Compared with Rama X, an indisputable descendant, Rama V has a very good reputation in the history of Siam.

Also known as Chulalongkorn the Great, he is known as one of the greatest monarchs in Thai history and the founder of modern Thailand.

However, at the end of this letter, the name of the person who wrote the letter was not Rama V, nor Chulalongkorn.

Instead, the word "Zheng Long" is written in block letters.

That's right, the founder of the Bangkok dynasty, Rama I, claimed to be the son of Emperor Zheng Xin of the Thonburi Dynasty, and received the canonization of the Central Plains Dynasty, and his descendants also claimed to be descendants of Zheng Xin within the tributary system of the Central Plains Dynasty.

If Zhu Fugui is a native of the Ming Dynasty, he may be the same as Qianlong Lao'er at this time, deceived by this group of deceitful and famous.

Zhu Fugui sneered, tore Zhu Lalongkorn's letter to shreds, and smashed it on the face of the Siamese messenger: "Go back and tell you the puppet king, he is also worthy of the surname Zheng?" Of course, he is not worthy of the surname Zhu! ”

Let's say, Zhu Fugui waved his hand, and the left and right guards crossed him down.

"Wait!"

Zhu Fugui suddenly raised his hand to stop the guard, and then took out an egg-sized ruby from his pocket and threw it on the head of the Siamese envoy.

"Take this ruby to your puppet king, I am rich all over the world, I have everything, how can I look down on his broken gems, I have more gems than his, but I don't care, let him wash his neck, and wait for my army!"

After saying that, Zhu Fugui waved his hand, ignored the cry of the Siamese envoy, and drove him out.

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Zhu Fugui expelled the Siamese envoys for many reasons.

It's not just out of anger.

Rama IV Chulalongkorn's surname is not Zheng, this is just a reason.

Historically, Rama I backstabbed Thonburi the Great, the first Guangdong macho man to claim the throne overseas and with a land area of more than 10T - Zheng Xin.

To be honest, as Zheng Xin's brother-in-law and captain of the guard, sending his brother-in-law on the road, and then adding a yellow robe to this operation can be regarded as an authentic Chinese tradition.

Later, because of the fact that the Central Plains Dynasty has always had a habit of "intermittent survival" for his younger brother, Rama I claimed to be Zheng Xin's son Zheng Hua and applied to Daiqing for canonization.

In fact, Rama I was only three years younger than Zheng Xin, the same age gap between Liu Bang and Qin Shi Huang.

So he, Zheng, is very inauthentic.

In fact, Rama I also has some Chinese ancestry, his mother is Chinese, and there are many Chinese women in the successive queens of the Bangkok Dynasty, after all, compared to the local "Siam" people, the appearance of Chinese girls is definitely superior.

Therefore, the members of the Thai royal family in later generations, as well as the upper class nobles of Thailand, are more like Chinese than locals.

But at the end of the day, they are Siamese, not Chinese.

In addition, what really made Zhu Fugui decide to eliminate the Bangkok dynasty was because of the bargaining gesture revealed by Rama V in his letter.

In fact, Siam is like Korea in the Far East, and it has been repeatedly ravaged by the two big brothers, Burma in the west and Vietnam in the east.

Even the Khmer and Cham had the habit of keeping Thai slaves.

At that time, the Thonburi Emperor Zheng Xin relied on a mixed army of Chinese and Siamese to punch Burma, kick Vietnam, let Laos cede land, and stay overnight in the royal palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which avoided the fate of Siam's fragmentation.

But in itself, the Siamese are lackluster in combat effectiveness, and they are simply incomparable with the Burmese and Vietnamese.

The word abundant martial arts is not used on their heads at all.

The only commendable thing is that compared with Da Bobo and the Koreans, the Siamese people also know that their combat power is very stretched.

In fact, until later generations, many Siamese people who surfed the Internet still stubbornly believed that the iron fist of the rabbit fell on the head of Vietnam to save them.

If it weren't for the rabbits, they would have been annexed by Vietnam, and Siam's own troops would not be reliable at all.

It is precisely this self-knowledge that led the Siamese people to resist like the Qing Dynasty, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan in the face of Western invasion (although they all lost badly because of Taicai), but directly chose to lie down.

For example, Rama V's father, Rama IV, when he brought the Qing Dynasty to be strong, he also wore Manchu official uniforms to show filial piety. (pictured)

As a result, as soon as the Taiping Rebellion began, he ordered to stop paying tribute to China and no longer pay tribute to the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains.

Then, in 1857, before the Second Opium War was fought, and the Chinese Empire had not yet been burned down by foreigners, he sent a mission to London to meet Queen Victoria.

After that, he also sent several missions to meet with Napoleon III, expressing his admiration for French culture.

He wrote a letter to Lincoln in English, presented Lincoln with a Japanese sword, and even wanted to send some elephants to help the Americans develop the West.

According to King Rama IV, Siamese elephants are so powerful that they are suitable for transporting timber in the forests of the western United States.

However, Siam's ship was too small, and it was hoped that Commander Lincoln would send a large ship to pick up the elephants.

Lincoln replied that he was very grateful to the King of Siam, but that "America is developing mechanization and does not need to use elephants for labor." ”

It can be said that Rama IV's Western friends are all over the world.

is the opposite of Zhu Fugui.

As for Rama V Chulalongkorn, he received Western education since he was a child and grew up drinking foreign ink, continuing his father's strategy and getting closer to the West.

According to Jinyiwei's report, Chulalongkorn could not write Chinese at all, but could write beautiful English.

Therefore, the so-called "handwritten" national letter that Zhu Fugui tore up was simply written by someone else.

It is really shameless that this Chulalongkorn dares to do the same thing as himself!

Therefore, the "Zheng" character of the so-called "Zheng Long" was not only a joke when Rama I backstabbed Zheng Xin a hundred years ago, but also a joke now.

In fact, if it weren't for the birth of the Ming Dynasty, Rama V would not have been ready to use a Chinese name at all.

In later generations, the Thai royal family no longer used the Chinese name publicly, and the Chinese name was elegant, which started from this Rama V.

According to the "Qing Historical Manuscript", the surnames of the Siamese kings who succeeded to the throne were Zheng, namely Zheng Zhao, Zheng Xin, Zheng Hua, Zheng Fo, Zheng Fu, and Zheng Ming (this ...... Is Xianfeng really not angry), but when it comes to Rama V, the Han name is no longer used.

And the Qing Dynasty interpreter was not polite.

Sindaya translations like William and Victoria are for foreigners.

Are you a "Siamese countryman", also worthy of Xindaya?

So Chulalongkorn is translated as "Pumpa Lang Gong...... There is a slight astringent taste.

Zhu Fugui has already decided that there is still merit in bringing Qing to the Qing Dynasty, and he should call this King of Siam like this.