong, the general of the Ming Dynasty, was guarding Pidao, and he had a Ministry, Li Mei, who was Geng's confidant and had private contacts with foreigners. After the incident was exposed, Huanglong put him in prison. Geng's younger brother Dusi Geng Zhongyu is in Huanglong's army. In the name of unpaid wages, he led his troops to surround Yi Long, took Li Mei to the martial arts school, broke his legs, cut off his ears and nose, and tried to kill him. Huanglong caught Geng Zhongyu, killed him, and wrote a confession to Geng.
Sun impeached Huanglong and embezzled military pay, which led to mutiny. Emperor Chongzhen confirmed the fact that Geng Zhongming was in power. In the fifth year of Tiancong (163 1 year), Geng and Kong Youde sent troops to resist the late Jin Dynasty, but the salary was not enough. After the Wuqiao mutiny in Hebei Province, Kong Youde led his troops back to Shandong to attack Dengzhou, and Geng rallied many fellow villagers in Liaodong as Kong Youde's back office. After Kong Youde captured Dengzhou, he elected Kong Youde as the marshal, and Kong Youde accepted Geng and others' orders and called him the company commander.
Sun Yinglong, a general guarding Tianjin, boasted to others that he and Geng were brothers, which enabled him to seize Kong Youde and surrender. Governor Zheng sent him to lead two thousand people from the sea to persuade Geng. Geng played along, pretending to want Kong Youde's head. As soon as the gate of Shuicheng opened, the messenger of the Ming Dynasty entered the city. Geng Zhongming led the army to fight, captured the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, surrounded his Ministry, got the war ship of the Ming Army, and formed the Navy.
The Ming army attacked Dengzhou more and more urgently. In May of the seventh year of Tiancong (1633), Geng crossed the sea from Kong Youde to Liaodong and returned to Jin. Huang taiji treated them well, named him company commander and called his army God-bless soldiers.
After the Qing Dynasty, Geng invaded the ministries of Kong Youde, and the ministries complained to Kong Youde. So Kong Youde impeached Geng, and Geng took the blame, and wrote to request that the ministers who occupied Kong Youde be returned to Kong Youde. Huang taiji wrote to reward Kong Youde and ordered Kong Youde to appease Geng Zhongming; He also ordered Geng to be kind to his subordinates and not covet the bad habits before. On the same day, Huang taiji called them into the palace and hosted a banquet.
Not long after, Huang Taiji sent someone to bring him goat wine, and wrote a letter saying, "I heard that you Han Chinese officials were fighting with you in the teaching field, so today I gave a banquet for you to serve the country." You are far away from home, so take this banquet as a thank you for teaching competitive shooting. "Soon Huang Taiji let Geng and Kong Youde enter Liaoyang together.
In the first year of Chongde (1636), Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor and named Geng King Huai Shun. When Huang Taiji repeatedly sent troops to crusade against the Ming Dynasty and attacked North Korea, Geng Zhongming followed him.
In August of the seventh year of Chongde (1642), Huang Taiji ordered him to return to Huang Zhengqi. In September, Geng and his men, Jia La Zhen Shi, impeached Geng's secret Tibetans in Songshan and Xingshan. Some fugitives were executed according to law, and their bodies were collected and sacrificed; Then his Ministry appeared the phenomenon of killing innocent people by mistake. After the situation was verified, Geng was fined 1200 platinum.
In November of the eighth year of Chongde (1643), Jara Song Zhen, Guo Fu, Pan Xiao, Xiong Ming and others designed to kill Geng Zhongming. When Geng heard about it, he found and killed Song and others. In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), Geng followed Prince Dourgen of Rui into Shanhaiguan, followed Prince Duo of Yu westward into Shaanxi to pacify the remnants of Li Zicheng, and soon led an army south to pacify Jiangnan.
In the third year of Shunzhi (1646), Kong Youde was the general of Pingnan and led a great army to conquer Nanming. Geng and others led the troops to follow Kong Youde south. Geng and General Ming fought in Niupi Beach, and Geng broke the army. Successively conquered counties such as Hengzhou, Qiyang and Wugang; Caught the Ming dynasty general Guo.
In the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649), Geng changed the country name to King Jingnan, and gave him a golden book and seal. Geng has followed many times since the Qing Dynasty. These expeditions are all with Kong Youde, who has never been out alone. In the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649), Geng and Kong Youde began to split up.
Kong Youde went south to attack Guangxi, and Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi conquered Guangdong. Geng Zhongming led the original 2,500 soldiers and 7,500 new fighters, a total of 10000, with Xu Degong as the left-wing company commander, and even became the right-wing company commander. When the army set out, the punishments played Geng's subordinates, Mailer, Chen Shaozong and others, conniving at his subordinates' possession of fugitives, which was a sin to say this plainly.
The emperor shunzhi then asked Geng to check the soldiers who were hiding fugitives. Geng found more than 300 people, so he wrote to the emperor shunzhi confessing, and his ministers discussed to deprive Geng of his title. the emperor shunzhi said that he would be lenient, and Shao Zong and others were also exempted from capital punishment. Geng Zhongming doesn't know the order of the emperor shunzhi. In November of the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649), Geng Zhongming hanged himself in Ji 'an, Jiangxi.