Dominate the Country

Late spring intoxicates Jiangnan, the gentle breeze warms the heart, and the drizzle is lingering.

The flowers are in full bloom, and the green shade is like the sea.

The plum rain also seems so enthusiastic and full of vitality.

This is April in Jiangnan, with a pleasant climate, green branches stretching, and colorful butterflies dancing. It is the most refreshing and beautiful season of the year.

The evening breeze blows gently across Huangpu, as gentle as water. In the dim lights, the lights in the British Consulate in Shanghai are twinkling.

It is already late at night. But the banquet in the consulate is still full of singing and laughter. A team of patrolmen walking outside the gate of the consulate can vaguely hear the laughter inside.

The green trees, flowers, buildings and high walls can't stop the joy of the British people inside.

This is a banquet limited to British people in China. To be more precise, the audience of this dinner is limited to British people in the Jiangnan area.

Robert, who has been promoted to the British ambassador to China, attended the dinner in person.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let us raise our glasses to celebrate the great Siamese Prince Thong Luan. He has done what many European powers have longed for but failed to do - he has created a big trouble for the proud Chinese. The rich Siam is rapidly transforming from a big granary for the Chinese to a big quagmire.

What a wonderful thing this is. So much so that I can't suppress my excitement and excitement.

I sincerely hope that this big quagmire can become a big swamp. Even if it can't bury the Chinese, it will trap their thighs, swallow up their gold and silver, and make China's tense financial The political situation will always be tense.

Come, let us raise our glasses together to express our respect for His Excellency Prince Thongluan of Siam.

He is the best friend of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the best friend of Western civilization. I wish him to be active in Siam forever, never die, always be healthy, always have a strong appeal and influence, and inspire the brave Siamese to resist China's brutal rule more fiercely and frequently. "

"It would be best to arouse the resistance of the entire Indochina Peninsula and the entire Nanyang to China..." Algers Charlotte, a senior commercial representative of the British East India Company, interrupted.

This seems to be an impolite behavior, but Robert is not unhappy at all, but smiles more happily, because he and Charlotte are very good friends; and because what Charlotte said is exactly what Robert wants to say.

Siam's superior geographical location makes it possible for Thongluan to disrupt the situation in the entire Nanyang.

This was a man with great influence and power in Siam, and he was even more decisive. When the situation in the Battle of Thonburi was not good, he decisively executed Zheng Xin, using an ancient method that was circulated in Siamese culture - sending people to put Zheng Xin in a sack and then hit him on the head with a sandalwood stick. It was a remarkable feat. This move cut off the retreat of many rebels at once, forcing them to follow Thong Luan and stand firmly on the opposite side of the Thonburi Dynasty, because the successor of Siam Zheng II was Thong Luan's grandson who studied in Nanjing - Gelongkunlapbai, who was now twelve years old and his Chinese name was Zheng Zhao.

Thong Luan executed not only Zheng Xin, but also his son, daughter and a large number of other people, including Zheng Zhao's father Zhaoshui.

This made Emperor Chen of Nanjing furious, and also laid a serious hidden danger for the recovery of the situation in Siam.

Although the Chen Han army that entered Siam was frantically besieging Thong Luan, there were a large number of rainforests in Siam, and Thong Luan had deep-rooted connections and power in Siam, so it was really difficult to wipe them out in a short time.

In the future, technology is so advanced, there are still so many opposition armed forces and private armed forces at the border of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, and there are big drug lords living, let alone at this time.

In a short period of time, the Chen Han army can completely defeat Thong Luan on the front battlefield, but when Thong Luan led the remnants of the defeated army to escape into the rainforest, it was not clear in a short time.

As long as Thong Luan is alive, the situation in Siam will not be stable. What's more, after Zheng Zhao inherited the throne, the power of the Thonburi Dynasty was completely in the hands of Chen Han, and Zheng Zhao's image was a puppet. How could such a kingship make Siam, a country that has existed for thousands of years, recognize it?

There is also the cleansing of Buddhist forces in Siam, which is almost foreseeable and will inevitably arouse great dissatisfaction among the Siamese people.

If the situation deteriorates further, Siam may really turn into a big quagmire. As for whether it can continue to spread its "influence" to the entire Southeast Asia, although Robert agrees with Charlotte's words, he feels unreliable in his heart.

The possibility is too small.

Very small.

Siam's victory is based on the "shaking" of royal power and "shaking" of faith. There is still some possibility in Myanmar. In Annan, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Malaysia, Sumatra and other places, the royal power has either been lost long ago or is relatively stable; as for faith, everyone with a discerning eye knows that the Chinese are de-Tianfangizing, but the Chinese's de-Tianfangizing in the local area is quite gentle.

Although the local Tianfang Ah Om is dissatisfied, it is by no means comparable to the dissatisfaction of the Siamese monks with Zheng Xin. You should know that there are many sects of Indian Buddhism, and the Buddhism spread in Myanmar, Siam, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and the former Nanyang is Theravada Buddhism [which can be roughly understood as Hinayana Buddhism].

In the entire Southeast Asia region, only Annan was deeply impressed by China and was a Mahayana Buddhist. The rest of the countries were dominated by Theravada Buddhism.

Although both Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism claimed to be authentic Buddhism, both regarded Sakyamuni as the Buddha, and both shaved their heads, etc., their intentions were very different.

Theravada Buddhism is a monotheism (similar to monotheism and Mecca), with Sakyamuni as the only god [Buddha]; Mahayana Buddhism is a polytheism. In addition to worshipping Sakyamuni, they also worship many Buddhas and Manjusri Bodhisattva, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, etc.

Previously, Zheng Xin asked the Theravada Buddhists, who occupied an absolute dominant position in Siamese society, to recognize him as the Buddha, which made the latter more uncomfortable than feeding the monks shit.

Siam under Chen Han's 'rule' certainly would not require more than 90% of Siamese to believe in Mahayana Buddhism. The religious administration fully recognized the status and significance of Theravada Buddhism, but the latter had to pay the price to be buried with Zheng Xin's death.

Such measures will undoubtedly ease the tension between Chen Han and Theravada Buddhism to a certain extent, but it will also definitely cause shocks among the Siamese people.

All this is just as Robert and others thought. Siam is turning from a granary to a quagmire, but the situation has not deteriorated to the point where the quagmire turns into a swamp. But Tong Luan, whose situation is becoming more and more difficult, will not sit idly by, and many great monks in Buddhist temples may not voluntarily sit and die.

Anyone can predict what Siam will look like in the future.

If Chen Han can't 'hold on', Siam will turn from a quagmire into a swamp; on the contrary, Chen Han will be greatly powerful.

"China's financial pressure is enormous. The war in North America has ended. The Spanish accepted the blackmail of the Chinese. We must admit that China has given us great help in this regard."

"But China's appetite is too big."

"They not only want to take root in North America, but also set their sights on Ceylon."

"The Dutch can't hold on for much longer. Ceylon will soon become a Chinese colony. Our interests in India are under great threat from them."

The power that Britain had accumulated in North America for a long time last year broke out completely after the defeat of Spain. Unfortunately, the Continental Army had already become a climate. Although the British counterattack achieved some success, the close cooperation between the Continental Army and the French Army still made the British Army lose the possibility of a comeback. The war in North America was carried out until May 1784 [Western calendar], and the horn of the end had been sounded.

In order to curb the development of Chinese power, after the Chinese tentacles were already an established fact to reach India, the most urgent thing for Britain was that someone needed to make a move to pull the Chinese back.

The appearance of Tongluan was like God's protection, which made the British led by Robert very happy.

If Siam became chaotic, if Myanmar could also become chaotic, and if Annan, Malay, and even Sumatra across the Strait of Malacca also became chaotic, the entire Nanyang would be inspired by the Siamese, and then the Chinese's "development journey" to India would come to an end. Their footsteps could only stop at the south bank of the Palk Strait - the Palk Strait is a strait between Tamil Nadu in the southern corner of India and the main island of Sri Lanka. The narrowest point is less than 70 kilometers!

China's current "stall" is very large, from Nanmingzhou in the south to Outer Northeast in the north, from Kazakhstan in the west to North America in the east. Whether it is immigration or colonization, such a large stall is very consuming of financial, material and human resources.

Even though China is now recognized by the West as the world's most powerful country, they still have nearly one-third of the world's population and huge and shocking fiscal revenue - if converted into pounds, China's fiscal revenue last year was about 50 million pounds, while the treasury revenue of the most powerful country in the Western world, Britain, was only 15 million pounds. This gap is huge.

Moreover, China has collected several more taxes this year, and these taxes are not simple. According to Robert's own estimation, China's fiscal revenue will usher in a period of substantial growth in the next few years. Perhaps it will only take three to five years for China's fiscal revenue to double.

This is not Robert's own alarmist talk, scaring himself. It is a report he compiled based on the amount of property tax, inheritance tax and personal income tax and the secret information he got from some people.

Imagine the height that the total amount may reach, it is really scary.

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In the history of the original time and space, the British opened the bug mode during the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt the Younger imposed personal income tax and property tax for the first time, which made the fiscal revenue of the British Empire have an incredible expansion journey.

The fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1780 was only 12.5 million pounds, and it reached 30 million pounds in 1801. In 1815 of the Western calendar, when the Napoleonic Wars came to an end, the treasury revenue of the British Empire also reached a peak - 77.9 million pounds.

What is this concept?

In the early and middle 19th century, one pound was equal to three taels of silver, and 77.9 million pounds was 233.7 million silver, while the annual fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty at that time was only more than 40 million taels, a five-fold difference.

This is the power of personal income tax, inheritance tax, property tax, etc. It's chilling!

Now there is a voice in the UK clamoring - learn from China's tax model and civil service system.

The Kingdom of Great Britain's high debt pressure and domestic corrupt official system made it unbearable for them. By learning from China's methods, London's debt pressure will inevitably be greatly reduced. Even ten or twenty years later, London's officials will still be able to understand what it means to be "debt-free and light-hearted" and taste "debt-free and light-weight". What does it feel like to be light?

China's strict official qualification examinations and review of political performance and governance behavior will certainly greatly reduce the problem of official corruption in the UK.

Anyone with a brain can see this.

However, this is easier said than done.

A strong vested interest group has been established under the decadent officialdom system of the UK. They are like leeches lying on the backs of John Bull and sucking blood. They are also like chains made of hundreds of refined steel, which have been tightly wrapped up. John Bull.

The British now want to struggle to open all this, which is easier said than done.

Although Robert didn't know what London was like now, he could tell how lively it would be in Parliament just by thinking about it.

Grabbing beards, pulling hair, smashing chairs, throwing leather shoes...

Scenes of fights are often staged in the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament), the concentration camp of British gentlemen.

The chairs of the British Parliament are divided into two groups: the ruling party and the opposition party. The distance between the two groups of tables is the sum of the lengths of two medieval swords. In the early Middle Ages, MPs were all nobles with swords, so that the two groups could be separated. The swords do not intersect. This also shows how fierce the fights between John Bull's MPs were.

It's just that the British Parliament is known as the mother of world parliaments. It has been fighting for hundreds of years and has established some rules. In the new century, it looks very civilized and noble. Just like the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, it's not that they don't "fight", they just don't "fight with force." They fight in literature, and fighting requires great skill.

However, some banana people regard this as "gentlemanly behavior" and are confused by their politeness, thinking that it is a model of "elite governance". However, many Asian countries and regions are just the opposite. They often fight in parliament and make people laugh. The disadvantage lies in "grassroots governance". What a banana.

Robert is very happy now, he sees hope!

China has just emerged from the war, and will soon fall into a quagmire. The already skyrocketing fiscal and tax revenues will continue to flow into military expenditures.