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Two days later, the East China Government and the Ottoman Turkish Empire signed several economic and trade agreements and friendly treaties. The Ottoman Turkish Empire's visit to the East China Government also ended successfully. Therefore, the Ottoman Turkish Empire's visiting delegation also bid farewell and left to return home.

The East China Government not only held a grand farewell ceremony for the Ottoman Turkish delegation, but also sent a large fleet to escort the delegation away. There were 16 diplomats accompanying Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, to establish the East China Government Office in the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

The fleet consists of 12 warships, including the battleship Gan Jiang, Mo Ye, the armored cruiser Chitu, Jueying, the cruiser Qingzhou, Yizhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, the cruiser Dongchang, Jining, Linqing, Wuding, and other 12 warships, a total of 16 ships. There are also 8 Marine warships.

Although the East China Government attaches importance to its relations with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, it is obvious that it is too courteous to send such a fleet to escort. In fact, the escort tour delegation is just a task of the fleet, and the real task of the fleet is to visit Southeast Asia, because it is Siam.

It turned out that after the East China Government and Siam established a connection, the relationship between the two sides quickly became closer. Because they both had the intention of developing diplomatic relations and making friendly exchanges, they sent several envoys to establish offices with each other and signed economic and trade negotiations. At the same time, they were negotiating and formally establishing diplomatic relations.

However, the closer relationship between the East China Government and Siam aroused the vigilance of Britain and France. After the Far East War, Britain and the Netherlands had no choice but to ced Kalimantan Island, that is, Borneo, to the East China Government, so that the power of the East China Government would expand to the hinterland of Southeast Asia. Although the East China Government did not rush to expand to Southeast Asia after the Far East War, its power had already been achieved. Moreover, there are many Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Chinese are hardworking and smart, so most of them can live well and have rich people. However, the Chinese did not have a strong country as their backing, nor did they have a unified organization. Although there were many people and their economic strength, they were a mess and could only be slaughtered by others.

But now there is an East China Government, and the nationalist sentiment of the East China Government is very strong. It had had fierce conflicts with the Netherlands in order to protect overseas Chinese. After winning the Far East War, the East China Government's prestige was at its peak. If we talked about organizing Chinese in Southeast Asia in the name of protecting Chinese people, this would be an extremely powerful force. By that time, Britain and France would probably have no place to gain a foothold in Southeast Asia.

Moreover, after a few years of stability, the East China Government indeed began to take action in Southeast Asia. First, through colonial replacement, it introduced German forces to Southeast Asia, which was a great threat to Britain and France, because the conflict between Britain and France and Germany is now severely intensified and the war is about to begin. The combat plan formulated by Britain was that once the war started, the British Navy blocked the German Navy in the North Sea and cut off Germany's overseas trade. Britain and France had overseas replenishment as support. As long as they could be defended on land, they could slowly waste Germany.

But now Germany has occupied several colonies in Southeast Asia. By exchanging colonies, it has obtained two colonies on Kalimantan. On the one hand, it can garrison troops and berth ships; on the other hand, it can also obtain a stable source of materials based on the East China government. Therefore, as long as Germany deploys a fleet in Southeast Asia, it can break the British maritime blockade. No matter how bad it is, it can threaten Britain's maritime transportation lines. At that time, the war between the two sides was unaware of.

Although Britain and France were unwilling to do so, they were unable to prevent Germany from entering Southeast Asia. After all, neither the East China Government nor Germany could easily suppress it. Moreover, at this time, the East China Government had a relationship with Siam again and made rapid progress. In less than a year, the two sides had set up offices. The next step was to formally establish diplomatic relations.

Siam is the only country in Southeast Asia that can still maintain sovereignty and independence. Although Britain has a great influence on Siam, it cannot completely control Siam. It is located at the junction of the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula, facing the Pacific Ocean in the east and the Indian Ocean in the west. It has a very important strategic position. If the East China Government really establish diplomatic relations with Siam, Siam will inevitably take the opportunity to get rid of Britain's control, which will definitely be detrimental to Britain and France. Therefore, Britain and France have unanimously decided that they must do everything possible to prevent the further development of the East China Government and Siam.

In fact, both Britain and France have people at home, and know that it is difficult for Britain and France to prevent the establishment of diplomatic relations between the East China Government and Siam. Although the overall national strength of Britain and France is stronger than that of the East China Government, the local area is thousands of miles away. Moreover, the situation in Europe is becoming increasingly tense. Both Britain and France must place most of their power in Europe, and the power projected to Southeast Asia is far less than that of the East China Government. Therefore, instead of vainly preventing the establishment of diplomatic relations between the East China Government and Siam, it is better to follow the flow and do personal favors. The East China Government and Siam establish diplomatic relations. They will take the opportunity to improve their relations with the East China Government and give up some of the interests of Southeast Asia to the East China Government, which can also ensure some of the interests in Southeast Asia. After all, it is not beneficial to Britain and France for a long time to be an enemy of a regional power like the East China Government.

But this rational voice is not only a minority, but also difficult to respond. Therefore, the hostility towards the East China government is very serious in the domestic society of Britain and France. First, both countries were defeated in the Far East War and were forced to cede land and pay compensation. Although the cedent was only colonies and the compensation was not much. If it was lost to Germany, Russia, and the United States, it would be a loss to white people. It can be said that victory or defeat is common for military strategists. However, losing to the East China government is a yellow man who has always been looked down upon by Europe. It can be said that it is not very harmful, but the insult is extremely strong. This tone cannot be revealed, and naturally there will be no good impression of the East China government.

Secondly, it was related to the Far East War. In order to force Britain and France to surrender as soon as possible, the East China Government adopted some extreme measures, such as confiscating the property of merchants in China, intercepting merchant ships from Britain and France at sea, and seizing goods. Although it ultimately forced Britain and France to surrender and cede land for compensation, the confiscated property and the garrisoned merchant ships were not returned. Therefore, many British and French merchants suffered huge losses and led to the entire business community, which was hostile to the East China Government.

Both Britain and France are business-oriented countries, and merchants have a great influence on national politics. If merchants are hostile to the East China Government, both society and government will naturally regard the East China Government as their enemy. In this social atmosphere, suggestions that are rational and realistic but contrary to mainstream public opinion in society are naturally unacceptable.

So Britain and France first issued a warning to the Siam government through official governments, telling Siam directly not to get too close to the East China government, as this will affect the relationship between Siam and Britain and France. Of course, the two countries also knew that such a straightforward blocking effect would not be very great, so they tried their best to discredit the East China government, saying that the East China government was greedy, plundered, brave and warlike, and had no faith, no righteousness, barbarism and rudeness. Therefore, they urged Siam to never make friends with such a country. At the same time, both Britain and France sent warships to be stationed in the port of Siam, which was a threat to force. The attack on civil and military forces were intimidated, and the two-pronged approach was taken.

In addition, although Siam is now able to maintain basic sovereignty and independence, it is forced to give up some of its power to other countries. Therefore, Britain and France not only have strong influence in Siam, but also have also supported a number of pro-British and pro-French forces. There are also many people in high positions, which can affect Siam's national affairs.

At this time, the pro-British and pro-French forces also had a place to use force. It was not admonished by the Siam government to establish diplomatic relations with the East China government. He also asked King Rama V Chulalongkorn to carefully consider getting close to the East China government, so as not to anger Britain and France, which would be a disaster for Siam.

In addition to the government level, Britain and France also vigorously aroused anti-China trends among the people of Siam, fabricated various rumors, slandered the Chinese in Siam, and created racial confrontation in Siam, trying to create an anti-China storm in Siam. The East China government has always taken it as its mission to protect all Chinese people. Therefore, when an anti-China storm occurs in Siam, it will definitely not stand by and will inevitably go out to question Siam. In this way, the two sides will naturally form grudges and will never have a day to get along.

However, King Rama V of Siam was revered as Emperor Chulalongkorn in the old time and space. Although Siam is not a great power, it can be revered as Emperor. In modern society where the west wind is gradually increasing, he naturally has two tricks. He knew very well that Britain and France were preventing Siam from establishing diplomatic relations with the East China government. Although Chulalongkorn did not understand why Britain and France did this, he knew that establishing diplomatic relations with the East China government was more beneficial and less harmful to Siam.

Moreover, there are many Chinese in Siam, but they have always lived in peace with local indigenous peoples and merged with each other. Therefore, most of the Siam natives now have some Chinese ancestry, including Chulalongkorn. The current Siam is the Chokri Dynasty, also known as the Bangkok Dynasty. The founding monarch Rama I Chaopi Yechokri was originally a general of Zheng Zhao, the king of the Thonburi dynasty in Thailand, while Zheng Zhao was a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
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