Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 214
"Hit the bamboo board, listen to me.

My compatriots, who came to Marseille from abroad, have worked so hard;
Sitting in the number room, feeling unhappy, uncomfortable all day long;

YMCA, good hospitality, no compatriots of Chinese laborers;
At nine o'clock in the morning, open the door, you can come until four o'clock;

Learning Chinese, guessing characters, reading and memorizing them is really fast;
……

Sigh time, the cutest, today can't be the past.

Compatriots, don't wander, hurry up and learn from the family! "

In the Chinese labor base, a student who obviously speaks Tianjin dialect is promoting the benefits of the YMCA to fellow Chinese workers in the past, inviting them to join the YMCA and study.

Speaking of which, this allegro form of propaganda is really effective, easy to understand, catchy, and it didn't take much effort to surround the Chinese workers.

He took off his felt hat, fanned it, and watched with gusto.

Originally, the student was still a little apprehensive in his heart, and it was inevitable that he lacked confidence in playing Allegro.

But after seeing it being so popular with everyone, I gradually let it go. Coupled with the unique hometown culture, the words became more and more slick, and the allegro became louder and louder.

"Pen, paper and ink, don't need to buy, come at any time without hindrance;

There are newspapers, there are chess games, and many things are really strange;
There is a movie, so you can feel free, and it will open at [-]:[-] on Tuesdays and Fridays;

......"

But while typing, the student suddenly found that the audience in front of him was actually getting smaller and smaller, and more than half of the time was spent in a few words.

Taking a closer look, it turned out that this group of people ran away, and kept shouting:

"Hurry up, hurry up, Professor Cheng is here, hurry over to see him, if you don't go there for a while, you won't be able to climb the branches."

"Hey, Liu Tiedan, I remember pointing at the sky and stomping on the ground, swearing that Professor Cheng is a liar, why are you running faster than anyone else? Are the soles of your shoes oiled?"

"Fuck, you are not a buddy in the tea house - which pot does not open and which pot is lifted? Can Professor Cheng compare with those tolerances? Bah! Are those tolerances comparable to Professor Cheng? Great good man who came to save us !"

"That's you, thick-skinned like the corner of a city wall..."

The students who were originally playing the allegro were still a little unconvinced when they saw the audience disperse, but they played a few more times, and suddenly reacted decisively. Who's coming?"

Hua Gong looked at the student up and down, took a half step back and said in disbelief: "The famous Professor Cheng, you don't know?"

After saying this, he shook the student's hand back, and quickly walked in the direction Cheng Nuo was coming.

"Professor Cheng, Professor Cheng..." After the student muttered a few words, he suddenly slapped his forehead, and his eyes lit up: "It's really Professor Cheng, this is great, no, no, I have to Hurry up, this is my academic idol!"

Immediately, the gentleman pushed the Allegro to his waist, and ran behind the team.

And similar things happen not only here, but elsewhere as well.

When Cheng Nuo got out of the car, he looked at the crowded group of people with shock on his face, and couldn't help but look at Shi Yixuan: "Yixuan, you arranged this? The scene is too big!"

Shi Yixuan knew nothing about this situation, and when he saw this scene, he was no less surprised than Cheng Nuo.

I said in my heart that I arranged for someone to come to greet me, but it didn't reach this level. Could it be that today is some special day.

Calculating the time carefully, this is not the case.

Clearing his throat, Shi Yixuan wanted to pretend that the big scene in front of him was arranged by him, but when an old man saw the person dressed as a scholar behind Shi Yixuan, he didn't even think about it, he just assumed that Cheng Nuo himself had arrived .

With a loud cry: "Professor Cheng, I heard that you brought us pancakes. Where are they? Why didn't we see them?"

Because they were too close, not only did the elder brother's voice scare Shi Yixuan's courage, but he almost threw saliva on his face.

After wiping his face, Shi Yixuan no longer wanted to brag, and walked up to Cheng Nuo to tell the truth: "Zhiyuan, actually..."

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Cheng Nuo walked up to the old brother and shouted at the top of his voice, "Brother, you are very well informed. I really brought pancakes, and these pancakes..."

Deliberately showing off, Cheng Nuo lifted the suitcase in his hand to the air and patted it. He looked past his brother and shouted at the fellow Chinese workers, "And I brought a lot of pancakes. At least one of the big guys present It’s no problem to share the last one.”

Fearing that the Chinese workers would not believe it, Cheng Nuo waved his hand to the back, and his subordinates understood, and brought the suitcases over one by one, indicating that they contained finished pancakes.

Immediately afterwards, he opened them, stacked them on the table, and took out one at random. There was only one roll in his hand, and Cheng Nuo immediately took a big bite.

This scene made the big brother salivate, he missed the taste of his hometown so much, he couldn't wait to ask: "Professor Cheng, how does it taste, is it delicious?"

Cheng Nuo stretched out two fingers after swallowing the pancake:
"Two words."

"Which two words?"

"handy!"

As soon as this remark was said, the audience exploded in an instant, and everyone looked at the stack of pancakes, and they were eager to see.

Cheng Nuo didn't hold back any more, and waved his hand: "Yixuan, you know this place better than I do, so help me spread the word to these fellow Chinese workers."

Things were going too fast, causing Shi Yixuan to be in a daze all the time. Even after being woken up by Cheng Nuo, he was still half a frame behind: "Huh? Oh, okay, okay, I'll arrange for the students from the Youth Association to distribute pancakes."

Cheng Nuo nodded, thinking of something, and stopped Shi Yixuan: "Yixuan, what did you want to say before?"

Shi Yixuan didn't even have the slightest idea of ​​pretending, his head shook like a rattle: "No, you misheard just now."

Cheng Nuo sensed something strange, frowned and said, "That's fine, just let me know if there's anything."

However, Cheng Nuo didn't continue to think too much. In the following period of time, he quickly became one with these Chinese workers.

"Professor Cheng, you don't know that eating bread every day in France is rare at first, but then I always feel that the steamed buns at home are not as fragrant, especially the pancakes baked by my mother. I think about it every day and night, but I give it to you." I'm so hungry, I really like your pancakes this time."

"How do the pancakes taste?"

"It's delicious, but what's missing in your mouth?"

"Is it less green onions?"

"Hey, Professor Cheng, how do you understand me so well, did you bring onions?"

"I brought it with me, but it was all broken on the way, and I threw it away in the end. Big brother, you won't be able to eat it in your mouth for the time being."

"If you can't eat it, you can't eat it, it's as good as wrapping onions!"

Seeing that the big brothers felt a little regretful, Cheng Nuo acted like a juggler, took out a few bottles of miso from the last suitcase, and placed them solemnly in front of the Chinese workers: "There are no green onions, but we have miso!"

As he said that, he directly brushed the miso for the big brother, wrapped it with cucumber strips, and then solemnly handed it to the big brother. He said to the big brother and also to all the fellow Chinese workers present:
"With me here, we will never treat our own people badly!"

The scene reached a climax again. The Chinese workers stuffed the pancakes into their mouths, threw Cheng Nuo into the air, and cheered all the time:

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"Long live……"

As the night was getting late, Cheng Nuo sat alone by the bonfire, and heard the crackling sound of burning firewood from time to time. Looking at the singing and dancing Chinese laborers in the distance, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

These compatriot Chinese workers are rare workers even in Europe.

If they can join in the future, the construction of Sichuan's industrial base will be just around the corner, and the situation that a clever woman can't cook without rice will be greatly improved.

Even if these people are not allowed to return to China and build factories locally in France, the problem of manpower shortage will not arise, and it will be more assured for their own people to use.

Before Cheng Nuo could think about it, Liang Qichao suddenly came over from outside, holding two apples in his hand, handed one to Cheng Nuo, and sat down on the ground around the bonfire: "I just had a lot of conversations with those Chinese workers. Is the European War coming to an end?"

Cheng Nuo took the apple, wiped it casually, put it on his mouth and clicked it: "Who can guarantee the war, but given the general trend, it should not last for too long. There will be no such large-scale battles."

Liang Qichao nodded, and added a few new pieces of firewood to the bonfire: "No wonder you came to Europe at this time suddenly. I was still thinking about the war here, and it would be risky to come here. I didn't expect to see such a long-term perspective."

Cheng Nuo was noncommittal, chewing and swallowing the apple in his mouth: "Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared."

For a long time after that, the two chatted with each other, and there were also a few people who came to invite or get acquainted, but they were also cleverly avoided by the two.

When the night was getting dark and the sound of burning firewood was heard, there was the sound of insects, Liang Qichao suddenly asked: "It's not easy to deal with so many people, how are you going to arrange them? It's just the three or four factories in Sichuan, we can't eat them." So many Chinese workers."

Cheng Nuo propped his hands on the ground, looked at the moon and said, "Of course some will stay and some will go."

Liang Qichao was puzzled: "Stay? Go?"

In fact, France faced a more complicated situation after the war.On the one hand, many young and middle-aged men in France died in battle. On the other hand, France suffered from war trauma and severely damaged infrastructure, requiring more human resources to participate in post-war reconstruction.

Therefore, France adopted three methods to deal with the Chinese laborers: repatriating all those who behaved badly, illegally, and who were sick.

When the contract expires, Chinese workers who do not want to stay in France will be repatriated.

When the contract expired, those who were willing to stay and work in France and obtained the consent of the factory owner re-signed the contract. In the end, about [-] Chinese workers continued to work in France.

What Cheng Nuo planned was to keep some of the recruited Chinese workers and take some away.

As the name suggests, stay means to keep workers and set up factories in the local area. Taking advantage of France's relatively good industrial base, build some factories and absorb advanced industrial technology.

On the other hand, it can also share the risk of setting up a factory. After all, the domestic political environment, even in Sichuan, still makes people uneasy.

And go, it is easy to understand, that is, take away and go back to set up a factory.

In particular, the main purpose of Cheng Nuo's trip was to take away advanced steelmaking technology to support the development of domestic heavy industry.

Although the process of obtaining technology will not be easy, but technology is dead, and there is always a way to obtain it.

But people are alive, especially in the iron and steel industry, and it is not easier to cultivate than to tackle technical problems.

And this kind of "going" can also introduce advanced experience back to China.

After the Chinese laborers returned to their hometowns, they had a certain impact on the cities and villages at that time.

In the cities, the experience of returned Chinese workers going to Europe prompted them to form trade unions and organize strikes, and the experience gained from the old revolutionary/revolutionary areas in France finally shined brilliantly in the turbulent era.

In the countryside, Chinese workers can actively spread what they have seen, heard, and learned as much as possible.

Cheng Nuo has not forgotten that Mr. Tao Xingzhi is still waiting to promote civilian education with him, and it will always be the majority of the people who support the development of this country.

Liang Qichao hesitated for a while, and said: "Although the idea is good, it is still very difficult to implement it. In the current turbulent environment, not all Chinese workers can be properly resettled after returning to China. Warlords fight, social unrest, the government often Ling Xi,
Some Chinese laborers must not have been reused, and it is very possible to take other wrong paths. "

This is not an alarmist talk by Liang Qichao. In 1923, the Shandong Lincheng carjacking case shocked the international community. Among the thousands of Chinese who participated in the hijacking of the train, many of them could speak some simple English or French.

Based on this, an American passenger who was hijacked concluded that some returned Chinese laborers were involved in the incident.This proves that some Chinese workers went astray after returning to China because they had no life to rely on and could not use what they had learned.

People in the green forest master several foreign languages, and they can be reduced to the point of being bandits. It has to be said that this is a society that can only survive by eating people.

Cheng Nuo got up and patted the grass clippings on his buttocks: "What you said is not impossible, the public is hopeless, we can try the chamber of commerce."

Liang Qichao asked doubtfully, "The chamber of commerce?"

Cheng Nuo smiled and said: "Of course it is. We said earlier that we should support the development of domestic universities, and now we must also support the development of domestic industries. Just a science academy is definitely not enough, and it is particularly vulnerable to being targeted. It is better for us Set up a chamber of commerce by yourself and gather some like-minded industrialists.

Invite old friends such as Zhang Jian and Tan Kah Kee to go to Sichuan to build a factory together.

At that time, a complete industrial chain will be built, and we can provide support for technology, skilled workers, isn't this all there? "

After a brief rest, Cheng Nuo quickly started training the Huagong workers.

Especially considering the language barrier, the Chinese workers are always in a state of "aphasia". It is difficult to express their demands at work, it is extremely inconvenient to travel in life, and they are easily bullied.

Cheng Nuo decided to start with language.

(End of this chapter)