Chapter 672: The Protector of the Western Chinese

Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots is what people with a profession have always been the best at.

Once you have your mind set and plan to clean you up, it will never give you half a chance to turn over.

Therefore, in various states, the Siamese army began to lay down their arms and surrender to the Ming army, and at the same time, the henchmen and cronies of some nobles and high-ranking officials in some big cities also began to arrest in various states.

Hao Fenglou has already announced Zhaolu Qunying's crimes, one of which is that as a vassal king, he has a heart of disobedience.

This crime is easy to understand, Master Wang came all the way, it is definitely not that there is a problem with your life style.

The second is stupidity and incompetence.

It's nothing more than that you squeeze the people, trust the villain, and stay away from the gentleman, this is a traditional warm-up project, the faint monarch is roughly like this, a set of templates, anyway, you are dead, and the country is destroyed, what else?

As for the third, it is really worth playing, Hao Fenglou's crime is to rob Chinese businessmen and block the business road.

In fact, if you really want to talk about crimes, you can make up the eight major sins and the ten major sins casually, and you will never have the same, after all, this is the handiwork of the ministers, and everyone will do this.

However, there are only three crimes, and this third charge is obviously not very compatible with the first two, the first involves a vassal relationship, which is a big problem, and the second is to beat it as a thief of the king, which is also the key. As for the third crime, it is really not worth mentioning, when did this robbery of Chinese businessmen and obstruction of business become a major issue of right and wrong, and how can it be juxtaposed with the first two major crimes?

The more unusual. The more thought-provoking it is, the more thoughtful it is, everyone ponders and understands what this Lord Hao means. That is to say, in the eyes of this condescending victor, the robbery of Chinese merchants and the blocking of trade routes are a major event, and some people even feel that the reason why the King of Siam came to a bleak end is that he has something to do with this matter.

As a result, Siam's civil and military forces couldn't help but think about it. Led by Wutai, they immediately followed up and demanded a reduction in taxes on Chinese businessmen.

Tax cuts are a big deal. But it is also a kind of statement, that is, to tell Lord Sรน Hao that we are different from the King of Siam, which is to show my heart. Since you old man value Chinese businessmen. As Siamese traitors, we naturally have to pay more attention to it.

In this way, the Chinese businessmen are grateful.

These Chinese merchants were all remnants of the Han Dynasty, or migrated from Fujian and Guangdong, and even some of them entered from Yunnan, Guizhou and other places in order to escape the war. He lives here, but he has never had any political status. But after all, they are different from ordinary natives, they are smarter, more industrious, and over the generations, they are often more prosperous than the local natives.

Think about it, you are a foreigner, you speak different words from us, the writing is different from us, and the customs and habits are very different.

In fact, this wronged these Chinese, they are not out of place, but the civilization of the Han people is far higher than here after all, and the higher civilization is assimilated by the lower civilization, how can it be so easy.

So these natives saw that you were fucking out of place, but you were still dressed in silk and satin, eating and drinking spicy food every day, and we worked hard for you, but you were penniless, the house had no tiles, and dissatisfaction was born, and it was soon used by the officials, because for the officials, the Chinese have silver, and if the silver wants to become mine, you must use all kinds of means, and these Chinese, like children who walk at night with silver ingots, are people who want to get a piece of the pie.

Naturally, all kinds of discriminatory policies have emerged, the Chinese need to pay higher taxes, the Chinese break the law, the crime will be increased by one degree, and so on, not to mention the list of rules, this is still the rule of the open place, not to mention the secret, once the government has no money, there is a local uprising, and it is even less necessary to incite the people to change the people, transfer the contradictions, and insert a few knives into the Chinese every once in a while.

The situation of the Chinese people, they are really a little crying and laughing, they are deeply discriminated against, and even some are precarious, but they are not homeless, they want to leave, and they are reluctant to have their family business, once they leave, there is nothing, so their means is to tie up the Siamese magnates, but the Siamese magnates have a problem, that is, the silver should be collected when it should be collected, and when it comes to the New Year's Festival, the sheep has grown meat, and they still have to kill when they should be killed.

And now, Lord Hao is in charge, adding a robbery of Chinese merchants to the crime of Zhaolu Qunying, what does this mean, even the King of Siam died because of robbing Chinese merchants and has no place to be buried, almost all the royal families and royal relatives are now all wiped out, it is rumored that those royal families are all locked in the room, a fire burned all night, no one survived, so from now on, who dares to embarrass the Chinese merchants?

In fact, when the charges came out, the Chinese people had clearly felt that their status was quietly changing, even in the most remote state capitals, the public who had come to harass them every once in a while were gone, and the officials who demanded too much were all smiling at this time. As for those indiscriminate extortion, if in the past, most of the government would turn a blind eye, but now, whenever there is an incident that harms the Chinese, it will immediately be rumored, for fear of causing some accidents.

Even the King of Siam is finished, which onion are you, what is it, people offend Chinese businessmen to have today, now it is good at the top, effective at the bottom, the royal court is making a big fanfare in the formulation of preferential policies for Chinese businessmen, if there is any chaos, even if Hao Fenglou of Langshan does not come to look for you, those people led by Wutai are afraid that they will have to kill your whole family.

The Chinese suddenly changed from being subordinate to the superordinate, in fact, many Chinese have not yet recalled, but when they really feel it, they can't help but feel grateful to that Lord Hao.

There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Siam, accounting for 10% of the population of Siam, and Hao Fenglou's purpose in listing the crimes has his own plans.

Siam is now a group of dragons without a leader, and the power of the government will definitely be completely reshuffled, and the Hao family is a minister, and the court will never let the Hao family control the Siam country, but if you want to control Siam, you must borrow the power of Chinese businessmen or Chinese.

In this Siam, the biggest advantage of Chinese businessmen is silver, they are more flexible than the local natives, higher vision, so the way to make money is also varied, it is said that Lang Son business rises, in this Siam, the biggest benefit is actually the Chinese businessmen, because ordinary Siamese people, where there is any way, often are guarding their own acres and threes of land to live, and these Chinese businessmen, often more adventurous, plus the Chinese have their own connections, so a spread of ten, ten to hundred, everyone is willing to sell Siamese specialties to Lang Son, Then he sold goods from Lang Son to Siam, and as he came and went, his net worth became more and more.

Therefore, some of the rich and rival people in Siam are often Chinese, but no matter how much silver they have, they are just fat sheep after all, and they are harvested by the revealed magnates every now and then, so they can only be attached to these Siamese people forever.

But now it's different, when you have enough political status, and you have a mountain of money, and even you guys control the trade with Lang Son and monopolize many industries in Siam, what does it mean?

It is almost certain that in Siam, there will be a group of upstarts who will rise, and these upstarts, with their special status and a lot of money in their hands, will definitely have a place in the Siamese court, and even enough to compete with the old Siamese aristocracy, and even influence Siam's national politics.

In time, from the royal capital to the localities, the children of these people will infiltrate the government and the army and become a behemoth.

And this behemoth is not only the beneficiary of Lang Son trade, because their wealth, the vast majority, is dependent on Lang Son's business support, and they must have a deep connection with Lang Son's chaebol, and even some of the richest people can have the opportunity to get acquainted with the Lu Guo Mansion; At the same time, they were able to cover the sky in Siam, not because their money worked, but because the Hao family gave them security, without Hao Fenglou, the protector of Western Chinese, the guardian of Western commerce, they were just rootless duckweed, and they could be liquidated at any time.

That is to say, in Siam, whether the Ming army stays here or not, whether the Ming court can let the Hao family grandly 'guard' Siam, the interests of Siam have been tied to the Hao family, sharing weal and woe, and the future will affect the Siamese military and politics is no longer only the traditional Siamese magnates, but also these upstarts raised by the Hao family, and the influence of these upstarts on the Hao family is actually the will of the Hao family.

At this time, the name of the protector god of the Western Chinese had rapidly spread in Siam, not only in Siam, but also in the neighboring countries of Donghu, Foqi, Sulu, Sumatra, etc. This Sulu country was called Luzon by the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Philippines in later generations, which has always been a gathering place for Chinese, and the news of the West has always spread very quickly, and as soon as the news of Siam arrived, a vigorous controversy immediately began within the entire Sulu.

The king of Sulu Kiram is now in a hurry, before the Ming Dynasty had a large fleet arrived in Sulu, that Zheng He had a great impression of the Sultan of Sulu, which made Kiram a little in awe of the Ming, but not afraid. There are many Chinese in Sulu, and like other Western countries, Chinese businessmen are often rich in Sulu, and the Sulu Kingdom naturally adopts a discriminatory policy against these outsiders, but now, this discriminatory policy is obviously unsustainable. (To be continued......)