Yong Saetae

{{short description|Chinese merchant}}

Yong Saetae ({{langx|th|หยง แซ่แต้}}; {{zh|鄭鏞}}, Teochew: Dên Iong; ?–?) was a Chinese merchant and the father of King Taksin the Great. The Vietnamese called him Trịnh Yển (鄭偃).Việt Nam sử lược, vol. 2, chap. 6Đại Nam chính biên liệt truyện sơ tập, vol. 32: "茫薩{{small|地名}}長鄭國英{{small|一名生}}淸潮洲人其父偃流寓于暹爲茫薩長"

His birth name was Dên Dag ({{zh|c=鄭達|p=Zhèng Dá}}). Born in Chenghai County, Chaoshan, China.{{cite book|title=Blood Brothers: The Criminal Underworld of Asia|author=Bertil Lintner|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|isbn=1-4039-6154-9}}{{rp|112}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=0LgSI9UQNpwC&dq=tran+fukien&pg=PA8 Woodside 1971], p. 8.[http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n4339/pdf/ch05.pdf Are we them? The Chinese in 20th-century Thai literature and history], pp. 189 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 ({{lang|zh|痞囝達}} or {{lang|zh|歹子達}}, lit. "Dag, the ruffian"{{cite web|url=https://www.mogher.com/baike-item/%E7%97%9E%E5%9B%9D|title=Teochew-Mandarin online dictionary|quote=痞囝 (pai2 gian2): 痞子}} in Teochew).四十二梅居士, [https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5877860991?red_tag=0395972689 鄭昭傳] he came to Siam to do business,[http://sc.people.com.cn/n2/2016/0722/c345528-28711388.html 曼谷皇宫往事钩沉]Draft History of Qing, vol.528: "昭中國廣東人也父賈于暹羅生昭" and became rich, and changed his name to Yong Saetae. Later, he became a tax-collector,{{cite book|title=Moon Handbooks: Southeast Asia 4 Ed|author=Carl Parkes|publisher=Avalon Travel Publishing|isbn=1-56691-337-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/southeastasia0000park}}{{rp|770}} and married a wealthy royal woman Nok-lang (later Princess Phithak Thephamat), who later gave birth to Taksin.{{cite book |last1=Xu |first1=Yunqiao |author-link1=Xu Yunqiao |title=Xianluo wang Zheng Zhao zhuan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33806498|publisher=Zhonghua shu ju|language=zh|year=1955|oclc=33806498 }}