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What is the name of the most famous pirate in history?
1, Zheng Zhilong is the father. He is arguably the greatest pirate in China's history. He and his family controlled the Pacific trade for 30 years, no less than the pirates in the west. He can be said to be/kloc-the most internationally renowned China native in the mid-7th century. According to historical records, he is handsome and has three younger brothers named Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Zhifeng. This wild name with China characteristics seems to have doomed his fate.

/kloc-When he was 0/8 years old, he went to his uncle's house to learn business. Later, his uncle sent him to Japan for business. In Japan, he met Li Dan and Yan Siqi, the top pirates of the Ming Dynasty, and began his career as a pirate.

It is not without reason that he is called the best pirate in China. He became a pirate on his own? Defenders of the Ming Dynasty? It is a pirate who has obtained the permission of the official dignitaries to carry out piracy activities.

Later, with the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu government had long been eyeing him, but he didn't know it, thinking that no matter how the government replaced itself, it could continue to be his maritime hegemon.

2. Mrs. Qing, Zheng Yisao, a Cantonese, 1775. She was sold as a prostitute when she was a child. She was quite attractive, and was later captured by pirates and became the wife of Zheng Yi, the pirate leader of Red Flag Gang. She has always been Zheng Yi's wife, helping him pirate. Be honored as Zheng Yisao by pirates. 1807, pirates finally signed the Grand Alliance of Pirates, but Zheng Yi fell into the sea in a strong typhoon and died. She had to face the unstable pirates alone.

She gave full play to her abilities, and with the help of her adopted son, she became the justified leader of the Red Flag Gang, rapidly expanding their pirate power. At the peak, there were more than 800 large ships, 1000 small boats and hundreds of thousands of red flag troops, even more than the population and ships of the largest country in Southeast Asia at that time. It can be said that she is a legend, and therefore she has successfully become one of the top ten pirates in the world.

3. Lai Cuishan is relatively unknown. She was mainly active in the 1920s, and she owned more than 65,438+00 ships. It is said that all her ships were inherited from her father, and the cause of her death. I have never been able to make a clear statement.