The days passed, and in the blink of an eye it was 1933.

The magic capital in early spring and February is the time when the spring is cold and precipitous, and it is warm and cold. The pace of winter has not been completely stopped, and the cold wind is still fierce.

In the early hours of the morning, a small steamer sailed on the undulating Huangpu River, with waves crashing and the sound of the waves. This small steamer arrived at Wusongkou in the morning light, and the British ship "Queen" from Hong Kong had just arrived and was anchored in the Wusongkou River.

The small steamer slowly approached the "Queen", and after a while stopped beside its massive hull. Then, a few people stepped down from the small steamer and boarded the "Queen" in turn. They are Mrs. Sun, Yang Xingfo and Mrs. Sun's secretary, etc. They arrived from the city before dawn to welcome George Bernard Shaw, a 77-year-old British writer who roamed the world with his wife on the ship "Queen" and arrived in the magic capital from Hong Kong.

The 1925 Nobel Prize winner in literature only stayed in the magic capital for seven or eight hours, and did not even give a public speech, which can be called a "flash mob" trip.

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1856. His theatrical creations earned him the nickname "Molière of the 20th century". In the spring of 1921, at the beginning of the Chinese drama movement, Wang Zhongxian, Xia Yuerun and others staged George Bernard Shaw's "The Profession of Mrs. Warren" on the new stage of the magic capital. Hong Shen, one of the founders of Chinese drama, was also deeply influenced by George Bernard Shaw's plays. The famous dramatist Huang Zuolin had many contacts with George Bernard Shaw.

On the day George Bernard Shaw arrived in the magic capital, no less than 200 reporters went to the docks to greet and interview him, but they were all refused. George Bernard Shaw "only asked to see Mrs. Sun."

Mrs. Sun and George Bernard Shaw were on the ship "Queen" and "saw each other very happily" for a while, and after chatting for a while, George Bernard Shaw warmly invited Mrs. Sun to the ship's restaurant for breakfast.

At 10:30, Mrs. Sun accompanied George Bernard Shaw to disembark and disembark, and first went to the Richard Hotel in Waibaidu Bridge to meet with the members of various tour groups who came to Shanghai at the same time, and exchanged pleasantries. He then went to Yaerpei Road to visit Cai Yuanpei, president of the Academia Sinica. At 12 o'clock, Mrs. Sun accompanied George Bernard Shaw to the apartment on Molly Airway, and set up Chinese cuisine to entertain them, and Cai Yuanpei, Zhou Shougeng, Yang Xingfo, Lin Yutang, Yi Luosheng, Smedley and others attended to accompany her.

From the time Mrs. Sun boarded the ship "Queen" and met each other and had breakfast together, to the time she disembarked with George Bernard Shaw, she stayed on board for about three or four hours, which accounted for almost half of George Bernard Shaw's "flash mob" trip. The two sides are not only talking about friendship, but also have a "central theme" - that is, protesting against atrocities, protesting against Japanese imperialism's aggression against China, and "discussing in detail the situation in China and other issues".

At that time, the World Anti-Imperialist Alliance, an international united front organization composed of international celebrities, decided to hold an anti-war conference in the Far East in the magic capital, and Madame Sun, as its members and organizers, hoped to spread propaganda to the rest of the world through George Bernard Shaw.

In the exquisite small hall of the World Academy that day, in addition to Cai Yuanpei, Zhou Shougeng, Lin Yutang, Yang Xingfo, there were also Qin Yue, Wang Shu, Mei Lanfang, Ye Gongxuan, Zhang Xinhai, Xie Shoukang, Shao Xunmei and others.

After leaving the World Academy, George Bernard Shaw drove back to Mrs. Sun's apartment. Seeing a group of reporters still waiting at the door, George Bernard Shaw, with the consent of Mrs. Sun, invited them all to the garden lawn for a group interview.

At half past four in the afternoon, George Bernard Shaw's trip to the magic capital came to an end before he knew it. Like welcoming the arrival of the Xiao couple, it was Mrs. Sun and Yang Xingfo who sent the former to the "Queen" ship moored on the Wusongkou River.

George Bernard Shaw's "flash mob" trip to the magic capital not only left his own footprints, but also left his thoughts scattered in various newspapers. As Xu Jie wrote in his article "The Bee of the Gentleman's Class" on February 19: "George Bernard Shaw is a bee in the English gentlemen's society, he has thorns, and he can also make honey, but the honey he brews is sweet and sour." ”

Zhou Shougeng said in the preface to the book "George Bernard Shaw in the Demon Capital": "Xiao is in the devil for less than a whole day, and there are so many stories, if it were other literati, I am afraid it may not be like this." ”

After Qin Yue met George Bernard Shaw, she returned to the Qin Mansion with Wang Shu, and she seemed very excited during dinner, chattering and talking about what she had seen and heard throughout the day.

Qin Di frowned and said: "A Nobel Prize winner in literature deserves to be greeted with such fanfare? Don't forget, we also have two Nobel Prize winners, how many awards have they won in total? Much better than a George Bernard Shaw! I haven't seen you worship you so much!"

Qin Yue was deflated, but still defended: "That's different. ”

Qin Di said: "What's the difference? Could it be that the moon in foreign countries is roaster?"

Wang Shu said with a haha: "The winners in different fields are all great, but they are different. ”

Qin Di snorted lightly: "The Nobel Prize in Literature, like the Peace Prize, is not very valuable!"

At this moment, Qin Yue and Wang Shu disagreed, and began to debate with him.

The Nobel Prize in this year has a very high status in the minds of the Chinese people, unlike a few years later, when the literary prize was involved in politics, and the peace prize was even more infamous.

Qin Di was too lazy to argue, and after dinner, he went upstairs.

In fact, he also knew in his heart that what he said may not be all right, the Nobel Prize in Literature does have a lot of parallel goods, but there are also some good writers, and they can't be killed with one shot.

However, dividing literature into three, six, nine, and so on is completely contrary to the concept of literature. Literature is different from sports competitions, and writers should refuse to be transformed into 'institutions' and labelled with various political labels, even in the form of accepting honors as honorable as the Nobel Prize.

In the spring of 1933, there was a sad joke in China, that is, the legendary "128 devils occupy one province"!

The key figure among them is Tang Yulin.

Tang Yulin was born in 1871 in a poor family in Yixian County, Liaoning. When he was a teenager, because his family was poor and had no money to study, he herded cattle and sheep for the rich family since he was a child, and drove a car for the boss a little longer, and transported goods between Chaoyang and Fuxin for his employer.

Tang Yulin was robbed by bandits on the way back from a trip to transport goods, and suffered a big loss due to his weak strength, so he went to the Daling River in anger to join the fourth and fifth brothers of Yuan, became a hero in the green forest, and began his career as a bandit who robbed his house.

In 1894, some Qing troops who participated in the Sino-Japanese War were defeated and threw themselves into Tang Yulin's cottage, so that their troops were well-armed and strengthened their combat capabilities, making Tang Yulin a well-known big pole in the Liao River Valley.

When Tang Yulin dominated Liaoxi, he saved Zhang Zuolin's life, and Zhang and Tang became friends of life and death.

On July 19, 1928, Tang Yulin took the lead in responding to the call of the Republic of China Government to send a telegram announcing that Yi Zhi would obey the Nationalist Government, and the Nationalist Government appointed Tang Yulin as the provincial security commander; on December 9, under the influence of Tang Yulin, Zhang Xueshan accepted the appointment of the Nationalist Government and announced the change of banner in Northeast China. On December 31, the Nationalist Government appointed Tang Yulin as a senior official and commander of the 36th Division, stationed in the provincial capital of Chengde.