Zhou Hexuan, Lu Xun and the Sun brothers walked from east to west to Qianmen Street.
Lu Xun had not returned to Peiping for three years. Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar street scenes and listening to the vendors shouting about their business, he couldn't help but sigh: "Beiping is still so lively."
"It's just that the place near the station is lively. If you go further into the city, you will find that everything is a lot shabby." Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly and shook his head. "After all, this is no longer the capital of China. A large number of institutions and personnel have moved.
Went to Nanjing."
"It's conceivable," Lu Xun said.
The weather is fine in early summer, but the sky in Beiping is gray-yellow.
Suddenly a strong wind blew, causing sand and rocks to fly. Zhou Hexuan, who was about to speak, took a mouthful of sand and quickly spit out: "Ah!"
"Hahaha!"
Lu Xun laughed: "It's been a long time since I've smelled the pungent smell of sand in Peking."
Different from Zhou Hexuan's impression, he found that Lu Xun loved to laugh and did not always have a tense face.
Zhou Hexuan took out a handkerchief, tied it behind his head, covered his mouth and nose and said: "My ideal Chinese government can organize manpower and material resources to plant a large number of trees in North China, northwest and northeast China, and cultivate artificial protective forests that spread thousands of miles. By then,
The sandstorms in Peiping will disappear without a trace, and the air will become as clean as in the south."
Lu Xun disagreed: "It's just a little bit of dust, so why make a fuss about it? If you really have that kind of manpower and material resources, it's better to use them to improve people's livelihood."
Zhou Hexuan pointed to the north and said: "The sand and dust in Peiping originate from the desertification of the northern grasslands. If it is not controlled, the desert area will become larger and larger. Perhaps one day, even Peiping will be covered by desert. This is not just a matter of breathing.
As simple as mouthing sand, it is more related to the agricultural economy in the north and the livelihood of countless herdsmen and farmers in the north. Just like the flooding of the Yellow River, controlling desertification and controlling the Yellow River floods are basic matters that the government should do. If one day, the central government
If it can effectively manage deserts and the Yellow River, then this government is worthy of support."
Lu Xun listened thoughtfully. He usually cared about national thought and politicians' actions, while Zhou Hexuan preferred to consider practical issues.
After walking for a while, they came to the middle of Qianmen Street. Lu Xun pointed to his shop and said, "It's almost noon. You invite me to take the train, and I'll treat you to lunch."
"Okay," Zhou Hexuan joked, "there are three of us here, so we take advantage of it."
Lu Xun asked: "Are these two friends your attachés?"
Zhou Hexuan explained: "The bodyguards protected me. They even saved my life. The year before last, the brother of the warlord Chu Yupu assassinated me. Brother Yongzhen helped me block the shot, which almost hit my heart."
"But he is a righteous man." Lu Xun praised.
Sun Yongzhen scratched his head and smiled stupidly: "Sir, you should feed the people, and you should block the gun for him."
Lu Xun always felt that Zhou Hexuan was very strange. He was obviously a scholar, but like politicians and warlords, he took two bodyguards with him when he went out. He was obviously close to some warlords and full of political strategies, but he still refused to enter politics.
Be an official.
However, there were so many weird things in the Republic of China, including Zhou Hexuan, and Lu Xun didn't think too much about it.
Everyone went upstairs and took a seat by the window. Lu Xun said: "The bean juice here tastes very good..."
"No," Zhou Hexuan interrupted quickly, "I can't bear to drink that stuff, just have a bowl of fried noodles."
Lu Xun had no choice but to order three bowls of noodles with soybean paste, a bowl of bean juice, and a plate of pickles. He took a sip and said intoxicatedly: "It smells bad but smells good. It still tastes the same."
Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "I'm afraid I won't be able to drink bean juice for the rest of my life. I feel like vomiting when I smell it."
"Then you really deserve to be from Zhili. If you have a chance, I'll treat you to Shaoxing rice wine." Lu Xun said while chewing pickles.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "I miss Jinhua's ham even more. I haven't eaten it in many years."
"You don't seem to like fighting with others," Lu Xun put down his chopsticks and said, "Last time I wrote an article to scold you, you didn't even scold you back, which made me wait for a while and all the drafts I had written were scrapped."
"Haha," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "I'm too lazy to write. To be honest, I am a pragmatist and don't do meaningless things. Unless it is of practical benefit to me, I will not waste my energy writing abusive articles.
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"You are honest," Lu Xun said, "but many Chinese people today are asleep, and they will not wake up unless they curse loudly."
Zhou Hexuan said: "Those who should wake up will naturally wake up. Those who can't wake up are probably pretending to sleep. You will never wake up a group of people who are pretending to sleep."
"This is a good saying," Lu Xun nodded. "Those who pretend to be asleep cannot be woken up. What is hateful is that these people who pretend to be asleep still occupy the big room, leaving no place for those who are really awake. Mr. Zhou, you
They are hostile to Japan, but it is undeniable that the Japanese have many things worth learning. Their national character is to be serious, and they will directly carry out those who pretend to be asleep and throw them away. Our national character is to muddle along and turn a blind eye to those who pretend to be asleep."
Zhou Hexuan swallowed a mouthful of noodles and said: "Actually, the situation in Japan is worse than that in China. You can go to the Japanese countryside and see that many people there live worse than the Chinese farmers. Japan's strength is based on
On the basis of exploiting citizens.”
Lu Xun said: "If exploiting the people can make China strong, I will be the first to voluntarily be exploited. It is a pity that Chinese politicians only exploit the people to make themselves strong."
Zhou Hexuan was silent and speechless.
After a long time, Zhou Hexuan said: "There are too many smart people in China. Everyone has their own ideas and everyone thinks they are right. Sometimes, I wish there were more idiots in China, so that we can move forward in one direction."
Just like Japan, their efforts are actually in the wrong direction, but it does not affect their strength."
"Why do you say Japan is going in the wrong direction?" Lu Xun asked.
"Japan's strength and prosperity are abnormal," Zhou Hexuan explained in detail. "Since the Meiji Restoration, Japanese factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Especially after the European War, Japan's industrial output has doubled. Factories are operating day and night, and the port throughput is slow.
Interest, production, trade, and prosperity are the common impressions the Japanese have of their country. At the same time, Japan's rural areas are in decline, farmers are hungry, and selling children is common. Is Japan really strong? No. In Japan
More than half of the factories are engaged in the textile industry. Its domestic market is narrow and it relies heavily on export trade. Once the foreign market is turbulent, the Japanese economy will collapse immediately. If nothing else, if all Chinese people insist on not buying Japanese textiles for half a year,
Of those capitalists in Japan, four or five out of ten will go bankrupt."
To be honest, boycotting Japanese goods was feasible during the Republic of China because Japanese products were too single and relied heavily on the Chinese market.
Lu Xun took out a cigarette, handed one to Zhou Hexuan, struck a match and lit it, puffed out smoke and said: "You seem to have predicted in "The Rise of the Great Powers" that an economic crisis will break out in the United States this year and even affect the whole world. If this is true, Japan will
Wouldn’t it just collapse?”
"Yes, Japan's economy will definitely collapse," Zhou Hexuan said while holding a cigarette, "so Japan must invade China, because only war can transform domestic conflicts and draw the attention of the Japanese people."
The Kwantung Army invaded Northeast China and caused the September 18th Incident. There were two direct reasons: first, the lease contracts of Port Arthur and Dalian were about to expire; second, Japan's domestic economy collapsed, and war had to be used to shift conflicts.
After the economic crisis broke out in 1929, to what extent did Japan collapse?
There are even many "villages without girls" in Japan. Because farmers cannot survive, they can only send their daughters out to work as prostitutes.
There was a report in "Women" magazine: In order to survive the famine, the impoverished Konishi Kuni Village in Yamagata Prefecture sold 397 girls to brothels. The girls were never seen again in the village.
This report shocked the whole of Japan. The Yamagata Prefectural Government argued that the number of women who went out was indeed 397, but only 109 were prostitutes.
However, the turmoil in Yamagata Prefecture has not yet subsided. Villages such as Maize Village and Shimogomura in Akita Prefecture, Akinomiya Village in Yusheng County, etc. have also become the targets of media coverage because a large number of young girls have become prostitutes.
Later, "villages without girls" no longer attracted attention because it became too common, and a large number of villagers committed suicide as a family, becoming a new hot topic of public opinion.
Until 1935, the height of Japanese women regressed greatly, with the average height being only 1.48 meters, and the average life expectancy of men dropping to 44 years old. Even many urban women in Japan took off their Western-style tops and skirts and wore kimonos instead. Only in this way could they cover up their height.
My own skinny legs.
Japan's invasion of China was not just what a group of militants clamored for, but it reached a point where it could not do without war. Only war can transform Japan's domestic contradictions, use the operation of military industrial enterprises, and plunder external affairs to save the collapsed economy.
Don't talk about the innocence of the Japanese people. At that time, every Japanese was enjoying the dividends of the war of aggression against China. Without the war, they would not even be able to afford food.
