Chapter 817: Meet Da Ming Dad Again (Second update, please subscribe)

You must keep going!

Even when he stepped onto the boat, Komatsu Taro still felt heavy-hearted. He didn't know how to describe his feelings at this moment.

Mieko is going to Ming Dynasty, even though she is going to be a maid, but how could Taro not know what will happen to those maids in the end?

They will all marry people from the Ming Dynasty!

"Taro, what's wrong with you? Why are you so absent-minded all the time?"

Matsui asked, looking at his friend.

"Why……"

In response to his friend's question, Komatsu Taro sighed and spoke after a while.

"Mieko is going to Ming!"

"Ah! Going to Daming, that's a good thing! Daming...it's really a good place!"

"She went to maid school, and we..."

There is no need to say more. If you go to a maid school, you will definitely marry someone from the Ming Dynasty in the future. This is the best shortcut for Japanese women to enter the Ming Dynasty.

"Well, forget it. When we get to Africa, we will serve His Majesty faithfully. When we have made military achievements, we will have no problem finding women!"

Facing his friend's persuasion, Taro Komatsu felt bitter. When the ship blew the whistle and slowly left the port, his eyes became a little complicated when looking at the land of Japan. There was nothing here worth his nostalgia.

…

As the New Year of the seventh year of Shengde was approaching, a Korean merchant ship sailed into Xiaguan. The people who came were not other people, but angels from Korea.

Although Japan was unable to pursue its "dream of conquering Korea" due to the civil strife caused by the sudden death of Emperor Meiji of Japan, Korea was paying attention to Japan. Although Korea did not have envoys in Japan, they still learned about and paid attention to the changes in Japan through Japanese businessmen.

After the civil strife broke out in Japan, people in Korea were even secretly happy. Now that the Japanese were in civil strife... this was a good thing!

But before the Koreans could celebrate, a piece of shocking news reached Korea - Japan became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty!

Daming’s father is here.

Who will be most impacted?

Of course it’s North Korea.

In fact, after Liu Chongjiao and his party brought the news of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty back to Korea, an unprecedented turmoil immediately arose in Korea, not just because the Ming Dynasty was alive again.

More importantly, this father Daming is different from what they imagined.

When the "Life" pictorial brought by Liu Chongjiao was displayed in the Joseon court, Li Shiying, the Daewongun, almost vomited blood. As a staunch conservative and anti-Westernist, he never imagined that the Ming Dynasty had regained the country on foreigners' territory, and even the mother of the nation was a foreigner. Not only that, there was no Ming Dynasty clothing there, and even the Chinese clothing was changed beyond recognition.

When Li Shiying almost vomited blood, some changes took place in the political situation in Korea. Just as in history, his daughter-in-law Queen Min, whom he personally selected and was supposed to be a pawn in his hands, actually succeeded in seizing power.

In the two years after Queen Min seized power, on the one hand, there was the purge of the "Unbyeon people" or Lee Si-eung's confidants, and on the other hand, there was Lee Si-eung's counterattack. In the past two years, the political arena of North Korea has been very lively. The civil unrest in Japan made it impossible for Japan to extend its hand to North Korea as it did in history. Naturally, there was no ice-breaking move by the Min clan against Japan, and there was no external threat of Kuroda Kiyotaka and Inoue Kaoru leading warships to Ganghwa Island to force North Korea to sign a treaty to establish diplomatic relations with them.

Without external threats, North Korea's internal political struggles became more brutal than in history. The Min clan, which had to reach some kind of compromise with Lee Si-eung due to external pressure, further intensified its suppression of Lee Si-eung.

Amidst such political turmoil, the matter of the resurrection of Father Ming has... faded away in North Korea.

Faced with the aggressive Min clan, Lee Shi-eung's confidants also had to fight back. At the end of last year, Lee Shi-eung's confidant An Jiyong and others plotted a coup d'état and tried to support Lee Shi-eung's eldest son Lee Jae-seon as the new king. Due to a tip-off, An Jiyong and others were executed by slow slicing, and Lee Jae-seon was given the death penalty. Although Lee Shi-eung was not directly involved, Min clan still pointed the finger at Lee Shi-eung.

Faced with the possibility of being placed under house arrest for treason, Li Shiying, who was implicated in the incident, had no choice but to flee in a hurry.

Escape...escape to where?

Go to the Qing Dynasty?

His son Yi Hee was the King of Korea enthroned by the Qing Dynasty.

“Let’s go to Japan!”

After repeated considerations, Li Shiying and his confidants boarded a merchant ship bound for Japan. However, unlike the past, Japan at this time was no longer Japan.

"The Protectorate of Dongying... This is the territory of Ming Dynasty!"

Li Shiying looked at the Xiaguan dock and said to Hong Chunmu beside him.

"Although this Ming Dynasty is different from the Ming Dynasty we all dream of, it is still the Ming Dynasty after all!"

Ming Dynasty!

That is the spiritual homeland of all Koreans!

Hong Chunmu and others were all looking at Shimonoseki with great anticipation. Finally, when the ship entered the port, Hong Chunmu looked at the Japanese with short hair and Western dresses in the port with disdain.

"The Japanese are truly barbarians!"

The Japanese are barbarians, so what about the Ming people?

…

"Is this a Ming warship?"

When stepping onto the "Taiyuan" armored ship, Li Shiying's heart trembled slightly.

This is a giant steel ship!

"Iron...how can it float on water?"

Hong Chunmu and others all looked at the warship in astonishment. Looking at the thick gun muzzle, they were speechless for a long time.

"Everyone, we will arrive at the Protectorate Office in two days."

Looking at the Ming Dynasty troops in front of him, Li Shiying fell silent!

Are these people the Ming Dynasty’s official troops?

They didn't have Ming-style hair buns, nor did they wear Ming-style clothes. What did they wear? The clothes they wore were a bit like those of the foreigners!

Although they had already learned from the "Life" pictorial brought back by Liu Chongjiao and others that the Ming Dynasty "looked more like foreigners than Chinese", the shock they suffered when they really faced the Ming Dynasty can be imagined.

Everyone has an ideal country in their heart, and the Ming Dynasty is the ideal country in the hearts of countless Koreans. It is the Peach Blossom Spring in their minds.

But what about now?

What do they see?

It was a strange one that was beyond their imagination... the Ming Dynasty official army.

Like the foreigners, they had huge ironclad ships and wore similar clothes.

Where are the Ming Dynasty’s clothes?

It was not until two days later, in the Edo Protector-General's Office, that Li Shiying and others were stunned when they saw Qian Degong, the Ming Dynasty Protector-General of Japan, wearing a first-grade scarlet robe embroidered with crane patterns and a black gauze hat.

In an instant, tears rolled down Li Shiying's eyes. This, this... this is the official robe of the Ming Dynasty!

My Daming dad is back again!

In great excitement, Li Shiying stepped forward and bowed down.

"The humble minister Li Shiying has met the Heavenly Official of the Heavenly Court."

(End of this chapter)