Although George Bernard Shaw was convinced by Zhou Hexuan, he still had infinite scenery, and even scholars in the cultural circles came down from Beiping and Tianjin to visit.

Arthur Henderson is relatively low-key, hanging out with Zhang Junmai all day long. The "national socialism" that Zhang Junmai believes in is actually a kind of "gradual socialism", and the political theories of the two are similar, so they get along very well.

Two years ago, Zhang Junmai launched the "Regeneration Society" (the predecessor of the Kuomintang Socialist Party) in Beiping, which means "rebuilding China". He is currently preparing to establish the "National Socialist Party of China" and follows the line of the British Labour Party, so he carefully asks his seniors for experience every day.

Arthur Henderson said with emotion: "The gradual socialist line is very difficult to follow, and even in Britain, where the political system is relatively perfect, it took 20 years to become the ruling party. This kind of political philosophy seriously affects the interests of the capitalists and will inevitably be counterattacked by the bourgeoisie, so now the British Labour Party has also become an opposition party. According to my research these days, the political environment in China is very bad, and the progressive socialist line is more difficult to succeed than in the UK. ”

"How did your party come to power?" Zhang Junmai asked.

Arthur Henderson said: "In the early days, he continued to promote the political ideas of the Labour Party, won the support of the middle and lower classes, and gradually expanded his influence. The Labour Party came to power thanks to the Great War in Europe (World War I), a national war in extraordinary times, and Britain often formed coalition cabinets. We, the Labour Party, supported the government's declaration of war on Germany, thus joining the Liberal coalition cabinet and gradually expanding our power. ”

Zhang Junmai immediately woke up: "I understand that if you want to govern, you must first integrate into the government. ”

"Yes," said Arthur Henderson, "a party without government support will always be an opposition party, and will never have the opportunity to put its ideas to work." ”

Zhang Junmai already had a plan in his heart that there would be a war between China and Japan, and his Kuomintang Socialist Party must take advantage of the future war to win the opportunity to participate in and discuss politics by supporting Chang Kaishen. Historically, he did the same, but unfortunately Chang Kaishen's perverse behavior made him completely dead.

Zhang Junmai has a grudge against Lao Jiang, and he now has a lame leg, which is due to Chang Kaishen. But in order to strengthen the National Socialist Party and realize his political ideas, he must choose to support Chang Kaishen in the future.

Zhang Junmai had a good exchange with Arthur Henderson, while Li Huang and others of the Al-Shabaab avoided him. Because Arthur Henderson did not like al-Shabaab's "nationalism", thought it was too radical, and there was no clear idea of governing the country.

While Arthur Henderson stayed in Nanjing, George Bernard Shaw was invited by Mrs. Sun to Shanghai to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities. Each of George Bernard Shaw's speeches attracted countless students to listen, and leftists hailed George Bernard Shaw as a "saint of international pacifism."

However, George Bernard Shaw, the "saint", soon got tired of staying in China and turned to travel to Japan by boat. He claimed to be doing an international investigation, but after living in Japan for a while, he praised the Japanese for their orderliness and execution.

Zhou Hexuan was extremely disappointed in Chang Kaishen, so he simply didn't care about anything, and wrote "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" while accompanying Vivien Leigh to send it to the UK.

At the end of October, this is the last day of Zhou Hexuan's stay in the south, and in a few days he will take Vivien Li to Tianjin.

Nanjing, Confucius Temple.

This area retains many traditional buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and between these buildings is a beautiful three-story reinforced concrete building, the Capital Theater.

The Capital Theater was completed early last year, with more than 1,400 seats upstairs and downstairs, and its scale is one of the best in the country.

Because a Hollywood movie was released today, Zhou Hexuan took Vivien Leigh to see the movie. When the two came to the theater, they could see two promotional posters standing on the street, one was the Hollywood film "Red Dust" and the other was the domestic film "The Goddess".

"Red Dust" belongs to the second work of Hollywood film emperor Clark Gable, which was only released in the United States a few months ago, and now it can be seen in Nanjing, which shows Hollywood's strong overseas distribution ability.

In fact, as early as the 20s, eight major film companies in the United States, including MGM, Paramount, and Fox, set up offices in Shanghai successively.

Since China did not have its own tariffs at that time, American films released in China only had to pay extremely low import tariffs once. However, due to the centigold system, domestic films have to be taxed during transportation and when they are screened in various places, resulting in the cost of domestic distribution in China is actually higher than that of American films.

Since the Nanjing Nationalist Government took back the tariff autonomy and abolished the centigold system, domestic films have prospered rapidly, which could not have been achieved during the Beiyang rule.

Zhou Hexuan took Vivien Leigh's hand and walked into the ticket room of the Capital Theater, and found that there were quite a lot of moviegoers, and they had to queue up slowly.

In the ticket room, there is a kind of magazine-like print, which is the theater magazine, which contains new film trailers, movie descriptions, movie reviews, and other content.

In recent years, there have been professional film critics, and Zhou Hexuan was quite surprised by this. The trailer of the new film in the theater magazine is also written in detail, for example, on a certain day in a certain month, there will be a certain movie released, and the ticket price is very clear. The description of the movie is also very interesting, the cast and crew, the synopsis of the story, and the behind-the-scenes story are all clearly told, which greatly facilitates people to watch the movie.

For example, in the movie description of "The Goddess", it focuses on the screenwriter Mr. Zhou Hexuan, as well as the details of the original version, and counts the difficulty of filming this movie.

The filming process of "The Goddess" has indeed gone through ups and downs, and it has been almost two years since the preparation for filming. Because it is the latest sound film technology, it took one month to train the sound engineer and two months for the director to master the corresponding technology.

Halfway through the shooting, the "918" and "128" incidents broke out one after another.

One of the investors, Luo Mingyou, who has six theaters in Northeast China, was busy replacing the audio playback equipment. As soon as the Japanese invaded, all the investments in these theaters were lost, and the funds were suddenly stretched. The house leak happened to rain overnight, and soon the battle of Songhu began, and the filming of "The Goddess" was completely shelved.

Not only did the crew of "The Goddess" stop working, but the entire Lianhua Pictures company fled Shanghai, and all the managers and employees took refuge in Hong Kong. It was not until the signing of the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" that Ruan Lingyu and others returned to Shanghai to continue filming, during which it was delayed for half a year, and it took nearly two years to finally shoot "The Goddess".

Zhou Hexuan looked at the movie manual of "The Goddess" and couldn't help but smile wryly: I'm afraid it will be difficult for this movie to recover its cost.