Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: ARGH! Okay, You Can Be My Lover

Episode Date: July 4, 2016

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Get moving at real estate agents. I trust.com. I've been wanting to tell you this story. for a while. It's probably, it's become one of my favorite stories. I love this story. I want to know more about it. I want to make a movie about it.

I want to, I'm going to look into it more. I read this story about a month ago. It's about a Chinese female pirate. At the dawn of the 19th century, a former prostitute from a floating brothel in the city of Canton was wed to Chang One, who was a pirate, operated in the South China Sea and the King Dynasty, Quinn, Quing Dynasty, Qig Dynasty, QI-N-G Dynasty. Though the name under which we now know her is Ching Shea simply means Chang's widow. She left behind a huge legacy.

She succeeded her husband. she commanded 1,800 pirate ships, 80,000 men. In comparison, think about this. She had 1,800 ships and 80,000 men in comparison, Blackbeard, who was, you know, the hero, a legend. Blackbeard commanded four ships and 300 pirates around the same time. She is known as one of the most successful pirates in history. Now, her husband, Chang won, commander of the red flag fleet of pirate ships. He brought together rival Chinese pirate organizations.

He then married this 26-year-old Cheng Shea in 1801. And she took the bull by the horns. She participated fully in her husband's piracy. Now, the story goes that Chang sought his bride out due to her reputation as a shrewd businesswoman. Okay. Now she learned this business shrewdness as a prostitute, and she learned how to wield power over her wealthy and political connected clients. All right. Now, her financial savvy became undeniable over the course of the career.

It's rumored that Cheng She demanded equal control of the pirate fleet as a condition of her marriage to Changwon in 1801. Okay. and then she shows how smart of a business person she is when she takes over the entire confederation. This is where it gets good. Six years into their marriage, the man dies. Chang one, he dies. He's 42. Makes her 31, right?

Six years, 32. She was 26. 32. Now, we really don't know how Changwon died. Right. I say he was killed by a tsunami. Some said he was murdered in Vietnam. Uh-huh.

Now, when he died, though, Changshae was left, you know, kind of like, you know, what do I do now? Because her husband's adoptive son and heir, Chung Po Sai, it was, you know, he's the one to get it all, right? he's the one to control the red flag fleet. He's the man.

Now, knowing that Chung Po Sai was more than just Chengxie's stepson, all right? The young fisherman, the adoptive son of Cheng one, was also Cheng's lover. You heard me right. All right. So now, apparently that wasn't on your. usual during those times if you adopted your sexual relationship between an adoptive son and a father. Adult adoption was often practiced in China in order to establish a kinship basis for

further interaction. So instead of getting married, they would adopt. The older one would adopt. Anyway, within weeks of Ching one's death, though, Qingshai had moved in on Chung Po as her lover as well. So she just said, okay, you can be my lover now. I want this to be a movie so bad. And she then took it over and said, you know, we're lovers and I'm just going to take it over.

Have a nice day. That's me. Now, an East India company had an employee named Richard Glasspool who was captured by Ching Shai's pirates in 1809, and he was held for four or five months. In his account of the ordeal, he estimated that there were 80,000 pirates and some 1,000 large junks and 800 or 800 smaller junks and robots that were part of her fleet. Now she unified her enormous fleet of pirates using a court of code of laws. She was strict too. And if the pirate giving his own orders or disobeying those of a superior was to be beheaded. And it was unusual in his laws regarding female captives.

If a pirate raped a female captive, he was put to death. If the sex between the two was consensual, both would be. put to death. So if you're a captive, you better not say you wanted to have sex with the pirate baby. You're dead too. There are further accounts of Chingshai's code to state that if a pirate took a captive as his wife, then she required them to be faithful. Although it was told that captains would have multiple wives, but you still could be faithful to your wives, right? I know that's weird here in the West, but I got it. they thought about her, it does seem clear that the pirates respected and obeyed her authority.

Now, under her rule, the red flag fleet, undefeated. And I mean the QING dynasty, the Queen dynasty, tried to end her many times. The Portuguese Navy, East India Company, tried to go after a bunch. Now, after three years at the high seas, Ching Shea retired in 1810. So she ruled it, you know, three years, made a bunch of money, a bunch of cash, ruled it to high seas, killed enough people. Her surrender came because it had been an interesting conflict between the black and red fleets and their leaders, which were the first to surrender to the black flag fleet. And then ultimately the red flag fleet. And I'm pretty sure that they say that the mounting pressure from outside for the suppression of internal loss of cohesion.

So China was like, we need to stop this. We have got trade to go on. You can't be stealing from all our trade partners trying to get us, trying to what's happening here in the seas. We can't be stealing everything. And so she retired in 1844. She died in 1844. She was 69.

And she even got to be one of her characters in the Pirates Caribbean, as we said, you know, the Mittress Chang. Now, we don't know what happened to her after she retired. Apparently, you know, she retired and just went away, disappeared. So she took her money. Maybe she took, you know, the lover boy with her. Don't know. Might have probably had him killed, though.

It was probably done with him. And off she went and died 69 years old. She made enough cash in those years with being number two and number one. that when they ran her off, they didn't kill her, they ran her off. I want this to be a movie, and I want to know more about this person. And I want to know more about these times because she was the, I am in love. This woman was ruthless. Marries the guy.

The guy has an adoptive son who's his lover. he mysteriously dies. She takes on the sun as the lover to rule the pirates and rules it strong for three years. Makes a bunch of cash, makes a deals to surrender, goes away, lives peaceful forever and dies. Tremendous. Tremendous. Ching Shea, female pirate lore. In the next 19 seconds, you could sell your home.

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