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The feedback received by "The Last Non-Drug Addict" was somewhat different from what Le Jing had imagined.

In the past two days, all newspapers were calm. There were occasional comments, but they were all insignificant. It was so quiet that Le Jing began to doubt whether his article was too bad.

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Yang Jinglun was relieved about this. He told Le Jing the truth, "As an editor, I certainly hope that Mr.'s article can cause a response, but as a reader, I hope that Mr.'s article will never be noticed by others, and the less trouble it causes, the better." He looked up at Le Jing affectionately and said seriously: "Mr. is still young, and his future has just begun. I really don't want Mr. to die prematurely."

Le Jing knew what Yang Jinglun meant. He was still too young now. He still had decades to do what he wanted to do in the future, so there was no need to worry or be discouraged. But is it really like this?

Ever since he had a serious illness, Le Jing had a sense of urgency. His time travel was sudden and uncontrollable, and he was worried that one day he would wake up and find that he had left this time and space. That's why he was so anxious. He wanted to do as much as possible in the shortest time.

Just when Le Jing began to think about whether to write another article, the late feedback finally came after the third day.

Another old paper media, Chaoyang Daily, published an article in response to "The Last Non-Drug Addict", and the author was Principal Zhou Dezhang. But thinking about Principal Zhou's deep hatred of the opium problem that day, it is not surprising that he would respond to Le Jing's article advocating a ban on smoking in the first place.

In addition to Zhou Dezhang, there was another big guy who published an article in the Literary Newspaper to support Le Jing. This big guy is called Huang Qixuan, and his pen name is Huang Liangmeng. He is a boss-level figure who dominates the junior high school Chinese textbooks. Every year, the teachers who set the test papers for the high school entrance examination will use this big guy's articles as the key breakthrough targets for reading comprehension. However, what makes the later generations more talk about than his dominance in the examination room is the love-hate relationship between this big guy and his first wife.

Huang and his first wife Xiong Meidie were arranged marriages. Xiong Meidie was a daughter of a general, and she was very good at boxing and kicking. Huang thought she was uneducated and could not resonate with him, so he always disliked her. So not long after they got married, Huang's thoughts were overflowing, and he began to flirt with his female students.

Xiong Meidie soon found out about this. That night, she kicked open the door of the study and threw a kitchen knife at Huang Da Lao who was reading. The kitchen knife scraped Huang Da Lao's cheek and sank deeply into the wall behind him. Just as Huang Da Lao was sweating and shaking, his wife said with murderous intent: "Huang Qixuan, you dog, if you dare to hook up with other little sluts next time, I will castrate you!" From then on, the couple treated each other with respect and became a model couple praised by all in the Republic of China.

Although Huang Qixuan was a weirdo (derogatory) in his emotional life, and was often "domestically abused" by his wife because of his philandering, but he refused to divorce, he was actually a very upright and ethical scholar in his bones. In one sentence, he was a man of integrity and integrity. This can be seen from the book review he wrote for Le Jing. Huang Da Lao said in his book review:

[Reading "The Last Man Who Doesn't Take Drugs" - Is it me who is crazy, or is it society?

I first read this article on a sunny morning. My children were playing outside, my wife was whispering with the servants outside, and I was sitting in the sunny study, feeling like I was falling into an ice cave, shaking all over.

The night watchman called opium drugs, and smoking opium was called drug use. There is no more accurate description than this name! When reading it for the first time, readers should think that the content of this article is absurd. How could there be a country and a government that would arrest citizens for not taking drugs? The various persecutions of the protagonist by drug addicts in the article also look like the nonsense of a madman. But are things really as they seem on the surface?

All the fictions in the article are built on the tower of reality! The country in the novel that arrests healthy people who do not take drugs and encourages citizens to take drugs is our China!

In order to make farmers grow more opium for money, warlords in a certain province even used high grain taxes to intimidate farmers who want to grow grain! In order to plant more land with opium, land annexation in various grain-producing provinces has intensified, and the land has fallen into the hands of large landlords and capitalists! With the tax revenue from this little opium, the entire Chinese "bosses" were easily fed. Their purses were bulging by plundering the people's fat. I can't help but want to ask those "bosses", are these steamed buns stained with human blood delicious?

And what about our citizens? Please go to the opium dens in the streets and alleys to see how many heavy smokers there are in China who smoke and do nothing but live a life of drunkenness and debauchery? !

Do we still have farmland to cultivate in China?

Do we still have soldiers to use in China?

Do we still have healthy citizens in China?

When natural disasters come, what else can our government give to the hungry citizens to eat besides opium? !

Fuck the "Heavenly Kingdom", it's just the fantasy of a group of sick men in East Asia!

How long will this crazy world ruled by lunatics last?

If we in China still want to have a future, if the government still wants the citizens to live in a country where they can have enough food, please ban this opium! Give our descendants a peaceful and prosperous era with peaceful seas and clear rivers! 】

The whole article reads passionately, but Le Jing was amused by Huang Da Lao's "loving wife" who has a strong desire to survive. After laughing, he sincerely began to thank Huang Da Lao. Although he didn't know how his article caught Huang Da Lao's eye, with two old predecessors, Principal Zhou and Huang Da Lao, endorsing his article, his article is destined to no longer remain unknown.

And the development of things is just as Le Jing expected.

The words of the two big guys in succession are like a huge rock falling into the lake, setting off huge waves and producing a shock no less than thunder on the ground. It's like countless people suddenly woke up from a dream and found "The Last Non-Drug Addict" published by the Night Watchman in the "Literary Newspaper". The calm surface was finally broken, and then there was a "bang", and the gunpowder barrel exploded completely.

However, the Night Watchman, who emerged in the literary circle of the Republic of China with a few articles, was not taken seriously by many people. Therefore, when "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs" was first published, the overall attitude of the cultural circle towards this article was indifference.

But with the two senior leaders Zhou Dezhang and Huang Qixuan standing up for the Night Watchman, things were different. Unlike the previously unknown Night Watchman, these two are old predecessors who have been famous for a long time. They have their own supporters in the cultural circle and are well-known tough guys. The opponents are not stupid either. Of course, they will pick on the weak ones, not to mention that the Night Watchman is the culprit of everything.

So an unprecedented war of words against the Night Watchman began in the newspaper.

The opposing debaters are: drug lovers, lackeys of warlords, government writers, drug dealers' thugs, literati from the landlord and capitalist class...

Drug lovers scolded the night watchman for talking nonsense and confusing right and wrong. Opium is clearly their muse of inspiration and is not harmful to health at all.

The lackeys of the warlords said that the opium tax is beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood. It is precisely because of the opium tax as military expenditure that China, which is so poor, can have money to buy airplanes and cannons and mobilize the army to resist foreign troops. Moreover, the people plant opium completely voluntarily, which is beneficial for them to grow opium and let the people smoke low-priced opium and reduce the burden on the people. Once smoking is banned in the country, the people can only buy high-priced cigarettes from foreign opium dealers! The night watchman must have received money from foreign opium dealers to write articles to advocate domestic smoking bans! How is this different from being a traitor?

The government's court writers said that opium tax has become an important part of the government's fiscal revenue. Building bridges and roads, establishing education, purchasing foreign goods, national defense and security... all aspects cannot do without the funding of opium tax! The opium tax is only to make the poor quit smoking and the rich smoke less, so as to achieve the purpose of prohibition without prohibition. Moreover, domestic medicine is different from foreign medicine. Domestic medicine has the earthy air in the ground to neutralize the toxicity and is harmless to the Chinese people. The night watchman's proposition is shallow and ridiculous. If someone really acts according to his proposition, he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history in the future and become a sinner of the Chinese nation!

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Although many interest groups have sent people to desperately put a hat on Le Jing's head and throw dirty water, China has never lacked sober and clear-headed people, and has never lacked some hard bones that cannot be chewed.

As the literary giant said: "Since ancient times, we have had people who work hard, people who work hard, people who plead for the people, and people who sacrifice their lives for the law... Although the so-called "official history" is equivalent to writing genealogies for emperors and generals, it often cannot cover up their glory. This is the backbone of China."

So Le Jing saw that those big and small figures who left their names in history or died in obscurity stood up one after another, published articles in newspapers to support him, and spoke out for him in the market.

This debate on the ban on smoking lasted for a long time, and gradually developed from a small-scale "beating" against Le Jing at the beginning to a battlefield where the anti-smoking faction and the smoking faction of the whole China confronted each other, and countless people were implicated. Countless people lobbied for their interest groups, and countless people waved flags for fairness and justice in their hearts.

Le Jing was just a spark that ignited the gunpowder barrel. How long this explosion would last and what would be the result was a mystery to all those involved.

Perhaps this grand debate will leave a strong mark in the history books of later generations. As the fuse and initiator of the debate, Le Jing will also leave his name in history. Le Jing didn't know what kind of evaluation people in the future would make of him, but he did everything with a clear conscience.

Then one day at noon, Yang Jinglun desperately knocked on Le Jing's courtyard door, and the sound broke the quiet beauty of late autumn, "Sir, sir, open the door quickly!"

Le Jing sat at the desk, closed the pen cap, and put the pen into the pen holder.

Soon, the sound of Yang Jinglun's stumbling running and his broken roar could be heard in the yard: "Sir, hurry up and leave here with me, the police will be here soon!"

"What?! Why did the police come to arrest my brother?"

"No time to explain! Where is the sir?"

"In the study! I'll take you there!"

Le Jing stood up and gently smoothed out the wrinkles on his white gown. He was very focused on tidying it up. After the study was broken into, he turned around and smiled brightly at Yang Jinglun and Li Shuran who were panting.

How to describe this smile?

Bright as the sun rising in the sky, comfortable as the breeze and the bright moon in the arms, firm as a seeker who never gives up.

Yang Jinglun was stunned for a moment before he found his own words, ignoring the strangeness in his heart and speaking hastily: "Sir, the police will be here soon. I have prepared the car and the boat ticket to Japan. Let's set off quickly!"

Le Jing smiled and shook his head: "I'm not going anywhere."

Yang Jinglun opened his eyes wide in astonishment, "Sir?"

Le Jing smiled and said: "Is there any news more sensational than the initiator of this anti-smoking movement being arrested by the police? That's why I can't leave."

Let his imprisonment add fuel to this increasingly fierce movement and make the fire burn even more vigorously.