After signing a number of unequal treaties, governments all want to "bite" the next piece of meat from the Qing government. Among them, the French government forced the Qing government to send workers to France to participate in national construction on the grounds of domestic labor shortage. However, the Qing government was weak and incompetent, so it had to agree to France's unreasonable demands and forced hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the country to leave their homes and go to France to participate in labor services.
After arriving in France, these people were assigned to various tedious and tiring fortifications, either digging coal or repairing railways, and their living conditions were very difficult. Although not abused by the French, the bad living environment and hard work led to many deaths.
Later, with the outbreak of World War I, most young and middle-aged French men went to Europe to participate in the war. The trauma caused by the war is far greater than expected. Although France is a victorious country, its national strength has also been greatly hit, and the number of people who died abroad has reached one million. France, with a small population, has a large-scale imbalance between men and women, and streets and alleys are everywhere. But French women, even a few men, are mostly old, weak and sick.
Population is the foundation of the country, and the imbalance between men and women scares the government. If this problem is not solved, there will be more women who can't find a partner, so the next generation of French population will be smaller. Under such national conditions, in order to be able to reproduce the next generation, French women have second thoughts, aiming at these China laborers who were forced to come to France to participate in labor services. Isn't there a ready-made man?
French women who were originally "disgusted" with them suddenly felt that these hundreds of thousands of workers were "honest in character" and "hard-working" and could be attached to candidates for life. So they joined forces to ask the government to remove these workers' labor status, restore their freedom and allow them to engage in other jobs, provided, of course, that they were not allowed to leave France.
As a result, these "unfortunate men" who were forced to come to work suddenly became the "fragrant buns" that French women competed for.
Especially those young workers who are good-looking and in good health are given priority to "take care of" and are competed by French women until he chooses his favorite object. These hundreds of thousands of China men, except those who are really ugly or physically disabled and have not found a partner, and those who miss their motherland very much and are determined not to settle down in France, have basically settled down in the local area.
And these men who combined with local women without rain were finally sent back to the motherland by the French government.
These men who chose to stay in France also lived a happy life and contributed to the prosperity of France. Faced with such a helpless scene, French media reported: "In the long run, French women will be cheated by China people in the future! However, this is a helpless move and the media can't stop it.
Until their death, these Chinese workers were collectively buried in Nolette Chinese Workers Cemetery.
Later, France also held a ceremony to commemorate Chinese workers in Paris Chinatown to celebrate their contribution to "building" France. The monument is written in Chinese and French, which means to commemorate the French laborers and soldiers who died for France in the First World War.