Hathaway is only 18 years old. She doesn't know how to speak properly and her words aren't tactful enough, but she speaks the truth.

Unfortunately, this isn't a girl from China!

If it's an 18-year-old girl in China, you can pat her head and make her blush.

An 18-year-old American girl simply couldn't learn to be shy, which deprived Chen Ping'an of the pleasure of patting her head.

However, he now has less than an hour to win over the hearts of the 36 refugees in his territory through this speech.

He didn't know what the system's evaluation criteria were, or what level he needed to reach.

But whatever you do, let's give it a try first!

Back at the tavern, he went straight upstairs, hid in his room, and began to think about what to say.

Soon, you can hear footsteps downstairs, people talking, and the sounds of tables, chairs, and stools being dragged around.

Looking at the manuscript on his desk, he thought, "So what if I die? There's no penalty for failing the mission anyway. I can just forgo the reward!"

He took a deep breath and pushed open the door.

He walked down the stairs, glanced around, and found that everyone was there.

Thirty men and six women—all the homeless people from the day before yesterday to today—have arrived.

Lin Zhiyong walked up: "Ping An, are you ready?"

He didn't know what Chen Ping'an was going to say or do, but he supported everything Chen Ping'an did and every decision he made.

Even without these homeless people, he could find another group.

America may not have much else, but homeless people... are everywhere, there are millions!

This batch is disobedient, just replace it with the next batch!

What's the big deal?

Chen Ping'an nodded, stood on the stairs and quietly looked down, without saying a word, just watching quietly.

The aura emanating from him was different from before; just looking at him quietly was enough to create a sense of pressure. Gradually, the noise in the tavern subsided.

Everyone was waiting for Chen Ping'an to speak!

Unexpectedly, Chen Ping'an's opening remarks were a bombshell:

"I don't know if you remember, but 73 years ago, the East and the United States had a great war!"

You misspoke!

It wasn't just the East and America; it was the East and all the major powers except the Soviet Union that fought a major war in South Korea!

When he said this, the homeless people present were stunned. They might know, or they might not know, or their ancestors might have fought against the East.

But what does it mean that this Eastern priest is saying these words with such pride on the stage?

Is it pride?

Is this a provocation?

Regardless of whether the homeless people present refuted it or not, their attention was piqued.

Yes, you may not know this, but it's true!

There are more than 200 countries in the world. Of course, I don't know if there were that many in 1950.

However, even among these countries, fewer than 20 can actually be considered powerful nations!

The rest are all inferior!

And these fewer than 20 world powers actually mobilized almost all of them to fight a war on a peninsula against a poor and backward country that couldn't even manufacture its own guns and had no industrial base!

They actually lost!

This country pushed them south from the Yalu River all the way to the 38th parallel.

This is a country that is composed of all the world's major powers except the Soviet Union, a total of 17 countries, yet they cannot defeat an agricultural country that cannot even manufacture its own guns and has no industrial base!

Can you imagine it?

This one country has practically single-handedly taken on the whole world!

Can you even imagine it?

Chen Ping'an raised his head and looked sharply at everyone below, his gaze seemingly looking down on them.

"If you didn't learn about this in school, I suggest you go to West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., to see the Korean War Veterans Memorial."

At that time, the total number of casualties of the Allied forces was greater than that of the East!

You must understand that at that time, our Eastern countries were merely agricultural nations!

Even the firearms were captured during World War II!

Although we received support from the Soviet Union later on, in the early stages we relied almost entirely on weapons and equipment captured during World War II.

There wasn't even a standardized ammunition caliber; there were dozens of different types of rifles.

Even so, we still managed to force the UN forces to the negotiating table and make them obediently sign the agreement!

"certainly!"

He paused for a moment: "I'm not bringing this up today to show off!"

I'm not here to show off how formidable my country and my people are when they get serious!

Although this is something I'm proud of, something I can boast about!

At this point, Chen Ping'an raised his voice sharply:

"An agricultural country is almost taking on all the world's powerful nations single-handedly!"

What I want to talk about today is how they did it!

"Many of them were farmers who volunteered to fight on the peninsula. One of my grandfathers had never touched a gun before."

But he carried his own food and travel expenses by train, found the army, and after only a short period of training, was sent to the Korean Peninsula to work as a machine gunner.

There are many farmers like him, including the most famous sniper in the East, Mr. Zhang, who had never touched a gun before going to North Korea.

They all went voluntarily!

Nobody forced me!

Because they went voluntarily, even without prior training, they were able to unleash powerful combat strength when the battle came.

Do you know why?

Because at that time, Dongfang had just been liberated and land had just been distributed to all the peasants.

In thousands of years, this is the only dynasty that has been able to distribute land to everyone!

The whole world, including the world now, except for the East.

Whether in the past or present, those who own land are not farmers.

Just like the United States, which has only 120 million people who own land, but has more than 3 million, nearly 4 million people.

Just like I said a couple of days ago, owning land means you always have a way out and endless possibilities.

You will then have the motivation and dignity to live.

Before 1949, in the East, only 10 percent of the population owned land. The rest, like you, could only work as laborers, tenants, or servants. In some places, they were even serfs. Their lives and deaths were not in their own hands.

Finally, someone treated them like human beings!

They treated 90% of farmers and 90% of the poorest people as human beings.

They got used to having nothing, but once they had something, they couldn't bear to lose it.

That's human dignity!

At that time, if the UN forces had invaded, the land they once owned and the dignity they once possessed would have been lost again, returning to the hands of that 10% of the population.

So they fought desperately!

Using rifles of dozens of calibers and all sorts of miscellaneous weapons and equipment captured during World War II, they drove the UN forces, which comprised almost all the world's major powers, back south of the 38th parallel.

It should be noted that at the time, this was only a part of the East, less than one-third of the total military force.

Where does this formidable fighting power, capable of taking on the entire world, come from?

The wise people of that time all knew where it came from: land and dignity, possession and loss!

It is this system in the East that gives almost everyone the opportunity to become a person!

This alarmed MacArthur, who immediately oversaw land reforms in South Korea and Japan, distributing land to individual households.

U.S. President Truman made multiple phone calls to Taiwan, urging the country to immediately implement land reform and distribute land to individual households. (This is a true story!)

They were also afraid that once the people under their rule were infiltrated by Easterners, those who had gained land and dignity would no longer be under their control…

As Chen Ping'an spoke, his high spirits gradually subsided.

"And you..."

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