The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

   "Ow!"

   A blue-and-white porcelain vase was smashed to the ground and smashed to pieces.

Pu Yi completely lost his usual elegance and demeanor. His forehead had blue veins, and his swollen neck looked thin and long. He pointed at the eunuchs, guards and palace maids in the house and cursed: "It's all wine bags and rice bags, what do you feed you? Shu? The concubine has been missing for more than half a month, and she can't even find her shadow! Go away, go away!"

   "Your Majesty, calm down," Wanrong advised in a soft voice, "Why don't you contact the Erdet family and ask them to help you find it too."

"Shut up!" Puyi scolded sharply, "Don't let Wenxiu's parents know that this is a scandal! I have lost all the faces of my ancestors in the Qing Dynasty! Embroidery, can she run away from home? Ah! Say it!"

  Wanrong was reprimanded for no reason, and naturally felt bad. But she was gentle and didn't want to argue with Puyi face to face, so she planned to retreat quietly with a dark face.

   "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good!"

   A **** ran in, waving a newspaper in his hand, and said in horror: "Emperor...Emperor, Concubine Shu will publish the newspaper, I want...I want..."

   "What do you want, what's wrong with Concubine Shu?" Puyi grabbed the newspaper impatiently, the headline on the front page blinded him, and he suddenly fell backwards.

   "Your Majesty!"

  The maids and eunuchs hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

   "The anger is killing me too!" Pu Yi frantically tore the newspaper to shreds, his expression ferocious like a wild beast.

  Wanrong didn't know what was going on, so she supported Puyi and asked worriedly, "What's the matter?"

   "You still ask me? Hahahahahaha!"

Puyi laughed with tears, and suddenly pinched Wanrong's neck and shouted: "It's you! It's you who forced Wenxiu away! You guys don't make me feel better! Duan Hongye came to cheat my money, Kang Youwei came to beat my Qiufeng, Zhou Hexuan I don't even look down on me, even you guys are going to kill me..."

   Well, this emperor has a clear mind and is not a fool. He already knew that Duan Hongye and Kang Youwei were here for money and profit, but Zhou Hexuan looked down on him at all.

   "Your Majesty, let go! You will strangle people."

  The **** and the maid were so frightened that they dragged the emperor away.

   "Cough...cough..." Wanrong kept coughing while covering her neck, feeling uncomfortable, "Crazy, crazy, everyone in this room is crazy!"

   "Go away, all go away for me!"

  Puyi had already lost his mind, smashing things in the house frantically, the eunuchs and the ladies were too frightened to make a sound.

   Sisters Cui Huifu and Cui Huimei, who are loyal to me, also ran downstairs when they heard the movement. They were just about to go to comfort them, but Puyi smashed them back with a vase, and Cui Huifu's shoulders were bruised.

   Puyi vented for a while, then locked himself in the study, and no one was allowed to enter.

  Cui Huifu stood outside the door and tried hard to persuade her, but she couldn't get a response at all, so she wiped away tears.

  Wanrong asked the **** who brought the newspaper back: "What happened?"

   The **** said with a sad face: "Concubine Shu has published a newspaper, she wants to sue for divorce!"

   "What? You read that right!" Wanrong was shocked. Although she has been unhappy recently, she has never thought of divorce. This kind of thing completely ruins her views.

   The **** said: "How can you misread this kind of thing, the front page news of "Ta Kung Pao", I guess all Tianjin knows about it by now!"

   "Go and buy another newspaper... I'll go by myself!" Wanrong couldn't wait, and rushed outside.

   Sisters Cui Huifu and Cui Huimei also heard the movement and hurriedly followed them out. The three women's minds were all dizzy, and they never dreamed that such a thing would happen.

You don't have to run far, and soon you will see a large group of people surrounding the newsboy, who shouts while collecting money: "Read the newspaper and read the newspaper, "Ta Kung Pao" exclusive news. Concubine Shu Wenxiu sued for divorce, Concubine Dao Revolution!"

   "Give me one!"

   "Don't grab it, you grab all the newspapers!"

   "What's the matter with Quick Read?"

   "Are you really going to divorce? Can the emperor and his concubine also divorce?"

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  Cui Huifu ran at the front, took out a silver dollar, grabbed passers-by and said, "Quickly sell me your newspaper."

   "I finally bought it." The passerby protected the newspaper and did not let go.

   "I'll give you all the money, a piece of ocean!" Cui Huifu said anxiously.

   "Really a piece of ocean?" The passerby's eyes lit up, grabbing the silver dollar and stuffing the newspaper into Cui Huifu, saying, "You did it of your own accord, not me."

  Cui Huimei couldn't care less about this, so she quickly spread out the newspaper, and Wanrong and Cui Huimei also hurried around to look at it.

  I saw the full text of Wenxiu's divorce indictment in the newspaper, and the reasons were very good, such as being neglected all year round, being treated unfairly, and being restricted by Puyi's personal freedom, etc. She still saved face for Puyi, she didn't say anything, and she didn't say anything about being a virgin after being married for several years.

   In addition to the divorce indictment, there is also an editorial from Ta Kung Pao.

  The editorial was written by "Xinfeng" (another pseudonym of Zhou Hexuan), who called this incident the "Knife Concubine Revolution", which rose to the height of pursuing equality between men and women, ruling the country according to law, and freedom of marriage. It is believed that Wenxiu's move is a manifestation of social progress, a favorable attack on the feudal etiquette system, and a milestone in the construction of the country's legal system and the road to democracy and freedom. Wenxiu is really a strange woman in the Republic of China!

  How can I get a divorce?

   How can you still divorce the emperor?

  Cui Huifu's hands were shaking while holding the newspaper, she felt that the image of Qing Dynasty in her heart collapsed.

  Wanrong wasn't much better, her eyes were full of confusion, she didn't even know how she got back to Zhang Yuan.

  Tianjin City's widowers, old and young, went crazy, and ran to Zhang Yuan in a panic to meet the emperor. It's a pity that Puyi was not in the mood to see the guests. They couldn't even enter the gate, so they could only kneel outside the fence and cry.

   After howling for a while, the old and young went to Wenxiu's parents' house again, smashing things while cursing, even tearing down the gate and throwing it on the side of the road.

   "Ta Kung Pao" was only published in Peking and Tianjin because it had just resumed publication.

  Hu Zhengzhi was quite conservative, only 6,000 copies were printed, 3,000 copies each in Peiping and Tianjin. Even so, he thinks that there are too many prints, for fear that the newspapers will not sell out.

   But the real situation surprised Hu Zhengzhi. The divorce of the emperor and the concubine was too appalling, and people who didn't usually read newspapers had to buy a copy. 6,000 copies of the newspaper were sold out in two hours, and the distribution department rushed to call for reprinting.

  In Pingjin and Tianjin alone, Ta Kung Pao sold more than 18,000 copies, almost catching up with the sales of New Tianjin Evening News. Other newspapers also reprinted it. For those newspapers headquartered in the south, the correspondents all rushed to the telegraph office and lined up to send back the news content.

   For a time, there was a lot of public opinion, and the whole country was roaring.

   Even foreign journalists are sending out transoceanic telegrams abroad. How can we miss this kind of news that is rare in a thousand years?

   "Ta Kung Pao" also became famous. The eight-character policy of "no party, no selfishness, no selling, and no blindness" has not received attention for the time being, because everyone focused on the revolution of the sword and concubine.