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Yan Ciqi

Yan Ciqi (?-1625) born in Haicheng, Zhangzhou City, Fujian province. He is a very famous pirate in the East Asian and being called Pedro China by Western people. He has ever use Taiwan or Formosa as the base of his crew. He is the pioneer of Taiwan province. However, it is very limited record in the history books written in biographical style because his life is very similar to a big businessman who named Li Dan. Some scholars think Yan Ciqi and Li Dan are the same people. People know they are different people from a documentary in 1635 that shows them are different people. Yan Ciqi’s life During Ming dynasty, the sea policy is no boat can go to the sea. This is inappropriate policy force the million people who depend on the sea and sea product rise in rebellion. Then, the Han sea leader Yan Ciqi is being created in the ocean region that Ming government cannot control. He has a very strong body and his fighting skill is far above that of common man. He killed the servant of the official and run to the Japan since they bully him badly. In Japan, he lives by clothing. Several years later, he is becoming famous since he is a very generous and righteousness guy. Yan makes lots of friends in Japan. In his friends, they formed a fraternity. Because of the fraternity is formed by Yan’s twenty eight friends, it is also called twenty-eight brothers fraternity. Every friend of Yan calls Yan Japan Spiral Shell and the leader of the fraternity. On the high pressure policy of Ming government, Yan decides Nagasaki as the main base port and divided his twenty eight friends to twenty eight groups. He is planning a bigger force. He, then, grouped three thousand people from Zhang Zhou and Quan Zhou and shipped them to Taiwan. He is also developing Taiwan’s port and economy. However, Yan get typhoid fever during the hunting and dead next year. After his death, Zheng Zhilong leads his force. In 1959, Taiwan government set a monument for him to commend his achievement.