Yong Saetae Explained

Yong Saetae (Thai: หยง แซ่แต้;, Teochew: Dên Iong; ? - ?) was a Chinese merchant and the father of King Taksin the Great. The Vietnamese called him Trịnh Yển (鄭偃).^{[1] [2]}

His birth name was Dên Dag . Born in Chenghai County, Chaoshan, China.^{[3] [4] [5]} It was said that he was a broad-minded and unconventional man. His fellow countrymen did not like him, and called him Pai Gian Dag (Chinese: 痞囝達 or Chinese: 歹子達, lit. "Dag, the ruffian"^[6] in Teochew).^[7] he came to Siam to do business,^{[8] [9]} and became rich, and changed his name to Yong Saetae. Later, he became a tax-collector,^[10] and married a wealthy royal woman Nok-lang (later Princess Phithak Thephamat), who later gave birth to Taksin.^{[7] [11]}

Notes and References

1. Việt Nam sử lược, vol. 2, chap. 6
2. Đại Nam chính biên liệt truyện sơ tập, vol. 32: "茫薩長鄭國英淸潮洲人其父偃流寓于暹爲茫薩長"
3. Book: Blood Brothers: The Criminal Underworld of Asia. Bertil Lintner. Macmillan Publishers. 1-4039-6154-9.
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=0LgSI9UQNpwC&dq=tran+fukien&pg=PA8 Woodside 1971
5. http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n4339/pdf/ch05.pdf Are we them? The Chinese in 20th-century Thai literature and history
6. Web site: Teochew-Mandarin online dictionary. 痞囝 (pai2 gian2): 痞子.
7. 四十二梅居士, 鄭昭傳
8. http://sc.people.com.cn/n2/2016/0722/c345528-28711388.html 曼谷皇宫往事钩沉
9. Draft History of Qing, vol.528: "昭中國廣東人也父賈于暹羅生昭"
10. Book: Moon Handbooks: Southeast Asia 4 Ed. Carl Parkes. Avalon Travel Publishing. 1-56691-337-3. registration.
11. Book: Xu . Yunqiao . Xu Yunqiao . Xianluo wang Zheng Zhao zhuan. Zhonghua shu ju. zh. 1955. 33806498 .