Zhu Wencong responded to this with a faint smile; at this stage, many have started to play the tortoise, feigning deafness, blindness, and ignorance.
For them, truth is unnecessary. What they need is the Great Confucian Scholar's fabrication of the 'Celestial Empire,' and those images of all nations paying tribute.
They would rather die within sweet dreams than wake up to the harsh reality, and so many begin to numb themselves with opium, living life in a perpetual stupor.
Pu Anchen believes they can still be saved, that they just need to go out, take a walk, and look around, and upon their return, they will undergo tremendous changes.
In this way, there's no need for Western countries to handhold the Qing court into the industrial age, and the market pie will grow larger and larger.
"You still don't grasp the situation! The personnel arrangements of the commission already show that the Qing court has no desire for any change.
