 Zheng Zhilong, along with his servants and sons who went with him were kept under house arrest for many years, until 1661.The Qing initially sentenced Zheng and his remaining servants and sons with him to death by lingchi but commuted their sentence to death by decapitation instead.He would later be executed by the Qing government in 1661 at Caishikou, as a result of his son Koxinga's continued resistance against the Qing regime.