The monarchy is the oldest form of government in the world, but due to the development of modern society, it has gradually been impacted by the wave of democratization, and there are not many countries in the world today that retain the monarchy, most countries implement a republican system, typical monarchies, we can think of Japan and the United Kingdom and Brunei Cambodia, but the power of the kings of these countries is also much less than before, the real power is in the hands of the prime minister, the king represents the image of the country, the honor is as usual. However, there is such a country in the world, the king has no Chinese blood, but there is a special rule in the succession to the throne, that is, it must have a Chinese surname and name to take office, which is strange, so who is this country? What is her relationship with China? Time goes back to the Qing Dynasty.
During the Qing Dynasty, due to the growth of the population in the southeast coastal areas of the mainland, the contradiction between people and land became more and more prominent, and many people from coastal provinces went to sea to settle in Southeast Asia in order to make a living, and a fisherman surnamed Zheng was among them, and he took his family to distant Siam (the former name of Thailand), And Luo was industrious and simple, and quickly gained a foothold at that time. Later, Siam was invaded by neighboring Burma, the Burmese army was fierce, Zheng had a son named Zheng Xin, he was very capable of military, so he led the local army to drive out the invading army, and also established his own dynasty, the Zheng dynasty was established by The Zheng Dynasty.
Chinese established a political power overseas, which was a very glorious thing, and he also hoped to get the protection of the mother country regime, so soon after the establishment of the Zhengxin Empire, the king sent envoys back to china to request annexation. The Qianlong Emperor agreed and enthroned Zheng Xin, and Siam became a vassal state of China. However, the political system in Siam was immature and the regime was unstable, and Zheng Xin was usurped by his subordinates in his 15th year as king and then secretly executed. The new king was a native of Siam named Tong Luan, known historically as Rama I.
After this person became king, he was actually very unreliable in his heart, the throne was obtained through a coup d'état, and according to the rules of the suzerainty, the new king must be re-canonized by the suzerainty after succeeding to the throne. If they do not accept the canonization, they may face the possibility of being conquered, as is the example of Chu Di's destruction of the Vietnamese usurpation of the Hu regime. Tong Luan committed the following crimes and killed King Chinese, probably angering Qianlong without being crowned, at this time, one of Tong Luan's ministers thought of a way, that is, to let the new king impersonate Zheng Xin's son Zheng Hua. Zheng Hua is the son of Zheng Xin, and it is a matter of course to succeed to his father's throne, and he can also be successfully canonized. Tong Luan then wrote to the Qianlong Emperor in the capacity of Zheng Hua, falsely claiming that there had been a coup d'état in the country, and that his father, Zheng Xin, had died and inherited the throne himself.
Of course, the Qianlong Emperor, who was thousands of miles away, did not deliberately look at the situation, and indeed crowned the new king. After the Siamese king found this trick to work well, his successors simply did so, falsely claiming to be descendants of the Zheng clan and accepting the canonization of the Qing Dynasty. Later, this surname actually became a royal family name, which was passed down from generation to generation, for example, the name of the previously deceased Rama IX Chinese was Zheng Gu, and the current Rama X was named Zheng Mian .