Chapter 244: Do You Want to Change the World?
Lin Zixuan returned home, sat in the study, and fell into deep thought.
Sun Zhongshan said something to him today, and he was deeply moved, and Sun Zhongshan did not say any profound truth, that is, he was determined to change the country.
Everyone can shout slogans, but there are not many people who really stick to it.
In China of this era, warlords and politicians were rampant, and various ideas and isms were rampant.
Some people are fighting for power and profit, and some people really want to save the country and make China stronger.
Lin Zixuan knew that Sun Zhongshan came from Guangzhou with an illness and needed to rest more, but after coming to Shanghai, he continued to meet with people from all walks of life to win widespread support.
This is the main reason why Sun Zhongshan met him.
Lin Zixuan promised to support Sun Zhongshan's proposal to convene a national assembly, but he was reluctant to go to Beiping, because he knew that it was a mess and it would not be easy to change.
In this era of change, the individual is a very small existence.
This is the truest feeling he has had since crossed over.
In the online texts of later generations, there are always time-travelers who come to this era, relying on the knowledge of later generations, full of pride and ambition, to change the heavens and the earth, slaughter the sun and destroy the beauty, and create a new world.
Lin Zixuan just wants to say that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
If he hadn't crossed over to the Lin family, lived in the concession, and lived a privileged life, he might have died in a corner of the Republic of China.
In troubled times, life is as cheap as grass.
Look at the refugees in the battle of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, look at the corpses floating on the Huangpu River, and look at the ruins of villages and towns. War is not a game in a computer, but it really kills people.
Those fictional stories of the Anti-Japanese War in the online text. It's just a story.
It's cool to watch, but it's not real.
As a traverser. An ordinary person in later generations, Lin Zixuan did not have the courage to join the army to fight on the front line, this is his true thought, and there is nothing to hide.
But it is precisely because he is a time-traveler that he has the ability to change the world.
The question is, do you want to change the world?
This is where he hesitates, mainly because he doesn't know if the world is going to get better or worse.
It's like the butterfly effect, you can't control the direction of the world after it changes. It's a gamble, a big adventure.
Lin Zixuan experienced this war, chatted with Sun Zhongshan once, thinking about the Japanese invasion in the future, the eight-year war of resistance, he felt that he might need to do something for the future of this country.
As for the outcome, he could not grasp.
He took out the key and opened a drawer under the bookcase, took out the bibliography with the title on it, and looked at one of the titles that he had crossed out repeatedly. His tangle can be seen in this.
He had been struggling with whether or not to write this novel.
It is a science fiction novel called "The Man in the High Castle", written by an American author in 1962 and won a Hugo Award in 1963.
The story of this novel is not that complicated. Its focus is on the setting of the story, which is a historical fiction.
The point of discrepancy between the world and the real history in "The Man in the High Castle" is the assassination of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in 1933.
Roosevelt was indeed assassinated in real history, February 15, 1933. He gave a speech in Miami, and the murderer, Zangara, fired five shots in a row. But none hit Roosevelt.
In the book, Roosevelt is assassinated. He was succeeded by Vice President Ghana, who was replaced by Blake.
Neither was able to recover the United States from the Great Depression and remained isolationist about the coming war.
As a result of the economic downturn and isolationism in the United States, Britain and the rest of Europe fell into the hands of the Axis powers.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the occupation of the Nazis in 1941, most of the Slavs were exterminated, and the Slavs who survived the war were confined to a closed area similar to a reservation.
Japan stormed Pearl Harbor and completely destroyed the American Pacific Fleet.
As a result of Japan's military expansion, the Japanese captured Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific in the early 1940s, after which the United States fell to the Axis powers and many important cities were severely damaged.
By 1947, the Allies surrendered to the Axis powers.
The east coast of the United States was controlled by Germany, California and the rest of the western states were administered by Japan, and the whole of the United States was divided between Japan and Germany and became a colony of both countries.
The two superpowers, Japan and Germany, cooperate and intrigue with each other, and the story takes place in the colonial United States in 1962.
Lin Zixuan watched the American drama "The Strange Man of Gaobao" in later life, and then found the Chinese version to watch, the story can only be regarded as general, relatively cumbersome, perhaps because of translation.
But the setting is refreshing, but that's not the most interesting part.
What is even more interesting is that in the context of this era, the banned book "The Plague of Locusts", which is popular underground in both countries, writes the story of another parallel world.
In this world, the Allies defeated the Axis powers to win World War II, and the United States became the biggest winner.
The Soviet Union was broken up after the war, Britain became a centralized state, and Churchill was in power until his nineties......
The Plague of Locusts is so popular with people from different backgrounds and perspectives that the Jewish woman Juliana and her Italian lover Giosinadra take the risk of visiting Abbendson, the author of The Plague of Locusts and living in the "High Castle".
This "book within a book" approach is very ingenious, narrating two very different histories.
One is reality and the other is fiction, but who knows which is the real world and which is the fictional world.
In the American drama "The Man in the High Castle", the book "Locust Plague" was replaced by film film, and German secret agents, Japanese intelligence services, and underground resistance forces in the United States launched a desperate struggle for film film.
Lin Zixuan values the background setting of this novel.
During World War II, the United States pursued isolationism, and conservative forces at home were reluctant to participate in the war, until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the outbreak of the Pacific War, and the United States was drawn into the war.
If he had written this book before the outbreak of World War II, "The Man in the High Castle", and made the United States realize that the whole of the United States could be divided by Germany and Japan, and thus enter the war early, the history of this world would have changed.
The most attractive thing about the novel "The Man in the High Castle" is the combination of fiction and reality, which makes people wonder what is real.
Lin Zixuan wrote it in this era, and it was definitely a leak.
The book will accurately predict the fate of political figures in various countries such as Roosevelt and Hitler, and will write about the development trend of the world, including the Great Depression in the United States, the rise to power of Hitler in Germany, and the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.
When the prophecy in the book is slightly consistent with the real world, it is not a prophecy, but a prophet.
The book is also no longer science fiction, but a weapon that can change the world.
When the time comes, it will definitely attract the attention of the intelligence departments of various countries, which will not only change the world, but also affect Lin Zixuan's life and even the fate of the entire family.
Therefore, he should be cautious, and even if he writes it, he must not let anyone know that he wrote it. (To be continued.) )