The report of the envoy of the Jin Ou Yingtian is actually outdated.

Because the six Daming gunboats flying the same flag of the sun and the moon were already lined up at this time, blocking the mouth of the Chao Phraya River.

These six Daming gunboats are the six 10,000-stone sea ships carrying the Ming mission to Europe, although they are armed merchant ships, but the hull structure is very strong, and the number of guns on board is also large. Each of the 10,000-stone Bird ships had as many as 24 gun windows and 24 6-pounder bronze cannons installed.

Such firepower was not enough for the navy of the Dutch East India Company, but it was not a big problem to block the most important sea port of the Siam Kingdom.

In addition, there is also a 200-ton Dutch East India Company's Galen ship with these 6 Daming Wanshi ships, which did not participate in the "blocking of the door", but just walked around in a friendly way.

This is Fan. Diemen's ship, he was entrusted by the Ming court to accompany the Ming delegation to Europe, this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of the Netherlands in the European diplomatic arena! So Fan. Dimon asked the East India Company for a 200-ton galen.

Now this ship has been brought together by the Ming Mission to scare the Siamese!

This is the Ming Dynasty - the Dutch Combined Fleet! Are you Siamese people afraid?

Never mind Siam's Ayutthaya dynasty that benefited greatly from foreign trade and was the first country in Asia to open its doors to Westerners, signing a bunch of treaties in the 17th century, but the country never thought of building a powerful navy.

By the way, the military strength of the Ayutthaya Dynasty was not too weak at this time, and it was only 45 years after the death of their first male lord, Nali Xuan the Great. The Sakdina system, which had been reorganized by Na Lixuan, was still working well and could provide sufficient tribute and compulsory soldiers for the country. Moreover, through trade with Westerners, Siam also has a lot of foreign guns and cannons.

However, this state-granting system, which was similar to China's uniform land system, was unable to provide enough sailors and businessmen for the Ayutthaya dynasty. There are not many sailors, so what kind of navy do you have?

The reason for this is that God is really kind to the farmers of Siam, giving them a flat, vast, warm and water-rich country. And because of its late development and the fact that it was often beaten to the brink of death by neighboring Burma, the population of the country has always been small, so there was enough land to be granted to the nobility and commoners.

According to the Sakkina system of the Ayutthaya dynasty, the humblest slave could also receive 5 rai, which is almost 12 acres of land!

And the commoners have as many as 25 rai of land, which is 60 acres of land!

This is not a grant for a household, but a grant for a common man, regardless of gender!

Under such a relaxed land granting system, how could the Siamese people be willing to go to sea and engage in business? And Ken doesn't allow it! Siam has too little population and too much land, so land is not the most important means of production, population is!

Therefore, there were no freemen in Siam, and both men and women had to register with the lord of the land where they lived, and then receive a share of the land to cultivate, and also bear the corresponding taxes and military service. Moreover, the land received could not be bought or sold, and if he was too old to cultivate, he had to return it to the lord.

Therefore, the commoners of Siam are basically farmers (serfs) who cultivate the land, and most of the handicraftsmen are slaves and maids, ploughing 5 rai of land to support themselves, and also doing manual work for the lord, so it is conceivable that this work can be done in such a way.

As for the merchants in Siam, most of them were foreign immigrants, mainly Chinese, but there were also a small number of Indians, Japanese, Annam and Westerners.

Because of the small population and the fact that there were more women than men (in the 17th century, the ratio of men to women in Siam was quite imbalanced), Siam has always welcomed adult male immigrants from abroad. Immigrants are also considered "civilians", but they enjoy supra-national treatment, paying taxes and not having to do military or hard labor (usually six months a year), which gives them more freedom of movement and therefore business.

So many years later, all the wealthy people in Siam, except for the old aristocrats, were the descendants of foreign immigrants......

And because there are many more women than men in Siam, many bachelors who can't marry wives in their home countries can marry wives in Siam, and they can also get a piece of property by the way - the Sakdina system in Siam does not distinguish between men and women when granting land (what if there are too many fields?). ), all 25 rai, and the women here in Siam are very capable of working and hard-working (as is the case in the Nanyang countries), and are no worse than men in farming.

For a foreigner who has come from thousands of miles and is empty-handed, in such a country prone to tropical diseases, it is a gift from heaven to marry a local woman who has a little industry and is willing to work - a Siamese wife is equal to 60 acres of cultivated land (not to say how it is planted, but it is certainly not a forest), a certain amount of agricultural implements, shelter from the wind and rain (to avoid diseases), someone to take care of (know how to avoid tropical diseases), and enough food to satisfy the stomach.

With such living conditions, migrants are much less likely to contract tropical diseases or starve to death, and it is easy for them to gain a foothold and make a fortune.

So for Chinese immigrants who are empty-handed, Siam in the 17th century is definitely the most ideal place to go, not one!

If it weren't for the strength of the Ming Empire in Southeast Asia in the past two years, which frightened the Ayutthaya Dynasty's Basathorn King who was engaged in the "Renaissance", the harmonious relationship between the Kingdom of Siam and the Chinese immigrants would have lasted for a long time.

However, the city of Zhancheng was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty and Annam, and the large plains in the eastern part of the Zhenla Kingdom were forcibly occupied by the Ming Dynasty's Jinou Yingtian Envoy, which made the kings and ministers of Ayutthaya City feel terrified.

Therefore, the decree restricting and expelling the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty was issued from the court of Ayutthaya to all parts of the Kingdom of Siam!

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Near the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, on the wharf of a fishing village called Dinai Island Village, a new immigrant from the Ming Dynasty stood side by side with a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Siamese woman with dark complexion but exquisite facial features, just staring blankly at the Daming gunboat at the mouth of the river.

This immigrant is Ye Jiaxin, who drifted to Nakhon Siam with the hapless Yao Bridge at the end of last year.

Yao Daqiao was afraid of navigation and was reluctant to leave the land again, so he sold the cattle he had brought from the Central Plains (some of them were slaughtered, but most of them were still there), exchanged some capital, and settled in Songkhla Port in Nakhon Thammar Province to do business.

Because the Ming Dynasty implemented the "Guan Grain Rice" system, many Western ships going to China to trade would purchase some rice or white rice during their stay in Songkhla.

This made the shrewd Yao Daqiao see an opportunity, not to farm or sell rice, but to sell rice bags. He first paid for a local Chinese chief in Songkhla to settle relations and marry the daughter of a local village official who had no sons. Then, through the relationship of the old man, he exchanged the iron farm tools brought from the Central Plains for the pouches, and then sold the pouches to the Chinese rice merchants in Songkhla Harbor, and used the money to buy iron tools or other supplies shipped from Foshan, and then exchanged them for the pouches.

And Ye Jiaxin was unwilling to follow Yao Daqiao to do a small business, so Yao Daqiao gave him some farm tools and let him go north with the boat to Jinou, but when the unreliable sailing boat of the Huizhou people he took docked at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, he was hooked up by a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Siamese girl, so he settled on the inner island, and also received 25 rai of arable land from the local lord, and his wife also had 25 rai of land, the two of them had a total of 120 acres of land, and they were all paddy fields, Ye Jiaxin also brought a lot of high-quality farm tools from Shanghai Shengang, He also exchanged some of these tools for ploughing oxen, and took care of the 50 rai of land that had been allotted to him.

The land grant in Siam is very loose, but because men have to perform heavy military service and hard labor, women do not have so much strength, and lack of high-quality agricultural tools, so the land output is not large, and it is a model of extensive planting and thin harvest. Therefore, there are not many taxes attached to the land, and for Ye Jiaxin, who can devote all his energy to farming, the buying and selling of farming in Siam is too ideal.

But this most desirable business may not be able to be done now...... Because one of the "Chao Phrayas" (Siamese titles, almost princes) who had given him the land had sent a message to the servants below, telling him to get out of the season after harvesting the rice, and not to take away his pregnant wife!

But this is not the worst - according to Ye Jiaxin's Siamese wife, the expulsion of the Chinese is likely to be just casual talk, and there will be no serious implementation, because no one said what would happen if they didn't leave? So the worst thing is that the Siamese are not necessarily serious, but the Daming Jinou camp next door Tian Si took it seriously and united with the Dutch to send troops to ask for the guilt...... Is this going to war? Don't let people farm well?