Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 236 - 196: Movies and Dialogue (Grand - 9000 Requesting Monthly Tickets)_4

Chapter 236: Chapter 196: Movies and Dialogue (Grand Chapter 9000 Requesting Monthly Tickets)_4

"This is, of course, the unparalleled achievement of expelling the barbarians and rebuilding Huaxia!

"If a Greek peasant without any background had risen up in rebellion and reclaimed Greece, Asia Minor, and North Africa after more than ninety years since the fall of Constantinople, and had restored the Apennine Peninsula that was lost for a hundred years, the Iberian Peninsula and Gaul that were lost for a thousand years, and Britain, and rebuilt the Roman Empire, making the people who had been conquered for a thousand years identify themselves as Romans once again, what kind of evaluation would he have received?

"Unfortunately, ancient Rome had no such hero.

"Luckily, Huaxia had such a hero!

"If one were to say that times create heroes and that there will always be ’another person’ who would rise when the land of the Divine State sinks, then where is the Roman Empire’s ’another person’...

"Where indeed?

"I believe we in Huaxia are exceedingly fortunate. Whenever mountains crumble, the Divine State sinks, and when faced with the crisis of racial extinction, there always arises a group of people, destined to save the multitudes from the distress.

"Yet because of this, many have come to regard it as a norm, not realizing that the heavens have never particularly favored Huaxia; it is the sons and daughters of Huaxia who have burnt their passionate blood to recast a clear and righteous world.

"The people are the creators of history. However, those heroic figures also emerged amidst the embrace of the people, and the achievements they gained should naturally be remembered by Huaxia!"

...

Meng Yuan’s speech continued to surge with emotion, embodying not just a scholarly spirit that pointed out strategies for governing the country but also one that robustly denounced the preset norms.

But rather than being off-putting, this fervor drew people in, making it seem as though they had truly traversed hundreds of years of history, witnessing firsthand the trials and the indomitable resistance that the entire Huaxia under the Great Sheng Dynasty had faced.

And his question, "Where is the Roman Empire’s ’another person’?" resonated deeply with countless netizens.

If at that moment you opened the comment function on the video site, you would see overwhelming praises from numerous players.

"Yes, that’s so well said!"

"Expelling barbarians, rebuilding Huaxia – it sounds so simple, but it’s incredibly hard to truly achieve!"

"From South to North, unifying Huaxia, such a feat was unprecedented before Emperor Taizu of Sheng. And to think he personally led campaigns to the Desert North multiple times, what martial virtue!"

"Some people say, even if Emperor Taizu of Sheng hadn’t founded the Great Sheng Dynasty and expelled the Northern Barbarians, there would have been ’another person’ to accomplish it, but where is the Roman Empire’s ’another person’?"

"Indeed, it’s precisely because Emperor Taizu expelled the Northern Barbarians and established the Great Sheng Dynasty that everyone takes these achievements for granted. But look at the Roman Empire – once it splintered, it never stood up again, right?"

"Yes, if the Roman Empire really had such a person, his name would probably replace Caesar in the West, right?"

"Thinking about it, if the Great Sheng Dynasty hadn’t reshaped Huaxia, imagine what the Central Plains would have looked like after six hundred years of foreign rule – it’s almost inconceivable!"

"During the Qi Dynasty, even traditional Han regions like Yan, Liaodong, and the River West Corridor couldn’t be defended. And later, it goes without saying, people from the South became the lowest class, with areas like Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Guangxi swarmed by barbarians’ businessmen. In time, the Central Plains might have become completely barbarianized. Without the emergence of the Great Sheng Dynasty, there could have been an unspeakably chaotic time!"

"Look at now; you’ll see that a fishing village that has been separated for over a hundred years is in constant turmoil, an island split for seventy years is filled with desolation. What Emperor Taizu took over was a North and South divided for over two hundred years, Yan and Liaodong parted for over four hundred years, the River West Corridor lost for over five hundred years, and Yunnan gone for more than eight hundred years!"

"Yes, without the Great Sheng Dynasty, perhaps the spine of us Huaxia people would have been broken! Perhaps the Southern and Northern people would have become two different nations. Don’t think it’s impossible; the world has plenty of such examples."

"People say that times create heroes, but in our Huaxia history during those darkest times, how many heroes like Emperor Taizu have there been?"

"I don’t like the saying ’times create heroes.’ Of course, this phrase has its merits, just like if Emperor Taizu were born in a peaceful and prosperous time, he would have simply been a tenant farmer with no opportunity for heroism. However, overemphasizing that times create heroes falls into a kind of nihilism where if the ’hero does not come forth,’ it is interpreted as ’the time has not come.’ But many times it is the hero who finds the opportunity, the hero who creates the times!"

"Which is why I say, Huaxia is too fortunate. Whenever Huaxia is weakened, when the land of the Divine State sinks, there is always a hero who appears to save the day and support the tottering building! Yet, it is exactly because of this good fortune that many people take the emergence of these heroes as something inevitable and fail to appreciate them!"

"What’s worse is not just the lack of appreciation but also the constant search for various angles to critique and vilify these heroes. Meanwhile, those executioners with bloody hands and stained blades become the objects of rehabilitation."

"How wonderful it is, to be able to say these words to Emperor Taizu, truly wonderful..."

This short speech made the audience feel as if they had traversed hundreds of years and arrived at that era full of turbulence and heroic figures.

The scene in the movie shifted accordingly.

Chuzhou City, Rebel Army.

It was here that a young Emperor Taizu of Sheng began his step by step journey towards his destiny.

From Emperor Taizu’s first battle with the Northern Barbarian Army to his departure from Chuzhou City with the "Lianghuai Twenty-four Generals," the story of his time as a member of the Rebel Army unfolded entirely before all the viewers.

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