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Writing in the Republic of China (24)

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    Zhou Dezhang's words were exchanged for silence in the hall.

    Le Jing sighed slightly in his heart.

    Although Zhou Dezhang had a long-term view, he was only worried that opium would encroach on fertile land, cause food shortages, and shake the foundation of the country.  He did not realize the health hazards of opium in essence.

    This also represented the intellectuals' cognition of opium at that time.  Many people regard opium as medicine, and even believe that it can strengthen the body.

    In the beginning, British merchants used opium to knock on China's gates to make huge profits, so a lot of silver flowed out.  But the most indispensable thing in China is "smart people".

    Many "smart people" told the emperor that we should vigorously develop the localization of opium, let the people grow opium, break the monopoly of British businessmen on opium, let the people suck up cheap opium, and create a lot of tax revenue for the country and fill the treasury  .  And these "smart people" also said that in the future, heavy taxes on opium can be imposed to make the poor quit smoking and the rich smoke less, so as to achieve the goal of prohibition.

    So the Qing Dynasty had two kinds of tobacco, foreign medicine and local medicine.  In order to "measure the material resources of China and form the hearts of allies", and also to kill those muddy legs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and maintain Aixinjueluo's rule for generations, the emperor began to call on his subjects to suck the local medicine grown by himself. This is an expression of patriotism.  !

    So Lin Gong¡¯s Humen sells smuggled foreign cigarettes. Lin Gong himself is not against smoking. What he opposes is smoking foreign cigarettes, which will cause the outflow of silver and make the country poorer.  For Lin Gong, smoking is an economic problem.  So he supported the people smoking native tobacco, because "the mainland flows through itself, like a person's blood, so what's the problem?" This was also the view of many intellectuals at that time on opium.  Toxicity, no harm to the human body.

    Future generations do not need to criticize Mr. Lin too much, it can only be said that this is the limitation of the times.  When anything becomes someone's pocketbook, the nature of the thing set by society will become ambiguous and distorted, and even the law will make concessions for it.  In the final analysis, the economic base determines the superstructure.

    Even in the Republic of China, opium was a political, economic and livelihood issue that would shake the foundation of the country.  For example, the annual income in Yunnan is now about 11 million silver dollars, of which 8.04 million silver dollars are earned from opium.

    Opium was regarded as a money bag by the warlords of the provinces.  Now the warlords ruling Sichuan have stipulated that if a farmer only grows food and does not grow opium, he will pay three years of tax for one year of food, but one year of tax if he grows tobacco If the farmer still only grows in the third year  Without growing tobacco for food, farmers have to pay taxes for seven years.

    Therefore, the Sichuan Army has a resounding title-"Double Gun Army", that is, a fire gun in one hand and a smoking gun in one hand.  If it hadn't been for the Sichuan army to prove their bloodiness and bravery in the bloody battle in the Anti-Japanese War by relying on the "strong men coming out of Sichuan", the Sichuan army would have been nailed to the pillar of shame in history and could not lift its head.

    It is precisely because the common people abandoned their land to plant opium that the tragedy of "hunger cannibalism" occurred every few years in the Republic of China.

    It wasn't until decades later that the red trend swept across the land of China, and those mud-legged people who had created a change that had not been seen in China for three thousand years resisted the temptation of money bags, and eliminated the two cancers of opium and prostitutes across the board.  China's democracy has really stood up.

    Le Jing understands better than anyone present that the opium problem is a problem of the times, and it cannot be solved simply by manpower.

    Therefore, in this situation, even though he was unwilling, all he could do was remain silent.

    In the quiet room, Zheng Yiliang sighed very clearly: "Junyu, don't think about it, this matter is not something we can solve, even the president can't solve it." He smiled wryly, "If there is a  Then one day all we can do is sacrifice our lives and apologize for our country."

    Zhou Dezhang was silent for a few seconds, then he managed to raise his head, showing an ugly smile: "Look at me, why are you talking about this? It made everyone unhappy. It's my fault. I hope you two will forgive me."

    Le Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not wrong for Zhou Gong to worry about the country and the people. It's just that we are scholars and have no power to restrain the chicken. The only thing we can do is to convey our thoughts as much as possible through articles."

    Zheng Yiliang quickly nodded and agreed: "Yes, yes, I won't talk about it, Junyu, you are a great writer, your articles always have many people responding, you can use your articles to call for smoking ban!"

    Zhou Dezhang sighed in his heart, he knew it was just a friend comforting him.  The opium problem could not be solved by just writing a few articles - he had written many articles in the past expressing his anti-smoking views, and indeed sparked a lot of discussions in newspapers, but they were limited to "discussions".

    ?Under the same efforts of Zheng Yiliang and Le Jing to change the topic and activate the atmosphereboundary.  Standing in front of the desk, looking at the snow-white manuscript paper, he only felt that he was in excellent condition, and seemed to have infinite energy bursting out from every pore of his body.

    He thought that it was time for the Buddhist family to do a big job after recuperating from illness for so long.

    Let him imitate Monkey King, use the pen in his hand as a golden cudgel, and smash all the dark and rotten things to pieces!

    He moved his pen like flying, and left a line of cursive characters on the manuscript paper - "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs".

    This is the title of his next novel.

    All the unimaginable chaos witnessed by a normal person who does not take drugs living in a country where drug use is legal and all people take drugs.  As the last illegal person who does not take drugs, he has endured countless persecutions and blows, which has revealed the ugly and hideous appearance of this country of drugs.

    Perhaps his novel will sink into the sea, unable to fulfill the mission he entrusted to it.

    And let him answer with the inscription on the centenary of the literary newspaper.

    Do you mean silent?  The history is the proof!  Do you mean silent?  Mountains and rivers are famous!

    History will record his unyielding words.

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    This is also the reason why I set Lejing into such a family environment.

    In fact, the police father's morbid obsession with justice and the innate indifference and cruelty of the anti-social personality mother are actually well inherited by him.

    Lejing has his own justice. In a broad sense, freedom and beauty (that is, all the brilliance of human nature) are his justice. In a narrow sense, fun and excitement are his justice.

    He lived and died for his justice.  For his justice, he can bathe in blood and do whatever it takes.

    He himself is the most terrifying idealist.

    From this chapter, everyone should also see his own arrogance, right?  On the psychological level, he is actually like the villains in many film and television works, with a narcissistic personality and a certain sense of mission.

    Well, it¡¯s just a psychopath anyway (simple and rude)

    Sorry for the late update today, because the school suddenly sent out a lot of forms for us to write, and the author of Xianyu wrote self-identification until he was bald _(:3¡¹¡Ï)_

    ?I have been sleeping very badly for the past few days. I saw a reader recommending a steam sleep mask yesterday. I searched it on Taobao and found that it was hot. I would like to ask the readers who have used it, will it be stuffy and hot in summer?  Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

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