Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 154

New Tales of the Ming Treasure Voyages Heep Yunn Primary School, Miu, Cheryl - 11 In the early 1400s, a group of pirates from China determined to change the history of their ancestors - stopped looking for gold to steal. Instead of stealing gold, they started doing the exact opposite! Feeling such an amazement, they set sail on a fleet of ships and carried cargoes of gold and other precious items for the captain and the sailors to give away as gifts. There were seven voyages by the Ming Treasure Fleet- and the people on board had many adventures. Once, China’s Emperor had a little argument with the Emperor of Russia and began an infinity war between the two countries. As it was too strong for China to beat Russia, China had to make new relationships with a variety of countries to realigned a coalition and dealt with Russia. Therefore, the group of travellers need to be dispatched! The travellers sailed to the United States. They supposed to give away the wonderful presents they had brought from the Emperor, making new relationship with the U.S.A. However, none of the travellers wished to be the representative to give away the present. After consideration, a young man whose Dad was the Emperor took heart of grace and risked his lives to be the representative. Eventually, their plan was going very well. They convinced U.S.A. and realigned a coalition successfully. Relying on the military strength of the U.S.A., China defeated Russia. Since then, the group of travellers started working hard. They used the tools to make silk and chinaware on board. In order to earn more money for China to buy more weapons, they sold all of them. All their hard work had paid off in the end. The ships finally carried military forces and weapons. One day, when the group of travellers were travelling over the world and trying to meet some other peaceful people on board, suddenly a violent wave crashed against the ship, throwing the fragile ship into a full sway, causing it to tilt in a dangerous manner a while later. Soon, the ship started sinking. Most of the travellers fell into the sea. Struggling to survive, they swam everywhere they could. Everyone was in panic. Abruptly, the prince’s voice rang out from the sea,’’ Stop being panic, we have to unite as one!’’ After hearing the prince’s prompt, they understood that it was no used to be panic. They all calmed down and tried to grab some pieces of wood from the sinking boat as possibly as they can. Floating on the sea, they were all in a marvelous and wonderful mood. Sooner later, they got to a desolate island. They had to wait somebody to pick them up. They sought for the several pieces of wood they had brought from the boat in order to make some fire to attract the boat that came to save them. After a while, there was a glisten of hope. There was an enormous ship sailing towards them! All of them were in excitement. They jumped onto the boat and went back to China. As they experienced the incident above, they won for themselves a place in history and made a contribution to China. What an extraordinary travellers!