Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

"I don't know how Tianxing's brain is so long, but he can come up with so many bizarre things!" Sheng Chaohui said.

Mu Qiong's novels are good-looking, but they don't have much new ideas. Tianxing's novels are different.

Sheng Chaohui flipped through "Contagion" again: "I'm afraid of reading this book, but I really want to read it, and I can't put it down...It's a pity that I have to wait a month to read the rest of it."

"Yes." Mu Qiong replied, lowered his head and continued to work.

Seeing that Mu Qiong was busy again, Sheng Chaohui also calmed down and started to do things, but he couldn't sit still, and he left the editorial department of Education Monthly and ran out after a while.

Mu Qiong wished that he was not there, so he immediately took out "Contagion" and started writing.

At noon, Qi Xiufen came to the editorial department of Education Monthly to cook.

Both Mu Qiong and Sheng Chaohui resigned from Ping An Middle School, and after the Education Monthly recruited two more employees, Qi Xiufen came to the Education Monthly editorial department to cook instead.

Of course, after making it, she will send some to Ping An Middle School for the teachers in Ping An Middle School to eat.

As for the evening, Mu Qiong usually eats at the orphanage at night, even Wei Ting doesn't eat at Ping'an Middle School anymore - he is very busy now, so he doesn't come to live at Ping'an Middle School anymore.

And he was able to do this all because the Educational Monthly gave him dividends every month, and he had a lot more money.

Qi Xiufen's cooking is completely different from Zhu Wanwan's.

When Zhu Wanwan cooks, she usually uses oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar as seasonings. After all, when she was in Suzhou, her family often used these seasonings.

But Qi Xiufen is different.

Yao's family opened a soy sauce garden shop back then, selling all kinds of sauces and pickles. Qi Xiufen is also very good at cooking with sauces. Now in the kitchen, there are seven or eight kinds of sauces alone.

For example, when she fried eggplant, she had to scoop a spoonful of miso into it, and the eggplant fried in this way was tasty and delicious.

I am used to Zhu Wanwan's cooking, and Qi Xiufen's cooking is just a change of taste.

When the food downstairs was ready, Mu Qiong went downstairs to eat with Mr. Zhou and the two new editors.

As for Sheng Chaohui's cousin, like Sheng Chaohui, he couldn't sit still and often ate out.

Anyway, they are not short of money.

Mr. Zhou has bad teeth and eats very slowly, while the two new editors are the opposite, eating very fast.

These two editors both graduated from high school, which is not enough for modern education, but they are already very good at this time, and they have relevant work experience, which is even more rare.

Of course, Mu Qiong chose them among all the applicants, mainly because they were all childlike, and they really liked the articles in the monthly education magazine.

Mu Qiong feels that only if he really likes a category of works can he choose the best from all the submissions.

After dinner, Mu Qiong stayed downstairs for an hour, dealing with various tasks.

Nowadays, there are a lot of manuscripts for the monthly education magazine, and Mu Qiong has already begun to ponder whether to make the monthly magazine a semi-monthly magazine or run another publication.

Of course, there is no rush for this matter. If we really want to do it, we will have to wait for the second half of the year.

The editorial department of Education Monthly is quite calm, but it is different in other places.

A few days ago, Zheng Runze, who had just come to find Mu Qiong and wanted to make an appointment with Mu Qiong, went to a literary meeting held by a friend today.

This friend of Zheng Runze was born in a family in the Qing Dynasty, but he is open-minded and a proper new-style person.

His family is very rich, so he often organizes literary conferences and sponsors students living in poverty. Even the magazines run by Zheng Runze and the others have his investment.

Wenhui will still be held at his home.

Literati have always been dissatisfied with anyone, and now everyone has different ideas, and they will argue from time to time.

Today, the situation is even more serious, and this is also related to "Contagion".

The book "I'm in a Hundred Years Later" has a lot of people who like it. Today, they discussed it at the essay meeting. After discussing and discussing it, everyone finally discussed "Contagion".

There were a few young people at the conference who were dissatisfied with the "21 Articles" signed by the government last year. Whitewashing behavior as 'help' is really shameless, but it makes sense, I met a few Japanese in Tianjin, and they like to put gold on their faces."

"It says in this book that the Japanese used the Chinese to conduct bacterial experiments... If this is true, those Japanese will be insane!"

"Oh! What can't those people do?"

"The Manchus are gone and the north is moving, and the horses are entering the Central Plains. The Japanese wolf ambitions have to be guarded against!"

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The more these people talked, the more angry they became, and as a result they angered several other pro-Japanese literati.

"Isn't it too much for you to talk so much?"

"It's okay to write randomly today, but you guys still listen to and believe in?"

"This story really doesn't make sense!"

"I think this luck must be a lackey of the Western countries! He writes like this, I don't know what he has in mind!"

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The two sides quarreled like this, and in the end the quarrel became more and more serious. In the end, it was unknown who started the fight, and several of them even fought.

Zheng Runze didn't join in, in fact, he was in a complicated mood at the moment.

It has only been a year since he came back from studying in Japan.

He was educated in a Japanese university and subconsciously got close to Japan. Although he knew that Japan was plotting evil, he felt that Japan was better than being invaded by Britain and France.

They have the same skin color and hair color. What is the difference between the Japanese and the Mongolian Manchus before?

And people who are close to Japan basically have his thoughts.

But...is this really correct?

Zheng Runze was a little confused.

Mu Qiong didn't know that Zheng Runze, who he admired and was finally killed by the Japanese army, was actually a pro-Japanese faction in the early days, and he didn't know that his novels had ripped apart Japan's sinister intentions in front of Zheng Runze in advance.

There was endless turmoil at the essay meeting, and the students of Aurora University unanimously thought that the book "Contagion" was good.

Aurora University is a missionary school located in the British-French Concession, and many teachers are from Britain and France... These students don’t like Japan!

At this moment, they have to criticize Japan.

However... In fact, for China today, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan are actually the difference between wolves, tigers, and leopards. They are all staring at China's fat.

After Japan declared war on Germany the year before last, it captured Qingdao, which was originally occupied by the German army, and controlled the Jiaoji Railway. Among them, there was support from Britain and France...

Mu Qiong feels that none of these countries is good.

But Fu Yun'an and Huo Ying's ideas are surprisingly consistent with Mu Qiong's.

Under Fu Yun'an's suggestion, Huo Ying also began to instill these ideas in his subordinates, especially those young workers in the factory who were studying.Mu Qiong has always felt that in order to open up the wisdom of the people, it is necessary to let people see the world and change their thinking, but Fu Yun'an thinks it makes sense.

In addition to letting the students of Ping An Middle School teach these people how to read and count, they will now tell these workers some outside things, read some books, and instill the concept of the country when these workers are resting. People who have never read a book have no concept of a country.

They don't care at all who runs the country.They are willing to listen to whoever feeds them, even Song Yanqiu, who has studied before, is the same.

But now after spending some time in the factory, they start to know their country.

When the manager of the factory read "Contagion" to them today, they only felt fear at the beginning, thinking that they would never be lazy again and never take a bath or wash their clothes. Otherwise, if such bacteria really appeared, all of them would be infected .

However, when the supervisor of the factory told them about all the things that happened between Japan and China, they immediately became angry.

"Brother, this Japan is too hateful!" Cheng Dahai said to Song Yanqiu indignantly after hearing what the steward said.

Song Yanqiu nodded earnestly: "Then Japan is indeed too hateful! In the future, we must drive them out as written in "Contagion"!"

"Sure! Otherwise, they might want to experiment with our common people again!" Cheng Hai said.

"En!" Song Yanqiu said: "We not only want to drive away the Japanese, but also develop our country well! Let our country become as good as what is written in "I'm in a Hundred Years Later"!"

Song Yanqiu especially likes the book "I'm in a Hundred Years Later". The life of the people in it is really wonderful!

The two chatted and chatted, and they talked about sending money home.

"Brother, I want to send all my money back, how about you?" Cheng Dahai asked.They have been out to work for a while, and the factory has already paid them salaries, and just yesterday, the manager told them that they can send two people back to take the money earned here to their families.

"Me too." Song Yanqiu said, his mother and siblings were all at home waiting for the money to be used!

Of course, it is not only Huo Ying's factory that does such patriotic education, but also the orphanage.

Mu Qiong took in these orphans in the hope of cultivating some useful people, and he didn't want to end up raising some cynical and society-hating people, so he attached great importance to ideological education.

However, he did not read "Contagion" to these children, but only read "I am in a Hundred Years Later" to them, and told them how the great powers bullied their country.

As for the book "Contagion"... he had better not scare the children.