Regarding the sudden emergence of this situation in northern Myanmar, not only the heart of Ta Long of Taungoo was both angry and unconvinced, but also many royal nobles and ministers under King Taungoo were also unconvinced.

After all, the era of the Burmese people was not too long from this time, and the elephant army and musketeers of the Taungoo Dynasty in that era conquered Bago and Ava, and conquered Laos and Siam, and were the overlords of the entire Myanmar and its surrounding areas!

Therefore, when the news from the north came, the Burmese people continued to flee from the north to the south, and the Burmese upper echelons who had been immersed in the glory of the past, including many ministers and local leaders below the king of Taungoo, clamored for an all-out war with the Yungui Tusi army that had marched into northern Burma.

It was this Dechen Paya, the chief minister or prime minister of the Taungoo dynasty who was now the most powerful minister of the Taungoo dynasty under the Taungoo king, who advocated temporary patience and persuaded the Taungoo king to force the Ming emperor to order the withdrawal of his troops by getting the Portuguese to intervene.

After years of war with neighboring countries, the inside story of the Donghu Dynasty may not be clear to others, but Dechen Paye knows it very clearly.

However, in the eyes of these princes and courtiers of the Taungoo Dynasty, the Portuguese, with their advanced firearms and guns, were an extraordinary existence.

As long as the Portuguese are willing to stand up for Burma, then no matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty in the north is, it will have to obediently take back the various Yungui Tusi armies that are constantly going south, and they will also have to obediently spit out the land that has been occupied by these Yungui Tusi troops.

However, to the great surprise of this Dechen Paye, the Portuguese, who had promised to speak well, would actually bring back such a treaty, and it was a treaty that the Portuguese agreed to on behalf of the king of Taungoo.

At that time, when Perez took the treaty by sea by speedboat to the capital of the Donghu Dynasty, neither Talong, the king of Donghu, nor the courtiers under the throne of Donghu agreed.

Including Dechen Paye, a powerful minister of the Taungoo Dynasty.

Even the Portuguese governor of the Salian Governorate at the time thought that the treaty brought back by Peres was simply too weak, and he was reluctant to intervene to force the king of Taungoo to accept it.

However, when Peres became the governor of the new Portuguese Governorate of Salem, the princes of the Taungoo dynasty had no other way to go.

In fact, Dechen Paye hoped to force the Ming Dynasty to withdraw through the Portuguese through a roundabout routine, and Emperor Chongzhen was also very good at it.

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen's goal is the opposite of this powerful minister under the throne of Donghu.

Emperor Chongzhen also wanted to follow the paper tiger of the Portuguese to force the monarchs and ministers of the Donghu Dynasty to accept the demands of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Emperor Chongzhen was well aware that the Portuguese colonial trading strongholds and interests in Burma were mainly in the southern and coastal areas of Burma.

As long as he recognized the interests of the Portuguese in Burma and promised to respect and protect them, the Portuguese would in turn become a boulder that would help him crush the Taungoo dynasty.

Sure enough, when Perez unexpectedly became the Portuguese governor of the Salian Governor's Mansion by virtue of a series of agreements with the Ming Dynasty, Dechin Paye realized that the Taungoo dynasty had been betrayed by the Portuguese.

There is no other way to go than to drink this cup of bitter wine, whether it is the king of Donghu Talong, or the prime minister of the king of Donghu, Donghu Hou Deqin Paye.

However, despite the decision to drink this bitter wine in order to consider it again when the country is strong one day, Dechen Paye's heart is still full of anger and dissatisfaction.

However, when Dechen Paye led the envoys after months and thousands of miles of trekking, and finally came to the city of Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the anger and disobedience in his heart disappeared.

Especially after following the reception officials of the Lifan Yuan into the city of Beijing, Dechen Paye was secretly glad that he had made the choice this time.

The political system and bureaucracy of the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma at this time were rather peculiar.

There are traces of the model Central Plains dynasty system, and they have their own characteristics.

The capital of the Donghu Dynasty was set at Bago (also called Baigu), the capital of the original Bogu Kingdom.

The monarch of the Donghu Dynasty and its grand palace were located in the ancient city of Bogu in this era.

At the same time, within the territory of the Taungoo Dynasty, in several major cities in Upper Burma and Central Burma, such as Ava (Mandalay) in Upper Burma and Taungoo (Tonggu) in Central Burma, each had a member of the royal family.

In particular, in the city of Donghu on the banks of the Sidang River, the birthplace of the Donghu Dynasty, there is a member of the royal family who has been appointed as the Marquis of Donghu to guard the ancestral business.

In addition, there was a small office in the small court of the Taungoo Dynasty to take care of the military and political affairs of the kingdom for the Taungoo king.

This small office that helped the Taungoo king to deal with military and political affairs, according to the Burmese transliteration, was called "Ludao", and its status in the Taungoo dynasty was somewhat similar to that of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet.

This small office called "Ludao" in Burmese has four chief ministers, all of whom are called "Yunji", which means prime minister as the Han Chinese.

Under these four chief ministers of Ludao, there are also four deputies or assistants of the chief ministers of Ludao, called "Yundao", similar to the meaning of Shilang in Chinese.

Now the head of the envoy group of the Taungoo king, who followed the Portuguese to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute and request canonization, is the head of the four chief ministers under the throne of Taungoo, that is, the head of the four prime ministers.

The reason why this person became the head of the four prime ministers under the throne of Donghu is because he is the most relied on figure of the current Donghu King Talon, not only the prince of Donghu, but also the uncle and father-in-law of Donghu Wang Talong.

This situation is somewhat similar to what the ancient Chinese said about kissing and kissing.

As long as they can gain and retain power in their hands, they do not feel that this custom of marriage between close relatives is incest.

This kind of situation of cousins marrying cousins and cousins marrying cousins was very common among the Burmese Tusi head class in this era.

It is precisely by virtue of this complex and intimate relationship with the Donghu Hou Deqin Paya that the current Donghu king Ta Long was able to ascend to the throne of the Donghu Dynasty.

And Perez, the current governor of the Portuguese Governor's Mansion in Salian, first persuaded this Donghu Hou Dechen Paye through coercion and inducement, and finally forced Talon, the king of Donghu, to accept the treaty with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, this time to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to exchange the contract and ask for the seal, the king of Donghu Ta Long also went with the flow and entrusted carte blanche to the important ministers and ministers of the Donghu Dynasty to lead the team.

On the morning of December 22 in the third year of Chongzhen, the weather in Beijing was dripping into ice and cold and abnormal, but compared with the past, this day was a rare blue sky and white clouds, very clear.

A cold wind from the north blew all night last night, blowing away the gloomy haze that had shrouded the Daming Jingshi for many days.

On the morning of this day, Emperor Chongzhen summoned Li Guoyi and Xu Guangqi, two cabinet ministers, as well as Sun Chengzong, a cabinet minister and minister of military aircraft, in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City, to discuss some major affairs of the court and government that have been backlogged in the court in recent days.

After the discussion with the cabinet ministers, Emperor Chongzhen led these cabinet ministers directly in the Wenhua Palace, and summoned the Franciscan Elder Pimenta, who had just arrived in Beijing for two days, the Portuguese envoy to the Salian Governor's Palace, Pieterson-Cohen, and the plenipotentiary envoy of the Burmese Taungoo King, Dechen Paye, who accompanied them.

Of the three, only Peterson Cohen has been to Beijing and has a glimpse of what the Ming Dynasty is like today.

So when he came to Beijing again and entered the Forbidden City again, Peterson Cohen's performance was much better than the first time, and he did not stop marveling all the way like Pimenta, the Franciscan elder or Dechen Paye, which provoked the Yulinwei and Jinyi guards guarding the Forbidden City to look at them sideways for a while.

The magnificence of the Forbidden City is by no means comparable to the Grand Palace built by the Burmese in the ancient city of Bo.

Deqin Paye, the envoy of the king of Donghu, had lost control of his legs a little since he had followed Ma Gan, a military officer from the military aircraft house, and Hou Tianxi, the military attache of the imperial attendant, who had followed the edict to deliver the decree, had lost control of his legs, his knees were weak, and he almost fell to his knees again and again.

When he followed Pimenta and Cohen across the high threshold, entered the solemn Wenhua Palace, and saw Emperor Chongzhen sitting on the dragon chair of the Wenhua Palace, Deqin Paye couldn't help but weaken his knees anymore, and with a plop, he knelt directly on the "golden brick" of the Wenhua Palace.

"The minister of the lower kingdom calls on Hou Deqin Paye to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Heavenly Empire! Long live your majesty, long live, long live! ”

Deqin Paye, who was already dark and thin, knelt on the floor tiles of the Wenhua Palace, threw his body to the ground, and did not dare to raise his head, but what he said was a southwestern official dialect with a strong Yungui accent.