Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 - 2 | Page 98

“Everyone, do not panic, we just need to steer the ship around!” Zheng He shouted, still in his pajamas.
However, no one could hear him, so everyone started running around everywhere and panicking.
Zheng He narrowed his eyes as he started to slowly make his way up to the steering wheel to turn the ship
around.
After all that mayhem, Zheng He decided that they should ask someone to take a midnight shift just in
case there was any danger ahead.
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Three days later, the ship finally reached an island that they haven’t discovered on the southeast of
China, this island seemed to have an emperor ruling it, so Zheng He managed to meet the emperor and
convinced him to befriend the emperor of YongLe and became their allie. In fact, it went so well that even
the emperor gave a gift for Zheng He to give back to the YongLe dynasty which was a new fauna that the
people of the YongLe dynasty has never seen and 142 of his greatest warriors in return. Zheng He thanked
the emperor as he started to walk back to the ship with the fauna.
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After another week, the 300 ships came back with more treasures than they had before. YongLe emperor
was very happy that Zheng He and his fleet of ships managed to earn so many goods through this journey
and was amazed by the story they had. However, 1 month later YongLe emperor was found dead in his
palace, which meant that Zheng He wouldn’t be able to get more recruits and allies without the emperor’s
treasures to bribe the other dynasties, so Zheng He was only able to go on adventures every 1 year instead,
until he unexpectedly died on a voyage to India. This upset many people because he was friends with almost
everyone, which made Zheng He one of the greatest admirals that YongLe had ever had.