The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Due to arrangement and contact problems, the departure time of the visiting scholar group has been delayed again and again.

Jin Yuelin was so impatient, he left Chongqing directly and took a boat to Lizhuang to take care of Lin Huiyin while raising chickens. The other five scholars were stranded in Chongqing with nothing to do all day long, and the Zhou mansion became their salon meeting place.

It was summer vacation, the children were at home, and even Zhou Weilie came back from Kunming.

Regardless of whether the children can understand or not, Zhou Hexuan will ask his children to come and listen as long as he chats with these scholars anyway. All of them are masters, even if they can't understand the thoughts, it's still possible for the children to get literary.

These scholars are very interesting. Although they are all bigwigs in the academic world, they are like children when they quarrel.

Zhang Qiyun, who suggested that Chiang Kai-shek withdraw to Taiwan, belonged to the "Xueheng School" in his early years. This school advocated the revival of literature and opposed the New Culture Movement. It believed that blindly imitating the West could only take its dross.

And Liu Naicheng belongs to the "constitutional school". He admired the book "Fifteen Years of Wanli" very much, because he advocated the cultivation of institutional spirit, which happened to be consistent with the thoughts expressed in "Fifteen Years of Wanli".

On the construction of the current Chinese system, Liu Naicheng and Zhang Qiyun have great differences. The former strongly advocates the Westernization of the political system, and everything is based on the system and the law; the latter believes that moral construction cannot be ignored, and morality can make up for the shortcomings of the system, and the current situation in China does not allow the full realization of the rule of law.

Cai Qiao, the founder of Chinese physiology and future academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was brought in by the two to comment. Poor Cai Qiao knew nothing about politics and could only act as a peacemaker in the middle.

Fei Xiaotong carefully analyzed the bottom-level economy and people's living conditions in China from the perspective of sociology and anthropology. He believes that it is useless to shout about the rule of law and morality, and the government has collapsed from the central government. We can only win the war of resistance first, and then gradually solve political problems.

Liu Naicheng was upset, and immediately quarreled with Fei Xiaotong. He believed that it was precisely because of the War of Resistance that this opportunity could be used to realize constitutional government and carry out political reforms in the interests of the country and the nation.

Everyone was arguing, only Xiao Zuoliang watched the play silently.

These six scholars come from different schools. Jin Yuelin represents Southwest Associated University, Fei Xiaotong represents Yunnan University, Cai Qiao represents Central University, Liu Naicheng represents Wuhan University, Zhang Qiyun represents Zhejiang University, and Xiao Zuoliang represents Sichuan University.

Among the six, Fei Xiaotong is the most famous and the most well-known to Americans. His book "Jiangcun Economy" was hailed as "a milestone in the development of anthropological field investigation and theoretical work" by the British and American academic circles four years ago, and he is also a well-known figure in the international anthropological circle.

Xiao Zuoliang, on the other hand, is the least famous and is completely a foil. He was mentioned in later generations, often when discussing the Communist Party's land reform policy. This gentleman has done a lot of research on the history of the Communist Party's land reform.

After arguing continuously for more than half a month, these scholars finally set off, and Jin Yuelin also put down Lin Huiyin and hurried back. Their route to the United States is to take the hump route to India first, and then go to the United States by sea, which is very dangerous along the way.

The so-called "hump" is a mountain pass at the southern foot of the Himalayas, which is the only way for international aid materials to pass through in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War.

At the beginning, due to the performance problems of the transport aircraft, the pilots could only fly at low altitudes and had to cross the labyrinthine Himalayan passes. If they were not paying attention, they crashed into the mountains and were killed. Later, the transport plane was improved, and finally it did not need to fly at low altitude, but the bad weather and the interception of Japanese planes also made the Hump route extremely high in distress.

Fairbank also wanted to invite Zhou Hexuan to the United States this time, but Zhou Hexuan refused to do so because he was afraid of falling headlong into the Himalayas.

After the scholars had left, Zhou Hexuan called Zhou Weilie and Zhou Lingjun over and asked them to talk about their impressions of listening to the quarrel of top scholars. As for the other children, there is no need. Because they are too young, they will definitely not be able to learn anything superficial.

Zhou Lingjun concluded: "Uncle Liu always speaks the truth, and Uncle Zhang is very stubborn. The more they quarreled, the more confused they became. I think Uncle Fei won the quarrel, and Uncle Liu and Uncle Zhang didn't talk much afterwards."

"Wei Lie, what do you think?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Zhou Weilie said contemptuously: "It's useless to quarrel, it's better to do something practical."

Zhou Hexuan laughed loudly: "This kind of quarrel is really useful at the national level. You can't do things recklessly, you must determine the correct way of thinking. Just like you solve a math problem, you must first grasp the key points of the problem, and then determine what method to use. Solution. Do you think this is the truth?”

"That's right, we need to figure out the crux of the problem first." Zhou Weilie nodded.

Zhou Hexuan asked Duanmu Hongliang again: "What's Jingping thinking?"

Duanmu Hongliang has lived in the Zhou Mansion for the past few months, helping Zhou Hexuan to check a lot of historical materials of the Ming Dynasty. He said: "Professor Fei Xiaotong's starting point is the actual situation at the bottom of the society. He inspected many villages and towns in Yunnan and used data to speak everywhere. Professor Zhang Qiyun focuses on the overall situation and considers it from the perspective of the government. Professor Liu Naicheng is keen on Regarding system construction, he wants to set up a good system framework first and then carry out reforms. However, Professor Zhang and Professor Liu’s views are a bit divorced from the real situation in China, which is taken for granted.”

Zhou Hexuan sighed and said: "China is like this now. The bureaucrats in the central government are all divorced from the grassroots like Zhang Qiyun. And most free scholars are thinking about constitutionalism every day and blindly pursuing democracy like Liu Naicheng. People like Fei Xiaotong On the contrary, there are very few, and none of them have any right to speak. They can only bury their heads in the pile of papers. Lu Yuwen, the head of the Henan Provincial Grain Bureau, was very eloquent when he was an economist, but he decided his head when he was in power. It's a mess."

During the famine in Henan, the attitudes of the military and government factions were very strange, completely contrary to people's usual thinking.

It stands to reason that soldiers should disregard civilians for the sake of military food, and the government should reduce procurement for the sake of civilians.

But on the contrary, except for Tang Enbo, who extorted money, most of the generals in Henan advocated disaster relief. Jiang Dingwen, the commander-in-chief of the first war zone, called on his soldiers to save two taels of food every day, and use the remaining rations to help the victims. Li Jiayu, a general of the Sichuan army, was so worried about the disaster that he went to find He Yingqin, but was reprimanded by He Yingqin.

On the contrary, officials of the Henan government, regardless of the famine from top to bottom, played around under the banner of purchasing military rations and serving the country in the War of Resistance.

"So the Nationalist government is about to die, and the future will be ruled by the Communist Party." Duanmu Hongliang made no secret of his pro-Communist attitude.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Don't say this out of the door."

Duanmu Hongliang said: "Teacher, I am going to Guangxi. Mr. Ouyang Yuqian invited me to join the Guangxi Museum of Art to create anti-Japanese patriotic plays."

Zhou Hexuan didn't hold back either, and said, "If you don't have enough travel expenses, go to Le Yi to get it."