Today (May 5th) 65 years ago 23 years old King was officially crowned as a King of Thailand
He had been named as the King of Thailand when he was 19 years old but he gave his authority to government at that time to rule the country so he could finish his study in Europe then he came back 4 years later and took ‘King' role.
His statement in that day was ‘I will rule the land with moral precept for the happiness of all Siamese”. Since then he keeps his word. Everyday for many years he walked all over Thailand. He cares about his people more than anything. He has only one watch that he use regularly. All other expensive watches are for the event as a King. He uses pencil till it is too short to hold (about 3 cm.). He still send his shoes to repair after they are torn and opened. Sometimes when he takes of his shoes, you will see some small holes in his socks.
Last week I went to open market and bought 2 Kg of fish, tilapia fish, for 80 baht. It is cheap, good source of nutrient and taste good fish.
March 25th,1965 Crown Prince of Japan (Akihito, who is Japan Emperor now) sent 25 couples of tilapia fish as a gift to King of Thailand. 25 male and 25 female fishes for breeding. Crown Prince had vey bright vision that this kind of fish could grow very well in Thailand. That fish original region is Nile river area. So King named it ‘Pla Nil’ (pronounce as Nin). King fed and bred the fish in the pond in his own palace. March 17th, 1966 King gave 10,000 of young tilapia fishes to Department of Fisheries of Thailand to take care of breeding them till the amount of fish was enough to let them in the all natural water all over Thailand.
King also successfully hybridized them. New kind of fish had pink color which looked nicer and named it ‘Pla Tabtim’ or Ruby Fish.
If you are poor, you can have small greenish black color fish in very cheap price. Small one will cost about 5 baht (8 - 10 fish for 1 kg.). Normal size about 1/2 Kg. fish will cost about 40 baht. And if you are rich, you can have nice big pink fish that cost about 100 baht for one fish.
King still keeps original breed and feed them in the pond inside his palace today. They had the never been cross-bred with any fish.
One Emperor and one King literally make this world be the better place for everyone, not only their own people. And their work will continue gives benefit to humanity forever (could be).
Imagine there are a few more great men in this world working together like them.