Chapter 837 Daming, this father is very strong (third update, please subscribe)
Dad is very strong!
How powerful is Daming as a father?
It can be said that along the way, Li Shiying’s greatest feeling was the size and strength of the Ming Dynasty.
It was huge, stretching from Japan to the mainland tens of thousands of miles away, with ports everywhere and cannons everywhere.
Strong! Aren’t the warships we see along the way strong?
And now?
From the moment he set foot on Linhai Port, Li Shiying suffered an unprecedented shock.
"Master Chen, this port is paved with huge stones?"
Li Shiying asked this question because the stone-paved ground seemed to be flat and smooth without any trace of joints. What was it? Was it paved with a huge stone?
"Haha, this is reinforced concrete, the same material used to build houses,"
Chen Haodong, who was in charge of receiving the North Korean delegation, smiled.
"This material can not only be used to build roads, but also houses. The tall buildings you see are basically made of reinforced concrete, which is a mixture of cement, sand and gravel..."
"So what is cement?"
"It's a fine-grained mortar that becomes as hard as stone when added with water and sand. When steel is added to it, the structure becomes even stronger."
What?
Adding steel to the house?
Is it the steel used to make weapons?
This is simply a bit unbelievable...
Li Shiying pursed his lips but could not say anything. After a while he finally spoke.
"The Celestial Empire is so rich that it is beyond the comprehension of a small country like us. I am sorry to have embarrassed you, Your Excellency."
Why does he think so? Because iron is expensive!
At least in North Korea, iron is very expensive, and steel is even more expensive. But in Ming Dynasty, they can use steel to build houses. Isn't that being rich?
Later, when they got on the car, Li Shiying couldn't help but grab his thigh as the car was moving - a car doesn't need a horse to pull it, is this a train?
No, it's a car.
A car that burns gasoline.
After that, they just kept driving in this extremely strange city for North Koreans. What appeared before their eyes was a completely different city, different from the dirty and garbage-filled Seoul. Although several streets were crowded with people and very busy, the streets were clean and tidy, and everyone was dressed very decently. There were no poor people in ragged clothes wherever they looked, and of course they saw those low thatched houses.
The streets were full of trams coming and going. They were running on wide avenues, with some cars and more people riding bicycles, and cars coming and going on the streets.
Is this the Ming Dynasty?
This is the Ming Dynasty!
A big, powerful and rich Ming Dynasty.
That night, in the hotel room where Li Shiying and his group stayed, standing by the window, looking at the city outside the window that never sleeps, Li Shiying was speechless for a long time, and then he said, "Today I know why Liu Shengzhai said that this Ming Dynasty is a real paradise. Although I have never been here, what he said is indeed true!"
Liu Shengzhai is Liu Chongjiao. Ever since he returned to Korea from Ming Dynasty, he always praised Ming Dynasty. If Liu Chongjiao was a Ming fan before, now he has become a Ming Dynasty licker, and he does it on his knees.
"Daewongun is right!"
Park Gyusuwen praised loudly,
"Daewongun, we thought Liu Shengzhai was exaggerating. Where in the world can the people not only have enough to eat, but also eat meat every day? But looking at the rosy complexions of the people here, Liu Shengzhai's words are not only not exaggerated, but may even be restrained!"
"Yes, even what Liu Shengzhai said now is a little unbelievable. If we tell everyone what we saw, I'm afraid everyone in the world will think he is dreaming!"
"Dream? Can you dream of a place like this?"
Li Shiying murmured.
"It's really unbelievable!..."
"It's really unbelievable, Daewon-gun,"
Park Gyu-su said,
"If I hadn't come to Daming, I wouldn't have known that the real world has changed so much!"
In fact, they considered the question of whether to come to Ming Dynasty for a long time, otherwise it would not have taken so long. They have been staying in Japan for the past few months, especially considering whether to come to Ming Dynasty, which took almost half a year.
But what about now?
They even felt that they had arrived a little late. Why did they feel that way? It was not just because the Ming Dynasty satisfied their imagination of the Peach Blossom Spring.
From ancient times to the present, all human beings have always dreamed of a beautiful paradise, also called heaven, which is called utopia in the West and Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring, which is such a fantasy. There is no poverty or wealth, no oppression, and all the old and young are happy.
What they see now seems to be that utopia, that paradise, where people live a life of plenty.
But for these exiles, this is not the most important thing. They don't even care about the lives of ordinary people. After all, they are not the kind of scholars who are immersed in the Peach Blossom Spring.
Who are they?
They were a group of officials who had failed in the political struggle. They came here to seek help from the Ming Dynasty, and with the help of the Ming Dynasty, they would return to Korea and seize the rights that belonged to them.
What they saw was not a utopia or a paradise, but a very powerful kingdom of heaven. It does not matter how the people of this kingdom of heaven live; what matters is that this kingdom of heaven has the ability to help them return to North Korea.
This is the most important thing.
But this did not prevent them from looking at this strange country in an extremely shocking way. For these people from North Korea, they were almost like suddenly stepping from one world into another, a world they could not understand or imagine.
Whether it is the city that never sleeps, the skyscrapers, or the electric lights, hot water, phonograph and telephone in this room, all of these are new things they have never heard of.
It was precisely these new things that brought unimaginable impacts to each of them, and changes also took place in this situation, especially for Li Shiying, he finally understood what it meant to be a frog in a well and what it meant to be a person looking at the sky from a well.
Daming...
Gazing at the dreamlike city outside the window, Li Shiying's gaze became more and more complicated, and his mood even became a little difficult to describe.
Just at this moment, someone said.
"We couldn't understand why the Japanese tried so hard to please the Ming Dynasty before. Now, we finally understand why the Japanese did so. Just by looking at this city, we can tell something. How can we not be fascinated by the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty?"
The Ming Dynasty is indeed fascinating...but how will the Ming Dynasty treat North Korea today?
Or, how to treat him as an exile?
Now he is not the ruler of North Korea, but an insignificant exile. For Li Shiying, why did he flee here?
There is only one reason, and that is that he hopes to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to return to Korea and regain his power.
The Ming Dynasty definitely had this power. Especially after arriving in the Ming Dynasty and witnessing the Ming Dynasty's powerful side, Li Shiying had no doubt about it.
In his opinion, even the Ming Dynasty only needed to send a warship to help him regain power, and it was not just because of the name "Ming Dynasty".
But it is because of the unparalleled national strength of the Celestial Empire!
They only need to move their fingers a little bit to help him just like they helped Japan.
But will the Ming Dynasty help him?
Maybe. But why would the Ming Dynasty help him? How could he convince the Ming Dynasty to help him regain power?
Standing by the window and gazing at the city outside, Li Shiying could not help but fall into silence. He did not know what kind of bargaining chips he had in his hand to convince Daming to help him.
After all, in this world, no matter what you want, you have to pay a price...
(End of this chapter)
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