Widow of Zheng Yi (鄭一妻)

Overview

Widow of Zheng Yi was a rebel.

PeriodQing

IdentityHistorical · Anonymous individuated

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1809 嘉慶十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 362, passages 162, 167

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Zheng Yi (鄭乙)
wife 妻 · Widowed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 362, passage 167

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 1 passage

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未幾，鄭一妻與張保仔率眾逾萬泊虎門，要總督親至海口面議，文武噤莫敢決，硃爾賡額獨進曰：「保仔自知罪大，眾多無糧，拂其請，將死鬥。 Soon Zheng Yi's widow and Zhang Baozi anchored at Humen with more than ten thousand men and demanded that the governor-general come to the estuary in person for negotiations. Civil and military officials were too frightened to decide. Zhu Ergenge alone stepped forward and said: "Baozi knows his crimes are grave and his men are starving. If we refuse his request, they will fight to the death.