Among these people coming eastward, Felipe IV is undoubtedly the worst.

Because he once claimed to be the "king of the earth", he was the only one who came to China as a prisoner.

"Kneel down!"

In the 29th year of Apocalypse, when the return fleet of the Holy Emperor came to Manila City, Felipe IV was asked to kneel down to apologize to the monument to the Han victims erected here.

Felipe IV was forced to kneel down in front of the monument and his forehead was pressed to the ground.

This scene was a great impact on the Westerners accompanying him.

Before this, they had never seen with their own eyes that Western nobles would be insulted like this, even in their own Europe.

What's more, Felipe IV is now a famous monarch in Europe.

Bang!

It's not enough to knock one.

Felipe IV was continued to press onto the ground by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and once again had an intimate contact with the stone slab on his forehead.

Bang!

Bang!

The Ming soldiers stopped doing this after Felipe IV's forehead had been bruised from purple to broken skin and bleeding.

"good!"

"good!"

"good!"

The Han people in Manila City, who were watching around, cheered.

Most of them were Han people who witnessed the Spanish atrocities with their own eyes, so they were naturally excited.

However, they did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would really send troops to arrest the king of Spain from thousands of miles to punish him.

For a time, the image of the Ming Dynasty became particularly tall and majestic in the eyes of many local Han people.

But I don’t know who it was, so I shouted first: “Long live the Ming Dynasty!”

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

...

Other Han people responded.

This scene shocked the nearby Western fans. They did not expect that the orientals in these places would support their empire so much.

For the Spanish merchants who accompanied them, they were not even willing to believe that they had ruled here, and instinctively thought that this was the ancestral land of these Orientals.

"Their handicraft industry seems to be very developed, especially in the textile industry, because their cloths are so cheap!"

"My God, their goods are really rich. You can see a car that people can ride directly without a horse. It is made of iron and is called a bicycle. I don't know what physics principles are used in it."

"They seem to have mastered a magical magic that can make the silk threads in the glass cover emit bright light so that they do not use candles to illuminate!"

...

Like other Western fans, Descartes also had a great shock to the Han world in Manila.

Moreover, he took advantage of the temporary rest in Manila to go to the city to investigate and discover more things that shocked him.

"This is really a magical country. Just as they can make iron ships sail quickly on the sea, they seem to have mastered many academic secrets!"

Therefore, Descartes couldn't help but write down all this in his diary and expressed his feelings.

Of course, it is not ruled out that he wanted to write a diary to return to China in the future by publishing his own Chinese experiences and diary, that is, the Ming Dynasty experiences and diary, and make a fortune.

In this era, the outside world mostly directly calls any Chinese dynasty in history China, and the Chinese dynasties in history also call themselves "China" or "China".

Therefore, Descartes also called the Ming Dynasty China.

Let's turn the words back.

Descartes may have this idea, and it is based on it.

Because in this era, all books about China, that is, the Chinese dynasty are very popular in Europe.

However, what Descartes didn't know was that the Han people's settlement area he saw now was not the most core ruling area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

Now, what he saw was a Han vassal state that was relatively close to the Ming Dynasty.

Next, 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 was Taiwan and Taiwan was developed late by the Ming Dynasty, it was established as a palace after the Apocalypse ascended the throne and immigrated to develop it.

However, it cannot withstand the booming development of the entire Ming Dynasty economy. In addition, the Jilong area has a superior geographical location. Merchant ships that sell goods from Ningwen, Shaotai and Nagasaki to Manila to stop here, and cargoes from Fujian, Guangdong and the north of Nanyang have to gather here. Therefore, in just over ten years, many towns have developed in the Jilong area.

"There are people and cargo ships here. There are tens of thousands of families in some market towns! It is more prosperous than Marseille and The Hague, and even more prosperous than Manila I saw before. This should be the richest place in China. It is really hard to imagine why these Orientals have so much wealth and commodities."

Descartes couldn't help but sigh.

When he landed in Ningbo and set foot on the core ruling area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, Zhongtu, he was further shocked by the prosperity here.

"Oh my God! I had to take back my previous words. When I came to what they called Middle Earth, I found that I could no longer describe everything I saw in words. I should have really reached the kingdom of God!"

"Because here, every manor in their house is a work of art! The brocade worn by everyone seems to be a work of art, and they are all figures like gods, polite and elegant. It seems that there are only noble gentlemen here. No wonder their people say that their country does not distinguish between nobles and civilians."

"There are many cities that never sleep here. When I went to a place called Nanjing, I found that the towns along the way were even more prosperous than the capital of France. The lights of thousands of houses were as bright as daytime. The glass boats were wrapped in brocade and silk. When I arrived in Nanjing, I refreshed my impression of the giant city in the east again, because I saw the huge glass pagoda here, and it was really shocking in their Great Baoen Temple!"

"They are really heaven! There are both simple and elegant bluestone roads that connect the scenery with different private gardens, and there are also wide roads. The road made of concrete leads directly to the sky, and the locomotives moving forward with mechanical force are running on it."

"They can also send messages thousands of miles away through something called telegram, and get messages from thousands of miles away, and get very fast. In addition, they can make a white-sprayed steel monster do their traffic rules, and run day and night on iron tracks! I am now in the belly of this steel monster. I am trying hard to learn their language. I like to learn their language, and then know the secrets of electricity, know calculus, and know the three laws of mechanics they say."

Descartes recorded everything he saw very seriously, and the longer he came to the Ming Dynasty, the more he realized that the gap between his Europe and the Ming Dynasty was really big.

Especially when he saw monks, Taoists, and missionaries promoting their religion in a city, when he learned that there was no church in the Ming Dynasty and that the secular and religious division was obvious, he began to believe that this was really his ideal country.

"Now I look forward to meeting their emperor, the emperor who is interested in natural philosophy!"
Chapter completed!