As a result, starting from March 6, the second year of Longwu, Naresuan was horrified to find that he had become the target of public criticism.
For a time, the entire Southeast Asian region was in a wave of rejection of the Siamese people. The Siamese merchants, in particular, received extensive special treatment.
Their property was robbed, their property was seized, and their wives and daughters were taken away. Some were even directly killed and paraded through the streets.
Even some of the wealthier people were falsely accused of being Siamese. Although they strongly denied that they were not Siamese, when everyone needed them to be Siamese, they became Siamese.
What's more, in some places, because of the government-led action to eliminate the Siamese people, there was a small-scale riot, which caused some governments that didn't have strong control over the local areas to encounter some small troubles, and many innocent people were also robbed.
The ugliness of human nature was undoubtedly revealed in this wave. There were no innocent people, only victims and perpetrators.
The Siamese people were the only victims. Everyone was a perpetrator, but when everyone became a perpetrator, no one paid attention to what the victims thought.
Just like those who were not originally Siamese, if everyone agreed that they were Siamese, then no matter what they said, they were Siamese, and they were dead Siamese.
The dead could not speak, and evil did not exist.
The only people who were not affected were the people of Daqin. No one dared to provoke the people of Daqin, who wore silk and behaved elegantly.
From June of the first year of Longwu, Daqin announced that it would officially open the sea, encouraging merchants and ordinary people to do business in Southeast Asia and North Korea. Now, there were many people of Daqin living in Southeast Asian countries doing business, and some even lived there.
The governments of various countries had notified them before taking action. If anyone was blind enough to hurt the people of Daqin, then don't blame them for being merciless.
Therefore, the people of Daqin safely survived the turmoil in Southeast Asia. There were even people sitting in their yards and watching the arson and murder outside, while lamenting the existence of the ugly Daqin merchants.
They were safe.
All the vassal states condemned Siam diplomatically. They accused Siam of treason and disobeying the orders of Daqin. They all expelled the Siamese people and cut off all contact with Siam. This action was particularly intense.
The presence of the Daqin diplomatic ambassador was a very important factor.
They were responsible for coordinating the actions of the various governments and reaching an agreement that all the loot belonged to them. Therefore, the various governments even organized their own lackeys to loot the Siamese's property to enrich the national treasury.
Xiao Ruxun was also very targeted. Putting other countries aside, he first pulled out Siam, which was the strongest, dared to cause trouble, and took the lead in disobeying Daqin's orders, to be a live target, giving other countries a chance to turn over a new leaf. He pulled out a group of people and beat them up. Everyone was the culprit, and their standpoint was the same.
The Daqin Black Water agents in Siam also began to take action urgently. Waves of assassination and subversion plans against Narexuan were urgently carried out.
As long as you kill him, you will be the King of Siam, the King of Siam recognized by the Daqin.
Many ambitious people and those with power began to waver in their positions.
Xiao Ruxun indeed needed to deal with Siam. In the entire land of Southeast Asia, the only country that had the strength to fight against the hegemony of the Daqin was Siam. The existence of Siam would lead a large number of small countries to follow suit, which would affect the actions of the Daqin.
Xiao Ruxun didn't care about the vassal states in other areas during the Yongle and Xuande periods that he hadn't been in contact with for several years. However, none of the vassal states in Southeast Asia could escape.
There were two military bases in Myanmar and Luzon, and they were all under the threat of the Daqin army.
Coupled with the Daqin's full publicity, which occupied the high ground of public opinion and righteousness, it put Narexuan in an extremely awkward and disadvantageous position. It seemed that everything was his fault, and he had become the source of all evil.
Previously, when the Daqin was first established, they didn't immediately surrender to the Daqin, and the matter of lending Xiao Ruxun a way to help Xiao Ruxun in the Northern Expedition was not mentioned.
Na Ruixuan was in a terrible situation. Every day, he would receive a lot of letters asking for help and crying complaints. Every day, he would receive complaints and threats from neighboring countries. Unknowingly, his control over his army had also decreased.
When he summoned the generals of the army for a meeting, more than one was late. Everyone said that they had suffered losses because of this diplomatic action and were dealing with these losses.
Only then did Narexuan know how terrifying Xiao Ruxun was.
He didn't move a single soldier, and he only relied on the greed and stupidity of the surrounding vassal states to put Siam in great trouble. The Siamese outside the country were looted and killed, and those who were lucky enough to escape spread panic. All kinds of rumors were flying in the country, and they were vaguely targeting him.
Narexuan wanted to resist, but he didn't know how. A general proposed to send troops to threaten the surrounding small countries, but he was opposed by a large group of generals.
The objection was that the Daqin was too powerful. If they didn't use military means now, they would be giving Siam a chance. If Siam didn't seize the opportunity and used force, it would give Daqin an excuse to use force to deter them. Siam absolutely couldn't bring about its own destruction like this.
Yes, the general used the argument of bringing about its own destruction.
Narexuan's eyes widened as he looked at the old general who rose up with him to defeat the Dongyu Dynasty and recapture Siam.
He couldn't believe that this person could actually say such a thing. He couldn't believe it at all.
But the truth was right in front of him.
Under the instigation of the Daqin, Siam suffered unprecedented diplomatic isolation and attacks.
All normal diplomatic activities were terminated, and so were the contacts between the people. The business and trade that had been negotiated was terminated, and a large number of merchants faced the predicament of losing everything.
The foreign trade and business activities that Narexuan had tried his best to promote since he ascended the throne almost came to a premature end. Once the merchants suffered heavy losses, Siam's economy would immediately be destroyed, and the government's funds and military would face difficulties.
When his officials told him these things, Narexuan finally realized what he was going through.
This was no less than the crisis of the war with Mang Yinglong to recapture Siam. The terrible thing about this kind of crisis was that it was complicated, and it was even difficult to know how to deal with it.
When Narexuan urgently gathered the officials to think of countermeasures, the price of food in Siam began to soar. When Narexuan activated the country's emergency food reserve, the price of food had already soared to a very frightening level.
The people in the country were complaining, and there were already unfavorable remarks against Narexuan, the former hero. Some of the remarks were quite dangerous, and the range of dissemination was not small.
If someone said that there was no one behind this, Narexuan wouldn't believe it no matter what.
He didn't expect that Xiao Ruxun would have the leisure to do this when he was gathering the army to crusade against Japan!
That was for sure. Xiao Ruxun didn't go with the army. He stayed in Beijing and planned everything. Was it strange for the emperor to do two things at the same time?
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