This time, Emperor Chongzhen learned the lessons of last year, and no longer summoned foreign envoys alone in the Qianqing Palace, but took the cabinet ministers together to publicly summon these foreign envoys in the Wenhua Palace.

However, Li Guojian and other cabinet ministers also knew that Emperor Chongzhen had his own set of practices that were completely different from those used in the Ming Dynasty when it came to dealing with subjects, vassals, and foreign states.

Therefore, when the emperor summoned foreign envoys in the Wenhua Palace, these people also easily did not speak and did not express their opinions.

At least in the presence of the Gentile envoys, who had only ears and eyes, but only listened and observed.

After so many years of ups and downs in the court of the Ming Dynasty, if they don't even understand the truth of giving face to the emperor in front of outsiders, then aren't they in vain?

People like Li Guoyan, Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi certainly know this truth.

What's more, Emperor Chongzhen did not make any extraneous complications this time, and basically maintained the terms agreed with the cabinet ministers before.

Emperor Chongzhen's reception in the Wenhua Hall did not take too long.

He did not say much except that he first presented the congratulatory table, letter of state and other documents of the Taungoo Dynasty in person, and promised to canonize the Taungoo King as the king of Burma and decree that the army should stop at the city of Ava.

As for further agreement on specific terms and details, that is a matter for the Imperial Court and the Ministry of Rites.

Today's Li Fan Yuan has been established for two or three years, especially after experiencing the words and deeds of Emperor Chongzhen personally handling the affairs of the vassal during the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting in the third year of Chongzhen, and has already understood Emperor Chongzhen's determination and intentions.

In addition, the people in charge of the current Lifan Academy, such as the court envoy Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying, the left deputy court envoy Jiang Yueguang, and the right deputy court envoy Dolzidarhan, who was born in Chahar Mongolia, are not nerds who read books and have bad brains.

In general, Emperor Chongzhen is relatively reassuring.

After the officials of the Imperial Court had left the Wenhua Hall with the Houde Chinpaya of Donghu after the audience, Emperor Chongzhen made some new terms with the Portuguese envoys, the old missionary Pimenta, and the envoy of the Salian Governor's Palace, Cohen.

One is that Portuguese merchants or merchant ships flying Portuguese flags, in addition to Ho Jing Ao, can anchor at the three seaports of Guangzhou Port, Dengzhou Port and Seogwipo, and carry out various trades with the Ming Royal Nanyang Company, Baohe Company and Dongying Company.

Second, in addition to the previous promise that the Portuguese could maintain their commercial interests and military presence in Burma, Emperor Chongzhen also promised that the trade permit issued by the Portuguese Governor's Office in Salem would be recognized and protected by the Governor's Office of Yungui in Ava.

Thirdly, the Portuguese Viceroyalty in Salen could send permanent envoys to the city of Ava and hold regular meetings with officials from the Viceroyalty of Yunnan and Guizhou on trade and taxation between the two sides.

Emperor Chongzhen agreed to all of these requests made by the Portuguese.

Normal trade is also beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it contains some ulterior motives or motives of the Portuguese.

Emperor Chongzhen also believed that if he gave himself a few more years of steady development, all their attempts at Burma would be doomed to failure, regardless of the Portuguese intentions.

Because in the original history, the Ming Dynasty did not interfere in the Portuguese colonization of Burma, and they did not succeed.

Because the armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company will make a comeback again in a few years.

At that time, the Taungoo dynasty in Burma would turn around and cooperate with the newly arrived Western colonizers to uproot the commercial and military power of the Portuguese in Burma.

At that point, the Portuguese may have to turn to themselves, or they will suffer the same fate as they did in history.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen took the opportunity to summon the two Portuguese and also sent an invitation to Pimenta, an elder missionary of the Franciscans, to stay in Beijing and join the almanac set up by Xu Guangqi in the Ministry of Rites.

Pimenta, the Franciscan elder of the East, immediately agreed.

As the elder of the Franciscan Church in the East, that is, the person in charge, Pimenta has been preaching in the East for many years, but he has never had the opportunity to enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty, let alone enter the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty, or even meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The various missionary groups under the umbrella of the Catholic Church differ from other Christian denominations.

That is, when it comes to missionary issues, they attach great importance to going to the upper echelons.

This was true of the Jesuits, it was true of the Franciscans, and only other organizations such as the Dominicans.

Now Emperor Chongzhen personally invited Pimenta to stay in Beijing and enter the Ming Dynasty Almanac to take up an official position, which is really a golden opportunity for him.

Pimenta bowed on the spot as a sign of gratitude.

Emperor Chongzhen's approach certainly surprised and delighted Cohen, who had been with Pimenta all the way, but it made the other two cabinet ministers other than Xu Guangqi look at each other and stop talking.

After Pimenta and Cohen had brought some small and delicate gifts they had brought, such as palm-sized arms, Emperor Chongzhen sent them away and asked the officials of the Imperial Court to take care of them.

It was only at this time that the Minister of Military Aircraft, Ningcheng Bosun Chengzong, said: "Your Majesty will recover the southwest frontier that has been gradually lost since Wanli in the middle of a conversation, which makes the old minister admire in his heart!"

"Just allowing this Portuguese to stay in the city of Ava is too tolerant! You need to know that the Portuguese are more wolf ambitions than the Burmese! The story of the deception of the rent of Ho Jing O must be guarded against!

"Otherwise, if they connive at their businessmen to run rampant in northern Myanmar and even southern Yunnan, it may become a hidden danger over time!

"And the Portuguese trade in the city of Ava cannot but be supervised by a special person! His Majesty used to seal the Tusi in northern Myanmar and other places, if he made trade with the Portuguese and bought the guns and ammunition of the Portuguese, over time, there would be the harm of raising tigers! The plot in this must be worried! ”

Sun Chengzong finished saying these words with a worried face, and Li Guoyan, the first assistant to the cabinet, also said: "According to the report of the Imperial Court, the so-called Pimenta of this missionary is an elder of the Franciscan Society of the Taixi Yi Sect, and his person has been wandering outside the southwest gate for many years, and he is not allowed to enter the door. This generation of Yi people spread Yi religion, and they have ill intentions, not for my good! Please think again, Your Majesty! ”

After listening to the words of these two people, Emperor Chongzhen nodded, stood up from the throne, and walked down slowly.

Emperor Chongzhen was pacing slowly in the Wenhua Palace, thinking and saying, "What the two pavilion elders said is indeed good! The Portuguese will have something to do in the middle! You don't have to think twice about it! ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the three cabinet ministers standing, and after a short pause, he continued:

"The land of Burma, the ancestors gained and lost, I think about the roots, the desolation of the land is of course the cause, but there are very few Han people, but it is the key!

"If you want to completely incorporate its land into the southwest territory of the Ming Dynasty, you must take the road of military occupation and people, and you must move thousands of Han people to be real!"

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen stopped, looked back at several old and important ministers, and said slowly but firmly:

"The ancient city of Ava in northern Myanmar was originally the seat of the Ming Dynasty's Burmese Central Propaganda Mission. Today, since it was lost and recovered in my hands, I mean that under the Governor's Mansion of Yunnan and Guizhou, in the city of Ava, there will be another Burmese Town Guard Mansion!

In this way, to the south, we can guard against the Burmese from breaking the treaty and prevent the Portuguese from infiltrating, and to the north, we can also restrain the Tusi who have entered the northern Burma nearby, so as to prevent their ill-intentioned people from colluding with outsiders to cause trouble to southern Yunnan! What do you think?! ”

Although Emperor Chongzhen asked the opinions of several ministers, he didn't want to listen to their opinions at all, and after talking about this matter, he directly moved on to the next question, and then said:

"As for this Franciscan elder Pimenta, I have no other intention to stay in it, not for the sake of the Eutolerant Sect!

"The Ministry of Rites has compiled a new almanac, but it has been more than two years but has not yet been finalized! I knew that I was in a hurry to do this, and I never urged, but I knew a little about the root cause.

"The Jesuits who were originally transferred by the Historical Bureau, most of them were carried by Long Huamin, who went to the three sides of Shaanxi to preach, and now they have been repeatedly mourned, and there is no one in ten, and it is said that the first person left, only Tang Ruowang survived!

"And the progress of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites is slow, it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with it, and this is due to the omission of my policy that day!

"It is the right time for Pimenta to come, and it is not the same as the Jesuits, but also the Franciscans! As the so-called partial listening is dark, and listening is clear, inviting it to join the calendar bureau and compile the almanac, which is in line with the principle of listening to the clear! ”