Prior to this, although Lin Zixuan targeted Zhang Shichuan and others, he did not kill him, but left room for death.

His main purpose was to regulate the Chinese film market and promote the formalization of Chinese films.

As long as Zhang Shichuan and others join the film association and act according to the rules, everyone is Chinese, and there is no need to make you die.

But Zhang Shichuan's defection to the Japanese touched Lin Zixuan's bottom line.

As a matter of fact, there are many merchants in China who have trade dealings with Japan, and this kind of matter cannot be solved by shouting two slogans of "boycotting Japanese products", and there are huge interests involved.

Take the textile industry that the Lin family is engaged in.

Japanese textile mills adopt advanced technology and advanced management experience, and the cloth produced is not only of good quality and variety, but more importantly, it improves production efficiency and reduces the price of cloth.

The quality is good, the price is low, the stores are willing to buy, and the Chinese people are also willing to buy.

This is a huge dilemma faced by China's textile industry.

In the past, the small workshop production method will be eliminated, and only upgrading and transformation can resist the impact of the Japanese textile industry.

As a leading enterprise in Shanghai's textile industry, the Lin family is also actively responding, reducing costs while improving technology, and fighting a price war with Japanese textile mills.

Lin Zixuan has personal experience of this.

The quality of domestic cloth is not good, and the cost is high, so it is no wonder that ordinary people want to buy imported foreign cloth.

So, he can't blame the people who buy Japanese goods.

Similar to later generations, many people shouted "boycott Japanese products", but in fact, all they used at home were Japanese products.

Since the Sino-Japanese War. China opened a number of treaty ports to Japan, and Japanese merchants entered China in a big way. Commodity trade has formed a fixed chain of interests.

This kind of thing Lin Zixuan can't manage if he wants to. He could only promise to weaken the influence of the Japanese as much as possible in the areas under his control.

Cinema is his domain.

China's film circle is not large, and he issued a ban on Zhang Shichuan's Huaying Company.

Lin Zixuan proposed "two whatevers", all Huaying's films cannot be shown in his theaters, and all Huaying's actors and employees Film Association's film companies will not accept them.

This is to force people in the Shanghai film circle to stand in line.

This time it's not just talking, it's real.

At the meeting of the Film Association, he gave a very serious death order, and those who have not left Huaying within three days will not want to work in Shanghai once Huaying falls.

Some people privately think that Lin Zixuan is too domineering and has gone beyond the scope of normal business competition.

The mall has always paid attention to harmony and wealth. If you don't really have a deep hatred for each other, it's rare to be so stubborn.

But Lin Zixuan insisted on his opinion, he wanted Zhang Shichuan to find no staff to shoot a movie even if he was rich.

If you think about it, you can know that Japan is willing to contribute funds to support Zhang Shichuan's filming, which must be used to promote and beautify Japan.

In this era, when Japan is involved, it is no longer as simple as personal grievances, but also about the country and the nation.

Under the threat of a ban order, some people quit Huaying. For these people, Lin Zixuan will not let them lose their jobs, and the star film company will accept them all and arrange jobs.

Zhang Shichuan could only lure him with a high salary to retain some greedy personnel.

Faced with this situation. Not to be outdone, the Japanese mobilized a group of practitioners in the Japanese film industry from China to come to Shanghai.

They are not at ease with Zhang Shichuan, only their own people can rest assured. Zhang Shichuan is just a front, and Japan needs a Chinese to confuse the Chinese audience.

This was Japan's first step into the Chinese film industry.

Lin Zixuan knew that he would have to fight with this Chinese film company in the future. The next stage is probably the scramble for theaters.

At this time, Pearl Race returned from the United States.

She pursued a master's degree in English at Cornell University in the United States. A year later, she earned her master's degree.

Her dissertation was "On the Influence of the West on Chinese Life and Civilization".

While in the United States, she also wrote a novel called "A Chinese Woman Says", which tells the love story of a couple of young men and women of different races.

The short story was published in Asia magazine.

Pearl Race brought it to Lin Zixuan, looking forward to getting a review.

Most of the essays she has written in the past have recorded her views on China, or autobiographical texts about her life, and this is the first time she has seriously written a novel.

According to her, her writing philosophy is to restore real life as much as possible.

"I don't like those writings that write about the Chinese as bizarre and absurd, and my greatest wish is to make this people appear in my books as real and correct as they were."

After reading this novel, Lin Zixuan discovered the difference between Chinese and Western writers' writing.

No matter how many years Pearl Sai has lived in China, her education is still Western-style, and Christianity is deeply rooted in her heart, so her articles have a Christian preaching meaning.

Moreover, in China she is only a bystander, with limited participation in the life of Chinese.

What she sees is not necessarily what the Chinese peasants actually think, but what the West sees as the Eastern world.

The cultural divide between China and the West is not so easy to bridge.

So here's the problem.

It is also a novel about rural China, why can Pearl Sai's novel be accepted by Americans, while the English translation of Lu Xun's novel has not sold in the United States?

In addition to the different nationalities of the two writers, the biggest difference is the different ways they write.

Pearl Race is written in a way that is more suitable for Westerners, and Chinese readers read it as if it were a translated novel.

In China, in the face of Chinese readers, she also writes about Chinese peasants, and her novels cannot be compared with Lu Xun in terms of profundity.

But in the United States, in the face of American readers, her novels are more accessible and popular than Lu Xun's novels.

Figuring out this problem, Lin Zixuan believes that Pearl Race does not need to change his way of writing, but should continue to insist on this way of writing to create novels.

You can't ask a Westerner to think and see things in an Eastern way.

At the same time, he did not plan to hand over the novel "1984" to Pearl Sai for translation, because this novel was too dangerous, so it was better to leave it to the compilation office under Vientiane Books.

After sending off Pearl Sai, Lin Zixuan received a warning not to leave the concession in the near future, and it was not safe for Shanghai Huajie.

The reason was that in order to cooperate with the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou, some people were secretly planning to organize an armed uprising in Shanghai Huajie to overthrow the rule of the warlord Sun Chuanfang in Shanghai, establish the Shanghai Special City, and realize the local autonomy of Shanghai.

Lin Zixuan once participated in the meeting of local autonomy in Shanghai, and the gentry of Shanghai have always paid attention to the struggle for peace.

I didn't expect such an extreme measure to be used this time. (To be continued.) )