Before Lin Zixuan and his group arrived in Shanghai, the Shanghai media knew that he and Hu Shi were going to come to Shanghai together.

The main reason is that celebrities of this era like to write down trivial matters of their lives and publish them in newspapers to cheat manuscript fees. They are called essays, which are considered as a kind of prose.

The person who left earlier wrote about the incident when he went to Haining to see the tide.

Including who are in the same journey, what they talk about, what food they eat, what scenery they see, and what interesting news happened.

This is actually quite similar to the scarfs of later generations, and they are all recording the little things and insights in life.

This kind of essay seems casual, but it is very helpful for later generations to study the customs and feelings of this era. You can feel the style of an era from the lines.

Lin Zixuan does not have this habit. He doesn't even write a diary because he is afraid that he will be studied in the future. If someone discovers his identity as a time traveler, it may have a great impact.

Of course, he was also happy to leave some mysteries that would make future scholars eluded their thoughts.

This time, Qiantang's tide attracted a lot of response in the Shanghai literary world. The meeting between Lin Zixuan and Hu Shi, two new literary flag bearers, had a lot of significance, not to mention that Lin Zixuan also wrote an excellent lyrics.

The song "Qinyuanchun-Qiantang" was published in the newspaper and received praise from many members of the South Society.

Nanshe was established on November 13, 1909. The event center is in Shanghai, and the initiator is Liu Yazi.

Nanshe literature is mainly based on old-style poetry, and generally uses the Xinhai Revolution as the dividing line.

Previously, the themes were mostly criticizing the Qing Dynasty's rule, expressing patriotic enthusiasm, calling for democracy, condemning the **, and calling on people to fight for the prosperity and strength of the motherland, with a generous and prosperous style.

After that, the theme turned to criticizing the incompleteness of the Xinhai Revolution, expressing the sorrow of the shattered ideals, and the style was anger and low. Some even became a melodious voice.

This literary group has been active for nearly 30 years. Many Chinese celebrities have been members of the South Society and have far-reaching influence.

Lin Zixuan and Hu Shi came to Shanghai together for discussion, mainly to discuss the development of the Crescent Society.

Originally, Xu Zhimo and Lin Zixuan had a talk. The books and magazines of the Crescent Society were published by Wanxiang Bookstore, but the members of the Crescent Society are relatively complex, some are members of the Literary Research Society, and some are scholars who are good friends with Hu Shi.

The publishers that Hu Shi often cooperates with are Commercial Press and Yadong Library.

Needless to say, Commercial Press is a big shot in the publishing industry. It has a nationwide distribution channel, but they can publish Hu Shi's books, which does not mean that they can also publish books by other writers.

Do you have the reputation of Hu Shi?

This sentence alone blocked the mouths of other new literary writers.

Shanghai Yadong Library is a private publishing house based in Shanghai, supported by Chen Duxiu.

The address is at the west end of Qipan Street, Wuma Road, the public concession, and mainly publishes new literary books.

After Chen Duxiu became the head of Peking University's liberal arts science, Peking University commissioned Yadong Library to serve as its general distribution in Shanghai, specializing in selling new books published by Peking University, and Yadong Library became famous for this.

"New Youth" has always been sold by Yadong. Chen Duxiu also handed over "Weekly Review" and magazines such as "New Trend" to Yadong. Yadong Library has become a dissemination base for new culture.

Hu Shi has a good relationship with the boss of Shanghai Yadong Library, and his books are basically published by Yadong Library.

He also introduced his familiar friends. As long as Hu Shi introduced them, the boss of Yadong Library would publish them. This shows Hu Shi's status in Yadong Library.

This way, problems arise.

In the future, will the books and magazines of the Xinyue Club be published by the Wanxiang Bookstore or the Yadong Library?

For Lin Zixuan, this is a business.

Although new literature is not very good now, it will develop in the future. It is worth winning over a group of new literary writers for Vientiane Bookstore. Although the books of these people are not popular, they are very famous.

In the publishing industry, friendship depends on friendship, mainly on interests.

Lin Zixuan can increase the royalty income of writers. In addition, Vientiane Bookstore and World Bookstore have joined hands to promote the sales network across the country, with at least hundreds of marketing outlets.

This not only guarantees the sales of books, but also protects the interests of writers.

He explained the current situation of Wanxiang Bookstore to Hu Shi, and Hu Shi was also quite moved.

The scale of Shanghai Yadong Library is not as large as that of Wanxiang Bookstore, and there is no complete sales channel. New literature books are severely unsalable, and these are all problems that need to be faced.

Hu Shi went to Shanghai this time to discuss publishing matters with Yadong Library.

If the Yadong Library is not as good as Lin Zixuan's conditions, he will not be able to stop other writers from publishing books at Wanxiang Bookstore. If he had not taken into account his years of friendship, he would have wanted to transfer to Wanxiang Bookstore.

Lin Zixuan is mainly optimistic about the development prospects of new literature, so he has offered such generous conditions. He is not a fool and cannot keep losing money and gaining publicity.

Shanghai reporters did not know the purpose of Lin Zixuan and Hu Shi, but the gathering of two new literature flag bearers would be of news value.

Of course, if Lu Xun also came to Shanghai and the three of them talked about new literature together, it would be a grand event in the literary world.

This kind of thought was just a circumference in their minds. Lin Zixuan knew that Hu Shi and Lu Xun were getting further and further away, and it was basically impossible for such a scene to appear.

Hu Shi has a friend in Shanghai who lives in the villa of a foreigner on Dumei Road in the French Concession.

Lin Zixuan arranged Xu Zhimo at his home and wanted to introduce his friends in the Shanghai literary world to him. He wanted to hold a cultural salon like the last time he introduced Pearl Buck.

Xu Zhimo was very convinced that he always advocated the lifestyle of Westerners and was particularly enthusiastic about social occasions such as cultural salons.

Next is the question of who to invite, and the three of them discussed together.

Hu Shi is famous and has many friends. It is no problem to invite dozens of people. Xu Zhimo also mentioned several friends in Shanghai.

Lin Zixuan didn't expect that Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu were classmates. They went to school together at Hangzhou Fu Middle School when they were young.

Since Yu Dafu was invited, why don’t the other people in the Creation Society invite you?

Xu Zhimo didn't know much about the conflict between Lin Zixuan and Guo Moruo, so it didn't matter. As a poet, he admired Guo Moruo's collection of poems "The Goddess".

Hu Shi and Guo Moruo also had conflicts. He and Guo Moruo met in 1921.

He once wrote in his diary: "Moruo studied medicine on Kyushu Island, Japan, but he was quite interested in literature. His new poetry is quite talented, but his thoughts are not very clear and his skills are not good."

Guo Moruo was quite concerned about the meeting, and his memories were like this.

"The big doctor entered the big bookstore and had been noisy in the newspapers at that time. I heard that his apartment was the number one on Wujiang Road, where I like to go for a walk in the evening. It was a house specially rented by the Commercial Press. He rode from the mansion to Zhabei every day in a tall carriage. How glorious it is for us to share such a brilliant celebrity! This glory is so great, just like even oneself is about to turn red."
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