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Chapter 86 Mrs. Qing

The animal skin is actually a suicide note, mainly writing about the experiences of this group of people during their lifetime.

This shipwreck is a pirate ship from the Qing Dynasty and belongs to the famous pirate Zheng Yisao.

Speaking of Zheng Yisao, she was a legendary woman in the Qing Dynasty.

She became a pirate female bandit leader step by step from a ship prostitute, and her experience can be called tortuous.

In feudal society, women suffered far more than men of that era.But even so, many people still left behind her immortal legend.

Zheng Yisao left her name in history, and she still left her name in an unusual way.

The way.

Speaking of Zheng Yisao, many people may feel unfamiliar, but if we talk about Mrs. Qing in "Pirates of the Caribbean", many people must be very familiar with it.

The prototype of Mrs. Qing in the movie is this legendary female pirate. She changed from a ship prostitute to a pirate leader step by step, and led the pirate army to defeat the Qing navy navy several times.

In addition, even the ships of the Western powers have nothing to do with her, so they have to pay the "protection fee" obediently.

In the end, the female pirate accepted the imperial court's recruitment, and made great achievements in the "Opium War", and was granted the title of imperial wife.

In today's words, Zheng Yisao can be called the "first sister of pirates" at that time

Zheng Yisao, whose original name is Xianggu, comes from a poor family. In order to survive, she had to become a boat prostitute.

Life is full of bitterness, but Shiitake is still struggling firmly.

When she was 26 years old, her life ushered in a turning point again. A group of pirates came to the fishing village, and she and her sisters were all caught on board by the pirates.

Shiitake was not as terrified as her sisters, but accepted everything that was about to happen.

Besides, being a ship prostitute is just making a living. If the pirates take care of the food, their life may not be worse than before.

Coincidentally, the pirate leader Zheng Yi fell in love with this unique girl and married her as Mrs. Yazhai.

At that time, pirates were divided into six gangs: red, yellow, blue, white, black, and purple. Zheng Yi happened to be the leader of the red gang, and Mrs. Zheng became the official wife of the red gang pirates.

Zheng Yi and his wife are a pair of pirates with dreams. They want to make the pirate business bigger and stronger.

As the business grew bigger and bigger, Zheng Yi died in a typhoon, and Zheng Yisao's life was disrupted again.

With the support of her nephew and adopted son, Zheng Yisao took over the Red Flag Gang and became the next leader of the Red Flag Pirates.

The status of women in feudal society was very low. As the saying goes, "When a woman is in charge of the house, the house collapses." The fact that the pirates were willing to work under Zheng Yisao's hands still shows that Zheng Yisao is capable.

She wins over Zhang Baozai, Zheng Yi's adopted son, and obtains Zhang Baozai's support.

In addition, she also formulated strict gang rules, and the pirates were no longer the original mob.A group of well-organized and disciplined people soon showed strong combat effectiveness.

The pirates also changed from having to submit to being convinced.

Under the leadership of Zheng Yisao and Zhang Baozai, the red gang pirates went to glory.

After Zheng Yisao took the position of pirate leader, she was responsible for the future and destiny of the pirates.

In her opinion, offense is the best defense. Without strong attack power, how can one rob ships passing by?How can it stop the Qing army's payment?

If these two points cannot be achieved, how can the pirate business become bigger and stronger?

Zheng Yisao used a large part of the gang's income to purchase and build ships. At its peak, the gang had more than 600 ships and 6 people.

The red gang pirates are following a sustainable development route, they are not plundering in the way of fishing.

It is a "pig raising" type of plunder.What is the "pig raising" style, that is, passing ships, whether they are official or foreigners, have to pay protection fees of various names when they pass by. If they do not pay, they will only end up being looted.

The advantage of this "pig raising" type of robbery is sustainability. Fees can be charged for passing ships, reducing bloodshed and sacrifice.

Long-term looting is tantamount to fishing. Although the profit margin is large, it will undoubtedly lead to resistance from ships. The cost performance is obviously not as comfortable as long-term income.

It is enough to see Zheng Yisao's uniqueness in the gang route.

The ships of the Qing government and Western powers also failed to avoid paying "protection fees", which made them lose face.So the two joined forces to launch a campaign against the Red Gang pirates.

In the autumn of 1809, the Qing government and many countries formed a joint fleet to attack the pirates led by Zheng Yisao.

Mrs. Zheng, sitting on Lantau Island, withstood the eight-day siege of the coalition forces, and she was proficient in both fiction and practicality.

While defending, he did not forget to send a surprise soldier to attack Guangzhou Bay, killing Lin Guoliang, the general soldier of Humen, and leveling the fort.

On the way back to rescue the coalition forces, they were ambushed by pirates and suffered heavy losses.This battle played the style of the Red Gang pirates.

In 1810, the Qing government adopted a soft policy and recruited Zheng Yisao.

Zheng Yisao showed off her IQ again.She led more than a dozen illiterate women to negotiate with Qing government officials and won the best interests for herself.

The Qing government asked them to summon security and accept kneeling, but Zheng Yisao did not resolutely refuse. Although the tens of thousands of horses are excellent, they still cannot withstand the Qing army. Even if they can win a few victories, they cannot always win.

She gave the officials of the Qing Dynasty enough face, but in exchange for enough benefits.She abandoned the secular concept and asked the Qing government to give her and Zhang Baozai a marriage, which made this unlucky love go on the right track.

Since then, she has also started to serve the country and successfully cleaned up.

After Zheng Yisao accepted the recruitment, she was named the imperial wife by the imperial court.

Until the outbreak of the Opium War, Zheng Yisao also advised Lin Zexu against the British army. Until later, after Zhang Baozai passed away, Zheng Yisao settled on the outer island.

It can be said that Zheng Yisao's life is a legendary life.

And this suicide note is not Zheng Yisao's, but one of his pirates, which records that the sunken ship encountered an official ship on the way after robbing a merchant ship and was sunk.The pirate hoped to prove his loyalty to Zheng Yisao through the suicide note, and they did not surrender even if they were sunk.

Who knew that it was only today that Ye Yuan salvaged these from the bottom of the sea.Maybe the pirate didn't expect that he would die so silently.

After reading these, Ye Yuan knew the origin of this batch of things.First, open a large wooden box, which is full of silver ingots.

Ye Yuan looked at this ingot, it was about 12cm wide and 7cm high, with the words "Twenty Years of Qianlong" written on the front.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were two forms of silver dollars, one was library silver and the other was market silver.

Treasury silver is the official silver handed over to the state treasury. It requires the same size and special markings. The market silver can be large or small, and there are scattered silver and large ingots of silver.

This is because the circulation of silver is different.

Treasury silver is generally used for the salary payment of officials and the rewards of princes and nobles, and cannot be circulated in the market.

Market silver can be freely circulated in the market.

(End of this chapter)