Objectively speaking, Rama IV's strategy was very successful, he recognized the form and hugged the right thigh in time.

Compared with the North Korean Concubine Min family, who hugged her thighs and finally died in the flames, I don't know where Gao Ming went.

But the success of this strategy is not so much due to the long-sleeved dancing and good relations with foreigners of Rama IV and his son Rama V, but rather the coincidental location of Siam.

If you praise the stinky feet of foreigners, you will not be exterminated and the country will not be destroyed, which is simply a big joke in the world.

There are a large number of bones of "progressive" Indians in North America to testify to, and if they seek the skin of a tiger, they will suffer.

Siam was able to maintain its relative independence under the auroport of Britain and France because Britain and France needed a country in the Far East that could serve as a buffer between the colonies of India, Burma and French Indochina.

There was a sentence that summed up the reason why only three independent countries in Asia were able to maintain relative independence in the nineteenth century: "China is too big, Japan is too strong, and Thailand is too clever."

This statement cannot be said to be entirely true, but there is some truth to it.

At the very least, Thailand coincidentally has become a buffer for great powers in the same way that Mongolia was to China and Russia in later generations.

But it also means that Thailand's success is impossible to replicate not only for a natural power like China, but also for a small country in Southeast Asia.

And now, Rama V, who has been influenced by Rama IV, also reveals between the lines of his letter that he wants to turn Siam into a buffer state between the Ming Empire and the British Empire.

In his opinion, the Ming was no different from France.

When the Ming Dynasty came to Indochina, it was nothing more than the French who wanted to suck blood for a long time.

Vampire pumping Lalang Gong is not afraid.

You suck whatever you want, and I'll suck with you.

Anyway, it is not the blood of their royal family that is sucked, and even with the left and right, Siam can still get a piece of the pie from the weakened Myanmar and Vietnam!

Now, the French are gone, and the Ming people are here, and this is an opportunity for him to sell at a price and further fight for benefits.

Therefore, instead of handing over the government-in-exile of the French governor of Saigon, who had fled into Siam, as well as the Vietnamese Jehodes, as demanded by the Ming Dynasty, he used them as bargaining chips with the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Ming side's request for them to completely expel the British and have the Ming replace the British garrison in Siam, there was no positive response at all.

Of course, he also said that he hoped that, as a neutral country, he would invite the Ming Dynasty to negotiate with the British and Indian authorities in Bangkok to resolve the territorial dispute peacefully.

This was also one of the means of countermeasures against the British after intensifying their infiltration of Siam.

To put it simply, coercing Ming to protect oneself and coercing the foreign to ask for a price, this is the small abacus of pulling Lang Gong.

Not to mention, because they were worried that the Siamese royal family would defect to the Ming Kingdom, the British did lower their posture during this period of time and gave Bangkok a lot of benefits.

For example, the previous budget for aiding the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty no longer exists, can take out part of it and buy Siam.

After all, if you print so many pounds, you have to spend them.

This made the Duke of Pumpa Lang more and more proud of his wisdom and martial arts.

Siam may be small, but it can dance on the tip of a sword, and make the powers of the world work for me!

It's just a pity that Da Ming doesn't eat this set.

For Ming Liangzong, loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

In the confrontation between Zhuxia and the Aryans, China and Ansar, and the Ming and Yingyi, the so-called neutral countries were not recognized by the Ming Dynasty at all.

The Ming side ignored the Siamese side, and if the Ming sent troops, the Siamese government would unconditionally fall to the threat of the British and Indian authorities.

The twelfth year of Dewu, April 1874.

Just as the Tatar Song army crossed the "Kill the Indians" mountain pass for the first time, plundered the northern border of Britain and India, looted 100,000 head of livestock, including the Indian sacred cow, and returned triumphantly, the Ming Dynasty began to attack Siam.

As the commander-in-chief, Marshal Zhu Fugui personally visited Phnom Penh, an important town in Chenla, to supervise the war against Siam.

It is said to be a conquest of Siam, but in fact, everyone knows that the real opponent of the Ming Dynasty in this campaign is the British and Indian authorities.

Unlike the northwestern part of India, where the Tatar and Song were free, the British and Indian authorities had deployed a million troops in Burma to enter Siam at any time.

And on the territory of Siam, there were more than 20,000 military advisers.

Of course, the vast majority of the so-called million-strong army is an Indian puppet army with inferior weapons, and its combat capability is questionable.

But there is no doubt that this is the third most powerful combat power east of the Persian plateau.

The first is the command of the Ming Shenzhou Metropolitan Envoy, and the second is the command of the Ming Nanyang Metropolitan Envoy.

Although the total strength of the two is only 800,000, Zhu Fugui believes that a Ming soldier can be worth an Indian native soldier.

So, the advantage is mine!

The only thing that puzzled Zhu Fugui was that according to the predetermined plan, the Ming Group's offensive against the British and Indian authorities should be three-sided.

That is, the main force of the Ming Dynasty advanced from the Indochina Peninsula to the route of Fengwen under the Malay Tiger Mountain, the Tatar Song advanced in northwest India with the route of Timur Tiger, a descendant of the Mongol descendant of the Mughal founding emperor, and the Southern Tang Dynasty advanced from the push line of the Indian Company east of the sea route.

Three-pronged approach to full flowering.

Today, the advancement of the Ming and Tatar Song is going well.

There seems to be something wrong with the Southern Tang side.

Li Hongzhang's huge fleet should have launched an attack on the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula, but for some reason, the Ming side has not received the relevant information for a long time.

Zhu Fugui was faintly worried, shouldn't they have been shipwrecked?

After all, most of the steamers in Li Hongzhang's fleet were steamships produced by him through his corrupt Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Fujian Shipyard over the past few years.

Although the engineers sent by Daming have been tested and believe that although the performance is insufficient, the next Nanyang is still not a big problem.

But in the final analysis, Zhu Fugui, who is familiar with the style of Western-style masters in history, is really a little uncertain about the performance of these ships.

But after all, it is such a huge fleet, if there is really an accident in the South Seas, some wreckage and remains will be washed ashore and discovered.

However, none of those are either.

Li Hongzhang and his landlord and squire group were never heard from and became a mystery case.

The Ming side sent some Zhao Guangyi-class coastal speedboats to search all corners of the South Seas.

I don't expect them to meet as scheduled, as long as the person is okay.

In addition, Zhu Fugui has no extra energy to care about Li Hongzhang.

He was in Phnom Penh, and finally met his confidant Mo Bai, whom he hadn't seen for many years.

"Feihong's mother and son are very good, Feihong has grown to one meter eight, but he is a little thinner, only two hundred pounds."

After all, Eunuch Li is old, and as soon as he gets old, he will talk more when he meets his old acquaintances in a foreign country.

He babbled a lot about the past of Fengdu.

Mo Bai couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Feihong, his old bean is not tall, I didn't expect that after eating enough meat, eggs and milk, Feihong could grow to one meter eight, hey, it's a pity that I couldn't even eat sweet potatoes when I was a child, so I didn't grow taller." ”

In fact, Mo Bai is 170 tall, whether in China or Europe, in this era, he is by no means short.

After all, Mo Bai took the risk of going to "Citigroup" to pan for gold because he had a lot of strength, ate too much, and couldn't support his family.

However, the second-generation new Ming people in Yinzhou, under the sufficient supply of animal protein, have soared in height as if they were hanging, and it is no longer enough to describe it with "great appearance".

In comparison, the older generation of Ming ancestors did seem short.