Chen Qiang walked on the streets of old Shanghai in a daze, looking at everything around him, and those buildings from the Republic of China period came into his eyes, making him feel like he was visiting a film and television base.

But the reality is real, this is not a film and television base, but the real old Shanghai.

Chen Qiang's face was confused, in the original Chen Qiang's memory, he fled from Shandong, and has been living in Shanghai for several months, but for Chen Qiang now, this Shanghai beach is still extremely unfamiliar.

The stranger terrifies him!

Chen Qiang didn't know where he should go, nor did he know what he should do, he just instinctively followed his memory and walked towards his "home". That was Chen Qiang's residence in old Shanghai.

In old Shanghai, the two largest residential areas of Chinese were Nanshi and Zhabei, of which Nanshi was the location of the old Shanghai county, and the residents were mainly local aborigines of Shanghai, while Zhabei was inhabited by a relatively large number of foreigners.

Chen Qiang's "home" is in the slums of Zhabei. Now he has no family, and the so-called "home" is just a straw shed that is difficult to shelter from the wind and rain.

There is really only one very simple straw hut, and this kind of straw hut can be found everywhere in the slums of Zhabei.

In the slums of Zhabei, the grass hut is not the most humble place to live, and there are many people who can't even afford to live in the grass hut, so they can only sleep in dilapidated tents. And if there is an adobe wall and a wooden beam, it is considered a mansion in the slums.

Even this kind of grass hut is not free to live in, Shanghai's land price is already high, this slum is not a terra nullius, here an acre of land will charge 200 yuan of rent a year, the 200 yuan will be distributed to this acre of land on a grass shed, wooden shed, whose grass shed occupies how much land, how much rent to pay. Chen Qiang's broken grass shed also has to pay 3 cents a month in rent to the landlord.

Back in his grass shed, Chen Qiang gradually calmed down, everything he experienced in reality was real, and he slowly accepted the fact that he had crossed over.

"It's 1929, and a lot of great things have happened in that year. No, to be precise, in the next ten years, a lot of big things will happen every year. ”

Thinking of this, Chen Qiang let out a long sigh. Although he did not come from a history background, he had studied history in high school, and he had a general understanding of the major events that would happen in the future, and he knew even more about the suffering that the entire Chinese nation would suffer.

The idea of "I want to change all this......" suddenly popped up in Chen Qiang's mind, and then he added "? ”

Changing history is easier said than done! The wheels of history are not something that a small butterfly can instigate.

Although Chen Qiang is a traverser, his specialty seems to be useless in this era.

In his previous life, Chen Qiang used to be an excellent athlete, and he was proficient in various sports;

He is also an excellent coach, whether it is technical training, physical training or rehabilitation training;

He has also done sports commentary, and it is definitely a witty thing to ask him to explain a game;

When he was a professor at the University of Physical Education, his research papers were regularly published in international magazines;

He is even the chairman of several sports-related associations, and can be regarded as an international sports practitioner.

But in this era, Chen Qiang's skills are not used.

This is a troubled era, peace and tranquility are so precious, and people can't eat enough, how can there be any spare time to engage in sports?

Chen Qiang felt that compared with those traversers in the novel, he was simply a waste of wood!

The protagonist in the novel is proficient in history, while Chen Qiang only knows the history of this era, and even can't remember many historical events;

The protagonist in the novel can be the king of soldiers, who is agile and can eliminate a devil with one shot, while Chen Qiang can't even use a gun, and he is giving away his head when he goes to the battlefield;

The protagonist in the novel can be a military enthusiast, and a drawing can make guns, guns, tanks, and airplanes, and Chen Qiang doesn't know anything;

The protagonist in the novel can be an inventor, a simple one can invent stockings and a condom, and a complex one can refine penicillin and insulin, but Chen Qiang only knows a little about how cotton cloth is woven;

The protagonist in the novel can be a financial expert, who went to Wall Street to play investment, and could make a lot of money in a Great Depression, and instantly became the richest man in the world, while Chen Qiang didn't even buy stocks;

In the worst case, the protagonist in the novel can also copy a book, copy a magic fight or something, or mix a well-known writer.

But Chen Qiang hasn't read a few novels at all, and he can't remember the kind of masterpiece of millions of words!

If there is one useful skill, it is probably language.

In his previous life, Chen Qiang was still relatively proficient in English, and he had no problem listening, speaking, reading and writing, otherwise he would not have become an international-level sports practitioner.

In addition, Chen Qiang also knows a little French, the reason why he knows French is mainly because the official languages of the International Olympic Committee are English and French, and French is often used in international sports affairs, so Chen Qiang also learned some French to facilitate communication.

These two languages are still very useful in Shanghai today. Shanghai has a public concession and a French concession, of which the French concession is naturally French, and the public concession is formed by the merger of the British concession and the American concession, so there are many British, American and French expatriates in old Shanghai, who can speak English and French, which has become a very practical skill. If you can master one of these languages, you can find a decent job in the concession, even if you can't be a comprador bourgeoisie.

But Chen Qiang is only fifteen years old, and at such a young age, it is impossible for him to get a decent job. Just imagine, those foreign companies in the concession are all very bullish, how can they hire a fifteen-year-old child!

And if you want to find a decent job in the concession, you must at least have a decent outfit, even if it is not a suit and leather shoes, you must have a long shirt.

Now Chen Qiang is poor only with two short clothes and two pants, and he is also patched with patches, wearing thin ones in summer, wearing thin ones inside in winter, and putting thick ones on the outside. Dressed like this, it's no better than calling Hanako, and you have to hide when you see a patrol in the concession, so as not to be beaten up in the rental area.

"Don't think about it so much, it's the right thing to find a way to live!" Chen Qiang touched his stomach, in this era of war and chaos, it has become difficult to eat a full stomach.

Looking at his own situation, Chen Qiang suddenly felt that if he wanted to survive in Shanghai, he really had to use some brains.

In his previous life, Chen Qiang had been engaged in sports all his life, and when he came to Shanghai in this era, he had no survival skills, which also doomed him to not be able to do a technical career, and he could only make money by working hard. And he doesn't have the capital, even if he sets up a stall to do a small business.

As the shopkeeper of the car dealer Liu said before, he is just a "deflated three".

In old Shanghai, "Qi San" was not a completely derogatory term, but it was a contemptuous term. At that time, the upper class of Shanghai called the idle people, those in the lower professions, the unemployed, and the beggars "deflated three". The scope of "deflated three" is very wide and vague, but Chen Qiang, an unemployed person who fled from other places, does meet the definition of "deflated three" by the old Shanghainese.

Chen Qiang is a rickshaw driver who has only pulled a car for two days, and the rickshaw driver is considered an inferior industry and belongs to the ranks of "deflated three".

However, since he was hit by a car, Chen Qiang can't continue to do the rickshaw driver's business, at least in the car shop in Shanghai Huajie, there is no place for him.

Rickshaws were the main means of transportation in old Shanghai, and almost all the rickshaws in Shanghai at that time were controlled by gangs. The overlord of Shanghai rickshaw is the "Gu Siye" in the mouth of the shopkeeper Chen.

Gu Siye is a native of northern Jiangsu, the predecessor of the "Tong" generation of the Green Gang, and the "big head incense" of Zhabei, this title represents great power and high status in the Green Gang. This Gu Siye claims to have 8,000 rickshaw drivers under his command, and the entire rickshaw shop in Shanghai Huajie is monopolized by Gu Siye.

Therefore, Chen Qiang was kicked out by a car dealership, which is equivalent to being blacklisted by all the car dealers in Shanghai Huajie, and if Gu Siye doesn't want it, the entire Shanghai Huajie rickshaw dealer will no longer accept him. It is also for this reason that the shopkeeper Liu of the car dealership will say, "You can't stay in this business", and asked Chen Qiang to "find a separate livelihood".

"How do you feed yourself?" Chen Qiang frowned and pondered, now he can probably only do some unskilled work.

"Go to the docks as a foot force?" Chen Qiang immediately rejected the idea. After all, he was only fifteen years old, and although he could already pull a cart, the heavy physical labor of a dock porter was not something he could handle.

"Looking for a place to be an apprentice?" Chen Qiang shook his head again.

This apprentice is not for everyone. There are rules for other masters to recruit apprentices, like many skilled masters, recruiting apprentices as long as the children of their relatives, or accept some fellow villagers, just because they know the roots.

In this era, when the master accepted apprentices, he had to have a apprenticeship ceremony, a guarantor, and a sign of the letter of guarantee in black and white to establish rules. For example, you can't quit the teacher for three years and one quarter, you don't get paid during the apprenticeship, the apprentice is not allowed to start a family, the master beats and scolds the apprentice for missing his life, etc., all of which are said in advance.

These are the rules of the trade, and they must be followed.

If any apprentice sets up his own door without the permission of the master after leaving the school, it is a violation of the rules, and the whole industry will not treat you.

Chen Qiang, who fled from other places, has no relatives and no reason in Shanghai, does not meet the conditions for apprenticeship, and does not even have the qualifications to be an apprentice, and no master will accept such a person of unknown origin.

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Qiang found that it seemed that he had to go back to his old job.

Go be a newsboy.

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