Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

The "I" written by Mu Qiong in "Edward's Travel Notes" is a very ordinary person, he has his own little prejudices, he will complain about the boring journey, he will appreciate a beautiful girl without any trace, and he will also face When the shell hits, run away.

For example, in the back of this novel, it is written: "I saw a shell flying towards me, turned around and ran, it exploded behind me, and I threw myself on the ground, feeling countless gravels and soil falling On top of my head, buried me... I felt like my heart was about to jump out of my chest, tears welled up from my eyes, soaking the dirt under my face, and I cried out silently:' I survived! I didn't die, I survived!"

The heroes reported in the newspapers at this time are all brave and fearless, but Edward is different. He is an ordinary person, but precisely because of this, he is more likable.

He once studied medicine, but he was a businessman at the beginning. After seeing the tragedy of the battlefield, he started to go to the battlefield and become a military doctor.

Although he is afraid of death, he will run away with the youngest soldier on his back when he is in danger. Although he is afraid of artillery fire, he will also brave the hail of bullets to help bandage wounds...

Edward, this person, had many fans for a while, and some even started looking for Edward.

Mu Qiong doesn't know anything about European affairs. At the moment, he is still busy with the promotion of Pinyin, or in other words, the promotion of Chinese.

It is really inconvenient if a country cannot even unify its language.

Now those who are older, even if they go to learn Chinese, they can't learn it well, but whether it is Mu Qiong or Cai Zhaoyan, they all hope that those children can speak Chinese well, and hope that the language of this country can be unified.

During the Qingming Festival, there was a lot of rain. This year, Mu Qiong went to Suzhou again to pay homage to his grandparents.

What he did in the beginning was effective.

He asked the head of the Mu family to run an ethnology study, so everyone in the Mu family was very grateful to him, and his reputation in the Mu family was getting better and better.

However, even so, he only stayed in Suzhou for one day before returning to Shanghai.

Here in Shanghai, there are many things that need him to do.

Not long after Mu Qiong returned to Shanghai, he encountered an incident-the chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce donated a lot of gold and silver to his school.

Recently, because Europe did not take care of China, the business in their country was booming, and factories were set up everywhere. In order to protect themselves, businessmen finally got together and formed chambers of commerce.

Throughout the ages, the status of merchants in this country has always been very low, and in order to seek asylum, merchants are used to giving money to others, such as giving tribute to officials, or building bridges, paving roads, and building ethnology.

After the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, a lot of things have been done. The donation to Muqiong School this time is one of them. At the same time, some businessmen proposed that students who graduate from Muqiong’s school can go to their factories in the future. Or shop work.

Naturally, Mu Qiong would not refuse, but he also said that those students decide whether to stay or not, and he will not interfere.

Of course, he wouldn't take money from these merchants in vain - he carved the names of these merchants on the slate and stood them in the school.

Mu Qiong thinks it is not necessary to let students express gratitude formally, but Mu Qiong thinks it is necessary to let students know how to be grateful.

His students should be grateful, not a bunch of white-eyed wolves.

In this society, the most important thing is to eat. After discussing the matter, those businessmen invited Mu Qiong to eat Russian food.

In view of the fact that Russian cuisine is so popular recently that it is not easy to locate and is expensive, their invitation can be said to be very important to Mu Qiong.

Mu Qiong happily went.

Mu Qiong met many people one after another in Shanghai, but most of them were literati, and he really didn't get along with real businessmen. Now he was eating and drinking with these businessmen, and he realized the difference between businessmen and literati. .

Those literati, when chatting, are concerned with national affairs and ideology and literature, and these businessmen, when chatting, are concerned with prices and business transactions in various places.

But he didn't hate it, he didn't find it tacky, and he was quite interested, after all, these were materials.

Moreover, he never felt that businessmen were inferior.

Mu Qiong's attitude undoubtedly won the favor of these businessmen.

Most of the time, businessmen are at the mercy of others, even those with millions of fortunes are no exception, so they try their best to befriend those powerful people and unite to form a chamber of commerce... But they still don't How to be valued by others, especially not valued by literati.

They donated money to Mu Qiong's school, in fact, to befriend Huo Ershao and Huo Sanshao—although the affair between Huo Ershao and Mu Qiong was fake, Huo Ershao and Huo Sanshao are very good friends This matter was known to everyone after Huo Sanshao went to Muqiong School to attend classes.

They thought that Mu Qiong would look down on them like other literati, but they didn't want Mu Qiong to be much easier to get along with than they thought.

Mu Qiong's attitude made these businessmen very happy, and they became closer to Mu Qiong: "Mr. Lou Yuyu, I have always liked your novels, and the children at home also love to read them!"

"It's the same with me. I'm in the raw silk business. I read Sir's "Silk Village" several times, and finally made up my mind to buy some machines!"

"I learned a lot from reading Mr.'s novels."

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These businessmen are very good at talking, and they are very sincere when they praise Mu Qiong.

"Everyone has praised you." Mu Qiong said.

"It's not a compliment. Many of Mr.'s novels are thought-provoking. My favorite is "The Story of Changing Son". After reading it, I became concerned about my brat, and only then did I realize that he was raised crookedly!" A businessman surnamed Sun said: "He is only seventeen or eighteen years old now, and he has already been contaminated with opium. I don't know what will happen in the future... How can you control him, sir?"

Mu Qiong wrote a lot of things about educating children in "The Story of Changing Sons", so that this businessman actually came to discuss ideas with Mu Qiong at this moment.

When Mu Qiong heard him tell the story of his son eating opium in public, the people around him still seemed to be surprised, so he couldn't help but feel a little heavy in his heart.

At this time, there were a lot of people smoking opium, and it was because of this that everyone felt calm.

In order to revise the dictionary, Cai Zhaoyan invited some literati to help, and some of them would get together regularly every day to smoke opium, and mentioned opium in their conversations, whether it was better in Yunnan or India, they knew exactly what they had in mind.

Mu Qiong said: "Opium is not a good thing, you must quit... If you want, you can send your son to my school. The school is closed and there is absolutely no such thing in it. It can help quit smoking. "In addition to helping to quit smoking, this kind of people should suffer a little bit sometimes.

Mu Qiong's school is still running well, but the conditions inside are a bit difficult in the eyes of these businessmen. The businessman was reluctant to bear his son's hardship, and he hesitated at first, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said: "Then thank you Mu Qiong Mister."

"You're welcome." Mu Qiong said, these people donated a lot of money to him, and he was willing to help them.

So the next day, a young man who looked reckless, together with five thousand oceans, was delivered to Mu Qiong.

Mu Qiong directly arranged this Young Master Sun into the elite class of his school.

All the children in this school are not afraid of suffering, and those who are afraid of suffering have already been sent home by him, and the students in the elite class... don't say that they are not afraid of suffering, they are scrambling to think To suffer!

These people think drinking water is a waste of time, after all, they have to go to the toilet after drinking water!

Mu Qiong felt that sending this young man who ate opium to this class should help him improve a bit.

When Mu Qiong sent him away, he told the students that the man's father had donated [-] oceans earlier and donated another [-] oceans for the children to study. I hope everyone can take care of him. Of course, take care of him. All in all, they don't need to do much.

They are students, and the most important thing is to study. If someone's grades drop, they will definitely leave the elite class.

Mu Qiong talked a lot, and then gave every student in the class a phonetic version of "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and a phonetic version of "Selected Educational Monthly", and let the young master Sun stay in the class.

After the students in the elite class got the brand new books, they all felt like they had found a treasure, and they were all very friendly to Young Master Sun, but that was all.

Under Mu Qiong's repeated teachings, they all agreed on one thing, that is, knowledge can change destiny.

It doesn't matter if this person's family is rich, such rich people have always ignored them. Instead of trying to curry favor with him, they might as well read more books!

The students in the elite class before them were arranged by Mu Qiong to learn pinyin, and now they have all been assigned to teach pinyin in some elementary schools!If these people take this opportunity to study hard and pass the middle school exam...they can become teachers in the future.

That's a teacher!How much more decent than they are as workers!

The students in the elite class are all targeting their seniors, so naturally they have no time to talk to Young Master Sun.

Especially after finding out that Young Master Sun is not good at studying.

It is said that this person has been taught by a teacher since he was a child. With such good conditions, he still learns in a mess...I don't know what will happen in the future!

No matter how hard they try to curry favor with him, at most they will be able to become stewards of the Sun family in the future, and they can also be stewards with their own abilities!

The students in the elite class were very sober and focused on studying, but after only half a day of reading, they saw Young Master Sun having a drug addiction attack, crying and making noise in the classroom.

The students in the elite class thought about it, and helped Young Master Sun to the back of the classroom: "You rest here..."

"I don't rest, you let me out! I want to go back, I want opium! Didn't my father give you [-] oceans? You give me opium, or I will ask my father to take the money back!" Young master Sun refused. Not forgiving, struggling endlessly.

The students in the elite class got impatient, they dropped this classmate, turned around and returned to their seats, and continued to study.

Everyone in the class looked at the book in their hands without squinting. No one cared about the weeping, crying and fussy Young Master Sun at all.

Young Master Sun finally couldn't take it anymore, he rushed to a classmate, grabbed the other's book and tore it up...

Then he was beaten.

The student suddenly jumped up and punched him in the face, knocking Young Master Sun, who had ruined his body by smoking opium at a young age, into a dizzy state.

After smashing it, the student became anxious: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I was just a little anxious..."

Young Master Sun: "..." You didn't do it on purpose, you did it on purpose!

why?Shouldn't these poor ghosts all come to curry favor with him?His mother clearly said that after arriving at this school, he can leave all the things he doesn't want to do to his classmates!

The results of it?These people just know how to study and learn, even if no one helps him with work, they even beat him...

Young Master Sun shed tears of regret.If I had known that he would not come, I definitely would not come!

The student who beat someone went to the teacher, but the teacher only taught him a few words, not only that, but also gave him a new book.

The student who thought he had caused a catastrophe returned to the classroom in a daze, and then suddenly realized one thing - this young master Sun is probably not very important.

That being the case... they will continue to study.

The students in the elite class ignored the crying in their ears and concentrated on their studies. Even when their meals were delivered, they did not rush to eat, but took turns to serve the meals. Remind the next one, lest the next one forget.

Young Master: "..." How can there be such a person in this world!Don't they find reading boring?Are they going to keep reading like this?

Of course, these students couldn't keep reading like this. In fact, after lunch, they went to work in the school's factory together.

Mu Qiong attaches great importance to the students in the elite class, arranges the best teachers to teach them, and arranges more courses for them than others, but even so, they still have to work.

"What are you doing?" Young Master Sun, who had passed the drug addiction and was brought to the factory by his classmates, was at a loss.

"Working." The man who hit him before said that this person felt a little guilty towards Young Master Sun, but took care of Young Master Sun a little more.

"Aren't you students? Why do you still have to work?" Young Master Sun was puzzled, although he didn't want to admit it... But the fact is that these classmates of his are all younger than him.

"Ask the teacher to teach us to read, which one doesn't cost money to feed us? If we don't work, how can Principal Mu get so much money to support us?" the man asked humanely.

"My father donated money!" Young Master Sun said without thinking.

"I know, thank you! Because of the donation from the Chamber of Commerce, Principal Mu plans to build a few more buildings and recruit more students!" The man grinned at Young Master Sun.

Young Master Sun is a bit uncomfortable.

Mu Qiong was concerned about the young master's matter, but he didn't pay too much attention to it, after all, he was too busy.

After a few days, he remembered to ask, and then learned that Young Master Sun was still not used to life in school, mainly because of drug addiction.

"Then let him live slowly, it won't cost much anyway." Mu Qiong said, he can't guarantee that Young Master Sun will learn well, but since the businessman surnamed Sun sent Young Master Sun here, then No matter what he did, he wanted Young Master Sun to quit opium smoking.

After Qingming, the weather became hotter day by day. Mu Qiong and Fu Yunan felt that the kang was not ventilated enough and uncomfortable, so they changed rooms and continued to sleep in bed.

"This bed is a bit small." Mu Qiong lay on the bed and couldn't help saying.

Most of the beds at this time were 1.5 meters long, not too small, enough to sleep at least two people, but he felt... the bed could be made bigger.

"Where is it too small?" Fu Yun'an was a little embarrassed. He had a problem with crowding. Mu Qiong said that the bed was too small... It shouldn't be that the bed was too small, but that he was too good at crowding.

"The whole thing is small, and the three sides are still surrounded, so it looks even smaller." Mu Qiong said: "The kang before was too big, and you can do whatever you want on it! By the way, Yun'an, take advantage of the summer, let us Let’s renovate the room where the kang is installed, and expand the kang to cover the whole room.”

Fu Yun'an: "..." The whole room is a bed?What does Mu Qiong want to do?

Fu Yun'an finally changed the subject: "Mu Qiong, I have made a lot of money recently."

"From those Russians?" Muqiong asked.

"No." Fu Yun'an said, "It was earned from those pirates."

Mu Qiong looked at Fu Yun'an in surprise, and Fu Yun'an said: "Those pirates seized my ship, so I asked someone to take their lair."

No matter how powerful the pirates are, they can't compare to the army...Of course, occasionally the navy will make a guest appearance as a pirate, so there's nothing to say about that.

Originally, those pirates were scattered, even if Fu Yunan wanted to deal with them, he couldn't find them for a while... But now these pirates gathered together and detained his fleet. Catch them all?

Fu Yun'an also did his part without hesitation.

He is not only a businessman, he is much more decisive than those businessmen.

After listening to Fu Yun'an's ins and outs, Mu Qiong said: "Those pirates should be cleaned up... If you can, you can buy a few more ships and do maritime trade in the future."

When he first entered this era, Mu Qiong didn't have time to think too much and never cared about the future, but now that he has taken root in this era, he has to think about the future and his own future.

This country is destined to experience some turmoil. He is not a selfless person who does not care about himself at all. He hopes to live a good life.

That being the case, it is necessary to make plans early, such as forming a fleet early, and going to Hong Kong to become a ship king in the future...

"I already have quite a few ships under my control, but you've already said so, so it's okay to buy a few more," Fu Yun'an said.

When Mu Qiong heard this, he kissed him.

A few days later, when Mu Qiong went to his own school, he saw Young Master Sun as soon as he entered the school gate.

Young Master Sun looked glamorous when he first arrived, but now he looks much more embarrassed. There are many scars on Bai Nen's face, which are said to be caught by him when he was addicted to drugs.

When Mu Qiong met him, he happened to have a seizure again, yawning and begging the security guards to let him out at the school gate, but when he saw Mu Qiong, he immediately rushed over and hugged Mu Qiong's leg and begged: "Please!" You, please let me go! Please let me go home! I want big cigarettes! I'll give you money..."

He speaks a bit incoherently, talking about everything.

However, no matter how much he begged, Mu Qiong remained indifferent: "Pull him away and tie him up." It was not the first time he had seen such an addict, and he was calm.

"Stop!" Mu Qiong's men were about to tie up the young master when someone suddenly shouted.

Mu Qiong turned his head and saw a middle-aged woman in a cheongsam staring at him outside the school gate.

Mu Qiong didn't know the other party, frowned slightly, and looked at the school security guard beside the woman.

"Principal Mu, this is Young Master Sun's mother. She said she wants to come and see Young Master Sun..." The security guard at the gate said, their school is surrounded by walls, and there are people guarding the gate, so outsiders are not allowed to enter casually.Then Young Master Sun's mother came, and he was looking for someone to inform Mu Qiong, if he didn't want to let him run into such a scene...

"Mrs. Sun." Mu Qiong called out.

Mrs. Sun glared at Mu Qiong, and looked at her son's red eyes: "Mother's darling! You have suffered! Mother will pick you up right away! There are smoking cessation medicines sold outside now! You can get rid of your smoking addiction after taking it. Quit it!"

"Smoking cessation medicine?" Mu Qiong was shocked when he heard the woman's words.

In this world, how can there be any smoking cessation medicine? !

In modern times a hundred years later, technology is so advanced, but there is still no medicine for quitting cigarettes, let alone medicine for quitting opium.

"Yes, smoking cessation medicine!" The middle-aged woman said: "The smoking cessation medicine is very effective. After taking it, you won't want to take opium anymore! You let my son go back with me, and he will go home to quit smoking."

"He can't go back." Mu Qiong said: "As for the smoking cessation drug you mentioned... don't use morphine, which is more poisonous than opium!"