The commissioner of the British Embassy came to Lin Zixuan to discuss cultural exchanges.

Once the matter of the two countries is involved, it needs to be formalized and have certain regulations, and the British have to report this matter to the British Ministry of Culture, so some consensus must be reached first.

Now that the Northern Expeditionary Army has not broken through Shanghai, Sun Chuanfang has no time to take care of these things, and the Beiyang government is even more chaotic.

The British Embassy had no choice but to contact Lin Zixuan, and Lin Zixuan was responsible for this matter anyway.

To be honest, Lin Zixuan didn't like this arrangement, and he preferred to promote Chinese culture in the form of folk.

He has a rejection of official channels and does not want to be involved in political factors, and the purpose of the British to promote cultural exchanges is obvious, that is, to ease the hatred of the Chinese towards them.

Lin Zixuan was reluctant to accept this kind of exchange, but other bookstores didn't think so.

The official invitation of the British government and running over by yourself are two different concepts, and the grade and treatment will be very different.

If the British want to, why don't we do it.

At meetings within Shanghai's publishing industry, the overwhelming majority of people were in favour of the British Embassy's proposal.

Lin Zixuan is well aware of the difference between the official and the non-governmental, and with the support of the British Ministry of Culture, the book fair has created a momentum in London, which is very beneficial to the publishing houses in Shanghai.

In order to promote Chinese culture, he had to put aside the mustard in his heart and agree to this official cultural exchange.

Life is like this, many times it doesn't come according to your own ideas, and you need to constantly compromise for a better purpose.

The next time is to make preparations.

After consulting with the commissioner of the British Embassy, the previous plan had to be reversed. After all, this is an official event, and the scale of the book fair is several times larger than it was at the beginning.

With the endorsement of the British government. Shanghai's publishing houses put their minds at ease and worked overtime to produce new books.

There are also bookstores that want to postpone the book fair until the second half of the year. This gives you plenty of time to prepare.

Lin Zixuan was by no means accommodating, and he found that once things got out of control, there would be all kinds of unpleasant scenes.

No matter what happens to others, he will definitely leave Shanghai in late March.

Since he had to participate in the International PEN Club, he had to find domestic writers to go with him, which was an opportunity to communicate with famous writers from Europe and the United States, and he could not go alone.

He also wants to introduce Chinese writers to the world literary scene.

Fellows should know English, have a talent for writing, and be good at communicating......

Xu Zhimo is naturally the first choice, and he has many friends in the UK. The communication is broad, and the literature is flying.

The next was Yu Dafu, who left Guangzhou in December 1926 and returned to Shanghai, where he edited the semi-monthly magazine "Flood" and "Creation Monthly", and presided over the affairs of the publishing department of the Creation Society.

In January 1927, he published an article entitled "The Matter of Canton" in the semi-monthly magazine "Flood".

The article caused a great deal of repercussions, because Yu Dafu exposed the ills of the Nationalist government in Guangzhou.

"In fact, there are only a few people in this national government who influence the overall political situation. A few great men of the previous century, who were indifferent to the people, under their rule, Guangzhou was of course still the old society that had not been transformed. ”

For this article, there are serious divisions within the Creation Society. Guo Moruo and Cheng Fangwu both wrote letters criticizing Yu Dafu.

Cheng Fangwu wrote: "I am only here to announce that the Flood will pay special attention to the draft, and I would rather it cease publication immediately. I don't want it to be published again. ”

Yu Dafu is a person with a true temperament, and he feels that if he has something to say, he has to say it. Sort of a radical.

He spent most of his time in Guangzhou for more than half a year and saw all kinds of dark sides. Don't vomit unpleasantly, think you're not wrong.

However, at a time when the Northern Expedition was in full swing, this article was very out of place and was inevitably criticized.

This should have been the beginning of the split in the Creation Society.

Lin Zixuan dragged Yu Dafu to the UK because he wanted him to stay away from this whirlpool of public opinion for the time being, and wait for things to calm down.

He admired Yu Dafu's outspokenness, because he couldn't be so unscrupulous and not hypocritical.

Lin Zixuan knew that he couldn't be like Lu Xun and Yu Dafu, but it didn't prevent him from protecting Yu Dafu.

In March, the war entered its final stage, and the Northern Expeditionary Army attacked Shanghai and Songjiang in three ways, outflanking Suzhou from Yixing and Pudong from Ningbo.

The concession has pulled up barbed wire and closed it completely, leaving only a few passages, and it is strictly forbidden to enter and exit without a pass.

On March 12, various organizations in Shanghai held an extraordinary citizens' congress to elect a provisional executive committee.

It was proposed to organize a meeting of citizens' representatives, subject to the control of the national government, take over the power of Shanghai, and build a democratically elected municipal government.

On March 21, the workers of Shanghai staged the third armed uprising, and the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Shanghai.

On March 22, at 2 p.m., the Ximen Public Stadium held a meeting of Shanghai citizens to welcome the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was attended by 500,000 people.

At this point, the war around Shanghai was finally over.

Shanghai's publishing industry was ready to take a large number of books to the UK on March 29 for a cultural exchange event.

It was on this day that Song Ziwen came to Shanghai.

The main purpose of his visit to Shanghai was to fight the idea of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium, and to put it bluntly, he was to ask the bank for money as military salary.

Before leaving, Lin Zixuan met with Song Ziwen and handed him the information about the economic crisis in the United States.

Song Ziwen has a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and has worked in a bank on Wall Street, and after he looked at it, he understood Lin Zixuan's plan, and couldn't help but stare at Lin Zixuan.

It's obvious, you're kidding, right?

Lin Zixuan explained to the finance minister of the Guangzhou National Government very seriously, and he asked Song Ziwen to read the information first, and wait for him to come back from the UK.

Whether or not to do this big deal depends on Song Ziwen's decision, if Song Ziwen doesn't do it, he will do it alone.

"How much are you going to give?" Song Ziwen asked.

"A million." Lin Zixuan said a more conservative number.

This is the money he intended to invest in the U.S. stock market in 1929.

Of course, if there is a national power behind him, he doesn't mind investing more, which is a high-return investment.

Song Ziwen fell silent, he originally thought that Lin Zixuan was joking, but it didn't look like it, they were all people with status, and they wouldn't be boring enough to joke about this kind of thing.

In other words, Lin Zixuan has a great grasp of the crisis in the US economy.

Only then did he remember that Lin Zixuan, like him, graduated from economics, but he was usually covered up by the aura of a writer.

But he won't listen to Lin Zixuan's words, he needs to seriously study the feasibility, after all, this matter involves the economies of two countries, so he must be cautious.

However, as a high-caliber student majoring in economics, I imagined using one country's funds to hit the stock market of another country.

It's a big deal just to think about.

Lin Zixuan was not so excited, and he saw many similar examples on the news in later generations.

Financial tycoon Soros single-handedly directed the Asian financial crisis in 1997, sweeping through Southeast Asian stock markets.

This time, Lin Zixuan set his sights on the United States. (To be continued.) )