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Speaker 1: you today. Hi everybody, Hello, welcome back. I hope absolutely. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's so exciting. That's why we had to give

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Speaker 1: you such a musical intro. This is our fiftie episode

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Romance, twenty five weeks of of these crazy stories. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've learned a lot. What have you

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Speaker 1: learned in this time? That? Um, some people through history

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Speaker 1: change your entire legacy in this book I'm writing tonight.

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Speaker 1: It turns out you're ugly now everyone laughs at your

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Speaker 1: a podcast two thousand years from now. And also that

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Speaker 1: so much of history was shaped by the mistresses various rulers. True,

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Speaker 1: very true, and people are weird people are really, really weird,

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Speaker 1: and I think sometimes we forget that because we're very

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Speaker 1: fucking weird. They really are. So thanks for sticking with

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Speaker 1: us for fifty episodes. Telling your friends, obviously, your neighbors,

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Speaker 1: you're you tell that multi level marketing group from your

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Speaker 1: high school friends. Tell them all. So we're excited to

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Speaker 1: have you for this episode, but we've it's been an

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Speaker 1: exciting week here in Atlanta. Yeah, that has. I don't

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. In the seventeen nineties, China and

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Speaker 1: She's like, I mean that sounds like your own business.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, basically he's like, hey, you know I like intrigue.

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Speaker 1: But on one condition, she said she wanted a contract

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, everybody. They got noticeably more

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Speaker 1: villages and killed an estimated ten thousand people. Oh that's

421
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: no fun, yish And Chung pots I meanwhile completely destroyed

422
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: an entire town. He killed two thousand inhabitants. This is

423
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: this is turned from fun piracy to real piracy, and

424
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: I don't like it all right, Like, I was all

425
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: about this girl boss until she started murdering people. And

426
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: then Chungi Sao took command of five hundred ships. They

427
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: rated a bunch more, they captured people, they were taking ship,

428
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: they're burning shipped down. You know, pirate stuff, pirates, bloody pirates,

429
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: bloody pirates. Okay, but here's an interesting thing. One of

430
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 1: the ways the Pirate Confederation was unified. They all came

431
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: together to get on the same page, which doesn't sound

432
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: like pirates to me, but they put together a code

433
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: of conduct and often Chun Yi Sao is credited with

434
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: writing this code, although firsthand testimonies written by Chinese people

435
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: from the time say it was actually Chiung Poetsi who

436
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: came up with it. Mostly, this misattribution comes from a

437
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: white guy who wrote a book about pirates and then

438
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: either sort of mistranslated, or maybe he was just more

439
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: interested in selling books than getting the fact straight and

440
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: he thought like, oh, lady pirate, that'll sell. Well, that's

441
00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: a good story. Regardless whoever wrote it, the was this one.

442
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: If any pirate goes privately on shore, he shall be taken,

443
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: his ears mutilated, and he will be paraded around the

444
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: fleet and executed. So don't go to shore by yourself,

445
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: no little personal visits to bring a buddy. Yeah, well

446
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: I think you had to get permission and probably yeah.

447
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: It's like I need to know where the funk you are,

448
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: and if you don't. If I don't know where you are,

449
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to find out where you are and then

450
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: put you in a grave. Sol I'll always know where

451
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: you are after it screw up your ears. Number two,

452
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: not the least thing shall be taken privately from the

453
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: stolen and plundered goods. All shall be registered. The pirate

454
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: receives for himself. Out of ten parts, only two eight

455
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: parts belonged to the storehouse called the General Fund. And

456
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: those who steal anything out of this general fund shall

457
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: be executed. So hands off my booty hole. Ha ha.

458
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I guess General Fund is

459
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: a little more professional, but you know who wants to

460
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: be professional not I clearly. So Number three, women captured

461
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: from villages shall not be harmed or harassed. All women

462
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: captives shall be registered at their place of origin, recorded,

463
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: and be given separate quarters. Those pirates who rape or

464
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: commit adultery with the women captives shall be executed. This

465
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: is unique. What a nice moral code of conduct there,

466
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: Like kill ten thousand people all day, but if you

467
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: rape one lady, you're dead. You're dead, like banks, I

468
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: love it, progressive question mark. I mean for pirates. Yes,

469
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: that is what's a human life. But you know the

470
00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: consent is still key here guys were pirates. Now, some

471
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: sources include additions to this code, such as, for example,

472
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: if the woman was a willing participant insects with a pirate,

473
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 1: she would also be put to death. So if they're like,

474
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: if you sleep with a lady consensually, you're both dead,

475
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: it's so weird, Like, why would you punish her for

476
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: being like this pirate's hot. But if the pirate wanted

477
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,719
Speaker 1: to marry a captive woman, he could do that and

478
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,239
Speaker 1: she would become a full member of the crew. So

479
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: you can marry these ladies and then you can sleep

480
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: with them. But none of none of this, none of

481
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: this out of wedlock sex. I really wonder what that's about.

482
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: That's why I'm like, I'm not sure that's true, because

483
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just seems like such a weird

484
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: thing to make a distinction. They're like, you can't go

485
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: around just you know, swing you're a dick all around,

486
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: all over town, in every port you want to you

487
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: want to have sex, you do it the old fashioned way.

488
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: You get married. We would commit you know, you have

489
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: a little over the close action and you and marry.

490
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: They were you know, it was all about commitment, right,

491
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: That's what the whole treaty was. I guess, so that's true.

492
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: They're like, that might actually you know what that might be.

493
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: It is there just like if you just have sex

494
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: with her, she could leave an escape and run off.

495
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: If you marry her, she's part of the crew, and

496
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: we can trust her more anything like that. Maybe it

497
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: was that, yeah, and encouraging encouraging the crew to grow too.

498
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: I mean that's like you said, you've got more people. Uh, Instead,

499
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 1: if you want to sleep with her, that's incentivizing us

500
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: to grow our fleet. Very true, So maybe that's it.

501
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: That was just like if you want to sleep with here,

502
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: you can, but you better marry. They get married more

503
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: like they have kids and they can raise them. In piracy,

504
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, they're creating their own country or basically for real. Now,

505
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: villages that submitted the pirates and paid tribute were spared

506
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: and and protected, and any pirate who raided a protected

507
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: village would be hunted down and put to death. But

508
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: it's like a mafia thing, yeah, a little bit, the

509
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: go to big. But villages that resisted had their homes

510
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: burned and all of their men killed, and then the

511
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: village leader would be nailed to the dock by his

512
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: feet and beaten to death. Really just the again, the

513
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: moral code of conduct is all over the place here.

514
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: It's just like that's good, that's bad, that's good, that's bad.

515
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: Then if they captured a ship, the sailors aboard could

516
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: either live and join the confederation, or of course option

517
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:46,959
Speaker 1: B was always execution, but you got an option. Okay,

518
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: it's more than some would do. I hate a two

519
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: party system. In October of eighteen o nine, Suon shin

520
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,959
Speaker 1: Mo had gotten the provincial army back to full strength,

521
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: so he kind of tried again, you know, he tried

522
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: to step up to the red flag fleet and take

523
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: him down once and for all. But Chung pots I

524
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: crushed him yet again like a fly. Yeah. Really just embarrassing.

525
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: The same guy keeps beating him over and over. He's

526
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: really holding a grudge. Imaginely he's got like a portrait

527
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: of Chung pots side and Sung and he's throwing darts

528
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: at him every day or something. One day, I'll get

529
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: you and sees him again, he pulls his pants down again.

530
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: Damn pirates. So yea. At this point, the Chinese imperial

531
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: and provincial governments are starting to get a little desperate,

532
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: all right. They're not doing well against this giant pirate confederation.

533
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: So they're like, and guess will finally get over our

534
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: dislike of quote unquote foreign barbarians. And they started talking

535
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: to the Portuguese because you know, a lot of countries

536
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: had a lot of interests in the South China Sea

537
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: and trade supply roots and everything. So the Portuguese a

538
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: out there, East India companies out there, you know. They

539
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: so they kind of looking around there, like, I see

540
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: other allies that we just haven't talked to because they're

541
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: not Chinese, so let's maybe get over ourselves and go

542
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: talk to them. And the Portuguese were like, oh, yes, please,

543
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: we are so on board for this, because Chinese sous

544
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 1: pirates had earlier captured a Portuguese governor's ship and totally

545
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: ransacked and took all their stuff, so they're a little

546
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: embarrassed too, and they're like, yes, please, we want payback

547
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: so badly. They saw their opportunity in November when Chin

548
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: Ye Sow suddenly left the Pearl River with just a

549
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: few ships and she harbored at Tongue Chung Bay to

550
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: make repairs, and so they're like, oh, this is a

551
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: perfect time to take down pirate Queen. We could destabilize

552
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: her whole confederation because she's in charge of it. She's

553
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: all alone out there with just a couple of ships.

554
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: So the Portuguese sent like a few ships kind of

555
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: just to harass her. Freaker out and she immediately signaled

556
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: for help from chunk Hotsi. He immediately heads out to

557
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: join her. He arrives the next day, but he didn't

558
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: see any Portuguese ships anywhere. Everything looked fine, so he's like,

559
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: I guess i'll weigh anchor and do some repairs myself

560
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: while we're in this peaceful bay. And that's when six

561
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: big gass Portuguese ships showed up and blockaded Chunyee Sou

562
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: and Chung Potsi within the bay, so they couldn't get anywhere,

563
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: and of course they tried to counter attack and break free,

564
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: but the wind was not on their side, so they

565
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: could not really do anything. They were just kind of

566
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: sitting there. And then a couple of weeks later, nine

567
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: three more ships show up from the provincial fleet, and

568
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: guess who's at the helm. Their old friend sum chin Mo.

569
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: So they got the Portuguese sitting there being like he

570
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: we got you, bitch, And then Suon Chin Mo shows

571
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: up and he's like, he I got you, bitch. Finally

572
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: I got suspenders on this time, you're not following my

573
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: pants down. But then a couple of days later, the

574
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: pirates captured one of Suon's ships and killed all seventy

575
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: four men on board suon HInM is getting pissed at

576
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: this point. They were basically just in like a standoff,

577
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: and Sunshin Moo is getting impatient now. So he converted

578
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 1: forty three of his ships into fire ships, which sounds

579
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: it's exactly what you think. He filled them with gunpowder

580
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: and other combustibles and they set them on fire on

581
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: purpose and shoved him off towards enemy lines. The idea

582
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: is that the ships will either set the enemy ships

583
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: on fire or at least make them panic and kind

584
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: of scatter break formation a little, and then they'd be

585
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: easier to pick off one by one. But the pirates

586
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: like they saw these slow moving, flaming ships coming towards

587
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: them and they just like moved out of the way

588
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: or or managed to divert them towards the shore, and

589
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: then they extinguished the fires, broke up the ships and

590
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: used it for irewood. Yeah, like, thanks for the firewoods, Chin,

591
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: I guess that's kind of what stunent Chinmo was using

592
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: him for at that point, So why not. He's shaking

593
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: his fist, He's like, damn you, and then his pants

594
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: falled out. Chin, where is this? Uh? This Marx Brothers stooges,

595
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: three stooges maybe, But just then the winds changed and

596
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: two of Sun Chin Moo's fire ships actually got blown

597
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: back to the provincial Chinese fleet, and two of his

598
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: own ships caught fire. Oh no, he played congratulationship played

599
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: just this is not going well for this guy. This

600
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: is the most like comedically bumbling ship commander in history.

601
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: Then the next day, the pirates took full advantage of

602
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: that wind that's at their backs now and they blow through,

603
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 1: broke out of the blockade, and escaped into the South

604
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: China Sea. The provincial fleet lost three ships besides the

605
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: ones that they burned as fireships, plus at least seventy

606
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: four men. Meanwhile, the pirates they only lost forty men

607
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: and zero ships. So bye bye Suon Chin Mo. Smell later.

608
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: We're done here. This guy can't catch a break, not

609
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: at all. Like he is like, you know what, maybe

610
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: I should go back home to the country and take

611
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: up painting. Gonna be a hog farmer, hog farmer, something else.

612
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: He gets back, the pigs are running around, his pants

613
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: fall down, bloody piglets. But all was not well among

614
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: the Pirate confederation. So even though they had had this

615
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: big victory. It was a little bit hollow because Guopo Di,

616
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: the leader of the Black Flag Fleet, had been summoned

617
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: to come back up the Red flag Fleet and help

618
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: them against the Portuguese and everything. We got a contract.

619
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: He had refused to show up. Later that year, he

620
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: openly battled Chung Potsi at the mouth of the Pearl River,

621
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 1: and it turned out he had been negotiating with Bi Ling,

622
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: who was the Viceroy of lie Anguan, So basically he

623
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: was like the governor in town way. I thought by

624
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: Ling was the actress from different Cranked movies, and I

625
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: know she was on Lost, she was in the Jack's

626
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,479
Speaker 1: Tattoo episode. She was the girl he met. As it look,

627
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: she deserves better. Yeah, everyone deserved and I deserve better

628
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: than having to watch it. Well, this is different Biling, Okay,

629
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: different Byling, different by Ling. Yes, this was the viceroy. Yeah,

630
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: and he was kind of the new vice roy and

631
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Speaker 1: he was pretty good at dealing with pirates. But before

632
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Speaker 1: we get into that, let's take a quick break, all right,

633
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. In January, Guopo Die officially

634
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: surrendered the entire Black Flag Fleet to Bi Ling. He

635
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: was rewarded with the rank of sub lieutenant. So now

636
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: the government had part of chun Esau and Chung Post

637
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: size confederation on its side. Plus it had already wiped

638
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: out the entire White flag fleet earlier. So this, you know,

639
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: their confederation is kind of weakening at this point. Yeah,

640
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: they're losing colors left and right, right. And not only that,

641
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: but the British had decided to join the Fray. They

642
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: sent ships to help patrol the Pearl River. Bi Ling

643
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: had also instituted embargoes that were kind of sucking up

644
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: the pirates supply chains as well and just making things

645
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: hard for him. And so all of Bi Ling's efforts

646
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: were really starting to pay off, and big names and

647
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: piracy were being captured and executed, and so they were

648
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: kind of getting a little nervous. And then finally the

649
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: kind of the final straw sort of was that the

650
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: imperial government offered amnesty to any pirates who laid down

651
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: their swords voluntarily. So it was a wig out, you know,

652
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 1: without dying, and so Chinese Sao decided, you know, maybe

653
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: it's time to negotiate, okay, okay, So Chung pots I

654
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: was sent in first to handle negotiations, and those took

655
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: place on Chunk Post flagship with a Portuguese mediator. They

656
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: decided that they would only submit if they could retain

657
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: control of five thousand pirates and eighty ships so that

658
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: they could enter the salt trade as well as participate

659
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: in anti pirate campaigns. They're like, you bring us in

660
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: the trade salt and we'll fight pirates for you, as

661
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: long as we can still have all our ship Yeah,

662
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: we need all those ships. We can have a life

663
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: after this. You know, we don't want to start from nothing. Yeah,

664
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: we're not gonna go be hog farmers. That's for others.

665
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: But Bai Ling was like, hell no, I'm not making

666
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: that deal with you. And then some British ships sailed

667
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: past the pirate fleet and that's booked him. That made

668
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: Chunk pots I think that they were laying some kind

669
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: of trap. So he just retreated, you gotta go, negotiations

670
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: are over, we'll talk later. So Chungni Sao was like,

671
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: you know, if you want something done right, you gotta

672
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: do it yourself. So she gathered up a posse of

673
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: seventeen women and children, and she walked unarmed into Bai

674
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: Lang's office I imagine it was a bit of a

675
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: strut more than a walk. Definitely. I don't know that

676
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: this woman knew how to walk without a stagger, do

677
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. She's like, I'm freaking the

678
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: most successful pirate in history. I'm about to walk up

679
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: into your spot with all the ladies at my back,

680
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: and we're going to tell you how it's going to be.

681
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: And just in case, we're surrounded by children, so don't

682
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: shoot at us. You'll feel like shit if you do anything.

683
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: So she steps in there and she starts negotiating with

684
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 1: them herself. This time he totally yielded to her demands.

685
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: He's like, whatever you say, lady, You're really good at this.

686
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 1: And by the end of the talks, she had gained

687
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: clemency for all except four hundred of her seventeen thousand,

688
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: three D eighteen pirates, and only a D six ended

689
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: up being executed. She and Cheung Po would also be

690
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: allowed to keep all of their ill gotten gains. Amazing.

691
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: That is the that is incredible. They were both raised

692
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: to Chinese nobility, and Chung Po has made a lieutenant

693
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: in the Chinese navy and allowed to keep thirty ships

694
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: for his own fleet. I mean, that's that's the best

695
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: deal since Lucy and DESI signed over there getting the

696
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: rights to rerun. See what a sweet deal. Plus only

697
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: a hundred pirates got executed? Do you think that thousand?

698
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: Do you think that they executed more pirates than probably?

699
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: But negotiations almost stalled when Biling demanded that all the

700
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: vanquished pirates kneel before him, and Homage like he just

701
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: wanted to be like, you're fully subjugated now and you

702
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: have to show it ye to see it, and Chinese

703
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: was like, um, did you not notice my ego walk

704
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: in before me? Because I'm not doing that that we

705
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: we don't do that here. And bi Ling was like, okay, well, okay,

706
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: not all seventeen thousand plus pirates have to kneel, but

707
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: you and chunk pots I have to. I need somebody

708
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: to be humiliated here, and it's not gonna be me

709
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: for once. So nobody's happy with this idea, right, They're like,

710
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to leal Bilings like you have to. Chinese.

711
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: I was like, I have this great deal that's about

712
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: to break down because nobody wants to get on their knees.

713
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: So she came up with a solution. Traditionally, at the

714
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: end of a marriage ceremony, the couple would kneel in

715
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 1: thanks to the efficient. So Chinese I was like, how

716
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: about you dissolve the adoption that made Chunk pots s

717
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: im my adopted son and instead marry us, and then

718
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: we'll kneel in thanks, you'll get your homage, we'll get

719
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: what we want. Everybody wins, and he said okay, and

720
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: they did that ship and so Chung Potsi and Chenisa

721
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: were officially married in April of eighteen ten. They surrendered

722
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,240
Speaker 1: to Biling with the a fourmentioned sevent thousand, three hundred

723
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: and eighteen pirates, as well as two hundred and twenty

724
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: six ships, one thousand, three hundred and fifteen cannons, and

725
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: two thousand, seven hundred and ninety eight assorted weapons. So

726
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: can you can imagine that they were very happy to

727
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: get their hands on all that. And chany Sao also

728
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: surrendered her own private fleet of twenty four ships and

729
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred thirty three pirates that were just

730
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: her personal commands. But this wedding thing, like, we don't

731
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: want to kneel to you, but I'll tell you what

732
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: we'll do. The marriage thing. We get what we want,

733
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: and you can have some people who were in the

734
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: room who can go around and say, oh no, yeah,

735
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: they kneeled to him. We saw it, So what happened.

736
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: I'd take a lot of detector test on that we

737
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: watched them officially kneel, and they're like, yes, we did

738
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: technically kneel before him, and violens like rubbing tiger bomb

739
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: into his temples, like whatever gets you the funk out

740
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: of here and off my plate. Oh man, So now

741
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: these notorious pirates are just working for the man, and

742
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: they had to help defeat pirates that they had previously

743
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: worked with, so awkward little office reunion there. Chun Po

744
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,720
Speaker 1: distinguished himself by continuing to be a badass and defeating

745
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: the Blue Flag fleet, and in eighteen thirteen Chun Yi

746
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: Sao gave birth to their child, Chung Yu Lin. Not

747
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: much is known about these years. Probably they were living

748
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,479
Speaker 1: pretty well on there everything they had in their booty hole,

749
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: handling their business fighting pirates. But then in eighteen two,

750
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: Chung pots I was killed while serving as a colonel,

751
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: and he was only thirty six years old at the time.

752
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: Still he did a lot, and he did a lot more.

753
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm thirty six right now, almost thirty seven, and I

754
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,959
Speaker 1: ain't done a fraction. You never had to kneel before

755
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 1: the governor. I never sailed up a river and killed

756
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,720
Speaker 1: ten thousand people. You know, you can't really measure yourself

757
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: against historical figures like they had, you know, different windows,

758
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: different opportunities, a little more exciting lives. I guess Chung

759
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: returned to her hometown of Guangdong with her child. Records

760
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: don't mention her other two sons that she had with

761
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: Chang Yi that we mentioned earlier. UM imagining that both

762
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: of them were just grown at this point and they're

763
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: kind of off like doing their own thing. Possibly also

764
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: pirates are working for the Chinese Chinese Navy or something

765
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: like that. UM. But Chung Yu Lin was only nine,

766
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: so he was still with his mom and they went

767
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 1: to Guangdong. But Chinese saw, we've got to know her

768
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: a little bit at this point, and she's not one

769
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: to sit quietly and dwindle into poverty or so thing.

770
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: So instead she opened an infamous gambling house in Gwengal

771
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 1: So she was like this dope like proprietor of this casino.

772
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: Basically and she operated it for twenty years and watched

773
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: her son grow up and give her grandchildren, probably just

774
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: as shrewd and savvy as ever with her customers, you know,

775
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: fully like I know exactly who's broke right now and

776
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: pretending to have a fortune, and who does have a

777
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: fortune is pretend to be broke, you know, like she's

778
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: she's got all the info. Um, so she did probably

779
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: just fine until she passed away peacefully at the age

780
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: of sixty nine. Really for a death age, look like

781
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: I know you hear the number. It's nice. What a story, Yeah,

782
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: so that adventry of the Yeah, she she married a pirate,

783
00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 1: a notorious pirate, then maybe killed him, then started sleeping

784
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: with and and ruling with his adopted son, and then

785
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: married him and then ran Cassino, took over the pirate fleet,

786
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: and then ran a Cassino. What a life? Pretty cool?

787
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: What what a couple of romances? You know? Um? Well,

788
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: I love I love these crazy pirate stories. It's it's

789
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: it's so tough because you do find yourself like rooting

790
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: for them, I know, and then you're like, oh no,

791
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: they were they were horrible people. Yeah, murdered without regard,

792
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's tough because especially if you

793
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 1: know anything about the government they're fighting against, like you're

794
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: both murderous assholes. Like I guess I like the rebels

795
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 1: over the establishment. But it's not always Yeah, we murdered

796
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: ten thousand people, but you subjugated millions and made them

797
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: live in poverty. Maybe you know. I'm not I don't

798
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: know Chinese history. I'm just saying that's the kind of

799
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: thing you're up against. Sometimes where you like which is

800
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: you know, you can measure it in deaths, and that's

801
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: certainly a way to look at it and say a

802
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: number of deaths is worse on this side, therefore they

803
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: are the bad guys. But then maybe if you're looking

804
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: at quality of life for those people you haven't killed,

805
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: and you're saying, well, yours is pretty miserable, from a

806
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: lot more people, look, well, that's not what we're here for.

807
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: We are here to judge and decide the good guys

808
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: and bad guys are. All I can say is they

809
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,959
Speaker 1: all sounded pretty bad to me. They were all bad,

810
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: But it is fun to kind of see how they outsmarted,

811
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,919
Speaker 1: you know, the provincial navy and stuff, and all their

812
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: little close calls and stuff's pretty cool, right right, well

813
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: fun story. Yeah, tell us what you thought of this

814
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: awesome Chinese pirate story. We always love hearing your thoughts

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