Since the invention of the steamship, mankind has carried out maritime trade, which has greatly led to the development of the economy, but this has also given birth to a "profession", that is, pirates, who are like bandits active on land, specializing in robbing merchant ships at sea. Even some are not afraid of death, even warships dare to rob, Somalia is the most rampant sea that makes many merchant ships smell pirates.
In fact, in ancient China, there was a pirate named Wang Zhi, who was a Ming Dynasty person, the owner of the Wufeng ship, and a Tuolin person from Xiongcun Village, SheXian County, Huizhou. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's sea ban policy was extremely strict, requiring that the plates should not go to the sea. However, due to the development of the commodity economy at that time, Western colonists and Easterners wanted to come to China to make a big profit. Wang Zhi saw the way to make money, so he started the smuggling business. In 1543, Wang Zhi's ships arrived in Tanegashima (now Kagoshima Prefecture) in Japan with three Portuguese sailors, and sold the Portuguese arquebusiers to the Japanese, which is the origin of the Japanese iron cannon.
Since Wang Zhi's boss Xu Dong was killed by Inspector Zhu Yi, Wang Zhi has ushered in the climax of his career. He single-handedly founded a pirate group, not only violating the policy of smuggling in violation of the sea ban policy, but even began to catch up with the robbery and murder, but at that time, Wang Zhi's team included a large number of Japanese fallen samurai in addition to the poor residents along the coast, which also laid the foundation for the later Wokou. Since then, Wang Zhi has become a thorn in the side of the Ming Dynasty, although the officers and soldiers have nothing to do with this group of pirates, but since Yu Dayu took office, Jiajing thirty-two years, led the elite fleet to raid Wang Zhi Laowo Liegang, resulting in this pirate group being beaten to an inhuman appearance.
Seeing that China could not continue to mix, Wang Zhi crossed east to Japan, and from then on, he began to smuggle business between Daming Japan and Westerners, and also did business in Southeast Asia. As a result of Wang Zhi's arrival, Hirado, Japan, developed from a small coastal town to a major maritime trading town in Japan, so this big gold lord was very popular with the princes. Because of the introduction of muskets to Japan before, Wang Zhi was also revered by Japan as a "Confucian merchant of the Ming Dynasty" and was praised by the Japanese to this day. Until now, the Japanese have built bronze statues of him to commemorate him. However, for Chinese, Wang Zhi is equivalent to a weed, and in 2000, 12 Japanese from Fukue City, Nagasaki County, Japan, donated funds to build Wang Zhi's tomb in She County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, where Wang Zhi was originally from, and was directly destroyed by two university teachers in China.