"Lady Qing" in "Pirates of the Caribbean" as a full villain role once won the attention of the audience, but what everyone does not know is that the prototype of Lady Qing is the British "Zheng Yiyi", and the story of Zheng Yiyi is also very different from That of Mrs. Qing.
Zheng Yiyi
Zheng Yiyi dominated the sea
Zheng Yiyi's original surname was Shi, and her ancestors were Cantonese, who had been living at sea for generations, and the early death of her parents made Shi a prostitute to support herself.
Although the stone girl was poor, she had a beautiful and feminine appearance, was cheerful and delicate, and there were many suitors around her, so the stone girl was soon noticed by zheng Yi, a pirate in the Red Flag Gang.
Zheng Yi liked the beauty and intelligence of the stone girl, and the stone girl also wanted to find a presence that could be relied on, so the two soon married.
Zheng Yi originally had more prestige in the pirate circle, there were many younger brothers, and after the stone girl married him, everyone called her Zheng Yi sister-in-law in order to express their respect for the tenth girl.
Zheng Yiyi
Zheng Yiyi often helped the pirates to plan before they went out to plunder, formulating the route of attack and retreat, minimizing the casualties of the pirates, and everyone respected her at first because of Zheng Yi, and later because of her talent and ability.
Zheng Yi's sister-in-law's prestige gradually established, and Zheng Yi was also very happy to see that his wife was so capable.
In 1807, Zheng Yi and his wife led their pirates to form an alliance, and other small pirates at sea defected to them in order to survive.
But before their alliance was completely strengthened, Zheng Yi died at sea because of a firefight, after Zheng Yi's death, the alliance was leaderless, and everyone was unwilling to seize power and profit, which eventually led to the collapse of the alliance, and finally elected Zheng Yiyi as the leader of their Red Flag Gang.
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Sister-in-law Zheng yi has long had her own set of ideas about organizing actions and managing her subordinates for many years, and since everyone trusts her, she has not pushed back.
After taking office, Zheng Yijie promulgated her own set of laws, which can rob rich merchants, but cannot bully old and weak women and children who have no power to bind chickens.
They are pirates, and they must not go to land to kill innocent peasants, and those who violate the rules are severely punished.
With strict and orderly regulations and every planned action, Zheng Yiyi's loyal supporters increased, and their Red Flag Gang's fleet alone had more than six hundred ships, becoming the hegemon of the sea.
Zheng Yiyi stills
Zheng Yi's sister-in-law submitted to the Qing Dynasty and was given the title of Lady of the Commandments
Zheng Yiyi not only has extremely strict requirements for the pirates under her opponents in terms of actions and norms, but she also actively uses Western weapons to update the combat strength of her team, and the two-pronged approach of wen and wu makes Zheng Yiyi's team more and more powerful.
In the late Qing Dynasty, officers and soldiers tried to encircle and suppress them, but they were beaten and fled by the pirate troops led by Zheng Yiyi, and the Portuguese and Australian regular fleets were also vulnerable in front of them.
The British have always been hegemonic in naval warfare, and they once used to burn and plunder the mainland with their fleets and advanced weapons.
Zheng Yiyi led her brothers of the Red Flag Gang to fight with them one by one, and she herself killed a number of British soldiers and snatched their ships, so that the British Navy no longer dared to underestimate the Red Flag Gang.
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After severely damaging the Western army, the reputation of the Red Flag Gang was greatly shaken at sea, and the Qing Government also began to form a fleet with Portugal to eliminate Zheng Yiyi, but who knew that they were still beaten by Zheng Yiyi.
The Qing Dynasty had no way to continue to watch Zheng Yiyi continue to reign supreme at sea, and finally could only choose to use the method of Zhao'an to let her willingly turn her own strength into the power of the Qing Dynasty.
Zheng Yiyi's sister-in-law led her own team at sea has become accustomed, and naturally she will not willingly become an appendage of the Qing Dynasty at this time, but the Qing Dynasty first recruited the black qipao that was also a pirate with her, and disintegrated her allies to the greatest extent.
Zheng Yiyi stills
At that time, the entire Qing Dynasty was in the midst of internal and external troubles, and rather than the collapse of the forces around her, Zheng Yiyi also hoped to help the people make a contribution through her own ability, so she took the red flag to help all the pirates choose to submit to the Qing Dynasty.
But who knew that the Qing Dynasty did not easily accept them, and also required them to kneel and pray in order to give rewards and numbers.
The pirates under Zheng Yiyi's sister-in-law did not understand this request very much, after all, the Qing Dynasty army was still defeated by their subordinates in the process of formal attack, and at this time, they actually had the courage to let them worship three times and nine buckles.
So the first contradiction before Zhao'an broke out, or Zheng Yiyi had a pattern, the first time to find the Qing Officials to solve the problem of kneeling, which successfully completed the submission, the Qing Dynasty also named her Lady of the Commandments.
Zheng Yiyi eventually took her son to Macau
Although Zheng Yiyi was obedient, she was also worried that these officials of the Qing Dynasty would stab them in the back, and finally Zheng Yiyi and the governor of Guangzhou decided after a series of discussions to keep one of the fleets, no longer engaged in any work as a sea overlord on weekdays, and was responsible for leading his men to sell salt.
Zheng Yiyi was very decisive and courageous at any time, and she promised the imperial court that she would not continue to work as a bandit, and she really restrained her own people.
A pirate team comparable to the combat strength of the Beiyang Marine Division provided great help to the military strength of the Qing Dynasty, and after the outbreak of the war, Zheng Yiyi led his pirates to actively resist the war, and also gave advice to the imperial court many times.
Westerners even list Zheng Yiyi as one of the top ten most famous pirates in history, but in fact, there is no way to accurately evaluate whether Zheng Yiyi is good or bad, after all, she has robbed other people's property at sea, but also imposed very strict restrictions on her own pirates.
Zheng Yiyi stills
After accepting the imperial court recruitment, he also contributed to the war and the defense of the country several times, and at that time, when the imperial court recruited an, not all of Zheng Yiyi's troops followed him away, and some of them stayed in Macau to open casinos.
After working for the Qing government for a period of time, he found that the work concept of the Qing Dynasty was really incompatible with himself, plus he was old and no longer had the vitality of the year, so he simply took his son directly to Macao to contact the previous old department, and the boldness and pungency in her bones made her open a casino in Macau.
Sister-in-law Zheng died at the age of 69, and her legendary life was written into a story by a British businessman she caught while plundering at sea.
In the book, the British businessman lamented that Zheng Yijie had the determination and boldness that men did not have, and it was no wonder that such a team could defeat the Western sea fleet one after another.
The Qing lady in "Pirates of the Caribbean" is based on Zheng Yiyi's creation, in which the image of Qing lady is not positive, which also reflects how strong the psychological shadow caused by Zheng Yiyi to them at that time was.
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