Obviously the normal state of the Chinese is not listening. Their priorities, like most of the human race, doesn't have truth anywhere near the top. If by accident they had listened to him at first, they would have listened to someone else, with better bullshit, almost immediately. In other words returning to equilibrium.
More or less, if you want regular folk to have good beliefs, you have to convert them by the sword. However, the idea-expertise and the sword-expertise are largely independent and unlikely to be unified in a single person.