Chapter 6: Shocking

"In about ten years, this sky will definitely change" Fang Mu was silent for a moment and slowly spoke.

'What are you talking about' Fang Tianhao turned around in shock, his sharp gaze shining directly at Fang Mu.

I said, 'Ten years or so, this sky is going to change.'" Fang Mu didn't care about Fang Tianhao's intimidating eyes at all, and still said that sentence to himself.

However, Fang Tianhao hurriedly stepped forward and covered Fang Mu's mouth, and the expression on his face also changed.

'You don't want to die!! If others hear about it and report it to the court, you won't be able to cut off ten heads.'" After speaking, he looked around, and there were no other people around him, so he let go of Fang Mu's mouth.

'Come with me, Fang Tianhao turned around and left, walking towards the bookshelf in this room.

Although Fang Mu was very puzzled, he also followed.

I saw Fang Tianhao walk to the side of the bookshelf, grope around the edge, push hard with both arms, and the bookshelf was slowly removed.

Behind the bookshelf is a door.

Apparently this is a secret room!!!!

Fang Mu's face still didn't change much. In the late Qing Dynasty, bandits were rampant all over the country, scourging the townships. Generally, the landlord's house in the countryside will have a secret room to avoid banditry, and the Fang family, as a big family in ten miles and eight townships, is not surprising that there is such a secret room.

'Come in'. Fang Tianhao pushed open the door of the secret room and walked in.

Fang Mu also followed. Walked into the secret room.

It was pitch black in the secret room, and it wasn't until Fang Tianhao lit the candlesticks around the secret room that the space in the secret room brightened.

I saw that there was only a vast hall in the secret room, about 200 square meters. In the corner of the chamber was a large pile of rice, which was eaten during the evacuation. In the other corner was a pile of things covered with a white cloth, and it was impossible to see what it was. In the middle of the chamber there is a wooden table, and two chairs. It was clean, apparently someone came in and cleaned it often.

It's just that this arrangement makes the secret room seem empty.

'Sit down'. After speaking, Fang Tianhao sat on a chair.

Fang Mu was not polite, walked to another chair, and sat down, his expression was very calm and flat.

Fang Tianhao was looking at his only son in front of him at this time, and suddenly found that he seemed to know him as if he had just known him, and felt that Fang Mu had suddenly become so strange and mysterious.

'No matter what, he is still the son of our Tianhao'. Fang Tian comforted in his heart

'What did you mean by that?' Fang Tianhao still couldn't adapt to his son's changes, and still asked Fang Mu in that tone of hatred that iron is not steel.

Fang Mu looked at Fang Tianhao and was silent, thinking about what to say to Fang Tianhao.

Perhaps seeing Fang Mu's scruples, Fang Tianhao spoke directly.

'You and I are not outsiders, there is no one else here now, you can say whatever you want'.

Hearing Fang Tianhao's words, he shook his expression. After all, this is the Lao Tzu of his life, how can Lao Tzu harm his own son'?

Only then did he let go of the last scruples in his heart, and slowly leaned on his mouth and said:

'How long do you think the current imperial court will exist'?

When Fang Tianhao heard Fang Mu's words, he was stunned and opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to answer Fang Mu's question.

Fang Mu didn't care either, and continued.

'Since the beginning of the ** war, the Qing Dynasty lost its foreign wars and ceded Hong Kong Island; Failure after failure; Compensation after reparation; Again and again, the land was cut. The needless compromises and concessions made the great powers see the weakness of the Qing Dynasty and thus increased their aggression against China. The signing of countless unequal treaties forced the Manchus to do their best to squeeze the people, so that those treaties weighed on the 40,000,000 citizens like a heavy mountain.

The rise of the dwarf country in the east because of the Meiji Restoration, and the defeat of the Manchu navy and army in the First Sino-Japanese War, shattered the last bit of self-esteem in the hearts of the people, and made the people extremely disappointed with the Manchus.

In fact, the people's wish is very simple, as long as they can eat enough, wear warm clothes, and have a little respect. But!! The Manchus failed to fulfill these two demands, so couldn't the people be disappointed?

In terms of reform and self-help, there were also Westernization Movement and Wuxu Reform, during which there were also some national industries, such as the Mawei Shipyard, the Gangneung Manufacturing Bureau, the Anqing Machinery Factory, and so on, and China's fiscal revenue also reached the sixth in the world, and it had the ninth navy in the world and the first in East Asia.

However, all this made the dwarf country devour, and Fang Mu's face became hideous when he said this, obviously he was very resentful of that dwarf country.

Of course, it was also the Manchus who took it upon themselves to develop national industry, but those at the top were also enriching themselves and fighting with each other, until the factories were shut down, the machines were scrapped, and the Mawei shipyard could not even pay the wages of its own workers, and this was not the fault of the Manchus for their incompetence.

For private enterprises, it is even more squeezing, take our Fang family's factory as an example, the annual profit is only more than 200,000 taels of silver, and those officials will take away a full 100,000 taels!!! That's half of the Fang family's profits.

Why was Japan able to become strong through the Meiji Restoration, but not the Manchus?

Because it rots! Because it's weak!

The top and bottom of the official are all corrupt, and the official is not thinking about serving the people and the country, but for the sake of how much more money he has deposited in foreign banks.

That old woman was not for the strength of China, but for how many more Han dogs they had in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. How much has the foundation of the Qing Dynasty been stabilized, don't you know that the stability of the foundation of a dynasty comes from the people at the bottom!

Because they have never regarded themselves as Chinese, since ancient times, which dynasty did not claim to be a dynasty, only those Manchus regarded themselves as the Great Qing State. How long can such a perverse government survive?

Like the fact that hundreds of thousands of Manchus dared to ride on the heads of the Han people at the beginning, do you think it can exist for as long as it can exist?

Looking around China, there is Tsarist Russia in the north eyeing the northeastern territories of Northeast China, Tibet, Mongolia and other northeast territories, and is planning to divide China's territory again, and the benefits that Japan obtained in the First Sino-Japanese War have become strong because of the digestion of several years, and Japan is an island country, and the narrowness of its own territory and the lack of domestic resources have forced it to expand externally.

Northeast China, with its fertile land and abundant resources, was its preferred target for aggression, and the Korea obtained in the First Sino-Japanese War was a springboard for Japan's invasion of Northeast China.

Russia and Japan will have a war because of the contradictions in the Northeast! And it is carried out on the territory of China! Fang Mu said affirmatively.

In Southeast Asia, China has also lost its status as a suzerain, and Britain occupies India and borders Tibet, and will definitely take action against Tibet. Now that China is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the nation is on the verge of survival, will a strong sense of crisis allow the decadent and incompetent Manchu Qing to continue to rule China?

The Qing Dynasty was going to die, didn't my father prepare for the future of the Fang family?

'I'm done'. Fang Mu regained his usual composure.

Fang Tianhao, who was left dumbfounded, was looking at the so-called waste son in front of him in shock