Name: Cheng I Sao - Pirate Queen - Extra History
Uploaded: 2022-06-27T00:24:55.000Z
Duration: 10 min 50 s
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But the Pirates have something  no number of ships will overcome.

He'd been with the Pirates in Vietnam where they'd served as privateers in a war that had

And when the Vietnamese dynasty fell  and the Pirates were driven back to China,

It was Cheng who founded their Confederation  and made them the masters of the coast.

From the Pearl River  to the Gulf of Tonkin.

But when the fleet commanders  opened the floor,

Six years prior she had been just another prostitute  in the floating brothels of Canton,

After all, though Cheng  had led the fleets,

It was because of her that every salt merchant in Canton

to buy a safe passage before setting sail.

and every one of them knew that Jiang had made strategy with her at his elbow.

In Confucian China  women were barred from public life.

But these men are all from poor  floating villages along the coast.

the lad was a popular  and daring captain.

Cheung Po had agreed  to serve her as commander of her

The fleet commanders named  Cheng I Sao their leader.

And to solidify her power,  she entered another

Her first act was to strengthen her authority with a new legal code.

The pirates needed to remember  that they were one organization,

stolen property would be brought to a common trust

they would hand it over to an accountant.

Next, Cheng I Sao turned her attention  to her favorite subject;

The confederation already had  a stranglehold on the salt trade,

She extended their protection racket  to all maritime traffic,

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