Chapter 25 2. May Fourth Festival

The beginning of the New Democratic Revolution was the May 4th Movement.From an international point of view, Japan and the United States intensified their aggression against China during World War I.Entering the era of imperialism, the history of imperialist invasion of China is also the history of the United States and Japan fighting for hegemony in China. Both the United States and Japan want to control China.Anti-imperialist sentiment is running high in China.In fact, the United States succeeded in the end. After World War II ended in 1945, the United States completed its control of China. Of course, it was all over four years later.Because after World War II ended, the United States supported China and suppressed Japan. We are allies with the United States. We attacked Little Japan together in World War II. Little Japan harmed others in Pearl Harbor, and we did not harm others. Therefore, the United States wants Japan’s industry Staying at the level of the 1920s prevented the living standards of the Japanese people from being higher than those of the people in the Asian countries it invaded. As a result, it was obvious in 1948 that the Nationalist government had lost its momentum, so this policy was gradually abandoned.Nanjing was liberated in April 1949, and the United States stopped its sanctions against Japan in May. Coupled with the outbreak of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Little Japan quickly recovered.In addition, the Russian October Revolution pointed out the direction for China.From the domestic background, the warlords fought in chaos, and the people suffered unspeakably.The development of national industry has strengthened the ranks of the working class.The launch of the New Culture Movement promoted the emancipation of people's minds, and promoted the patriotic enthusiasm of advanced intellectuals, especially young students.

During the period of the new democratic revolution, young students rushed to the forefront. Students took saving the world as their own responsibility. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and brave men are fearless.There is also a reason why one person is full and the whole family is not hungry.So what pissed them off and took to the streets? The Paris Peace Conference 03 was the trigger for the outbreak of the May 4th Movement. For the first time in 80 years, we attended an important international conference—the Paris Peace Conference—as a victorious nation.The Chinese have suppressed it for 80 years, and it can be regarded as the first war that made us a victorious country.We sent 150,000 laborers to Europe. At first we wanted to send troops to join the war, but then we thought that the troops would die if they went to the war, so we simply sent laborers to work in factories.However, as a victorious country, our reasonable request to take back Germany's privileges in Shandong was flatly rejected.It’s like saying that I have a salary of 500 a month, and I can’t get enough to eat. Suddenly, the TV said that after the Spring Festival, the teacher’s salary will rise to 12,000 a month. From now until the Spring Festival, I haven’t closed my eyes. , If you don’t have money, you can’t go up.I'll be sent directly to the mental hospital, and if I fail, I'll go to Babaoshan. If you don't give me this hope, five hundred can make do with it, and there's still three hundred, let's admit it.Suddenly you told me 12,000, aren't you cheating?So we promised to give us the treatment of the victorious nation. If you don't give it to us, the students will be angry first.

On May 4, students in Beijing marched and demonstrated, chanting slogans such as "struggle for sovereignty outside, eliminate national thieves inside", "abolish the 21 Articles", and "refuse to sign the contract".The warlord government started to arrest the students, is it not easy for the students, the school expels you, you can’t help it; was suppressed. In early June, Shanghai workers went on strike, the center of the New Culture Movement moved from Beijing to Shanghai, and the working class entered the political arena.In doing so, the government was terrified.A strike by workers is worse than a strike by students.And it is also the Yangtze River Basin, Shanghai, the base camp of British and American imperialism.The United Kingdom and the United States had conflicts with Japan over the issue of competing for China, so the American envoy told American diplomats to be sympathetic to the student resistance of the May Fourth Movement.Britain and the United States put pressure on the Beiyang government and demanded that the students be given an explanation, otherwise the workers would go on strike.The Beiyang government was close to Britain and the United States. When they saw that the elder brother had spoken, they immediately ordered the release of the arrested students and did not sign the contract.

The May 4th Patriotic Movement achieved its goals of fighting for sovereignty externally and eradicating national traitors internally. It can be called a successful and thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary movement in modern Chinese history.This patriotic movement takes young students as the vanguard and the working class as the main force. Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu are the founders of the CCP. These two are equivalent to our Chinese Marx and Engels.These two gentlemen didn't talk about knowledge, university professors, they didn't talk about character, and they didn't talk about economic status. They had such a good day that you can't imagine.How good the professors were in Beiyang is like the professors in Hong Kong now. You see, the professors at the Chinese University drive there by themselves and have dedicated parking spaces. If you don’t have a car in Hong Kong, you can receive the minimum living allowance.You said that our family can’t even afford a car, so you can live on the subsistence allowance. As a teacher, you can buy a car with one and a half months’ salary, so if you don’t have a car, you can eat the subsistence allowance.If you dare to drive this car on the street, it is definitely a symbol of your economic status. A liter of fuel costs 10.6 yuan, and the traffic jam in Hong Kong is comparable to that in Beijing.Parking in the downtown area costs hundreds of yuan for half an hour, and buying a special parking space downstairs costs 1 million yuan for three years, which is much more valuable than this car.So rich people in Hong Kong also commute by subway, and the subway is as crowded as Beijing.If you have a car in Hong Kong, you can drive to Shenzhen on weekends.Look at those professors who drive their own cars to work, and there are dedicated parking spaces in the university. Generally speaking, professors spend more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, and then there are various housing subsidies and so on.The professors in the Republic of China were like this. Li Dazhao, the director of Peking University Library, paid 150 yuan a month, which was only his share of the money, and he still had several jobs.

How much money can Chen Duxiu earn in a month? More than 300 yuan ocean! What is the concept of more than 300 yuan ocean? If you buy a courtyard house in Beijing for 200 yuan, he will earn three suites in two months. Shark fin seats will cost 8 yuan for a table of 10 people, and bird’s nest seats will cost you 12 yuan for a table of 10 people. You can eat dozens of meals just by eating bird’s nest mats for your salary. Now you earn 120,000 yuan a month, how many meals can you eat when you eat bird’s nest mats?In "This Life of Me" played by Zhang Guoli, one ocean can hire two rickshaws, take the wife, children, and mother-in-law to the restaurant, have a large table of food and wine, and then take it back, it is only one ocean.At that time, it was 6.5 yuan a month for a soldier, 7 yuan for a patrolman on the street, and Xiangzi Luotuo estimated that he would not be able to get both. The police chief was 40 yuan, the primary school teacher was 80 yuan, and the primary school principal was at least 120 yuan. , you may be more private.Dayang is definitely a hard commodity. Mr. Ji Xianlin is a national treasure of Peking University. He graduated from university at the age of 22. He taught Chinese in Jinan for ten classes a week and was not a head teacher. Dayang paid 160 yuan, so he studied in Germany for ten years from 1935 to 1945. There is no public fee, all at their own expense.Where did the money come from? After working for several years, you can stay in Germany for ten years. Now you can stay in Germany for ten days after working for one year. If you buy anything and convert it into RMB, you have to multiply it by ten. You can stay there for ten days. , one can imagine how rich they are.

Marx is a lawyer, his wife Jenny is a countess, and the Engels family owns the factories on both sides of the Rhine River in Trier. These people went to overthrow the old social system, obviously not to improve their own lives, but to really save the country and the people.