【Historical Live Broadcast】Watching videos and being seen by our ancestors

[American Wasteland: A supermarket visited by robbers, with shelves toppled over. But if you look carefully, you can still find useful materials. There are western towns centered around taverns/churches/post offices everywhere]

[Russian wasteland: no food or drink, no living people, no safety, the surrounding is barren, nothing. The land is either torn apart by earthquakes and volcanoes and burned red, or whitened by glaciers and famine]

[Chinese Wasteland: At the end of the dynasty, natural disasters and human sufferings were everywhere, the monarch was incompetent, and the people lived in dire straits. People ate each other, Guanyin soil... everything that made their stomachs swell became their food, and in the end they were forced to rise up in rebellion and change the dynasty when they could no longer survive]

"American Wasteland: The Imagination of the Rich Second Generation

Russian wasteland: From prosperity to poverty overnight, and then to pessimism, there is no way back to recovery in this life

Chinese Wasteland: Ah, it collapsed again."

“So the Chinese wasteland is either about cannibalism or a world without birds. Essentially, this wasteland fantasy comes from their own unique civilizational background.

The Russian style is probably due to the closure of factories after the disintegration of the Soviet union, the collapse of the economy, shortages of materials, and the memory of suffering brought about by the severe cold weather.

The naivety of American wasteland fantasy just shows that they are in the youth stage of civilization, childish and beautiful, just like the Western Han Dynasty in China, there are many contradictions but not much suffering in the memory of civilization, so there is not much social thought burden. This is not something worth comparing. If possible, who doesn’t want to go back to youth [snickering]”

"During the Great Depression in the United States, people could still eat, and the food was decent. They did not suffer the same level of hardship as China and the Soviet Union."

"Every time a Chinese dynasty ends, there are always millions of starving people dying and eating their own children. In comparison, in the wasteland apocalypse in the United States, you can still find food in the supermarket. For people in the chaotic times in China, going to the apocalypse in the United States is almost like going to heaven [laughing and crying]"

“Chinese Wasteland: I was reborn, one week before the end of the world. In my previous life, I was ruthlessly killed by my neighbor. Now God has given me a chance to start over, and I must take revenge!”

“The Chinese wasteland is The Great Famine of Dingwu. It is the sound of the wheels of a horse-drawn carriage crushing bones as it passes through the disaster area, it is the black wind that blows up into the sky and turns out to be dead people’s hair, it is the crows that are so hungry that they can’t even cry out.”

“Chinese Wasteland: Even if my country has become a ruin, I will go back and rebuild it brick by brick”

“If there is too much sun, shoot it down. If there is a flood, dig a canal to divert water. If a mountain blocks the road, move the mountain away. This will ensure that your descendants will have an endless supply of wealth.”

It was the chaotic end of the dynasty with thousands of starving people and people exchanging their own children for food.

The monarchs who saw the people revolting everywhere were all defeated when they saw Tianmu openly scolding them for being incompetent: How could it be that I am incompetent?

I am the number one monarch in the world, a sage king who is praised by all the civil and military officials in the court.

The civil and military officials who were forced to do this said: Ah, yes, yes, yes! Those who didn’t speak well of you and flatter you have long been dragged off to be beheaded by you with a wave of your big hand, so what else can we who want to survive do?

It's just telling lies against one's conscience. We can still tell the difference between reputation and life.

The incompetent monarch continued to think in his heart: What does the people’s uprising have to do with me?

They are all stupid people. They don't want to reflect on why their lives are so miserable, but instead blame me, the emperor.

How could I be wrong? I am the emperor!

Even if there are mistakes, they are the fault of the people, the fault of the treacherous officials, and the fault of those incompetent officials who do not do practical work!

The people all looked pale and thin as they looked at the fields that were so dry that no food could grow, with a look of sorrow on their faces.

They saw that in the American wasteland on the sky, people could still find food to eat and feed themselves and fill their stomachs through their own efforts.

I was so envious that tears welled up in my eyes: How can that be called a wasteland apocalypse?

How could they still fill their stomachs?

What's the difference between this and the prosperous and peaceful dynasties? There is absolutely no difference!

No wonder the saying goes, it’s better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in troubled times!

Oh God, if you could open your eyes, please choose me to be born in this American wasteland when you reincarnate!

I am strong and smart, and I will definitely be able to live a carefree life in this American wasteland.

A woman with gray hair was desperately searching for the food hidden in her small home: In a few days, those officers and soldiers will ask us to pay grain tax, where can we get the food to pay?

We couldn’t even take out a bunch of rice from our house, and the leaves at the door had long been plucked out and eaten.

What should we do? If we don’t pay taxes, my great grandfather, who is in his 70s or 80s, and my younger brother, who is less than 10 years old, will be drafted into the army. If they become soldiers, how can they survive?

The head of my family and my eldest son lost their lives in forced conscription a few years ago, leaving us, an orphan, a widow and a few elderly people at home.

Damn it, God can’t bear to see anyone alive in my family, so he wants my family to die miserably and have no descendants?