Is there a more domineering pirate captain in history? What's his name?

The feudal dynasty of China attached importance to agriculture and suppressed commerce, monopolized the "tribute city" and prohibited businessmen from going to sea. Businessmen were forbidden to go abroad in Ming and Qing dynasties, and those who went abroad were regarded as traitors and pirates. Throughout the history of China, many so-called pirates are not cruel and easy to kill, but should be sure that they are heroes at sea. In recent years, people of insight began to pay attention to and study the problem of piracy in China's history, which reflected that China scholars and writers had a new understanding of historical piracy.

Sun En, the founder of One Pirate.

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the maritime uprising led by Sun En and Lu Xun lasted 13 years from 398 to 4 165438. Nearly a million pirates have moved to the vast area south of the Yangtze River, crisscrossing the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Such a magnificent armed uprising at sea is rare in the history of piracy in China.

Sun En, clever words. The world provides five barrels of rice. When Emperor Wu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in filial piety, his uncle Sun Tai was the leader of Wudou Midao, and he was very prestigious among the people and respected him as a god. His followers are distributed all over the south. When Sun Tai was killed, Sun En fled to the seaside, where he desperately wanted revenge. In 399 AD, since the island coached its party, it killed Shangyu Order and seized the meeting records, and the team quickly expanded to several hundred thousand people. Sun En traveled to Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Nanjing and Yangzhou.

Lu Xun, who is the first in the word, is "beautiful in color and elegant." He is good at cursive and chess. He is a gentle man. In 402 AD, Sun En committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea after his defeat. The rest, mainly Lu Xun, moved to Guangzhou, Changsha, Nanchang, Nanjing and Guangdong, and 4 1 1 failed. Sun En and Lu Xun were called "the beginning of pirates in the Central Plains", which provided experience for later pirates. Later generations often call pirates Sun En, and Sun En has become synonymous with pirates. This is the origin of Sun En, the founder of pirates.

Fang Guozhen, the "Poseidon" in East Zhejiang.

Fang Guozhen is a native of Yangshan, Huangyan County, Taizhou, East Zhejiang Province, and was born in poverty. History books say that he is "seven feet long, burly, with a black face and a white face, determined and brave, and gallops hard", and there is a ballad "Yang Yuqing, Good Sailor" to prepare for the Fang Guozhen Uprising. In the early years of Yuan Dynasty, Fang Guozhen went to sea on 1348, and moved to Zhejiang and Jiangsu. In the past 20 years, he divided his troops into three counties in eastern Zhejiang and threatened to block the maritime grain transportation, which played an important role in the armed struggle to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. After surrendering to Zhu Yuanzhang, he was called a sea hero by Zhu.

Wang Zhiwang, the Leader of Private Enterprises in Southeast China

Wang Zhi, a native of Shexian County, Huizhou, is less Ren Xia and more resourceful. As we all know, the Ming dynasty closed its doors to the outside world and imposed a sea ban. Wang Zhi has been engaged in overseas smuggling trade for a long time, and has opened up Shuangyu Port in Ningbo. 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, and the situation was complicated. Wang Zhi, famous for its resourcefulness, has cracked down and destroyed many pirates with its powerful strength, and thousands of miles of sea areas and borders are under the control of Wang Zhi. Wang Zhi Jinghai made great contributions and wrote to the imperial court for opening up maritime trade many times, but it was rejected and was besieged by the government navy. Wang Zhi broke through and fled to Japan to rally. In the thirty-first year of Jiajing, that is, A.D. 1552, a huge armed fleet invaded the southeast coast, attacking the city and plundering the land. Jiangsu and Zhejiang wavered, and loyalists were invincible. Wang Zhi occupied Dinghai, calling himself "King of the Pure Sea" and later "King of the Emblem".

When the Ming court failed to suppress by force, it changed its tactics, took Wang Zhi's wife, children and mother hostage, sent personnel to Japan, tricked Wang Zhi into agreeing to lift the maritime ban, opened the trade market, and designed to frame Wang Zhi. After two years in prison, Wang Zhi was ordered by the court to be beheaded at the gate of Hangzhou until he died. At that time, it was said that Wang Zhi was brave at sea with his prestige and there was no other crime, so he killed him for no reason. Xu Guangqi complained for him and said, "Wang Zhi never invaded the island himself, so he was recruited, measured his position and asked him to do his best to get rid of pirates." Obviously, killing Wang Zhi is not welcome. Before he died, Wang Zhi predicted: "If I die alone, I am afraid it will bring trouble to the people of Zhejiang." Wang Zhi was the representative of Huizhou merchants and southeast sea merchants in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, and also the most legendary figure in the East China Sea.

Zheng Zhilong, the "Sea King" in the Late Ming Dynasty

Zheng Zhilong, a native of Shijing Township, Nan 'an County, Fujian Province, was a famous pirate and maritime merchant in the late Ming Dynasty. After decades of hard work at sea, he performed a unique trilogy: he left his hometown in his early years and went to 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. A man with triple identities and experiences as a businessman, a thief and an official like him is 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, and had contact with Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch. In the overseas business competition, he is good at doing business, making rich profits and becoming a rich maritime merchant. 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 all kinds of seagoing ships and collected 3000 large seagoing ships, making him the first king of ships in the history of the world. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong led an armed fleet to cross the sea, attacked the closed-door Ming Dynasty, repeatedly defeated officers and soldiers, repelled Dutch colonists from invading Fujian coast several times, wiped out other pirate groups, unified the sea, and had a great impact on the southeast waters; Later, he became an official and served as a general officer along the coast. "Sitting in the sea king, there are several counties to choose from", autocratic seaside, monopolizing overseas trade.

Cai Qian, a Fujian pirate in the southeast sea.

Cai Qian, a native of Xipu Township, Tongan County, Fujian Province, was born in poverty. In the fifty-ninth year of Qing Qianlong (AD 1794), he was forced to go to sea as a thief. By Jiaqing, the headquarters had grown to more than 20,000 people and more than 200 seagoing ships. Cai Qian has been at sea for fifteen years. He was an attacker in Taiwan Province Province and called Zhenhai a powerful king.