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Chapter 362: Journalists from different countries fight over history

Yanjing Great Hall of the People

The scene of the premiere of "The Myth".

As a film co-produced between international superstar Jackie Chan and South Korea, it naturally received the attention of the media in both countries. Even many reporters who only focus on Hollywood came here to conduct interviews.

Because Cheng Long participated in Chenguang Entertainment's "Chenguang Beyond Class", Zhang Chen also came here this time, which can be regarded as returning the favor.

"Zhang Chen, I really didn't expect you to come!"

Inside the conference hall, Cheng Long arrived at the door early to greet Zhang Chen when he heard him being introduced outside.

Although he is the host, he does not welcome everyone who comes, but many people walk up to him and say hello.

Zhang Chen was the only person for whom Cheng Long personally ran to the door to wait for him to come in. This shows how important Zhang Chen, as a guest, was in Cheng Long's eyes.

"You're welcome, big brother. I haven't had much to do recently. Your movie is in the capital, so it's convenient for me to come over."

"That's right. Your company is nearby. It won't take you long to get here."

"Then you go ahead and do your work, big brother. I'll go find a place inside to sit down."

"Hey, Zhang Chen, let me introduce you." Cheng Long's face was flushed as he pulled a very pretty actress over from the side. "This is the heroine of our movie, Kim Hee Sun."

"Kim Hee Sun?" Zhang Chen looked Kim Hee Sun up and down, and saw her shrink into Cheng Long's arms.

"What's the matter, Zhang Chen, do you have any ideas?" Cheng Long teased.

"No!" Zhang Chen shook his head decisively, not wanting to be in the same boat with Cheng Long. "I'm allergic to Koreans recently."

"Allergy?" Cheng Long was stunned.

Zhang Chen sighed: "Brother, you should have seen the quarrels on the Internet these days, right?"

"Did this matter bother you?"

"It's not that it irritates me, but some of the words sound harsh."

“It’s just a debate about who owns some things?”

"I guess so." Zhang Chen waved his hand tiredly.

Kim Hee Sun snuggled in Cheng Long's arms and now realized that if Zhang Chen really wanted to have something happen with her, she would have no chance to resist.

And she shouldn't hide. Compared to Cheng Long, Zhang Chen, who is younger and more influential in the world, is more worthy of her flattery.

After figuring this out, she left Cheng Long's arms and smiled shyly at Zhang Chen: "Zhang Chen, I'm your fan, can you give me a signed album?"

Zhang Chen didn't understand Korean, so he could only wait for Xue Yining to translate for him.

After Xue Yining finished translating, Zhang Chen didn't want to pay attention to this boring greeting, but he changed his mind and thought of something, so he smiled and said to Jin Xishan: "I'll have someone bring it to you when the time comes."

After Jin Xishan heard the translation, before she could get excited, Zhang Chen's next words were conveyed to her ears through Xue Yining's translation: "But you have to promise me one thing."

The expression on Kim Hee Sun's face changed from surprise to even more surprise, and her face was full of joy.

"Zhang Chen, you still say you're not interested, but we've already made an appointment, haven't we?" Cheng Long came forward and bumped his shoulder against Zhang Chen, who was a head taller than him. "How about I let her go over to accompany you tonight? I've tried it, and it's not bad."

Zhang Chen looked at Cheng Long's frivolous look and knew that he had misunderstood something. He quickly stopped Cheng Long from saying the next thing: "I have something serious to do with her, don't think too much, big brother."

If Cheng Long were to continue talking, who knows if anything inappropriate for children would appear.

After hearing the truth, Cheng Long really looked Zhang Chen up and down carefully.

Seeing that Zhang Chen's expression did not seem fake, he became more serious: "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"There is indeed a place where I need you, big brother. We can talk about it in detail after the movie is over."

Zhang Chen nodded and directly accepted Cheng Long's kindness.

If Cheng Long joins this matter, the probability of success will increase significantly.

"Then let's watch a movie first."

The movie "The Myth" was screened several times at the Toronto Film Festival. Although Zhang Chen did not watch it at that time, he still had an impression of the movie.

This movie is set in the Qin Dynasty and tells the story of the great love between a great Qin general with great martial arts skills and Princess Yu Shu of Korea that spans a thousand years. It also tells the story of how modern archaeologist Jack and ancient general Meng Yi are connected through dreams and eventually find Princess Yu Shu who has been waiting for a thousand years.

Moreover, the scene where Princess Yushu dances on the big rock is really beautiful.

This is also one of the few films that travel through history, using both modern and ancient backgrounds to present a love story spanning thousands of years in one movie.

Of course, the main reason Zhang Chen came here was not to watch the love story in the movie, but the background of the story involved.

The movie had just finished showing, so naturally I had to accept interviews from the media and film critics.

"Jackie Chan, does the Qin emperor in this movie really build a huge mausoleum for the elixir of life? Did he think that the Qin Dynasty did not have such a beautiful and capable woman to complete this task, so he let our Princess Yushu guard the casket?"

Apparently, the reporter who asked this question was a South Korean reporter.

This also made many reporters focus their attention on this reporter who was obviously provocative.

Cheng Long did not directly answer the question from the South Korean reporter, but looked at Zhang Chen who was sitting in the front row with some surprise in his eyes.

He didn't expect that before the two of them had even gotten deeper into the topic they were talking about, he was being criticized by South Korean reporters because of his movie.

He thought about what Zhang Chen had just said.

Allergic to Korean?

Thinking of the heated topic that the two countries had discussed in the evenings in the past two days, Cheng Long sighed inwardly.

Zhang Chen was watching from below and wouldn't allow him to compromise.

He finally understood why Zhang Chen had gone to the premiere of his movie.

It turns out that watching the movie is secondary, and the purpose is to supervise him to express his opinion, right?

"In history, Korea has always been a vassal state of China, and Princess Yushu was only a beautiful woman presented to the First Emperor as a tribute. However, movies are not history, so please treat it rationally."

Cheng Long originally didn't want to say the previous words, but with Zhang Chen present, he had to say these words that would easily make South Koreans collectively go crazy.

Sure enough, when Jackie Chan's words were translated and heard by the reporter, he immediately jumped up and retorted with a red face: "Nonsense! Our country's Tangun had already ruled most of the areas north of the Yangtze River 6000 years ago. It is impossible for him to be a vassal state of the Qin Dynasty!"

The reporters from other countries were fine, as they had no idea about the "history book" that was only circulated in South Korea, but the reporters from the Country of Cherry Blossoms, Vietnam and several other countries had very happy expressions on their faces.

Especially the Yue reporter, who immediately retorted: "Stop talking nonsense!" Before the Chinese reporter could applaud his righteous act, the Yue reporter continued: "We Yue were the country that ruled most of East Asia in ancient times. At that time, the land south of the Yangtze River was the territory of our ancient Yue Kingdom!"

Reporters from the United States and Britain who don't understand these things may not know other geographical knowledge, but they are relatively familiar with the Yangtze River in China.

After listening to the speeches of the journalists from both countries, they made some calculations in their minds.

Good guy!
This means that in ancient times, South Bang ruled the area north of the Yangtze River, and ancient Yue ruled the area south of the Yangtze River.

So, all the citizens of China at that time lived on the Yangtze River?
Thinking of this, many foreign reporters who had already reacted couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"You two, today is the premiere of The Myth. I don't think there's any need to educate you on this basic historical knowledge, right?" Cheng Long was also helpless. In fact, as a native of Hong Kong Island, he didn't particularly understand specific historical knowledge.

But no matter how little he understood, he knew that the remarks made by the two reporters from South Bang and Vietnam were too outrageous.

"The reporters from South Korea and Vietnam are clearly making a fuss. Although our Sakura Country is far away on the island, we also know that the peninsula was basically a vassal state of China. Even your king needed to be enthroned by their emperor."

There is a saying that goes, China-Japan friendship lies in South Korea, and China-South Korea friendship lies in cherry blossoms. Right now, some reporters from the Cherry Blossom Country are fed up with South Korea's distortion of history.

Although their country has never admitted anything, they have always regarded themselves as the legitimate successor of the Tang Dynasty. They may care more about maintaining China's ancient powerful status than ordinary Chinese people.

"You, Sakura, a history thief, have stolen so many of our South Korean traditions, and you still have the nerve to criticize us?!"

"We stole your history?" The reporter from Sakura Country was also amused. "We sent envoys to learn the most advanced systems and technologies from the powerful Tang Empire. If you didn't have the help of the Tang Empire at that time, you would have been destroyed by us long ago."

When the South Korean reporter heard the word "annihilate the country", his face turned red with anger and his voice became louder. He shouted at the top of his voice, "You are talking nonsense. The powerful Tang Empire you are talking about, their Li Shimin was shot blind by our country's heroic Goguryeo warrior Yang Wanchun. And you said that you attacked us but were driven away by our military god Yi Sun-sin!"

Zhang Chen was listening to the South Korean reporter's speech and became more and more confused.

So, the history of South Korea has been distorted since so early on?
He had just thought of it as a joke at first, but when faced with these people's outrageous remarks, he felt both embarrassed and ridiculous for the reporter.

Many Chinese journalists also wrote furiously, recording the debate between the three journalists, South Bang, Sakura and Yue Hou, about ancient history.

They simply don't bother to argue about these things. The history books clearly state that a few reporters barking here won't change anything.

What was originally supposed to be the premiere of the movie "The Myth" was turned into a historical debate contest by several reporters.

In particular, several reporters from South Korea have evolved from confronting reporters from the Land of the Occupies of Japan to engaging in a war of words with reporters from Southeast Asian countries.

Because his remarks were really outrageous.

What's the matter? Siberia was originally from Korea, Confucius was of South Korean descent, the Spring Festival is from South Korea, and various festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also from South Korea.

This is serious. If you count it this way, then all the traditional festivals celebrated by Southeast Asian countries now have to be attributed to South Korea. Did South Korea become their former suzerain?

If they are now unwilling to admit that they were once China's younger brothers, they choose to avoid talking about such things.

But even if they don't want to admit it, they don't want their suzerain country to become a South Korea the size of a fingernail, right?

Therefore, with the unremitting efforts of South Korean journalists, they successfully angered all the Southeast Asian countries present.

A debate between the two countries was successfully transformed by this South Korean journalist into a meeting of Southeast Asian countries to condemn the South Korean journalist.

"South Korea is shameless!"

"South Korea stole something from China and had the nerve to claim it as theirs."

"You say Confucius is from South Korea, but why don't you say Washington is also from South Korea?"

"The Spring Festival is from your South Korea? Then why do you think it is called the Chinese Spring Festival?"

"What Chinese New Year? That's called the Lunar New Year! It's the New Year for us South Koreans."

There was constant noise at the scene.

Cheng Long had already walked down from the stage to Zhang Chen's side. He bumped Zhang Chen with his shoulder and asked him uncertainly, "I wouldn't believe this South Korean reporter unless you arranged it on purpose."

"How is that possible? I have nothing to do with such an idiot."

Zhang Chen flatly denied Cheng Long's speculation.

Of course, he had nothing to do with this reporter. He just used some tricks when South Korea sent the reporter over and chose a reporter who had made such remarks in the past and had extreme emotions.

If the situation is controlled properly, the reporter would be able to say what is now likely to cause outrage among all Southeast Asian countries.

If you directly pay the reporter to say these words, it will be too easy to be exposed.

Only by understanding a person's behavioral logic and guiding him step by step in this direction can this effect be achieved without leaving any clues.

"So what should we do now? We can't just let them keep quarreling like this, right?"

Cheng Long looked at the group of reporters who had formed a circle around him with a bit of a headache.

Originally, the staff at the scene wanted to stop it, but at the signal of Zhang Chen's eyes, Cheng Long stopped the security guard who wanted to step forward.

This caused the situation to spiral out of control step by step.

At this moment, the South Korean reporter has been surrounded by a group of Southeast Asian reporters. Outside them are the Western reporters who are just watching the show. The outermost group, who have nothing to do with the matter and are keeping aloof, are the Chinese reporters.

"It's almost done." Zhang Chen saw that there were signs of fighting over there. In order to prevent the situation from developing into a diplomatic incident, he said to Cheng Long, "Can I go up on the stage and say a few words?"

Although it was a questioning statement, Zhang Chen's tone did not sound like he was asking for Cheng Long's opinion.

Cheng Long also understood what Zhang Chen meant, which was that it was time to wrap up.

Although he didn't understand the meaning of Zhang Chen's move, he still nodded: "Thank you for your help."

Zhang Chen nodded to Cheng Long and walked slowly onto the stage.

"Whoo-"

A sharp and piercing sound of a speaker was heard throughout the venue.

Zhang Chen also deliberately pointed the microphone at the speaker, causing it to make this head-numbing noise, without caring whether the speaker worth hundreds of thousands of dollars could bear it.

Although this sharp noise made people at the scene feel uncomfortable, the effect was surprisingly good.

After just a few seconds, there was no more sound of quarreling except for the sharp noise coming from the speakers.

"Zhang Chen looked at everyone staring at him, nodded with satisfaction, moved the microphone away from the speaker and brought it to his mouth.

“Dear journalist friends, would you like to hear a few words from me?

　Sometimes I feel angry and helpless when I see those remarks made by South Korea. It’s really maddening when people become shameless.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)