The Literary Hero of the Republic of China (民国之文豪) [MTL]

Chapter 21- 22

　　Chapter 21 The First Work

　　The story Mu Qiong wants to write is related to studying abroad, and it is a romance novel.

　　In this era, people focus on thinking when writing things. After the New Culture Movement, many people feel that love and love are difficult to be elegant.

　　Because of this, the authors of the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" novels in the Republic of China were often criticized, even though they made a lot of money and their novels were loved by countless people.

　　Mu Qiong does not comment on this, after all, this era is too special. But he always felt that some novels of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School were actually well written at this time.

　　Let's just say that a novel of this period that was made into a TV series in later generations has a lot of feeling when you read it. It can't let readers understand this era a hundred years later, but also let them see the resistance of many people in the book to feudal ethics. .

　　This is the kind of essay he intends to write.

　　Firstly, although this kind of novels will be criticized by others, they can always get a high remuneration, and secondly... it is because he spares his life.

　　In this era, many literati were persecuted for writing wrong things. Some of them fled to the foreign concessions and fled the country. After all, they were fine, but some of them died just like that.

　　Of course, most literati are relatively sober, scolding is what they want, but scolding around the bush, don't confront the warlords, otherwise those who have guns in their hands may do something.

　　Mu Qiong is also very sober, so he plans to write a romance novel.

　　He had already figured out the outline. At the beginning, he was a male student from an average family. In the last few years of the Qing Dynasty, he passed the Geng subsidy examination and went to study abroad at public expense.

　　The so-called Gengzi overseas students are students who use Gengzi indemnities to study abroad.

　　The "Gengzi Indemnity" was originally the indemnity paid by the Qing government to the great powers after the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty". At that time, according to the agreement, it was necessary to compensate the great powers with 450 million taels of silver. .

　　And because it was paid in installments, the principal and interest added up to nearly 1 billion taels of silver!

　　The Qing government was simply unable to repay, and in the end it mortgaged all the tariffs, regular tariffs, and salt taxes, and let the big powers divide them up. It is precisely because of this that Chinese society has completely degraded from a feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

　　However, due to the lobbying of some insightful people in the United States, some countries led by the United States agreed to return part of the money, while the Qing government decided to use all the money for education, and the government of the Republic of China later did the same. Decide.

　　Tsinghua University was established with this money. In addition, there are many people who rely on this money to study abroad, and among these people, there are many famous people in later generations.

　　The male protagonist in Mu Qiong's book is a Geng student studying abroad. After he went abroad, he encountered all kinds of troubles and discrimination from foreigners. In order to make a living, he had to work several jobs outside.

　　His life was very difficult, but he never gave up studying, and even used all his spare time to study.

　　He wants to learn more knowledge and then bring that knowledge back home.