"My brother, please don't say that, the battle outside the city of Chiang Rai is arranged by the Buddha, there is nothing you save me, I save you, everything is the Buddha's will, it is the Buddha's praise for your pious faith!"

Although he was in a very depressed mood, Ye Kai still whispered to Rama II with a smile on his face, it is very reasonable to push everything on the head of the Buddha in a country that believes in Buddhism.

Ye Kai didn't want Rama II to always bring up this matter, for this kind of character, it is better that you owe him a favor, not that he owes you.

"Yes! This is all the Buddha's will! Rama II took Ye Kai's hand, and the two walked towards the tea room in the main hall.

As for why Ye Kai and Rama II call each other brothers, this is also determined by the current Thai aristocracy.

Although Rama II is known as Prince Lela, he is actually also known by the title of Songde. Pa Zhao. Luat. Zhaofa. Gong Ma. Luan. Ishara Songtun.

In this, Songde, Pa Zhao, etc. are all words of praise, and the only useful ones are Luan and Ishara Songtun, Luan is the title, and Ishara Songtun is the name that people with equal status can call.

In other words, Rama II is now the same as Ye Kai, both of them are Luan Jue, so they can call each other brothers.

In fact, in the entire Siam country, there are no titles such as princes and princesses, and the so-called xx princes and princesses are all translated by the Chinese according to their own habits.

The guests and hosts sat separately, Rama II looked at the heroic Ye Kai, and a burst of regret came to his heart, this person, if he hadn't chosen the princess of the Ruan family, he would have had the opportunity to become his brother-in-law, his sister Princess Liwan is a famous Siamese beauty!

He could have been his right-hand man, helping his father and himself to build a great Chakri dynasty, but now, Rama II sighed again, knowing that his father was really angry.

Ye Kai is now equivalent to basically blocking the Siamese people's way to seize the Malay Peninsula, except for the Jida Sultanate, the others have been conquered by Ye Kai, which makes the Siamese army, which is full of martial virtues and has nothing to do, where to vent their excess force?

"My brother!" After sitting in silence for a moment, Rama II was the first to speak.

"You can get Pattani and Kuala Terengganu out and take your people to Pahang and Selangor, so that maybe we can still sit together like we are now, and have a delicious tom yum soup and rice noodles with laughter!"

Ye Kai glanced at Rama II in a little surprise, according to Ye Kai's estimate, he should not say these words.

The purpose of his coming must be to find out Ye Kai's thoughts, if there is no room for negotiation, then stabilize him, and then return to China to prepare for the attack.

Instead of trying to say it so bluntly now, because this is equivalent to telling Ye Kai exactly, we are ready to attack you.

"Why do you want to do this, my brother, His Majesty the First King is still my king, the Tang and the Thai have never been separated from each other, my land of the four kingdoms is the Tang people, and the Tai people will not be excluded, we are close in blood, and we are all believers in the Buddha, we can live in peace!"

To be honest, Ye Kai is extremely unwilling to go to war with the Siamese now.

First of all, this battle is meaningless, whether he wins or loses, it will not benefit him, because even if he wins, what, do you still want to occupy Thailand? Impossible!

And as soon as the war starts, his plan to conquer North Vietnam will definitely be pushed back again, so when will he be able to start industrialization? When will I be able to go north to the Central Plains?

In the end, the most important thing is that he estimates that even if Luo Fangbai fully supports him, and the Nanyang Chinese also support him, he is still not very sure about this battle with the Siamese, and the Siamese are not comparable to the Bugis.

Rama II shook his head gently, if it was just for Pattani and Kuala Terengganu, Ye Kai's proposal was not impossible, and to some extent, it was still very beneficial to Siam, because the Titis could also share the benefits of Ye Kai's victory over the land of the Four Kingdoms.

Because these places originally belonged to the territory of the Bugis, they would certainly not welcome the Thai people who believed in the Buddha, but the Tang people are different, they do not reject the Thai people, and it can even be said that they are still very close to the Thai people in some places.

A land conquered by the Tang was far more reliable than a Sultan of Bugis, who was ostensibly subservient to Siam.

But it is precisely because the Thai people do not reject the Tang people, and the Tang people do not reject the Thai people, that Ye Kai's proposal will be meaningless.

Because Rama II knew that his father Rama I's attitude towards the Tang people was to unite the two into one, regardless of each other, and use the power of the Tang people to quickly expand the Siamese state.

In fact, from Emperor Zheng Xin the Great, the rulers of Siam have been implementing this policy, because Zheng Xin is a mixed race of Teochew and Siamese There is also a saying that he is not a mixed race, and Rama II's grandmother is also a mixed Tang and Siamese son named Da Lun.

When the king was branded as a Tang person, there were more cases in Siam where the Tang and Thai people were indistinguishable from each other, and a large number of Tang people who went to the South Seas married Thai wives, and their children would mix with the Tai.

Of course, this process of integration is to localize the Tang people, or Siamese, not to make the Siamese people Tang.

It can be seen from the situation in later generations that although 75 percent of the people in Thailand claim to have Chinese ancestry, not many of the Chinese in Thailand, including those with Chinese ancestry, can speak Chinese fluently, or even not fluently but can speak Chinese.

This is the result of the continuous integration of Thai and Chinese, and almost all the Chinese who have entered Thailand have become localized.

However, in Malaysia, it is different, due to the contradiction between the Chinese and the Malay aborigines, until the 21st century, the Chinese in Malaysia are very different from the locals, and the difference can be seen at a glance, but it is not easy to distinguish from the Chinese.

And the vast majority of Malaysian Chinese can speak fluent Mandarin, when you call them Malay-Chinese, they will correct you very seriously, you should call him Malaysian-Chinese, or simply call them Chinese.

They have their own education system, they have their own circles, they are very connected to the mainland, and they are not at all Malaysians.

Therefore, this situation of the Malay Chinese in later generations is definitely not what Rama I wants now, what they want is the basically Siamese Tang people.

Only when most of the people in the country are more or less mixed with some Tang blood, and the Keri family with Tang blood will be less conspicuous, so as to better absorb the Tang people for their own use.

And one of the most important conditions for this Siamese-led integration of Chinese and Siamese is that there can be no Chinese leader with considerable prestige like Ye Kai.

Otherwise, the culture of the Chinese is stronger than that of the Siamese, and if a strong Chinese leader appears and takes away the authority belonging to the Chakri Dynasty, there will definitely be problems in the end!

Because the Siamese people engaged in slavery are only 7.8 million, while the Tang people in Nanyang alone have at least more than 2 million, and there are even more terrifying 400 million in Chinese mainland.

So in fact, there are only two ways to go in front of Ye Kai, either go to war, or take the initiative to Siamese the Ye family, marry a Siamese princess, take the initiative to integrate into the Chakri family, and make himself a Siamese Tang person.

In this case, Rama I must be very willing to let Ye Kai continue to rule the land of the four Malay kingdoms, and maybe let him go one step further and annex the Chida Sultanate.

"Guess Luan, you still listen to me, although your army is very brave, but their number is too small, it is impossible to fight against my father, we can mobilize 80,000 or even 100,000 people, you can fight ten, but it is impossible to fight fifty, right? And Siam's army is not comparable to the Bugis! ”

Ye Kai let out a long sigh, "Our family has been living in Pattani for hundreds of years, for many of us, this is our hometown, and no one can force us to leave our hometown, not even His Majesty the First King!"

Although on land we are not opponents, at sea, my five giant ships are not something that the Siamese naval army can fight against! ”

Ye Kai's only advantage now is the five warships in his hands pulled from the British, of which the Deep Sea Shark has 74 guns, and the other four three-masted fast warships also have 3040 guns, it can be said that in the South Seas, except for the Dutch, there is no stronger sea power than him.

But the navy can't play a decisive role, he can harass the coast of Siam, and even Bangkok, but he certainly can't keep Pattani and Kuala Terengganu or even the whole of Shikoku.

The room was plunged into a quiet full of dangers!