Among the twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong's sense of existence can be said to be the highest, so much so that Emperor Qianlong is now given many nicknames on the Internet, such as "Zhang Zong", "Psoriasis", "Poetry Maniac", "Rich Flower in the World", "Historical Poet" and so on. Interestingly, Emperor Qianlong has a nickname on the Internet called "Father of the Nation of Thailand". What's going on here? This ghost will talk about the family.
From the late Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there were two great powers in Indochina: one was the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty (壅国亚院); The other is the Ayutthaya dynasty (Ayutthaya dynasty of Thailand). Due to the decline of the Ming Dynasty and the use of troops in the northwest by the Qing Dynasty, the two great powers of Indochina began to fight each other for hundreds of years. By the twenty-third year of Qianlong (1758), the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty gradually gained the upper hand.
In the 31st year of Qianlong (1766), the Burmese king Meng Pai led troops to besiege Ayutthaya (north of present-day Bangkok, Thailand), the capital of the Ayutthaya dynasty in Thailand. On April 7, the 32nd year of Qianlong (1767), the Burmese army captured the city of Ayutthaya, and the Ayutthaya dynasty of Thailand was destroyed. At this time, apart from a small area on the southeast coast controlled by Zheng Xin, most of Thailand had been occupied by the Burmese Gongbang dynasty.
If the Burmese Gongbang dynasty continues to work hard to eliminate the unpowerful Zheng Xin and spend time digesting the already occupied Thailand territory, then Thailand will be completely annexed by Myanmar, and there will be no Thailand today. However, just a few months after the Burma destroyed the Ayutthaya dynasty of Thailand, the Qianlong Emperor decided to use troops on Burma on a large scale, and the war of conquest of Burma, one of the "Ten Complete Martial Arts", began in full force.
The war of conquest of Burma was a war with a large amount of water in Emperor Qianlong's "Ten Complete Martial Arts", and the Qing army suffered huge losses in the war of conquest of Burma, and even Emperor Qianlong's high hopes for a generation of famous generals Ming Rui died on the battlefield. However, the Qing army suffered heavy losses on the Burmese army, and the Qing Dynasty's losses outweighed the losses, but the overall Burmese losses were greater. In response to the Qing Dynasty's powerful offensive, Meng had to transfer troops occupying Thailand to the Sino-Burmese border.
So Zheng Xin took advantage of the Qing Dynasty's conquest of Burma to send troops to recover the city of Ayuthaya, and the whole territory of Thailand was recovered. On December 28, the 32nd year of Qianlong (1767), Zheng Xin officially ascended the throne in Thonburi, establishing the Thonburi Dynasty of Thailand that continues to this day. Burma, on the other hand, was unable to attack Thailand on a large scale because of the blows of the Qing Dynasty, so it could only let Zheng Xin unify Thailand, and the cooked duck flew.
To sum up, if it were not for the Qianlong Emperor's crusade against Burma, which attracted the main force of the Burmese army and severely damaged the strength of Burma, then Zheng Xin would not have had the opportunity to recover the city of Ayutthaya and establish the Thonburi Dynasty, and there would be no Thailand now. Because of this, the person who contributed the most to the establishment of the Thonburi Dynasty in Thailand was actually the Qianlong Emperor, so some people on the Internet called the Qianlong Emperor the "Father of Thailand".