Miao Fuquan
Names: Miao FuquanLao Miao
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 2 (Year 3, Crisis Era)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 2Shanxi coal boss and neighbor who says the government is closing the mines and he must go clean up trouble.
- Ch 2Miao Fuquan, wealthy, lost access to part of his savings in the bank panic and intends to buy a place on the escape fund for his descendants.
- Ch 2Miao Fuquan is a wealthy man who believes Yang Jinwen looks down on him as a vulgar moneybags.
- Ch 5Miao Fuquan, a mine owner whose family declined, proposes hiding burials deep in abandoned Shanxi mines, 400 meters down, with the shaft walls blasted shut.
- Ch 6Miao Fuquan died at seventy-five and was buried in an abandoned mine; the site later became desert and the tombstone was lost.
Connections
- friend ofZhang Yuanchaoneighbors
- friend ofYang Jinwen
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 2Three old men discuss bank panic and Escapism
Miao, Zhang and Yang discuss frozen accounts and a news report on Escapism and the failed socialized technology movement; Miao reveals the escape fund and says he will pay for his descendants.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Dinner quarrel over buying escape
Yang Jinwen, Miao Fuquan and Zhang Yuanchao argue about whether escape berths can be bought; Zhang slams the table and storms out, followed by Yang.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Rationing and cosmic burial talk
Rationing returns, and three old men watch the Tianti III test while discussing burial plans to avoid an alien-occupied Earth.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Passing of the Golden Age generation
Over the following decades, key figures retire, die or enter hibernation, and the Golden Age generation vanishes from living memory.