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The warships of the Chinese Navy, forcibly inspecting British merchant ships, provoked great dissatisfaction among these British merchants. Some radical businessmen even demanded that the sailors on board take up arms and protect their interests. However, under the guns of the Chinese ship, they still obediently chose to cooperate. As ship owners and sailors who have been running this route to Europe and the Far East all year round, they all know that the entire East is already the territory of the Chinese. Even if you are British, you have to be honest here.

However, this does not mean that the British side will tolerate this breath. The British ambassador to China, Zhu Erdian, immediately rushed to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express the British side's stern protest to Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang.

"Your Excellency, the forcible boarding of a British merchant ship by your navy for inspection is a provocation to the British Empire and a violation of the dignity of the British Empire. The merchants of the British Empire are good citizens with good rules, and what you are doing is inappropriate. The British Empire will retain the power to hold accountable. China must apologize to the British Empire for this, otherwise China's actions will be regarded as an act of war against the British Empire. The British Empire will use a single method to safeguard the interests of the British Empire! Zhu Erdian roared from the office of China's foreign minister, Wu Tingfang.

"Your Excellency, my country suspects that your country is selling arms to Siam. And this kind of behavior of your country has seriously undermined the peace in the South Seas region and has caused a serious threat to our country. Therefore, our country has the right to demand that your country stop the arms trade with Siam! In the face of the furious British ambassador to China, Ng Dinh Fong, the Chinese foreign minister, was not intimidated. On the contrary, it issued a warning from the Chinese side in a stern manner.

"Your Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Britain is a peace-loving country, how can it sell arms to other countries at will? Edward quibbled.

"However, on the British merchant ships that we intercepted, we found munitions, not only rifles, but also artillery! And, according to the confession of the British merchant above, they were on the orders of the British side to transport arms to Siam. Wu Tingfang said coldly.

"Alright! Your Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Siam is a sovereign state, and the transaction between the British Empire and the Siamese government is a matter between our two countries, not China's business at all! Zhu Erdian said coldly.

"However, this poses a threat to China's security. This reason. Enough is enough! Wu Tingfang said coldly.

The reason put forward by Wu Tingfang is very strong and very domineering. In the past, Britain has done a lot of such things. In particular, when Britain and France were vying for maritime supremacy throughout the world, Britain often searched French merchant ships to prevent France from supplying arms to the resistance forces in the British colonies. And now. China has applied this trick to the UK, and it has indeed made them very angry.

"Your Excellency the Foreign Secretary, China's actions are harming the interests of the United Kingdom. This will definitely damage the relationship between our two countries! Ambassador Jurden warned.

"China is not afraid of any challenge. Any behavior that harms China's interests will be severely cracked down on by China! Wu Tingfang replied. Now China has enough strength and confidence to say such things. China is no longer at the mercy of the Western powers. China can make a strong voice to the world.

This is the meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang and British Ambassador to China Zhu Erdian. Naturally, they broke up unhappily. This has also caused a crisis in the relations between the two countries. However, Britain is still in the quagmire of the Boer War, and at the same time the warships of the navy are being built, so it is impossible to take strong measures against China. As a result, they were able to protest only a few times.

The timely blockade of the Chinese Navy made it impossible for the Siamese government to obtain sufficient weapons. They bought half a million rifles and thousands of artillery pieces from the British government. However, only before the blockade of the Chinese Navy, two hundred thousand rifles and two hundred artillery pieces of various calibers were obtained. The remaining rifles and artillery pieces were seized by the Chinese side.

Siam had already paid the money, but did not receive the goods, which made the Siamese king Chulalongkorn and the government very dissatisfied, and they asked the British side to refund the money. However, the British side insisted that they had already sent the goods and had not received the arms, which was a matter for the Siamese side and had nothing to do with the British. Britain has suffered a big loss in China, and is angry, of course it will not give Siam a good face. And the money paid by Siam will obviously not be refunded to them. This made the Siamese side very angry, and the Siamese king Chulalongkorn smashed several vases, but there was nothing to be done. This may be the sorrow of small countries.

As time passed, the rainy season on Indochina slowly came to an end. During this time, the squadron began to assemble on the Siamese border, and the Siamese army was also expanded. The Siamese Army was expanded to one million men. However, only two-thirds of the men were armed with rifles, and less than 500 artillery pieces, and the rest could only use weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows.

The clouds of war began to gather over Siam, and the eyes of the whole world were also focused here. All the powerful countries are speculating about what will become of China's invasion of Siam? Will it become a quagmire of war, like the Boer War that was going on in Britain? After all, the population of Siam is twenty times that of the Boers. If China wants to swallow Siam in one bite, I'm afraid it won't be easy!

Chinese have always paid attention to teachers and are famous! Therefore, even if it is necessary to send troops to annex Siam, a reasonable excuse must be prepared. In mid-July, the Imperial Daily, China's largest newspaper, published a front-page account of the founder of the Thonburi dynasty in Siam, the life of Zheng Xin, and the establishment and demise of the Thonburi dynasty.

Zheng Xin's father, Zheng Da, was born in Huafuli, Chenghai, Guangdong, China, and crossed Siam in the south during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, lived in Ayutthaya, and was a stall owner, and changed his name to Yong after becoming rich; His mother, Noyang, was Siamese. Zheng Xin was born in Ayutthaya. He began his education at the age of 7 in a Theravada Buddhist monastery and after 7 years of study, he became a royal attendant. Legend has it that once, he and his friend, a beginner in Buddhism, went out of the temple to make a dervish and met an old Chinese fortune teller, who looked at the palmistry and told them that the two of them would become kings. Of course, they didn't take it seriously, but later Cheng Xin was indeed called the King of Siam, and Thong Luan also killed Zheng Xin and became Rama I.

When Cheng Shin was the vice-governor of Laixing Province (who later became the governor), he received his Thai name, Tatshin, and the official title was Phaya Tashin. When he was promoted to governor of Kamphaeng Phet province, he had to return to Ayutthaya. Because at that time Burma attacked Thailand and besieged the Thai capital. Zheng Xin led and participated in the defense of the capital. But Ayutthaya soon fell in 1767, and Zheng Xin rushed out of the city with a small army.

Taking advantage of the outbreak of the Qing-Burma War and most of the Burmese Ayutthaya garrison was forced to return to China to resist the Qing army, Zheng Xin led the people to use the southeast coastal area as a base to organize the anti-Burmese army, recover Ayutthaya, and move the capital to Thonburi. On December 28 of that year, he was proclaimed king and was known as the Thonburi Dynasty. In 1770, he eliminated the separatist forces in various places, unified the whole of Siam, and carried out several military expansions in Cambodia. He also sent envoys to China and entered the court to claim the status of vassals (籓subject国) in the Qing court. On April 7, 1782, in a palace coup, Zheng Xin was killed. Thong Luang (General Chokri), who returned to Beijing with a large army from the Cambodian front, seized power and established the Bangkok dynasty. And Tongluan, that is, Rama I, fearing the Manchu investigation, claimed to be Zheng Hua, the son of Zheng Xin, and entered the Manchu to ask for canonization. The dim-witted Manchu government actually believed it and canonized Tongluan as the king of Siam. And Tongluan's age is a few years older than Zheng Xindu.

When the life and deeds of King Zheng Xin of Siam were published in the Imperial Daily, they immediately caused an uproar throughout the country. Originally, Chinese did not know much about the country of Siam and the person Zheng Xin. But when China's official newspapers published it, the crowd was excited. People everywhere formed a petition group to demand that the imperial government avenge Zheng Xin and exterminate the current Siamese royal family.

After China's victories in a series of wars, the national self-esteem and self-confidence of the citizens of the empire had risen to a very high level. In their opinion, the empire is already one of the most powerful countries in the world. Siam, a small country in the south, actually did such a heart-wrenching thing, the victims are still Chinese, and the empire should come out to uphold justice.

Originally, those old pedants who often opposed the imperial government and scolded the empire for its reckless military recklessness also came out. Hundreds of people knelt down outside the Xinhua Palace, and they demanded that the empire launch a war against Siam, punish the despicable behavior of the Siamese royal family, and seek justice for the common people of the empire.

In less than a month, the incident spread throughout the country, and tens of thousands of petitions were received by governments at all levels. The officers and soldiers of the imperial army also asked for war against Siam and the elimination of the Siamese royal family. Even, many radical people were willing to form mercenaries and join the war against Siam.

In this regard, the imperial emperor Wang Yuze personally stated that the imperial government would not spare the current royal family of Siam. The imperial army has begun to assemble and will launch a war of annihilation against the Siamese royal family, and the Siamese royal family will pay a heavy price for what they have done.

The international community is divided into two factions for this war. One side believes that this is a deliberate attempt by China to annex Siam and launch an invasion of Siam. The other group believes that this is China's revenge on the Siamese royal family and is acceptable. And the opinion of the Siamese king Chulalongkorn, no one heeded!