On December 8, 1925, Lin Zixuan returned to Shanghai and was warmly welcomed.

At this time, the Zhejiang-Feng War had long ended, and the Feng warlord Zhang Zuolin withdrew from Jiangsu and Anhui in order to preserve his strength.

After this battle, Sun Chuanfang ruled the five provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi, and became the most powerful leader among the direct warlords.

It was the most glorious period of his life.

In order to win over wealthy families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he hired celebrities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as consultants with high salaries.

The consultant is a fictitious position, he usually doesn't have to do anything, everything is preferential, and he still has 500 silver dollars a month to get.

Lin Zixuan, as a celebrity in Shanghai, also received a letter of appointment, with a monthly salary of 800 silver dollars.

This salary is equivalent to hiring Westerners, because Lin Zixuan enjoys a high reputation in the world at this time, and can be compared with those Western celebrities.

This time back, no one questioned Lin Zixuan's title of "world-renowned novelist".

Not only because of Lin Zixuan's speech in the UK, the meeting with the latest Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw, but also because of George Bernard Shaw's high opinion of Lin Zixuan afterwards.

There may be political reasons for this assessment, but the Chinese media believe that Lin Zixuan has gained recognition from the Western literary community.

The Nobel Prize in Literature is a very bluffing name, especially from George Bernard Shaw, a British dramatist who is friendly to China.

In addition, Lin Zixuan's novel Lord of the Flies has received critical acclaim from American and British literary critics and is considered an outstanding work with far-reaching influence.

With the foreshadowing in the early stage, the novel is quite a bestseller in the United States. In just one month, 30,000 copies have been sold.

The news reached the country by telegram, causing the domestic media to rejoice.

All kinds of auras are superimposed. made Lin Zixuan's prestige brush to a new height.

The Chinese media is already discussing the possibility of Chinese writers winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, and there is speculation about when Lin Zixuan will win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Optimistic people believe that with Lin Zixuan's creative speed, he can win the Nobel Prize in Literature within ten years.

Pessimistic people feel that Lin Zixuan is still too young. George Bernard Shaw did not win the Nobel Prize in Literature until he was almost 70 years old, and many great Western writers have missed the Nobel Prize in Literature in their lifetimes.

I'm afraid this depends on luck, Lin Zixuan can win the award before the age of fifty, which is considered luck.

There are also a lot of technical analyses, such as judging the chances of Chinese writers winning the prize from the age of the Nobel Prize winners and their works, and judging the chances of Chinese writers winning the prize from the international situation.

Of course, some people poured cold water on it, thinking that it was too early to discuss these at present, after all, Lin Zixuan was not even nominated.

The reason why the domestic media is so frenzied is, in the final analysis, national self-esteem at work.

in Asia. China and India are both ancient civilizations, and Chinese do not look down on India, but India's Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature, does this show that Indian culture is stronger than China?

If Japanese writers were allowed to win the Nobel Prize in Literature before Chinese writers, the Chinese would be even more disappointed.

This time, the media took advantage of Lin Zixuan's incident to carnival and vent, and it was good to be able to think about it.

Since the decline of the Qing government, the Chinese have experienced a century of humiliation, from the former Celestial Empire to a weak country that has been oppressed, and psychologically from pride to inferiority. Something is needed to boost national pride.

International honors for Chinese enhance this sense of pride.

This made Lin Zixuan quite unaccustomed to it, and he felt that he was a bit self-respecting, and it seemed abnormal to be so touted by the domestic media just because he was recognized by Westerners.

If you've just crossed it, it will. He would be complacent, but now he only felt heavy.

As soon as he got off the cruise, he was surrounded by reporters from Shanghai, asking all kinds of questions. Includes the content of the new novel, a speech in the UK. Impressions of George Bernard Shaw, anecdotes about his relationship with British writers, and so on.

A reporter also asked Lin Zixuan when he thought he would win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lin Zixuan gave a brief answer to these questions. As for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he could only shake his head, that was too far away.

At this time, a reporter asked a strange question.

"Mr. Lin, what do you think about the burning of the Beiping Morning Post newspaper?"

Lin Zixuan was stunned, he didn't know about it, he could only say that he would answer after he understood.

When he returned home, he saw this recent hot topic in the newspaper, as well as the comments and opinions of various families.

On November 29, 1925, young students demonstrating in Peking set fire to the Morning Post newspaper building.

This was a mass revolution that took place in Beiping to "oppose Feng's downfall".

On November 28, more than 50,000 student death squads, workers' security squads, and their masses from schools and factories in Beiping gathered in front of Shenwu Gate to hold a national assembly.

Chanting slogans such as "Down with the Feng warlords" and "Down with Duan Qirui's traitorous government," they surrounded the ruling government and occupied key departments such as the police headquarters and the post and telecommunications bureaus.

In this way, they wanted to seize power from the Beiyang government.

One of the young students shouted slogans and held high the slogan "Down with the "Morning Post" and the thieves of public opinion, and rushed to the "Morning Post" newspaper office on Xuanwumen Avenue like arrows.

I don't know which young man shouted, "Burn!" The flames rose in the newspaper building.

The firelight made people more violent, and they began to destroy the newspaper furnishings, with fists, with sticks, with stones, with bricks.

This is the famous morning newspaper hall of the Republic of China was burned.

There are indirect and direct reasons why the "Morning Post" suffered from this fire.

The indirect reason is that the Morning Post is regarded as the organ of the research department, and it is named after the strong advocate of constitutional government.

The direct reason is related to the great discussion on "uniting Russia and hating Russia" organized and initiated by the "Morning Post" during this period, and through this discussion, the people have a clearer understanding of the Soviet Union.

But in this discussion, the Russian faction did not gain the upper hand, but instead exposed many problems in the Soviet Union.

As a result, the radical youth and the masses were dissatisfied, believing that the "Morning Post" was deliberately aimed at the Soviet Union and harboring evil intentions.

What began to be a battle of ideas turned violent.

Let's not talk about the big truth of freedom of speech, it is like in the later generations when the two scolded and fought on the Internet, one party was not convinced, and went directly to the other party's house and set a fire and demolished the house.

What is this not a violent crime?

If this is not stopped, the next time these people encounter someone who disagrees, they may use a knife to kill someone.

What a chaotic world that would be.

In various newspapers, the burning of the morning newspaper hall was widely condemned by intellectuals and public opinion circles as an atrocity.

On December 7, 1925, the Morning Post continued to be published.

Xu Zhimo, who is still the chief writer of the supplement, said in "Essays after the Disaster": "The fire can burn the house made of wood, but it can't burn the invisible faith in my heart. (To be continued.) )