"Pirates of the Caribbean" must have been seen by many people, the image of pirates in the movie is free and just, and in real life, most pirates do things that are invisible. Pirates are not only foreign, there have been many notorious pirates in Chinese history, and the pirate we are talking about today is the largest pirate of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor once offered a reward of 7.5 million taels of silver to arrest, and finally he was caught alive by Zheng He, and the end was miserable.
This pirate's name is Chen Zuyi, a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, born in an ordinary family, fled with his family when he was young, and ran to the South China Sea to become a pirate. At that time, the sea was prevalent, threatening the lives of the people along the coast, and Ming Taizu ordered the people not to go to sea privately. Chen Zuyi was against the wind, and after arriving in Nanyang, at first Chen Zuyi did not think of being a pirate, but turned to a general under the king of a small country. After the king's death, Chen Zuyi rose up and established himself as king.
After becoming the leader, Chen Zuyi did not want to rely on the proper way to lead the people to strengthen the country together, but took the side door and left road, took everyone into the sea and became a pirate. Why pirates? One is that Chen Zuyi is free and habitual, likes the pirates to live freely and unrestrainedly, the second is that Chen Zuyi has no ability to govern the country, but he has come to the position of the leader step by step by relying on his heart and fierceness, and the pirates are more in line with his poisonous and spicy means, at that time, many pirates were just robbing money, not innocent people's lives, but Chen Zuyi was not, as long as he was unhappy, he would lay down his hands, rob the money and die.
With the passage of time, Chen Zuyi's pirate gang continued to grow and become a frightening pirate leader in the Southeast Sea, and his gang also developed into one of the largest pirate groups in the world at that time, with more than 10,000 people and more than 100 pirate ships, japan, the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and other coastal countries were deeply harmed by Chen Zuyi, and some small coastal countries were forced to pay tribute to Chen Zuyi in order to avoid being contributed.
When Chen Zuyi's sprouts first came out, Ming Taizu ordered a reward of 500,000 taels of silver to be seized, but in the end they all failed. By the time of Ming Chengzu, the amount of the reward had doubled 15 times, Chen Zuyi's head was worth 7.5 million taels of silver, while the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty was only 11 million silver, which showed how rampant Chen Zuyi was at that time, so that the government had to be arrested.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the biggest factor for Zhu Yuanzhang's closure of the country was the prevalence of piracy, and Chen Zuyi, as the leader of pirates, had an unshirkable responsibility for the continuation of this policy, and now many historians believe that Chen Zuyi can be said to have led to the continuous implementation of the sea ban in the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent, which makes us more and more distant from Western countries in the subsequent development and changes the direction of historical development.
But sooner or later, those who have done bad things will be rewarded. Chen Zuyi probably watched his pirate career continue to grow, and people's boldness became bigger and bigger, when Zheng He returned to the West, he sent people to negotiate with Chen Zuyi, hoping that he could return to the right path and want the imperial court to be soft. And Chen Zuyi naturally would not be so easy to accept, but he thought that Zheng He must have brought back a lot of treasures on the ship, in order to get this wealth, Chen Zuyi decided to take a risk, pretending to surrender, and taking away the treasure on Zheng He's ship.
But Zheng He was not such a simple person, he soon received the news and saw through Chen Zuyi's plot. When Chen Zuyi was full of confidence and drove the pirate ship to prepare to "surrender" to Zheng He, Zheng He had already laid down a net of heaven and earth, swept Chen Zuyi and his gang to the net, and also captured Chen Zuyi alive, it is conceivable that the emperor at that time, Zhu Di, naturally would not let go of the pirate king who was difficult to capture, chen Zuyi was finally beheaded and shown to the public, and the end was miserable.
Therefore, we must not be too arrogant in doing things, and sooner or later those who do evil will be punished as they deserve.