Zhang Xueliang will not be able to return to Peiping for two days, and then he will take Zhou Hexuan to visit Zhang Zuolin.
So Zhou Hexuan had to wait. In addition to socializing with a group of poets such as Xu Zhimo, he also met other celebrities in Tsinghua. For example, Jin Yuelin, who had just founded the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua, and Feng Youlan, a super master in modern Chinese philosophy.
In the remaining time, Zhou Hexuan was working on "The Goddess".
As soon as the story begins, the heroine is imprisoned and talks to the ghost in the prison in a trance. The ghost says that she was murdered and silenced, and also tells her own tragic experience. Then the timeline jumps sharply and suddenly flashes back to the Revolution of 1911.
That year, a certain evil gentry gathered bandits to respond to the revolution, turned into a revolutionary party, and rushed into the city to declare an uprising. The heroine's father was a city official, but he died in the chaos, and he became homeless at a young age.
Then there was a local severe drought, and the governor of the new society led the people to offer sacrifices and pray for rain. The 10-year-old heroine was regarded as a sacrifice to the Dragon King. In the pious cheers and prayers of the people, she accompanied the fruits, vegetables, cattle and sheep.
Sinking into the river.
While half asleep and half awake, she met the River God. The River God said that the foreign warships were too powerful and destroyed his rainfall spell, and took the heroine on a swim in the river. When she woke up, she found that she had been rescued by fishermen on the river and became the adopted daughter of the fishermen.
The timeline jumps again, and the fisherman's foolish son marries the heroine. On the second day after the wedding, he encounters a melee between warlords. The fishing boat is sunk by a cannon. Both his adoptive father and husband drown in the water. Her mother-in-law sells her to a human trafficker.
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Within a few days, Zhou Hexuan wrote 40,000 words and showed it to Liang Qichao. Liang Qichao commented on the novel: "It's absurd and terrifying."
Because although the heroine's experience in the book is tragic, every scene is very happy, and even the descriptions of the warlords' battles are humorous and interesting. Whether they are warlords, bandits, corrupt officials, ordinary people, fishermen, or human traffickers, they all live in their own world.
Taking the trap of the heroine as a matter of course.
This morning, Zhou Hexuan was writing a novel again.
Liang Qichao rushed in and pulled him away: "Stop writing, your novel makes people panic. Follow me to give a lecture."
Lectures were very popular during the Republic of China, and universities were keen to invite celebrities to give lectures, and the remuneration was high. Zhou Hexuan now lives in Tsinghua Garden, so Tsinghua University will not let him go, and has long invited him to give lectures.
Zhou Hexuan followed Liang Qichao to the History Department. Seeing the crowd in the classroom, he was surprised and said: "There are so many students in the History Department of Tsinghua University?"
"Students from other departments also came to listen to the lecture." Liang Qichao explained with a smile.
Chen Maode, founder and director of the Department of History at Tsinghua University, shook hands with Zhou Hexuan enthusiastically and said: "Mr. Zhou, I have admired his name for a long time and have long wanted to see him."
"Director Chen, you're welcome." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
Chen Maode said: "The Department of History at Tsinghua University is newly established and is not well prepared in many aspects. We also asked Mr. Zhou to teach us some theoretical methods of historical research."
Zhou Hexuan said: "If you don't dare to teach, you must try your best."
Tsinghua University officially established various departments a month ago, including the Department of History, and even subjects such as archeology are included in historical research. In other words, many of those who came to listen to Zhou Hexuan's lecture today are from Tsinghua University
The first class of history students.
Zhou Hexuan walked up to the podium, glanced down, and found that Chen Yinke, Wang Guowei, Liang Xuming, Li Ji and other professors from the Institute of Chinese Studies were also sitting and listening to his lectures. He suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
In fact, since the establishment of the Department of History at Tsinghua University, students from the Institute of Chinese Studies have been integrated into the Department of History in disguise, and many professors have also become teachers in the History Department.
"Hello everyone," Zhou Hexuan bowed to the audience, and then said, "I, Zhou Hexuan, have little talent and knowledge. I have never been to a serious school, and I don't even have a high school diploma. I was invited by Director Chen and Professor Liang to give lectures in Tsinghua University. I am deeply frightened. I won't say anything.
All the teachers here, as well as any of my classmates, have higher diplomas than me. So if you agree with what I’m talking about today, applaud, and if you don’t agree, just treat it like a fart.”
"Hahaha!"
There was a chuckle from the audience, and everyone had a smile on their face.
After exchanging pleasantries, Zhou Hexuan finally got to the point. He said: "In Western historical circles, since the war ten years ago, a new historical research trend has begun to emerge. It is very different from Renaissance historiography. Let's call it
Modern Historiography.”
Zhou Hexuan wrote the four characters "modern history" on the blackboard, and the teachers and students in the audience immediately paid attention to it quietly. Because this kind of historical research has not yet formed a complete and standardized theory in the West, and is still being gradually explored.
Zhou Hexuan pointed to Liang Qichao in the audience: "Mr. Liang Rengong said in his "Chinese History Research Method" that human life is extremely short, but the life of human society is extremely long, and society always develops in a spiral upward. He believes that history and
Society changes and develops continuously, emphasizing the overallity, continuity and causality of history. I very much agree with this view. However, I think it is not enough!"
The teachers and students in the audience all looked at Liang Qichao. Liang Qichao shook his head and smiled bitterly. Zhou Hexuan was invited by him to give lectures, but as soon as he came on stage, he was treated as a target.
"I think historical research must include the following aspects." Zhou Hexuan wrote "history", "politics", "economics", "nation", "diplomacy", "culture" and "personal" on the blackboard.
He continued: "History here is historical events in the traditional sense. Politics, economy, and culture are three very important factors in historical research. They directly or indirectly promote historical events. History is not isolated, so diplomacy
People and nations must also be studied. As for individuals, it is the influence of historical figures, such as the talents and strategies of Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of Han. Many of the behaviors and activities of historical figures are accidental, but their influence is very far-reaching."
The teachers and students in the audience looked thoughtful. Many of them had actually done research in this area, but they were not as summarized and comprehensive as Zhou Hexuan's.
Zhou Hexuan added: "As for the analysis of individual historical events, I think we should start from these four aspects."
He then wrote "cause", "process", "result" and "influence" on the blackboard, and said: "Let's take the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War as an example. What was its cause? This requires analyzing the history at that time.
environment, as well as the political, economic, cultural, national, diplomatic, personal and other factors of China and Japan, and even Western countries. Why are wars fought and why can they be fought? Let’s talk about Japan first..."
Zhou Hexuan first analyzed Japan's Meiji Restoration and the development difficulties faced by Japan at that time, and concluded that if Japan wants to continue to develop, it must implement the policy of "conquering Korea and invading China." However, China has internal and external troubles, and has gradually become a semi-colony.
, North Korea was the last fig leaf for China, and the rulers at that time did not think highly of Japan, so they naturally tried to maintain the dignity of the Qing Dynasty.
After talking about the cause of the war, Zhou Hexuan then talked about the course of the war, the diplomacy of the two countries, the systems of the two countries, the economy of the two countries, the military strength of the two countries, etc., including Cixi's courtyard building: "It is inevitable for China to lose the war.
Before the war, China and Japan experienced an arms race for 20 years. China's naval strategy was mainly defensive, while Japan's navy was offensive. In the 1889 U.S. Navy report, it was believed that the Chinese navy ranked first in Asia.
, ranked ninth in the world, even ahead of the United States and Japan. Li Hongzhang was complacent about this and believed that the gateway to the Bohai Sea was unshakable. Japan was deeply aware of the lack of naval power and increased naval military expenditures to the maximum extent, spending huge sums of money to build three large-caliber and fast-moving ships.
warships. In the following years, the Chinese navy stagnated, while Japan was still accelerating its naval development. The results were ebb and flow. By the time the war broke out, Japan had surpassed China in terms of the number of warships, and many of its warships' capabilities had also declined.
It has surpassed China, and its overall strength has actually surpassed that of the Chinese Navy, ranking first in Asia."
"This is the military aspect, let's talk about diplomacy. China has no diplomacy at all and can only be divided up by the great powers. As for Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany and France all support Japan's war, and China is diplomatically isolated.
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"Why these powers would support Japan's invasion of China starts with their own political and economic development..."
By the time Zhou Hexuan finished explaining the origins and process of the Sino-Japanese War, the teachers and students in the audience were dumbfounded. This battle is too familiar to the Chinese, and there are countless related studies, but none of them are as good as Zhou Hexuan's talk.
So thorough.
"Snap, snap, snap!"
Zhou Hexuan was about to continue to talk about the results and impact of the Sino-Japanese War of 1898, when the audience burst into warm applause. He waited for the applause to end before continuing: "Everyone knows the results of the war, and I won't repeat them. Now let's talk about it.
Influence, although China lost the war, the Chinese people were completely awakened ideologically and culturally, and many reformists gradually turned into revolutionaries..."