Zhang Xueliang will not be able to return to Beiping in two days, and he will take Zhou Hexuan to visit Zhang Zuolin at that time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

So Zhou Hexuan had to wait, in addition to traveling with Xu Zhimo and a group of poets, he also met other celebrities in Tsinghua by the way. For example, Jin Yuelin, who has just founded the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, and Feng Youlan, a superstar in the field of modern Chinese philosophy.

The rest of the time, Zhou Hexuan was working on "The Goddess".

As soon as the story appears, the heroine is imprisoned, and in a trance she talks to the ghost in the prison, and the ghost says that she was killed and killed, and also tells her tragic experience. Immediately after that, the timeline jumped sharply, and suddenly flashed back to the year of the Xinhai Revolution. A certain gentry gathered bandits to respond to the revolution, turned into a revolutionary party, and went into the city to declare an uprising. The heroine's father, who was originally a city official, was killed in this chaos, and she was displaced at a young age.

Then came the local drought, and the overseers of the new society led the people to pray for rain. The 10-year-old heroine was offered as a sacrifice to the dragon king, and she sank into the river along with vegetables, fruits, cattle and sheep amid the prayers and prayers of the people.

Half-asleep, she met the river god. The river god said that the foreigner warship was too powerful, and broke his rain spell, and took the heroine to swim in the river. When she wakes up, she finds herself rescued by a fisherman on the river and becomes the adopted daughter of the fisherman.

The timeline jumps again, and the fisherman's stupid son marries the heroine. The day after they got married, they encountered a scuffle between warlords, the fishing boat was sunk by a single shot, her adoptive father and husband were drowned, and her mother-in-law sold her to human traffickers.

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

Because although the heroine's experience in the book is tragic, every scene is very joyful, and even the description of the warlord fighting is humorous and funny. Whether it is a warlord, a bandit, a corrupt official, a common man, a fisherman, or a human trafficker, each living in their own world, they take it for granted that they will trap 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 is panicking, come with me to give a lecture." ”

During the Republican period, lectures were very popular, and universities were also keen to invite celebrities to give lectures, and the honorariums were expensive. Zhou Hexuan now lives in Tsinghua Park, and Tsinghua University naturally will not let him go, and has invited him to give a lecture a long time ago.

Zhou Hexuan followed Liang Qichao to the Department of History, and when he saw the crowd in the classroom, he was surprised: "There are so many students in the Department of History at Tsinghua University? ”

"Students from other departments also came to the lectures." Liang Qichao explained with a smile.

Chen Maode, founder and director of the Department of History at Tsinghua University, warmly shook hands with Zhou Hexuan and said, "Mr. Zhou, I have admired the name for a long time, and I have long wanted to see it. ”

"Director Chen is polite." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Chen Maode said: "The Department of History at Tsinghua University was founded and was not well prepared in many aspects, and I asked Mr. Zhou to give him some lectures and impart some theoretical methods for historical research. ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "If you don't dare to teach, you must do your best." ”

A month ago, Tsinghua University officially established various departments, including the history department, and even archaeology and other disciplines, which 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 students of the history department of Tsinghua University.

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

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

"Hello everyone," Zhou Hexuan bowed to the audience, and then said, "The contemptible Zhou Hexuan is only a shallow learner, he has never entered a serious school, and he doesn't even have a secondary school diploma." I was invited by Director Chen and Professor Liang to give lectures at Tsinghua University, and I was deeply frightened. Not to mention all the teachers here, even any of the students have a higher diploma than me. So what I'm talking about today, everyone applauds if they agree with it, and if they don't, they treat it as a fart. ”

"Hahaha!"

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

After greeting and politely greetings, Zhou Hexuan finally got to the point, he said: "In the Western historiography circles, since the Great War ten years ago, a new trend of historiography has begun to emerge, which is very different from Renaissance historiography, and we will call it modern historiography. ”

Zhou Hexuan wrote the four big words "modern historiography" on the blackboard, and the teachers and students in the audience immediately paid attention to it quietly. Because this kind of historical research has not yet formed a theory of complete standardization in the West, it is still being explored step by step.

Zhou Hexuan pointed to Liang Qichao in the audience: "Mr. Liang Rengong, in his "Chinese Historical Research Method", said that human life is extremely short, and the life of human society is extremely long, and society often develops upward in a spiral. He believes that history and society are continuous changes and developments, and emphasizes the totality, continuity, and causality of history. However, I don't think it's enough! ”

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

"I believe that historical research must include the following aspects." Zhou Hexuan wrote "history", "politics", "economy", "ethnicity", "diplomacy", "culture" and "individual" on the blackboard.

He continued: "The history here is a historical event in the traditional sense. Politics, economy, and culture are the three most important factors in historical research, which directly or indirectly promote historical events. History is not isolated, so diplomacy and ethnicity must also be studied. As for the individual, it is the influence of historical figures, such as Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Many of the actions of historical figures are accidental, but their impact is very far-reaching. ”

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

Zhou Hexuan also said: "As for the analysis of historical events alone, I think we should start from these four aspects. ”

He also wrote "causes", "processes", "results" and "effects" on the blackboard, and said: "Let's take the Sino-Japanese War as an example, what is its cause? This requires an analysis of the historical environment in which we lived at that time, as well as the political, economic, cultural, ethnic, diplomatic, and personal factors of China, Japan, and even Western countries. Why is the war fought, and why can it be fought? Let's talk about the Japanese side 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 wanted to continue its development, it must implement the policy of "conquering Korea and invading China." Korea was the last fig leaf for China, and 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 causes of the war, Zhou Hexuan talked about the process of the war, the diplomacy of the two countries, the systems of the two countries, the economies of the two countries, the military strength of the two countries, and so on, including the Cixi Seminary: "It is inevitable that China will lose the war. Before the war, China and Japan experienced a 20-year arms race, with China's naval strategy focusing on defense and Japan's offensive navy. In an 1889 U.S. Navy report, the Chinese Navy ranked first in Asia and ninth in the world, even ahead of the United States and Japan. Li Hongzhang was complacent about this, believing that the gateway to the Bohai Sea was unshakable, and that Japan deeply felt that its naval strength was insufficient, so it increased its naval military spending to the maximum and spent huge sums of money to build three warships with large calibers and fast sailing speeds. In the years that followed, China's navy stalled, while Japan continued to accelerate its naval development. By the time the war broke out, Japan had surpassed China in terms of the number of warships, and many of its warships had surpassed China's, and its overall strength had actually surpassed that of the Chinese Navy, ranking first in Asia. ”

"It's military, and then it's diplomatic. China has no diplomacy to speak of, and can only be the object of division by the great powers. As for Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany, and France all supported Japan in waging war, and China was diplomatically isolated. ”

"Why these powers supported Japan's invasion of China starts with their own political and economic development......

By the time Zhou Hexuan finished talking about the causes and process of the First Sino-Japanese War, the teachers and students in the audience were already dumbfounded. This battle is too familiar to Chinese, and there are countless related studies, but none of them are as thorough as Zhou Hexuan.

"Bang bang bang!"

Zhou Hexuan was about to continue to talk about the results and impact of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the audience erupted in warm applause. He waited for the applause to end before continuing: "The outcome of the war is known to everyone, and I will not repeat it." Now, although China lost the war, the Chinese people have completely awakened ideologically and culturally, and many reformists have gradually turned into revolutionaries......"