Fourteen years of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, in a small village in Anhui was born a baby, the child was born in April, but the window was snowy, the garden of flowers and grass was almost all frozen to death, the child appeared as soon as he came into the world, it must not be simple, but no one would have thought that in the future, this child would dominate the entire East China Sea, and a generation of marine giants would be born.
His name is Wang Zhi, he has been very clever and witty since childhood, but unfortunately, his cleverness and wit are mainly manifested in crooked ways or business, and he does not like reading serious things at all.
Wang Zhi's family was poor since childhood, and he had to do some small business to subsidize his family, but soon he found that the profit was too low, even if he was busy from early to black, he could not make a few dollars, which was that he set his sights on another road and went to the sea to do business.
It is estimated that this matter is not expected to be imagined by others, because the Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban at that time, stipulating that no one could go to the sea, and if it was caught, it was almost a capital crime. But Wang Zhike did not care about this, because he was too poor, and history once again proved that people's determination to get rich was unstoppable.
Not only that, he also found a partner to sell his property to work with him, and it is estimated that the benevolent brother is also too poor at home to recruit.
The first business of the two was to sneak out to sea from Guangdong and transport goods to Southeast Asia to try their luck, and it turned out that the goods of the Ming Dynasty at that time were too popular abroad, not only sold at a high price, but also sold out quickly, and the two also made a lot of windfall money.
This experience made Wang Zhi see the huge profits of going to the sea to do business, and he strengthened his determination even more, and after returning, he recruited soldiers and organized more people to go to the sea, until the business became bigger and bigger, from a ship to a fleet.
Wang Zhi also changed from a no-name pawn to a boss, but with the development of southeast Asian business, Wang Zhi found a place with more room for development and more profitability, Japan.
The reason is very simple, at that time, Japan was in the Warring States period, the princely states were fighting each other, and the goods that Wang Zhi sold to Japan, even if the price was high, they could not refuse, that is, the new musket, which japan called the iron cannon at that time.
Wang Zhi sold muskets to start from one thing, when Wang Zhi encountered a Spanish cargo ship doing business in Southeast Asia, he very much wanted to buy Chinese tea and porcelain and other goods, but at that time, the currency was different, there was no silver, so he used another kind of goods to pay off the debt, that is, the new musket just developed by Spain.
In this way, Wang Zhi's fleet was equipped with musket teams from then on, which was not the equipment of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty at that time, but he was equipped as a smuggler at sea, not only that, he also became an iron brother with the Spaniards, did a large amount of business, bought a lot of muskets, and then sold them at a very high price among the Japanese princely states, earning their money, and watching them kill each other.
With the expansion of Wang Zhi's business scale, new troubles also exist, that is, his caravan is too large, always encounter pirates, Wang Zhi at first just organized private armed forces, to escort the fleet, and later found that dry pirates is a bit high risk, but earn more, directly behind a company transformation, a comprehensive march to the pirate industry, his fleet originally had guns and cannons, most of the people under his hands are a group of outlaws, afraid of death will not go to the sea with him, at that time was caught but a felony. Wang Zhiyi entered the pirate industry, and those small shares of pirates were either acquired or killed, and as a result, Boss Wang became the largest pirate leader in the entire Southeast Sea, a veritable sea hegemon. At that time, just shout on the sea, we are Boss Wang's fleet, don't say that someone is harassing you, the sea breeze will blow along you.
What is even more cattle is that Boss Wang also found a development base for himself, occupied a piece of Japanese territory, named it Song Guo, he is the Emperor of the Song Kingdom, you say that the Japanese are not angry, the key is that there is no way to take him, because it is really afraid, this Boss Wang has a fleet of nearly 10,000 people under his hands, and the ammunition is not exhausted and goes to the takeaway, some people have money and guns, who dare to offend.
In later generations, there have always been rumors that Wang Zhi colluded with the Japanese and was a traitor, and who has ever seen a traitor who was a great uncle in Japan and rode on the head of a Japanese, and the princes of Japan not only did not dare to provoke him, but also had to confess every New Year's Festival, for fear of offending this great master.
However, with the growth of Wang Zhi's strength, it also brought indelible disasters to China's coastal areas, and every time he invaded the tens of thousands of brave and warlike Haikou under his command, he would plunder the coastal towns and cities, and the damage to China's southeast coastal areas was extremely serious.
Most people think that the Wukou Rebellion was the Japanese invasion of the mainland coast, and the Japanese Wokou sword technique was extremely powerful, in fact, the Japanese pirates were just horses who worked for Boss Wang, equivalent to mercenaries, and the real problem was Boss Wang, who was more terrifying than any Japanese kendo master.
Wang Zhicai was the big boss behind the Wukou Rebellion, and also the confidant of Hu Zongnan, Qi Jiguang, Yue Da Chief, and a series of famous anti-Wu generals.
Fortunately, under the vigorous encirclement and suppression of the Wukou forces, Boss Wang decided to submit to the imperial court, personally went ashore in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), and personally surrendered to Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang. At that time, Hu Zongxian also warmly welcomed, patting his chest to ensure that he would not be blamed for the past, and that everyone would be promoted to a higher rank and get rich together in the future, which would be of great benefit.
When everything developed in a good direction, changes also happened, and Wang Zhi's good fortune also ended here, Hu Zongxian really wanted to appease Wang Zhi, but halfway out of the way to bite the gold, patrol the royal history wang Bengu. It also happened that at that time, Wang Zhi's brain did not know what crazy he was going to play in the West Lake, and as a result, Wang Bengu heard that Wang Zhi had come, and directly arrested him and put him in prison. Rao was Hu Zongxian's desperate rescue, but in the end he did not succeed. Thirty-eight years after Jiajing, Wang Zhi was beheaded in Hangzhou for public display, and the life of this ocean tyrant came to an end.
But before Wang Zhi died, he said, "If I die alone, I am afraid of suffering the people of Zhejiang." After Wang Zhi's death, tens of thousands of pirates under his command were leaderless, and the Wukou Rebellion was even better than before, causing disaster to the coast for more than a decade.