In June of the 9th year of Chongzhen, the four princes of Siam led the new army and reinforcements from local princes to the north, repelled the Burmese army attacking Sukhothai, and lifted the siege of Sukhothai. The feud between Siam and Burma made this victory bring great prestige to the four princes and others, and covered up the root cause of the rebellion launched by the four princes and others.

And in the city of Ayutthaya, Su Yue also did not have idle, during this time in the city of King Basettong's cronies were purged one by one, only those families who chose to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty escaped this catastrophe.

Rather than directly killing these families loyal to King Bassetton, Su Yue exiled them to the Pattani region in southern Siam, where the independence complex was serious and different from the mainstream Buddhist beliefs in Siam, these families basically lost the foundation for revival.

Due to the lack of blood shed in this coup, coupled with the news of the Burmese invasion, the attention of the Siamese people was aroused. As a result, the Siamese people outside the city of Ayutthaya were largely unaffected by the coup, and some residents in remote areas did not even know what had happened to the king.

For Su Yue and Sihai Trading Company, the benefits of this coup were enormous. After King Basetun ascended the throne, in order to weaken the power of the local princes, his brothers, sons and nephews, he continued to loot the local wealth, and required each prince to hand over a golden tree and silver flower every year to worship the Buddha.

In addition, when King Baseton ascended the throne, it was also the time when the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty was fully developed, and the overseas trade between Siam and China brought a lot of wealth to Siam, and most of this wealth fell into the hands of King Baseton, who almost monopolized Siam's foreign trade.

Now that this wealth was completely under the control of the Su-Viet and Sihai Trading Company, the core of Siam had not been invaded by foreign enemies for 40 years, from 1584, when Na Li Xuan declared independence from Burmese rule, to 1595, when Siam formally defeated Burmese independence. The treasury of the city of Ayutthaya is full of gold and silver shells and a large number of treasures, among which the 89 large and small gold trees are of the most astonishing value, and the largest one has exceeded the height of an adult.

According to the calculations of the accounts of the Four Seas Trading Company for more than two months, the value of the wealth in the Siam treasury will not be less than 15 million Ming yuan, and even if the shell coins that are of no value to the Ming Dynasty are deducted, the remaining property will not be less than 12 million yuan. The wealth of this part of Siam can also be seen from this.

After counting the treasures in the treasury, Su Yue first put 200,000 yuan worth of gold and silver and two half-human-high gold trees and silver flowers in his pocket, and then took away 3 million yuan worth of property on the grounds that the Four Seas Trading Company helped King Basethong quell the civil strife, and presented the most outstanding twelve gold trees and silver flowers to His Majesty the Emperor.

When the four princes and other Siamese magnates returned to Ayutthaya City, there were only more than 800 yuan left on the treasury's books, and only 19 golden trees and honeysuckles were left in the worst condition.

However, the fourth prince and the others had no time to care about how much money was in the treasury at this time, and what they wanted to do now was to cut off the troubles of King Baseton, so as to prevent King Baseton from rising again.

However, Su Yue was unwilling to let the fourth prince put King Basethong to death, first, for the benefit of the Ming Dynasty, the war between Siam and Burma would continue, so Siam must maintain superficial stability, so the King of Siam could not die; Second, the King of Siam, who had his wings cut off, was no longer a threat to the Ming Dynasty, but when necessary, it was the best banner for the Ming Dynasty to interfere in the internal affairs of Siam, so he was reluctant to execute King Basethorn.

Under Su Yue's strong persuasion, and the four princes and others were not monolithic, after killing the king of Siam, they would let the prestige of the four princes come to power, and in the eyes of some Siamese nobles, it would be better to keep King Basethong to curb the power of the four princes.

The alliance between Su Yue and these Siamese nobles finally forced the four princes to change their words, expressing their willingness to obey the wishes of everyone and retain the throne of King Basethorn. However, the four princes firmly refused to allow King Basethong to remain in the city of Ayutthaya any longer, so as to prevent King Basethong from confusing the people in the city.

After some detailed discussions, it was decided that King Basethong and his wives and concubines should be transferred to the palace of Bang Pain. Located 58 kilometers north of Bangkok and 25 kilometers south of Ayutthaya, the palace covers an area of more than 10 hectares and is located on the left bank of the Chao Phraya River. It was the summer palace that King Baseton built for himself four years ago, and the design is so magnificent that less than a tenth of the construction has been completed in four years.

There were no inhabitants around the summer palace, and it was separated by a fence, which was really a good prison. In order to prevent anyone from fornicating with King Baseton, the people decided to divide the guards guarding King Basethong into two parts, the inner part was responsible for the safety of the king's family by the personnel sent by the Four Seas Trading Company, and the outside was composed of soldiers sent by everyone to form an army to guard the summer palace, and the annual budget allocated to the summer palace did not exceed 400,000 yuan.

After deciding what to do with the king, it was decided that the affairs of the kingdom would be handled by the prime minister and the council of nobles, and the four princes were immediately elected prime ministers of Siam, while the others served as the supreme governors of their respective regions, replacing the local governors originally appointed by the king. Siam's state system has since become a complete feudal republic, and the prime minister has become the supreme leader of the country.

At the instigation of Su Viet, the Council of Nobles decided to establish a military academy in Bangkok and expand the new army to 15,000 men. The muskets, cannons, and other supplies that the Noble Council had sent to the trading firms of the four seas*, together with the costs of preparing for the continuation of the war with Burma, cost nearly six million Ming dollars at once.

In order to ensure that the country's finances would not collapse, the Council of Nobles decided to follow Su Yue's advice and establish the Bank of Siam to issue banknotes. To this end, they pledged the Siam customs tax to the Four Seas Trading Company and the Daming Overseas Trade Bank, and borrowed a loan of 5 million Daming dollars with an annual interest rate of 6% to prepare for the construction of the Siam Bank.

Under this series of operations, Siam finally became the staunchest supporter of the Ming Dynasty on the southeast peninsula. From the economy to the military, this country has been firmly fixed on the chariot of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also at this time that the Burmese king Ta Long finally began to move the capital from Bago to the northern city of Ava. Although news of a border conflict with Siam came from Chiang Mai, King Ta Long did not stop moving the capital, but accelerated the move of the capital, after all, the relocation of the capital was related to the consolidation of his rule over Burma.

However, the relocation of the royal capital of Burma also caused disappointment and dissatisfaction among the people in the southern Bago region and the lower reaches of the Irrawaddy River. In particular, Bago has been the royal capital of Burma for nearly 300 years, and the city is no less prosperous than other famous cities in the world, and even British merchants who come here to trade here believe that it is cleaner and more prosperous than London.

After King Tarong moved the royal capital, not only did the Burmese nobles who had been rooted in Bago for several generations lose their foundation, but also finally gave the European colonizers who had long been eyeing Burma an opportunity. Burma was supposed to be within the sphere of influence of the Portuguese colonizers, but with the recovery of Salen in Burma, the Portuguese power in Burma was greatly diminished, and the Dutch power began to rise in Burma.

In addition to the Portuguese and Dutch vying for Burma's trade interests, the British East India Company also had their eye on the rich Burma. However, on the east coast of mainland India, the maritime power was dominated by the Dutch, and the land power was dominated by the Portuguese, who relied on the Kingdom of Arakan.

It's just that with the death of the wisest monarch of the Arakanese Kingdom, the kingdom began to slowly decline. In addition, the Arakan Kingdom, which was originally not strong enough, had to compete with the Mughal Dynasty for the Bay of Bengal and the Lower Burma region with Burma, which caused a great loss of young and middle-aged people in this country.

When the Portuguese power in the Indian Ocean gradually declined, the Arakanese Kingdom abandoned its two-sided national policy and chose to maintain peace with Burma and compete with the Mughal Kingdom for Bengal.

However, with the re-entry of the Chinese-backed Portuguese Restoration Council into the region, the Kingdom of Arakan gradually developed ambitions to annex Lower Burma.

The Portuguese merchants and pirates entrenched in Chittagong had a hard time as the kingdom of Portugal at sea declined. To the south, the resurgent Burmese kingdom uprooted the Portuguese stronghold in Lower Burma, and to the north they encountered the burgeoning Mughal dynasty.

In particular, after the annexation of the Sultanate of Bengal to the Mughal dynasty in 1576, the Portuguese-backed kingdom of Arakan retreated in the region, spitting out large tracts of land west of the Gornopuri River. By 1608, when the Mughal Governor of Bengal, Subeda Khan, built the city of Dhaka on the north bank of the Briganga River in the Ganges Delta, the Portuguese were left with Chittagong and a few small islands at the mouth of the Ganges.

Although the Macau Restoration Committee was not the same as them, the Portuguese, who could not get more support from Goa, eventually chose to move closer to the Restoration Committee to ensure that they would not be expelled from the sea by the Mughals, the Burmese Kingdom, the Dutch, and the British.

With the introduction of these Portuguese colonists, the Restoration Committee also successfully established relations with the Arakan Kingdom, and successfully persuaded the Arakan Kingdom to launch an attack on Lower Burma. Thus, in the ignorance of King Thalung of the Kingdom of Burma, an anti-Burmese alliance was gradually formed, led by the Portuguese and the Ming Sihai Trading Company.

At the same time, in the Chinese city opposite the royal city of Manila in the Philippines, with Guo Qing, the Ming envoy to the Philippines, as a witness, Philippine Governor Silva signed a five-year peace agreement with the tribal alliance in Mindanao.

Silva made sure that Manila would not attack merchant ships and that Manila would not invade Mindanao in exchange for the Mindanao tribal alliance opening up sea access to the Spice Islands.

This agreement cleared the biggest trouble for ASEAN's next attack on the Spice Islands and Java. As soon as the monsoon season arrives, the Combined Fleet will be able to seize the Spice Islands directly through the port of Manila.