Kong Xiangxi has gained a lot in the UK. The British financial department and the Bank of England are interested in reaching further cooperation with China. The cooperation between the two parties has two contents. One is that the UK borrows money from China to build railways, and the other is that China issues bonds in the UK.
After staying in London for about a month, Kong Xiangxi finalized the general cooperation framework, leaving only the specific details. Kong Xiangxi did not need to personally intervene in these matters. He left behind several negotiators from the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Commerce, and took his wife with him.
When children go to the United States, they have to find a way to fight with Roosevelt.
While Kong Xiangxi was busy and busy, Zhou Hexuan was not idle either. While he was telling Pound the "Book of Changes", he was invited to participate in various lectures and speech activities, repeatedly reminding the British that Japan was destroying world peace and destroying world peace.
British interests in Asia.
As for how effective it will be, Zhou Hexuan has no idea. Anyway, through his speeches and propaganda, many ordinary British people know that there is a country called Japan in the Far East, which only focuses on foreign aggression and expansion.
At this time, the whole of Europe was in a period of widespread peace thoughts. Japan, which was keen on destroying peace, had an extremely bad impression on the British people. At least British public opinion was on China's side.
This is important because British politicians need votes and they more or less listen to public opinion.
In early June, Zhou Hexuan left London with his wife and daughter and sailed to Italy.
Mr. Pound, who is obsessed with practicing the "Book of Changes", actually has the idea of settling in China. He plans to move back to Italy with his wife this time. As for the two mistresses, they can get together and get away, and give some money for alimony, and the rest
No need to bother anymore.
For Pound, moving is normal.
He is an American. Because he admired Fenollosa's literary ideas, he moved to England to settle down. By the way, he became a student of Yeats. After spending more than ten years in England, he yearned for French literature and art, so he moved to England.
He went to live in France. After living in Paris for three years, he disliked the materialism here and instead appreciated Mussolini's fascist ideas, so he moved to Italy and has lived there until now.
Now, Pound has become obsessed with the "Book of Changes" and Chinese culture, and simply took his wife to live in China for a few years.
When Wanrong arrived from Germany to join them, everyone finally set off and arrived in Shanghai in early July.
Many major events happened this month, and the biggest event was the launch of the Lushan negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Duke Zhou personally took the anti-Japanese program of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to Lushan to hold talks with Chang Kaishen. Chang Kaishen opened his mouth and proposed: First, establish a National Revolutionary Alliance, composed of cadres selected by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, with Chiang Kai-shek as the chairman, and have
The final decision-making power; second, the comprehensive reorganization of the Red Army, with the Communist Party as division commander, the Kuomintang as deputy, and Zhu and Mao must go abroad to study abroad; third, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government, with full-time officials appointed by the Nanjing government.
The Communist Party's response was: The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region will implement democratic elections. It recommends Zhang Ji, Song Ziwen and Yu You to appoint three people, and chooses one of them to serve as the chief executive of the border region. At the same time, it does not abandon the basic principle of democratic elections for the National Assembly. The Red Army can be reorganized. I hope
Chiang Kai-shek established a military headquarters. The reorganized Red Army must be led by President Zhu. Mao Zedong expressed his willingness to go abroad, but he must wait for the right time before leaving.
To facilitate negotiations, radio stations were opened between Nanjing and Yan'an.
The two sides went back and forth, but Chiang Kai-shek refused to let go. The Communist Party could only give in step by step. That is, the Communist Party used the name of the political training agency to command the Red Army. Mr. Zhu could not be the military commander, but he must serve as the director of the Political Training Department of the Red Army.
.This is the final bottom line. If Mr. Zhu cannot serve as the director of political training, then the Red Army will bypass the Nanjing government and reorganize itself.
The negotiations failed and the matter was settled.
As far away as North China, the Japanese army conducted many exercises at Marco Polo Bridge and the Wanping Hetao, with their troops directed towards Peiping. People from the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the North Korean Governor-General's Office, the Chinese Garrison Army Headquarters and the President of the Manchurian Railway held a military exercise in Dalian
meeting, the situation of invading China became increasingly serious.
Such a violent action by the Japanese army made Song Zheyuan and Han Fuju immediately nervous, but they each took a chance and believed that the Japanese army would not take action easily, and at most it would be a threat of force as before.
Shanghai, dock.
There is a group of intellectuals who are waiting hard for Zhou Hexuan to return to China, including Xu Zhimo, Lu Xiaoman, Chen Mengjia, Sun Dayu, Lin Yutang, Shao Xunmei, Xiang Meili and so on.
Xu Zhimo is still so indecisive. His marriage to Lu Xiaoman is in name only, but they still live together. But it is better than before. He occasionally goes home to visit his father, ex-wife and son.
I don’t know what he is worried about, but Xu Zhimo is unwilling to remarry Zhang Youyi, even though the two are getting along very harmoniously now.
Let’s talk about the pair of Shao Xunmei and Xiang Meili. Standing on the pier, they are more eye-catching than Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman. One is a prodigal son of a rich family and a great poet, and the other is a glamorous ocean horse, but it happens to be an extramarital affair. This combination is unrealistic.
It is quite rare in the 21st century.
Shao Xunmei's reputation in Shanghai is not much inferior to that of Xu Zhimo. Even Lu Xun wrote an article during his lifetime: "Master Shao has a rich family and a rich wife, and he uses his dowry money to make literary capital."
Shao Xunmei's first wife, Sheng Peiyu, was Sheng Xuanhuai's granddaughter, and he himself was Sheng Xuanhuai's biological grandson. When cousins get married, they become more closely related. This is where Lu Xun's saying "there is a rich wife from a rich Yue family" comes from.
(Hey, why are they descendants of Sheng Xuanhuai again...)
In fact, Mr. Lu Xun did not answer the question this time because Shao Xunmei himself was a third-generation official. His grandfather was a first-rank official and served successively as governor of Hunan and Taiwan. His father also served as the supervisor of the Steamship Merchants Bureau. The family was so rich that there was no need for money.
Don’t spend your wife’s dowry money.
This guy was particularly fond of gambling, often winning and losing tens of thousands. However, he looked down on gamblers in the market and liked "elegant gambling". The more he lost, the better the poems he wrote. He was known as the "Poet of Gambling Country".
Shao Xunmei can be described as four characters: handsome man, libertine, rich man and talented man.
The hooligans are not to be feared, but the hooligans are literate.
The prodigal son is not to be feared. I am afraid that the prodigal son is handsome, rich and talented.
For people like Shao Xunmei, it is really boring to have everything at their fingertips. The entire Shanghai cultural and art circle, except for left-wing literati, are all his friends. Even the former mayor of Nanjing is his friend, and he also specializes in
He was invited to be the secretary to the mayor of the capital, but Mr. Shao quit the job after three months. He felt that being an official was really boring.
"Coming, coming!" Chen Mengjia pointed forward and said.
Xu Zhimo immediately said happily: "Let's go to greet him quickly. We must surround Mingcheng to prevent Xiaoxiao from assassinating him, and don't let him be harmed by Japanese agents."
Sun Dayu laughed loudly and said: "Haha, today we are all joining the army as bodyguards!"
The assassination of Zhou Hexuan a few months ago caused quite a big fuss. There was almost no distinction between left and right. At that time, the entire Chinese literary world was spontaneously criticizing the shameless behavior of the Japanese.
Zhou Hexuan himself is also regarded as an idol in the literary world, with a heroic aura of "even if there are thousands of people, I will go". Nowadays, I don't know how many passionate young people are willing to stand up and sacrifice their lives to block the gun for Mr. Zhou.
When Zhou Hexuan was assassinated, Xu Zhimo was giving lectures in Peking and often regretted that he was not in Nanjing at that time. Now that school was on summer vacation, Xu Zhimo gathered a group of friends and rushed to the dock to pick up Zhou Hexuan's ship.
"Mingcheng!" Xu Zhimo waved excitedly.
Zhou Hexuan cupped his fists and said with a smile: "Brother Zhimo, brother Manzai, brother Mingchuan, cousin Yu... Long time no see, everyone!"
Xu Zhimo said happily: "Mingcheng, let me introduce you. This is the poet Mr. Shao Xunmei, and this is the American writer Miss Xiang Meili."
"As a poet of the country, I have admired his name for a long time," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "Hello, Miss Xiang!"
"Hello Mr. Zhou!"
Shao Xunmei and Xiang Meili both stepped forward to shake hands.
Vivien Leigh and Wanrong were following behind, and everyone quickly greeted them, finally focusing on the Pounds.
Zhou Hexuan introduced: "This is Mr. Ezra Pound and his wife..."
"Pound!"
"Elliot's best friend Pound?"
Before Zhou Hexuan could finish speaking, the group of literati had already exclaimed.
Eliot has become so famous in Chinese poetry circles in recent years. Take Xu Zhimo, for example. He used to admire Tagore the most, but now he highly admires Eliot. And Eliot's greatest poem is clearly a gift.
To my dear friend Pound, who is also very famous in China.
Even without Eliot, Xu Zhimo still knew Pound.
When Xu Zhimo was studying in England, Pound was a dazzling figure in the British poetry circle, and he often wished he could meet him in person.
While studying the "Book of Changes", Pound was also practicing Chinese. At this moment, he smiled and said hello in Chinese: "Hello everyone, I am Pound. I am very happy to meet my Chinese friends."
We met a lot of foreign literary figures, but none of them could speak Chinese. Pound's current performance made Chinese poets overjoyed, and they gathered around him for exchanges.
Pang De feels very happy, they are all his Chinese speaking partners...
Everyone laughed for a moment and took a car to Xu Zhimo's house, but encountered a crazy crowd of demonstrators on the way.
Pound was a little curious and asked: "Zhou, why are they marching?"
Zhou Hexuan looked at the various slogans in the crowd and replied: "Last year, seven famous patriots were arrested and imprisoned by the Chinese government. The parade in front of us is asking the authorities to release them."
"So that's it." Pound nodded.
The "Seven Gentlemen Incident" has been going on for more than a year. Demonstrations are held every now and then across the country, and the number of demonstrations has been increasing recently.
Because just half a month ago, the Kuomintang authorities publicly tried the case of the Seven Gentlemen, and the charges were full of loopholes. The most outrageous charge was that the Seven Gentlemen conspired to contact Zhang Xueliang to initiate the Xi'an Incident.
This is really crazy. When the Xi'an Incident happened, the Seven Gentlemen had been arrested for half a year. How could they have the ability to contact Zhang Xueliang in prison?
The trial process was originally conducted in secret, but because there were too many protesters, the court had no choice but to allow family members of the Seven Gentlemen and reporters to observe the trial. Many newspapers reported the trial details in detail. As soon as the news was released, the whole country was in an uproar, which led to the current situation.
Big parade.
Arriving at Xu Zhimo's home, Lu Xiaoman greeted the servants and entertained the distinguished guests.
Xu Zhimo said excitedly: "Today Mingcheng returns to China and Mr. Pound is here, why don't we hold a grand poetry salon!"
Zhou Hexuan suddenly smiled and said: "In my name, I summon all poets in Shanghai, regardless of left or right, and let's discuss poetry creation together."
Xu Zhimo was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Okay!"
The July 7th Incident was about to break out, and Zhou Hexuan decided to do something to prevent poets like Xu Zhimo and Shao Xunmei from not knowing what to do.
What should I do?
Of course, I write patriotic poems, anti-Japanese poems, and national salvation poems!