On May 4, 1926, Sun Chuanfang, the governor of Jiangsu, set up the Songhu Commercial Port Supervision Office in Longhua Town, Shanghai, and appointed himself as the superintendent.

With Ding Wenjiang as the general office, it has jurisdiction over all administrative affairs in Shanghai County, Wusong City and part of Baoshan County.

In other words, the Songhu Special City, which was prepared and established by the Shanghai gentry, became an ornament, and Shanghai's local autonomy suffered a major setback.

In fact, during the warlord war, Shanghai, as the economic center of China, could obtain a large amount of taxes, and it was not easy for everyone to take it for themselves, and it was not easy for them to be self-governing.

Sun Chuanfang did not do things perfectly, he invited Shanghai celebrities as consultants to participate in the construction of Shanghai to a limited extent.

He once issued a letter of appointment to Lin Zixuan, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan, which is definitely a high salary.

Lu Xun works in the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government with a monthly salary of 300 yuan, and Hu Shi teaches at Peking University with a monthly salary of 280 yuan.

In 1932, the monthly salary of the mayor of Guangzhou was 560 yuan, the monthly salary of President Chiang was 800 yuan, and the rest of the vice chairmen, deputy ministers of various ministries, and provincial chairmen could get about 680 yuan a month.

It can be seen that Sun Chuanfang attaches great importance to Lin Zixuan.

But he was politely rejected by Lin Zixuan, he was not short of this money, and there was no need to break his principles for this.

Lin Zixuan's principle is that he will never hold any public office in the government, and there is no problem with the position of non-governmental organizations such as business and literary circles.

This is undoubtedly the best way to protect oneself in such a complex political environment.

As long as he sticks to his position, those people have no way to take him, you can be said to be a literati. Then I'll be high.

Moreover, Sun Chuanfang did not stay in Shanghai for long. As soon as the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived, his political career ended, and he could only become a hurried passerby in Chinese politics like Wu Peifu.

May 9th. In the name of the Songhu Commercial Port Governor's Office, Sun Chuanfang invited celebrities from Shanghai's business circles to discuss the matter.

Lin Zixuan was also invited, he refused once, and this time it was not good not to go.

Anyway, it's just a meeting, I guess it's just going through the motions, just prick up your ears and listen, and the things of the meeting can't be taken seriously.

Longhua Town is located in the southwest of Shanghai, was the seat of the Shanghai government office during the Republic of China, and was named after the Longhua Temple in the town.

Every year in March of the lunar calendar, Longhua Temple incense, March and a half temple fair and March peach blossoms are in full bloom. It is a good place for Shanghai citizens to go out and enjoy the spring, and it will attract tourists every year.

The venue of the meeting was set up in a separate courtyard, where peach blossoms bloomed and the scenery was pleasant.

The courtyard is full of tables and chairs, as well as refreshments, and everyone sits in it and talks about the future of Shanghai.

Lin Zixuan felt that Sun Chuanfang was a bit of a vassal elegance, but it was better than chatting in the conference room.

Sun Chuanfang is in his early forties. is in the prime of life, and he looks like he has a heroic spirit, and his speech gives people a sense of complacency.

At this point, he wouldn't have thought of it. A year later, he would be defeated and disappear from Chinese politics. Hiding in the Tianjin Concession and stealing a living, a few years later. Assassinated by the enemy and killed.

Presiding over the meeting was Ding Wenjiang, a geologist. He is the founder of China's geological undertakings.

He studied at the University of Cambridge and graduated from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom with studies in zoology and geology.

In 1916, together with Zhang Hongzhao and Weng Wenhao, he established the Geological Survey Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and served as its director.

This geological survey institute is not simple, and in the entire Chinese geological community, the geological survey is at the core and has cultivated a large number of Chinese geological talents.

Ding Wenjiang became a leading figure in early Chinese geology, on a par with Hu Shi's status in the new literature.

There is a public case between Ding Wenjiang and Li Siguang.

In 1919, he recommended Li Siguang to Cai Yuanyuan to teach at Peking University.

In May 1920, Li Siguang, who had just passed the year of his establishment, entered the campus of Peking University and became a professor in the Department of Geology.

Li Siguang's family conditions were not good, and Ding Wenjiang was in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce's Mining Administration Department and the head of the Fourth Section, so he arranged for Li Siguang to work in the department, so that he could get a few months' salary before the start of Peking University.

Subsequently, Ding Wenjiang found a part-time job for him and served as the deputy director of the National Beijing Normal Library, with a monthly salary of 250 yuan.

During this period, the two had a deep friendship.

After Ding Wenjiang's death, Li Siguang also wrote an article in memory of Ding Wenjiang, expressing his respect for this big brother Ding.

In 1951, Li Siguang began to criticize Ding Wenjiang.

He excluded Ding Wenjiang, who had been dead for more than ten years, from the ranks of the founders of Chinese geology, and also classified Ding Wenjiang into the "group of school buyers" who served the interests of imperialism.

The name Ding Wenjiang has disappeared from the Chinese geological community for decades.

Ding Wenjiang is not only a geologist, he is also a sociologist, and he once co-founded the "Endeavor Weekly" with Hu Shi, published political commentary, and belonged to a staunch Russophobic faction in the discussion of "United Russia and Russophobia."

In this way, it is not unusual for him to serve as the general office of the Songhu Commercial Port Supervision Office, and he has his own political opinions.

The meeting was the equivalent of a party, with the focus on reassuring Shanghai's business community and stabilizing people's minds.

At the end of the meeting, many businessmen left directly, and some people stole half a day of leisure and stayed to watch the peach blossoms.

Ding Wenjiang found Lin Zixuan, who read Lin Zixuan's travelogue in the Soviet Union published in the newspaper, and wanted to take this opportunity to ask about the real situation in the Soviet Union and explore the way out for ********.

He and Hu Shi are friends, and Lin Zixuan is not a stranger.

The two sat among the peach blossoms, drinking tea and chatting casually.

Ding Wenjiang felt that the economic policies proposed by Lin Zixuan were suspected of giving advice to the Soviet Union and should not be published.

If the Soviet Union really did this, it would probably become stronger, with strong neighbors on its side, which is not good news for China.

Lin Zixuan was not too worried, as long as Stalin was still the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, he would implement the heavy industry plan, and presumably he would not change the domestic policy of the Soviet Union because of these economic theories.

As a geologist, Ding Wenjiang often conducts geological surveys throughout the country.

He has traveled to many places, seen the lives of ordinary people in various parts of China, and learned about China's national conditions and people's livelihood.

He contrasted the current situation of China and the Soviet Union, and was quite worried, after all, the Soviet Union was a unified country, and China was still in the stage of warlord chaos.

He helped Sun Chuanfang to do things, hoping that Sun Chuanfang could unify China, change the situation of warlord separation, and benefit the people.

During the chat, Ding Wenjiang also said another thing.

When he surveyed the geology, he often found fossils of paleontology, so he was also an archaeologist.

In 1918, with the assistance of Ding Wenjiang, Andersen, a Swedish geologist hired by the Beiyang government, discovered paleontological fossils during an investigation in Zhoukoudian, Beiping.

Thus opened the prelude to the excavation of the Beijing ape man site in Zhoukoudian.

In the process, Ding Wenjiang discovered that there was a phenomenon of selling cultural relics all over the country.

Many Westerners came to China to rob tombs in the name of archaeology, and they either openly took away the excavated cultural relics in the name of "academic investigation", or they were trafficked by Chinese and foreign profiteers in collusion, and a large number of them were purchased "legally" through the antique market.

This situation is quite common and shocking. (To be continued.) )