Name: 我們開新頻道啦！🎉 (We Made A New Channel!)
Uploaded: 2026-01-16T16:56:58.000Z
Duration: 3 min 3 s

Today we're proud to present our new channel, Night Shift Kurzgesagt After Dark.

今天我們要驕傲地介紹我們的新頻道，Night Shift Kurzgesagt After Dark。

For years, we've wanted to make something new.

幾年來，我們一直想做些新的東西。

A place for the stories that keep us up at night.

一個可以講述那些讓我們夜不能寐的故事的地方。

Here are the first two minutes of our first video.

這是我們第一支影片的前兩分鐘。

Flames light the sky over the Pearl river delta as war junks swarm the banks of Sanshan, a fishing village in southern China.

火焰照亮了珠江三角洲的天空，戰船蜂擁而至，湧向中國南方的一個漁村 Sanshan 的岸邊。

The attacker's captain has promised 10 silver coins for every villager's head.

攻擊者的隊長承諾，每顆村民的頭顱將賞賜 10 銀幣。

By now, the villagers know it was mistake not to pay the pirate confederation protection money.

到現在，村民們知道沒有支付海盜聯盟保護費是一個錯誤。

They've built a wooden palisade and armed every man between 16 and 60.

他們已經建造了一個木製柵欄，並武裝了所有 16 到 60 歲之間的男人。

Their only cannon explodes in their faces and.

他們唯一的加農砲在他們臉上炸開，

And their leader gets stabbed in the back.

而且他們的首領被從背後刺死。

In the turmoil, one man makes a last stand from a rooftop, hurling dust onto the attackers until they bring him down with spears.

在混亂中，一個人從屋頂做最後的抵抗，朝攻擊者身上揚起塵土，直到他們用長矛將他擊倒。

And when the pirates finally sail away, they set the village on fire and leave 80 severed heads hanging from a banyan tree, staring blankly across the water as a warning.

當海盜終於揚帆離去時，他們放火燒了村莊，並在榕樹上掛了 80 個被砍下的頭顱，空洞地望著水面，作為警示。

The southern Chinese coast is living in fear, and no one comes to help.

中國南方海岸生活在恐懼之中，沒有人來幫忙。

The Chinese Empire, the largest and wealthiest state on earth, can't protect its people.

地球上最大、最富有的國家——中國帝國，卻無法保護自己的人民。

Around 1800, China governs 300 to 400 million people, a third of the world's population.

大約在 1800 年，中國統治著 3 到 4 億人口，佔世界人口的三分之一。

While European powers fight over colonies and trade routes, Imperial China has been running the same operating system for over 2000 years.

當歐洲列強爭奪殖民地和貿易路線時，帝制中國已經運行了 2000 多年的相同作業系統。

When their western contemporaries were still hacking at each other with swords and hauling chests of gold, they had already invented gunpowder and used paper money.

當他們西方的同時代人還在用劍互相砍殺、搬運金幣時，他們已經發明瞭火藥並使用了紙幣。

Their compass helped Europeans discover already inhabited lands and eventually led them back to China for tea and porcelain.

他們的指南針幫助歐洲人發現了已經有人居住的土地，並最終引導他們回到中國購買茶葉和瓷器。

China sees itself as the Middle Kingdom, the center of civilization, while everybody else are barbarians, slowly learning what it has known for centuries.

中國自認為是中原，是文明的中心，而其他所有人都是野蠻人，正緩慢學習著中國幾個世紀以來就知道的東西。

The current dynasty running this ancient machine is the Qing.

運行這個古老機器的現任朝代是清朝。

But to most people, they're still outsiders.

但對大多數人來說，他們仍然是外來者。

They're Manchu, descendants of horse riding warriors from the north who smashed through the Great Wall in 1644, realized the Chinese system was too sophisticated to replace, and

他們是滿族人，是來自北方的騎馬戰士的後裔，他們在 1644 年衝破了長城，意識到中國的制度太過精緻而無法取代，於是

simply kept it running with with themselves in charge.

Imagine this realm as a gravitational field.

想像一下這個國度就像一個引力場。

At its center sits the Emperor in Beijing, like a supermassive black hole, bending the fabric of society around him.

而皇帝就坐鎮北京，就像一個超大質量的黑洞，扭曲著周遭的社會結構。