The world is afraid of the word serious!

Ji Kun, who is the number one cool official in the Ming Dynasty, is a serious person, although he is very reluctant to be a cool official, but he will still take his family seriously, and he is more serious than all the northerners' imperial history, so he got the nickname of King Ji Yan and became one of the three officials with the worst reputation in the Ming officialdom - the other two are Luo Pi Luo Grand Duke and Huang Tiger Huang Zongxi!

Luo Dagong scraped the land in Songjiang Mansion, and was stunned to scrape Songjiang Mansion into the No. 1 tax mansion in the Ming Dynasty, surpassing Suzhou Mansion, which has been the No. 1 taxpayer for more than 200 consecutive years!

Huang Zongxi was responsible for the examination and examination in the Ministry of Officials, and was specifically responsible for tossing the county orders of Jiangnan Province, and every year there were always more than a dozen county officials who were taken away by him, and this guy didn't get in the oil and salt, no matter who interceded and who gave gifts, it was useless......

Although Ji Kun went abroad, his character of "doing evil seriously" still could not be changed, and when he stayed in Jinghai City, he heard Zhu Cizhao, the king of Ninan, talk about the news of Siam's exodus, and pointed out the mistakes made by King Basathong in legal theory at that time.

Legally, the Kingdom of Siam was a vassal state of the Great Ming Dynasty!

The Ming Dynasty was the suzerain, and Siam was a vassal. The vassal state unreasonably expelled the citizens of the suzerain, which is on the road of rebellion!

As the number one cool official of the Ming Dynasty, how can he watch the signs of rebellion?

Therefore, in the name of the "Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Chin Cha", he immediately issued an order to Zheng Hongkui (formerly known as Zheng Zhibiao, the fourth brother of Zheng Zhilong), the deputy chief of the Dongning Naval Division, who escorted the mission to Europe, to change course and go to Siam to ask for an explanation.

And Zhu Cizhao happened to be a little tired of the deputy envoy of the Jinghai Navy, who had a good relationship with Qiu Mengmei, Daniel Zhang, so he simply asked him to take 1,000 Shaanxi soldiers who had nothing to do and always caused trouble on the Jinghai side to Siam to find trouble......

Now Daniel Zhang and 1,000 elite soldiers of the Jing Navy have accompanied Ji Kun and Li Shaoyou, two envoys, as well as the Dutch ambassador Fan. Men went ashore and occupied a large island called the island of Dinai, which was not an island, but a small plain on the east side of the Chao Phraya River, which was surrounded by water because a tributary of the Chao Phraya River flowed east of this friend.

Located in Haikou, the island is inhabited by many overseas Chinese, most of whom speak a little Chinese, and are not very averse to the army of the Lords coming from the sea.

Therefore, Ji Kun left Daniel Zhang and 500 Jinghai soldiers to guard the inner island, and he and Li Shaoyou took the remaining 500 people and hired twenty wooden boats to go along the Chao Phraya River towards Ayutthaya City.

"You're Akito?" Ji Kun, who was sitting on a big boat, saw Ye Jiaxin, who was rocking, wearing Han clothes, so he asked.

Ye Jiaxin said: "The small one is a Ming person, from Hubei." ”

"Hubei?" Ji Kun was stunned, "So far?" ”

There are a lot of Cantonese and Hu Jian people here in Nanyang, but there are few Hubei people!

Ji Kun asked again: "Why did you come to Siam?" ”

Ye Jiaxin sighed: "Isn't it called a feudal debt?" ”

"Feudal debts...... Ji Kun sighed with a wry smile.

This feudal debt harmed a large number of rich peasants in Hubei -- the rich peasants themselves would not have copied and sold the feudal debts, but many of the big businessmen with whom they had business dealings lost money in the purchase and sale of feudal debts, so the debt crisis was postponed, and by the way, a number of rich peasants in Hubei were trapped.

And Wuhan is now the Xijing of the Ming Dynasty, and of course it is one of the most powerful areas for the implementation of various policies. Therefore, many rich peasants in Hubei were lured out to sea.

Ji Kun sighed, "How long have you been in Siam?" ”

"It's been almost a year." Ye Jiaxin replied.

"Then do you think Siam is good?"

"Okay, of course it's good......" Ye Jiaxin said: Better than Daming! The land is flat, the climate is humid, and there are women who don't think they are lonely from afar, and they are willing to marry themselves, and they don't have the debts of the pit people! What better place in the world?

Ji Kun looked at Ye Jiaxin's expression, thoughtful, and asked after a while: "Can you speak Siamese?" ”

"Yes."

This Ye Jiaxin is not stupid, and he has a little talent for learning languages, under the teaching of his wife, he can speak Siamese in just over half a year.

Of course, I don't know the Siamese script, and I can't master the complex vocabulary, but I can speak it.

"Oh." Ji Kun said, "Then follow this official as a generalist, and when the negotiation is over, I will also report to you." ”

Something? Do you want to repay the merits? Do you want to be an official? No, just be a servant!

It's pie in the sky! Is it time for your own house to run?

After a burst of ecstasy in Ye Jiaxin's heart, he suddenly became a little worried, and asked in a low voice: "Ambassador, do you think you can negotiate?" ”

"Humph!" Ji Kun stroked his beard, "Why can't you?" My Da Ming Dynasty is the suzerain of Siam, and there are large soldiers stationed in Jinou, Jinghai, Chao Phraya River estuary and water division, and the Dutch also support Da Ming! ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the fan who was sitting in a boat with him, who was too hot to be able to wipe his sweat. "Ambassador Diemen, does the Netherlands support the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Fan. Dimen has been in China for several years and can already speak Chinese, and now when he hears Ji Kun's question, he is annoyed - he has always had to tell right and wrong and stir up contradictions, how can you, a Chinese bureaucrat, be used as a foreign gun now?

"Of course, we support the legitimate rights and interests of the Ming Dynasty in Siam, but the rights and interests of the Kingdom of Siam should also be fully protected!"

Ji Kun smiled: "That's natural, I'm the suzerain of Siam, of course I have the responsibility to protect the state!" ”

Fan. As soon as Di Men heard about the sect master and the vassals, he had a little headache.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, there was a tributary system in Southeast Asia with the Ming Dynasty as the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire and the Southeast Asian countries as vassals.

And there is a huge conflict between this system and the colonial system of the West!

If you look at it from the jurisprudence of the West, a country like Siam is a protectorate of the Ming Dynasty, and it can even be regarded as part of the Ming Empire!

Their sovereignty is incomplete, so it is easy to slip into the position of a Ming colony.

As long as the Ming Dynasty regained its strong seafaring capabilities, then those countries in the East that were traditionally dependent on China and did not have the ability to establish strong sea power themselves would naturally recognize the suzerainty of the Celestial Empire......

And the Ming Dynasty, which has consolidated its suzerainty, will further seek ways to transform suzerainty into interests - the previous Ming emperors may not have done that, but now the Ming Emperor will definitely maximize the interests of suzerainty.

In other words, the Ming Society seeks to colonize vassal states in Southeast Asia!

......

At this moment, in the supposedly invincible city of Ayutthaya.

King Basathong, who had never been in a war, believed in Buddhism, and loved poetry, was sitting on a throne wrapped in gold, looking at the two rows of naked men in the main hall at a loss, frowning and not saying a word.

These naked men are his ministers!

The courtiers of Siam do not have official uniforms, they are shirtless, ** in court, so looking down from the throne, you can see at a glance who is in good shape and who needs to work hard to lose weight...... Oh, it looks like they're all a little fat!

King Basathong vaguely remembered what he saw in the court of his grandfather, King Egatasarad, when he was a teenager, and it was all muscular and macho men with water!

Those fierce men are the uncle of the king of Basathorn Na Li Xuan the Great left by the professional household of cutting people, the emperor can be cruel, fighting every year, year after year, with the power of Siam to single out Burma, Chenla two big countries, first against Burma and the restoration of the country, and then three times to break Myanmar, and finally conquer Zhenla, and fight a big Siamese Empire!

However, more than 40 years of continuous war (counting from the conquest of Siam) by Mang Yinglong also caused Siam to wither everywhere, and the population was severely damaged, especially the death of a large number of strong men, and Ayutthaya's national strength was exhausted, and it was really unable to maintain a huge empire.

Therefore, the three generations of Siamese kings after Na Li Xuan the Great avoided war as much as possible, allowed the people to recuperate, developed agricultural production, and vigorously recruited foreign immigrants (mainly Chinese) in order to restore national strength as soon as possible.

However, more than 40 years of Wenzhi made the nobles of the Siamese Kingdom forget how to fight, and at this time, the Great Ming Dynasty suddenly became powerful, first subduing the chaotic Annam, and then destroying the remnants of the city in one fell swoop, and then encroaching on the territory in the eastern part of Chenla.

In this case, King Basathorn, who felt the danger, felt that the Ming immigrants in the country were a threat, and it was necessary to control them and dare to leave the Ming immigrants near the city of Ayutthaya.

But who knew that not long after his will was issued, and not many Ming Dynasty immigrants were driven away, the Ming Dynasty's naval fleet came to ask for guilt......