Dominate the Country

The strong sour and spicy fragrance is wafting in the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace. Chen Ming and Chen Cong were greedy almost as soon as they smelled the fragrance.

I looked at the time and saw that it was already past two o'clock. It was indeed time to get hungry.

Although the fragrance was interrupted, Chen Ming's accumulated anger was still boiling - hell, there was actually a rebellion in Thonburi.

Three or four months after the victory of the Siamese army in the Burmese War, when a large number of captured [people and property] were sent back to Siam, it stands to reason that this is the time when Zheng Xin's prestige in Siam will reach its highest - Siam Luo and Burma are sworn enemies, but Zheng Xin was overthrown by his men.

A person is sent to a temple to become a monk. What does this mean?

Moreover, the rebellious Gelunkhun Anura Somkhram—Taxin’s nephew and the grandson of Zheng Xin’s adoptive father—had always treated Gelunkhun Anura Somkhram very favorably when he came to Zhengxin; the conspired Phaya Sankha— The commander of the Imperial Guards in Thonburi and one of Zheng Xin's confidants. All the Chinese instructors and instructors in the Siamese army were captured and imprisoned, but their lives were not in danger. And these two early rafters were both captured by the Siamese Army Lieutenant General Chao Phraya Chokri (Thong Luan) - one of Zheng Xin's cheap father-in-laws and the father of Princess Daqi, although he was three years younger than Zheng Xin. Years old - was taken away, and the power in Siam was now controlled by Thong Luang, a Thai ethnic group.

It's just ridiculous.

During the rebellion of Gelungkhun Anurasongkhram and Mu Phraya Sankha, the Chinese in Bangkok organized a force to desperately reinforce Thonburi, but were defeated by a part of the Imperial Guard led by Phraya Sankha. .

Now that Bangkok is controlled by the Siamese army, and Thong Luang has closed the port, do you think Chen Ming is angry?

However, eating is the most important thing in the world. When he was forced by the smell, the hunger that he didn't know where to go suddenly surged into Chen Ming's heart. "We have been talking for so long, let's eat first." What happened in Siam Although I want to solve it quickly, I am not in a hurry.

The military intelligence report only provided general information, and Chen Ming did not know many details.

Gelongkhun Anurasongkham is Taksin's nephew, Phraya Sankha is Taksin's confidant general, and the Imperial Guards in Thonburi. Many previous investigations have shown that their loyalty to Taksin is Very high.

Why did everything turn the other way all of a sudden?

And how come this final right was obtained by Tongluan, a Thai tribesman?

All this is still a secret, and more detailed information needs to be transmitted. Although this did not delay Chen Ming from ordering the Southwest Military Region and the Nanyang Navy to prepare for action.

The pot was brought up and the beef soup was cooked. Chen Ming asked someone to bring a bowl of soup first. It tasted really good, and he wanted to drink a bowl when he smelled the beef soup.

Add a little pepper to the clear soup in the bowl, and you will sweat all over after drinking it. Then take a slice of fat and lean beef cut into half a palm-sized piece and pour it into the pot. Take it out and put it in the mixing bowl for dipping.

Mmmmm, this tastes so good.

Chen Cong's stomach was also empty. Today's event was really big and unexpected. He hadn't even had a sip of tea all morning. He was really hungry when he smelled this smell. When someone brought the steamed buns, he ate two steamed buns with the soup to satisfy his hunger, and then slowly started to eat meat.

Chen Ming likes to eat fresh tofu in the soup pot. He doesn't like to put frozen tofu in it. He also puts potato slices and rice cakes in it. "It's my fault that I forget the time when I talk about it. Second uncle, you eat more beef." , this stuff warms the stomach, replenishes qi, and nourishes the spleen and stomach.”

Chen Ming is now called by the imperial doctor to have his Ping'an pulse checked every other day. These imperial doctors will also prescribe food and tonics after checking the pulse. Chen Ming has seen so many things that he can memorize a lot of things.

Chen Cong turned around and poured a glass of rice wine for Chen Ming.

No wonder Chen Ming forgot the time, he himself found it incredible. You know, it's not easy for my nephew to let Siam go. The Battle of Burma made Chen Ming have a better impression of Zheng Xin. After careful consideration, he definitely did not want to pursue Siam. Unexpectedly, as soon as a new tone was set here, something happened to Siam itself.

No matter how Thong Luang controlled the military and political power in Siam, as long as he sent troops into Bangkok, this guy and his family would have their name in the Yama Palace of Lord Yama.

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, if you can inspire your nephew, trusted generals and loyal guards to rebel together, Zheng Xin must have a problem with his faith."

The system implemented in Siam is the old rule of the previous Ayutthaya Dynasty - the Sakdina system. The so-called Sakdina system is a land enfeoffment system that grants land based on grade. In China, it was a thing that was swept into the garbage heap two thousand years ago. In the Sardina system, the king owned all the land in the country. Officials and royal members had no salary, but the king granted varying amounts of land according to their titles. The crown prince owns up to 100,000 rai of land, and the prince, duke, marquis, earl, Luan, monk, ten thousand household lord, novice monk, and clerk have successively reduced land holdings. The larger number of commoners has 25 rai, and the slaves have 5 rai. [One rai equals 2.4 acres]

No matter how backward this political system is and how much it restricts social productivity, the 'system' is absolutely stable in its initial stages.

Although the constant foreign wars between Taksin and Burma prevented Siam from recuperating and people's livelihood never recovered, the war also forced Taksin to rely more and more on the military aristocrats, which encouraged the expansion of a large number of military aristocrats and weakened them. centralization.

But Siam was backed by Chen Han, and Siam's rice was pouring into China without limit, which made Siam the only country in the world with a trade surplus with China for a period of time. Siam's life was generally comfortable.

Why did Chen Ming and Chen Cong find the drastic changes in Thonburi incredible? That was because Siam was really stable before.

As a hero who expelled the Burmese invading army, Zheng Xin had a high prestige.

"It can only be faith. Zheng Xin had a tense relationship with many monks. He always wanted to control Buddhism in Siam. It must be the backlash of Buddhism, otherwise even a large number of guards would not have betrayed him."

Zheng Xin's idea of ​​completely controlling Buddhism was not concealed from Nanjing at all. In Siam, he used jumping over fire and diving to test the "purity" of monks, requiring monks to respect themselves as Buddhas, and tortured those who did not obey. It can be said that he deeply offended Buddhism. He made new tricks to commit suicide. But Chen Ming, who doesn't know much about history, doesn't know whether Zheng Xin in history has done the same thing. Zheng Xin in the original time and space plane didn't have China to back him up. In the end, Zheng Xin was overthrown by his generals, but now it's not the same thing in history. Zheng Xin was still overthrown by opponents, and it's unknown how much evil he has done in Siam.

Anyway, Nanjing sees some of the things Zheng Xin did in Siam and really feels that he is courting death.

"The most important thing now is Zheng Xin's life." Zheng Xin has many descendants, but at the moment, the only one who really holds power in Siam is Prince Zhaoshui, who is the head of the logistics department of the Siamese army, and his eldest son, Gelongkunlap, is studying at Sungkyunkwan Public School. Zheng Xin prefers Zhaoshui to take over, but has not yet asked Nanjing to confer the title of crown prince.

If Taksin of Siam was killed, and his sons who stayed in Siam were also killed, although Chen Han could put Krongkunlappai or the other two sons of Taksin who were studying in Nanjing on the throne, Siam would probably turn from a big granary of China into a big quagmire.

It is hard to say that the Siamese Buddhists did not intervene in this incident, so after Chen Han put the newcomer on the throne, he would inevitably clean up the Siamese Buddhist community. As a Buddhist country, the influence of monks in Siam is very great and deep. During this period, countless Thai people in Siam were easily incited to oppose China. A new king without any prestige is almost a puppet of Chen Han, and there are too many places to attack.

This will turn Siam from a granary that is extremely beneficial to China into a quagmire of rolling sewage.

From the perspective of Nanjing, where the main purpose has been transferred, this is very bad news.

Nanyang has completely fallen into the hands of Chen Han, and Chen Ming's eyes have turned to India, Russia and North America. China is about to expand in the true sense, and at this time even Siam's attraction to him has become insignificant. Of course, he didn't want to see Siam fall into chaos, which might also affect Myanmar, Annan, etc.

The plan that had been formulated had gone wrong, which made Chen Ming most unhappy.

With the large-scale immigration development being put on the agenda, food became very important. Because whether it is North America, Southeast Asia, or South Mingzhou, if large-scale immigration is to be carried out again, food security is the first priority. The "value" of Siam is very important. It is China's largest granary abroad. No chaos!

However, what Chen Ming didn't know was that while he and Chen Cong were whispering here, Chen Han's first battle with the Siamese army had already started.

One side of the war was the Siamese army that controlled Bangkok, and the other side of the war was the destroyer fleet that Ye Tingyang led to Bangkok urgently.

Bangkok is the most important port in Siam. A large number of Chinese and Chinese businessmen gathered there. Although the area is small, it is only above Thonburi, which is separated by a river, in terms of prosperity.

Although the Siamese army entered Bangkok quickly, some Chinese businessmen still pulled up the sails and left the Bangkok port. Their goal was the Xinkou Port in Phnom Penh, which was Sihanoukville, the second largest city in Cambodia in the original time and space plane.

This is a natural deep-water port with a water depth of three to four feet and a small island outside as a natural breakwater. Since the port was opened, it has quickly become a prosperous place in Phnom Penh.

At the same time, this is also a place where warships of the Nanyang Navy can enter and exit at will. It was a good job for Ye Tingyang to lead a small fleet to stay in Xinkou Port.

After receiving the report, Ye Tingyang immediately led the fleet to Bangkok Port.

As an undefended port, Bangkok Port poses zero threat to the fleet. The few artillery pieces hastily set up by the Siamese army did not shoot as far as the eight-pound cannon on the destroyer.

The shells easily destroyed the artillery defense positions of the Siamese army, and then pulled the distance to five hundred meters away, bombarding the Siamese army camp with all their strength. The shells not only hit the camp, but also landed on the surrounding buildings, and soon a fire broke out.

The Nanyang Navy fired red-hot incendiary bombs, and the choking smoke was swirling over the Bangkok Port by the sea breeze.

Hundreds of soldiers wearing Thonburi Royal Guards uniforms were running around the Bangkok Port like headless flies, and more Chinese, the elderly, the weak, women and children, were huddled in the house with their relatives tightly hugged, their faces pale. But the faces of the Chinese men in Bangkok all showed excitement, uncontrollable excitement.

Zheng Xin was really close to the Chinese, especially the immigrants from Chaozhou, Guangdong, who were his ancestral home. They were all called "royal Chinese" by the Thais.

The destroyers still did not dare to dock, but they were able to lower the boat and send a battalion of marines to the Bangkok Port.

There were sparse gunshots, but the sound was a warning. Thonburi Guards soldiers who were shot dead and bloody were everywhere in the open space of the port. The few who had not yet breathed their last made hoarse and weak calls.

Thong Luang released about 2,000 men in Bangkok Port, but less than half of the officers of these four battalions had just been captured, and the new commander's prestige had not been established at all. In the past, these Imperial Guard soldiers were inspired by their faith and overthrew Taksin's rule. When Thong Luang led the army to approach Thonburi, after their fanatical faith became low, they woke up and had no fighting spirit at all. He was disarmed as if he were being held captive.

Of course, Thong Luang would not let Siam's most elite troops go to waste. In turn, they became the Imperial Guards of Thonburi. However, the name was back, but the essence could not change. go back?

Don't think that they don't understand anything because they are just soldiers.

King Zheng Xin has been taken back from the temple by Tong Luan, but the power is still in the hands of Tong Luan, and King Zheng Xin is still imprisoned.

Don't think they are all fools. Now everyone knows that Thong Luang has different intentions. Otherwise, if he returns the military power to King Taksin, the turmoil in Siam will be eliminated in an instant. But Tongluan not only did not do this, but also sent troops to let his brother and nephew attack Wenma and Chen Lian.

Both of them were close generals of King Taksin, and Boon Ma and Thong Luang were political enemies. When King Taksin first launched an army to resist the Burmese, Boon Ma was a general under Taksin and complained to King Taksin about Thong Luang. He had different intentions, but King Zheng Xin didn't believe it.

But Tongluan never dared to kill King Zheng Xin. Why?

Everyone knows it too.

King Zheng Xin had China as his backing. King Zheng Xin's grandson and several sons were studying in China. Even if Tongluan captured King Zheng Xin, Prince Zhaoshui was still in his hands. He was still worried.

The Imperial Guards, whose morale had long been low, were bombarded by Nanyang Navy's cannons and had no intention of resisting. They didn't have the intention to resist Tongluan, so how could they have the intention to resist their teacher? Therefore, the Marine Corps easily captured the entire Bangkok Port.

Two thousand guardsmen were captured, and 1,200 to 300 people were captured. The strangest thing is that these prisoners were not only captured by the Marine Corps Battalion, but also many were captured by Chinese men from Bangkok. The funniest thing is, A local policeman, the Bangkok Port Policeman, had his gun taken away, but with a machete, he actually captured twenty or thirty Guardsmen holding guns in their hands.

One can imagine how low these people's morale has been.

After a sergeant officer shot down a Thonburi Guards soldier who was holding a musket and trying to fight back, he actually escaped from a paper bullet box with a betel nut, threw it into his mouth and chewed it comfortably, "Just now At that time, we don’t need artillery fire at all, we can catch them all with just one charge!”

The entire battle in Bangkok lasted less than half an hour, and more than a thousand Thonburi Guards soldiers became prisoners.

"Commander, some soldiers just discovered that many Thonburi Guards jumped over the river and ran away. Do we need to send troops to pursue them?"

The smooth battle on land made everyone on the ship excited.

Just when Chen Ming and Chen Cong were dumbfounded by the sudden coup in Siam, Ye Tingyang led his destroyer detachment to recapture Bangkok Port.