Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

At the beginning of "Being an Official", a young man is fortunate to become an official of one of his parents.

His father said that you must love the people, but in a blink of an eye, he accepted the ancient paintings sent by others.

His mother said that you must be a good official, but in a blink of an eye, she became an official by relying on him and helped her natal nephew find a good job.

His sister said that you must be fair and honest, but in a blink of an eye, she begged him to help her husband deal with it and bought a piece of land at a low price.

In addition, he also encountered many problems at work, and found that his boss was a corrupt official through and through.

He couldn't help but despise him, but his boss said, how can you be better than me?He also said that he wanted to be a good official at the beginning.

Mu Qiong found that once he wrote, it was easy to write too much. He wanted to write a short story, but this story is estimated to exceed [-] words.

But it doesn't matter.

It took Mu Qiong three days to write this novel, and after it was finished, it was deleted and edited, and the writing was not so vernacular. In addition, some ironic "famous quotes" he had read in modern times were added. For example, the protagonist has an epiphany: "If you do countless good things for your boss, you may not be valued by your boss, but if you do a bad thing together with your boss, you and your boss will become your own."

When Mu Qiong finished writing and revising this article, the banquet that Sheng Chaohui was going to host began.

That night, they booked a restaurant and held a banquet in the restaurant.

"Ordinary banquets, just serve some common dishes like chicken and duck, which cost four yuan per table, and other rare dishes can be added, such as adding shark fin for four yuan, of course it is not necessary. I only added some rare side dishes , such as the roast duck bought from the western restaurant where you work, and the fried lotus root. The wine used is Shaoxing rice wine, and there is also rice wine made by the restaurant. After the final calculation, a table of banquets is about six or seven yuan, and I have another A souvenir was prepared for everyone, and a pack of cigarettes was placed on each table, and the total was 230 yuan." When entering, Sheng Chaohui reported the bill to Mu Qiong.

With so much money, it is enough to buy a small house outside the concession... But some expenses are necessary, and Mu Qiong doesn't think there is a problem.

This time, they invited not only the people they needed to meet at work, but also their relatives and friends.

Sheng Chaohui has a lot of friends, but Mu Qiong doesn't have many friends. He invited Boss Chen, Fu Yun'an, Fu Huai'an, and Jin Huailai, even Zheng Weixin and Sun Yiyao, so they just got together for a table—an editor like Li Ronghua Zhang Che is Sitting with other editors.

The banquet was very lively, Mu Qiong and Sheng Chaohui went to toast one by one, and met many people. At the same time, Mu Qiong was Lou Yuyu's affair, and more people knew about it.

Seeing Lou Yuyu so young, many people were amazed, and at the same time they were more optimistic about Mu Qiong.

It was also at this banquet that Mu Qiong suddenly learned that Zheng Weixin and Zheng Runze were still cousins. In addition, many people present were related or were classmates.

At this time, those who are educated are the top wave, and everyone is familiar with or knows each other.

After a meal, several schools expressed their interest in ordering monthly educational magazines, and some people were willing to advertise in monthly educational magazines at a price of ten yuan, which was a surprise.

Mu Qiong didn't know how much he could drink, but he thought it wouldn't be too good. When toasting, he specially changed the wine mixed with water, and asked an editor from the editorial department of Education Monthly to follow him, and took a drink with a lot of water in it. I poured the few jars for myself, but I was fooled.

In today's match, he has officially entered the Shanghai social circle.

Generally speaking, when he interacts with people at this time, he wants to talk about his family, but Mu Qiong didn't want to get involved with Mu Yongxue, so he didn't say anything specifically, and others didn't ask—in his current situation Even if there is no family bonus, it is enough to be valued.

What's more, no one thought that his family situation would be bad.

If his family is not well-off, how can he study abroad?How can I run a magazine?

That's right, people who are not familiar with him still think that he should have gone to study abroad.

After the banquet, most of the people went home, but Sheng Chaohui took many young people to continue playing elsewhere. He asked Mu Qiong if he wanted to go together, but Mu Qiong refused without hesitation.

Although "Being an Official" has been written, "Contagion" has not yet been written, and he is quite busy...

Fu Yun'an still had something to do, he didn't go home with Mu Qiong that day, and took Fu Huai'an away. On the way back, Mu Qiong simply went to get the letter from Huo Sanshao.

After he sent "Contagion" to Huo Sanshao, he communicated with Huo Sanshao several times, and he had sent out the second part of "Contagion".

Every time he sent a letter, Huo Sanshao would reply as soon as possible, but he would delay replying for a few days and try to write as few replies as possible.

When necessary, Mu Qiong intends to abandon this vest.

This time, Huo Sanshao directly called him "teacher" in the letter, and asked a few more questions, but Mu Qiong answered what he knew, and stopped answering what he couldn't, with only a few words.

The letter had already been written, but Mu Qiong did not delay, and sent the letter the next day. At the same time, he also went to the editorial office of Xincheng Monthly to find Zheng Runze.

Xincheng Monthly is co-organized by several new factions. Many of the articles they publish are not welcomed by those in power. At the same time, they are also very free to publish. If there are many manuscripts this month, they will be thicker, and next month there will be fewer manuscripts, so they will be thinner. There are so many good articles submitted, and there will be a supplement.

When Mu Qiong passed by, Zheng Runze was writing a manuscript.

Knowing that Mu Qiong was here to contribute, Zheng Runze was overjoyed, and immediately read Mu Qiong's manuscript.

Mu Qiong himself felt that his short stories and prose were not well written, mainly because he had read some of the articles of this era, and he didn't feel that he could surpass the short stories and prose of these people at all.

At this time, the most famous masters are even worthy of future generations to study his articles and write books for him.And Mu Qiong is very clear that he does not have that level.

However, he forgot one thing, that is, there are not many such great writers in total.

Speaking of which, Zheng Runze was one of them in his later period, but he is still young, and his articles are not as good as his later ones.

In addition, it is still the early days of the Republic of China, the New Culture Movement has not yet started, and Mu Qiong thinks that good articles have not been written yet...

Most of the articles published in the Xincheng Monthly now have no chance of being passed on to future generations. Mu Qiong's articles are not as good as those of everyone, but in terms of quality, they are definitely better than the articles written by most people in this period.

He read so many articles and wrote so many novels in modern times, and he did not write them for nothing.

"Good writing! You told me that you don't know how to write short stories. Isn't that very well written?" Zheng Runze was overjoyed: "You have written all the darkness in this officialdom!"

Unlike Mu Qiong, Zheng Runze has read many good novels from the period of the Republic of China that have been tested by history. In his eyes, Mu Qiong's novels are already very good.

Hearing what Zheng Runze said, Mu Qiong said: "Actually, it's still a bit procrastinated, and the theme is not clear enough." In fact, Mu Qiong also thought about writing something more profound, but many of the articles he thought of were those famous people in this period Will write in ten or even 20 years time.

He neither wants to plagiarize nor imitate, so he can't write many things.

"I didn't feel it at all when I read it." Zheng Runze said: "I will publish your article in the next issue of the magazine. As for the remuneration... This article is relatively long, so I can't give you too much remuneration. I will give you 120 yuan how?"

This article is about 120 words, and [-] yuan is four yuan per thousand words, which is not bad, but it can’t be called high.

Here at Xincheng Monthly, the manuscript fee for some articles will be five or six yuan or even higher, but the main reason is that those articles are relatively short.

Zheng Runze was very straightforward in paying the manuscript fee, and quickly took the manuscript fee to Mu Qiong, and said: "If you have other articles, you can bring them."

Mu Qiong thought for a while, and finally said: "Actually, I really have an article here."

In addition to this "Being an Official", Mu Qiong came here this time and took another article of about [-] words, but he was a little hesitant before, not knowing whether he should take it out.

Since his "Contagion" was published, many literati have written articles in newspapers, saying that Tianxing should be a lackey of Western countries, maliciously destroying the friendly relations between China and Japan.

He also said that he provoked Japan in this way, absolutely with ulterior motives.

Of course, there were also people who spoke for Tianxing. These days, articles from both sides were published in the newspapers.

Mu Qiong read all these articles, some of which made him laugh angrily, and then he impassionedly wrote one too.

This article, using the Song Dynasty as an example, shows that China today is simply a wolf that is staring at itself by cutting meat and fattening up!

Japan is a small country with few people. Originally, it was absolutely incapable of invading our country. However, in recent decades, the people of the country have used various indemnities to raise their land to become stronger and stronger...

At the end of the article, it is said that if things go on like this, there will be a war between China and Japan.

Mu Qiong gave the article to Zheng Runze, but Zheng Runze didn't applaud it this time. He stared at the short article of more than a thousand words for a long time, and finally said: "I will also publish this article. How about the six yuan fee?"

Mu Qiong agreed.

Zheng Runze glanced at Mu Qiong with a complicated expression.He didn't expect Mu Qiong to view Sino-Japanese relations in the same way...

When Mu Qiong contributed to Zheng Runze, the Hope Monthly that published "Contagion" had already been sold in Beijing and other places, and had also been mailed to some other cities.

There are actually not many people in Shanghai who are pro-Japanese, but in Beijing and other places, there are many literati who are pro-Japanese, or... fear of Japan.

Mu Yongxue is one of them.

"Fortunately, it's really nonsense. It's really abominable for him to slander other countries in such nonsense!" Mu Yongxue said, he was a little worried that the Japanese would find trouble if they found out.

There are quite a lot of people who think like Mu Yongxue.

Of course, many people became more wary of Japan after watching "Contagion".

At Hunan First Normal University, a student wrote in a letter to others: "Think about what you think about, the Japanese are our strong enemies!"

The author has something to say:

This year, Mao Dada, who was studying at Hunan First Normal University, wrote in a letter to others:

"The Okuma Pavilion is said to be shaken, but no matter who is in power, its policy for me is not easy."

"Think about it, think about it, the Japanese are our enemies!"

"I feel that I am subdued by the three islands with a length and breadth of thousands of miles. The number of people is 3000 million, and [-] million people are slaves to this! The Manchurians go and move to the north, and the horses enter the Central Plains. Kuangshan has been lost, and the country of Kaiji The road has been seized, and it will enter Henan."

"Within 20 years, it will not be enough to survive the First World War! But the people of the country are still in a state of indifference, paying little attention to things. Foolishly, we have nothing else to do. If we want to destroy ourselves to protect our children and grandchildren, we can only wait for Japan."

Then the prophecy came true! After 20 years there really was a war!

By the way, vernacular Chinese was not very popular at that time, and people usually wrote in this way, but the author couldn't write...