The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

   It will take two days for Zhang Xueliang to return to Peiping, and then he will take Zhou Hexuan to visit Zhang Zuolin.

  So Zhou Hexuan had to wait. In addition to making friends with a group of poets such as Xu Zhimo, he also met other famous people in Tsinghua University. For example, Jin Yuelin, who just founded the Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University, and Feng Youlan, a superstar in modern Chinese philosophy circles.

   For the rest of the time, Zhou Hexuan was creating "Goddess".

   As soon as the story appeared, the heroine was imprisoned. In a trance, she talked to the ghost in the prison. The ghost said that she was silenced by murder, and also told her tragic experience. Immediately after that, the timeline jumped sharply, and suddenly flashed back to the year of the 1911 Revolution. 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 an official in the city, but he died in this chaos, and he was displaced at a young age.

   Then came the local drought, and the governor of the new society led the people to worship and pray for rain. The 10-year-old heroine was regarded as a sacrifice to the Dragon King. She sank into the river along with vegetables, fruits, cattle and sheep amid the devout cheers and prayers of the people.

   Half-dreaming, she saw the river god. The river **** said that the foreigner's warship was too powerful, breaking his rain spell, and he took the heroine to swim in the river. When she woke up, she found that she was rescued by fishermen on the river and became the adopted daughter of the fishermen.

  The timeline jumps again, and the fisherman's silly son marries the heroine as his wife. On the second day of the marriage, there was a war between the warlords, the fishing boat was sunk, the adoptive father and husband both drowned in the water, and the mother-in-law sold her to a human trafficker.

   Within a few days, Zhou Hexuan wrote 40,000 words and showed it to Liang Qichao. Liang Qichao commented on the novel: "Absurd and creepy."

  Because the heroine's experience in the book is tragic, but every scene is very happy, and even the description of warlords fighting is humorous and interesting. Whether it is warlords, bandits, corrupt officials, common people, fishermen, and human traffickers, they all live in their own worlds, and they take it for granted that they harm the heroine.

   This morning, Zhou Hexuan was writing a novel again.

  Liang Qichao rushed in and pulled him away: "Don't write it, your novel makes people panic, come with 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 not cheap. Zhou Hexuan now lives in Tsinghua Garden, and Tsinghua University will naturally not let him go, and has already invited him to give lectures.

   Zhou Hexuan followed Liang Qichao to the History Department. Seeing the crowd in the classroom, he was surprised: "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, the founder and director of the Department of History of Tsinghua University, shook hands with Zhou Hexuan enthusiastically and said, "Mr. Zhou, I have admired the name for a long time, and I have long wanted to see it."

   "Director Chen is very polite." Zhou Hexuan smiled.

  Chen Maode said: "The Department of History of Tsinghua University was a start-up, and it lacked preparation in many aspects. I also asked Mr. Zhou to give me some advice and teach some theoretical methods of historical research."

   Zhou Hexuan said: "I don't dare to teach, I must do my best."

  Tsinghua University officially established various departments a month ago, including the Department of History, and even disciplines such as archaeology are counted in historical research. That is to say, many of the people who came to listen to Zhou Hexuan's lecture today were the first history students of Tsinghua University.

   Zhou Hexuan walked up to the podium, swept down, and found that Chen Yinke, Wang Guowei, Liang Suming, Li Ji and other professors from the Academy of Chinese Studies were also sitting and listening to his lecture, and he felt a lot of pressure.

   In fact, since the establishment of the History Department of Tsinghua University, the students of the Institute of Chinese Studies have been merged into the History Department in disguise, and many professors have also become teachers of the History Department.

"Hello everyone," Zhou Hexuan bowed to the audience, and then said, "My lord, Zhou Hexuan, has little talent, and has never been to a serious school, not even a high school diploma. I am deeply apprehensive to be invited by Director Chen and Professor Liang to give lectures at Tsinghua University. All the teachers here, even any classmate, have a higher diploma than me. So what I said today, if everyone agrees with it, they applaud, and if they don’t agree, they dismiss it as a fart.”

"Hahaha!"

   There was a chuckle from the audience, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

After the greeting, Zhou Hexuan finally entered the topic, he said: "Since the war ten years ago, a new trend of historical research has begun to emerge in the Western historiography, which is very different from the Renaissance historiography, which we call it Modern History."

   Zhou Hexuan wrote the four characters "Modern History" on the blackboard, and the teachers and students in the audience immediately paid attention to it. Because of this kind of historical research, in the West, there is no theory to complete the norm, and it is still being explored gradually.

Zhou Hexuan pointed to Liang Qichao in the audience: "Mr. Liang Rengong, in his "Chinese History Research Law", said that human life is extremely short, human society is extremely long, and society often develops upward in a spiral shape. He believes that history and Society is a continuous development, emphasizing the totality, continuity and causality of history. I agree with this view. However, I don’t think it is enough!”

  The teachers and students under the stage looked at Liang Qichao, Liang Qichao shook his head and smiled bitterly, Zhou Hexuan was invited to lecture by him, but as soon as he came on stage, he was put up as a target.

   "I think historical research must include the following aspects." Zhou Hexuan wrote "History", "Politics", "Economy", "Nation", "Diplomacy", "Culture" and "Individual" on the blackboard.

He continued: "The history here is historical events in the traditional sense. Politics, economy, and culture are three very important factors in historical research, and they directly or indirectly promote historical events. History is not isolated, so diplomacy And the nation also has to be studied. As for individuals, it is the influence of historical figures, such as Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Many historical figures’ behaviors and activities are accidental, but their influence is very far-reaching.”

   The teachers and students in the audience showed a thoughtful look. Many of them have actually done research in this area, but they are not as general and comprehensive as Zhou Hexuan said.

   Zhou Hexuan added: "As for the analysis of individual historical events, I think we should start from these four aspects."

He also wrote "cause", "process", "result" and "influence" on the blackboard, and said, "Let's take the Sino-Japanese War of Jiawu as an example, what was its cause? This requires analyzing the history at that time. The environment, as well as the political, economic, cultural, ethnic, diplomatic, personal and other factors of China, Japan, and even Western countries. Why does war happen and why does it happen? Let’s talk about Japan first…”

   Zhou Hexuan first analyzed Japan's Meiji Restoration and the development dilemma that Japan was facing at that time, and came to the conclusion that if Japan wants to continue to develop, it must implement the policy of "conquering Korea and invaded China". However, China suffered from domestic and foreign aggression and gradually became a semi-colonial. North Korea was China's last fig leaf. The rulers at that time did not think much of Japan, so they naturally tried to maintain the dignity of the Qing Dynasty.

After talking about the cause of the war, Zhou Hexuan also talked about the process of the war, the comparison of 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 the Cixi Xiuyuan: "It is inevitable for China to lose the war. Yes. Before the war, China and Japan experienced an arms race for 20 years. China's naval strategy was mainly defensive, while Japan was an offensive navy. In 1889, the U.S. Navy report believed that the Chinese navy ranked first in Asia. Ranked ninth in the world, even ahead of the United States and Japan. Li Hongzhang is complacent about this, and believes that the Bohai Sea gateway is unshakable. In the following years, the Chinese navy stagnated, while Japan continued to accelerate the development of the navy. As a result, the number of warships in Japan surpassed China in the number of warships, and many performances of the warships also increased. More than China, the overall strength has actually surpassed the Chinese navy, ranking first in Asia."

"This is the military aspect, let's talk about diplomacy. China has nothing to say about diplomacy, and can only be the object of division between foreign powers. And Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany and France, all support Japan to start a war, and China is diplomatically isolated. ."

   "Why do these powers support Japan's aggression against China, it starts with their own political and economic development..."

   When Zhou Hexuan finished explaining the cause and process of the Sino-Japanese War, the teachers and students in the audience were stunned. This battle is too familiar to the Chinese, and there are countless related studies, but none of them are as thorough as Zhou Hexuan.

   "Clap clap clap!"

   Zhou Hexuan was about to continue to talk about the results and impact of the Sino-Japanese War, and the audience burst into warm applause. He waited for the applause to end before continuing: "Everyone knows the result of the war, and I won't repeat it. Now, as for its impact, although China lost the war, the Chinese people have completely awakened in ideology and culture, and many reformists gradually turn revolutionary..."