The mayor of Shanghai has been replaced, and Wu Tiecheng, a veteran of the Kuomintang, will serve as the mayor. Zhang Qun, the former mayor of Shanghai, was forced to resign because he could not cope with the rising student anti-Japanese movement, and was promoted to the post of chairman of Hubei Province.

Wu Tiecheng was more unlucky, as soon as he became the mayor, he encountered the Japanese invaders attacking Shanghai.

Due to the special reasons of the war, Wu Tiecheng was quickly entrusted with important tasks, concurrently serving as commander of the Songhu garrison in early January, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the end of January, and a chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee in March. Anyway, the situation in Shanghai was thrown into the hands of Wu Tiecheng, who secretly talked with the Japanese generals in his private capacity in the name of Chang Kaishen.

Only the devil knows what to talk about, anyway, it is nothing more than compromise and peace. The weak tone of the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" is likely to be set by Wu Tiecheng, and the decision-maker behind the scenes is naturally Chang Kaishen.

Wu Tiecheng belonged to a staunch revolutionary faction in his early years, and was arrested by Yuan Shikai with a reward of 20,000 oceans, and his governance ability was not bad, and he made remarkable achievements when he was the county magistrate. But that's limited to that, Wu Tiecheng completely became a politician at this time, he did whatever Chang Kaishen said, and even became Chang Kaishen's "chief of staff" during the Anti-Japanese War.

If you make a war strategy game, Wu Tiecheng's attribute should be "Faction Battle-5", and his greatest ability is to balance the relationship between various factions.

"Mr. Henderson, Mr. George Bernard Shaw, and Wu Tiecheng, the contemptible mayor of Shanghai, welcome the two and their wives to China for inspection!" Wu Tiecheng walked over enthusiastically and shook hands with the two in fluent English.

Arthur Henderson nodded, "Hello, Mr. Wu." ”

George Bernard Shaw joked: "Mr. Wu's English is much more fluent than my Chinese. ”

"Mr. George Bernard Shaw has such a good sense of humor." Wu Tiecheng said happily.

Wu Tiecheng shook hands with Arthur Henderson and George Bernard Shaw's wives respectively, and finally found Zhou Hexuan to shake hands: "Mr. Zhou, the journey has been tiring and hard. ”

"Mayor Lao Wu is concerned." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Wu Tiecheng looked at Vivien Li suspiciously, and asked in surprise, "Who is this young lady?" ”

Zhou Hexuan introduced: "Miss Vivien Leigh, a famous British theater actress. ”

Vivien Leigh took the initiative to stretch out her hand and said, "Hello, I'm Zhou's girlfriend, you can call me Vivien, or Mary." ”

Wu Tiecheng instantly figured out the situation and said with a smile: "Hello Miss Mary! ”

The Shanghai party and government dignitaries who accompanied him stepped forward one after another to shake hands and exchange. Lin Yutang and other cultural celebrities can only stand by and wait as a background board, and there is no opportunity to speak from beginning to end.

At this moment, a big man in the crowd shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, I want to go!" ”

The policeman in charge of maintaining order hurriedly raised his gun to stop him, and the big man said angrily: "I am Zhang Shizhao, who dares to kill me!" ”

The policemen looked at each other, and one of them whispered: "Let it go, Mr. Zhang is a guest of Boss Du (Du Yuesheng)." ”

When the other policemen heard this, they put down their guns and respectfully made a way out of the way. The ridiculously famous Zhang Shizhao actually had to use Du Yuesheng's prestige to scare the police in Shanghai away.

Zhang Shizhao walked straight up to George Bernard Shaw and said enthusiastically: "Mr. Bernard Shaw, I am Zhang Shizhao. ”

George Bernard Shaw was a little puzzled, and Zhou Hexuan hurriedly introduced: "Mr. Zhang is a very famous scholar in China and a very good lawyer. ”

"Oh," George Bernard Shaw nodded, shook hands with Zhang Shizhao and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhang." ”

Wu Tiecheng was a little unaccustomed to seeing Zhang Shizhao, and interrupted: "It's windy on the dock, let's go back to the hotel first, I have already set up a banquet for you to catch the wind." ”

Zhang Shizhao was very thick-skinned, and walked with George Bernard Shaw familiarly, and said: "Sir, you are very famous in China, and the students like to rehearse your play very much. ”

George Bernard Shaw laughed, "What's the use of being famous in China?" China is also not a party to international copyright agreements. ”

As soon as these words came out, all the Chinese present changed their faces and felt extremely insulted. Because George Bernard Shaw's joke sounds discriminatory to Chinese, and saying it in public is equivalent to slapping Chinese in the face in public.

Of course, there are also those who feel ashamed, Wu Tiecheng said embarrassedly: "Mr. George Bernard Shaw, the situation in China is somewhat special. But I believe that things will get better in the future, and it will be a matter of time before China joins the international copyright agreement. ”

"Perhaps." George Bernard Shaw raised an eyebrow.

Zhou Hexuan was extremely dissatisfied with George Bernard Shaw's attitude, they had a good chat in England, why did George Bernard Shaw unabashedly show disdain as soon as he arrived in China?

It is no wonder that in history, after Lu Xun and Fu Sinian met George Bernard Shaw, they hated this old British man so much, and they were probably despised by George Bernard Shaw.

Fu Sinian even wrote an article, scolding George Bernard Shaw as a liar who got into the eyes of money, saying that George Bernard Shaw was good at plagiarism in his later years, and he must be more expensive - even British college students play George Bernard Shaw at school, and this old guy has to charge copyright fees.

Lin Yutang and Lu Xun, who have been friends for many years, also completely fell out because of this, and they are almost strangers. The reason is that Lin Yutang frantically worships George Bernard Shaw, runs a magazine to tout it, and advocates humorism. And Lu Xun scoffed at this, not only hating George Bernard Shaw, but also hating George Bernard Shaw's hypocritical fake humor.

Everyone went to the hotel to have a reception banquet, and then they were arranged to stay, and Wu Tiecheng sent someone to take them around to visit and play.

In the following days, celebrities such as Mrs. Sun, Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Yang Xingfo, and Lin Yutang came to visit George Bernard Shaw. Zhang Junmao, Li Huang, Zeng Qi and others came to visit Arthur Henderson to discuss the construction of socialism.

Lu Xun was angry, because George Bernard Shaw clearly looked down on China, and said that "China has no culture at all, and it is only in the countryside." To put it bluntly, George Bernard Shaw looked down on the overall cultural and academic level of China, and was only interested in traditional Chinese opera, minor tunes, and folk songs.

Lu Xun later complained in the article, saying that George Bernard Shaw's visit to China was "originally for fun", and he only had the intention of traveling, and did not pay attention to China's resistance to Japan at all.

Zhou Hexuan saw very clearly that there were two main reasons why George Bernard Shaw despised China: first, China did not join the international copyright organization, and Shanghai bookstores were full of George Bernard Shaw's books, but George Bernard Shaw himself did not get a penny of royalties; Second, when George Bernard Shaw visited Shanghai, he very much disliked the noisy and chaotic situation in China, and thought that the overall quality of the Chinese was very low.

Zhou Hexuan felt so angry, he thought that he had invited an international pacifist who could campaign for China's anti-Japanese war appeal. As a result, an old man with extremely selfish intentions was invited, and he could not see the war of aggression in his eyes, but only stared at his own infringed manuscript fees.

What makes people speechless is that although George Bernard Shaw looks down on China a little and shows disdain in private, he is quite normal when he speaks in public. He was invited to give a lecture at Chuo University, in which he made an impassioned speech in which he denounced Japan's outrageous acts and claimed that he was firmly on the side of justice.

The speech was very successful, and the domestic media praised George Bernard Shaw as an extraordinary philosopher and a great savior of mankind, and China quickly set off a wave of "George Bernard Shaw fever".

What Zhou Hexuan saw was hypocrisy, this old man was too hypocritical, why didn't he find out when he was in the UK?