Chapter 672: Protectors of Western Chinese
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Once you have thought about it and have planned to deal with you, you will never be able to give you a chance to turn things around.
Therefore, the surrenders were made in the states, and even the Siamese army in Zhenla began to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Ming army. At the same time, the confidants and confidants of some nobles and senior officials in some big cities also began to arrest them in various states.
Hao Fenglou has announced Zhao Lu Qunying's crimes. One of them is that he is a vassal king and has the intention of being an unjust minister.
This crime is easy to understand. If Mr. Wang comes from far away, it is absolutely impossible that there is something wrong with your lifestyle.
The second is stupidity and incompetence.
It’s just that you exploit the people, trust villains, and stay away from gentlemen. This is a traditional warm-up project. The tyrant monarchs are basically like this, with a set of templates. Anyway, if you all die and your country is destroyed, what else can you do?
As for these third ones, it is truly worthy of people's interest. Hao Fenglou's charge is to rob Chinese businessmen and block business roads.
In fact, if you really want to discuss crimes, you can easily make up eight major crimes. Ten major crimes are no problem, and you will never have any serious consequences. After all, this is the skill of the ministers, so everyone will do this.
However, there are only three crimes listed, and the third crime is obviously not very consistent with the first two. The first one involves the relationship between vassals, which is a big problem, and the second one is to defeat him as a foolish tyrant, which is also the key. As for the third crime, it is really not worth mentioning. When will the looting of Chinese merchants and blocking business channels become a problem of big trouble, and how can it be ranked alongside the first two crimes?
The more unusual it is, the more thought-provoking it is. After everyone pondered, they understood what Lord Hao meant. In other words, in the eyes of this condescending winner, looting Chinese merchants and blocking business paths is a big deal. Some people even think that the reason why the Siam King ended up in a miserable way is afraid that it has a big relationship with this matter.
Therefore, the civil and military officials of Siam couldn't help but think. With Wu Tai as the leader, they immediately followed up and demanded that taxes on Chinese merchants be reduced.
Tax cuts are a big deal, but they are also a statement, which is to tell Lord Hao that we are different from the Siam King, which is a sign of our own feelings. Since you, the elderly, value Chinese businessmen, as traitors, we naturally have to pay more attention to them.
As a result, the Chinese businessmen were all grateful.
These Chinese merchants were all remnants of the Han Dynasty, or migrated from Fujian and Guangdong, and some even entered the country from Yunnan and Guizhou to avoid the war. They lived here but had never had any political status. But after all, they were different from ordinary natives. They were smarter and harder. After several generations, they were often richer than local natives.
Think about it, you are a foreigner. Your words are different from us, your writings are different from us, and your customs are even more different. During our festival, you are closed and indifferent, but when it comes to the Han Chinese New Year, you are decorated with lights and incompatible with us.
In fact, this is wrongly accusing these Chinese people. They are not out of place, but the Han civilization is far higher than here. It is not so easy for higher civilizations to be assimilated by lower civilizations.
So when these natives saw that you were so fucking out of place, they were still covered in silk and satin, eating delicious food and drinking spicy food every day. We worked hard for you, but they were penniless and had no tiles in the house. Dissatisfaction grew and they were soon used by the government because for the government, Chinese people had money, and if the money became mine, they had to use all kinds of means. These Chinese people were like children walking on the night with silver ingots, and everyone wanted to get a share of the pie.
Naturally, various discrimination policies also arise. Chinese people need to pay higher taxes. If Chinese people violate the law, they will be punished first. Such things are not very detailed. This is still an open rule, not to mention the secret. Once the government loses money and there is a civil rebellion in the local area, it is even less necessary to incite the rebellion of the people, divert conflicts, and stab the Chinese people several times.
The situation of Chinese people is really a little amused and can't help but laugh. They are deeply discriminated against and even have some stagnant days. However, they are not refugees, but they want to leave, but they are reluctant to leave their family business. Once they leave, they have nothing left. Therefore, their means are to curry favor with the powerful Siam. However, the powerful Siam has a problem, that is, they should collect the silver when they should be collected. On the New Year Festival, when the sheep grows meat, they still have to kill them. They are usually like a spring breeze, and they will not recognize you when they turn their faces on.
Now, Lord Hao is the leader and adds the crime of Zhaolu Qunying to plunder Chinese merchants. What does this mean? Even the Siam king died of plundering Chinese merchants without a place to be buried. Almost all royal families and relatives of the royal family are now caught in one go. It is said that all the royal families were locked in the room and burned for a whole night, and no one survived. So from now on, who dares to make things difficult for the Chinese merchants?
In fact, when the crime came out, the Chinese had already clearly felt the status was changing quietly. Even in the most remote prefecture, the public who had come to harass him every now and then disappeared, and the officials who asked for it all changed their smiles at this time. In the past, when targeting Chinese people, even if they were necessary to enter and exit the city gate, the so-called "colored heads" were not dared to ask for. As for those despicable extortion, if it were in the past, most of the governments turned a blind eye. However, now, any incident that hurts Chinese people will be immediately in panic, fearing that some accident will occur.
Even the King of Siam is finished. What kind of onion are you? What kind of thing? Only when people offend Chinese merchants can they be today. Now they have something to do with the superiors and what are the subordinates. The royal court is making great efforts to formulate preferential policies for Chinese merchants. If something goes wrong, even if Hao Fenglou from Langsang doesn't come to find you, the group of people led by Wu Tai will probably have to kill your whole family.
Chinese people suddenly changed from being inferior to being superior. In fact, many Chinese people have not yet recovered, but when they really feel it, they can't help but feel grateful to Lord Hao.
There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Siam, accounting for 100% of the population. Hao Fenglou had his own plans for citing the crimes.
Siam is now without a leader, and its political power will definitely be completely reshuffled. The Hao family is a wise minister. The court will never allow the Hao family to control the Siam. However, to control Siam, one must borrow the power of Chinese merchants or Chinese.
In Siam, the biggest advantage of Chinese merchants is their money. They are flexible and have a higher vision than local natives, so they have a variety of ways to make money. For example, Lang Son's business has risen. In Siam, the one who benefits the most is actually Chinese merchants. Because ordinary Siam people have any way to live by themselves, they often live by themselves in acre of land, and these Chinese merchants are often more adventurous. In addition, the Chinese have their own connections, so they spread from ten to ten to hundreds. Everyone is willing to sell Siam's specialties to Lang Son, and then sell goods from Lang Son to Siam. As soon as they come and go, their wealth will increase.
Therefore, some people who are rich in Siam who are often Chinese, but no matter how much money they have, they are just fat sheep after all. They are harvested by the revealed powerful people every now and then, so they can only rely on these Siam people.
But now it’s different. When you have enough political status and a mountain of money, even you, as a group of people, have controlled the trade with Lang Son and monopolized many industries in Siam. What does this mean?
It is almost certain that in Siam, a group of upstarts will rise, and these upstarts, relying on their special status and a lot of money in their hands, will definitely have a place within the Siam court, and will even be able to compete with the old Siam aristocrats, and even control the national affairs of Siam.
In time, from the capital to the local government, the soldiers of these people will infiltrate the government and become a behemoth.
This behemoth is the beneficiary of Lang Son's trade, because most of their wealth is supported by Lang Son's trade. They must have a deep connection with Lang Son's chaebols, and even some richest people have the opportunity to get to know the Duke of Lu Guo. At the same time, they can cover up the sky in Siam not because their money plays a role. The most important thing is that the Hao family gave them guarantees. Without Hao Fenglou, the protector of Western Chinese, and the guardian of Western trade, they are just rootless duckweed and may be at risk of being liquidated at any time.
In other words, in Siam, whether the Ming army stayed here or not, whether the Ming court could allow the Hao family to "guard" Siam, the interests of Siam were already tied to the Hao family, and they shared weal and woe. In the future, the military and political affairs of Siam will no longer be the traditional Siam powerful people, but also the upstarts supported by the Hao family. The influence these upstarts exerted on the Hao family was actually the will of the Hao family. It seems that the Hao family has nothing to do with this place. In fact, this place has become the back garden of Lang Son and has become a place where the Hao family has turned upside down.
At this time, the name of the Western Chinese protector god was quickly spread in Siam. In fact, it was not just Siam. Even the nearby countries such as Dongshuo, Foqi, Sulu, Sumatra, etc. were roughly the same. This Sulu country was called Luzon by the Ming Dynasty, which was the Philippines in later generations. It has always been a gathering place for Chinese people. News from the Western countries has always spread very quickly. As soon as the news from Siam arrived, a fierce controversy began within the entire Sulu.
Chapter completed!