Chapter 632

Since Fang Yang had already locked onto the place, he began the excavation work with the help of the Cultural Relics Bureau.

The things that needed to be excavated this time should be very precious, because Fang Yang excavated them very quickly.

This was actually a box with very good sealing.

The object looked like it should be a box from the Republic of China period.

So would the things inside also be from the Republic of China period?

The onlookers couldn't help but think so in their hearts.

However, although the outside was wrapped like this, what the things inside were like was actually not very certain.

"What's inside? Just open it and take a look, there's nothing to guess."

Fang Yang didn't talk nonsense, but directly found a way to open this well-sealed box from the Republic of China period.

This process took Fang Yang quite a bit of effort.

When the thing was opened, Fang Yang himself felt very incredible.

"This seems to be an ivory fan."

When Fang Yang said this, his voice even contained a bit of difficulty.

The cultural relic was placed in front of them just like that.

【Empress Dowager Cixi's Ivory Fan】

【...】

Fang Yang was very uncertain about what was inside before, but now that he saw clearly what it was, he also felt that he could find such important things just by looking around casually, which was simply incredible.

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"An ivory fan is a traditional art piece and belongs to a tribute. It is not certain which dynasty this cultural relic belongs to."

One of the cultural relic experts, Zhang Zui, said this.

"Although it is not certain which dynasty this ivory fan belongs to, such exquisite craftsmanship—look at the fine and tough texture of the ivory—no matter how you look at it, it is extraordinary."

"The person who can afford to use this ivory fan must have an extraordinary status."

The people from the Cultural Relics Bureau could even imagine that the person using this ivory fan was either an empress, an empress dowager, or a female relative in the palace.

"There are many small figures carved on it. Through these vivid and interesting character images, we can judge the era."

While the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau were still guessing, Fang Yang had already made a very serious explanation in all aspects.

"This ivory fan actually comes from Empress Dowager Cixi."

"Although we speculated before that there must be Empress Dowager Cixi's items here, but to dig out Empress Dowager Cixi's things as soon as we dig, isn't this too coincidental?"

Some people from the Cultural Relics Bureau felt that there was no such coincidence in the world.

Although Fang Yang is very powerful, he shouldn't know what is under here, right?

After all, when they watched some of Fang Yang's livestreams and recordings before, some people were also suspicious that Fang Yang might see something, but Fang Yang's answer every time was that he didn't know anything at all.

In this case, if they insisted that Fang Yang had already determined what was inside and therefore excavated it, that would be a bit excessive.

【...】

And while they were saying this, Fang Yang focused more of his attention on Empress Dowager Cixi's ivory fan.

Although he was very sure which period and which era this cultural relic belonged to, there was no evidence to prove it, and others wouldn't believe it if he said it, so he tried his best to judge from the characters carved on the ivory fan.

And this just happened to be able to prove that this fan was absolutely Empress Dowager Cixi's item.

"There is a very obvious dividing line in the center of this fan, which was completed in two parts and then spliced together."

"One end and one tail of this fan are inlaid with turquoise and metal buckles, which are integrated with the fan."

"..."

In fact, when all the pictures on the fan were seen clearly, there was no need for Fang Yang to prove anything; most people could see it from it.

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——【It makes me angry just looking at it, it's actually luxurious to this extent.】

——【The picture on this fan perfectly reflects that it is not exquisite, but a picture of thousands of starving people.】

——【If this is a fan used by Empress Dowager Cixi, then why is it such a picture? I can almost imagine it.】

——【Because the more people who starve to death, the more small figures there are on it, isn't it?】

——【I originally really thought it was like this, but later I saw the picture clearly and found that what you said before was a bit too much, right?】

——【The meaning of the people in the front should be that there are many people behind the cultural relic who paid sweat and even their lives, and the price is extremely high.】

——【Really, everything looks miserable. That is self-moving; those who are depressed deserve it.】

——【Luxurious to this extent, greedy to endless indulgence—if it doesn't perish, the Dao of Heaven will not tolerate it.】

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——【From the small figures above, it can be seen that this is indeed the Qing Dynasty, and the person who can afford to use this fan, and who would use this fan, I think there is no second possibility except Cixi. Does this need any evidence to prove?】

——【This woman Cixi is a sinner of civilization regression.】

——【When a person lives a lifetime, of course, they do whatever is comfortable.】

——【Comfort is fine, but don't harm others.】

——【Isn't comfort all obtained by harming others?】

——【The total amount of resources is fixed. If you enjoy it, others will have less. If you put 100 people in to eat 100 people's meals, the ones behind will definitely not be full. This is the human heart.】

——【Just a Manchu woman.】

——【Don't keep saying Manchu, Manchu. Emperor Guangxu supported reform, but he was still harmed to death by her. There are also good people among the Manchus. Don't you think it's funny to kill everyone with one stick?】

——【We only see the bad side of Empress Dowager Cixi. Who knows what she is really like? There are many people in history who push their incompetence onto women. I think Empress Dowager Cixi may not be a very bad woman.】

——【Yes, there are indeed many people who clearly see the changes of the times, but they have to push it onto women.】

——【Cixi was just a woman in the harem. What she could do was actually very limited. She was not Wu Zetian, who became an emperor herself and could decide many things.】

——【In this era, foreign countries were building industrial machinery, while we were still studying how to make toys look better. The Qing Dynasty had many crafts, but it was at this time that we were overtaken by Western industry.】

——【Cultural relics and art pieces are just a kind of ornamental item, just like artists and celebrities, with no practical value. In terms of artistic value, practicality is always better. Art is not worth money. China attaches great importance to useless things, while Western countries study how to develop technology with higher practicality.】

——【The West actually has many luxury goods too.】

——【Then why not have both luxury goods and build industrial machinery like the West?】

——【Because of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. Except for the Song Dynasty, other dynasties emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce.】

——【You go build it, you only know how to shout with your mouth.】

——【Since you are so capable of building, why don't you go build it?】

——【I really can't understand why such a luxurious aristocratic dynasty could survive for more than 200 years. Shouldn't it have perished in a few decades?】

——【The Qing Dynasty royal family was the most strictly managed in history, the palace scale was the smallest in history, but the population scale and territory area were the largest in history.】

——【Of course, it was also the most bullied in history.】

——【That's just because they changed tracks. Industrial countries hitting agricultural countries is inherently a dimensionality reduction strike.】

——【Hehe, to put it in common terms, it's just that they couldn't keep up with the times.】

——【I'm really not blowing or blackening, the Qing Dynasty can be considered the peak of feudal dynasties, especially our ethnic minorities, almost all completed ethnic integration during the Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, they encountered the Industrial Revolution. The tide of the times will not change because of any person or thing.】

——【The times are developing, we must compare with the times.】

——【Peak? Which aspect? Economy, military, technology, culture—which one is the peak of the Manchu Qing, tell me?】

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——【I'm asking if you are blind? Didn't you see that I said it was the peak of feudal dynasties? The population was the largest in history, and the territory area was the largest. The war zones that were plagued by harassment in all dynasties, and the Mongolian problem, were truly solved in the Qing Dynasty. So, the Manchu Qing reached the peak that feudal dynasties could reach, but the Western Industrial Revolution was a dimensionality reduction strike. How could the Manchu Qing support it when encountering this?】

——【So, I think it is unnecessary to push the decline of the Qing Dynasty onto Empress Dowager Cixi. After all, whether there was Empress Dowager Cixi or not, the Qing Dynasty would have perished.】

——【The Ming Dynasty just didn't encounter the Industrial Revolution. Otherwise, are you sure the Ming Dynasty could resist them, or do you think technology could be born under the Confucian imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty?】

——【Yes, no matter which dynasty it is, once it encounters the Industrial Revolution, it's game over.】

——【At that time, there were so many skilled craftsmen, why didn't anyone develop industrial weapons, guns, and ammunition?】

——【When we talked about the Qing Dynasty before, and even about the emperors of all dynasties, we said that our country actually had development, but during the Kangxi period, because they invented the repeating rifle, the whole family was exiled.】

——【If Kangxi and the others had strongly supported it at that time, perhaps the most advanced weapons would have been manufactured by our China.】

——【I agree very much with what you said before, but I still think Cixi is very damnable. I remember it should be the First Sino-Japanese War. It doesn't matter if the ships are not bought. For Empress Dowager Cixi, she must celebrate her birthday, and the wealth spent on this birthday could have covered half of the fleet.】

——【Yes, Empress Dowager Cixi is a sinner.】

——【Emperor Qianlong might be the turning point, and Cixi is the king bomb!】

Everyone was very calm when discussing this matter.

However, calm is calm, but when talking about the Qing Dynasty, almost no one would let anyone else.

For some dynasties, they can really say a lot, a lot.