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Chapter 486 0476 [Old Ancestor Chen Has Another "Famous Saying"]

Not long after Chen Guiliang's live stream attracted attention, AcFun's live streaming platform made another big move.

Several days in advance, a message appeared on platforms such as Renren, Haiwainet, and ByteDance Weibo: "Following Li Ao's trip to mainland China six years ago, Mr. Li Ao will once again give a lecture at mainland universities. ACFUN live streaming channel will provide exclusive online live streaming of the entire event!"

More news followed, such as Li Ao answering netizens' questions in the live broadcast room, and Li Ao having a voice call with Chen Guiliang in the live broadcast room, etc.

This definitely cost money, and it wasn't cheap.

"Won't the server crash because there are too many viewers?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Jiang Feiyu was very confident: "No. We will build a separate scalable cloud computing resource pool specifically for Li Ao's live stream. When the number of viewers in the live stream exceeds the threshold, a new cloud server instance will be automatically triggered to join the cluster. I have already discussed this with the Rongcheng Cloud Computing Center, and their current technology can already do it."

In 2011, cloud elasticity technology was still in its infancy, requiring manual or simple script-based startup of prepared virtual machines. Moreover, it was time-consuming, complex, and prone to errors.

However, if you already know that a certain live stream will suddenly have a lot of traffic, it's very easy to operate if you're prepared in advance.

The news of Li Ao's university lecture being broadcast live attracted many scholars, public intellectuals, white-collar workers, students, and even the wealthy. Many of them were not actually interested in Li Ao, but were very interested in using him to show off.

In the past, Li Ao's speeches were also broadcast online.

That was a text and image live stream, where you couldn't see the images in real time. This time, however, it was the first time a live video stream had been broadcast online.

April 1, Jinan University.

During his visit to mainland China, Li Ao will accept the position of honorary professor at Jinan University and will also take the opportunity to give a speech promoting his newly published book.

Next, he will go to Xiamen University, where he will also be appointed as an honorary professor and give a speech to promote his new book.

He was quite surprised to receive the invitation to do a live stream, but he readily agreed without much thought.

Because all he needs to do in the latter half of his speech is answer a few questions from netizens and chat with Chen Guiliang for a few minutes, he can earn a substantial live-streaming fee and also promote his new book to more netizens.

Li Ao even promised to donate all the proceeds from the gifts received during the live stream to Project Hope in his name. He now had a reputation for charitable education!
Get more in one fell swoop.

Before the speech officially started, Li Ao was chatting with the leaders of Jinan University when he suddenly turned to the staff in charge of the live broadcast and asked, "Is this online live broadcast the same as a TV broadcast? Will viewers be able to see my speech immediately?"

The staff member replied, "There's a slight delay; the live TV broadcast is also delayed. Your live stream currently has over 20,000 viewers."

"It's already started?" Li Ao asked.

The staff member said, "The live stream is now live, but viewers can't see the images. You can think of it as them being seated, but you haven't shown up yet."

Li Ao walked over curiously and put his head close to the computer screen, only to find that the dark live stream room was filled with text.

"what are these?"

"These are comments posted by viewers. They are communicating using text."

Li Ao stared intently at the live chat comments, reading them carefully. Some were praising him, some were guessing the content of today's speech, and many more were posting random, nonsensical things. There were even people posting videos and asking others to add him on QQ (xxxxx).

This format felt particularly novel to Li Ao.

The internet is so much fun.

The auditorium was already full, and even more students from Jinan University stood in front of closed-circuit televisions throughout the campus. They could also watch Li Ao's speech through the school's closed-circuit television system.

Of course, students who are too lazy to go out can simply lie in their dorm rooms and watch ACFun live streams on their laptops.

The speech was titled "The Seventy-Third Martyr of Huanghuagang," the same title as Li Ao's new book.

But Li Ao never mentioned who the 73rd martyr was during his speech, instead urging the audience to buy his new book to find out.

He held up his book, "Impotent America," which he published last year but was banned, and launched a tirade against the United States and the other side of the strait.

He then added, “I don’t criticize Mao, nor do I criticize the Communist Party. Chinese people don’t criticize other Chinese people. Our enemy is not our own people, but foreigners. The Americans use soft power to cover up the bad things they’ve done. They have strong public opinion support, preventing us from speaking out. They’ve also downplayed the bad things the Americans have done, making people forget about them…”

"Although the United States has done many bad things, people still like America and hope to live the American life. Can the Chinese really live the American life? If the whole world takes America as the standard and lives like America, consuming resources at that rapid pace, it will consume the resources of three Earths..."

Holding up his banned book, "Impotent America," he became increasingly agitated: "The book being banned is probably due to my lack of moral character, but what right do you have to interfere with my moral character?"

There was thunderous applause.

However, many people didn't understand it because Li Ao's speech was too scattered and disjointed. There was too much joking, scolding, and self-praise, and too little in-depth explanation.

Only someone with a deep understanding of the United States, contemporary global history, and neoliberalism could immediately grasp what Li Ao was saying. However, at that time, most Chinese people were unaware of this.

The reactions in the live stream chat are the most genuine.

"Is this all the master is capable of?"

"Doing things haphazardly, one thing at a time."

"I've completely forgotten what the topic of my speech was."

"Haha, there's no topic for the speech at all."

"We've gone way off-topic; the speech title was only mentioned briefly." "..."

Regardless of the complaints from viewers, the number of viewers in the live stream continues to grow, reaching 200 million in real time.

The figure of 200 million is obviously fictitious; dividing by 10 gives the true figure.

More netizens are rushing to the scene after hearing the news. Some didn't even hear what was said before they started spamming praise comments, such as: "The master spoke so well," "As expected of Li Ao," and "I've learned something."

After the on-site Q&A session ended, the online Q&A session began.

The staff specifically targeted topics that were highly controversial: "Some netizens say that the mainland also has many problems, but you turn a blind eye and only know how to praise it. Especially those ten years, why don't you mention them?"

Li Ao immediately said, "From 1949 to the 1970s, the average life expectancy on the mainland increased by hundreds of millions of people by 40 years... At least no Japanese or American soldiers passed by in front of me anymore. I experienced that when I was a child. You can't just look at the bad things; you have to see the long-term progress... The reason I criticize Chiang Kai-shek is because his autocracy couldn't make the country rich and powerful; he even lost territory. He was incredibly stupid!"

"Since 1949, the mainland has been carrying a burden across the river; Chiang Kai-shek left behind a bunch of bad elements and a mess. Since 1978, the mainland has been feeling its way across the river... Don't just look at the bad parts; it's impossible for such a large country not to make mistakes. If there are mistakes, we just need to correct them..."

Chen Guiliang was watching the live stream at that moment, and the chat room was already buzzing with arguments.

Some netizens were greatly disappointed with Li Ao. In their minds, Li Ao was a freedom fighter, but after coming to listen to his speech, they found that Li Ao was just "flattering the CCP".

The actual number of viewers in the live stream had now exceeded 40!

It continues to rise.

Finally, it was Chen Guiliang's turn to connect with Li Ao via voice chat, a newly launched feature on ACFun's live streaming software. YY, on the other hand, had had it for a while.

"Hello Mr. Li Ao, I am Chen Guiliang," Chen Guiliang said.

Li Ao waved to the camera: "Hello, Mr. Chen. The last time we met was at Peking University, when you were still a student. I never imagined that after a few years, you would have become a wealthy businessman and built a very large business."

Chen Guiliang said, "I was just lucky to be born in a good era."

Li Ao asked, "What shall we talk about? Are you going to point out the mistakes in my speech again?"

“Haha, let’s not talk about that,” Chen Guiliang said, choosing the current hot topic. “Let’s talk about the Fukushima nuclear leak. This matter is getting bigger and bigger, and they’re already discharging nuclear wastewater directly into the sea. I estimate that the next step will be to discharge nuclear wastewater.”

Li Ao really didn't know much about this: "What's the difference between nuclear wastewater and nuclear sewage?"

Chen Guiliang explained simply: "Both are radioactive, but the degree of harm is vastly different. The Fukushima nuclear leak will continuously generate radioactive wastewater, which cannot be effectively treated and can only be collected and stored for a long time. When there is nowhere to put it, it will have to be discharged into the ocean, ultimately polluting the whole world."

Li Ao said, "The Japanese have done countless evil deeds; they're capable of such things. They've committed countless atrocities against the Chinese in the past; they don't care about the lives of others. China and South Korea were probably the first to be affected, weren't they?"

Chen Guiliang said, "The United States should be the first to be affected, as the ocean currents are drifting towards the United States."

Li Ao burst into laughter: "Hahaha, the son tricked his father."

Chen Guiliang said, "This matter could have been easily resolved if we had taken decisive action and dealt with it early. However, Tokyo Electric Power Company was initially afraid of taking responsibility and hesitated to order the pressure release, causing them to miss the best opportunity. Then, they were unwilling to damage equipment worth billions of dollars, which led to the accelerated meltdown of the reactor core. This is not a natural disaster, but a complete man-made disaster."

Li Ao said, "That's just the national character of the Japanese. They seem very polite in ordinary times, and they strive for perfection in even the smallest things. But when faced with a big problem, their true nature is revealed. They become selfish, shirk responsibility, and gamble on a lucky break without considering the consequences."

Chen Guiliang said: "Knowing minor etiquette but lacking great righteousness, being bound by trivial matters but lacking great virtue, valuing minor details but disregarding integrity and shame, fearing power but not cherishing virtue, the strong will inevitably become thieves and bandits, and the weak will inevitably become subservient."

Li Aozan exclaimed, "That's just how the Japanese are! Is that your conclusion?"

"I guess so," Chen Guiliang said.

This passage likely appeared on the internet after 2015, and has been attributed to various ancient sources. Some say it comes from the *Zizhi Tongjian*, others say it was spoken by Zuo Zongtang, and still others say it's from *Dream of the Red Chamber*.

It was actually made up by netizens.

In that instant, the live stream chat became incredibly busy.

"Wow, that's a really good summary."

"Old Master Chen is awesome!"

"I almost forgot that Mr. Chen is a top student from Peking University."

"The Japanese deserve to die; they are a scourge to the whole world."

"Some people are still praising the Fukushima 50 heroes, but some media outlets have reported that they were sent to pay off debts."

“Old Master Chen, please repeat that. I didn’t remember that part clearly.”

"..."

Chen Guiliang used a classical Chinese text to evaluate the Japanese, which was unanimously taken by the audience as his original work.

This statement was quickly copied to forums and online communities, and spread rapidly due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, dominating the trending topics on Baidu and Weibo for several days.

Some netizens even joked that Chen Laozu is the Chinese person who knows Japan best.

(End of this chapter)