Upon his return to Shanghai, Lin Zixuan got the latest news about the war between the warlords of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Although the two sides have not yet mobilized troops on a large scale, they have already made people panic in Shanghai.

Many wealthy businessmen who originally lived in China have moved into the concession area one after another, while others have left Shanghai, and people from all walks of life in Shanghai have called on both sides to exercise restraint and settle disputes peacefully.

Britain and France mobilized warships and strengthened their forces and defenses on the border between the concession and the Chinese border.

The Japanese also used this as an excuse to sail warships from Bohai Bay to the Huangpu River, thus giving them their own forces in Shanghai.

According to the information Feng Jingyao received from the French, this war may be inevitable, and there may be Western forces behind it.

The only good news is that the main battlefield of the war should be in the territory of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Even if you hit Shanghai, it is impossible to attack the concession, as long as you are a little careful and stay in the concession, you can be safe.

However, once the war breaks out, there will be a shortage of soldiers, which will affect Shanghai's public security and business environment, and all kinds of business will also come to a halt, and a large number of refugees will pour in, and these problems need to be effectively solved.

On the one hand, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce appealed for peace, and on the other hand, it summoned the wealthy businessmen of Shanghai to contribute money and efforts to prepare for the coming war.

In fact, there are different voices in Shanghai's business community.

There are Jiangsu business districts that tend to favor Jiangsu warlords, and there are Zhejiang business districts that support Zhejiang warlords, and behind the warlords are the financial support of wealthy businessmen and gentry from all over the country, otherwise how can the warlords afford to raise so many troops.

Now Shanghai is dominated by Zhejiang warlords, so Zhejiang merchants are developing smoothly in Shanghai.

This makes Jiangsu businessmen feel unbalanced. Many Jiangsu businessmen also hoped that Jiangsu's army would come over and occupy Shanghai. In the future, Shanghai will be the world of Jiangsu's business district.

The Lin family's family business is in Wuxi, so it naturally belongs to a member of the Jiangsu business district.

After Lin Zixuan figured out the whole thing. And he was relieved.

Westerners attach great importance to the concession, they invest a lot of financial and material resources in the concession, and they never want to be ruined by a war, once the war gets out of control, they will intervene in mediation, so the concession is the last refuge in Shanghai.

He originally wanted to take refuge in other places, but Feng Chengcheng was nine months pregnant, so it was not suitable for him to travel long distances.

After being relieved, Lin Zixuan remembered what happened to him in Beiping. Those who were scolded by a group of literati had no power to fight back.

His hasty departure this time was considered by many Beiping literati to be a hasty escape, and they triumphantly declared their victory.

I really can't bear this breath.

Lin Zixuan found Ping Banya and prepared to set up a four-page tabloid called "Cultural Review", which published articles to scold those literati in Beiping.

Of course, the affairs of cultural people cannot be called scolding, but polemics.

For example, if a cultural person scolds others for being stupid, he will not say this directly. Rather, they will say that the person's IQ is not high.

As Kong Yiji said, stealing books cannot be regarded as stealing, but can the business of a reader be regarded as stealing?

For the boss's orders. Ping Banya understood in his heart, and he also knew what happened to Lin Zixuan in Beiping, and he was very unhappy in his heart. Isn't this not taking our southern talents in your eyes?

Since ancient times, Jiangnan has produced talents. It is a place where people gather, and the north is considered a place of cultural wilderness.

Ping Banya uses this to mobilize his friends. We southern literati can't be so bullied by northern literati, it's not just that we rely on how many people we are, and there are many of us.

There was already a gap between the cultural circles in the south and the cultural circles in the north, and now with Lin Zixuan's incident as a reason, it has aroused everyone's fighting spirit.

It also allows the northern literati to see what the art of scolding is, and there is absolutely not a single dirty word to be found in the whole article.

As a result, all kinds of scolding articles came out one after another and published them in the "Cultural Review".

Lin Zixuan is not to make money, but to export anger.

Each issue of the "Cultural Review" printed 2,000 copies, of which 1,500 were distributed in Beiping, and if it could not be sold at a 5% discount, it would be sold at a 3% discount, and as long as it had enough money, it would be sold, and what was needed was a speed of dissemination.

The other 500 copies were directly given to the Beiping literati who participated in the scolding war.

When the first issue of Cultural Review spread in Beiping, many literati in Peking took it as a joke.

thinks that Lin Zixuan is running out of donkey skills, and he fights back in this way, but it's just a joke, and he can't last long.

Some people even called "Cultural Review" a scolding tabloid that did not enter the stream.

However, as the first issue of "Cultural Review" continued to enter the Beiping market, even regardless of the cost, just for the sake of rapid dissemination, those Beiping literati could not sit still.

No one can stand being scolded in the newspaper every day, which will make him a joke in the eyes of others.

Although the articles in the "Cultural Review" do not name names, nor do they scold, there is no shortage of people who have their own matching seats.

These people began to fight back and scold the literati in the south, and this war of scolding between the north and the south began.

Lin Zixuan's purpose is not to keep scolding like this, scolding is just a means, not an end.

After the two sides started scolding, "Cultural Review" attracted the attention of all parties and became the focus of society, and he began to expound his own ideas, and invited scholars who agreed with his "third way" to join in.

He knows what he is capable of, whether it is Western culture or Eastern culture, he only knows the surface.

It's nothing to do on weekdays, but once it involves something deeper, he can't continue to study, after all, his cultural accumulation is not enough, and the integration of Eastern and Western cultures is a university question.

This is not something that can be done by one person, and perhaps not by a generation.

Therefore, Lin Zixuan needs more learned scholars to participate in it and work together to take this road down.

The scolding war is just a hype that attracts people's attention, as long as someone pays attention, some people may agree with his proposition, and the most feared thing is obscurity and no one pays attention.

Lin Zixuan's scolding regardless of the cost made many people cry and laugh.

Lu Xun said not to scold this kind of rich man in the future, if he scolds, you can't afford to scold, and you have to talk about the cost of scolding.

However, no one could have imagined that the Cultural Review, which was initially called a tabloid tabloid, would go from four to eight and finally to sixteen, gathering a large number of centrist scholars to conduct a profound and meticulous study of Chinese and Western culture.

The centrists do not agree with either the conservatives nor the total westernization, and they want to follow a middle path.

This school of thought had a great repercussion in the ideological circles of the Republic of China and had a far-reaching impact on later generations.

As Lin Zixuan said in the inaugural issue of "Cultural Review".

"We are walking a unique path, full of thorns, but leading to the light, and this is the third way. There is no end to the path of thought, there is no boundary, and we can go as far as we can go as far as we can go. (To be continued.) )