Kong Xiangxi is still very fruitful in the UK, and the British Treasury Department and the Bank of England are interested in reaching further cooperation with China. The cooperation between the two sides is twofold, one is that Britain borrows money from China to build railways, and the other is that China issues bonds in the UK.

After about a month in London, Kong Xiangxi determined the general framework of cooperation, and the rest was only the specific details. There was no need for Kong Xiangxi to ask about these in person, he left a few negotiators from the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Commerce, and then took his wife and children to the United States - and had to find Roosevelt to fight the autumn wind.

While Kong Xiangxi was working hard, Zhou Hexuan was not idle. While telling Pound about the Book of Changes, he was invited to participate in various lectures and lectures, repeatedly reminding the British that Japan was undermining world peace and British interests in Asia.

As for how much effect it can receive, Zhou Hexuan is unknown. Anyway, after his speeches and propaganda, many ordinary British people know that there is a country called Japan in the Far East, which only cares about foreign aggression and expansion all day long.

At this time, the whole of Europe was in a period of proliferation of pacifist ideas. Japan, which is keen on destroying peace, has given the British people an extremely bad impression, at least British public opinion is on China's side.

This is important because British politicians need votes, and they will listen to public opinion to a greater or lesser extent.

In early June, Zhou Hexuan left London with his wife and daughter and took a ship to Italy.

Mr. Pound, who practiced the Book of Changes, actually had the idea of settling in China, and he planned to move with his wife when he returned to Italy this time. As for the two mistresses, let's get together and disperse, give some money as alimony, and don't have to worry about the rest.

For Pound, moving was normal.

He was an American who admired Fennolosa's literary ideas, so he moved to England and became a student of Yeats. After more than ten years in England, he longed for French literature and art, so he moved to France to settle down. After living in Paris for three years, he did not like the materialism of the area and instead admired Mussolini's fascist ideas, so he moved to Italy and settled in the present day.

Now, Pound is fascinated by the Book of Changes and Chinese culture, so he simply took his wife to live in China for a few years.

By the time Wanrong arrived from Germany to rendezvous, everyone finally set off and arrived in Shanghai in early July.

A lot of major events have happened this month, and the biggest one is the Lushan negotiations between the KMT and the CCP.

Zhou Gong personally took the Kuomintang and Communist Party cooperation anti-Japanese program and went to Lushan to hold talks with Chang Kaishen. Chang Kaishen opened his mouth and proposed: first, the establishment of the National Revolutionary League, composed of cadres elected by both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, with Lao Chiang as the chairman, and has the final decision; Second, the Red Army should be comprehensively reorganized, with the Communist Party as the division commander and the Kuomintang as the deputy post, and Zhu Mao and Zhu Mao must go abroad to stay abroad; Third, the government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region is appointed by the Nanjing government as a full-time official.

The Communist Party's response was to carry out democratic elections in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, and to recommend Zhang Ji, Song Ziwen, and Yu Youren to serve as the chief executive of the border region, and at the same time not to abandon the basic principle of democratic election in the National Assembly. The Red Army could be reorganized, and it was hoped that Lao Chiang would set up a general military headquarters. After the reorganization of the Red Army, Mr. Zhu must be the commander, *** expressed his willingness to go abroad, but he must wait for the right time before leaving.

In order to facilitate negotiations, radio stations were opened in Nanjing and Yan'an.

The two sides come and go, and Lao Chiang will not let go, and the Communist Party can only retreat step by step, that is, the Communist Party commands the Red Army in the name of the political training organ, and Mr. Zhu can not be a military commander, but he must serve as the director of the political training department of the Red Army. This is the ultimate 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 were unsuccessful, and they were settled.

Far away in North China, the Japanese army conducted many exercises at Lugou Bridge and Wanping Hetao, and the front of the troops was directed at Beiping. The Kwantung Army Headquarters, the North Korean Governor's Office, the Chinese Garrison Army Headquarters, and the President of the Manchurian Railway held a meeting in Dalian, and the situation of aggression against China became increasingly serious.

Such a drastic action of the Japanese army made Song Zheyuan and Han Fuyu suddenly nervous, but they each had a fluke mentality, thinking that the Japanese army would not act easily, and at most it was intimidation by force as before.

Shanghai, Wharf.

There is a group of cultural people who are waiting 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 with Lu Xiaoman exists in name only, but they still live together. But it's better than before, and he occasionally goes home to visit his father, his ex-wife and son.

I don't know what I am afraid of, Xu Zhimo is reluctant to remarry Zhang Youyi, even though the two get along very well now.

Let's talk about Shao Xunmei and Xiang Meili, they are standing on the dock, more eye-catching than Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman. A wealthy prodigal poet, a glamorous Yanma, but also an extramarital affair, this combination is quite rare in the 21st century.

Shao Xunmei's fame in Shanghai is not much lost to Xu Zhimo, and even Lu Xun wrote an article before his death: "Shao Gongzi has a rich family and a broad wife, and uses the dowry money to make literary capital." ”

Shao Xunmei's wife Sheng Peiyu is Sheng Xuanhuai's own granddaughter, and he himself is Sheng Xuanhuai's own grandson. Cousins and brothers get married, kiss and kiss, Lu Xun's words of "there is a rich Yue family's wife" come from this.

(Hey, why is it Sheng Xuanhuai's descendant again...... ）

In fact, Mr. Lu Xun did not do it this time, because Shao Xunmei himself is the third generation of officials. His grandfather was an official to Yipin, successively served as the governor of Hunan and Taiwan, and his father also served as the supervisor of the steamship China Merchants Bureau, and the family was so rich that he didn't need to spend his wife's dowry money.

This product is especially easy to gamble, and it always wins and loses a huge amount of money. But he also looked down on gamblers in the market, liked "elegant gambling", the worse he lost, the better the poems he wrote, and was known as the "poet of the gambling country".

Shao Xunmei can be described with four sons, namely: a beautiful man, a prodigal son, a rich man, and a talented man.

Hooligans are not scary, they are afraid that hooligans are educated.

The prodigal son is not terrible, but he is afraid that the prodigal son is handsome, rich and talented.

For people like Shao Xunmei, everything is at your fingertips, which is really boring. The entire Shanghai cultural and artistic circle, except for the left-wing literati, were all his friends. Even the former mayor of Nanjing was his friend, and he specially invited him to be the secretary of the mayor of the capital, but Shao Gongzi did it for three months and then quit, he felt that being an official was really boring.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Chen Mengjia pointed ahead and said.

Xu Zhimo immediately said happily: "Let's go and greet it." Be sure to surround Mingcheng to prevent Xiao Xiao's assassination, and don't let him be harmed by Japanese spies. ”

Sun Dayu laughed loudly and said: "Haha, today we all put pen to paper from Rong as guards!" ”

Zhou Hexuan's assassination case a few months ago was really big. There was almost no distinction between the left and the right, and the entire Chinese literary circle at that time was spontaneously criticizing the shameless acts of the Japanese.

And Zhou Hexuan himself is also regarded as an idol in the literary world, with a heroic aura of "although tens of millions of people have gone to me". Now I don't know how many hot-blooded young people are willing to stand up desperately and sacrifice their lives to block the gun for Mr. Zhou.

At the time of Zhou Hexuan's assassination, Xu Zhimo was lecturing in Beiping, and often regretted that he was not in Nanjing at that time. Now it happened that the school was on summer vacation, Xu Zhimo gathered a group of friends, and Baba came to the dock to pick up Zhou Hexuan's boat.

"Mingcheng!" Xu Zhimo waved excitedly.

Zhou Hexuan clenched his fists and smiled: "Brother Shima, Brother Slow, Brother Mingchuan, Cousin Yu...... Long time no see! ”

Xu Zhimo said happily: "Mingcheng, let me introduce you." This is the poet Mr. Shao Xunmei, and this is the American writer Miss Xiang Meimei. ”

"Gambling poets, I have admired my name for a long time," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "Hello Miss Xiang!" ”

"Hello Mr. Zhou!"

Shao Xunmei and Xiang Meili stepped forward to shake hands together.

Vivien Li and Wanrong followed behind, and everyone hurriedly greeted, and finally stopped their eyes on the Pounds.

Zhou Hexuan introduced: "This is Mr. Ezra Pound, and his wife......"

"Pound!"

"Elliot's best friend Pound?"

Before Zhou Hexuan finished speaking, this group of literati had already exclaimed.

Eliot has become too famous in the Chinese poetry scene in recent years, take Xu Zhimo as an example, he used to admire Tagore the most, and now he admires Elliot very much. And Eliot's greatest poem is clearly written as a gift to his close friend Pound, and even Pound is very famous in China.

Even if there is no Eliot, Xu Zhimo knows Pound.

When Xu Zhimo was studying in the UK, Pound belonged to a dazzling figure in the British poetry scene, and he often hated not being able to see him in person.

While studying the I Ching, Pound was also practicing Chinese, and at the moment he greeted him with a smile in Chinese and said, "Hello everyone, I am Pound, and I am very happy to meet my friends in China." ”

I have seen a lot of foreign literary bigwigs, but there are no people who can speak Chinese. Pound's current performance has made Chinese poets overjoyed, and they have gathered around to communicate.

Pound felt very happy that he was the one who practiced Chinese speaking......

Everyone laughed for a while, took a car to Xu Zhimo's house, and encountered a crazy demonstrator crowd on the way.

Pound was a little curious and asked, "Zhou, why are they marching?" ”

Zhou Hexuan looked at the various signs in the crowd and replied: "Last year, seven very famous patriots were arrested and imprisoned by the Chinese government, and the march in front of us was to demand the release of the authorities." ”

"I see." Pound nodded.

The "Seven Gentlemen Incident" has been going on for more than a year, and there have been more and more demonstrations across the country, and there have been more and more demonstrations recently.

Because just half a month ago, the Kuomintang authorities openly tried the case of the Seven Gentlemen, and the charges were full of loopholes. One of the most outrageous charges is that the Seven Gentlemen conspired to contact Zhang Xueliang to launch the Xi'an Incident.

This is really a hell of a life, when the Xi'an Incident happened, the Seven Gentlemen had been arrested for half a year, how could they have such a great ability to contact Zhang Xueliang in prison?

The trial was supposed to be held in secret, but there were too many protesters to stop it, and the court had to agree to let the families of the Seven Gentlemen and reporters attend. A number of newspapers reported in detail about the trial, and as soon as the news was released, the whole country was in an uproar, so there was the current big march.

When he arrived at Xu Zhimo's house, Lu Xiaoman beckoned the servants to entertain the guests.

Xu Zhimo said excitedly: "Today, Ming Cheng has returned to China, and Mr. Pound is coming, why don't we hold a grand poetry salon!" ”

Zhou Hexuan suddenly smiled and said: "In my name, I will gather all the poets in Shanghai, regardless of whether they are left or right, and we will discuss poetry creation together." ”

Xu Zhimo was stunned, and then nodded: "Okay!" ”

The 77 Incident was about to break out, and Zhou Hexuan decided to do something, lest poets like Xu Zhimo and Shao Xunmei not know what to do.

What should I do?

Of course, it is to write patriotic poems, anti-Japanese poems, and salvation poems!