[282] Recovering Mengyang 2

Basethong was overjoyed, and it was your words that he was waiting for, so Basethong and Li Guozhu secretly signed an agreement that the Ming would send troops to help Siam expel the illegal Westerners and the situation alliance against Burma.

Immediately after Li Guozhu returned to China, King Basetun summoned representatives of merchants from Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, England, and France to inform them that Siam was about to revise the treaty with them. The amendments involved limiting the number of missionaries, increasing taxes on merchants from various countries, prohibiting countries from stationing armed personnel in merchant houses, and so on. Those Westerners have always been used to running rampant in Siam. Seeing that the originally cowardly King Bassetton actually made so many demands at once, how could they accept it. As a result, the two sides parted unhappily.

Later, these Western merchants gathered to discuss a military campaign to deter the ungodly king.

In the days that followed, a wave of rumors quickly spread throughout Siam. King Bassetton was placed under house arrest by Westerners and had lost his freedom of movement, and those so-called trade treaties were all signed by King Bassetton under duress from Westerners. The king himself was secretly asking the Siamese to rise up against the Westerners and return to Ming orthodoxy. In Pattani, this news was especially widely disseminated, and the Siamese people believed in it very much. Not for anything else, just because the Pattani area is the hardest hit area of Siam by Westerners.

Patani, also known as Tani or Phettah Ni, is located on the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula in today's Kedah. After the Portuguese occupied Malacca in 1511, they monopolized the trade in the Straits and tyrannical government, and the Chinese merchants were squeezed out, and the rate was transferred to Pattani. Zhang, a native of Zhangzhou, is the governor and has considerable influence on the local economy. In the middle of the 16th century, Pattani was known as "the place where Chinese pirates escaped and stole safety." "Guangdong pirates He Yaba, Zheng Zongxing, Lin Daoqian, etc. have all lived in Pattani. Lin Daoqian gathered more than 2,000 displaced people from Guangdong and Fujian to engage in maritime smuggling and trade, and the queen of Pattani recruited him as a son-in-law and recruited Chinese as ministers, encouraging Chinese to emigrate, making Pattani one of the areas where the Chinese lived the most. The Chinese played an agent role in Siam's overseas trade. In 1639, the King of Siam appointed the charge d'affaires for overseas trade, the storekeepers and the accountants were all Chinese. Despite this, the relationship between the local Chinese and the local Siam is very harmonious, and everyone is safe.

However, this calm was shattered by the arrival of Western colonists, who came in droves of Spanish, Portuguese, British, and French colonists after the opening of the first trading house in Pattani by the United Dutch East India Company. They have almost monopolized the trade here by all means. A large number of Siamese and Chinese craftsmen and merchants went bankrupt and became homeless and homeless.

On November 8, a Siamese merchant who had been run into bankruptcy by a Dutch merchant hanged himself from a tree in front of the Dutch merchant house after selling all his assets to a Dutch merchant, leaving behind his wife and a pair of children. This short, poor Siamese woman asked the tall Dutch soldier at the entrance of the Dutch Mercantile House to help her remove her husband's body, which was still hanging from a tree, so that she could bring it back for burial.

The Dutch soldier smiled evilly and agreed to her request, and instead of climbing up the tree to cut the rope, he shot a musket at the rope hanging from the corpse's neck, saying that if the rope was broken, the corpse would fall to the ground.

One shot

Two shots

Three shots

The Dutchman's bullets were all fired at the poor bankrupt merchant's body, one of which was apparently deliberately aimed at the lower part of the body

The poor widow understood that the Dutch were deliberately insulting her husband's corpse. So she went mad and threw herself at the Dutch soldier to fight him

Poof~~ The sharp bayonet stabbed the widow in the chest, and then a bloody arrow was pulled out, and the thin widow fell on her back, and her right hand desperately stretched out to her husband, who was still hanging on the branch

The Siamese were thoroughly enraged, and they went mad and stormed the Dutch merchant house with primitive weapons. They don't know any tactics, they just know how to attack recklessly. As the gunshots continued to ring. More and more Siamese people fell outside the fine metal fences of the merchants' houses, but more and more Siamese people continued to march on the corpses of their companions without hesitation......

Zheng Yu, a local Chinese living in Pattani, suggested that in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, a long-term siege should be adopted. The Siamese accepted the offer and surrounded the Dutch merchant house. More Siamese reinforcements came up. By the evening of the 9th, the number of people who spontaneously participated in the siege of the merchant hall had reached 17,000.

The Dutch warships anchored in the nearby waters received the news that the merchant house was encircled, and immediately sent 300 soldiers to reinforce it. At the same time, it called for help from the nearest Spanish, French, Portuguese and British fleets. After intense discussions, Spain, France, Portugal, and England acceded to the Dutch's request and sent a total of 2,500 soldiers to Pattani.

"The rumors are true!" Zheng Yu, a Chinese merchant, said to the Siamese and Chinese in Pattani: "The Westerners have sent so many troops, obviously to capture the king." ”

The Siamese were the first to shout: "We will defend the king, defend Siam." ”

Zheng Yu said: "Yes, although we are Ming, we have taken root in Pattani, and we are also half Siamese." How about I suggest that we send a man from each family to take up arms to resist the Westerners, and at the same time send people to the barracks to ask for help from our Siamese officers and soldiers. ”

The Chinese in Pattani have always been known for their many ideas and ideas, and the Siamese people also felt that Zheng Yu's words were reasonable, so they began to organize spontaneously.

In the middle of the night, the vanguard of 250 Western troops entered the city of Pattani, and these arrogant colonists believed that as soon as the muskets were fired, the natives would flee in all directions. Who knows, from the first step into the city, they were immediately attacked by primitive earthen guns, bows and arrows, stones and pikes. Behind almost every tree, behind every window, hides a Siamese man who is eyeing the eye. After paying more than 30 casualties, the vanguard had to retreat to the seashore in disarray.

In the early morning of the next day, in the sea area near Pattani, a huge fleet with a total number of about 100 ships was discovered, which was the Daming Naval Division belonging to the Daming Nanyang Chinese Entrepreneurs Association. The sudden appearance of the Great Ming Naval Division here greatly shocked the colonists of the Combined Fleet. Especially the Dutch and Spaniards, who had fought against the Ming in the past, but each time ended in a crushing defeat. The Daming Naval Division has strong combat effectiveness, and the huge battleship has always been an indelible shadow in their hearts.

Liu Guoxuan, the commander of this merchant fleet, which was armed to the teeth but called it beautifully, informed the colonist fleet present that the Ming Dynasty had heard that there had been a turmoil in Pattani, and he had come to protect the local Chinese, not to fight you. However, if the colonizers hurt the lives or property of the Chinese, it would be tantamount to declaring war on the Ming Dynasty. The Ming fleet will be ruthless in its most resolute counterattack and retaliation.

The Portuguese, who were allies of the Ming Dynasty, naturally chose to leave with interest. However, they hoped that through the Ming Dynasty's negotiations with the "insurgents" in Pattani, they would be able to get them to pick up the Portuguese in Pattani. Such a small request, as a generous ally, of course, will readily agree.

The other colonists were a hundred unwilling, in their opinion, the East is almost the same, where can it be clear which are Siamese and which are Chinese? But given the apparent disadvantage at the moment, the French, British, and Spaniards wisely chose to leave, also on the condition that they pick up the Pattani Merchant House's own expatriates. Liu Guoxuan agreed to these requests one by one.

In the end, only the Dutch remained

Liu Guoxuan was furious when he saw the Dutch, and since the battles of Taiwan and Batavia, the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands have not signed any armistice treaties. Moreover, in the Battle of Annam, the Dutch also commanded artillery units for Annam as mercenaries, so at present, the Ming and the Netherlands are still enemy countries at war. So Liu Guoxuan mercilessly sank the Dutch fleet, leaving only a small boat for his use, and a total of more than 500 Dutch people fed the sharks.

The Siamese people who participated in the Pattani Uprising were all thunderous when they heard that the Ming army had arrived in Pattani. In their hearts, Daming will always be their suzerain, and Daming will always be their strong backing! With the landing of a large number of Ming troops, muskets, cannons, and machine guns were carried to the door of the Dutch Merchant House.

The Dutch in the merchant house were startled, these powerful forces were enough to raze the merchant hall to the ground in an instant. So more than 100 Dutch people who were guarding the merchant house chose to surrender.

The treatment of these Dutch was relatively lenient, except for the Dutch soldier who insulted the corpse of the Siamese and provoked the incident, they were allowed to leave Pattani with their personal belongings, and they were allowed to take the Dutch warship left behind by Liu Guoxuan's men. Later, the Dutch soldier who started the incident was executed by the Siamese using the most brutal ancient criminal law.

When the colonizers left, King Baseton declared all the treaties he had signed with Portugal, the Netherlands, England, France, and Spain null and void. However, Portugal later returned to Pattani as an ally of the Ming Dynasty, and soon after, with the acquiescence of the Ming Dynasty, re-signed an equal treaty of trade with Siam.

In December of the fourth year of Daming Hongde, Li Guozhu, the right attendant of the Daming Rite Department, came to the palace of King Basethong again and read the edict of Emperor Daming Hongde to King Basethong. The imperial decree canonized Basethong as the king of Siam, and Siam enjoyed all the treatment of a subject state of the Ming Dynasty, paying tribute once every three years and seeing him once every six years. At the same time, the edict also reaffirmed the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty over the countries of Southeast Asia, and Siam was no longer allowed to bully Chenla, Manchurian, Sumatra and other countries for any reason.

This edict of the Ming court made the Siamese people cheer and rejoice, and with the Ming as their backer, they no longer had to fear the invasion of any country.

As a result, Li Guozhu presented the "King of Siam" of the Golden Seal of the Ming Dynasty, and the Basethong was also full of ambition to plan how to attack the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma with the Ming coalition army and take revenge.