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Re: The Le Dynasty and [Vietnam's] Southward Expansion
MAC THIEN TU (1700–1780)
“King of Cambodia”
Mac Thien Tu was a chief of Cancao (or Hatien in Vietnamese) chiefdom of the second generation. His father, Mac Cuu,was a Cantonese migrant who left China in 1671. He first settled in Phnom Penh and traveled to the Philippines and Java. His success began when he visited Banday Mas, a thriving port town on the Cambodian coast, and saw the many Chinese, Viet, Khmer, and Malay merchants gathered there. He bought the town’s gambling den on which the Khmer king levied taxes and set up a gambling farm, thus becoming one of the earliest tax farmers in Southeast Asia.“Gambling farm” was a designated activity (gambling) or commodity (opium, alcohol) where taxes were imposed.
“Tax farmers,” often Chinese businessmen, bid for the right to collect taxes, for instance for gambling in a certain town. The ruler of the kingdom/sultanate awarded this right to collect taxes to the highest bidder.The “tax farmer” then paid a fixed agreed amount of money to the ruler for the right to collect taxes for a specified period of time, often one year.
Mac Thien Tu also discovered buried silver and consequently became very wealthy. Based on this sudden and mysterious wealth, he gathered several more merchants from the region to him, and Banday Mas became a prosperous port, later known as Cancao.
Re: The Le Dynasty and [Vietnam's] Southward Expansion
MAC THIEN TU (1700–1780)
“King of Cambodia”
Mac Thien Tu was a chief of Cancao (or Hatien in Vietnamese) chiefdom of the second generation. His father, Mac Cuu,was a Cantonese migrant who left China in 1671. He first settled in Phnom Penh and traveled to the Philippines and Java. His success began when he visited Banday Mas, a thriving port town on the Cambodian coast, and saw the many Chinese, Viet, Khmer, and Malay merchants gathered there. He bought the town’s gambling den on which the Khmer king levied taxes and set up a gambling farm, thus becoming one of the earliest tax farmers in Southeast Asia.“Gambling farm” was a designated activity (gambling) or commodity (opium, alcohol) where taxes were imposed.
“Tax farmers,” often Chinese businessmen, bid for the right to collect taxes, for instance for gambling in a certain town. The ruler of the kingdom/sultanate awarded this right to collect taxes to the highest bidder.The “tax farmer” then paid a fixed agreed amount of money to the ruler for the right to collect taxes for a specified period of time, often one year.
Mac Thien Tu also discovered buried silver and consequently became very wealthy. Based on this sudden and mysterious wealth, he gathered several more merchants from the region to him, and Banday Mas became a prosperous port, later known as Cancao.
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Mac descendants were granted name change to Nguyen and mixed in with the Viets for centuries.
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