Of all those who came east, Felipe IV was undoubtedly the worst.Because he once called himself the "King of the Earth", he was the only one who came to China as a prisoner."
Get on your knees!"
In the 29th year of the Apocalypse, when the returning Imperial Fleet arrived in Manila, Felipe IV was asked to kneel down and apologize to the monument to the Han Chinese who had died here.Felipe IV was forced to kneel in front of the monument and had his forehead pressed to the ground.This scene was a big shock to the Westerners who accompanied him.Never before had they seen a Western aristocrat be insulted in this way, even in their own Europe.What's more, Felipe IV is now a well-known monarch in Europe.Bang!
One knock is not enough.Felipe IV was pressed to the ground by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and his forehead made another intimate contact with the slate.Bang!
Bang!
It was not until Felipe IV's forehead had been bruised and bleeding that the Ming soldiers stopped doing so."
Good!""
Good!""
Good!"
The Han Chinese in Manila, who were watching around, cheered.Most of them were Han Chinese who had witnessed the atrocities of the Spaniards, and they were naturally very excited.However, they didn't expect that His Majesty the Ming Emperor would really send troops to arrest the king of Spain from thousands of miles away.For a time, the image of Daming became particularly tall and majestic in the eyes of many local Han people.And I don't know who shouted: "Long live Daming!"
”"Long live Daming!""
Long live Daming!""
Long live Daming!"
…… The other Han Chinese responded.This scene gave a great shock to the nearby Westerners, who did not expect that the Orientals in these places would be so supportive of their empire.For the Spanish merchants who accompanied them, they didn't even want to believe that they had ever ruled here, and instinctively thought that this was the ancestral land of these Orientals."
Their handicraft industry seems to be very developed, especially the textile industry, because their cloth is so cheap!""
My God, their goods are really rich, and you can actually see that people can ride away without horses, and they are made of iron, called bicycles, and I don't know what physical principles are used in them.""
They seem to have mastered a magical magic trick that can make the threads in the glass cover shine so brightly that they don't need candles for lighting!"
…… Descartes, like other Westerners, had a great impact on the Han Chinese world in Manila.Moreover, he took advantage of the temporary rest in Manila to go to the city to investigate, and found more things that shocked him."
It's a magical country, and they seem to have a lot of academic secrets in the same way that they can make iron ships sail fast on the seas!"
Because of this, Descartes couldn't help but write down all this in his diary and express his feelings.Of course, it cannot be ruled out that he wanted to return to China in the future and make a windfall by publishing his diary of what he saw and heard in China, that is, the diary of what he saw and heard in the Ming Dynasty.In this era, most of the foreign dynasties directly referred to any Chinese dynasty in history as China, and the Chinese dynasties in history also called themselves "China" or "China".Therefore, Descartes also called the Ming Dynasty Chinese.The conversation turned back.Descartes may have had this idea, and there is a basis for that.Because of this era, all the books about China, that is, the Huaxia Dynasty, were best-selling in Europe.However, what Descartes didn't know was that the Han Chinese settlement he saw now was not the core ruling area of the Ming Dynasty.Now, what he saw was only a Han feudal region that was relatively close to the Ming Dynasty.And then, when Descartes came to the chicken coop, he further discovered that the Ming Dynasty was actually richer than he had seen before.Although the chicken coop is Taiwan, and Taiwan was developed late by the Ming Dynasty, it was only after the apocalypse that it was established as a government and immigrated to develop.But can not stand the vigorous development of the entire Ming economy, coupled with the geographical location of the chicken coop area, from Ningwen, Shaotai and Nagasaki these places to Manila to sell goods of merchant ships have to dock here, from Fujian and Guangdong and the South Ocean to the north of the goods to gather here, so, in just more than ten years, the chicken coop area has developed many towns."
It's populated, there are many cargo ships, and some market towns have tens of thousands of homes!
More prosperous than Marseille and The Hague, and richer than Manila I've seen before, this should be the richest place in China, it's hard to imagine why these Orientals have so much wealth and goods. ”Descartes sighed.And when he landed in Ningbo and set foot on the core ruling area of the Ming Dynasty, Middle Earth, he was further shocked by the wealth here."
Oh my God!
I had to take back what I had said, and when I came to what they called Middle-earth, I found that I could no longer put into words what I had seen, that I should have truly reached the kingdom of God!
”"Because here, every one of their estates is a work of art!
The brocade worn by each of them seems to be a work of art, they are all god-like figures, polite and elegant, and there seem to be only noble gentlemen here, no wonder their people say that their country does not distinguish between nobles and commoners. ”"There are many cities that never sleep, from when I went to a place called Nanjing, I found that the towns along the way are more prosperous than my French capital, thousands of lights, bright as day, glazed painting boats wrapped in brocade and silk, and when I arrived in Nanjing, let me refresh my perception of the giant city of the East again, because I saw the huge glazed pagoda here, in their big Bao'en Temple, it was really shocking!""
They really are the kingdom of heaven!
There are simple and elegant bluestone pavements that connect private gardens with different landscapes, and there are also wide roads, which are made of concrete and lead to the sky, on which locomotives run by mechanical power. ”"They can also travel thousands of miles, through something called the telegraph, to get news thousands of miles away, and get it very quickly, and they can make a kind of white-breathing steel monster do their traffic rules, on the iron tracks, day and night!
I'm in the belly of this steel monster right now, and I'm trying to learn their language, and I love being able to learn their language, and then I know the secrets of electricity, and I know calculus, and I know what they call the three laws of mechanics. ”Descartes carefully recorded everything he saw, and the longer he came to Daming, the more he found that the gap between his Europe and Daming was really big.Especially when he saw monks, Taoist priests, and missionaries all preaching their religion in one city, and when he learned that there was no church in the Ming Dynasty, and the boundary between secular and religious was obvious, he began to believe that this was really his ideal country."
Now I'm looking forward to meeting their emperor, the one who is interested in natural philosophy!"
Descartes thus wrote in his diary
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