Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 717, Ayutthaya Treaty

Outside the gate of Ayutthaya, the capital of the King of Siam, the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, and the tables were covered with red cloth, arranged in a north-south direction.

British Duke Zhang Mao, Liaodong Marquis Liu Jin, Polu Marquis Yang Yun, and Wang Shouren sat on the chairs in the north, and looked at the Siamese King Rama Tiputi II sitting in the south and the ministers he led with a smile on their faces. .

Surrounded by groups of Ming army guards standing upright, there are also many princes and nobles of Siam standing to witness this moment together.

"King of Siam, are you guilty?"

Zhang Mao looked at the time, stood up slowly, and shouted sharply.

"Xiao Wang is guilty, Xiao Wang is guilty~"

When Rama Tipti II heard this, he immediately knelt down and knelt down. As soon as he knelt, the princes and nobles of Siam also knelt down one after another, bowing their heads in fear.

However, everyone was glad in their hearts, at least the Ming army did not enter the big city, if they did, most of them would definitely die.

As long as Daming is willing to spare their lives, nothing else can be said, they are still princes and nobles of Siam, and they can still live a luxurious life.

"Then where did you go wrong?"

Zhang Mao looked at these Siamese people, they were all soft bones, and they would not know how to be afraid unless they beat them hard.

"Xiao Wang's fault. Xiao Wang's fault is that he shouldn't have listened to the slander, intentionally imposed heavy taxes on the Ming merchant ships, and shouldn't have trusted treacherous ministers so that they ransacked the Daming merchant ships and killed the people of the Ming Dynasty."

"It's wrong to be ignorant of praise. It is a great honor for us Siam to become a vassal state of Ming Dynasty. Xiao Wang knows his mistake, Xiao Wang knows his mistake~"

Rama Tipti II almost cried, but he had already thought of a set of excuses and found a scapegoat.

"Okay, then tell me, those traitorous officials, point them out to me, and who else is responsible for robbing my Daming merchant ship and killing my Daming people?"

Zhang Mao nodded slightly, if you were not useful, I would have killed you today.

"It's the right minister and the tax minister~"

Rama Tipti looked back at the ministers behind him, and said helplessly that they were all his confidant ministers, but he had to push them out as scapegoats.

As for trying to deceive the people of Ming Dynasty, that is just a dream. In the past two years, the communication has been very close. There are many merchant ships of Ming Dynasty, and there are also many people of Ming Dynasty here in Siam. They are very aware of these situations.

"Drag all of them, chop!"

Zhang Mao looked at those people and ordered without hesitation.

Immediately, teams of Ming soldiers approached like wolves and tigers, and they walked to the river next to them with them.

"Your Majesty~ Your Majesty~"

A few people kept struggling and shouting. They are all humerus ministers of the King of Siam. At this moment, they are very unwilling, but what can they do if they are unwilling? With the flash of the knife, a few heads flew away, and then Throw it directly into the river.

The Siamese present couldn't help but change their expressions when they were nobles during their lifetime and ended up like this when they died.

Daming people are really too ruthless!

If you say cut it, you will cut it, and you don't even bother to ask.

The King of Siam, Rama Tipti II, couldn't help but twitched slightly, with cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

"King of Siam, how do you think this matter should be resolved?"

After killing several ministers who had been advocating heavy taxes on Ming merchant ships, Zhang Mao looked at the King of Siam again.

"Little Wang will send people to Daming to ask the Son of Ming for atonement. I, Siam, am willing to become a vassal state of Daming and sign the vassal state agreement."

King Rama Tiputi II of Siam thought for a while and said.

In his opinion, Daming should not want to occupy the land of his own country of Siam. In fact, the main reason for the attack this time is to teach himself a lesson so that he will never dare to offend Daming again.

So he felt that after the scapegoat was killed, he would prepare a tribute and send it to the Son of Heaven. In the future, he would no longer impose heavy taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and this matter should be over.

"You think this will be the end of the matter?"

After Zhang Mao heard this, he couldn't help laughing immediately, and then he winked at the person next to him, who immediately took out an agreement.

"Let's take a look, if you think there is no problem, then sign it."

"This……"

King Rama Tipti II of Siam was taken aback for a moment, then picked up the agreement tremblingly and read it.

The first one is that Siam should be punished because it arbitrarily imposed heavy taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, ransacked the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and disrespected the upper kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

This first rule is still an old rule. First of all, Da Ming has to stand on the commanding heights of morality. If I hit you, it is because you are looking for death and deliberately provoke us Da Ming, so all subsequent punishments will be your Siamese. The country deserves what it deserves.

The King of Siam has no opinion on this matter. It is indeed the fault of the Siamese side. The Ming merchant ships came to the Nanyang region to do business and made a lot of money. They were jealous, charged heavy taxes, and robbed the Daming merchant ships. It is their fault, so there is nothing to say.

Daming has always been very kind to them. There was a conflict between Siam and Myanmar before, and Daming also acted as a peacemaker, and he treated them with the utmost benevolence.

Article [-]: Siam must compensate the merchants of the Ming Dynasty for a total loss of [-] million taels of silver, and compensate the Ming Dynasty for military expenses of [-] million taels of silver, totaling [-] million taels of silver.

"Fifty million taels?"

Seeing this number, King Rama Teputi II of Siam couldn't help screaming immediately.

"Impossible. Even if we dig up the ground three feet from Siam, I'm afraid we won't be able to dig out [-] million taels of silver. The amount of compensation is too high, and we in Siam absolutely cannot accept it."

Rama Tipti II said very decisively.

Although Siam is the leader on the southeast peninsula and its national power is at its peak now, the huge war indemnity of [-] million taels of silver is really too big, it is simply an astronomical figure.

"It's up to you whether to accept it or not. You have the freedom to choose. We won't force you."

Zhang Mao said with a smile.

In fact, he also felt that this figure was really too big. Liu Jin's appetite was too great. A small country in Malacca actually demanded compensation of [-] million taels of silver, and the country of Siam demanded compensation of [-] million taels of silver.

It's like a lion opening its mouth wide, wishing to eat the whole Siam in one bite.

However, in Liu Jin's words, if the amount is too small, they won't feel the pain, just to let them know what will happen if they offend our Daming, kill chickens to show monkeys, punish them and see who will pay back in the future. Dare to target us Daming.

What's more, now that there is an opportunity to not slaughter them severely, wouldn't it be a waste of tens of thousands of troops and expeditions of thousands of miles?
Emperor Hongzhi was worried about the navy's military expenditure, so what if he didn't get it back from these countries.

What's more, only when they get rich rewards, will Emperor Hongzhi and Ming Dynasty enjoy the benefits of external expansion, more people will support continuous external expansion, and they will have stronger motivation to expand externally.

"My lord, this amount is really too big. Our Siamese country can't come up with such a huge amount even with the power of the whole country."

King Rama Tiputi II of Siam is about to cry. Does he dare to say no?
Obviously he didn't dare, so he could only say helplessly.

"It doesn't matter if you can't get it all at once. You can pay it in installments. For example, if you pay it over [-] years, we will give you the lowest interest. After calculating these [-] years, with the principal and interest, you will give a total of ten million taels of silver. That’s fine, that’s less than four million silver per year.”

"Of course, according to the installment payment rules, you must pay at least [-]% up front this year, that is, give [-] million taels of silver first, and pay the rest slowly in installments."

Hearing what the King of Siam said, Liu Jin immediately smiled and gave them a conscientious suggestion, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can pay in installments.

"Of course, it doesn't have to be silver. It can also be paid with various goods, such as rice, wood, pearls, emeralds, jade, etc., and even artificial labor. People come to our Daming plantation to work, get paid, and then come to pay off the debt.”

Liu Jin thought for a while and then continued to add that silver is not very useful, it is better to get something more practical. Siamese rice is top-notch rice, which is a good thing.

"Ah~"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, the Siamese King Rama Tiputi II and all the princes and ministers of Siam were dumbfounded. Is there such a show operation?
Then some officials who had been to Daming capital and Tianjin hurried out to explain to the King of Siam that this installment payment method is becoming more and more popular in Daming.

Buying a house can be paid in installments, buying a boat can also be paid in installments, buying a carriage can also be paid in installments, and even marrying a daughter-in-law can also be paid in installments...

"If that's the case, it's not unacceptable."

After listening, the King of Siam thought for a while and said, it seems that it is impossible not to pay the money. When the Ming army enters the big city, they will all die, and the whole Siam may be miserable.

The surrounding Myanmar, Cambodia, Chenla, Ailao, etc. are all expected to be divided into the territory of Siam.

"Hmm~"

Zhang Mao nodded in satisfaction.

The King of Siam continued to watch.

Article [-]: Siam cedes the area connecting the Malay Peninsula and Malacca to Daming. At the same time, in order to urge Siam to seriously implement the content of the treaty, Siam must also lease the Bangkok area (it is only a fishing village at this time) to Ming. Daming was used to garrison troops.

Article [-]: The businessmen of Ming Dynasty are allowed to do business freely in Siam, and no tax is levied. The safety of merchants of Ming Dynasty must be guaranteed, and merchants of Ming Dynasty are not subject to the laws of Siam in Siam.

The latter two made the King of Siam heave a sigh of relief, and it was not a terrible request, just ceded a little land and leased a place. As for free business, it is nothing, as long as it is not a waste Apart from himself, it is easy to say anything about setting up a new King of Siam.

　Is this amount too big?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)