Boss, the local esper big shots are here to kill!

The Copper Fragment hummed softly, its meaning clear: it was deeply dissatisfied. Shen Le was simply too weak on his own to meet its demands, so he could only close his eyes and silently recall modern history:

The Opium War—the First Sino-Japanese War—the semi-colonial, semi-feudal society... semi-colonial—semi-colonial... semi-colonial...

It hadn't been easy for us to climb back up and regain a place among the top three, boss!

You can't get fat in one bite!

As for the "wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever rivers flow, all shall be Han land" that you want, it wasn't as though it could never happen—but at least give us a few decades, or a few centuries!

[Useless!]

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The Copper Fragment buzzed and trembled. Shen Le gave a bitter smile.

Yes, useless. Compared to the history you were used to, where China had always been TOP 1 in the world, any ruler who drove China into the depths was useless.

But, sir, could you please have just a little patience?

We weren't TOP 1 in every era either. Every few centuries, there was always a low point, always an era of chaos and darkness, when foreign peoples trampled on our heads.

If you judged our national strength in those eras, forget TOP 1—we probably couldn't even make the top ten, right?

And please, sir, take it easy. Don't keep scanning. At the very least, let's do it secretly, on a small scale.

No one cared what you did back home. Maybe you were some high-ranking divine artifact, and everyone gave you face. But now we'd crossed the border. If you alerted something else and it came knocking, this little body of mine wouldn't be able to handle