Like a mantis trying to stop a cart, he faces death and keeps moving forward.
Bandits defend the capital; pirates die for their country. How did the glorious three-hundred-year Ming dynasty come to this?
If Chongzhen cannot repel foreign invaders, he should hand the power to do so over to those who can.
Those who defend China are not defined by whether they serve the Ming, the rebels, the Western Army, or the Zheng family. They are divided only into those who stand and those who kneel, those who keep their hair and those who shave it.
What Li Laiheng seeks to preserve is not the imperial lineage of one family or faction, but the rightful order of all under Heaven.
