The Rise and Fall of the Pirates in Guangdong

After a rebellion in Vietnam, the part-time pirates who had been freelancing were left disorganized. Zhongyi'sa and Zhongyi took command during the crisis and organized those part-time Pirates into a single force with a Neil Powell base in Guangdong. In 1807, tragedy strikes,. pirate king, Zhongyi, he dies. As far as we can tell, he either drowns at a huge typhoon or is killed by a cannonball. Or the cannonball pushed him overboard into the typhoon. That could be it. Either way, he had the wind knocked out of his sails or not.

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