Let's continue from the previous chapter, to evaluate historical figures, except for traitors and heinous people, the rest must be evaluated on both sides, and it is very naïve to be black and white.

Take the later book "Crossing the South and Returning to the North", which describes the internal migration of literati, for example, actually wrote Mr. Feng Youlan as a villain. Many of the quotations in the book are deliberately inverted and confused, and more than one place is falsely fabricated, so that uninformed readers will be disgusted with Feng Youlan, and those who know will wonder if the author has a personal vendetta against Feng Youlan.

To be honest, compared with Lao Wang's "The Rise of the Land Stalls of the Republic of China", "Crossing the South and Returning to the North" is more like a local stall literature.

The author of that book not only denied Feng Youlan's character, but even denied Feng Youlan's scholarship, but also quoted Hu Shi's diary to deny Feng Youlan's scholarship, and made up a paragraph of Hu Shi's evaluation of Feng Youlan.

In fact, Hu Shi is Feng Youlan's teacher, and the two just have different academic views. People have a good relationship, how can they speak ill of each other?

In 1919, Hu Shi published Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy (Volume I), which became the founder of modern academic research in China, which was truly remarkable in the context of the time. Hu Shi was also very proud of this, and prophesied: "In the future, no matter at home or abroad, people who study this discipline will not be able to escape the influence of this book." Whoever is unable to use this method and attitude, I can assert that it cannot stand. ”

However, only in 1931, Feng Youlan's History of Chinese Philosophy (Volume I) surpassed Hu Shih's book in an all-round way, and did not follow Hu Shih's method to do research. After more than half a century, until the time when Zhou Hexuan traveled, there was no monograph that was better than the "History of Chinese Philosophy" as a whole.

Can such academic achievements also be black?

Readers are fools.

In our book, there is no real villain, and even Kong Xiangxi can still find advantages.

said so much nonsense, in fact, he wanted to change the plot naturally - Kong Lingkan was half paralyzed, and this was the fate of the villain who offended Zhou Hexuan.

At the end of October, Prince Kong was playing with other people's wives and was caught and raped in bed by the cuckold victim.

With the funds provided by Zhou Hexuan, Hongmen has already bought off the local mafia. The mafia tricked Mr. Cuckold into the hub, making the unlucky guy owe a lot of gambling debts, and at the same time revealing that the Kong family was very rich, and instigating Mr. Cuckold to find an adulterer to get money to pay off the debt.

Mr. Cuckold is also big-hearted, and he asks for $1 million when he opens his mouth. Of course, Kong Lingkan was unwilling, and only promised to give 50,000, and the two sides scuffled as soon as they disagreed.

The Hongmen brothers who were secretly ambushing didn't make a move, and the three people in the room solved it on their own.

Here's what happened, the arrogant and domineering Prince Kong directly pulled out a gun and pointed it at the other party's head to threaten. Seeing this, the woman hurriedly persuaded and grabbed Kong Lingkan's arm to grab the gun.

At that time, it was a cheating tryst, Kong Lingkan's followers were not there, and the three of them were entangled in the bedroom.

Suddenly a gunshot rang out, and the woman suddenly bled from the abdomen, and the remaining two men couldn't tell who fired the shot. Kong Lingkan was a little frightened, but Mr. Cuckold was aroused to be ferocious, took the opportunity to snatch the gun over, and shot at Kong Lingkan indiscriminately, killing the bullets in the gun alive.

When Kong Lingkan was hit by the second shot, he was so frightened that he ran out frantically, and fell down when he was shot the fourth shot, and then was made up by the opponent for the fifth shot.

Mr. Cuckold looted Kong Lingkan's belongings, evaded the police and the mafia, and fled to Mexico overnight. Kong Lingkan and the woman were taken to the hospital by neighbors who heard the gunshots. The woman was shot and died, Kong Lingkan was actually killed, and he was rescued after being shot five times.

However, a bullet hit him in the spine, and the doctor did not dare to take it out, and he could only spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

Things went smoothly unexpectedly, Zhou Hexuan just paid for the woman to seduce Kong Lingkan, and then made a game to make Mr. Cuckold lose all his family property, and the rest was all made by the parties themselves.

In this regard, Zhou Hexuan is also a bastard, involving two innocent people and causing other people's families to be ruined.

Kong Xiangxi and his wife were grief-stricken when they received the news of their son, and Soong Ailing took a special plane directly in Hong Kong and flew to Hawaii to take a ship to the United States to deal with the matter. After the police investigation and Kong Lingkan's narration, this is a tragic case caused by an emotional dispute, which has nothing to do with Zhou Hexuan.

As for Zhou Hexuan, he is still immersed in writing books in New York.

On October 25, Wuhan fell, and the four-month Battle of Wuhan came to an end. The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, which Zhou Hexuan funded and built, was also blown up by Chang Kaishen's order on the day of the retreat.

At the end of the month, Chang Kaishen issued a statement on persisting in the War of Resistance to the End, which was not only to strengthen the confidence of the Chinese people, but also to strengthen Roosevelt's confidence.

Roosevelt promised to reopen the loan negotiations, but before that, he named Zhou Hexuan, the special envoy for the negotiations.

November 10th.

Zhou Hexuan met Roosevelt at the White House and attended the president's family dinner.

Roosevelt was much fatter than the last time they met, he shook hands with Zhou Hexuan in a wheelchair, and said with a smile: "Long time no see, Mr. Far Eastern Wizard, the prophecy you made back then is coming true step by step." For example, Japan's full-scale invasion of China, and Germany's annexation of Austria. ”

"I'm sorry about that, but I hope it didn't happen." Zhou Hexuan spread his hands and said.

"But you're imagining me too badly." Roosevelt pulled out a few printed papers.

Zhou Hexuan took it and took a look, but it was his article published in "Non-Offensive" more than half a year ago, which had been translated into English. The article says that in the early days of the Sino-Japanese War, the United States certainly helped Japan provide strategic resources for the sake of interests, and after instigating Japan to provoke a war, it would come to China's aid, and the United States would eat the east and the west, all of which were under the control of President Roosevelt.

Zhou Hexuan smiled faintly: "Isn't that so?" ”

"You're too conspiracy to think about it," Roosevelt said, taking out a cigar box and handing one to Zhou Hexuan, "In fact, I'm now so caught up in the Sino-Japanese War, and different interest groups are about to split me in half." ”

Zhou Hexuan lit his cigar and said: "But you definitely want to find a suitable time to suppress the isolated public opinion of the United States and join the war with the most glorious image." ”

Roosevelt smiled: "The premise is that Europe wants to fight, and the situation in Europe must be at a stalemate, otherwise the United States will not be able to intervene." It's not hard to excuse it, it's just a rehash of the last war. ”

"But it's more complicated." Zhou Hexuan added.

"Indeed," Roosevelt said, puffing on his cigar and puffing out his cigarette, "and tell me about China, can you really hold off the Japanese attack?" With all due respect, the situation in China is very bad, and if it continues like this, the capital will have to be moved again at the end of next year at most. ”

Zhou Hexuan did not answer directly, but took out a scroll: "Your Excellency, this is my gift to you." ”

Roosevelt slowly unfolded the scroll, which was an oil painting. The overall style of painting tends to be dark and bloody, but the sun overhead is extremely bright, as if it indicates a bright future. Eight Chinese women stand by the river, with the raging waves behind them and the hideous Japanese invaders in front of them. The women smashed off their rifles, their mouths open and chanting something.

"The painting seems to have a story, can you explain that?" Roosevelt was interested.

Zhou Hexuan recounted: "This painting is called "Eight Women Cast into the River", and it is based on real deeds. Just a month ago, a Chinese guerrilla unit was chased by the Japanese army to the river, and there was no way out in front of it, and there was an enemy behind it. Fortunately, the enemy did not find them for the time being, and the eight female fighters of the women's regiment did not panic, went around the grass on the flank, and opened fire to attract the enemy's attention and cover the breakthrough of the large army. Their plan succeeded, but they were stuck on the riverside. After the bullets were fired, they threw their last grenade, shouted 'Down with Japanese imperialism', destroyed their guns, and turned and threw themselves into the raging river. The oldest of them is 23 years old, and the youngest is only 13 years old. ”

The smile on Roosevelt's face gradually faded, and he looked down at the oil painting carefully before he said: "I have believed in the determination of the Chinese people to resist aggression, and you deserve respect." ”

Zhou Hexuan actually hid important information, these eight female fighters were all affiliated with the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation was related to the Soviet Union, which would make Roosevelt unhappy. But after pinching the head and removing the tail, it was enough to shock Roosevelt.

In fact, the artistic level of the painting is not high. Because of the tight time, Zhou Hexuan temporarily found a student to study in the United States to paint, and it only took five days to complete the creation, and many details were painted roughly.

But the painting remained in Roosevelt's private collection until more than 70 years later when it was donated to the Anti-Japanese War Museum in China.