The Republic of China was a deformed era, and countless scholars and celebrities emerged, including many masters. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe ten-mile market is very lively, the upper class is extremely poor and luxurious, and the younger generation is actively catching up with international fashion. Correspondingly, the lives of the people at the bottom of the society are very poor, and countless poor people are dying of illness and starvation.

Take salary income as an example, the coachman Zhou Hexuan met that day was tired and tired all day long to barely support his family. If you contract any disease, you basically have no money for medical treatment, and you rely on your body to suffer, and if you can't survive, you can only wait for death.

However, Zhou Hexuan's manuscript fee for writing a novel is one thousand words, and he writes a few thousand words casually, which is enough for the rickshaw driver to be busy for half a month.

How much is 1 yuan worth?

At present, the price of rice in Shanghai is only 6 cents per catty, and the price in Beijing and Tianjin is 20 percent lower, and you can buy a catty of rice for 4 to 5 cents.

At this time, the monthly salary of university lecturers started at 100 yuan, and the monthly salary of professors was several hundred yuan. Knowledge is wealth, and this sentence is vividly reflected in the Republic of China.

Of course, there are also many professors and lecturers who cry poor because the Beiyang government always defaults on salaries. Sometimes it takes months or even years to pay, and sometimes you can only receive half salary. Later, many professors and lecturers from the north went south, not only for political reasons, but also because they could not get salaries.

Take the great writer Lu Xun as an example, he was owed three months' wages in 1920, half a year's wages in 1921, and another three months' wages in 1922. Lu Xun could only earn extra money by writing articles and going out to give lectures, otherwise he would not be able to afford to buy a house in Beiping.

Even the salaries of big trolls like Lu Xun dare to be in arrears, and the little lecturers are even worse, and some Peking University teachers even rely on borrowing money to get by.

Li Shoumin used to be a small civil servant in Beiping, and he complained to Zhou Hexuan when he chatted, saying that it was not interesting to be a civil servant of the Beiyang government, and it was lucky to get half a year's salary for a year.

Just by not paying wages, it can be judged that the Beiyang government will fall sooner or later, which is too unreliable!

In later generations, many people envied the life of the Republic of China and worshiped and advocated the so-called style of the Republic of China. If you really let these people return to the Republic of China to stay for half a year, it is estimated that they will have to roll up their sleeves and scold their mothers.

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Zhou Hexuan's manuscript of more than 70,000 words suddenly got more than 70 yuan in manuscript fees, which made his pocket finally bulge, and he didn't have to worry about living expenses next month. He gave Mrs. Zhou 10 yuan, which is considered the food money for this month, and she will eat at Li Shoumin's house in the future.

However, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has not yet started serialization, and it must wait for someone else's work to be completed.

That night, Li Shoumin came home very late, sighing and his face was extremely ugly.

Zhou Hexuan asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"There was a tragedy in Beiping, Feng Yuxiang's army opened fire on the petitioning students, killing 47 people on the spot and wounding more than 100 people," Li Shoumin said angrily, "It is really unreasonable, it is simply lawless!" So capable, why don't you dare to shoot at the Japanese? ”

Zhou Hexuan was silent, and the famous "March 18 tragedy" finally happened.

The cause of the incident was the melee of the Beiyang warlords, and Feng Yuxiang arranged mines at the mouth of Dagu in order to defend against Zhang Zuolin's attack from the sea. Britain, the United States, France, Japan, Italy, and other eight countries were dissatisfied, and they jointly protested to the Beiyang government and issued a 44-hour ultimatum, demanding that the defense of Dagu Pass be dismantled, otherwise it would be resolved by force.

These eight countries not only protested, but also drove warships to the mouth of Dagu.

The Eight-Nation Ultimatum not only removed the mines, but also demanded that the Beiyang government flatten all the forts along the line from Dagukou to Beiping, which went far beyond the content of the "Xinchou Treaty."

After the news broke, patriotic students and the masses were filled with righteous indignation, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party jointly convened a meeting and organized a meeting of students and the masses to petition, hoping that the Beiyang government would reject the shameless demands of the eight powers.

At the time of the tragedy, General Feng Yuxiang was actually not in Beiping, he had already been electrified and went to the field, preparing to go to the Soviet Union to investigate (to avoid the limelight). It was his generals who ordered the shooting, killing and wounding nearly 200 students.

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The next morning, Zhou Hexuan went out to buy a few newspapers, and sure enough, the headlines were all about the March 18 tragedy, and all the major newspapers were criticizing the Beiyang government.

Public opinion across the country was in an uproar, because the Beiyang government was too outrageous and excessive. The masses of students carried out patriotic petitions, pointing the spearhead at the eight powers, and those who served as soldiers did not go to war with the powers, but actually aimed their guns at their own people.

What does this mean?

Mr. Lu Xun's famous article "In Memory of Liu He Zhenjun" was also published soon and published in the "Yuxi" weekly: "A real warrior dares to face the bleak life and dare to face the dripping blood ......"

Zhou Hexuan has always looked at this era from an outsider's perspective, and he has long known that a tragedy will happen on March 18. But at this time, when I saw the condemnation article in the newspaper and Lu Xun's essay, I still felt extremely aggrieved.

It's a bastard society that turns black and white upside down!

Zhou Hexuan finally deeply understood why there were so many people with lofty ideals in the Republic of China, who went forward and spilled their blood one after another, they just wanted to create another bright future.

Maybe I should do something about it?

Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but think like this, but after all, he was small and weak, and he didn't want to go south to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, so it was not worth it to be cannon fodder one day. Even if the Beiyang government is overthrown, it will only be a change of soup and not a change of medicine.

The more Zhou Hexuan thought about it, the more dazed he became, he couldn't find the value of his existence in this era.

Nowadays, China's hot-blooded young people either impassionedly join a certain patriotic group, or serve the country with their ideals. But Zhou Hexuan couldn't do it, because he knew the future direction of history, and he didn't want to get involved, and his life would be in danger if he joined either side.

Alas, let's take it one step at a time.

Zhou Hexuan has an ostrich mentality in his mind, and he does not dare to devote himself to the tide of the times for the time being. As a small person living in Tianjin, he has a more intuitive feeling that prices have risen!

Because Zhang Zuolin was attacking Tianjin, the Japanese pulled a bias to help, Feng Yuxiang's national army obviously couldn't hold on, and the city was broken only overnight.

The war disaster is about to come, and the price of everything in the city is rising, and many citizens have already stockpiled food and water at home for all kinds of unexpected needs.

However, the irony is that the teahouse business in Tianjin City is doing the same, and there are no fewer people drinking tea and playing cards than in the past. The opera garden is still noisy and lively, babbling and singing on stage, and the audience applauds like thunder.

It seems that everyone has long been accustomed to such things as war.

No matter how the city changes the banner of the king, ordinary people are most concerned about their own lives. They just want to be fed and clothed, and when they have a little spare money, they go to drink tea, listen to plays, and care who is the mother's president.

Zhou Hexuan's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" began to be serialized in this situation.