In the 6th part of a strategy turn-based game, if you choose China, there will be eleven "great men" who can be recruited: Confucius, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Li Bai, Qu Yuan, Zheng He, Zhang Qian, Bi Sheng, Qiu Ying, Liu Tianhua and Zheng Yiyi. Some of the latter three of them may not be familiar with each other, especially the last one, Zheng Yiyi. There are so many historical celebrities in China, why should Western games include a character that is not familiar to the Chinese? Because she was so famous in the West, her identity was that of a pirate.
Modern Western civilization is the continuation of the pirate civilization. In the dictionary of Westerners, there is no distinction between good and evil, only the distinction between strong and weak, and those who hurt them will leave a deep impression on them, and Zheng Yiyi is one of them. In the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", the prototype of "Lady Qing" is Zheng Yiyi.
Zheng Yiyi was active in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, and the pirate "Red Flag Gang" she led during the heyday of the pirate "Red Flag Gang" had more than 1,800 large and small warships and helped more than 100,000 people. Defeating the Qing court was nothing to Zheng Yiyi, her fleet plundering foreign fleets was commonplace, and the maritime powers of Britain and Portugal forming a coalition were not her opponents.
The prototype of Lady Qing in the movie is Zheng Yiyi
In 1809, three ships of the British East India Company broke into the Pearl River and rampaged, and Zheng Yiyi immediately led an armed fleet to come and surround the British ships. In the fierce battle, one British ship was sunk, the other two fled in a hurry, dozens of British sailors were beheaded, and Zheng Yiyi won a great victory.
The British, who had suffered repeated defeats, were so ashamed that they formed a combined fleet with the Portuguese fleet and the Guangdong Marine Division to make a comeback, and at the end of November 1809, taking advantage of Zheng Yiyi's fleet to shelter her from the wind on Lantau Island, they blocked her in the harbor in an attempt to eliminate her in one fell swoop. The combined fleet had more than a hundred ships, and with the assistance of Britain and Portugal, it was thought that it would be a safe victory, but it was unexpectedly rushed out by the fleet led by Zheng Yiyi.
Zheng Yiyi, who was plundering in the 1836 "History of Global Piracy"
Zheng Yiyi not only rushed out, but also followed the combined fleet to pursue and kill, guangdong admiral Sun Quanmou recorded: "The thieves are very numerous, the water division will destroy the ship and fight, the big defeat, the ship fled." "Why is Zheng Yiyi's fleet so powerful?" Without him, the ship's cannon liar!
Zheng Yiyi, who lives on the sea, attaches great importance to the advanced nature of weapons, and once she hears that foreigners have any new weapons, she must get everything in her hands. The new 24-pounder gun developed by the British, Zheng Yiyi soon arrived in hand, and was equipped with a large number of them in his fleet, and its number even exceeded that of the British fleet. Even the British fleet did not dare to attack it, let alone the vulnerable Guangdong Marine Division.
In order to deal with Zheng Yiyi, the Jiaqing Emperor was defeated for several successive governors of Liangguang, and many general soldiers were either killed or committed suicide, and the situation did not change until Ballantine came. He first took the measure of sea ban, cutting off Zheng Yiyi's financial resources and using the economic blockade to weaken her strength. At the same time, the high-ranking official Houlu was used to lure the people in the pirate alliance.
This series of combined punches worked, and divisions occurred within the pirate alliance, and some people decided to submit to the Qing court. This has had a great impact on the Red Flag Gang, and the people in the gang are floating and depressed. Seeing this scene, Zheng Yiyi felt disheartened and had no choice but to accept the offer. After being recruited, Zheng Yiyi was given the title of Lady of the Commandments and lived in the city of Guangzhou until her death in 1844.
The portrait of Zheng Yiyi's sister-in-law, she got a good death
When the Opium War broke out in 1840, Zheng Yiyi participated in the military aircraft as Lin Zexu's staff officer, but unfortunately, the Qing court was already difficult to return, and even zheng Yiyi could not change the fate of defeat. Some people say that if Zheng Yiyi did not submit to the imperial court, the outcome of the Opium War might be rewritten, or even not happen. After all, the British also relied on Drake, a great pirate, to defeat the Spanish Armada.
History can not assume, if there is no Zheng Yijie, the Opium War may break out in advance, that is, the great defeat 30 years ago made the British very jealous, and the "top ten most famous pirates in history" Zheng Yiyi, rated by Westerners, is among the best. Various novels, biographies, and movies featuring her are also emerging in an endless stream, which can leave such a deep impression on the pirate civilization, which shows its superiority.
In the era of sea power, Chinese were not absent, Wang Zhi, Chen Zuyi, Xu Hai, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Yiyi, each of them made foreigners change color, but unfortunately China did not develop into a sea power country in the end. Even if Zheng Yiyi's sister-in-law could not save the Qing court for a while, the shackles of thought and vision were the most deadly.