Chapter 974 Miracle Ship (Second update, please subscribe)
"In other words, the rulers of the Ming Empire are the most cunning rulers in the world!"
Once again, Carl emphasized.
"Because they are just using some small favors to win over and buy off the people. The purpose of their buying off is not because they have "kindness" in their hearts, but to rule the people for a longer period of time. This is where they are cunning!"
How can you not be cunning!
Not to mention other people, just look at how the Qing Dynasty exploited China. There was poverty everywhere, and the people were so poor that they couldn't even wear pants. Eating bran and drinking porridge was considered a prosperous time, and eating melons and vegetables was considered a paradise-like good life.
But that family was able to rule for hundreds of years.
Is it just violent suppression?
It’s more about the ruler’s skill!
Even if your bones are broken, you still have to be grateful and say "thank God for His grace".
"Perhaps! But..."
After thinking for a moment, Friedrich said.
"Isn't this what we hope for? If the rulers of Europe can enact welfare laws that benefit ordinary people like the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, then ordinary people can naturally live happily like them."
"But, my friend!"
After knocking off the ash from his pipe, Carl patted his friend on the shoulder and said.
"Do you think this is possible? How could those extravagant rulers care about ordinary people starving? No, they will never take the initiative to give benefits to the people!"
In response to his friend's arbitrariness, Friedrich asked back.
"What about Ming? Why can they do that?"
"so……"
Carl filled his pipe with tobacco again, nodded, took a few puffs, and then spoke after a long while.
"The Ming Empire is an outlier among all empires. If I have the chance, I really want to meet this imperialist and see what kind of person he is. Is he an upright and benevolent ruler as many people praise him to be? Or is he a hypocritical and cunning ruler?"
"Haha, that's impossible!"
Friedrich laughed out loud at his friend's idea.
"Don't forget, you are a guy who has been expelled from many countries. How could the emperor possibly meet you? But..."
Friedrich looked towards the north and said with emotion.
"In fact, I am also very curious about the emperor. If I could meet him, I might get a lot of answers!"
People are always curious.
It is undeniable that many people around the world are curious about Emperor Shengde of the Ming Dynasty. After all, his rise itself is a miracle.
According to the Chinese, he rose from the grassroots and created a lasting legacy here.
According to the West, he staged a prince's plan to restore the country.
In short, what he accomplished is enough to make any ruler ashamed, not even Alexander could compare with him.
Who throughout history could have established an empire covering nearly 20 million square kilometers and covering four continents in just twenty years?
No one ever!
He is the first entrepreneur in history to create such a great cause.
Faced with such a miracle, who wouldn’t be curious?
Everyone has curiosity.
But there are some things that will never have answers. Perhaps the Ming Dynasty officials will give one answer or another, but one thing is certain: there are too many mysteries on the road to the rise of the Ming Dynasty.
What a whistle is ringing across the Pampas.
What is Gatling's curse?
Even at the beginning of Nanhua's landing, there were too many questions that many historians racked their brains but could not get the answers. Not to mention that on the road to the rise of a great power, there were so many puzzling things that happened.
It can be said that Nanhua - from the day the "Antis" sailed into Nanhua Bay, it has left too many mysteries for the world, and these mysteries will never have any answers.
Of course, not many people will look for answers, and many of them are just regarded as "urban legends" at most.
In Nanhua, almost every old immigrant has a story about the "Emperor's legend".
As an old journalist, Xu Haiyang knows this very well. In the past ten years, he has interviewed many first- and second-generation immigrants. Unlike later immigrants, first- and second-generation immigrants have had more or less direct contact with the emperor himself, especially the first-generation immigrants. They came together by boat and built the city together on the wasteland. They resisted the attacks of the Mapuche together, and because of this, the first-generation immigrants have too many stories about the emperor.
"What has Emperor Shengde been doing all those years?"
Once again, facing the early morning light, Xu Haiyang arrived at the landing point in Nanhua Bay, gazing at the "Antilises" anchored in the bay, and a question popped up in his mind.
His question was simple: where did the emperor come from? How did he get to Buenos Aires? What did the emperor do in the following years?
"You like this ship too, don't you?"
Just at this moment, an old man in his sixties with a cane walked to the dock. He looked at Xu Haiyang curiously, looked at the camera in front of his arms and smiled.
“Yes, the ship may not be very impressive, but its story is very interesting and fascinating.”
Xu Haiyang answered truthfully.
"Yes, its story is very exciting, absolutely wonderful, because everything in the Ming Dynasty started with the Antilis, started with it!"
He looked at the "Antilisi" moored at the pier with longing eyes, his tone filled with complacency and pride.
"There is no other ship in the world that can compare to it. The Great Eastern may be called the 'Mother of Immigrants', and millions of people may have come with it, but... it!"
Pointing at the three-masted steam ship weighing more than a thousand tons at the berth, he spoke with emotion.
“But it created this empire!”
Five years ago, after the ship was retired, it was not dismantled, but was acquired by the "Antilisi Association" through fundraising. After being refurbished, it was moored at the berth and permanently displayed as a museum. In the past four years, millions of people have visited the ship.
In the Ming Dynasty, the "Antilisi" has long been closely linked to the history of the Ming Dynasty. Even in elementary school textbooks, there are articles about it.
"Yes, so it is a miracle ship. In fact, sir, I have always been curious about the story before and after this ship sailed out of Buenos Aires..."
In fact, he was not the only one who was curious. I wonder how many people were curious about what happened before the news about Nanhua came.
Of course, most people are curious about those unknown stories. After all, there have always been too many mysteries about that emperor. Those mysteries have attracted many people and made countless people obsessed with them.
But no one ever told them the answer.
Answer?
Who can tell them the answer?
There is only one person, the emperor himself!
After a pause, Xu Haiyang looked at the ship and said.
"I am not just curious, I feel that as a journalist, I have a responsibility to record all of this and tell our descendants."
(End of this chapter)
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