Under the influence of the May Fourth New Culture, a large number of Chinese young people boarded a cruise to France in order to seek scientific knowledge and the truth of saving the country, and began a new life.pbtt

Unlike other ways of studying abroad, the threshold for working part-time study in France is low.

After World War I, France had a serious shortage of labor force. The French government believed that a large number of Chinese workers could not only help fight wars, but also help build in the future, but only needed to provide certain education to Chinese workers.

What they mean is to provide vocational skills training for Chinese workers, so that these Chinese workers can act as cheap labor in factories in the future.

Cai Yuanqi and others in China believe that working part-time study can be used to enable Chinese workers to master advanced French technology, which is of great benefit to returning to China to develop.

China and France hit it off. In 1916, the Chinese and French Education Association was established to be responsible for this matter.

When choosing France, a very important factor is that the cost of living in France is low.

In this era, there is a saying about students in society that "first-class Western, second-class Eastern, and third-class local".

The official fee for studying abroad has very few shares and very limited opportunities.

Therefore, how to strive to spend less money and study abroad has become the focus of the problem. Studying in the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries costs about 2,000 yuan a year, while in France, it only costs 700 yuan.

In other provinces in France, each person has a meal and board fee of only 200 to 300 yuan per year.

This gives ordinary young people from ordinary families a hope to study abroad.

These Chinese young people say they are international students, but in fact they are equivalent to working in the country, and they are just opportunities for education provided by the French government.

But even so, international students who go to France are divided into official fees and self-paid fees.

The fees for the official student are exempted from all fees. The self-paid student is donated by the business community to fund 1 yuan per person, and the self-raised student is 2 yuan, and a total of 3 yuan.

They live in fourth class cabin on cruise ships, giving each person a piece of bread, a scoop of soup, and sometimes a little leftovers.pbtt

The Ponysian reported this on January 2, 192.

"More than 1 Chinese, between 15 and 25 years old, were wearing Western clothing, wearing wide-brimmed hats and pointed leather shoes, and looked polite and gentle, standing quietly on the deck of the 'Andre? Lepong'."

Students studying in France will first enter middle school to study French, and then go to factories to work and find opportunities to study in college.

The conditions for studying are very difficult and the situation is very miserable. Some of them live in slums in Paris or sleep on the streets.

"We do all kinds of work, put down our airs and tore our face apart. We work lightly, heavy work, temporary handyman, just to earn some food."

This is the real experience of Chinese students working part-time to earn money in France.

Lin Zixuan has seen such reports in the country, and then he said that condolence.

He came to the Overseas Chinese Association at No. 39 Pointe Street, Paris.

The Overseas Chinese Association is a public agency for Chinese people living in France. It was established on 31st, 1919. Its nature is like the Chinese guild halls and chambers of commerce, and various agencies are gathered here.

When international students who work and study first arrived in France, they mostly concentrated on waiting for opportunities to work or go to school here, and also transferred their communications with domestic ones here.

At the Overseas Chinese Association, Lin Zixuan saw even worse.

The Overseas Chinese Association is a villa-style building, but it is crowded with international students who have no jobs and cannot go to school.

They lived in a cellar, and they couldn't live in it, so they lived on the garden grass.

A cloth shed four feet long and five feet wide was built in the courtyard of the Overseas Chinese Association, and more than 4 people were squeezed into it, some of whom were even sick and could not be treated.

Lin Zixuan immediately decided to take out the 2,000 pounds sold for the movie copy in the UK to improve their lives.

It is equivalent to 15,000 silver dollars in China. This is a considerable amount of funds. Although it cannot completely improve their lives, it can temporarily solve some practical difficulties.

This action won a warm welcome from international students in France.

Lin Zixuan was just doing something within his ability, and he was unable to change the situation of these people in France.

Unlike the international students he saw in the past. Those people either studied abroad with official fees or had a wealthy family, so they didn't have to worry about money at all. They spent tens of thousands of silver dollars in two years studying in the United States.

Most of this group of international students who work part-time and study are from ordinary families. They have no college acceptance and cannot receive family relief, so they can only rely on their own work and live.

But it was precisely because of this difficult French period that a group of staunch revolutionaries were created.

France has always had a revolutionary tradition, including the French Revolution in 1794 and the Paris Commune in 171.

In such a country, various social trends are flooded, which inevitably affects Chinese students who come to Paris to study.

They worked in factories in France, endured bourgeois exploitation, and hated the bourgeois system extremely, so they became prone to revolutionary ideas and Marxism.

This may be something that the French government, Cai Yuanqi and others did not expect, and they accidentally created a group of revolutionary fighters.

On the lawn in the yard of the Overseas Chinese Association, Lin Zixuan saw many familiar faces in the crowd. After returning to China, these people joined the torrent of revolution and changed the face of China.

It makes people feel moved when thinking about it.

"Mr. Lin, say something." The young man with a Sichuan accent suggested.

At this time, Lin Zixuan had already guessed the identity of the young man.

This person is a backbone member of a group of students studying in France. After the May 30th Massacre, he organized and participated in a series of large-scale parades and solidarity activities in Paris.

In later generations, the characters in China have changed.

Lin Zixuan thought about it and combined the "Chinese Dream" proposed in the United States with his speech on the May 30th Massacre in the United Kingdom.

He believes that China has reached a critical historical turning point. The Chinese people have roared for a long time. China's anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle has reached a high dynasty, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is about to begin.

All this starts with our generation.

He hopes that international students in France can return to China and participate in this vigorous social change.

Finally, I don’t know who sang the song “My Chinese Heart” first. This patriotic song has been widely circulated among international students.

This group of students studying in France came to France almost 192. Five years have passed. They have endured a lot of suffering in France and missed their motherland and family even more.

"The rivers and mountains are only in my dreams. The motherland has not been close to me for many years, but no matter what, it cannot be changed. My Chinese heart..."

When Lin Zixuan was in France, the domestic ideological community held a major discussion on "alliance between Russia and Russia".

The initiator of this incident was Xu Zhimo who returned to China. His article "European Travel Record" about the situation of the Soviet Union became the introduction to this big discussion.

In January 1925, Xu Zhimo took over as editor-in-chief of the supplement of "Morning News".

A major discussion on "alliance between Russia and Russia" began under the initiation and organization of Xu Zhimo and Liu Mianji.
Chapter completed!