The reason why this debate is important is that from the perspective of later generations, this is not just an academic debate, but involves what kind of ideology or belief should be established in that era.

It can also be said that the path should be chosen to transform society.

This debate attracted most scholars to participate, and various theories emerged one after another.

It has both theoretical foundations in Chinese traditional culture and scientific concepts from the West, forming a trend of thought.

The Scientific School believes that it is absolutely necessary to promote the spirit of scientific rationality in China, which is extremely lacking in modern scientific rationality, and to establish a new era of values ​​and outlook on life on this basis.

The metaphysics school has not raised any objections in China, such as the need to transform, make progress, modern technology, and strengthen the country and strengthen the army.

They tend to need to establish a value that conforms to China's national conditions before this to guide and regulate this modern social transformation.

Chen Duxiu criticized the scientific school and the metaphysics school with the materialist viewpoint, both idealism.

All parties could hardly communicate, and the debate turned into a melee.

Interestingly, not long after, Shanghai Yadong Library edited and published the book "Science and Outlook on Life", which included twenty-nine articles on debate, and asked Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi to write prefaces respectively.

Chen Duxiu's preface commented and refuted the views of various schools in the debate one by one.

After reading it, Hu Shi also wrote a preface and began to refute Chen Duxiu's arguments. Chen Duxiu was not satisfied and began to criticize Hu Shi again.

This shows the intensity of the debate at that time.

At the beginning, Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi and Luxun edited "New Youth", which opened the wave of new culture. Now, they are getting further and further on their own paths.

In this turbulent era, many people have become strangers from close comrades.

This is because the Tao is different and does not plan for each other, and they all follow their own aspirations.

Lin Zixuan, who was in Shanghai, couldn't escape this question, and was asked by students while in class at Shanghai University.

To be honest, he was not interested in this kind of argument, so he told the students directly that I have not figured out this issue yet, and I will tell you one day after I figured it out.

This is not an escape, but the truth. The debate between science and metaphysics has not ended in later generations.

In March, he accompanied Feng Chengcheng to participate in a charity event, initiated by the Shanghai Children's Labor Commission, focusing on child labor issues in factories.

Miss Song’s third job is working in this department.

It is a common phenomenon to use child labor in factories in Shanghai. Preliminary statistics should be that there are more than 20,000 child laborers.

In 1919, the International Labor Conference stipulated that those under the age of fourteen were child laborers.

In 2019, the Beiyang government promulgated the Interim Factory Rules of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, which stipulates that the factory shall not be employed by men under ten years old and women under twelve years old.

But the reality is that some children who are only seven or eight years old still work in factories, and their labor intensity is high and their rewards are extremely low. They work twelve hours a day and only have a salary of two cents.

Child labor is distributed in various industries, with the most serious child labor in the textile industry, and more than half of the child laborers work in the yarn mill.

The second is printing factories and match factories, and there are also child labor in the machinery and food industries.

Lin Zixuan knew about this situation, and there were child laborers in the Lin family's yarn mill.

This is caused by the entire society, and it cannot be changed by one or two people. If you don’t use child labor, these child laborers have to find ways to survive, just change to another factory.

It’s better to have Chinese factories, at least they are all Chinese and will not over-press.

It is much more harsh in Japanese yarn mills.

At this time, Japan had overcapacity in China and dumped a large number of various commodities into China, mainly textiles.

They set up yarn mills across China and use advanced machines and technologies to impact China's textile industry.

During World War I, foreign powers did not care about their development in China, which gave China's national industry and commerce a good opportunity to develop.

Now that the war is over, China's national industry and commerce will face huge challenges.

This charity event mainly focuses on donating money to child laborers to improve the living conditions of child laborers, and calls on all sectors of society to pay attention to the welfare of children. Even the government cannot completely eliminate child labor.

After the event, Lin Zixuan thought about it and discussed with Lin Boqing.

A few days later, the Lin family's yarn mill announced that it would not employ male and female young workers under the age of 12 from April 1, and implemented this regulation within the Shanghai textile industry.

The Lin family is a leading enterprise in Shanghai's textile industry. It has a certain influence and exemplary role, and many companies have responded.

However, Japanese yarn mills oppose this regulation and still do their own thing.

Lin Zixuan launched a public opinion offensive and published articles in newspapers criticizing Japanese yarn mills as sweatshops, and disclosed the cruel exploitation and exploitation of Chinese workers within Japanese yarn mills.

There are no pinhole cameras in this era, otherwise he would send someone to sneak into the cotton mill for sneak shots.

He had this plan, but it could not be achieved because Japanese yarn mills were strictly managed and workers would search their bodies when they entered and left to prevent workers from stealing the yarn mill’s property.

However, Lin Zixuan knows how to attract readers' attention. News is not exaggerated. Is that still called news?

As long as you say that the working environment of workers in Japanese yarn mills is a bit miserable, living a life that is worse than a horse, not only does it work hard, but also has to endure insults and whip it. It is simply hell on earth.

In fact, this is also based on facts, and a little artistic processing is carried out based on the oral statements of the mill workers.

Sure enough, this incident has attracted widespread attention from the society, requiring Japanese yarn mills to stop using child labor, improve the working environment of workers, and prohibit insulting and beating Chinese workers.

Chinese textile companies also stood up to condemn Japanese yarn mills, and all passed a statement prohibiting the hiring of child labor under the age of twelve.

The Japanese have a very tough attitude on this issue.

They refused external interference on the grounds that Japanese factories were required to manage according to Japanese management methods.

Lin Zixuan put forward the slogan of "boycotting Japanese goods and rescuing Chinese workers", which received a response from the society.

This is his second confrontation with the Japanese.

The cause of this incident may be because of child labor, but it is actually a contest between China's textile industry and Japan's textile industry.

Through this exposure, problems within the Shanghai textile industry have also been revealed.

The main reason is that they work long hours, have high labor intensity and low wages.

For example, the female silk silkworm workers in Shanghai called for the female silk industry in Shanghai to work 14 hours a day, and the salary is 4 cents, and the amount is deducted by 2 cents, which is only enough to eat.

These questions shocked scholars who talked about social transformation all day long.

In comparison, the debate between science and metaphysics in Peking is just a game for scholars and cannot truly change the current social situation.
Chapter completed!