Chapter 553 Visitors from Heaven (First update, please subscribe)

"It's really burning, it's really burning..."

Li Jingfang didn't even know how he walked out of the cinema. It was no longer a theater, but a cinema!

Although the movie was only 40 minutes long, although it was silent, and although it only had very simple subtitles, Li Jingfang, who was watching a movie for the first time, was deeply shocked!

What shocked him was not only the moving people and scenes on the movie screen, but he was even more shocked by witnessing the destruction of the Palace of Versailles with his own eyes!

destroy!

The entire Palace of Versailles was razed to the ground in the bombing!

That is the imperial palace of the French Empire!

It was blown up just like that! It was blown up by the Ming floating army!

“That’s what it means to be razed to the ground!”

Even with his eyes closed, Li Jingfang's mind still emerged with the image of the destroyed Palace of Versailles.

After the siege of Paris was lifted, the photographers accompanying the army went to the Palace of Versailles to take a large number of pictures. The places taken by the photographers had been razed to the ground and were full of ruins.

The once magnificent Palace of Versailles, the heart of Europe, the paradise of the nobility... no longer exists after a bombing!

What is recorded on the screen?

The remains of a huge palace. From the broken, collapsed walls that have been smoked into a charcoal color, one can see how magnificent it once was.

But in the end, everything is gone!

The mighty military, the mighty military...

In the movie, when the Ming soldiers appeared on the streets of Paris with smiles on their faces, enthusiastic French girls threw themselves into their arms.

Faced with all this, Li Jingfang had mixed feelings. His lips trembled for a while before he spoke.

"This, this can be considered as a tit-for-tat!"

Perhaps, not many people in the Qing Dynasty knew that the Qing emperor’s palace, the Old Summer Palace, was burned down by the British and French forces, and not many people cared, but Li Jingfang still knew about it. For some reason, he felt a little excited and even a little excited.

I am proud of it!

It couldn't be more like this!

"Airships—that's science!"

On the way back to school on the tram, Li Jingfang knew as the tram was moving that this was also the power of science.

"So this is the secret to a rich and powerful country!"

Finally, half a year after arriving in Nanhua, Li Jingfang finally understood what it means to make a country strong.

Once upon a time, he thought that making the country rich and the military strong meant building factories and training soldiers. Not only did he think so, but even his father thought so.

But now, after watching the movie, he suddenly understood a truth: enriching a country and strengthening its military is not about building many factories or training many soldiers.

But it’s science!

What is science about?

Of course, it’s to run a school!

As long as we run a school, then in the future, whether we run a factory or train soldiers, it will be twice as easy with half the effort.

If we don’t run schools, or run them well, then we certainly won’t be able to run factories well or train soldiers well!

Li Jingfang finally found the secret of "enriching the country and strengthening the army". Compared with his confusion when he first came, after figuring out the answer, he was excited and his face was full of smiles.

It seemed that at this moment, Mr. Li saw the future of the Qing Dynasty, a rich and powerful country. He saw the Qing Dynasty's air fleet soaring in the sky, and of course he also saw the bandit palace in Jiangning collapse in the bombing. He saw his father personally lead the army to conquer Jiangning, and when he returned victorious, he was crowned king by the emperor. Whoever conquers Jiangning will be crowned king. This was the promise made by Emperor Xianfeng!

While Young Master Li was fantasizing like this, what he didn't know was that on the other side of the continent, a merchant ship finally arrived at Linhai Port after nearly two months of sailing. As this British merchant ship slowly sailed into the harbor, a group of people standing on the bow were all pointing at Linhai excitedly and talking to each other.

Most of these men wore round collar shirts, while the women wore Confucian skirts and other clothes, and they all had their hair tied up in a bun on top of their heads. Just by looking at their attire, anyone who knows a little about East Asia would know that they came from heaven.

In the past few years, the Heavenly Kingdom has changed its original dishevelled long hair. Back then, they just didn't know how to tie their hair into a bun on top of their heads. Later, with the beginning of foreign exchanges, especially after contact with North Korea and Japan, the Heavenly Kingdom's clothing and hairstyles have returned to the Ming system. They are no longer like in the past, and even use theatrical costumes as official uniforms.

The leader of these people was a middle-aged man. He looked at the bright lights in Linhai City, which looked like stars at night, reflecting the harbor into a city that never sleeps, and he couldn't help but exclaimed.

"I never thought that Linhai would be so prosperous. The lights in this city should all be electric lights!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, the follower standing beside him hurriedly explained.

"Your Majesty, what you said is very true. I heard that in every city in the Ming Dynasty, both officials and civilians use electric lights. Only in the countryside do people use oil lamps."

Your Majesty, this middle-aged man in a green round-collar shirt is none other than Yang Fuqing. In the Qing Empire, his head is worth ten thousand taels of silver!

His is not the most expensive. The heads of Prince Zhong and Prince Ying are more expensive. As for the head of King Hong Tianguifu, it is of course even more expensive.

However, this is the Ming Dynasty, and no one would exchange Yang Fuqing's head for silver.

Moreover, he was visiting the Ming Dynasty as an envoy. And he did not come empty-handed - just before their visit, after nearly a year of repairs, the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Tianjing had been renovated and no longer looked dilapidated. A battalion of soldiers was even specially sent to guard the Xiaoling Mausoleum.

In a word, after Emperor Shengde ascended the throne, even the ancestors in the country benefited from it. Not only was the Xiaoling Mausoleum, which had fallen into disrepair and been repeatedly attacked by wars, renovated, but even the Fengyang Ancestral Mausoleum was also renovated.

Since the ancestral tombs of other people have been repaired, someone should be sent to inform them. Therefore, after the advice of the three thousand-year-old regents, King Gan, King Zhong and King Ying, the Heavenly King sent Yang Fuqing and his party to Daming. At the same time, there were nearly two hundred carefully selected young people accompanying them. They would stay in Daming to study Western knowledge.

In the Heavenly Kingdom, the New Deal had actually been started several years ago. Although the results have not yet been seen, compared with the Qing Dynasty, the King Gan did hope for reform. Although it was still not well organized, he had already established a new school in Tianjing seven years ago, selecting smart boys and girls to study the new school. Even the textbooks were imported directly from Nanhua.

After seven years of hard work, nearly two hundred young men and women passed the exam and came to Ming Dynasty with Yang Fuqing - they will study here and learn modern science.

When the ship docked at the pier, Yang Fuqing gave specific instructions to his entourage.

"He Jin, go to the cabin and take a look at the tigers and leopards. This Mr. Sheng De likes these very much. Maybe if he is happy, he will agree to our request."

The tigers and leopards mentioned by Yang Fuqing are the South China tigers and South China leopards, because in another time and space, these animals have become extinct in the wild, but in China in this era, these animals are simply... rampant, after all, the long-term war has led to this. So a few years ago, after receiving the tiger skins and tiger whips with indescribable uses sent by Li Fugui, looking at those tiger skins, Zhu Xianhai began his "animal protection" action - importing rare animals such as South China tigers and South China leopards from the Kingdom of Heaven.

This naturally gave outsiders the impression that Emperor Zhu liked "exotic animals". In fact, they didn't know that he was just a real animal protectionist, or more precisely, a Chinese animal protectionist, who was making contributions in obscurity.

"Yes, my Lord, I will go down right away!"

Just as He Jin was about to go down, Yang Fuqing gave another order.

"Especially those dozen Baiji, you must keep a close eye on them and tell the port officer, they are a great gift from our Heavenly Kingdom to Master Sheng De! Be extremely careful! It's not easy to transport those things here!"

I have set up a book club: 335260551. Everyone is welcome to join and discuss and deduce the plot together.

(End of this chapter)