Chapter 445: Laying Out Wang Xinggang's Helplessness (2)
Song Zhewu also personally wrote the title of this magazine, and the name of this magazine is "The Scream".
The cry is taken from the novel collection of the same name by Mr. Lu Xun, a famous left-wing writer and member of the China Freedom Movement League, the China Left-wing Writers' Union, and the China Civil Rights Protection League. In this collection of novels, Lu Xun made a profound and cold portrayal of China's current real society, aiming to wake up the sleeping people.
Lu Xun's collection of novels has a profound meaning, and reading it makes people feel deeply surging with blood and blood, and they can't help but have an urge to be angry and strive for progress.
For the ability to have a self-run pure magazine, Wang Xinggang, a college student who graduated from the Chinese Department, was naturally very happy. However, what surprised him was that the title of the book inscribed by Song Zhewu for the magazine turned out to be "The Scream".
Wang Xinggang not only has a special background, but he is also a hot-blooded young man. He is very familiar with Lu Xun, when he was studying at Peking University, he was still a student of Lu Xun, he was very familiar with and liked Lu Xun's sharp works.
Lu Xun was a well-known left-wing writer who had always had a lot of criticism about political axes, and it was strange that Song Zhewu, a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang's political axe, actually used the works of a writer with leftist political tendencies to name his magazine.
Wang Xinggang even connected with the fact that when he first arrived in Taiyuan, Song Zhewu asked him to go to Taiyuan Model Prison to review prisoners, which made him can't help but have some expectations for Song Zhewu's identity and position.
In fact, Song Zhewu named this magazine "The Scream", which has no more meaning.
He just believes that if a nation or a country wants to be strong, it is far from enough to be economically and militarily strong, and it is also necessary to realize the strength of the national spirit, and only in this way can the nation and country truly stand up. Song Zhewu just wants to use his "Scream" to make the people completely abandon the idea of the mean, arouse the blood surname and consciousness in the hearts of the nation, so that all the people can be self-reliant, independent, and self-reliant, and have a strong spirit of resistance that is not willing to be enslaved.
This kind of indomitable strong national spirit was present in the Han and Tang dynasties more than 1,300 years ago, and even further in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the sense of national superiority and contempt for foreign races pervaded the whole nation. It is only in modern times, especially in the Qing Dynasty, that this sense of national pride has disappeared in the hearts of most Chinese people for various reasons.
Song Zhewu really wants to gradually wake up the kind of "those who commit me to a strong man, even if they are far away, they will be punished." The sleeping national consciousness.
With abundant funds in his hands and the support of Song Zhewu, Wang Xinggang naturally went smoothly, and everything was ready in only half a month, but he encountered some trouble on the issue of the editor-in-chief.
Wang Xinggang knew that he was not good enough, let alone famous, it was not suitable for him to be the editor-in-chief himself, and he did not have so much energy to participate in the affairs of the magazine, he was really too busy.
Shanxi has always had a prosperous literary style, and some time ago Song Zhewu recruited talents from all over the world, and many literati came to Taiyuan, and now there are quite a few professors and scholars in the Northern Normal and Northern Universities.
It's just that Wang Xinggang recommended a few people to be the editor-in-chief of "The Scream", and Song Zhewu was not satisfied.
Wang Xinggang had no choice but to ask Song Zhewu to choose an editor-in-chief by himself.
Song Zhewu was also not polite, it seems that he had been prepared for a long time, and immediately recommended Zhu Ziqing, a professor of the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University.
Song Zhewu likes Zhu Ziqing's prose very much, such as "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" and "Back". Song Zhewu even believes that if judged only by aesthetics, Zhu Ziqing can be called the first person in prose in the Republic of China.
However, Song Zhewu chose Zhu Ziqing not only because of his literary talent, but also because of his backbone.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, although Zhu Ziqing suffered from serious stomach problems and needed to eat fine grains, especially flour for maintenance, he still signed the "Declaration of Protest against the US Support Policy and Refused to Receive US Aid Flour", and before his death, he still told his family never to buy and sell flour, and refused this kind of charity of "buying the soul and surname", and always maintained the noble integrity and valuable feelings of an upright patriotic intellectual.
The reason why Song Zhewu values Zhu Ziqing is also very important is that Zhu Ziqing is not particularly radical, which is the most satisfactory to Song Zhewu.
It's just that Song Zhewu was very disappointed that Wang Xinggang personally went to Beiping and told Song Zhewu that Zhu Ziqing had resigned from Tsinghua University in March and went to Britain for further study, and he would not be able to return to China until next year.
Despite this, Song Zhewu still insisted that the editor-in-chief must be Zhu Ziqing, and the editor-in-chief of "The Scream" was temporarily replaced by Wang Xinggang, and a first deputy editor-in-chief could be appointed to preside over the regular work.
Because of its wealth, "The Scream" not only absorbed a large number of authors from Shanxi, Suiyuan, and North and South Mongolia, but also widely invited manuscripts from well-known authors and literati all over the country.
Because he chose the name of Lu Xun's novel as the name of the magazine, Song Zhewu instructed Wang Xinggang to send Lu Xun a hundred oceans, explain to him the intention of using shouting to make the name of the magazine, and at the same time ask him for a manuscript.
Although Lu Xun was not interested in warlords like Song Zhewu, Lu Xun still very much agreed with Song Zhewu's ideas, and although he was unable to respond to the manuscript for the time being, he allowed "The Scream" to reprint his works with his consent.
Although royalties still have to be paid, it is not easy, you must know that Lu Xun's works are not published in any kind of newspapers and magazines, and he will approve of them.
Because of the support of celebrities like Lu Xun, "The Scream" soon became famous.
As a former youth, Wang Xinggang knows that as the largest readership, many young students are from poor backgrounds, and the high price will put great pressure on them, so he deliberately pressed the price of "The Scream" very low, even not enough for the cost price.
Wang Xinggang has never been so happy to spend money when he grows so big, and he has hundreds of thousands of oceans of profits from the "Northern Morning News" at his disposal every month, and money is not a problem at all.
Because of the high quality and low price, this has greatly increased the circulation of "The Scream". Wang Xinggang excitedly believed that as long as the quality is guaranteed, it is by no means impossible for it to become the largest and most famous publication in the country.
Recently, however, Wang Xinggang's mood was very complicated and depressed, because he was severely criticized and rebuked by his superior, the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee.
When Wang Xinggang first joined the Fourth Route Army, he was given the task of doing military transportation work in the Fourth Route Army, plotting rebellion and pulling away part of the troops when the time was ripe, and opening up another red Soviet zone in the north.
Because Wang Xinggang quickly gained Song Zhewu's trust and was reused in the Fourth Route Army, the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee believed that Wang Xinggang would have a great future in the Fourth Route Army, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Fourth Route Army's continuous expansion to send several batches of personnel to the Fourth Route Army to assist Wang Xinggang in his work.
In order to accomplish the tasks assigned to him by the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee, Wang Xinggang ignored Song Zhewu's order that political training work should only be allowed to propagate national heroes and promote the spirit of patriotism, and took advantage of his favorable conditions as the director of political training to secretly add some content to the political training teaching materials that exposed the exploitation of peasants and workers by landlords and capitalists, and even lashed out at the warlords, and even took advantage of the Central Plains War, although he knew that Song Zhewu and Yan Xishan were fake in joining forces against Chiang, he still took this opportunity to violently attack the current politics and attack the central political axe and Chiang Kai-shek with great fanfare.
Although every time he "deviated", he was quickly corrected by Song Zhewu, and every time he was severely reprimanded by Song Zhewu, even those who came to assist him in his work were "politely" invited out of the Fourth Route Army by Fang Zhen for various reasons. But he, the "culprit", has been "at large" and has not been affected in any way.
Although Song Zhewu was very angry at his "deviant" behavior, and those who were associated with him were invited out of the Fourth Route Army, he learned through the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee that these people who assisted him, including more than a dozen recruits recruited from Hankou, were not threatened in any way and left safely.
At first, Wang Xinggang thought that these people were really because they did not meet the requirements of the Fourth Route Army for recruitment, or violated the military discipline of the Fourth Route Army, but when the last group of people who assisted him were driven away, Song Zhewu did not shy away from telling him that these people were all GCD, or were suspected of GCD.
At this time, Wang Xing just understood that the identities of these people had been exposed, and the only reason for being driven out of the Fourth Route Army was because they were GCD.
Song Zhewu also solemnly told him that he Song Zhewu did not want to see these people operating in the Fourth Route Army, because his Fourth Route Army wanted to maintain stability and be absolutely loyal to him Song Zhewu himself.
Wang Xinggang was very suspicious that Song Zhewu already knew his identity, which was a warning to him, and Gu Xiongyi even wanted to withdraw it at one point.
However, his position and work have not been affected in any way since then, at least on the surface. Even after arriving in Taiyuan, he was promoted to the post of director of the Propaganda Committee of the Northern Frontier Chief's Office.
Wang Xinggang, an important surname in propaganda work, is very clear that in GCD, in any level of party committee organization, party committee members must have a position as propaganda committee members. In the Fourth Route Army, although he can't enter the core level, his committee is directly led by Song Zhewu, which is enough to explain many problems.
Wang Xinggang therefore believed that although Song Zhewu did not support GCD on the surface, and even opposed GCD's activities in his troops, he was sympathetic to GCD in his heart, and wrote a report based on what he saw and heard, and reported to the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee.
What he never expected was that his report had attracted the most severe accusations and criticisms from the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee.
(To be continued)