It has been two days since Donghu Hou Deqin Paya came to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

During these two days, Dechen Paye honestly received some etiquette training from the officials of the Ming Dynasty Rites Department in the Imperial Court.

Otherwise, an envoy like him from a remote state like Burma, or an envoy from a southern barbarian state, would not be qualified to enter the palace to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in person.

Dechen Paye did not resist in the slightest.

Because of the family he was born in, if you go back a hundred years, he was originally a courtier of the Ming Dynasty and a consolation envoy of the Ming Dynasty's Dongwu Xuanwei Division.

Now it's just a return to the Ming Dynasty's vassal system.

Moreover, the courtesy of the monarchs and ministers of the Donghu Dynasty was even more than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Even a powerful minister like Dechen Paye, when he met the king of Donghu, he could only prostrate on the ground in the form of a five-body throw.

Now that he has come to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he accepted the summons of the Ming Emperor for the first time in his life, even if he wants to show a little bit of humility and arrogance that the king of Donghu Talong requires him to do, but he is completely unable to help himself.

As soon as he crossed the high threshold of the Wenhua Palace, he was shocked by the solemn atmosphere in the hall, and involuntarily knelt down and prostrated on the ground.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chair in the Wenhua Palace, looked at the black and thin old man who was prostrate on the ground and shouted long live, and knew that this must be Delinpaye, so he said to him slowly:

"Since the Marquis of Donghu can speak my Chinese language, I think I must know my Chinese way of governing the world.

"I, the Chinese Celestial Empire, have always ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety! Today, there are hundreds of kingdoms in the four directions, but those who are loyal to our Chinese Celestial Empire will be placed on the side of my couch, and I will also administer benevolence and righteousness to them!

"If the person in charge of the party is disobedient and ambitious, even if his country is separated from our China by thousands of miles, I will also send troops to destroy his country, cut off his rituals, and exterminate his species!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked expressionlessly at the Portuguese and Donghu envoys who were standing, kneeling, or prostrate on the ground in the Wenhua Hall at this time, in order to let them hear clearly, his voice was very clear, and his speech speed was very slow, but his tone was very firm.

What kind of race the Burmese people who established the Donghu Dynasty belong to, the current Chongzhen Emperor is not very clear.

However, looking at the physical characteristics of Deqin Paye's black and thin shortness, you can know that it is not a Chinese species.

When Emperor Chongzhen said this, he paused slightly, sat on the dragon chair, looked at the Donghu Hou Deqin Paya who was prostrate on the ground from a distance, and after a moment, continued:

"Marquis of Donghu, you may be able to understand what I said?"

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, the Wenhua Hall was silent, and several Ming cabinet ministers present had long been accustomed to the emperor's toughness in the face of these foreign nations.

If it is said that when the emperor changed his attitude towards Korea, the ministers of the court were still somewhat uncomfortable, then now for Burma, a southwestern state that has not come to pay tribute for many years, several important ministers of the court present do not have any good feelings, and they all look at these people with expressionless faces.

Elder Francis Pimenta, who came with Dechinpaye, stood with his right arm on his chest and bowed slightly.

Ever since deciding to go to the Ming Dynasty, Pimenta has been working hard to learn to speak Chinese with the Han interpreters she had hired from Bago.

But after a few months, except for some simple conversations that can be understood and can be communicated, the more complex ones cannot be understood.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen said these words that were half promises and half threats, he naturally didn't understand what they meant.

However, at this time, the interpreter hired by Pimenta was not available, but the Portuguese envoy to the Salem Governor's Palace, Pieterson-Cohen, was by his side.

This Portuguese, who had traveled to and from the Ming Dynasty, could originally speak simple Chinese, but in the past two years, he has studied Chinese hard because of the relationship between his duties, but he has heard a general meaning.

Under Cohen's simple translation, Pimenta, the Franciscan Elder of the East, secretly looked up at the cyrisan monarch who looked no more than in his early twenties on the throne in the distance, and thought in his heart.

Seris means silk, which was originally the name of the Romans for China, but later because porcelain replaced silk and became the largest commodity shipped from China to Europe, porcelain gradually replaced silk and became the name of China by Westerners.

In this life, the Catholic Church in Rome was reinstated as the request made to the Jesuit missionaries by Emperor Chongzhen when he received them was transmitted to Rome.

The radical denominational groups affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, such as the Jesuits, Franciscans, Domingos, etc., were immediately notified by the Pope's royal decree that they began to refer to China again by the term Seres in letters and documents between the East and the West.

Of course, this was not Emperor Chongzhen's original intention.

It is a pity that the concept of Huaxia or China cannot be found in Latin, except for the later China, which can be found in Greek and Latin.

Since Emperor Chongzhen asked by name, no matter how nervous Deqin Paye was, he had to hurry up and salute and answer.

I saw Dechen Paye, who was prostrate on the ground, propped up his upper body with both hands, first knelt up straight, then kowtowed, and said:

"Xiao Chen understands! On the king, he ordered the ministers to be envoys and came to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, precisely to show loyalty and filial piety to the Ming Dynasty, in order to ask for the mercy and mercy of His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Speaking of this, Deqin Paye, who was wearing a Ming official uniform, kowtowed again, then straightened up and said:

"The country of the country is secluded in the southwest of the wilderness, and the Ming Dynasty is far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, because of the long road obstruction, and the southwest of the country is not quiet, the monarchs and ministers of the country have not paid tribute for many years, so that His Majesty and the southwest of the Ming Dynasty are feudal, and there are many misunderstandings about the country!

"It was not until the summer and autumn of this year that the envoy of Pudolica arrived with a letter of agreement with His Majesty, and the monarchs and ministers of the Contempt Kingdom knew that the Burmese had been convicted of the Heavenly Empire because of the lack of tribute due to the mountains and rivers for a long time, and they did not know it.

"The lord of the present contempt country has repented, sent his ministers north, submitted tribute to His Majesty's royal court, and begged to be crowned hereditary king of Burma!

"There is no objection to all the things that Your Majesty and the envoys of Pudolica have decided! If you can exchange the deference and loyalty of the monarchs and ministers of the contempt country for the understanding between Your Majesty and the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, restrain the soldiers and horses of the Tusi in the southwest of the Celestial Empire, and stop at Ava, then the monarchs and ministers of the contempt country will be very fortunate, and the people of Burma will be very fortunate! ”

After saying this, Donghu Hou Dechen Paya hurriedly took out the congratulatory table, the letter of covenant, and the tributary list from behind the wide sleeves of his robe, bowed his head, and respectfully raised them above his head.

At this time, Cao Bianjiao, one of the military attachés of the imperial attendant standing beside the throne of Emperor Chongzhen, pressed the Qi knife given by the emperor on his waist, strode forward, came to the front of Donghu Hou Deqin Paye, took these documents from his hand, and then turned back to the emperor's throne, knelt down, and presented these things to the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen took these documents, opened them one by one, and looked through them.

In addition to Chinese and Portuguese, there is another unseen script written together, and it is known that it should be written in Burmese or the like.

However, seeing that Han Wen had reached an agreement with the Portuguese envoy Perez, he handed the documents back to Cao Bianjiao and signaled that they be transferred to the hands of the three cabinet ministers present.

Before deciding to meet these people, Emperor Chongzhen had already met Zhu Zhaoxian, the son of Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Jingnan Hou Yungui, and understood some of Zhu Xieyuan's thoughts.

At the same time, knowing that Perez became the Portuguese governor in Salene, it was generally possible to imagine that there must have been various stories during this period.

The Burmese have always been unruly, and now they are so tame, which is indeed a bit unexpected by Emperor Chongzhen.

However, after learning that the Portuguese Perez, who had come to Beijing last year to make a contract, had become the governor of the Salen Governor's Palace, Emperor Chongzhen had some faith in the authenticity of the Burmese vassals.

While Li Guojian and others were still looking at the congratulatory tables, covenants and gift lists presented by the Donghu Hou Deqin Paye, Emperor Chongzhen said to Delin Paye:

"The lord of the present country, since he knows his mistakes and changes them, and he is a minister, I should be magnanimous here, and I will not blame the past for the trespassing of the country!

"The land of Myanmar where the Awa Shan State lives was originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and now the royal family of the Awa Shan State is extinct, and its people should belong to my Great Tomorrow Dynasty!

"As for being annexed by Erdong Hu, the name of the king of Burma is not sealed by my Ming Dynasty, and it can be innocent if it is destroyed by Donghu.

"And the lord of Erdonghu, originally for my Ming Dynasty Qin Feng consolation envoy, and my Ming clan has a long relationship with the clan, now both painfully changed the past, returned the land of Ava Shan State, and sent an envoy to the court, and my Ming Dynasty to rebuild the old friendship, I will be south of Awa, in the middle of the land of Burma, the lord of Taron as the king of Burma!

"After the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting is completed, I will select the envoy of the Heavenly Dynasty, go to Bago with you, pass the decree canonization, set up a monument chronicle, and give the lord the golden seal of the king of Myanmar as a certificate of hereditary inheritance!"

Emperor Chongzhen said this, and although Deqin Paye's heart was full of bitterness, he also knew that all this was irreparable.

If the Portuguese helped, then the current Donghu Dynasty could still try to fight, but unfortunately, the Portuguese also chose to give in in front of the Ming Dynasty.

Dechen Paye looked sideways at the two, the Portuguese who had been like the emperor in front of the king of Taungoo before, but he saw that the Franciscan elder Pimenta always maintained a respectful posture of bowing and saluting, while another envoy from the Governor's Palace of Salem in Portugal Coen always maintained a posture of kneeling on one knee and saluting.

Dechen Paye's heart could only sigh.

If the Portuguese, who had great interests and had great influence in the territory of the Taungoo Dynasty, did not speak, then with the current Toungoo Kingdom's own strength, it was doomed to have no good end if they wanted to wrestle with the Ming Dynasty.

The current situation may be the best result that he, the Marquis of Donghu, can get from this envoy to the Ming Dynasty.