On December 8, 1925, Lin Zixuan returned to Shanghai and was warmly welcomed.

At this time, the Zhejiang-Feng War had already ended. In order to preserve its strength, the Fengtian warlord Zhang Zuolin withdrew from Jiangsu and Anhui and other places, Sun Chuanfang took advantage of the victory to advance northward and went straight to the Shandong border.

After this battle, Sun Chuanfang ruled the five provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi, and became the most powerful leader among the Zhili warlords.

This was the most glorious period of his life.

In order to win over wealthy families in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, he hired celebrities from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places as consultants with high salaries.

The consultant is a false position and doesn’t have to do anything in normal times. All treatments are preferred, and there is still 500 silver dollars per month to get.

As a celebrity in Shanghai, Lin Zixuan also received a letter of appointment, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan.

This salary is equivalent to hiring Westerners, because Lin Zixuan enjoyed a very high reputation internationally and could be compared with those Western celebrities.

This time when I came back, no one questioned Lin Zixuan's title of "world-renowned novelist".

Not only was Lin Zixuan's speech in the UK, but also met with the latest Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Bernard Shaw, but also his subsequent high evaluation of Lin Zixuan.

This evaluation may have political considerations, but Chinese media believe that Lin Zixuan has won the recognition of the Western literary community.

The Nobel Prize in Literature is very intimidating, especially from the British dramatist Shaw, who is friendly to China.

In addition, Lin Zixuan's novel "Lord of the Flies" has received unanimous praise from American and British literary critics and is considered an outstanding work with far-reaching influence.

With the early preparation, the novel is quite popular in the United States, and has sold 30,000 copies in just one month.

These messages were transmitted to the country through telegrams, making the domestic media jubilant.

The superposition of various halos has brought Lin Zixuan's reputation to a whole new level.

Chinese media are already discussing the possibility of Chinese writers winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, and are speculating when Lin Zixuan will win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Optimistic people believe that Lin Zixuan can win the Nobel Prize in Literature within ten years with his creative speed.

Pessimistic people think that Lin Zixuan is still too young, and Shaw won the Nobel Prize in Literature until he was 70 years old. Many great Western writers have passed by the Nobel Prize in Literature throughout their lives.

This probably depends on luck. If Lin Zixuan wins the award before he is fifty, he will be extremely lucky.

There are also many technical analysis. Analyze the judges' preferences from the age and works of the Nobel Prize winners in previous years, and judge the probability of Chinese writers winning the prize from the international situation.

Of course, some people pour cold water on it, thinking it is too early to discuss these things at the moment. After all, Lin Zixuan didn’t even have nominations.

The reason why domestic media are so fanatic is that national self-esteem is at work.

In Asia, China and India are both ancient civilizations. Chinese people do not look down on India very much, but India's Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Does this mean that Indian culture is better than China?

If Japanese writers were allowed to win the Nobel Prize in Literature before Chinese writers, the Chinese would be even more disappointed.

This time, the media cared about Lin Zixuan and vented, and it would be good to think about it.

Since the decline of the Qing government, the Chinese have experienced a century of humiliation, from the former Celestial Empire to the weak country that was highly oppressed, psychologically from pride to inferiority, and need something to boost the pride of the nation.

The Chinese can enhance this sense of pride by gaining international honors.

This made Lin Zixuan quite uncomfortable. He felt that he was a little respectful. He was so flattered by domestic media just because he was recognized by Westerners. It seemed unusual.

If he had just traveled through time, he would be content with his complacent, but now he just feels in a heavy mood.

As soon as he got off the cruise, he was surrounded by reporters from Shanghai and asked various questions, including the content of the new novel, his speeches in the UK, his impression of Bernard Shaw, and his anecdotes about his interactions with British literary giants, etc.

Another reporter asked Lin Zixuan when he thought he would win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lin Zixuan gave a brief answer to these questions. As for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he could only shake his head, that one was still too far away.

At this time, a reporter asked a strange question.

"Mr. Lin. What do you think about the burning of the Beijing Morning Post newspaper's office?"

Lin Zixuan was stunned. He didn't know about this, so he could only say that he would answer after understanding it.

When he returned home, he saw this hot topic in the newspaper and also saw the comments and opinions of various companies.

On November 29, 1925, young students marching and demonstrative in Peking set fire to the Morning Post newspaper.

This is a mass revolution of the "anti-Fengfeng Anti-District" that took place in Peking.

On November 28, a total of more than 50,000 student suicide squads, workers' guard teams and their masses from various schools and factories in Peking were joined in front of Jishenwu Gate and held a National Congress.

They shouted slogans such as "destroying the Fengtian warlords" and "destroying Duan Qirui's stolen government", surrounded the sectarian government, and occupied key departments such as the General Police and Posts and Telecommunications Bureau.

They wanted to seize the power of the Beiyang government in this way.

Among them, young students shouted slogans, holding up the slogan "Down with the Morning Post and the thief of public opinion", and rushed to the Morning Post Office on Xuanwumen Street like arrows.

Some young man shouted "Burn!" and the flames rose in the newspaper office.

The fire made people more violent, and they began to destroy newspaper office furnishings, with fists, sticks, stones, and bricks.

This is the burning incident of a famous morning newspaper in the Republic of China.

There are indirect and direct reasons for the "Morning Post" to suffer from this fire.

The indirect reason is that the Morning News is regarded as a research department newspaper and is named after its strong leadership in implementing constitutionalism.

The direct reason is that it is related to the "Alliance between Russia and Anti-Russia" discussion organized and initiated by the Morning Post over the past period of time. Through this discussion, the people have a clearer understanding of the Soviet Union.

However, in this discussion, the Allied forces did not gain the upper hand, but instead exposed many problems in the Soviet Union.

This aroused dissatisfaction among radical young people and the masses, believing that the Morning Post deliberately targeted the Soviet Union and contained ill-intentions.

This was originally a battle of ideas, but it developed into a violent incident.

Let’s not talk about the principle of freedom of speech for now, it’s like in later generations that they were quarreling online. One side was unwilling to accept it and ran to the other party’s house to set fire and demolish the house.

What is this not a violent crime?

If this is not stopped, the next time these people meet people with disagreements, they may kill people with a knife.

What a chaotic world that would be.

In various newspapers, the incident of burning the Morning Post Office was widely condemned by the intellectual and public opinion circles, believing that it was a brutality.

On December 7, 1925, the Morning Post continued to be published.

Xu Zhimo, who is still the chief editor of the supplement, said in "After the Disaster Literature": "The fire can burn a wooden house, but it cannot burn my invisible beliefs." (~^~) Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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