Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 158

The Ming Treasure Voyages
Holy Cross Lutheran School, Lee, Pak Nok Max - 11
A long time ago, Zheng He is a Yunnan Kunyang people. A famous General attacked his village, and then
he was distributed to one of the Kings to be the warrior. He fought well and won many battles; he ended up
gaining the trust from the King who gave him a nickname of “Zheng”. Zheng He doubted that Hui Wang
was dead in another country. So his King ordered him to make a big ship and go to find Hui Wang’s dead
body. Zheng He knew that his king wanted to let every country realize China is more powerful than other
countries but could not find Hui Wang’s dead body.
Zheng He’s ship had many weapons, food, porcelain and a lot of money. There were more than twenty
thousand people working on the ships. They went from Zuzhou to Vietnam… Every place they went,
Zheng He told the people that he has the greatest king and the greatest country. Zheng He had visited many
places and gave money to all those places. But in the case of someone’s disobedience, his soldier killed them
all. In the year 1408, they went to many places such as Java, Ke Zhi…etc. to build friendships. When Zheng
He arrived in Ceylon, the King invited him to go to his palace to have a look. But the real objective of the
King is to get all of Zheng He’s gold and all of his things. Zheng He was smart and realized his objective
because he noticed that the city had no people. So he brought two thousand soldiers to attack the city in
Ceylon and kidnap the king’s daughter and wife. Finally, he resolved this incident. Subsequently, he still had
many journey around the world!
Unfortunately, Zheng He’s died on his ship because of overloaded. He was a great man who was the first
one to visit many places in the world!!