Outside the gates of Ayutthaya, the royal capital of the Kingdom of Siam, tables and chairs are neatly arranged, and the tables are covered with red cloth and placed in a north-south direction.

The British Duke Zhang Mao, the Marquis of Liaodong Liu Jin, the Hou of Liaodong Yang Yun and Wang Shouren sat on the chairs in the north, looking at the Siamese King Ramati II and his ministers sitting in the south with a smile.

Surrounded by a team of standing straight Ming troops, there are also many Siamese princes and nobles standing, witnessing this moment.

"King of Siam, are you guilty?"

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

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

When Ramatipti II heard this, he immediately quickly knelt down, and as soon as he knelt, the princes and nobles of Siam also knelt down one after another, bowing their heads one by one, and they were sincerely afraid.

However, they were glad in their hearts, at least the Ming army did not enter the big city, if they really did, most of them would definitely be unable to escape death.

As long as Daming is willing to spare their lives, everything else is easy to say, they are still princes and nobles of Siam, and they can still live a luxurious life.

"So what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Mao looked at these Siamese people, they were all soft bones, and if they didn't beat them hard, they wouldn't know what to be afraid of.

"Xiao Wang is wrong, Xiao Wang is wrong not to listen to slander, deliberately levy heavy taxes on Ming merchant ships, and should not trust traitorous ministers, so that they go to loot Ming merchant ships and kill the people of Daming."

"The mistake is that we shouldn't be ignorant, it's our great honor to be able to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Wang knows that he is wrong, Xiao Wang knows that he is wrong~"

Ramatipti II was almost crying, but he had already thought of a set of arguments and found a scapegoat.

"Okay, then tell me, those are traitors, all point them out to me, and who is the one who robbed my Ming merchant ships and killed my Ming people?"

Zhang Mao nodded slightly, if you weren't still a little useful, I would have beheaded you directly today.

"It's the right minister and the Minister of Taxation~"

Ramatipti 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 wanting to deceive the Ming people, it is a fool's dream, and the exchanges have been very close in the past two years, and there are many merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many Ming people here in Siam, and they are very aware of these situations.

"Drag it all down and cut it all!"

Zhang Mao looked at the people and ordered without hesitation.

Immediately, a group of wolf-like Ming troops came and carried them to the river next to them.

"King Shang ~ King Shang ~"

Several people kept struggling and shouting, they were all the humerus ministers of the King of Siam At this moment, they were very unwilling but unwilling, what could they do, with a flash of the knife, several heads flew away, and then threw them directly into the river.

He was a dignitary for a while in his lifetime, but he ended up like this when he died, and these Siamese people present couldn't help but change their faces one by one.

The Ming people are really ruthless!

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

King Ramati II of Siam also couldn't help twitching slightly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

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

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

"Xiao Wang will send someone to the Ming Dynasty to ask the Great Tomorrow Son to atone for my sins, and I Siam am willing to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and sign a vassal state agreement."

King Ramatipti II of Siam thought for a moment and said.

In his opinion, Daming should not want to occupy his own land in Siam, and this time Xingshi came to attack, in fact, the main purpose is to teach himself a lesson, so that he will never dare to offend Daming in the future.

Therefore, he felt that this scapegoat was killed, and he prepared a tribute to send it to the Great Tomorrow, and no longer levied the heavy taxes of the Ming merchant ships in the future, and this matter should almost be over.

"You think that's all you can do?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mao couldn't help laughing, and then he also glanced at the person next to him, and the other party immediately took out an agreement.

"Let's see, if you think it's okay, then sign it."

"This ......"

King Ramatipti II of Siam was slightly stunned, and then tremblingly picked up the agreement and read it.

First, Siam deserves due punishment for wantonly leviing heavy taxes on Ming merchant ships, sacking Ming merchant ships, and disrespecting the Ming Dynasty.

This first one, or the old rule, first of all, the Ming Dynasty is to stand on the moral high ground, I beat you, that is because you are looking for death yourself, deliberately provoking our Ming, so all the punishments that follow are what you deserve for the crimes of Siam.

This one, the King of Siam does not have any opinion, in this matter, it is indeed the fault of the Siamese side, the Ming merchant ships came to the Nanyang region to do business, very profitable, they are red-eyed, collect heavy taxes, and rob the Ming merchant ships, which is their fault in itself, so there is nothing to say.

The Ming Dynasty has always been very good to them, Siam used to have conflicts with Myanmar, and the Ming Dynasty also acted as a peacemaker, and it can be regarded as benevolent and righteous to them.

Article 2, Siam must compensate the Ming merchants for the loss of a total of 15 million taels of silver, and compensate the Ming military for the loss of 35 million taels of silver, a total of 50 million taels of silver.

"Fifty million taels?"

Seeing this number, King Ramati II of Siam couldn't help but scream.

"It's impossible, even if we dig three feet into the ground in Siam, I'm afraid we won't be able to dig out 50 million taels of silver, this amount of compensation is too big, and we in Siam absolutely can't accept it."

Ramatipti II said very decisively.

Although Siam is the boss of the Southeast Peninsula and is at the peak of its national strength, the huge war indemnity of 50 million taels of silver is too big, it is simply an astronomical amount.

"It's your business to accept it or not, you have the freedom to choose, and we don't force you."

Zhang Mao said with a smile.

In fact, he also felt that this number was too big, Liu Jin's appetite was too big, and a small country in Malacca actually asked for 15 million taels of silver, and this Siamese country wanted 50 million taels of silver.

It's like a lion opening his mouth, eager to eat the whole of Siam in one bite.

However, in Liu Jin's words, if this amount is too small, they will not know the pain, that is, let them know the fate of offending our Daming, kill the chicken to show the monkey, punish a hundred people, and see who dares to target our Daming in the future.

What's more, now that there is an opportunity not to slaughter them ruthlessly, wouldn't it be a waste of tens of thousands of troops on an expedition of thousands of miles?

Emperor Hongzhi was worried about the military expenses of the navy, and how could he not get it back from these countries.

What's more, only after obtaining rich returns, Emperor Hongzhi and the Ming Dynasty will taste the benefits of external expansion, more people will support continuous external expansion, and there will be a stronger impetus to expand externally.

"My lord, this amount is too big, and even if we in Siam do the whole country, we can't come up with such a huge amount of money."

King Ramatipti II of Siam is about to cry, does he dare to say no?

Obviously, I didn't dare, so I could only say helplessly.

"It doesn't matter if you can't take it out at one time, you can pay it in installments, for example, pay it back in 30 years, we will give you the lowest interest, calculate these 30 years, with interest, you can give a total of 10,000 taels of silver, which is less than 4 million silver per year."

"Of course, according to the rules of installments, you must pay at least 30% this year, that is, 15 million taels of silver first, and the rest will be paid in installments slowly."

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

"Of course, this doesn't have to be silver, you can also use all kinds of goods to pay, rice, timber, pearls, jade, jade, etc., and even use manual work, you can send people to our Ming plantations to work, get wages, and then come to pay off debts."

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

"Ah~"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, the King of Siam, Ramatiputi II, and all the princes and ministers of Siam were dumbfounded, and there was such a commotion?

Then some officials who had been to the capital of Daming and Tianjin also hurried out to explain to the King of Siam that this installment payment was an increasingly popular way in Daming.

You can pay in installments when you buy a house, you can pay in installments when you buy a boat, you can pay in installments when you buy a horse-drawn carriage, and you can even pay in installments even if you marry a daughter-in-law......

"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 will definitely not work if this silver is not compensated, and when the time comes, let the Ming army enter the big city, they will all die, and the whole Siam may be miserable.

The surrounding Burma, Cambodia, Chenla, Ailao, etc. are probably waiting to divide the land of Siam.

"Hmm~"

Zhang Mao nodded with satisfaction.

The King of Siam continued to watch.

Thirdly, Siam ceded the area of the Malay Peninsula connected to Malacca to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, in order to urge the Siamese State to seriously implement the contents of the treaty, the Siam State must also lease the area of Bangkok to the Ming Dynasty for garrison.

Article 4 allowed Ming merchants to do business freely in Siam, without levying any taxes, must ensure the safety of Ming merchants, and Ming merchants are not subject to Siamese law.

The last two made the King of Siam breathe a sigh of relief, and it was not a very fatal request, just to cede a little land and lease a place, as for what kind of free business, it was nothing, as long as he did not abolish himself, and set up a new King of Siam, it was easy to say anything.