Huang Dingyou crouched on the table, reviewing the manuscript in his hand word by word. This is the first series www.biquge.info of reports made by Far Eastern Newspaper after its official opening: all the summaries of 'soldiers'.

The Yangtze River Publishing House upstairs felt that the social influence of this series of reports was quite good, and the essence of it could be summarized and sorted out, which could fully meet the standard of publication. Based on the concept of a literati, Huang Dingyou himself is very enthusiastic about this matter.

In the end, the draft was changed three times, and what Huang Dingyou is holding in his hand now is the final draft.

Three days later, on the first day of the second half of the month, the manuscript was to be taught to the Yangtze River.

Turning a new page, a plain text with an unwavering strength came into Huang Dingyou's eyes, which was the self-report of a thirty-year-old sergeant major of the third class.

The language is very plain, there is no wonderful writing that makes people shoot amazing writing, some are just unpretentious, like a reef standing on the seaside, so that the waves of the sea for thousands of years do not feel beaten, and they do not move.

"On the fifth day of the seventh lunar month of the twelfth year of Qianlong, I was born in a poor peasant family in Zhangjinglou, Shanxian County, Caozhou, Shandong. Eight generations of our ancestors were poor. My original name was Zhang Laisheng, and the name Zhang Jinlai was changed to me by the instructor after I became a soldier.

My instructor is a good person, and he said my name was too unambitious. What people want in this life is this life, to build a house, to marry a daughter-in-law, to give birth to a baby, to eat well, to dress well, to be comfortable, what to ask for in the next life? Will it still be yourself in the next life?

The instructor is really a good person, literate and hyphenated, never blushing with people, there is no good temper anymore, the gun is accurate, and he will give people straight bones. If he hadn't died, he would have at least been a school officer by now.

I hadn't had enough food until I was in the boot camp. Our single county is a plain, particularly close to Guide in Henan, in the southwest corner of Shandong, Shandong, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. There are no mountains and mountains, no deep mountains and old forests, all of them are land, but none of them belong to our family.

The days of "half a year's ration of bran vegetables" have been like this for as long as I can remember. Most of the people are engaged in agriculture, relying on farming for landlords as tenants, selling long-term and short-term jobs to make a living, and some of them rely on doing small crafts and small business to make a living.

My father's name is Zhang Yongguang. It is to do a small business as a business, and after settling down and starting a family, he still relies on small businesses such as selling candy, needlework, thimbles, and selling straw sandals by himself. My family has no land, so I rented five acres of land from the landlord in the village, and the rent was forty percent. But our family borrowed debts from the landlord, and the profits rolled over, and in addition to the rent, we also had to repay the profits, and we had to pay six or seven percent a year. My mother only knows the surname Kong, and my mother's family is from the Kong family in Shanxian County, but I have never been to my grandfather's house, because my mother is a widow and remarried, and my grandfather's family will not recognize my mother because of the shame.

I also have a brother named Huang Youtian, who is seven years older than me. It was born to my mother and the husband who used to do it.

When I was ten years old, he was already an adult, except for working in his own field, he was selling long-term and short-term jobs to the landlord. Until I was thirteen, my brother was twenty years old, and he hadn't married a daughter-in-law. One day, they were all cutting grain, and someone called him to say a few words on the field, and he came back to say a few words to his mother and left, and never came back, and the family did not know his news, and he did not know whether he was dead or alive for more than ten years.

When I was a child, I didn't go to school and couldn't read and write, so I always heard people say "the beginning of the people" and "Zhao Qiansun Li", and I knew that there were Confucius and Mencius, but I couldn't write a single big character. From the age of 10 to 14, in addition to chopping firewood and farming, I was herding cattle for the landlord at home.

In addition to me, my mother also gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl, the younger sister died, and the younger brother is doing well now.

It may have been August 15, the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong, when I was thirteen years old, my little sister didn't know what she was eating, she was poisoned, vomited and diarrhea, and had no money to go for treatment, so she watched her die. When I was over 14 years old, I went to my cousin-in-law in Shanxian County, and my cousin-in-law was good, a good person, and treated me very well. I worked there for a large family surnamed Li for two years, and for another person surnamed Yang for three years. I was almost twenty at the time.

That year, the emperor began to lead troops to Hubei, and the Qing soldiers in Henan suffered a big loss, and the people who returned to Germany came to Shanxian to recruit troops. The world is in chaos, my father did business and robbed people, fortunately his life was not lost, but the capital is gone, and the life of the family is even more difficult. So I went to Guide to serve as a soldier. At that time, the person who was chosen was given a settling-in allowance of one tael of silver and one bucket of grain.

It didn't take long for the head of my camp to go down from Guide to Chenzhou, and then to Shahe. I stayed in Shahe for half a year, and there was no fighting, and the two sides were full of confrontations and skirmishes, and the team was pulled back to Guide.

At that time, the emperor was leading troops to fight Jiangnan. The apportionment in Guide City is getting more and more powerful, and when the emperor knocks down Hangzhou, Guide's apportionment is even more powerful. The soldiers and officials also began to arrest people on a large scale, saying that they were arresting bandits and disrupting the party, but in fact they were blackmailing people. In those days, there was a lot of messy news, especially the crackdown on bandits and cutting braids.

At that time, the location of Guide was very special, it was there to the east of the Shandong battlefield, to the west is the lump of Lushan, the south of Anhui is relatively stable, but the southeast is northern Jiangsu. Therefore, every day, the food and salary of the brigade passed from Guide, and a large number of wounded were often sent back. Some of those wounded are dead, and some are alive but they are useless, so the Manchus will not care about those remnants. Many people were kicked out of the wounded camp before their injuries were fully healed, and they could only beg in Guide to beg, which was very miserable.

The Qing soldiers also often killed people, and when the prison was full, they began to kill people when they couldn't fit it.

As long as the conscience is not bad, it is not used to it.

At that time, several fellow villagers in our team often got together to nag and vent their anger. We feel that it is unlucky to join such a team in order to make ends meet, so what else is the beginning of this battle? Many of the people who were killed were ordinary people who did their duty!

There are people everywhere above, and the officials eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and a few of us can't stop it. However, we must not lose people's conscience and do things that hurt nature and reason.

When the Tartars dragged us to northern Jiangsu, we took refuge with the emperor outside the city of Yangzhou, and the team was still called the Fu Han Army at that time. ……”

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The veteran interviewed by Far East News is a representative of the loyal and brave faction in the army, and he looks down on those who have retired from the army and returned home to enjoy happiness and pleasure.

"I used to just want to be fed, and I was bullied in order to get enough to eat. When the big family sets up the banquet, they move the table and bench to sweep the floor, serve the plate and send the bowl, and tell what to do, just like the grandson, and do not ask to be able to go to the table, and give the bowl leftovers to a few steamed buns dipped in oil and water are satisfied.

But now I know that I am not right, because all I ask for is alms from others, and that is not right. In fact, the leftover steamed buns I asked for were bought by my labor.

Therefore, with these hands, many people like me must not only be able to eat enough, but also eat well, and no longer be bullied.

You can't kneel on the ground and be a dog because of a bite of food.

Because everything I want can be exchanged for these hands of mine!

I don't feel that I am stupid because I don't know words in the past, and I don't think that other people's big fish and meat, and it is fate for my own family to eat bran and swallow vegetables to fill my stomach, and the instructor has taught me a lot of things. I know that the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, I know that where there is a will, there is a way, the cauldron is broken, and the one hundred and two Qin passes belong to Chu after all; I know that the hard-working people live up to the sky, and the three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu.

I used to be illiterate just because no one taught me, and I used to be stupid, and I was treated like a dog and a monkey by the son of the landlord's family, because my knowledge and experience were really too little. But people are always growing, not destined by God, and they will remain unchanged for a lifetime.

I have followed the army to the north and south, I have seen mountains, I have seen the sea, I know what is a desert, I know what is a grassland, I know what is a forest, I have killed a tiger, I have seen a dead whale, I know that the world is so big. He's a lot bigger than I thought.

Of course I'm no longer the turtle I used to know nothing about, what haven't I ever seen?

The son of the landlord who used to laugh at me, now sees me, he is a grandson. He's a turtle now. Does he know a?

My family's life is much better than that of the landlord's family.

In recent years, in addition to the military fields, my father and my brother have bought land to build houses and are called rich townships. Now there are twenty or thirty houses in my family, more than 100 acres of fields, and a jujube orchard, about more than ten acres. In addition, my brother also co-founded a warehouse in the county and sold groceries such as whale oil, cloth, and candy. My family is much richer than the former landlords in the village.

This is not destined by God, this is what I fought with my own life, and it was created by my father and my brother with their own hands.

I have also sponsored dolls in the school, and I want more children to go to school.

Now there are still many poor people in the world, not every child can go to school, but as long as those poor people are willing to work hard, they can be like me without worrying about eating and drinking, and they can also let their children go to school every day.

The emperor said: knowledge changes fate. I think this sentence is too right, not to say that those talents in the pre-Qing Dynasty, but now in this army, it is necessary to read and break words. I just learned to read too late, I didn't pass both exams, and I was punished if I wasted the opportunity, so I'm now a sergeant major of the third class.

I have helped poor people, I have cut off the heads of those bastards who do evil, Han people, banner people, officials, and Rakshasa ghosts, there is no one I Zhang Jin is afraid of. I followed the emperor to the grassland, and saw with my own eyes the barbarians fleeing to the north and the Han dynasty revived.

I'll tell you, I've always thought that there's no better feeling in the world than to defeat an enemy on the battlefield, chop off the enemy's skull, and watch the enemy fall to their knees at their feet.

There are opportunities everywhere in the world, and the people who worked hard in the past can turn over as long as they work hard. When Zhang Jinlai said this call, his blood was gushing, and he was full of the fighting spirit of daring to fight the heavens and the earth and stepping on all obstacles in the world.

"There are three women in my room, and there is a lady in the room, and I put it in the past, which I should be respectful after I see it, and look up at it is an offended nobleman. But now? Isn't she going to serve me obediently, do my laundry, cook and give birth to a baby? Crushed under me by me?

My days, my family's days, are getting better and better, and it's all because of my efforts. ”

Zhang Jinlai's identity as a third-class sergeant major is not very noble in the army, his face is simple, and he does not have the nobility and pride shown by an officer, just like an ordinary person. Even apart from his straight waist at that moment, he wanted to be a peasant. But such a veteran with first-class military skills, but who did not pass the main examination and the supplementary examination, said such proud and proud words when facing the reporters of "Far Eastern News". He was proud of everything he was enjoying now, and he broke the fate of one of China's most ordinary peasants.

He wished he could be in the newspapers, that his experience would be seen by more farmers like him in the past, and that he would take that crucial first step.

When the war came, Zhang Jinlai of the 1st Brigade and 3rd Regiment of the Guards Division was the first to sign up for the expeditionary force.

"Afraid? Are you afraid of death? It's all bullshit. ”

"It's too late to be happy, where can I think about anything else? Isn't it the same when I'm in Nanjing, far away from home? Is there a difference between being 1,000 miles away from home and 10,000 miles away from home? All I had in my heart was pride, glory, and satisfaction. ”

"The imperial court gave me a good life that I couldn't even think of at the beginning, and although I got so much, although I fought with my own life, I don't think my life is worth so much. So don't talk about giving up your small family to take care of everyone, what the court gave me in exchange for ten lives is more than enough, and my life is the court's. Serving the court is a matter of course and deserved. ”

"If the court wants to fight, then fight!"

"Those soft eggs who are in a hurry to get home are not good birds! The court's money was spent too unjustly. ”

"Those kings and eight calves are all ungrateful seeds."

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Huang Dingyou put down the pen in his hand, it was not the first time he had seen this text, but every time he saw it, he had a deep emotion in his heart.

This third-class sergeant major Zhang Jinlai, purely from the ideological realm, compared with some of the rules and regulations and propaganda regulations obtained by the newspaper from the Department of Education and Culture and from the Press and Publication Administration, this veteran does not meet the 'dedication' under the new requirements of the imperial court.

But Huang Dingyou can easily see a scorching feeling of the traditional Chinese 'food king's loyalty to the king' from the veteran's words.

It was this feeling that made Huang Dingyou embarrassed.

He thought of what happened when he was on the island of his great-mother, why did he fall out with "Jinling News"? Although there are reasons for this, that, but in the end, it was Huang Dingyou himself who came out of the basket first.

At that time, he obviously didn't have this sense of responsibility - the loyalty of the king.

This is a deep, deep stimulation for Huang Dingyou.

And when this stimulus is reflected in Huang Dingyou, it has been a month or two since the newspaper opened, and Huang Dingyou's high-pitched work enthusiasm and extremely responsible work attitude have always been maintained.

As a result, Huang Dingyou's editor-in-chief throne can be basically established.

God, how old is he? has already sat in the position of editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief of Jinling News is three years older than his father.

Huang Dingyou took a sip of the teacup at hand, there was a thick tea, super strong. But definitely refreshing!

Huang Dingyou is not used to drinking coffee, although that thing is indeed very refreshing, but he himself still uses strong tea instead.

There are only three days left.

In the past three days, Huang Dingyou had to review these manuscripts again in his spare time. Just look at the punctuation, and if there are no obvious typos.

In front of Huang Dingyou, a wooden bookcase is placed wide open on top of the book, which is said to have been designed by the current emperor and is now popular throughout the country. Not only government offices and schools, but also newspapers have books on their desks.

—Zhu Wu

The handwriting of the three red pens is bright and bright.

This is Zhu Wu's voyage notes, and the deputy editor-in-chief in charge of the humanities and geography section is a little scratching his head, and he is a little uncertain whether to publish it or not. Because in addition to this Zhu Wu's navigation notes, he also has Xie Qinggao's navigation essay in his hand.

It's really a fish and a bear's paw, you can't have it both ways.

So this kind of thing has fallen into the hands of Huang Dingyou, who has made him the acting editor-in-chief of the president. (To be continued.) )