"This is a wooden cart..."

Walking along, Xia Liang also introduced the situation in the pit of the figurines to the other side; this was part of his duty as a Tour Guide.

"So this is your Dragon Country's famous Terracotta Warriors, huh? Looks like your Dragon Country is really poor, actually treating a pile of broken Stone as treasure." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

After listening to Xia Liang's introduction, Han Jie gave a cold laugh as well, looking at the Terracotta Warriors before him with utter contempt.

"Dragon Country people are really ridiculous. Treating a pile of broken Stone as treasure and even building a museum specially for it."

"Does Dragon Country have nothing else at all? Is that why you treat these things like they're so important?"

"These Terracotta Warriors are made so crudely, and they still count as treasures in Dragon Country? I think I could make a few Terracotta Warriors myself right now and sell them to Dragon Country people, I'd definitely make a lot of money."

"What the hell is this molding supposed to be? Even our three-year-old kids back in Stick Country can shape clay better than this, right?"

With Han Jie's words, the Stick Country viewers in his livestream started yelling one after another, which made quite a few Dragon Country bros furious again. Even some foreigners felt it was a bit much; although they hadn't personally seen the Terracotta Warriors, they had at least heard of them—it is, after all, one of the Eight Wonders of the World.

"You Dragon Country people really let me down. I heard these Terracotta Warriors are over two thousand years old, so I wanted to come feel the history, and it turns out they're just a bunch of clay dolls."

"This is simply a waste of my time and my fans' time. Do you Dragon Country people have anything at all you can be proud of?"

Seeing the livestream getting rowdier, Han Jie continued to fan the flames. The messier the chat, the more he enjoyed it, because his viewer count was skyrocketing. Xia Liang frowned slightly; how ignorant did you have to be to say this kind of thing?

As one of the Eight Wonders of the World, the Terracotta Warriors are also a World Cultural Heritage site, hailed as the greatest archaeological discovery of the twentieth century, and yet the other side was dismissing them as worthless.

He had originally planned to tolerate the other party for a bit, but now it seemed that his tolerance had only turned into indulgence.

"Mr. Han Jie, actually you Stick Country people are descendants of us Dragon Country people."

Xia Liang spoke up.

"But don't worry, we Dragon Country people will never acknowledge you Stick Country people, 'cause it's a shameful thing."

When Xia Liang finished speaking, before Han Jie could open his mouth, the Stick Country viewers in the livestream had already exploded.

"Dragon Country people are too disgusting, seriously. They actually dare say we're their descendants, when they're the ones constantly plagiarizing our culture."

"This Xia Liang must be panicking, otherwise why would he spout such nonsense?"

"What a joke. When we Stick Country people appeared, they Dragon Country people were still apes, okay? And they dare say we're their descendants?"

The Stick Country viewers in the livestream were all shouting at once; in their eyes, Xia Liang's words were simply laughable.

"Xia Liang, what nonsense are you spouting? Are you Dragon Country people really this shameless? How could we noble Stick Country people possibly be descendants of you vulgar Dragon Country people? I demand you apologize to us Stick Country people right now — you're insulting us!"

Han Jie also looked at Xia Liang coldly, making it clear that if the other party didn't apologize, he wouldn't let it go.

"Mr. Han Jie, don't get worked up. I'm telling the truth."

Xia Liang smiled slightly and went on.

"Back in our Dragon Country's Shang Dynasty, which was more than three thousand years ago, it was us Dragon Country people who first came to the Korean Peninsula. At that time, Ji Zi, the uncle of King Zhou, the human emperor of the Shang Dynasty, brought his clan and was the first to set foot on the Korean Peninsula and established the first dynasty there. Back then, the overwhelming majority of people on the Korean Peninsula were Dragon Country people. There were indeed some indigenous tribes still in the Stone Age, but they were very few in number, and they all became subjects of Ji Zi's dynasty. For the following thousand years, the Ji Zi dynasty of Li endured without collapse. By the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the Ji Zi dynasty had already been torn by internal strife for more than eighty years. Emperor Wu of Han then sent troops to help Ji Zi's descendants retake the throne, but those descendants of Ji Zi refused to admit they were Dragon Country people, because once they admitted it, their territory would be annexed by Emperor Wu of Han."

"Emperor Wu of Han despised those Ji Zi descendants for forgetting their ancestry, so that's where the saying 'the Korean Peninsula has always been Dragon Country territory' comes from — he incorporated the Korean Peninsula into the territory of the Han Dynasty. It's said that at the time Emperor Wu of Han interrogated Ji Zi's descendant, asking what his father's surname was; the descendant answered 'Kim.' He asked what Ji Zi's son's surname was, and he also answered 'Kim.' Well, there you have it: obviously Dragon Country people, and yet they wanted to play at independence. Might as well swallow them. By the late Eastern Han, Dragon Country was in turmoil and the Han Dynasty had no time to bother with the remote Korean Peninsula. That's when the Gao Baoliren came and took control of the Korean Peninsula."

"But later, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Gao Baoli was wiped out, and most of its people were dead. The land, however, could not be abandoned, so the Tang Dynasty once again found Ji Zi's descendants, helped them establish a new state, and bestowed upon them the surname Li. That's how a huge number of people surnamed Li appeared again."

As he spoke, he looked at Han Jie.

"Mr. Han Jie, if I'm not mistaken, there should be a lot of people surnamed Li and Kim in Stick Country, right?"

Hearing Xia Liang's words, Han Jie was stunned on the spot. He might not know about the other things, but it was true that there were many people surnamed Li and Kim in Stick Country.

Especially those surnamed Kim; they made up nearly half.

"Hmph, so what? This still can't prove anything. We Stick Country people absolutely cannot have anything to do with those Dragon Country people."

Han Jie snorted coldly. There was no way he would ever admit this.

"Of course I know that. After all, you Stick Country people don't have many other skills, but that fine tradition of not respecting your ancestors has been there for thousands of years. Actually, in Pyongyang in Stick Country, there used to be a Ji Zi Mausoleum. Successive rulers on the Korean Peninsula would regularly hold rites there to commemorate Ji Zi. But in 1959, in order to build the Peony Peak Youth Park, your top leader at the time in Stick Country directly ordered Ji Zi Mausoleum to be demolished. They tore down their own ancestor's grave just to build a park. So tell me, hasn't that tradition of not respecting your ancestors been perfectly passed down among you Stick Country people?"

Xia Liang said with a laugh.

Han Jie's brows knitted tightly, and his face looked a bit ugly. He might not know about other things, but he had heard about tearing down Ji Zi Mausoleum to build a park, because he lived near Pyongyang and had even gone to that park to hang out.

Xia Liang's words echoed in the livestream; the Stick Country viewers all fell into silence. It wasn't that they'd been convinced yet; many of them had gone online to look up information to verify whether what Xia Liang said was true. But after they finished checking, they grew even more silent, because they discovered that everything Xia Liang said was actually true.

Their ancestor really was called Ji Zi, who had come from Dragon Country's land to the Korean Peninsula three thousand years ago and established a dynasty there.

In '59, their leader at the time had indeed ordered Ji Zi's tomb demolished to build a park. That park still exists today, and some of them had even been there to play.

Only now did they realize that the park they had been enjoying themselves in used to be their own ancestor's graveyard.