The Plan to Conquer Yanbian and Hunchun (11)

The Bible says this:

‘Faith is revealed through action.’

I agree with those words a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times over.

To put it bluntly, suppose I declared, ‘I have staked my life on developing Manchuria.’

Would the countless people who had flocked in from every corner of the country to resettle in Manchuria really believe that declaration was sincere, unless they had watched me closely for a long time?

‘If developing Manchuria fails, I will leap into Lake Cheonji on Baekdu Mountain and die!’

Even if I made a declaration like that, most of them would think this:

Some high official is spouting grandiose-sounding nonsense.

“To put it bluntly, is there anywhere in the world where a politician doesn’t claim to be willing to lay down his life for the country?”

That bastard Won Gyun, who was in charge of Gyeongsang Right Naval Command, Joseon’s largest naval force at the beginning of the Imjin War, used to shout things like this all the time...