Chapter 20 Crowdfunding
Subtitle of this chapter: I really want to open a book of 1920 Paris, France! Or, do a crowdfunding?
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"We demand the right to learn!"
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"We want the right to work!"
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"We want the right to live!"
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In front of the legation of the Republic of China in Paris, more than a dozen well-dressed girls stood at the front of the line of three or four hundred people, leading and chanting slogans. These young girls, who are very pleasing to the eye, not only fuel the momentum of the male students, but also amaze the French police who maintain order next to them and the reporters who come to inquire about them.
Among them, there are two famous women and heroines in history, they are also a pair of concubines, sister-in-law Xiang Jingyu, sister-in-law Cai Chang. Their husband and brother were one of the organizers of the demonstration.
After the end of World War I, the "work-study in France" movement flourished throughout China, instigated by the Huafa Education Association established by Cai Yuanpei and Wu Zhihui. More than 1,600 students have come to France one after another. However, a large number of young students who came to France with hope soon found themselves in a situation where they could not get into school, find jobs and even have difficulties in life.
In January 1921, the Chinese French Education Association issued a circular declaring that it would dissociate itself from the economic relations with the students who came to France, which put the Chinese students in an extremely embarrassing situation. As a result, there was such a "228" student movement.
At this time, he was standing in the back row of the line, speaking Hunan-style Chinese and discussing the matter of the reception list with the core backbone of the "Mondani faction".
The Montagani school refers to this group of students who study in France who often hold open-air seminars in the Parc Muntagny in Paris, and the people in this group are amazing......
"I'm definitely going to go, Li Weihan and Wang Zekai...... Just 11 of us. ”
Li and Wang are Cai Hesen's fellow villagers in Hunan and are also members of the Xinmin Society.
However, in the future, Li Weihan will be the head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China. Wang Zekai was sentenced to five years in prison in 1958 for the crime of "historical FAN revolution" because he followed Chen Duxiu, became a Trotskyist, and became Chen Mingren's staff during the Anti-Japanese War, and finally died in a labor camp.
Fate makes people, and I can't be deceived.
After appointing the student representatives, Cai Hesen said to the two young people beside him, "Renzhi, Zhonghong, you can maintain order outside." ”
"Okay." Li Renzhi's opening is also the Chinese language of Changsha taste. Later, he became Cai Hesen's brother-in-law. By the way, his original name was Li Fuchun.
"Yes." This Sichuan man is only nineteen years old now, but he is experienced and does not speak ambiguously, so he was also assigned by Cai Hesen as the temporary commander-in-chief.
In fact, his surname is Chen...... That's right, it is Generalissimo Chen who "went to Quantai to recruit the old department and beheaded Yama with a banner of 100,000" in the future.
Oh, our Master Yuan may have been in the wrong place, according to his trouble-loving nature, it is better to wear New York in 1920 than to Paris in 1920.
Anyway, a traverser like him would not be an unlucky guy like Wang Zekai, a proletarian revolutionary.
After Cai Hesen arranged these matters, he entered the embassy in France with ten other delegates to negotiate with Minister Chen Zheng......
Chen Zheng (1877-1939), known as Renxian, was born in Fuzhou, Fujian. He is the first Chinese student to obtain a bachelor's degree in law from France. It's a pity that this old man can't afford to be in his old age, and in 1938 he defected to Japan, became a traitor, and became the foreign minister of the puppet restoration government. In 1939, he was assassinated by agents of the military command.
After several representations between the representatives of the students studying in France and the legation, the embassy received a telegram from the Beijing government, saying that the national treasury is currently in dire straits, and the students in France who have no money or work can only be sent back to China and instructed the embassy to handle it.
This infuriated the students, and the outside procession stormed the embassy with slogans. Chen Zheng had to call in the French police to maintain order. Fortunately, Xiang Jingyu, Cai Chang, Chen Yi and Li Fuchun were clear-headed and "dispersed as they went", which did not cause bloodshed. However, the four leaders were arrested by the police.
In the end, Chen Zheng was forced to extend the payment of living expenses to the students for three months, the Huafa Education Association also promised to continue to find jobs for unemployed students, and the French government promised to establish a "juvenile guardianship association" to be responsible for arranging labor and living relief for students, and released the four on the spot.
The "228" movement came to a successful conclusion. (Author's note: The above historical materials are excerpted from "The Biography of Cai Hesen")
However, after that, the living conditions of the students studying in France were still very difficult, and fortunately there was our Master Yuan in this timeline, so a generous "Brother Zhuang" immediately appeared.
These students studying in France did not have enough food and clothing, and they had to march on the streets for their studies and work. And there is a student studying in the United States who is Zhong Mingding's food and clothing mansion, and even there are two white girls who warm the bed at night.
That is why there are so many proletarian revolutionaries among the former, while the latter is strutting down the golden strip of neoclassical liberal masters.
Tuesday, March 1, 1921.
Yuan Yanqian got up from Wenrou Township before eight o'clock, and after eating breakfast and picking up some food, he asked Zhuang Kunlun to drive him to the "Le Monde" building next to Hyde Park.
Instead of going to the floor of the NYPR, he entered the office premises of Le Monde.
"Good morning, Neo."
"Emma, good morning. By the way, my guest commentator article is ready to be submitted. ”
Miss Pulitzer took it and looked at it, and saw that the title was "On Wilson's False Pacifistism and Its Lessons in World History."
She said with a little crying and laughing: "Neo, you should know that he almost fainted after reading your last article "Bourgeois Mission and Wilson's Fake Pacifistism", and you still write?!" ”
Yuan Yanqian shrugged his shoulders and said: "Emma, we Cyris people pay attention to the beginning and the end of things, and if I don't write this series of political commentaries to the ninth article, it will definitely not work." Anyway, in a few days, President Wilson will become former President Wilson, and this will be the last one. ”
Emma said with some concern: "Neo, there are many people who have written to us and have very strong words about you as an author. You have to be careful about your own safety. ”
"Hmm." Master Yuan nodded and said, "Thank you for your concern." Didn't I come for this and make an appointment with your father? ”
"Oh, what new ideas do you have?" Miss Pulitzer asked with interest when she heard this.
Master Yuan didn't hide it either, and said directly: "Let me first reveal to you an exclusive news, Mr. David Pulitzer is about to start filming a sound movie, and I wrote the script. ”
Emma suddenly realized: "I see, you are going to advertise with us, and this can really divert the public's attention." ”
"Diverting public attention is for sure." Yuan Yanqian patiently explained, "But I came to you "Le Monde" and NYPR to do a Crod Funding......
"Ah, Neo. What are you crowdfunding for? ”
"Of course, it's for this "Famine Orphan Girl"!"
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Murong collected a lot of information for this book, and it was a great loss to write only one. But there's no rush in this matter, because according to the outline, this broken book is still written.
In addition, since a patient asked, by the way, the protagonist returned to China in the next volume, that is, the third volume...... But to what extent, only God knows.
I don't want the book I've worked so hard to write to be 404 again.