The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 420 What is supposed to come will come.

"King Zheng doesn't love us Thais at all. He only knows how to protect his fellow countrymen and treat us as slaves. I don't want to endure this endless suffering anymore!"

In the ruins of Ayutthaya, Naiwu raised the iron chain in his hand, revealing the dense scars on his back, and roared loudly.

As he roared, the scar on his back twitched with muscles and blood slowly flowed out, which made Naiwu look even more excited and more sympathetic.

The iron chain in his hand was tightly wrapped around his hands. It was used to punish disobedient gold diggers in the ruins. Anyone who disobeyed would have their hands tied.

Not only would he be unable to work, but if he didn't have a few friends and relatives, he would most likely starve to death because he couldn't free his hands to get food.

Naiwu deliberately angered the Chinese who contracted the treasure hunting industry in Ayutthaya these days, and successfully got the bracelet, which then quickly became a weapon for him to gain sympathy.

Sure enough, after hearing Naiwu's roar and seeing the scars on his back and the chains wrapped around his hands, many Thais and even Nazhen started to roar loudly, and some even shed tears.

"You damn bastard, I should have killed you with a knife yesterday!" The atmosphere was so tense that it was about to explode, but Zheng Antong still didn't realize the problem.

They faced the same problem as the British in India. Their advantages were too great and they had everything, which made their vigilance drop to the lowest level.

Accompanied by curses, Zheng Antong, holding a whip, rushed towards Naiwu with great momentum, surrounded by two Chinese warriors.

Nai Wuze ran as fast as he could, heading towards the place where the crowd was the largest, where his accomplices were.

Zheng Tongan quickly caught up with Naiwu, and with the long whip made of palm leaves in his hand, he mercilessly whipped Naiwu on the back. The old and new scars overlapped, and flesh and blood foam splattered together.

Naiwu screamed miserably, "Is Siam going to become Chinese? It should belong to the Thais!"

Zheng Tongan was not completely a fool. He also felt something was wrong at this time, but his response was wrong.

With a choking sound, he drew out his long sword, ready to execute Naiwu on the spot to intimidate others.

But at this moment, the Thai treasure hunters who were slowly surrounding him suddenly bumped into Zheng Tongan, and Zheng Tongan stumbled and fell into a puddle not far away.

"Rebellion, rebellion, kill them!" Nai Wu immediately got up and shouted loudly in Siamese, and rushed towards a Chinese warrior holding a knife.

In an instant, the long-accumulated anger was ignited. There were as many as 30,000 to 40,000 young and strong men digging for treasure in the ruins of Ayutthaya. Most of them were resentful. Even if they had never been wronged, they were very unhappy to see the Chinese being superior in their territory.

Soon, the anger spread to the whole city. Nai U was elected as the leader. Rioting slaves were everywhere attacking the Chinese who contracted the treasure hunting industry and some Siamese upper class who supported Taksin.

The riot broke out at night, and at dawn, the people involved in the riot elected Luang Sola, Luang Chana and Nai U as leaders.

The first two were minor nobles from the Ayutthaya Dynasty. After the establishment of the Thonburi Dynasty, their estates were impacted by the Chinese estates and went bankrupt. They had no choice but to bring a few people to Ayutthaya to dig for treasure, and they had already accumulated a lot of resentment.

As for Nai U, he was actually the most fiercely opposed member of the Bunna family. Historically, after his success, he was knighted by Rama I and changed his name to Nai Bunna, which means a respected gentleman from the Bunna family.

After electing a leader, the rebels captured a military camp in Ayutthaya, looted a large number of weapons and ships, and successfully instigated most of the soldiers to rebel.

Afterwards, they went downstream and continuously attacked the Chinese and other noble estates on both sides of the Chao Phraya River (Mekong Phraya River), liberating the Thai and other ethnic slaves in the estates.

Three days later, when the rebel army arrived upstream of Thonburi City, it had a size of more than 200,000 people.

But the situation was not at its worst yet, because Thonburi City still had 4,000 guards and a large number of city defense artillery.

A city defense force composed of Chaozhou people took the initiative to open fire on the rebel army, sinking seven large and small ships and basically stabilizing the situation.

But this rebellion was extremely unbearable for Taksin, who had just experienced the death of Queen Daqi.

Given his proud character, it was actually hard for him to believe that the Thais, whom he had rescued from Burmese slavery, would oppose him.

Zheng Xin personally came to the top of the city wall and looked at the rioters all over the hills outside the city. He was shaking with discomfort and shouted to the rioters below the city:
"I saved you from Burmese slavery and even allowed you to enslave the Burmese. Why are you still opposing me?"

Naiwu had already upgraded his weapon. He was still wearing gorgeous armor and stood a few hundred meters away, waiting for someone to come forward and answer:
"But the king only loves the Chinese and not the Thais. You drove away the Burmese and only replaced them with the Chinese as the masters of the Thais!"

Taksin was furious: "What nonsense! The Chinese had already arrived here before the Thais did. They have always had a share of Siam.

After I drove out the Burmese, everything was in ruins. The Thais didn't even have food to eat, and it was all thanks to the wealthy Chinese merchants that they were helped. If the Chinese hadn't brought us food and farm tools over the years, you would have starved to death long ago."

What Zheng Xin said was absolutely correct. In fact, this is also the biggest reason why Chaozhou people should regard Siam as their own property.

Because after the Chaozhou ancestors followed Wen Tianxiang in resisting the Mongols in the late Song Dynasty and failed, many Chaozhou people sailed across the ocean and settled in the Chao Phraya River Delta.

At that time, the Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai was still located in northern Thailand, which was the territory of the Chenla people.

Later, the Khmer Empire declined and the Thais moved south. They advocated intermarriage with the Chinese, which received a response from the Chinese, and only then did they gain a foothold in the lower reaches of the Chao Phraya River.

So to be honest, this place should belong to the Zhenla people. The Thais and Chinese are latecomers, and the Chinese even came earlier than the Thais.

Moreover, since the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, Thais have been constantly intermingling with the Chinese, reaching a peak after the Ming Dynasty, leading to the emergence of the Nazhen class, and the two sides have long since become indistinguishable from each other.

Therefore, in Zheng Xin's view, after he drove out the Burmese, the Thais were tortured to death by the Burmese. It was he who asked the wealthy Chinese to provide food to aid the Thais, and called over 100,000 fellow villagers from his hometown to continue developing the Chao Phraya Delta.

Then the Chinese should naturally occupy the highest position. This is a very normal and correct thing, and it cannot be used as a reason for opposition.

It's not just Taksin and the Chinese who think so, a large number of Thais also think so.

Therefore, this turmoil was actually a rebellion caused by the former old nobles having their ecological niche squeezed out by the Chinese in the Xin Dynasty, coupled with some mistakes made by Zheng Xin in his administration.

Nai-U had been very well prepared, but was silenced by Zheng Xin's words. He had no choice but to give up the confrontation with Zheng Xin and turned to the Thai serfs behind him, continuing to loudly enslave the Chinese to create opposition and conflict.

"Your Majesty, please fire the cannon to kill Naiwu!" A Chinese artillery commander said to Zheng Xin.

Naiwu, wearing golden armor, was only four or five hundred meters away from the cannon on the city wall. He felt confident that he could knock him down with one shot.

Zheng Xin hesitated for a moment and actually shook his head, "They were all bewitched by Naiwu. If I kill Naiwu now, wouldn't it prove that what Naiwu said was true?

I will ask the masters in the city to come forward and tell the people held hostage outside the city that I am the King of Siam, not an outsider who only cares about the Chinese as Nai-U said.

The artillery commander was stunned and horrified. How could he talk about reason before the rebellion was quelled? He should kill Naiwu with a single shot first, control these rioters, and then talk about reason!

However, he was of low rank and before he could say anything, Zheng Xin had already left surrounded by his guards.

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In the Temple of Dawn, things were not as smooth as Taksin had expected, because in recent years, in order to further improve his reputation among the Thais, Taksin especially hoped to use religion to assimilate the Burmese in Lower Myanmar.

He has always claimed that he is the projection of the future Buddha in this world, and even said that his blood is different from that of ordinary people and is white.

Although he has not yet forced the monks in Thailand's major temples to recognize his divinity, he has done some solicitation and coercion.

In Siam and Burma, or in the entire South Seas except Annan, religion has always been the most important thing in the lives of ordinary people, sometimes even more important than eating.

Although these religious forces in Southeast Asia cannot achieve the goal of having a god above the king, they have great power. How could they possibly be willing to have a worldly god appear to oppress them?

So, as soon as these monks, who were considered harmless by Taksin, left the city, they sold Taksin out. They said to Nai U:

"Zheng Zhao thinks he can appease you with the Buddha. Why don't you ask Zheng Zhao to shave his head and become a monk at Indrama Temple for three months, and let the ministers form a regent. Then you will be willing to disperse."

Nai U understood it immediately. Wat Indrama was in the outer city of Thonburi, and it could only be reached by crossing a large artificial canal. As long as Taksin went to Wat Indrama, he would be separated from power, and Taksin would be finished.

After the bald monk from Wat Arun came back to report, he heard that the high monks from Wat Arun and Wat Indrama had collectively guaranteed it, and Taksin actually agreed.

The Siamese king's mind has been completely occupied by the old model and approach. The death of Princess Daqi and the failure of policies in recent years have indeed caused him to have a lot of self-doubt.

Therefore, Taksin ignored the advice of Han-Thai ministers such as Zheng Mincheng and Phraya Phichai, and insisted that the rioters outside the city were bewitched.

He led the Thais to expel the Burmese, occupied the Burmese's former territory, and established a large Siamese dynasty. He was a great king like King Naresuan. As long as the reasons were explained clearly, the rioters would definitely not continue to support him.

If you ask whether this is right or wrong, it is not really wrong, because Taksin is indeed very prestigious. He drove away the Burmese and even enslaved them. These are all his achievements.

If we were to divide the four million people in Siam at that time, those who admired and were loyal to Taksin would definitely account for the majority.

But it definitely doesn’t include the more than 200,000 people outside the city!
The main force among them were treasure diggers from Ayutthaya, who suffered greatly from enslavement and oppression by the Chaozhou trading companies. The little gratitude they had originally had was almost worn out by the heavy labor day after day.

Despite the persuasion of a group of ministers, Zheng Xin still insisted on his own opinion, and Prime Minister Zheng Mincheng stopped trying to persuade him.

After watching Zheng Xin retreat to the harem, he immediately grabbed Phraya Phetchaburi and Chao Phraya Ratchaburi, whose paternal lineage was Najin, and said:

"The king is too serious. He is heartbroken by the death of Princess Daqi and is too arrogant. This could lead to something terrible.

We can’t let anything happen to the King, or else the wrath of thunder will strike and we’ll all be in trouble.”

Phraya Phetchaburi's surname is Chen. Although his family has been in Siam for many generations, it is still Nazhen on the paternal side, and he is Zheng Mincheng's brother-in-law, otherwise it would definitely not be his turn to rule Phraya Phetchaburi, which has been in power for four generations in Zheng Mincheng's family.

Phraya Ratchaburi was actually the former king of the Nakhon Si Thammarat royal family. Mok Si Thammarat's first battle after arriving in Siam was to rescue the Nakhon Si Thammarat royal family, and he was the one who was helped to the throne by Mok Si Thammarat.

Not to mention Zheng Min's achievements. When Mo Zibu was in Siam, he was the second most important person in the faction after Mo Zibu.

Phraya Phetchaburi and Wang Runzhi both nodded. They both knew what Zheng Mincheng meant.

The arrogant one is Zheng Xin. In recent years, Mo Zi Bu has become the emperor of the Central Plains, but the relationship between the father-in-law and son-in-law has become distant.

In recent years, Zheng Xin's actions seem to have the intention of becoming the God of Siam. This may be due to the stimulation of Mo Zi Bu. The biggest manifestation of this is that Siam has not yet made a request for enthronement to Dayu.

It can be said that as the father-in-law of Emperor Guangzhong of Great Yu, Taksin, the King of Siam, was actually canonized by the Qing Dynasty.

As for the thunderous wrath, that was very simple. Although Zheng Xin and Mo Zibu had become estranged, they were still father-in-law and son-in-law after all. If Zheng Xin was really killed by the rioters outside, Mo Zibu would not be able to spare his ministers. All of them would be held accountable.

"Prime Minister, why don't we submit a petition to the King requesting that Phraya Sankha be appointed as the garrison commander of the royal city, and Phraya Mahaduna be assigned to lead 500 guards to protect the King. We will gather around the Queen to protect her, so that if anything happens, we can handle it immediately."

Wang Runzhi of Phraya Ratchaburi suggested that this was indeed a good idea because they knew that the key now was to ensure the safety of Zheng Xin's family.

As long as their family was safe, it didn't matter whether this was a sudden incident or a long-planned rebellion.

Because Siam could not possibly resist China. No matter how serious the situation became, as long as the Chinese heavenly soldiers arrived, everything could be solved.

Zheng Mincheng thought about it and agreed.

But they never imagined that Phraya Shankha, who had been licking the Chinese crazily over the years, was actually a fellow traveler of the Wenna family and he had already rebelled.

　Some say that Wat Arun and Wat Indrama are the same temple, while others say they are two different temples.

　　
　
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