On February 2, the Battle of Stalingrad ended, and 90,000 German troops, including Marshal Paulus, were captured.
On February 11, Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe.
On February 18, Soong Meiling gave a speech in the U.S. Congress.
Just after the Spring Festival of this year, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a solar eclipse suddenly appeared. A partial solar eclipse could be seen across the country, and even a total solar eclipse could be seen in the Northeast, inevitably giving rise to various bizarre rumors.
Among them, the most popular theory among Chinese people is that Japan is about to be defeated and the sun represents Japan.
Zhou Hexuan has now turned his back on things outside the window and is focused on researching the history of the Ming Dynasty. His desire to survive is still very strong. Old Jiang is obviously really angry this time. If he runs around, the soldiers at the gate of Zhou's mansion will definitely dare to attack him.
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But Zhou Hexuan has no regrets. All the plots in "Human Market" are not made up at will, but adapted from facts that have already happened. "Ta Kung Pao" has four reporters in Henan, and Zhou Hexuan has read all the news, which is shocking.
, making Zhou Hexuan not feel unhappy.
In mid-January, just after Ta Kung Pao resumed publication, it once again published news about the disaster in Henan.
The person who wrote the article this time was war correspondent Zhang Gaofeng. He described in detail how the Henan victims ate poisonous weeds, dry firewood, and white mud, and disclosed Tang Enbo’s ugly behavior in Henan. At the end of the article, Zhang Gaofeng also quoted the Central News Agency
The content of the telegram: "The actual procurement in the 31st year of Henan Province was carried out quite smoothly despite the severe disaster." He also commented: "According to the person in charge of the Provincial Land Management Office: 'The procurement situation is extremely good, and various places have
"The people have spent all they have to contribute to the country.' These four words are literally written with blood and tears."
Wang Yunsheng, the editor-in-chief of "Ta Kung Pao" is also not afraid of trouble. He wrote an editorial after this news: "The victims of the disaster in Henan have sold their land, sold their people, and even starved to death, and still paid state taxes. Why can't the government expropriate the wealth of wealthy businessmen?"
Assets, and limit the purchasing power that ordinary wealthy people don’t care about? Looking at Chongqing and thinking about the Central Plains, it is really emotional!”
As a result, Ta Kung Pao was suspended for another three days, and reporter Zhang Gaofeng was arrested by Tang Enbo on charges of being a "communist leader."
Zhou Hexuan called Chiang Kai-shek several times to request his release, but to no avail.
It was not until a few months later that the Japanese army launched a massive attack on the Central Plains, Tang Enbo's troops were routed, and Zhang Gaofeng regained his freedom in the chaos.
Duanmu Hongliang came to Chongqing, temporarily lived in Zhou's mansion, and became Zhou Hexuan's full-time librarian.
Since Zhou Hexuan wanted to study the history of the Ming Dynasty, his own collection of books was definitely not enough, so he had to search for historical materials in many ways. It was easy to copy books, but when he reached Zhou Hexuan's status, the more he copied books, the more cautious he had to be.
It is impossible to copy "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty". The style of writing is too frivolous and the color is too subjective. This book is only suitable for popular historical science. Treating it as a historical monograph will make people laugh. Some people have already done this during the Republic of China.
Historical science has been popularized, and it is extremely successful, that is, Cai Dongfan's Popular Romance of the Past Dynasties, even Taizu praised it after reading it.
Then only "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is left.
Once this book came out, it was adopted as a textbook by many universities in the United States. In China, it has become a must-have book for countless scholars, writers, officials, and entrepreneurs. In the TV series "In the Name of the People", it is on the bookshelf of Gao Yuliang's office.
Gao Xiaofeng is the author of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", and Gao Xiaofeng is also loved by Gao Yuliang because he has read "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli".
However, although "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is a historical classic, it still has shortcomings that are difficult to conceal.
The original author Huang Renyu was very serious when writing the book and quoted various historical materials. Unfortunately, the citation of these historical materials was not serious. He only used historical materials that were in line with his own views and discarded all historical materials that were not in line with his own views, even cutting off the beginning and the end.
Distorted cropping.
For example, regarding Li Zhi's statement, Mr. Huang Renyu misinterpreted Li Zhi's original words about Hai Rui, deliberately distorted Li Zhi's attitude of praising widows for keeping their moral integrity, and took Li Zhi's comments on Cai Wenji and Li Zhi's philosophical thoughts out of context.
General readers may not care, but professionals will definitely find fault. Even if no one says anything, as long as Zhou Hexuan copies it out intact, it will inevitably mislead readers about history.
Fortunately, there are many libraries in Chongqing. The National Central Library, National Peking Library, National Compilation and Compilation Library, Central University Library, Fudan University Library, etc. have all moved in. Zhou Hexuan asked Duanmu Hongliang to borrow a few libraries for him every week.
After reading a piece of information, I stayed in the Zhou Mansion to study slowly and think about the revision of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli".
At this time, there were two books on Zhou Hexuan's desk, namely "An Examination of the Party and Social Movement in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" by Xie Guozhen and "History of Thought in the Ming Dynasty" by Rong Zhaozu. He had not calmed down to read like this for a long time, thanks to Lao Jiang
The disguised house arrest completely eliminated Zhou Hexuan's impatience.
The research on Ming history during the Republic of China was still in a confused and groping stage before the 1930s, but it had already begun to study urban life, party and social movements, academic thoughts and foreign policies in the Ming Dynasty. After the 1930s, research on Ming history began to follow Marxism,
Combined with Western new history theory, it deeply explores the political structure, class changes, taxation system, industrial and peasant economy of the Ming Dynasty, etc.
To put it shamelessly, at least one-third of today's experts on Ming history are disciples of the Zhou family. These people learned their methods of conducting history from Zhou Hexuan.
During the Spring Festival, countless experts on Ming history were delighted when they saw Zhou Hexuan's paper discussing Shen Wansan, because Mr. Zhou finally began to study Ming history.
Also benefiting from the research of these Ming history experts, Zhou Hexuan now finds information very easily and continues to make adjustments and revisions to "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", but the thematic framework and the big historical ideas in it have not changed.
"Dad, will what you write be useful to the country?" Zhou Weilie asked as he lay at the table. He returned to Chongqing for the Spring Festival and would go to Kunming after the Lantern Festival.
Zhou Hexuan asked: "Why do you think these things are useless?"
Zhou Weilie said: "Even if you write history into flowers, you can't help the country harvest one more grain of grain, and you can't build one more cannonball for the country. What's the use?"
"If you take history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs. Have you never heard of this sentence?" Zhou Hexuan said.
Zhou Weilie said: "That is personal."
Zhou Hexuan said: "The same goes for the country. Do you think the Anti-Japanese War was like this because China's science and technology were backward? No, it was because there was something wrong with the government. The political structure was unstable and the policies were implemented illegally. The internal strife caused by these reasons was even greater than
The Japanese invaders caused more serious damage to China. When we study history, we are summarizing the pros and cons of ancient regimes. If the current government can maximize its strengths and avoid weaknesses and choose the best, it will be far more useful than building a few cannonballs and planting a few kilograms of grain."
Zhou Weilie seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand. He held his father's manuscript and read it for a while, but was not interested in it. Except for Hai Rui and Zhang Juzheng, he had never heard of any other historical figures.
"I'd better go study mathematics." After Zhou Weilie said that, he walked away.
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