 Once she held the fleet's leadership position, Ching Shih started the task of uniting the fleet by issuing a code of laws.The Neumann translation of ""The History of Pirates Who Infested the China Sea"" claims that it was Cheung Po Tsai that issued the code.Yuan Yung-lun says that Cheung issued his own code of 3 regulations, called "san-t'iao", for his own fleet, but these are not known to exist in a written form.