On May 21, 1926, the Guangzhou Nationalist Government passed the resolution of the Northern Expedition, marking the beginning of the Northern Expedition.

The newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai reported on the incident, and the vast majority of them were in favor of it.

This is thanks to Zhang's actions in Peiping, where his repressive rule deprived him of the support of the press.

On April 26, Zhang Zuolin ordered the killing of Shao Piaoping, a well-known newspaperman in Beiping, which aroused the common hatred and hatred of the press, and it can also be said that the rabbit died and the fox was sad.

Zhang Zuolin can kill Shao Piaoping today, and he can kill other newspaper people tomorrow, unless everyone doesn't tell the truth.

The press has always emphasized freedom of expression.

Although everyone knows that this is relative freedom, this is where the persistence and pride of the press lies, and it is the face of the press.

Zhang Zalin's act of killing Shao Piaoping was a slap in the face of the press and offended the entire press community.

The press circles in Peiping did not dare to speak out because of Zhang Zuolin's reign of terror, and there was no public memorial service or commemoration, and there was silence.

The press in Shanghai severely denounced the atrocities committed by the Feng army in Beiping.

Don't underestimate the news media, the media can influence readers through newspapers, and what readers are is the will of the people.

Because of this, the newspapers in Shanghai were mostly in favor of the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Government in Guangzhou.

Of course, there were also voices of opposition, mainly because of the cooperation between the Nationalist Government in Guangzhou and the Soviet Union.

Zhang Zuolin has the support of the Japanese, and behind the Northern Expeditionary Army are the Soviets.

Lin Zixuan opposed union with the Soviet Union, but supported the Northern Expedition.

He hoped that the Beiyang government would soon fall and the country would be reunified as soon as possible. In this way, China can have a period of relative stability and will not be full of wars. In the end, it is the ordinary people who are hurt.

During this time, he settled down to write a dissertation on the economic crisis in the United States.

Song received her master's degree in economics from Harvard University. He also received a doctorate in economics from Columbia University, and it was not easy to convince this top student of economics.

wanted to come up with the real thing, and for this reason, Lin Zixuan picked up the economics that had been lost for a long time.

He even wondered if he was studying for a master's degree in economics, his diploma was too low.

At this time, Xu Zhimo came to Shanghai, he did not come to Shanghai on a special trip, but passed by, he wanted to go back to his hometown Haining.

The reason is that he and Lu Xiaoman have reached the point of talking about marriage. But his father adamantly disagreed.

Xu's father thinks that his son's divorce is already a big rebellion, and now he wants to marry a married woman, which is even more corrupt.

Xu Zhimo wanted Lin Zixuan to go back to Haining with him and persuade his father to agree to the marriage.

This made Lin Zixuan cry and laugh, but he didn't refuse.

Lu Xiaoman and Wang Geng divorced at the end of 1925, and Xu Zhimo are you and me, Lin Zixuan can only wish them happiness.

On the way back to Haining, Xu Zhimo said his future plans.

Beiping is too chaotic, and Zhang Zalin's high-pressure rule makes Xu Zhimo, who yearns for freedom, very uncomfortable. He plans to move to Shanghai after getting married, buy a house, and teach at a university.

Many people in the Crescent Society have this plan, because of Lin Zixuan's relationship. Shanghai is their first choice.

There are also people who go to Nanjing, Xiamen, Guangzhou and other places to make a living, either to teach in schools or to work in newspapers.

For example, Lin Yutang of the Silk School fled Beiping with his family in May. He went to Xiamen University as the director of liberal arts, and he recommended a group of scholars to Xiamen University to teach in Beiping. Among them is Lu Xun.

As a result, scholars from Beiping moved south one after another. Eventually, it converged in Shanghai.

This is the second time Lin Zixuan has come to Haining Kip Stone Town, and the first time is when he came to Haining to watch the tide.

With Lin Zixuan's intervention, Xu's father couldn't reprimand his son, so Xu Zhimo accompanied Lin Zixuan around and warmly entertained him.

This may be Xu Zhimo's purpose.

A few days later, Xu's father finally relented, and Xu Zhimo had to get married with the consent of his ex-wife Zhang Youyi.

Xu Zhimo, who had been granted amnesty, returned to Shanghai.

At this time, Zhang Youyi had returned from Germany and lived in the villa of her second brother Zhang Junmao.

Lin Zixuan and Feng Chengcheng invited the two old couples as friends to create an opportunity for them to negotiate.

In the restaurant in the French Concession, Zhang Youyi was dressed in a dress, quiet and quiet, revealing a confident look, compared to Xu Zhimo, who was a little submissive and lost the freedom of a poet.

Lin Zixuan and Feng Chengcheng left first.

On the way, Feng Chengcheng couldn't help but sigh, he really couldn't understand the emotional matter.

Seeing that Zhang Youyi and Xu Zhimo are also talented and beautiful, they are the right people, and they have children, so they divorced without thinking of divorce.

New-style people pursue the emancipation of marriage and free love, and they do not hesitate to run away from home for this reason, and Feng Chengcheng was the same in the past, opposing arranged marriages, but now he is also very happy.

Are those who pursue free love necessarily happy? Or will it be bruised all over the body?

It can only be said that each has its own fate and happiness.

Lin Zixuan was accustomed to seeing the dispersion between men and women in later generations, and divorce became a common phenomenon, but happiness was difficult to find.

Looking at the two in the restaurant, he held his wife's hand and felt that he should cherish the person in front of him even more.

Zhang Youyi agreed to the marriage of Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman, and generously sent her blessings, which made Xu Zhimo quite ashamed, and also let go of his worries and returned to Beiping.

In Peiping, Hu Shi was about to leave, and he was going to England to visit Moscow by the way.

Hu Shi came to the UK to attend the plenary meeting of the Sino-British Geng Committee.

In May 1925, the British Parliament passed a bill on the return of part of the Gengzi indemnity.

In March 1926, Hu Shi attended the Sino-British Geng Loan Advisory Committee in Shanghai, and in July, Hu Shi left Beiping and traveled to England by train of the Trans-Siberian Railway via Harbin.

This is the first time Hu Shi has gone abroad in nine years since returning from studying abroad in 1917.

After Xu Zhimo and Lin Zixuan, he is another influential figure in the Chinese literary circle who came to Moscow.

He spent three days in Moscow.

Hu Shi first visited the Museum of the Revolution and was very moved by the historical materials of the Russian revolutionary movement from 1890 to 1917.

Later, he met two professors from the University of Chicago in the United States and went with them to visit the prisons in Moscow.

All three of them were very satisfied with it, and thought that the prisons in Moscow were very humanitarian.

Hu Shi also discussed education in Soviet Russia with them, and after reading some statistical materials on education, he was also impressed.

He even felt that Soviet Russia "really worked hard to run a new education and tried hard to create a new era of socialism."

He wrote in a letter to a friend.

"My feelings are different from those of Zhimo. The people here are the idealistic and idealistic politicians I mentioned in my letter the day before. Their ideals may not be fully shared by those of us who love freedom, but the single-mindedness of their will is something we cannot but admire. Here they are doing a great new political experiment that has never been seen before; They have ideals, plans, and absolute confidence, and these three things alone are enough to make us die of shame. ”

After a short three-day visit, Hu Shi praised the Soviet Union.

His letters were sent home and published in the newspapers, causing another round of controversy over the Soviet Union. (To be continued.) )