Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Mu Qiong directly called Huo Ying "Second Brother". After hearing this, Fu Yun'an's bad mood improved a lot: "Second Brother has already sent people to Shanxi to build a factory, and also shipped a lot of machines there."

"That's good." Mu Qiong said, thinking about the labor, his brows frowned again.

Fu Yun'an said again: "Actually, it is not necessarily a bad thing for Britain and France to take labor away from our country."

Mu Qiong was taken aback: "How do you say?"

"The essence of war is to compete for interests, and this war is no exception. Judging from the current situation, Britain and France have a greater chance of winning." Fu Yun'an said: "Those laborers have been taken away, and things cannot be changed. We What we need to do now is try to get benefits from it.”

When Fu Yun'an spoke, there was no expression on his face, only a pair of eyes looked deeply at Mu Qiong.

If their country wants to benefit from this battle, it has to pay, and those workers can be their country's contribution.

Mu Qiong took a deep breath.

He knew that Fu Yun'an was right to think so, but he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. After pondering for a moment, he said: "If you want to get the greatest benefit, this matter must be made public."

In the original history, these laborers were secretly transported to Britain and France, so that many ordinary people in Britain and France did not know the existence of these Chinese.

At the end of the First World War, someone drew a picture to celebrate. In the picture, he drew the people and national flags of 23 victorious countries, except China.

"Yes." Fu Yunan said.

"Yun'an, can you help me collect some materials related to Shandong laborers and this war? I want to write an article." Mu Qiong said.

Fu Yun'an said without thinking, "No problem."

After he finished speaking, he took out some papers and handed them to Mu Qiong: "I already have some materials here."

Looking at Fu Yun'an's information, combined with his own memory, Mu Qiong also has a sufficient understanding of the situation at this time.

In this year, under the lobbying of the United States and Japan, China joined the First World War in exchange for economic support from these countries.

At the same time, Britain and France began to recruit laborers in Shandong.

The reason why Shandong was chosen was firstly that they felt that Shandong people were tall and strong and the most capable of working, and secondly because Shandong had already been occupied by Japan at this time and it was easy to operate.

They lied to the illiterate Chinese people that they would take them abroad to work, tricked them into signing a contract, and shipped them away...

Mu Qiong smiled wryly, and said again: "If possible...we should fight for a fair share for them and bring them back as soon as possible."

At that time, many laborers signed contracts with Britain and France to work for three years.

But in fact, only one year later, the First World War ended because the resources of both sides were exhausted and too many people died, and then these laborers could not go home, so they had to stay in a foreign country where many of their compatriots were buried, helping Then they invaded their motherland and tricked their bandits to rebuild their homeland.

"It should be." Fu Yun'an said.

Neither are in the mood for dinner, especially Moo-joon.

During the Republic of China, it was really chaotic.

Anytime, anywhere, there is bad news in the newspapers, and there is always a lot of noise.

When Mu Qiong first crossed over, he still found it a bit difficult to accept, but now he is slowly getting used to it.

Wherever there is a flood, where there is a plague, where warlords are fighting, many people die unnaturally almost all the time across the country.

Even in Shanghai, he built an orphanage and rescued some orphans who were wandering outside, allowing them to survive, but in the previous winter, there were still dead bodies of children on the roadside.

When a child from a poor family gets sick, he can't afford to see a doctor, and it is easy to die young.

And because the child is dead, it is impossible to do the funeral, and it cannot be done, so many people will just throw the child's body away...

As for the elderly, it is more normal that they cannot survive the winter. At the same time, because of poverty, there are many murders and the like at this time.

At first, he just wanted to steal a handful of rice, but after being found out, Mu Qiong had seen such a tragic case of murdering the whole family in the newspapers.

It was all of this that made Mu Qiong feel uncomfortable when he learned that Britain and France had taken away many laborers from Shandong just like in history, but it was not unacceptable.

However, it is really not a pleasant thing for one's motherland to be oppressed and one's compatriots to be treated as consumable cannon fodder.

So Mu Qiong plans to write novels now, and he can only write novels.

In order to deal with the Japanese, Mu Qiong wrote an article as a survivor of the Lushun massacre, and this time he used a similar method.

Mu Qiong finally decided to write this novel as an American.

During the First World War, many foreigners sympathized with Chinese laborers, and some became friends with Chinese laborers. Some laborers even stayed in Europe and married women there... He wrote this novel as an American, Easier to accept.

Mu Qiong intends to start with an American who came to China to buy Xilin to send to Europe on a ship full of Chinese laborers, and then write about the touching things this person encountered in World War I.

In order for this novel to be published in Europe smoothly, he could not only write about Chinese laborers, but even beautify the people of Britain and France in the novel, and not write too much about the harsh treatment they encountered.

That's right, this novel must find a way to be published in Europe.

Labor affairs are widely publicized in the country, and there is no other benefit except to excite the people in the country.Only by letting ordinary people in Britain and France know what the Chinese have done, can the upper echelons of these two countries not deny China's contribution.

Mu Qiong ate some supper casually, and then started to write the outline in Ping An Hospital.

But he didn't start writing novels right away, because he didn't know enough about war.

Even if he has been making up fictions all the time when he writes novels, he still has to make up certain facts.

When Mu Qiong went home with Fu Yun'an that day, it was getting late, and even Zhu Wanwan and Zhu Yu had already arrived home.

"Brother!" Zhu Yu saw Mu Qiong and walked over immediately: "Brother, you are amazing!"

"How to say?" Seeing the slim Zhu Yu, Mu Qiong's depressed mood improved a lot.

"Brother, I don't need to wrap my breasts now, that's great!" Zhu Yu said.

"Did you wrap your chest before?" Mu Qiong was startled.He has always been aware of the breast milk movement during the Republic of China, and he also knew that it was very noisy at that time. There were even women parading naked or ripping off their clothes to expose their chests in public during speeches. In this era, conservative people are very Conservative, open people...that's especially open.

In other words, they have been suppressed for a long time, so they have to resist in this way.

But he didn't know the specific situation of wrapping his chest before. After all, he was a man, so he didn't pay attention to it at all.

It wasn't until recently that he read the newspapers that he realized that the chest wrapping was so serious, but he always thought that Zhu Wanwan and Zhu Yu should not have the chest wrapping. After all, Zhu Yu was young. As for Zhu Wanwan, she was petite. At first Mu Qiong saw her When she was born, she was still very thin, with a flat chest...

"Of course we wrapped our breasts." Zhu Yu said, "I started wearing a vest half a year ago. It has been in pain, and I finally stopped wearing it recently."

"Yu'er!" Zhu Wanwan glared at her daughter. In her opinion, such words were not good to say in front of Mu Qiong.

"Mother, there's nothing to be ashamed of, and I don't think there's any need to avoid talking about it. After all, it's because we don't talk about it that others don't know our pain." Zhu Yu said, looking at Mu Qiong again: "Brother, in fact, it's because we don't talk about it." For me and my mother, it’s good, we just need to wear a tighter vest, and we’ll be fine, but it’s really unfriendly to plump women... But everyone thinks, don’t wrap your chest Yes, the ones with big breasts are all shameless countrymen. Sister Huo returned to China with a friend before, and neither of them had their breasts wrapped, so they were said to be village women in person. Sister Huo scolded them back, but her friend Immediately went to buy a small vest to wear..."

As early as 1915, the inaugural issue of "Women's Magazine" published an article by a female student in Shanghai, who felt that binding her breasts was as harmful as footbinding.

The behavior of wrapping the breasts actually did not exist in the early Qing Dynasty, and it did not appear until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

I don't know when, many people think that women with large breasts are ugly, so women began to cover their breasts, and regarded flat breasts as beautiful, and called women who did not cover their breasts village women.

The general idea is that only those women who live in poverty in the countryside will not cover their breasts.

In this way, women have to wrap their breasts in order not to make people feel rude?

"The old evils only hurt people's feet, but today's evils hurt people's chest and lungs more." This is a saying that often appears in newspapers. Women with small breasts are okay, but some women with big breasts tighten themselves too tightly. Something goes wrong, even life-threatening!Even if it's not that serious, it's hard to breathe when you're wrapped up like this.

In the past, Europe pursued thin waists too much, so many women were victimized, but wrapping breasts is actually no different.

Before Mu Qiong, he always felt that this kind of struggle would not be successful overnight, so although there was a lot of noise in the newspaper, he didn't care too much. After doing what he should do, he went to busy with school affairs. But now, he felt that he needed to do more.

Among other things, in the late days of the Tianru Movement, the government issued a regulation that "anyone who wears their breasts will be fined 50 yuan." It would be great if it could appear a few years in advance.

Mu Qiong suddenly realized that he was getting busier and busier.

But this is not a bad thing.

With so many things to do, he can stop worrying about those workers—he knew about it a long time ago, but he has no power to change it, and even now he doesn't help them fight for anything, which is quite uncomfortable.

Mu Qiong was lying on the bed that day, and another idea popped up.

He wants to write a "Nation of Daughters", he writes about a country where women are respected, women love men with thin waists, and men wear all kinds of waists to invite favor with waists that are too full to hold.