Before Lin Zixuan and his entourage arrived in Shanghai, the Shanghai media knew that he and Hu Shi were going to come to Shanghai together.

The main reason is that celebrities in this era like to write about their life trivialities and publish them in newspapers to cheat manuscript fees, which is called essays, which can be regarded as a kind of prose.

The people who left earlier wrote about this trip to Haining to see the tide.

Including who were in the same group, what they talked about, what they ate, what scenery they saw, and what interesting anecdotes happened.

This is actually quite similar to the scarf of later generations, which is a record of the bits and pieces of life.

This kind of essay seems random, but it is very helpful for later generations to study the customs and customs of this era, and they can feel the style of an era between the lines.

Lin Zixuan didn't have this habit, he didn't even write a diary, because he was afraid that he would be studied in the future, and if someone found out his identity as a traverser, it might have a great impact.

Of course, he is also willing to leave some mysteries for future scholars to speculate.

This Qiantang tide has caused a lot of repercussions in the Shanghai literary circle, and the meeting of Lin Zixuan and Hu Shi, the two new literary standard-bearers, has a lot of significance, not to mention that Lin Zixuan also wrote an excellent lyric.

The poem "Qinyuan Spring-Qiantang" was published in the newspaper and was praised by many members of the Southern Society.

Nanshe was founded on November 13, 1909, with its center of activity in Shanghai, and its initiator was Liu Yazi.

Nanshe literature is dominated by old-style poetry, and the Xinhai Revolution is generally used as the dividing line.

Previously, the theme was mostly to criticize the rule of the Qing Dynasty and pour out patriotic enthusiasm. Call for democracy, condemn autocracy. He called on people to fight for the independence and prosperity of the motherland, and his style was generous and heroic.

Thereafter. The theme changed to criticize the incompleteness of the Xinhai Revolution and express the sadness of the disillusionment of ideals, and the style was indignant and low, and some even became gloomy voices.

This literary group has been active for nearly 30 years, and many Chinese celebrities have been members of the Southern Society, which has a far-reaching influence.

Lin Zixuan and Hu Shi came to Shanghai together for discussion, mainly to discuss the development of the Crescent Society.

Originally, Xu Zhimo and Lin Zixuan agreed that the books and magazines of the Crescent Society were published and distributed by Vientiane Bookstore, but the members of the Crescent Society were more complicated. Some are members of the Literary Research Society, and some are scholars who are good friends with Hu Shi.

The publishing houses that Hu Shi often cooperates with are the Commercial Press and the Far Eastern Library.

Needless to say, the Commercial Press is a predator in the publishing industry, and it has a national distribution channel, but they will publish Hu Shi's books, which does not mean that they will also publish books by other writers.

Do you have a reputation for nonsense?

This sentence alone gags the mouths of other writers of new literature.

Oriental Oriental Library is a private publishing house based in Shanghai, supported by Chen Duxiu.

The address is located at the west end of Qipan Street, Wuma Road, Public Concession, and is mainly used to publish new literary books.

After Chen Duxiu became the dean of liberal arts at Peking University, Peking University entrusted Oriental Memorial Library to distribute it in Shanghai. Specializing in the sale of new books published by Peking University, Far Eastern Memorial Library has become famous.

"New Youth" has also been sold by Yadong, and Chen Duxiu also handed over magazines such as "Weekly Review" and "New Trend" to Yadong for sale. Oriental Memorial Library has become a front for the spread of new culture.

Hu Shi has a close relationship with the boss of Shanghai Oriental Library, and his books are basically published by Oriental Library.

He also introduced acquaintances to the past, as long as they were introduced by Hu Shi. The owner of Far Eastern Memorial Library will give publishing, which can be seen. Hu Shi's status in the Oriental Library.

In this way, there is a problem.

In the future, will the books and magazines of the Crescent Society be published by Vientiane Book Company or by Far Eastern Memorial Library?

For Lin Zixuan. It's a business.

Although the new literature is not very good now, it will develop in the future, and it is worth fighting for a group of new literary writers for Vientiane Bookstore, whose books are not best-sellers, but they are very famous.

In the publishing industry, friendship is friendship, and the main thing is to look at interests.

Lin Zixuan can increase the royalty income of writers, and Vientiane Book Company and World Book Company have joined forces to promote the sales network to all parts of the country, with at least hundreds of marketing outlets.

This not only ensures the sales of the book, but also protects the interests of the writer.

He explained the current situation of Vientiane Bookstore to Hu Shi, and Hu Shi was also quite moved.

The scale of Shanghai Oriental Memorial Library is not as large as that of Vientiane Bookstore, and there is no complete sales channel, and the new literary books are seriously unsalable, which are all problems that need to be faced.

Hu Shi went to Shanghai this time to discuss publishing matters with Far Eastern Library.

If Far Eastern Memorial Library is not as good as Lin Zixuan's conditions, then he can't prevent other writers from publishing books in Vientiane Bookstore, if it weren't for his years of friendship, he himself would want to transfer to Vientiane Bookstore.

Lin Zixuan is mainly optimistic about the development prospects of new literature, so he will offer such generous conditions, he is not a fool, it is impossible to keep losing money and making money.

Reporters in Shanghai didn't know the purpose of Lin Zixuan and Hu Shi, but the gathering of the two new literary standard-bearers was newsworthy.

Of course, if Lu Xun also came to Shanghai, and the three of them talked about new literature together, it would be a grand event in the literary world.

This kind of thought is just turning in their minds, Lin Zixuan knows that Hu Shi and Lu Xun are going farther and farther now, and it is basically impossible for that kind of picture to appear.

Hu Shi has friends in Shanghai who live in a foreigner's villa on Dumei Road in the French Concession.

Lin Zixuan arranged Xu Zhimo in his own home, and he wanted to introduce him to friends in the Shanghai literary circle, so he wanted to hold a cultural salon like the last time he introduced Pearl Sai.

Xu Zhimo strongly agrees, he has always admired the way of life of Westerners, and is especially keen on social occasions such as cultural salons.

The next question is who to invite, and the three of them discuss it together.

Hu Shi has a great reputation and many friends, so it is not a problem to invite dozens of people, and Xu Zhimo also mentioned a few friends in Shanghai.

Lin Zixuan didn't expect Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu to be classmates, and they went to school together in Hangzhou Fu Middle School when they were teenagers.

Since Yu Dafu was invited, what about the rest of the Creation Society?

Xu Zhimo doesn't know much about the contradiction between Lin Zixuan and Guo Moruo, but it doesn't matter, as a poet, he admires Guo Moruo's poetry collection "Goddess".

Hu Shi also had a conflict with Guo Moruo, whom he met in 1921.

He once wrote in his diary: "Moru studied medicine on the Japanese island of Kyushu, but he had a considerable interest in literature. His new poems are quite talented, but his thinking is not very clear, and his skills are not good. ”

Guo Moruo is quite nostalgic for that meeting, and his memories are like this.

"When the big doctor entered the big bookstore, he had already been noisy in the newspapers of the time. I heard that his apartment was No. 1 Wujiang Road, where I liked to go for a walk at night, and it was a house specially rented for him by the Commercial Press. Such a popular person, what a glory it is for us to be able to sit with him! This glory is so great that it seems like even yourself is going to turn red. ”

There is a thick sense of sarcasm and sourness between the lines. (To be continued.) )