It is extremely confidential to carry out armed riots in Shanghai, and Lin Zixuan can get reminders in advance and is related to his relationship network.

He himself has a publishing industry, with newspapers and magazines under his jurisdiction, recruited many journalists, and formed his own information channel.

He also has a good relationship with major newspapers in Shanghai. As long as there is any news that is dangerous or unfavorable to him, someone will notify him.

This is a normal source of information.

Feng Jingyao controls the underground forces in the French Concession in Shanghai, and has all kinds of people from all walks of life and is well-informed.

Even if a foreigner makes any abnormal behavior, he can't hide it from him.

With such a relationship network, in Shanghai, Lin Zixuan can usually find out what news he wants to know.

He was able to remain safe after offending the Soviet Union and Japan. In addition to his fame that made his opponents worry, his connections played a huge role.

At least Feng Jingyao would not watch his son-in-law die.

Once Lin Zixuan is in danger, the gang boss will definitely tell him and will even arrange for Lin Zixuan to run away.

It can be said that as long as Lin Zixuan is in Shanghai and as long as he is not sent to encircle and suppress him, he is safe.

This time he was reminded of another force, the faction in the Guangzhou National Government that did not support the alliance with the Soviet Union.

Because Lin Zixuan opposed the Soviet Union, he was appreciated by many veterans in the Guangzhou National Government, and they reminded Lin Zixuan that it was a sign of showing good deeds.

In fact, Lin Zixuan can get this news from the Song family.

This is why people with status in society are not prone to accidents, because they have information channels and people will tell them in advance where there is danger.

On this day, he went to Shanghai Zhendan University to give a speech.

This is Zhendan University, not Fudan University. The former is a French Catholic school, while the latter is a private fund-raising school.

These two schools have a lot of connections.

Zhendan University was founded in 1903. Funded by the French Catholic Jesuit Scholarship Fund, it is a private university.

By 1905, the French Catholic Jesuits tried to control the Sinian University and turned it into a church school. This practice caused dissatisfaction among students and all of them dropped out of school.

With the support of all sectors of society, these students who dropped out raised funds to establish Fudan University.

Since then, Zhendan University has become a church school for the French Catholic Church, located in the Luwan District of the French Concession, and has opened three colleges: medicine, law and science and engineering. It has received financial subsidies from the French government.

Schools are taught in French, and most of the students are graduates from Xuhui Public School and schools run by Catholic churches in various places.

In this era, there were very few public universities in Shanghai, most of which were private schools.

As a celebrity and literary leader, Lin Zixuan is often invited to give speeches by universities. He will not refuse as long as he has time. Sometimes he will talk about new poetry, and sometimes he will talk about his experiences in Western countries.

This is to allow these young people who have just entered university to broaden their horizons and understand the world.

This time, the title of his speech was "The Similarities and Similarities of Chinese and Western Literature", which was the conclusion he came to after discussing with Pearl Buck.

Pearl Buck’s graduation thesis at Cornell University talks about the mutual influence of Eastern and Western civilizations, and she has the right to speak on this.

After the speech, three students came to find Lin Zixuan. He looked quite cramped and held a booklet in his hand.

Lin Zixuan took it and saw it. It was a publication similar to a campus literary magazine. It was called "Yingluo", which was not printed by a regular publishing house. It was printed by hand.

In various universities, it is normal for literary youth to run literary magazines.

Some are more famous. For example, Peking University's "New Trend" magazine, but most of them are unknown and purely personal hobbies.

Lin Zixuan didn't care at first, but politely opened the title page, but saw the name of the founder.

Dai Wangshu, Du Heng, Shi Zhecun, Liu Nao...

These names may not be known in 1926, but by the 1930s, they would become an emerging force in the Shanghai literary world and leave their own names in the history of Chinese literature.

Lin Zixuan was a little embarrassed. He remembered copying a poem called "Rain Alley", which was Dai Wangshu's future famous work.

He found a place to chat with the three of them and found that life was really wonderful.

In 2019, Lin Zixuan taught a writing course at Shanghai University for one semester. After he left, Dai Wangshu and Shi Zhecun entered Shanghai University to study in the autumn, and they missed each other.

In 1925, due to the May 30th Massacre, Shanghai University was seized by the concession authorities, and the two moved to Zhendan University to study.

At Zhendan University, they met Du Heng, a fellow villager in Hangzhou and Liu Nao, a Taiwanese. Because of their similar literary views and interests, they formed the Yingluo Club, founded the "Yingluo" weekly issue, and published some poems and novels.

Of course, the magazine has not received much response, and it is a matter of self-entertainment.

Their literary views tend to be free.

When I was in Shanghai University, a teacher once said this to Dai Wangshu.

"Young people should all join the battlefield and take up guns to fight. What is poetry? Poetry is a bomb, a trumpet, and a flag."

They do not agree with this. They believe that literature is literature and should not be involved in politics. It should not be a tool for propaganda, but should express their true feelings.

This view is different from the liberalism pursued by Xu Zhimo, and they pursue purer freedom.

In the Shanghai literary world, there are old-school writers like the Mandarin duck butterfly school, revolutionary literature from the Creation Society, and realistic writing propositions from the Literary Research Association, etc.

Lin Zixuan is a representative figure in the Shanghai literary world. He advocates the blooming of literature. His works have different styles, mixed with Chinese and Western styles.

This made Dai Wangshu and others feel that Lin Zixuan's literary style is extremely free, which is exactly the path they pursue.

They want to write articles that are different from the past, neither old novels nor revolutionary literature, but new novels that show this era and express their own thoughts.

However, it was precisely because of their literary proposition that a debate over the "third type of person" later occurred with the League of Left-wing Writers led by Luxun.

Lin Zixuan looked at these three people and felt that any literary school was facilitated by chance.

In addition to the absent Liu Nao, several young literary youths gathered at Zhendan University to influence and learn from each other.

No one expected that they later became representatives of Chinese New Sensation novels and were also an important member of Shanghai literature.

Their works use modernist writing techniques to show the restlessness and glitz of the metropolis of Shanghai.

It is unique in the description of the feelings and lives of men and women in the city.

Different from the civilian perspective of the old society, the Beijing party’s disgust and hatred attitude towards the city, the left-wing rational mentality, and the new feeling school provide new literature with a more novel and profound way of understanding the city.

At this time, they were just starting out.

Lin Zixuan naturally tried his best to win over such literary youth who have made great achievements in the future, but he also knew the disadvantages of pulling seedlings to encourage growth.

So, he just gave a little help to provide these people with a platform for growth. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!