It so happened that certain disturbances occurred at this time in the northern provinces of the Kingdom. The Princess Regent took advantage of this to obtain the consent of her Ministers to raise a considerable body of troops for the purpose, as she pretended, of protecting the person of the young King. K'un Jinarat was entrusted with the duty of enlisting the troops. He filled the capital with troops officered by men in whom he thought he could trust to acquiesce in the projected plot.