Speaking of the history of Chinese piracy, we must first say that the first chinese pirate, Sun En, "Haikou Kao" enshrined him as the unveiler of China's pirate activities, and the "Lianzhou Fuzhi" has an evaluation of him as "the beginning of this Central Plains Haikou", so Sun En was later worshipped as the ancestor of Chinese pirates.
The picture shows the East China Sea Tyrant of Shepan Island, with Sun En and Lu In front of him, Fang Guozhen and Wang Zhi in the back, and Zheng Zhilong in the back.
Sun En, a native of Langya in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his family members were the core members of wudou rice dao, his uncle Sun Tai was the leader of the Wudou rice Taoist sect, in the late years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor An fainted, Sima Daozi and his son Sima Yuanxian had monopoly power, often broke out armed conflicts with forces everywhere, when fighting against Wang Gong of Qingyan Erzhou, Sun Tai privately gathered disciples and participated in the battle against Wang Gong, afterwards Sima Daozi was afraid of Sun Tai's "chaos", came to cook a rabbit dead dog, killed Sun Tai, and as a result, Sun En fled to the sea, gathered more than a hundred outlaws, and wanted revenge.
Sun En and Lu Xun's pirate armed marching route.
At that time, in order to expand the army, the imperial court ordered the conscription of tenant households in Jiangdong to perform military service, and the people of Wudi were uneasy, and Sun En, who was at sea, used the people's commotion to make a big fuss, and also took the opportunity to attack huijian city and kill Wang Ningzhi of Neishi, Sun En's anti-official behavior was echoed by the people everywhere, and eight counties such as Wu County, Yixing, Linhai, and Yongjia rose up for a while, and the team grew rapidly, and the "Book of Jin, Sun En's Biography" described "hundreds of thousands".
There is a section of the "Great Wall of Jiangnan" in Taizhou, Zhejiang, which is said to have been built to resist the pirates of Sun En.
Sun En, who called himself the "General of the Eastern Expedition", called on the world to overthrow the Eastern Jin Dynasty, killed officers and soldiers everywhere he went, burned the official palace, and hunted down the landlords of the clan, emperor An of Jin was busy sending the elite of the Northern Province to suppress, the officers and soldiers counterattacked, Sun En lost, led 200,000 men and women into the sea, the pirate career began, Sun En constantly led the people to land on the sea, attacked the land government, and also killed Xie Yan, a general of the Soldiers of the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Book of Jin, Liu Prison" said that he was "one hundred thousand warriors and a thousand ships", and the capital Jiankang was threatened, so Liu Yu was the general of Jianwu and specially recruited Sun En.
Liu Yu, the founding monarch of the Liu Song Dynasty, known as the first emperor of the Southern Dynasty, when he was a general of the Northern Province of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he quelled the rebellion of Sun En and Lu Xun.
Liu Yu was the most capable general at that time, Sun En encountered Liu Yu, the battle was lost one after another, the troops suffered heavy casualties, seeing this scene Sun En jumped into the sea and committed suicide, the rest of the people were led by Lu Xun, Lu Xun was Sun En's brother-in-law, and continued to lead the anti-Jin maritime armed forces, Sun En, Lu Xun pirate armed forces, from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, into the Yangtze River mouth to Wuchang, Jiangling, along the Xiang River straight to Guangxi, along the Ganjiang River straight to Guangdong, stirred up the world upside down, this war to suppress pirates, lasted for 12 years before the end, A heavy blow to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.