Jiang Yueguang's meaning is also very clear, that is, the whole of Myanmar belongs to the Ming Dynasty, if you agree to divide the sphere of influence with the Portuguese in Myanmar and agree to draw a demarcation line, then it doesn't mean that in the future, it will be divided into the Portuguese sphere of influence, and the Ming Dynasty will lose the power of the suzerain?

However, his reminder did not play any role.

Emperor Chongzhen of course wanted to take the whole of Burma, but he also knew that it was not the time, and Burma had always had the existence of the Burmese, Shan, Mon and Arakan forces.

Although the population of these four factions has decreased considerably after years of war with each other.

In particular, during the rise of the Taungoo Dynasty, repeated wars and massacres led to a sharp decline in the population of the Mon, Shan, and Arakan peoples.

But even so, the total population of these four major ethnic groups together is still six or seven million.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor, although he wants the land of Myanmar very much, he does not want to accept those garbage people at all.

He doesn't want to make a big deal about Myanmar, at least for the next few years.

Because, everything has a priority, and the direction of Burma is not and cannot be a fatal problem for the Ming Dynasty.

The real fatal problem is in the northeast and in the northwest, and only when the problems in these two directions are almost solved, can the Ming Dynasty be truly stable.

Only when the Ming Dynasty's rule in the north was stable could he free up his hands to deal with the problems in the south.

Therefore, under the current situation, he does not want to provoke the collective revolt of the four main ethnic groups in Myanmar, and does not want the various ethnic groups in Myanmar, which have been inseparable from each other and even inseparable in many areas, to unite under the rule of the Taungoo Dynasty under external pressure and jointly fight against the Ming Dynasty.

It was based on this consideration that Emperor Chongzhen first waved his hand at Jiang Yueguang, and then nodded at Perez and said, "North of Ava, including Ava City!" ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen paused slightly, and then said: "You Portuguese, you can tell the king of Donghu Ta Long that the Ming army will stop north of Ava.

"If he wishes to maintain peace with the Ming Dynasty, I will allow him to withdraw to all Burmese Shan people north of Ava.

"If he is willing to dedicate the city of Ava to the Ming Dynasty, then I can canonize Thalung as the king of Burma, and his descendants will inherit the throne of Burma and inherit the land of Burma south of Ava!"

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and said: "Including the 800 Dadian and even one part of Siam that his ancestors once occupied, I can also consider giving him Long as the land for him to settle the northern Burmese!" ”

Donghu City, also called Tonggu or Dongwu.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestor of Talong, who is now the king of Donghu, accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty and became the consolation envoy of the Donghu Propaganda Division.

However, the population of the Donghu Xuanwei Division at the beginning was very small, only tens of thousands, and the land occupied was only Donghu, and the power was very weak.

The Ming Dynasty, between the Shan people's Ava (later Mandalay) and the Mon people's Bago (also translated as Baigu), canonized a relatively weak Burmese Donghu Xuanwei Division, in fact, the purpose is not pure, that is, to let Myanmar go into chaos.

However, since the establishment of the Donghu Propaganda Department, several successive propaganda envoys have been very skillful, either attached to Bago in the south or Awa in the north, and has always pulled one side to fight the other.

In the end, he actually eliminated the Bago Kingdom and the Ava Dynasty, which were far more powerful than the Donghu Xuanwei Division, and actually unified Burma with the help of foreign forces.

However, the Tungoo king, who eliminated the Ava dynasty and unified Burma, was not recognized and canonized by the Ming Dynasty.

So, their current throne as king of Burma is self-proclaimed.

When the country is strong, there is no problem in doing so.

But when the country is no longer strong, there is no official canonization of the Ming court, then it means that their dynasty is not protected by the Ming dynasty system.

In this era, a small country like this would be as dangerous as the government would explicitly declare that a person would not be protected by the law if it had lost the protection expressly promised by the Ming Dynasty.

Since ancient times, this has been the inevitable fate of small countries or weak people.

As it is now, although in the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, people talk about issues involving the territory of the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma, but none of them consider the attitude of the Taungoo king.

However, when Emperor Chongzhen said these words, he could be regarded as showing his sincerity enough.

As for the 800 Dadian region, that is, most of Laos in later generations, and Siam mentioned in the discourse, etc., they are all empty promises.

But even so, it is equivalent to giving the current King of Donghu a step down, so that even after accepting the requirements of the Ming Dynasty, he can give an explanation to the courtiers in his small court.

And from then on, with the words of Emperor Chongzhen, the Donoo Dynasty would have nominal legitimacy to attack or occupy the territory of Laos and Siam.

He can say openly that this is the will of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the monarchs of the Donghu Dynasty are not good at stubble, at least the previous monarchs are considered to be the more effective heroes among the small countries around the Ming Dynasty.

As for what kind of choice the current monarch Talong will make, it is not something that Emperor Chongzhen can imagine sitting in the Qianqing Palace.

But now the Chongzhen Emperor is very sure that as long as he shows this attitude of stopping at Ava, the Portuguese will definitely accept it.

Because the original power of the Portuguese was from the west coast of the Mughal Empire in India, all the way east, and finally to the west coast of Myanmar, where the Arakanese lived, that is, the Rohingya region of Rakhine State in later generations.

Later, as the Portuguese monopolized trade in Burma grew, the Portuguese began to advance along the coast, and then penetrated deep into the borders of the Bago Kingdom (the area near Yangon, later the dynasty).

Until now, however, the Portuguese have not extended to the north of Ava.

Originally, after Mang Yinglong occupied Ava with the support and assistance of the Portuguese, the Portuguese merchant house also followed north to Ava City, but later Mang Yingli and the Portuguese turned their faces, and was killed by the Arakans, and after Mang Yingli's younger brother King Liangyuan fled to Ava, the Portuguese power in Ava was uprooted.

After Anabilon, the son of King Liangyuan, returned to Bago from Ava with the help of external forces, the economic and political center of Myanmar returned to the southern coastal areas.

After Anabilon died and succeeded to the throne by his son Talon, the Portuguese returned to Burma, and now it has been less than two years since the full battle, and the power on the southern coast has not yet fully recovered, let alone in the north, let alone north of the city of Ava.

Sure enough, not long after Emperor Chongzhen's words were finished, Perez thought for a moment and said, "Deal!" I ask His Majesty the Emperor to authorize your Minister of the Imperial Court to draft a tripartite treaty.

"Please write down clear terms and conditions of your demands and conditions, as well as your commitment to Pridoga and Talon, the king of Talon!

"I and the Governor's Palace, stationed in Rakal and Salian, will do my best to persuade Talon to accept your terms! Long live the most precious peace in the world! ”

In fact, in Perez's eyes, the Portuguese could not fully occupy Burma, not because of anything else, but because the world was too big and there were too many places that the Portuguese needed to occupy.

The indigenous Indian countries in the Americas, which were rich in gold and silver, were their priority colonizers, so there were too few Portuguese who could come to the East.

This is the fundamental reason why, despite their first-mover advantage, they were unable to stop the Dutch, the British, and then many smaller European countries from flocking to them.

In the final analysis, Portugal has a small population, and even fewer are willing to come to the East to colonize.

Perez came to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to meet the legendary Chinese emperor, and received a guarantee from His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty that he would not infringe on the status and interests of the Portuguese in Burma, and his goal had basically been achieved.

As for the matter of Talon, the king of Donghu, asking the Portuguese to intervene and force the Ming Dynasty to withdraw its troops from its north, it would be best to do so.

But it didn't matter if it didn't work, because it wouldn't hurt the interests of the Portuguese.

The Portuguese have little commercial interest in the reckless jungles of northern Burma.

And the interests of the small court of Bago represented by the king of Donghu, Talon, will not really be taken to heart by the Portuguese.

Moreover, Peres could have told him that he had secured for him the peaceful evacuation of the northern inhabitants, the official treatment of the Burmese king, and the compensation of 800 Dadian and some Burmese lands in Siam.

These conditions, in the eyes of Pérez, a Portuguese, are already possible.

Because for Perez, a Portuguese who was born and raised on the coast of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, only the coastal port cities and estuaries are valuable land, and the mountains and dense forests of northern Myanmar are basically worthless to the Portuguese, who have never traded in ocean-going timber.

In this way, on the sixth day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, in the Qianqing Palace of Bauhinia City, Emperor Chongzhen led several close ministers and made a major treaty on the Donghu Dynasty with the Portuguese envoy Perez and others.

Whether it was Emperor Chongzhen or the Portuguese represented by Peres, they didn't care very much about whether Talon, the king of Donghu, would accept this treaty.

For Emperor Chongzhen, it is good for Ta Long to accept it, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't accept it.

Because without the help of the Portuguese, Talong's small court in Donghu would not be the opponent of Sha Dingzhou, Luo Ganxiang, An Shirong, An Chongsheng, and Pu Fuyuan.

For the Portuguese, represented by Peres, this treaty was ostensibly between the Ming Dynasty, Portugal and Burma, but in fact it was between the Ming Dynasty and Portugal.

What's more, with this treaty, the Portuguese were once again ahead of the Dutch and the British.

Because they received confirmation from the Ming Dynasty about the status and rights of the Portuguese in Burma that the Dutch and the British did not get.