All the way to the north, Lin Zixuan changed trains in Mukden and headed for Soviet Russia.

Entering the boundaries of Tohoku, he found that he could often see Japanese, and at this time Japan had begun to implement a large-scale immigration program in Tohoku, which was the beginning of the Japanese invasion of China.

Unlike the Shanghai Concession, most of the Japanese who went to Shanghai were businessmen, mainly building factories and doing business.

The Japanese in Northeast China are more soldiers and ordinary people, and Japan wants to use the three northeastern provinces as military bases, so it supports Zhang Zuolin to make the three northeastern provinces independent.

Once it was discovered that Zhang Zuolin was disobedient, he put explosives on the railway and blew Zhang Zuolin to death.

This is the sadness of being a pawn.

Lin Zixuan thought of the situation in the Northeast in the future, and his heart was heavy, and he would not be better until he entered the territory of Mongolia.

He felt that he couldn't always look at this era with a historical perspective, which would fall into endless depression, but he still had to live in the present and actively make changes.

As the train pulled into Mongolia, several female students were talking in a courtyard at Beijing Women's Normal University.

They agreed to wear thicker clothes tomorrow, and they might be beaten, and if they wore thick clothes, they could put guns and sticks on them and pour them on the faucet.

These female students are the backbone of the student union, including Xu Guangping.

On the second day, Xu Guangping did not directly participate in the march, but sent the copy of "Old News of Novels" to Lu Xun's residence.

She put down the manuscript and prepared to go to meet her classmates, but Lu Xun stopped her and did not let her petition, but stayed to copy the manuscript.

At about 10 o'clock, someone came to report that the ruling government of Tieshi Hutong had ordered the military and police to close the two iron gates and shoot at the crowd with machine guns. The number of dead and wounded is not yet known.

Xu Guangping ran back to school to find her classmate shot dead.

This is March 18th. It is also what Lu Xun called "the darkest day since the Republic of China".

The massacre of the students by the government aroused strong condemnation from public opinion, and Lu Xun even wrote an article criticizing the government's atrocities.

Most people are condemning the Duan Qirui government. There are also people who have voiced different voices, whether the teachers or seniors who instigated the student demonstrations are also responsible.

The man's name was Chen Yuan, and he published an article entitled "Gossip" in the March 27 issue of Modern Review.

In the article, he proposed that he hoped to obtain justice through legal means in court.

"Who is the mastermind of this tragedy, who ordered it, and who committed the murder, they are all guilty of murder, and none of them can be let go lightly. We hope that a special court will be established on the same day to thoroughly investigate the case and to carry out the punishment to which the criminals are deserved. ”

This would have been nothing. But at the end of the article, he raised the question of who was responsible for the student's death.

Duan Qirui's government is naturally guilty, but what about the agitators?

For example, he said that there was a lady named Yang Dequn at the Women's Normal University, who was from Hunan and had a poor family background.

After graduating from normal school, Ms. Yang taught for six or seven years, saving more than 1,000 yuan to study in Beiping.

On March 18, a notice was issued at her school. On the day of the suspension of classes, the students were asked to petition.

Ms. Yang was still reluctant to go, and turned around halfway, and a faculty member forced her to go. She had no choice but to go.

As soon as the government guards released their guns, Ms. Yang ran after the crowd, and suddenly saw that her friend, Ms. X, was injured. Unable to move, she turned around and went to the rescue. He was also shot and died.

A woman who came to Peking to study died like this, who should be responsible?

Thereupon. Chen Yuan believes that women and children should not be allowed to participate in such fierce petitions and protests, and those who instigate them have an unshirkable responsibility.

Such remarks are unique and piercing in the nationwide unanimous condemnation of Duan Qirui's government.

As a result, he was fiercely criticized by many people, most of whom were agitators, who believed that Chen Yuan's righteous act of slandering the students was helping the Duan Qirui government get away with it and being an accomplice of the warlord government.

Lu Xun was also an agitator, and he once encouraged young people to take the decisive road of overturning tables and setting fires in the kitchen.

But out of personal feelings, I don't want to see acquaintances suffer because of this.

In April 1925, he wrote this in a letter to Xu Guangping.

"I can sometimes comment on his essays, and I also try to incite young people to take risks, but if there are acquaintances, I can't comment on his articles, for fear of seeing him take risks, knowing that this is a contradiction, that is, a death sickness that can't do anything, but in the end I can't improve it, so I can't help it—let him go."

This led to a series of pen battles between Lu Xun and Chen Yuan.

Against this backdrop of national public opinion condemning Duan Qirui's government, Chen Yuan was naturally defeated in the polemic, became the target of criticism by the population, and was labeled as a reactionary.

Later, he had to leave Peking and go to Wuhan to serve as a professor and dean of the School of Literature at Wuhan University.

During this period, many writers wrote articles to participate in the crusade against the atrocities of the Beiyang government.

In "The Woman of New China", Zhou Zuoren spoke highly of the students who sacrificed their lives, and said that "'May Fourth' is the beginning of the liberation movement" and "'March 18' is the beginning of oppression and reaction."

Zhu Ziqing was there that day, and he wrote "The Massacre of the Ruling Government," which recorded in detail the scene on 18 March.

He said: "This is the first kill in Beijing!" ”

Peiping's "Beijing Daily" published a special issue entitled "Photo of the Great Bloodshed in the Capital," which comprehensively and exhaustively reported the truth of the tragedy and printed 300,000 copies, in order to "awaken all parties and factions to unanimously rise up against the thief," which aroused tremendous social repercussions.

At the same time, the article published by Lin Zixuan when he left Beiping was turned out.

No one believed that the government would commit such atrocities at the time, but now it seems shocking.

Lin Zixuan told Ping Ban Ya that no matter what happened, Vientiane Bookstore would stand on the side of the students, so the newspapers and magazines of Vientiane Bookstore published articles protesting against the Beiyang government.

It was the March 18 tragedy that led to the fall of Duan Qirui's government.

On April 9, 1926, Lu Zhonglin led the Nationalist Army to surround ****** on the charge of Duan Qirui's secret communication.

Duan Qirui fled to the French embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane, and the ruling government fell.

On April 17, the Feng army occupied Beiping, and after the Feng army entered Beijing, the "Beijing Daily" and a number of progressive newspapers and periodicals were seized.

Shao Piaoping, the founder of Beijing Daily, was secretly executed by Fengjun in the early morning of April 26.

Zhang Xueliang sent Feng troops to break into Peking University, Women's Normal University, Sino-Russian University, etc., and vigorously banned books and periodicals and arrested opponents.

Everyone didn't expect that they had just defeated Duan Qirui, and before they had time to cheer, they came to a more ruthless role.

Zhang Zuolin's methods are more brutal than Duan Qirui's, and Beiping is in an extremely terrifying atmosphere, and many celebrities, including Lu Xun, are on the blacklist of wanted people.

Lu Xun had to take refuge in Yamamoto Hospital, German Hospital, French Hospital, etc., and did not return to his apartment until May.

Because of this, Lu Xun soon left Beiping, where he had lived for ten years, and went south to make a living.

There are not a few people who have the same choice as Lu Xun.

With the southward movement of these literati, the position of Chinese new literature gradually shifted from Beiping to Shanghai, thus opening a new page of Chinese new literature. (To be continued.) )