Fang Guozhen robbed the official grain and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty as a hero.
Year: the last year of Yuan Dynasty
Nickname:? Hai Jing?
Sphere of influence: Zhejiang and Jiangsu
Management means: robbing official grain.
Fang Guozhen is from Taizhou, Zhejiang. History books say that he? Seven feet long, burly, black and white face, determined and brave, want to run for the horse? . Are there any ballads? Yang Yuqing, are you going out to sea? This prepared public opinion for the Fang Guozhen Uprising, so he took it? Hai Jing? Nickname.
In A.D. 1348, Fang Guozhen went to sea, moved to Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and occupied three counties in eastern Zhejiang in 20 years. Forces crossing the sea to rob food played an important role in the armed struggle to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. Fang Guozhen later surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, surrendered and rebelled, and then surrendered. After his death, Zhu Yuanzhang personally offered sacrifices.
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Wang Zhigong was killed, not rewarded.
Year: Ming Dynasty
Nickname:? King of the sea? 、? Wang Hui?
Sphere of influence: Zhoushan Islands, Japan Sea Area
Management means: smuggling, good at? Black eat black?
From Pirates of the Caribbean 1 to Pirates of the Caribbean 3, piracy has become increasingly fierce in the audio-visual field. Occasionally, one or two pirate incidents appear in the media news in real life, and pirates seem to be far away from us.
Wang Zhi, a native of Shexian County, Huizhou, was chivalrous and resourceful when he was young.
Wang Zhi has been engaged in overseas smuggling trade for a long time. He is both the leader of the maritime business group and the leader of the pirates. At that time, pirates in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were divided into groups and parties, but Wang Zhi relied on its own powerful strength to crack down and destroy many pirates, and thousands of miles of sea and border areas were under the control of Wang Zhi.
Wang Zhi made meritorious deeds in Jinghai, and repeatedly wrote to the imperial court to open up maritime trade, all of which were rejected and were besieged by the imperial navy. Wang Zhi broke through and fled to Japan to rally. Soon, Wang led a huge armed fleet to the southeast coast and attacked the city. Jiangsu and Zhejiang were shocked and the loyalists were invincible.
When the Ming court failed to suppress by force, it changed its tactics, arrested Wang Zhi's family as hostages, and designed to frame Wang Zhi. Wang Zhi was later beheaded by the imperial court. At that time, some people say that Wang Zhi? Prestige at sea, no other crime, no reason to kill? .
During the period when western countries carved up colonies, the piracy industry also put on a legal hat.
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Zheng Zhilong is also a business thief, ordering 100,000 people.
Time: Late Ming Dynasty
Nickname:? Neptune?
Sphere of influence: Fujian coast, Taiwan Province island and Japanese sea area.
Commercial means: pirates are good at it? Black eat black? , engaged in overseas trade, commerce and theft.
Zheng Zhilong, father of national hero Zheng Chenggong. He fought hard at sea for decades, claiming to be? Neptune? . In his early years, he left his hometown for the world; Then he became a pirate and engaged in maritime business, and the business was stolen; In the end, the thief became an official, and the merchant was also an official. People like him, with three identities and experiences as businessmen, thieves and officials, are rare in the history of China.
Zheng Zhilong engaged in a wide range of maritime commercial activities, from sea to land, from home to abroad, with himself, with the Portuguese, with the Spanish, and with the Dutch. When he was a pirate, he had thousands of ships and hundreds of thousands of people. After he entered the Ming Dynasty, he controlled thousands of ships of all kinds and gathered 3,000 large ships, making him the first ship king in the history of the world.
In the overseas business competition, he is good at doing business, making rich profits and becoming a rich maritime merchant. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong led an armed fleet across the sea to attack the closed-door Ming Dynasty, repeatedly defeated officers and soldiers, repelled Dutch colonists, wiped out other pirate groups, unified the sea and sublimated the southeast sea. After joining the official, he was appointed as a general officer in the coastal areas and monopolized overseas trade.
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Zhang Baozai and Hongkong do not plunder villagers or foreign ships when they reclaim land from the sea.
Year: Qing Dynasty
Nickname:? Second, Zheng Chenggong?
Sphere of influence: Hong Kong Island, Pearl River Delta, South China Sea, Southeast Asia and Singapore.
Management means: specializing in hijacking official ships, grain ships and foreign ships, robbing the East India Company and ships from Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Britain.
Zhang Baozai can be said to be the pirate king of China. In the newly released movie Pirates of the Caribbean 3-The End of the World, he is the prototype of Chow Yun Fat's China pirate Feng Xiao.
Zhang Baozai was originally named Zhang Bao, a native of Jiangmen, Guangdong. He lives by fishing. Because of resisting the blackmail of the Qing navy, his ship was destroyed and his family was separated. Zhang Baozai was brought up by fishermen and learned martial arts when he was young. /kloc-When he was 0/5 years old, he went fishing with the crowd and was captured by pirates. Seeing that Zhang Baozai was clever and alert, the pirates took him in. Is this how Zhang Baozai was forced? Fall into the water? , become? Pirates? .
After the death of the Pirate King, power gradually fell into the hands of Zhang Baozai. Based in Hong Kong, he cultivated land for production and advertised himself as? Second, Zheng Chenggong? . He also maintained frequent contacts with overseas Chinese, which made the desolate Hong Kong Island prosperous at that time, with more than 200,000 residents.
In the middle period of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, Zhang Baozai * * * owned 800 ships, more than a thousand ships and tens of thousands of followers, which were active in Lantau Island in the Pearl River Estuary. Later, he dominated the Pearl River Delta and the team grew rapidly. At the peak, 654.38+10,000 people gathered.
Zhang Baozai doesn't like robbing fellow villagers. His fleet traveled between Hong Kong and Macau, robbing European merchant ships and seizing their arms. Once there was a conflict with the Portuguese fleet in the South China Sea, and the Portuguese team was completely annihilated. It was found that the property on the Portuguese ship was obtained by attacking and plundering China passenger ships. Zhang Baozai was very angry. Therefore, they often assembled large groups to attack Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British and other countries' ships that violated China's territorial waters, which frightened the colonists when they mentioned Zhang Baozai.
In the 14th year of Jiaqing (1809), on September 17th, Zhang Baozai captured the merchant ship of the British East India Company, and the owner of the captured ship demanded redemption, and got 10,000 yuan, two boxes of opium, opium and gunpowder. Besieged by the Qing government and the British and Portuguese imperialist Coalition forces.