Chapter 371: The Most Important Speech

On October 12, 1935, the Swedish Nobel Committee announced that this year's Nobel Prize winner was Lin Zixuan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lin Zixuan's award-winning work is "1984".

The reason for the award is that he has shown the plight of the world and his worries about the future with his profound insight, unparalleled writing talent, and cold pen.

In the 30s, as Lin Zixuan wrote classic novels one after another, his call for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature became higher and higher.

This puts a lot of pressure on the Nobel selection committee.

In the past, Lin Zixuan could still be rejected on the grounds that Lin Zixuan was young, and most of the novels he wrote were set in the West and were controversial.

But with the publication in the West of a number of novels such as "Smoke in Beijing", "The Siege", "Sophie's World", "Waiting for Godot", and "Slaughterhouse No. 5", those reasons no longer hold water.

Every year when it comes to the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Lin Zixuan is a high-profile figure.

Once the winner is not Lin Zixuan, the selection committee will be criticized by the media, leaving the writers who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature depressed, they are innocent.

Perhaps because he really didn't want to endure this kind of pressure, in the year when Lin Zixuan was 35 years old, the selection committee chose Lin Zixuan.

When the news reached China, the media boiled, which was a great honor for the Chinese cultural circles.

Compared with the carnival of the media, Lin Zixuan was not happy, and it would be extremely dangerous for him to go abroad to receive the award at this time.

As a result of the struggle with Japan over the years, Japan has attempted to assassinate him more than once, and the traitors who defected to the Japanese in Shanghai even set up an organization specifically targeting him.

Lin Zixuan can only guarantee his own safety in the French Concession.

Japan is just one of them, and the intelligence agencies of various countries in Shanghai are monitoring Lin Zixuan's every move.

Ever since "The Man in the High Castle" has been taken seriously by various countries, the search for the author of this novel has been ongoing.

At first, U.S. intelligence agencies thought that "The Man in the High Castle" was written by Americans, and the investigation focused on Americans living in Los Angeles, but a linguist carefully analyzed the manuscript of the novel.

He thinks that the wording and sentence formation of this manuscript are in the habit of the Orientals.

Thereupon. U.S. intelligence agencies conducted an experiment in 10 universities in the country, asking students from Japan, China, and India to write an essay on any subject.

They use this to analyze the differences between Easterners and Westerners who write articles in English.

Chinese people are used to writing articles with Chinese first in their minds. Then translate Chinese into English, so that the English written has the characteristics of Chinese words and sentences.

Through a lot of contrasts. U.S. intelligence agencies included Orientals in their investigations.

Because there is a lot of Japanese content in "The Man in the High Castle", they focused their investigation on the Japanese.

As Lin Zixuan's fame grew, many American media took out his graduation thesis at Columbia University and hyped it.

It turns out that Lin Zixuan's thesis is very good, and the United States is indeed in an economic crisis, which shows that Lin Zixuan not only has a talent for writing, but also has a keen eye for economics.

This incident attracted the attention of US intelligence agencies.

They linked Lin Zixuan's graduation thesis to a 1929 manipulation case of the U.S. stock market.

The 1929 U.S. stock market crash is believed to be the result of manipulation that caused great losses to the United States.

They investigated Lin Zixuan's whereabouts in the United States. It was found that when "The Man in the High Castle" appeared in 1925, Lin Zixuan was in the United States, although there is no direct evidence that Lin Zixuan was related to "The Man in the High Castle", but Lin Zixuan was listed as a key investigation target by the US intelligence agencies.

By this time it was already 1931.

Because Lin Zixuan's fame was too great, and the matter was extremely secret, the US intelligence agencies could only send spies to Shanghai.

In 1931, the world's most elite intelligence agents gathered in Shanghai to conduct a thorough investigation of Lin Zixuan.

Japan and the Soviet Union wanted to get rid of Lin Zixuan, the United States, Britain and Germany wanted to find out whether Lin Zixuan was the author of "The Man in the High Castle", and other countries wanted to know the purpose of these big powers sending spies to Shanghai.

These spies battled their wits and courage in Shanghai. On several occasions, it was American spies who sabotaged the Japanese assassination of Lin Zixuan.

Lin Zixuan is not ignorant of this, Shanghai is his home turf, and these news can't be hidden from him.

He didn't expect his life to become a spy movie. However, as long as he does not leave the French Concession, he can guarantee his own safety.

This is still China, and he is a social celebrity with great prestige, and foreign spies dare not easily kidnap him.

This time, he had to choose whether to stay in Shanghai or go to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

So far, he doesn't care much about the award. But he needed an international stage to expose Japan's atrocities in China. Time is running out, and he has to make a final effort.

What better stage than the Nobel Prize?

He decided to travel to Sweden.

After the news was published in the newspapers. The Japanese intelligence agencies are determined to get rid of Lin Zixuan at all costs, and they cannot let Lin Zixuan make a voice abroad and attack Japan.

The spies of other countries were overjoyed, they had no chance to do it in China, and this time they must secretly catch Lin Zixuan.

Even if he can't catch it alive, he can't let Lin Zixuan fall into the hands of other countries.

This is a war without gunpowder.

If Lin Zixuan is really the author of "The Man in the High Castle", getting Lin Zixuan may win the next world war.

On October 22, 1935, Lin Zixuan boarded a cruise ship to Europe.

The people who saw him off on the docks didn't know that it was a journey that might never return.

Lin Zixuan stood on the cruise ship, took off his top hat, smiled, and waved to the crowd on the pier.

This image is frozen on a reporter's camera negative and becomes an eternal memory.

The cruise ship set sail, and spies from various countries searched for Lin Zixuan's traces on the cruise ship, but they did not know that Lin Zixuan had left the cruise ship, boarded a smuggling ship, and headed for Hong Kong.

This trip was carefully planned, and it was Lin Zixuan's stand-in who remained on the cruise.

He traveled from Hong Kong to the United States, and from the United States to Europe, and so on, until he finally arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, before December 10.

In his speech at the Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony, Lin Zixuan gave a speech on "China that does not want to be a slave".

In his speech, he exposed Japan's atrocities in Northeast China, Japan's ambition to invade China, and the threat to the world from countries such as Japan and Germany, which is a great challenge that the whole world will face.

He ended his speech with a short poem.

"In Germany, when the Nazis came to arrest the *, I was silent, I was not the *. I am silent when they imprison social democrats, I am not a social democrat. When they came to arrest union members, I didn't protest, I wasn't a union member. When they came to arrest the Jews, I was silent, I was not a Jew. When they came to arrest me, there was no one left to speak for me. ”

"Maybe I'll be assassinated if I leave here, but I don't regret it." Lin Zixuan finally said. (To be continued.) )