In fact, in the Burma region of this era, the center of gravity of the Taungoo Dynasty was always in the so-called Lower Burma region, that is, the coastal and estuary plains around Taungoo and Bago.

The vast plains along the lower reaches of the Irrawaddy and Salween rivers to the mouth of the sea are the richest areas in Myanmar with rice paddies that can be harvested three times a year.

It is where the main population of Myanmar is concentrated, and almost all of the political, economic and cultural centers are concentrated there.

It was not until the eighth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1635 AD, that the king of Donghu was forced to move the capital of the Donghu Dynasty from Bago to Ava.

The reason was that the Portuguese were once again defeated by the Dutch and the British in the struggle for Burma, and the southern part of Burma, the relatively prosperous coastal estuary area of the so-called Lower Burma, was constantly encroached upon by the Portuguese, Dutch and British.

These foreign Western colonists enjoyed various privileges in Bago and other places, and Talon, the king of Ta Long, who originally relied mainly on the Portuguese for rule, was threatened by the new Western colonists in Bago and the surrounding areas of Bago, and was forced to move his capital to Ava, a relatively poor and backward northern town far from the coast.

However, all this happened five years later.

Today, the northern city of Ava is still a sparsely populated ruin because of years of war.

It is said that the wars between different tribes of the Burmese people are often unusually cruel and bloody.

After the Taungoo Dynasty, which was dominated by the Burmese people, finally conquered the Ava Dynasty of the Shan people in the north, they didn't say that if you surrendered to the Burmese, they would treat you as a subject equally.

Not really.

Their practice was to enslave and slaughter, either as slaves or as all killed.

This is true not only of the Burmese towards the Shan people, but also of the Shan people in the face of the Burmese in the midst of war.

Of course, the same was true of the Arakan people and the Mon people, who had belonged to the Bago regime, in the midst of various uprisings and wars, and when they faced other peoples who were different from their own.

Therefore, after one war after another, all sides have suffered heavy losses.

In the course of the defeat of the Bago and Ava dynasties by the Taungoo Dynasty, large numbers of Mon and Shan people were slaughtered.

Including the Arakanese, with the support of the Portuguese, captured the capital of the Taungoo Dynasty, Bago, and killed the Taungoo king Mang Yingli, they also massacred a large number of Burmese.

This ethnic hatred, which had been resolved by the mutual slaughter during the war, could not be resolved until hundreds of years later.

In later generations, the reason why there were constant wars among the various ethnic groups in Myanmar was due to such historical factors.

This question, of course, is a favorable factor for the current Emperor Chongzhen.

In his opinion, the land in the north that originally belonged to the Ava Dynasty could be occupied if it could be occupied, and it was really impossible to fully occupy it, so on the basis of dividing the Yungui Tusi family, a descendant of the royal family of the Ava Dynasty would be raised to be the king.

The only trouble may be that the royal descendants of the Ava dynasty are not easy to find.

Because this part of Burma, including all other ethnic groups in the Indochina Peninsula, has this tradition, that is, if a country is destroyed, the royal family of that country must be exterminated.

When the Ava Dynasty, which belonged to the Shan regime, was destroyed by the king of Donghu, Mang Yinglong, the entire city of Ava was slaughtered, and the descendants of the Ava royal family were also cut down.

This is exactly the same as what the Annam-Li Dynasty did when it destroyed the Chen Dynasty.

At that time, the emerging Li Dynasty killed the descendants of the Chen Dynasty royal family, and after the Ming Dynasty destroyed the usurping Li Dynasty, they wanted to find the descendants of the Chen Dynasty royal family in Annam to make him king, but they could not find a candidate with pure blood.

Mang Yinglong slaughtered the Ava royal family, which also made the rebellion of the Shan people in the north lose the backbone of a unified backbone and never become a climate.

However, this problem is difficult for the current Emperor Chongzhen, who cannot find a suitable descendant of King Ava, can choose a loyal, capable and able to serve the people among the Yungui Tusi who entered Burma, and give him a title in the middle of the world.

Of course, that's all for later.

After Emperor Chongzhen sent away the Portuguese envoy Peres, the matter about Burma was temporarily over.

The Dutchman Bidno, who had been eager to meet Emperor Chongzhen in private since he arrived in the Ming Dynasty, finally waited for the opportunity to let him meet.

This time, after the review and arrangement of the Imperial Court and the Ministry of Rites, he also brought the Jesuit Condenius, who was already fluent in the official dialect of Beijing.

The Dutch East India Company was an important funder of the Jesuit mission in the East, so it is really inexplicable from the Jesuit forces in the East.

The Jesuit missionaries, taking advantage of their ostensibly neutral status and status, shuttled from various Eastern countries, sometimes acting as mediators in disputes between the Dutch East India Company and the Eastern countries, and sometimes acting as spies and lobbyists for the Dutch East India Company, becoming the vanguard of the Western colonial powers' aggression against the Eastern countries.

Condenius was certainly one such man, and although he was a more extreme Catholic than Long Huamin, he was not a pure missionary.

Of course, he already knew about the Musu riot that happened in the northwest.

Long Huamin and other Jesuit missionaries were burned to death by the Musu barbarian mob about the so-called "Taozhou Religious Martyrdom", and he also learned about it from the letters he wrote to him by Tang Ruowang and others.

He was furious that these things had happened.

In the history of the spread of Christianity, Catholicism also had the concept of jihad, and this is how the Crusaders came.

Among the many Catholic missionary groups, the Society of Jesus is one of the more extreme and radical organizations.

And in this organization, there are also more moderate figures, such as Matteo Ricci and John Tong, but there are also representatives of ultra-radical factions, such as Long Huamin before, and the current Condinius.

Although Long Huamin is radical, he doesn't have much strength, because he can't get much funding.

This Condenius, on the other hand, was not only radical in his ideas, but also had close ties to the top of the Dutch East India Company headquarters in what is now Batavia.

Van der Rei, who was also a Dutch missionary, took Biedno to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and immediately contacted Condenius, who had been presiding over the Jesuit mission in China.

Condenius also told the situation of the Musu riot in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty and the death of Jesuit missionaries such as Taozhou Sect Martyr Long Huamin to the envoys from the Dutch East India Company headed by Biedno.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen's previous will to Tang Ruowang and others had also been passed out, allowing Jesuit missionaries in China to raise their own security teams to protect the safety of Jesuit missionaries and their churches.

This was of course a godsend for Condenius.

In his heart, the death or martyrdom of missionaries such as Long Huamin was already worth it in exchange for such a result.

Therefore, the radical Candinius soon made a request to the Xiyi Pavilion of the Imperial Court, asking for permission for him to go to the northwest to form a Jesuit security group in accordance with the emperor's will and take the priests and parishioners around him to fight back against Mu Suman's encroachment on the Jesuits.

At the same time, Condenius also began to find Westerners in China, mainly successful businessmen from Portugal, Spain, Italy and other Catholic countries, such as Juan Dias, Joe Rodríguez, Gottinho and others.

Moreover, he also began to write letters and place letters and places on retired officers and soldiers who served in the Ming army, such as Gokaus? Teixeira, Joe? Rodriguez, Antonio? Morality? Cabo, Ricardo? Victor? Ferencis and others told everyone about their intention to form a Jesuit security corps and go to the northwest to fight a holy war with Mu Suman.

These ideas of Condinius were, of course, supported by the Imperial Court, which resolutely followed the will of Emperor Chongzhen.

It's just that self-raising a security team is not a simple matter.

You can't do this without money.

Although the merchants found by Condenius were willing to finance and donate, these merchants did not come to the East to preach, but to make a fortune, and how could their hard-earned wealth be easily taken out and handed over to the mad missionaries of the Jesuits.

Therefore, although Dias, Gotinho and others already have a lot of wealth, they only donated a part of it symbolically, which is not enough to support the clothing, accommodation and equipment costs of the security team.

As for those retired officers and soldiers of the Portuguese country, they came to the East to spend their lives in the East, also for money.

Whether they are in the Daming Military Arsenal or in the armies in various places, they are all paid ten times or more than ten times the salary of the border soldiers, how can they give you free Jesuit security corps services?

Most of these people were Catholics, but they were far from being so religious as to be willing to fight a holy war for the Jesuits without compensation.

These mercenaries and outlaws who roam the whole world, they don't care about your holy war or not, they don't pay them, or they don't pay enough, fool them, let them go to work for the Jesuits, there is no door!

So, these people received letters from Condenius, but none of them gave him a word of approval.