Lin Zixuan spent most of his time in London attending various literary gatherings and interacting with London's cultural elite.

These people hope to understand the real oriental culture through Lin Zixuan, not hearsay.

Lin Zixuan tried his best to be as objective as possible about China's culture and current situation, correcting Westerners' misconceptions about Easterners, and listening to other topics and occasionally expressing his opinions.

No one knows everything, so it's better not to make a rash argument in a field that you are not familiar with.

From his previous correspondence, he knew that these people were bolder, especially the members of the Bloomsbury group, who often challenged the existing social order and state apparatus.

On February 10, 1910, Virginia Woolf, posing as Prince Mendax of Abyssinia, and her brother Adrian posing as her translator, traveled to Weemers to visit the British Navy's battleship Dreadnought, where she was warmly received.

The whole hoax was designed seamlessly, completely keeping the fleet commander in the dark.

Through such bold moves and outrageous statements, they attack the government and express their thoughts.

It's just that Woolf is a psychopath, and when she is not having a seizure, she is a quick-witted, bold and independent woman, and once she has a psychotic episode, she will have suicidal thoughts.

Perhaps it was because of her illness that she wrote many famous stream-of-consciousness novels.

Around 1925 was a glorious period for her work.

In May, she published her novel Mrs. Dalloway, which was widely praised by British literary critics and was later named one of the 100 best English-language novels of 1923-2005 by Time magazine.

What Lin Zixuan saw was a woman with a funny speech and a cheerful personality.

Her thinking is very jumpy. Say whatever comes to mind, and sometimes you can't keep up with the rhythm of her conversation.

It's always slow to talk to Orientals. The habit of leaving three points on the lips is completely different, and the Chinese pay attention to saying too much and will lose. So when you speak, you often have to think about it in your heart.

Woolf felt that Lin Zixuan was too reticent, which did not fit well with the image in the letter that gave many wonderful insights.

But she didn't doubt Lin Zixuan's writing talent, after all, there were works as proof, she only thought it was the implicit of the Oriental.

Lin Zixuan came to the UK for two purposes, one is to brush up on his presence in the English literary circle, and the second is to make his own voice, or the voice from China.

When he introduced China to these British cultural elites, he would always mention the May Day massacre that had just taken place in China.

This event has had a huge impact on the world.

He used his own personal experience to tell the truth, and on May 30, he was at the scene of the incident.

In the negotiations between the Beiyang government and the legations of various countries. Foreign legations have always defended that the patrol was shooting in self-defense, and the Chinese people were rioters and attacked the patrol.

This matter has not yet come to fruition.

In the UK, the British government took an extremely tough stance, and British Foreign Secretary Neville Chamberlain made an important statement in the House of Commons on the situation in China.

"Like other interested nations, we will protect the lives and property of our British subjects in China, and we will hold the Chinese Government accountable for all wanton harm and loss to British subjects or property." There is no doubt that there can be no weakness and no hesitation. ”

The Japanese ambassador said, "We must support the Shanghai Consular Corps and the Ministry of Industry." We must also refrain from any action that might give the Chinese the impression that they can use violence to force countries to make concessions."

The intransigence of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan has led to no progress in the investigation and negotiation of the May Day massacre, and the two sides are merely passing the buck to each other.

Among them, Britain and Japan have the firmest stance, while the United States has two sides and coordinates in the middle.

The tone of U.S. policy was one that did not intend to take advantage of the unrest that was unfavorable to Britain and Japan.

Basically, it chose to maintain the unity within the Great Powers. In particular, he agreed that the three major powers of the United States, Britain, and Japan, which have important interests in China, should shoulder their diplomatic responsibilities and give clear leadership to the legation in handling relations with China.

"We can work generously with the British and the Japanese, but. Don't mingle with them in a foolish way, so that we share the hatred of the Chinese for them. ”

Britain's cultural elite is likewise divided into different factions. Some factions lean toward the government, while others tend to be sympathetic to China.

Even within the Bloomsbury group, there were divisions. However, they believe that individuals have freedom of speech.

What Lin Zixuan needs is an opportunity to make his voice heard, he came to the UK as a private person, and he never thought of protesting in the British government departments, or giving speeches in the British Senate and the two houses, which is unrealistic.

All he had to do was make his voice out in public.

The members of the Bloomsbury group were known as the Cambridge faction, so Lin Zixuan was given the opportunity to speak at Cambridge University.

On the afternoon of September 21, 1925, at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Lin Zixuan began his lecture.

In addition to Cambridge students, there were also a small number of students from China, and even curious professors from Cambridge University.

The title of his speech was "Unforgettable Remembrance", and for this speech, he made full preparations and practiced English pronunciation, which was to be able to express his meaning clearly.

Lin Zixuan recounted to the audience about the atrocities that took place in Shanghai four months ago.

"I was at the scene, surrounded by my students, who may have been agitated and indignant, but they were not thugs, but unarmed civilians, and I heard a steady stream of gunfire, and the crowd panicked and fled, but the gunfire continued."

"In the aftermath of the tragedy, the students and civilians who were shot dead were slandered as thugs by the Public Concession authorities to justify their brutal crimes, which is reversing black and white and confusing right and wrong."

"Powerful can do whatever they want, they can control public opinion, they can kill people wantonly, what a dark world this is."

"But the weak also have the right to resist, and in order to protest against the atrocities of the concession authorities, Shanghai launched a city-wide general strike, a workers' strike, a businessmen's strike, a student strike, and the whole city is like a dead city."

"Mass protests ensued across China, a roar of the nation."

"China has been silent for too long, suppressed for too long, and needs an explosion to awaken the revival of the whole country."

"When a declining nation understands that if it does not resist, it will be oppressed, when it knows how to explode in silence, then the revival of the country is not far away."

"We are not afraid of sacrifice, real warriors, dare to face the bleak life, dare to face the dripping blood, their sacrifice will be remembered and become a bright red mark on the road to the rejuvenation of this country."

"The rejuvenation of the nation and the rejuvenation of the country, although there is a long way to go, we will move forward more vigorously." (To be continued.) )