Chapter 635 This is the Real Heavenly Kingdom (First Update, Please Subscribe)

If we say that after arriving in Ming Dynasty, the biggest feeling of Liu Chongjiao and others was disbelief and shattered world views.

So for Kim Ok-gyun, coming here is like coming home.

In other words, it feels like arriving at the "Ming Dynasty" of dreams.

Scholars from ancient times to the present, both in China and abroad, have always liked to escape reality and use their empty imaginations to fantasize about an "ideal country" or a "paradise".

For the Confucian scholars of Korea, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, facing the reality of Korea's surrender to barbarians and the disillusionment of their spiritual country was a heavy blow to them. While they used the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period to defend their inner thoughts, they imagined a "Ming Dynasty" in their hearts. The Ming Dynasty in their hearts was not so much a real world as an ideal in the minds of Korean Confucian scholars.

This "ideal country" has never existed, but now? This ideal country has appeared before their eyes. However, this ideal country has shaken the ideals of some of them, while others feel that it is just like this!

Utopias from ancient times to the present, both in China and abroad, are all fake. In fact, everyone knows that the so-called utopia is nothing but a fantasy.

But after arriving in Daming, Jin Yujun believed that he had found the real "spiritual home". This was not an ideal country within reach, but a "heavenly kingdom" that was thousands of times better than he had imagined!

In this Celestial Empire, not only is there a wise monarch, but the people live and work in peace and contentment, each doing their job well. Even machines are unheard of.

How could machines be exclusive to Westerners? The Ming Dynasty had even more advanced machines!

As for those foreigners, so what if they live together as a mixed community of Chinese and foreigners? Aren’t they still people of a lost country who were conquered by the Ming Dynasty?

Ming Dynasty...it truly is worthy of being called the Celestial Empire!

Even though those foreigners looked rosy-cheeked, neatly dressed, and seemed to have good food and shelter, Jin Yujun just felt happy. He thought that the foreigners were no more than that!

No matter how powerful those foreigners were, they were ultimately defeated by the Ming Dynasty.

The Celestial Empire!

This is the real Celestial Empire!

These foreigners are a manifestation of the Celestial Empire's strength! They are not like the Qing Dynasty, which was afraid of foreigners and became spineless when they saw foreigners.

It is no wonder that they were soft, because the Qing Dynasty was a fake Celestial Empire, and the Ming Dynasty was the real Celestial Empire.

This kind of feeling is something that Chinese people cannot understand.

In fact, although North Koreans may seem stubborn and obstinate on the surface, their admiration for the strong is no less than that of the Japanese. After all, North Korea's "power-chauvinism" has long been engraved in their bones.

However, as a country separated from China by a river, North Korea is also proud. They think they are the biological son of China. After the Qing Dynasty occupied China, North Korea was also proud that it retained the Chinese clothing. They looked down on the Qing Dynasty in their bones. They were barbarians, but they were big, so they looked down on them. Of course, they had to do something big! They looked down on Japan even more. They were also barbarians.

Later, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan rose rapidly and defeated the Qing Dynasty. After occupying Korea, the Koreans could not accept it. They could not accept being ruled by a barbarian who was inferior to themselves. So the stubborn Koreans began to resist and fight.

Faced with Japanese rule, the Smithsonian had strong national sentiments. Later, a new superpower, the United States, arrived.

Facing the United States, a big country across the ocean, after the Korean War, the Smiths regained their ambition to serve the country. This mentality was even further magnified because they felt that the United States saved and protected them in the Korean War.

Apart from anything else, those Smithda women basically all "get wet when they see foreigners (Americans). It can be said that compared with the so-called "Western-worshipping dogs" in later generations in China, they are even worse.

This is essentially a kind of "admiration for the strong" mentality, or M-sexual psychology, more or less, but everyone has it. After all, to some extent, "admiration for the strong" has affected humans since the primitive tribal period, whether in tribal life or tribal conquest.

As for a small country like Smith, they have never had the mentality of a big country. They have only served the big and the strong. This "admiration for the strong" has long been engraved in their bones. In the past, they looked down on the barbarians of the Qing Dynasty, but they wanted to do something. But now? They have encountered the thriving Ming Empire.

The Smithas' mentality changed immediately.

Kim Ok-gyun, in particular, was extremely direct in his performance, and even the air he breathed became sweet, not caring about the smell of coal smoke.

Just like the clanging sound of train wheels rolling over the rails in the carriage, it is like the most beautiful note in the world.

What was the real impact on them?

It was when they came down from a small mountain station and visited a nearby settlement. The settlement in the valley was not big, with only a dozen families living there. There was not much arable land in the valley, only tea plantations built against the mountain.

When they saw the beautiful and tidy houses of the tea farmers, and when they accidentally saw the lunch they had, Jin Yujun could no longer control his emotions and knelt on the ground, kneeling towards Yingtian.

At this moment, his eyes were filled with tears and he was sobbing and unable to speak!

"There is no better time than this, and this is how it must be!"

Not to mention Jin Yujun, even Liu Chongjiao was stunned. He did not see any poverty here. Even the most ordinary tea farmers had lunch with not only white flour buns, but also large pieces of meat. Both adults and children had rosy complexions.

As for the village, it is completely different from North Korea. You won't see pigs or dogs running on the road, nor will there be mud all over the ground, and you won't see the starving people everywhere in North Korea.

“When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace” is exactly what this means.

This is the Ming Dynasty!

This is the Celestial Empire that they have been thinking about for more than two hundred years.

"Mr. Shengzhai, look, look, this is the Ming Dynasty, this is the Celestial Empire!"

When saying this, Jin Yujun's tone seemed a little excited.

"In the past, you always said how rich the Ming Dynasty was and how the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. From what I have seen today, you were right!"

Once again, the imaginary Ming Dynasty overlaps with this Ming Dynasty. Although the two Ming Dynasties are different, this Ming Dynasty is not bad either!

In fact, along the way, they saw the wealth and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty more than once. Whether in the city or in the countryside, the people could no longer be described as "well-fed and well-clothed". But even in such a remote mountain village, the lives of the people were still far more affluent than many rich people in North Korea. How could this not make them sigh?

"The Celestial Empire is indeed the Celestial Empire..."

After a long silence, Liu Chongjiao said this. At this moment, he seemed relieved and he was no longer as conflicted as before.

Even the strange-looking clothes that were not in line with the Ming Dynasty's clothing, which he could not accept in the past, no longer mattered now.

The clothes are different, what's the big deal. The most important thing is that this is the place they have always dreamed of.

This is the real Celestial Empire!

It was as if he was the most loyal and devoted son of the Ming Dynasty. It took him a long time to sigh.

“This is the way to heaven!”

(End of this chapter)