Thinking of this, Liu Yu couldn't suppress his inner anger, clenched his fists, and gritted his teeth with hatred, saying, "They don't care about the consequences of the invasion of foreign enemies. As long as their land deeds can last forever and can always control the people of every village and village to farm for it, they will be satisfied. The power of Western powers and Eastern Japan has all experienced a thorough revolution similar to Shang Yang's reforms, breaking the original land ownership system, and allowing the whole people to have their own land in name, so that they can concentrate the resources and manpower of the whole country to do great things."

The ancestor sneered: "It's the king, general, and minister, who are still in a vain way, just to make the lower-class peasants rebel. Liu Yu, you continue to talk about how the Qing Dynasty died later, and how did the great man like you mentioned who could create the world and reverse the world establish a new dynasty?"

Liu Yu calmed down his excitement, calmed down, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I can tell you now how China will become the world of the people in the future. Before Empress Dowager Cixi died, she killed Emperor Guangxu. The throne of the Qing Dynasty was left to a child under ten years old. This kind of power loss will inevitably trigger a fight among all forces."

"So those former regiment leaders led by Li Hongzhang wanted to turn provinces in the southeast and south into the territory of their Westernization faction, relying on Western powers, especially Britain and France, to achieve separatist independence. In the north, in the capital, the princes of the Manchu clan wanted to take the opportunity to regent and become the new Empress Dowager Cixi. Another Han warlord who had mastered the military power in the north and trained the new army, named Yuan Shikai, became a key figure at this time."

The ancestor laughed: "Didn't the Qing Dynasty always trust the Eight Banners of the Manchus? How could a Han warlord take over the imperial guards in the north?"

Liu Yu shook his head and said, "Because from the British invasion and opening the national gate, more than a hundred years have proved that the Eight Banners, who were invincible in riding and shooting at the time, were no longer the opponent of Western technology in this era. After more than 200 years of entering the country, the Eight Banners were also decayed and had a fixed salary and collected iron-core crops. How could they have any motivation? Looking at the current aristocratic families, you will know that these Eight Banners must be corrupt and degenerate. In the later period, the Qing Dynasty also lost the courage and determination to eliminate the eight Banners that were unbearable to use, and absorbed the courage and determination to join the new Han elites and warriors, so the Eight Banners are no longer useful."

"In the south, there are mostly those regiment leaders, such as Li Hongzhang, who are represented by local governors to govern various provinces. In the north, it is impossible to suppress these southern governors who are in charge of troops and land, relying on the original Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers. So before the reform, the Qing Dynasty actually began to train new army, and Yuan Shikai was one of the ones who stood out in the process of training the new army."

"Yuan Shikai was a scholar who was promoted through the imperial examinations. He was not from the army, but he abandoned literature and joined the army and embarked on martial arts. Because in this era, learning martial arts was more promising than learning literature. After all, it was a chaotic era. Before the prosperous period of the Qing Dynasty, there were mostly Confucian generals and generals like Xie Xuan and Zhuge Liang. Therefore, Yuan Shikai used his management talents to manage the army, deal with foreigners, and make friends with Manchu and powerful people. He soon became like a fish in water and promoted all the way. The Qing court wanted to use him, a Han man from the north, to restrict the Han officials from the south, represented by Li Hongzhang. At the final decisive victory of the reform and reform, Yuan Shikai betrayed many relatives, friends and even teachers and classmates in the reformists, dyed his top red with their blood, and was valued, so that he almost controlled the power of the imperial guards alone."

"Later, during the Yihequan movement, Yuan Shikai was very smart and said he had returned home. He did not offend the patriotic patriots in Yihequan and the middle and lower classes, nor did he offend foreigners and the upper classes of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, after his comeback after the war, he became a great warlord in the north with great power. His disciples and former subordinates spread throughout the Beiyang New Army, and his will became the biggest key to determining the life and death of the Qing Dynasty."

"After the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Han scholars in the south, or scholars across the country, almost all lost confidence in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty wanted to learn advanced science and systems of the West and the East. During this period, many international students were sent to study abroad, but they just gave these people a gathering abroad to discuss current affairs, and finally developed to the point of forming a party and revolution, preparing to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. Because the journey to the West was long and the expenses were high, the relatively close Japanese in Japan became the place where international students went the most. Out of the ambition of invading China, the Japanese upper class gave these international students a lot of financial support, allowing them to gather secretly, so that they could publicly express various anti-Qing remarks and gatherings on campus, and supported them to overthrow the Qing Dynasty as a foreign colonial regime."

The ancestor smiled and said, "This is something that any external force must do when overthrowing an internal regime. Just like when the Han Dynasty was strong, the children of foreign nobles who came to Chang'an to study were also brainwashed. What they wanted was that after they returned, they would not be enemies with the Central Plains regime, and they would try to have conflicts with the old local forces as much as possible, and it would be best to trigger a civil war so that they would not pose a threat to the Central Plains regime."

"This Japan has also learned the art of controlling barbarians from the ancestors of the Central Plains. However, according to your statement, Yuan Shikai's nephew was studying in Japan and was also influenced by Japan. He is preparing to come back and rebel?"

Liu Yu shook his head and said, "No, Yuan Shikai has a high position and power. Like Li Hongzhang and other important officials, their nephews are not going to study in Japan. Those who go to Japan are often children of middle and lower-level officials, such as county magistrates and county magistrates. These people have radical ideas and are particularly sensitive to the national dispute between Manchu and Han. At this time, Japan has revealed the past massacres when the Qing army entered the pass and established dynasties, which made these young people all over the twenty-year-old scholars. They were very angry. Some people established a revolutionary party, hoping to completely overthrow the Qing Dynasty, expel the Manchus, and re-establish the Han dynasty."
Chapter completed!