The West now possessed not only hard power in industry, technology, and other fields, but also conspiracies and tricks for subversion, division, and the like. It had cultivated itself both within and without, and its true strength was indeed outstanding.
It was only because the ancestors of China had left behind so much that they had given Li Ye and people like him the time and capital to resist.
Because to brainwash an ancient nation whose civilization had endured unbroken for thousands of years into believing itself an inferior race, they needed to fabricate far too many lies.
The Four Great Inventions were sitting right there. They had to forge four counterfeits to refute China's once-leading technologies, lest China spend every day dreaming of reviving its former glory.
But fabricating lies felt great for a moment; when they were exposed, there was nowhere to hide one's face.
Take nothing else but Archimedes and the Code of Hammurabi. Those had made it into China's textbooks, yet in the end, weren't they both questioned until they were riddled with holes?
A fake could never become real. To cover up an earlier fake, they had to produce even more fakes afterward.
To keep brainwashing others, they would even come up with a whole series of disgusting, underhanded tricks.
For example, when Asia's hurdling sensation defeated every opponent and stepped onto the podium as world number one, the character "Xiang" somehow acquired the meaning of excrement.
It was truly baffling. The character had existed for thousands of years, so how had it become associated with shit in just these recent years?
So if you wanted to defeat these conspiracies and schemes, you first had to grow strong. Otherwise, fake became real, and it would never end.
Everyone chatted for a while longer before Li