The Literary Hero of the Republic of China (民国之文豪) [MTL]

Chapter 203

　　Mu Qiong directly called Huo Ying "Second Brother". After hearing this, Fu Yun'an's bad mood improved a lot: "Second Brother has already sent people to Shanxi to build a factory, and also shipped a lot of machines there."

　　"That's good." Mu Qiong said, thinking about the labor, his brows frowned again.

　　Fu Yun'an said again: "Actually, it is not necessarily a bad thing for Britain and France to take labor away from our country."

　　Mu Qiong was taken aback: "How do you say?"

　　"The essence of war is to compete for interests, and this war is no exception. Judging from the current situation, Britain and France have a greater chance of winning." Fu Yun'an said: "Those laborers have been taken away, and things cannot be changed. We What we need to do now is try to get benefits from it."

　　When Fu Yun'an spoke, there was no expression on his face, only a pair of eyes looked deeply at Mu Qiong.

　　If their country wants to benefit from this battle, it has to pay, and those workers can be their country's contribution.

　　Mu Qiong took a deep breath.

　　He knew that Fu Yun'an was right to think so, but he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. After pondering for a moment, he said: "If you want to get the greatest benefit, this matter must be made public."

　　In the original history, these laborers were secretly transported to Britain and France, so that many ordinary people in Britain and France did not know the existence of these Chinese.

　　At the end of the First World War, someone drew a picture to celebrate. In the picture, he drew the people and national flags of 23 victorious countries, except China.

　　"Yes." Fu Yunan said.

　　"Yun'an, can you help me collect some materials related to Shandong laborers and this war? I want to write an article." Mu Qiong said.

　　Fu Yun'an said without thinking, "No problem."

　　After he finished speaking, he took out some papers and handed them to Mu Qiong: "I already have some materials here."

　　Looking at Fu Yun'an's information, combined with his own memory, Mu Qiong also has a sufficient understanding of the situation at this time.

　　In this year, under the lobbying of the United States and Japan, China joined the First World War in exchange for economic support from these countries.

　　At the same time, Britain and France began to recruit laborers in Shandong.

　　The reason why Shandong was chosen was firstly that they felt that Shandong people were tall and strong and the most capable of working, and secondly because Shandong had already been occupied by Japan at this time and it was easy to operate.

　　They lied to the illiterate Chinese people that they would take them abroad to work, tricked them into signing a contract, and shipped them away...

　　Mu Qiong smiled wryly, and said again: "If possible...we should fight for a fair share for them and bring them back as soon as possible."

　　At that time, many laborers signed contracts with Britain and France to work for three years.

　　But in fact, only one year later, the First World War ended because the resources of both sides were exhausted and too many people died, and then these laborers could not go home, so they had to stay in a foreign country where many of their compatriots were buried, helping Then they invaded their motherland and tricked their bandits to rebuild their homeland.