When leaving Beiping, Lin Zixuan brought Meng Xiaodong back to Shanghai together.

During this time, Beiping was too chaotic and not suitable for life.

If you want to sing in Beiping, you can wait two years to talk about it, when China will be formally unified, or at least there will be no more large-scale warlord scuffles.

Meng Xiaodong did not object, took two bodyguards on the train, and said goodbye to the stage in Beiping.

On April 25, Lin Zixuan returned to Shanghai.

After living in Shanghai for so many years, as soon as I came back here, I felt a sense of relaxation and comfort.

He has long been accustomed to the pace of life in Shanghai.

People from Peking will probably not adapt to coming to Shanghai, complaining that the trams on the streets are too noisy, complaining that the nightlife is too late, complaining that the rooms are cramped and not bright enough, and so on.

But this is Shanghai, the lights are bright, and the paper is drunk.

Lin Zixuan needs to rest for a few days, think about this trip to the Soviet Union, make a summary, how to write his impression of the Soviet Union, many people in China are waiting for his findings.

He knew that if he wrote about what he had seen and heard in the Soviet Union, it would inevitably arouse criticism from some people.

There may even be activists who set fire to Vientiane Bookstore.

In Beiping, Lin Zixuan and Xu Zhimo communicated, and Xu Zhimo still did not regret setting off a big discussion of "uniting Russia and hating Russia", and he went further and further on the road of liberalism.

In that year, China's intellectual and cultural circles were seriously divided over how to view the Soviet Union.

Eventually, it split into two distinct camps.

Lin Zixuan originally did not have a clear camp, he rarely participated in polemics, and just quietly did his own thing. Walk on the "third way" that he proposed.

Today, there is a growing number of scholars who support the "third way".

These people are generally more indifferent in nature and have no political leanings. Maintain neutrality and peace of mind in the study of traditional culture.

The original abusive tabloid, Cultural Review, has also become a purely academic newspaper. The circulation is not high, but the gold content is very high, and many of the studies have extremely high academic value.

Lin Zixuan knew that as long as he expressed his views on the Soviet Union, he would be put into another camp.

This is characteristic of the cultural world of this era, and there is no middle way.

Unless he keeps silent and doesn't say anything about anything, then he could be attacked by both sides.

It's time to make a choice!

Lin Zixuan chose a path according to his conscience, and he would write down what he saw and heard in the Soviet Union, including the incident of being bombed away by students at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.

What was not said at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow will be said in the newspaper.

He gave this series of articles a very literary name. It's called "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears".

This is the name of a Soviet film of the later eighties, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1985, before meeting with Bargochev, US President Ronald Reagan watched the film more than eight times in order to understand the inner world of the Soviets.

This was just the beginning, and he also intended to write the novel "1984" to show the shortcomings of Soviet totalitarianism.

Lin Zixuan could not have imagined that this was the beginning of his feud with the Soviet Union, and in the following decades, he and the Soviet Union launched a long battle. Wrote countless articles.

Thirty years of professional black su!

This is the evaluation of Lin Zixuan by people in the future, which shows the intensity of this contest.

Lin Zixuan found Ping Banya and took out Zamyajing's authorization letter, and Vientiane Bookstore will publish a batch of Zamyajing's works. Then he sent the royalties to Zamyatin, hoping to help the Soviet writer.

Vientiane Book Company has set up a compilation office to recruit all kinds of translation talents.

It's not just an elite who is proficient in English is needed. It is also necessary to be familiar with Japanese and Russian talents, a bookstore wants to become bigger and stronger. It is necessary to recruit talents and lay a good foundation.

Ping Banya told Lin Zixuan a joke about the Commercial Press.

He recently poached an English-language talent from the Commercial Press's compilation office. This man told an interesting story.

A few years ago, the Commercial Press received a submission from an American author, and the senior management of the Commercial Press attached great importance to it and mobilized a large number of manpower to work overtime to translate.

As a result, the novel was a science fiction genre, and the content was too sensitive for the Commercial Press to publish.

The top management of the publishing house had a bad face, but they couldn't get a seizure, so they had to put the manuscript in the honor room as proof that the Commercial Press was well known to Western society.

In fact, it is nothing more than self-deception.

Lin Zixuan felt a little familiar after listening to it, this would not be the manuscript of "The Man in the High Castle".

When he returned from the West, he had never heard of the Commercial Press's publication of The Strange Man in the High Castle, and thought that the manuscript had been thrown into the trash by the publisher's editors, and he couldn't run over to inquire about it, so he had to ignore it.

I didn't expect that there would be such a thing, and the publication of "The Man in the High Castle" in China is indeed a bit sensitive.

"Oh, what's the name of the manuscript?" Lin Zixuan pretended to be curious and asked.

"It seems to be 'the man who lives in the castle', with a strange name and even more bizarre content." Ping Banya recalled.

That's really the case, Lin Zixuan was quite speechless.

The manuscript was placed in the exhibition room by the Commercial Press, and it was impossible to take it out if it wanted to, let alone destroy it.

Subsequently, Ping Banya gave Lin Zixuan an invitation letter, which was an invitation issued by the Commercial Press.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Commercial Press, and the Oriental Library, a subsidiary of the Commercial Press, officially opened to the public on May 2, which is a major event in Shanghai's cultural circles.

Although many universities have been established in Shanghai, there are no large public libraries.

They invited celebrities from Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony.

Newspapers in Shanghai reported on the news at length, calling it the No. 1 library in Asia, which boosted the momentum of the Commercial Press, overpowering other bookstores in Shanghai, and demonstrating its domineering power as a leading enterprise in China's publishing industry.

The Oriental Library has five floors.

The ground floor is the circulation department and the business fanclub, the second floor has a reading room, a newspaper reading room, and an office, the third floor is a rare book room, a binding room and a publishing book preservation room of the Commercial Press, the fourth floor is a book stack, and the fifth floor is a magazine, newspaper and photo library.

It is said that the library has a collection of more than 300,000 books, more than 900 kinds of Chinese and foreign magazines, and more than 40 kinds of Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals.

If Lin Zixuan is not there, Ping Ban Ya will participate on behalf of Lin Zixuan, and now that the big boss is back, it will naturally not be Ping Ban Ya's turn, but Ping Ban Ya is not annoyed, which is not a good thing.

As a competitor, who wants to run over to watch the opponent show off his might, he has to applaud hypocritically below.

Therefore, he wished that Lin Zixuan would accept this invitation.

The Commercial Press has a lot of money, and the three-month half-price strategy of Vientiane Bookstore has not seriously affected its opponents, so it has to be hastily ended, otherwise he can't stand it.

Fortunately, the popularity of Vientiane Bookstore has recovered, bringing a large number of readers.

On May 2, Lin Zixuan came to the Oriental Library on Baoshan Road, Zhabei District, to participate in the opening ceremony. (To be continued.) )