The Zhongyi Hall of the Ye family's ancestral house is lively again today, compared to the atmosphere last time, this time it is undoubtedly much better, and there are joys and laughter everywhere.

Because now is the day to distribute the fruits of victory, after defeating the Malay Rao's resistance, every house and family has taken action, and all the Malays who have not had time to run out of the border of Pattani have been directly detained, these people are free labor, but they can't be allowed to run!

"The deputy governor of Siam, the deputy governor of the country of Siam, Kunjue Ye Shi Fulai Daran!"

Before Ye Fulai arrived, the loud singing and praise sounded first, when Ye Kai stayed in the training team of Pattani, Ye Fulai followed Wiche Phiya to Bangkok.

He was promoted to Rama I again, and this time not only got the position of vice governor of Pattani, but also promoted the title to kun, from a knighted taxi to a nobleman!

Ye Fulai walked in with a smile, and the patriarchs and clan elders of the various houses who were still noisy hurriedly stood up, not at all like the previous clan meeting.

This is because although their interests have increased, but the control over their own family is constantly weakening, and now the entire Ye family in Pattani knows who is in this place, who divides their land and silver, plus the temptation of giving officials and slaves, Ye Fulai has finally upgraded from the head of a family to a truly powerful king.

Ye Fulai sat on the patriarch's seat with a big belly, and only after Ye Kai nodded his head did he slowly take off the hat on his head, which didn't matter, and directly startled the surrounding clan elders.

"Ligong! Yours...... What's going on in your head? The Jiang family patriarch pointed at Ye Fulai and asked.

It turned out that Ye Fulai had already cut his braids, and now there was not a single hair on his fat head, which looked like a Maitreya Buddha.

"But don't be surprised, brother Zhen, since I want to be the deputy governor of Siamese Rao, the king of Siam has named me Kun, and he has entrusted me with the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains in Pattani, of course I can't keep braids anymore!" Ye Fulai shouted the words of the head of the Jiang family.

"But Duke Li, this braid is a sign of Tang Rao for us, the imperial court can have an edict to keep hair without a head, cut off the braid like Duke Li, once the court knows about it, I'm afraid we will be punished for the crime of killing our heads!"

The head of the Jiang family was so frightened that he could say anything, if Ye Kai cut his braids, he could still be married to the princess of the Nguyen clan in Guangnan, but Ye Fulai cut the braids, in the eyes of people like the head of the Jiang family, it would be rebellious.

"The Imperial Court? What court, when did the court in the north take care of us? We are a thousand-year-old Chinese family, how can we keep this barbarian braid? Besides, everyone's ancestors didn't have this braid, so why not cut it? ”

Ye Kai stood up, he stared at the head of the Jiang family and said a few words fiercely, under the forced gaze of his gaze, the head of the Jiang family, as an elder, actually lowered his head timidly, they dared to provoke Ye Fulai, but they did not dare to provoke Ye Kai.

"That's it! I, Ye Laosi, don't care what the court is not the court, so what court has given us any benefits? Damn, in addition to paying taxes, I pay taxes, anyway, I can see clearly, whoever gives me an official position, who gives me slaves and subordinates, I will go with whomever I want, this braid, I don't want it yet! ”

The old official fan Liufang and the fourth uncle were the first to come out to support Ye Kai, and while returning him, he took out a pair of scissors from his body, and cut the braid in front of Ye Fulai and Ye Kai!

"Ligong, how much did His Majesty the King allow our Ye family to order Yin in this life? Don't hide it, let's divide the fourth one and me! ”

"You old official fan!" Ye Fulai laughed and took out a letter of appointment from the box in Ah Shan's hand, as well as a set of official uniforms with Siamese characteristics.

"This is also the Ling Yin of Lan County, from now on it will be your fourth, and the first king also gave 500 acres of vocational land and 5,000 acres of escrow land, all of which are fertile fields by the Tani River, allowing you to recruit 2,000 Malay slaves to tuntian, and give silk cloth, gold and silver, etc.!"

The sixth room and the fourth uncle ran over at a speed that was extremely disproportionate to his figure, and his eyes began to light up after receiving the letter of appointment with both hands.

"Glory to the ancestors! I, Ye Laosi, am really an official! ”

The buzzing voice suddenly sounded, although Siam is a foreign state, it can be regarded as a big country in Nanyang, which makes Yin quite attractive!

All the attractions in the Zhongyi Hall were attracted by the official positions, land, and slaves of the six rooms and four uncles, and no one talked about Ye Fulai's braids anymore.

In addition to the 50,000 acres of land given to Ye Kai, there are still 400,000 acres left, and Rama I originally wanted to distribute at least half of it to the Thai tribes of Pattani, but what he never expected was that these Thai tribes were not interested in farming by the Tani River at all!

There were less than 50,000 of them, and a large part of them were slaves, and the real freemen and nobles numbered only seven or eight thousand, not even ten thousand.

Now there are more than 400,000 Malays who can be used as slaves, and they simply choose to occupy a few towns and live a life of oppressing the Malays.

Such a good life is not enough, but you have to go to the Tani River, where there are many mosquitoes and crocodiles, to farm, and the fool is happy!

Whoever wants to go, they are not interested anyway.

Ye Kai suddenly understood a little bit of Thonburi Emperor Zheng Xin, although the Thai government in later generations has always been secretive about the reason why Zheng Xin was overthrown, but Ye Kai, who has traveled here for more than half a year, can still roughly guess the reason through various clues.

He felt that it must be the Chinese Rao mode of thinking that harmed Zheng Xin, what do the Chinese believe, believe that the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, believe that water can carry a boat and overturn a boat, believe that he is willing to dare to pull the emperor off the horse, and believe that hard work can get ahead.

It is likely that Zheng Xin wanted to go further and make Thailand the first power in the South Seas after driving out the Burmese, but in the process of implementing it, there was one thing that stopped his plan, and that was Thai slavery!

Under this system, although Thailand had a population of more than 5 million at the end of the eighteenth century, most of them were slaves, and the real freemen and the taxis and nobles above the freedmen did not know if there were 600,000, and the Chinese who were freemen would not exceed 650,000.

If these 650,000 people are only to expel the Burmese, there is no problem in maintaining a stable Siamese state.

Because the Siamese Rao Sakena system is actually a weakened version of the feudal slavery system, as long as Zheng Xin divides the nobles around him into various cities in Siam, and relies on them to control the local slaves of various ethnic groups and resist the harassment of Burmese Rao.

But if Zheng Xin wants to reject Burma in the west, Chenla and Laos in the east, collect the Malay Peninsula in the south, turn Thailand into a giant in Southeast Asia, and make himself an emperor like Qin Shi Huang, it is impossible to do it with these 650,000 people alone, because the core population and basic plate are too large!

So Zheng Xin hit the idea on the other millions of slaves, if the Thai Rao's basic market changed from more than 600,000 to more than 6 million, wouldn't his goal be achieved!

So Zheng Xin first stopped dividing the feudal aristocracy, then simply canceled the knighthood system, and finally took the Sakena system, sent officials to counties and counties across the country, and returned local power to the central government.

But he didn't expect one thing at all, that is, the Thai people are not Chinese, and the slaves in Thailand do not regard their slavery status as a shame, nor do they have a strong desire to change their status!

As for the princely general Xiangning that the Chinese believe in, and he is willing to dare to pull the emperor off the horse, the Thai people do not have this string in their heads!

Zheng Xin's reforms finally annoyed all the Siamese nobles and officials, and the slaves below did not feel that he was liberating themselves, and even the palace guards who were born and died with him opposed him.

Under the accumulation of this discontent, the palace guards launched two rebellions in a row, which made Zheng Xin's grasp of the government and the opposition completely out of control, and finally saw the opportunity to easily usurp the throne of Rama I, who returned from the Chenla front line overnight.