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Chapter 67 How To Get Away With Impunity

After the dinner, the four giants of United States left.

For them, it was just a deal with Lin Zixuan, and there was no friendship.

At most, they thought this oriental spoke quite interestingly, not as dull as other orientals. This was a pretty pleasant dinner, that's all.

Lin Zixuan would not give up so easily, but he should not be too anxious. Denial may easily cause the other party to be disgusted.

Anyway, he will stay in the United States for a while and must be patient in order to gain something.

Walsh received his reward and was in a good mood. He agreed to take Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhou Jianyun to the filming site to see how Hollywood filming was done.

He is an actor and director himself. He has been together in Hollywood for several years and is considered a second-rate figure. He still has this face.

For Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhou Jianyun, this is a rare opportunity to learn Hollywood film production. Only by coming to Hollywood can we know the huge gap between Chinese movies and Hollywood movies.

There are dozens of feature films in Hollywood every year, but China has only two or three feature films so far.

When they think of this, the two of them have a sense of mission of being in a hurry.

In the lawsuit with Ji Hongming, lawyer Peterson adopted the procrastination tactic.

Wang Geng brought the "Lin Chinese Pinyin Plan" to Washington, and Shi Zhaoji had no choice.

This is not a matter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it should be handled by the Ministry of Education domestic.

He could only send a telegram to the Ministry of Education in China, urging the Ministry of Education to review the plan and issue a certificate.

However, Shi Zhaoji knew in his heart that this was just doing his best and leaving the will of heaven. Unless a miracle happened, the Ministry of Education in China would not be able to issue this proof.

Lin Zixuan had known this for a long time.

When he was in China, he sent this "Lin's Chinese Pinyin Plan" to Hu Shi, Zhou Zuoren, and Lu Xun.

After all, Luxun is now working in the Ministry of Education.

From 1912 to 1926, he served in the Ministry of Education for fourteen years and was an old civil servant.

Lin Zixuan means that he wants to ask famous domestic scholars such as Hu Shi to prove that this pinyin plan is feasible, and it would be even better if it can be recognized by the Ministry of Education.

But Luxun wrote back and said that this was impossible.

Luxun understands the internal situation of the Ministry of Education. The person in charge of the Ministry of Education is the Director of Education. During this period, the frequent changes of the General Education General Education caused the work of the Ministry of Education to almost paralyze.

So how often do the education chief changers change?

From 1912 to 1927, the Ministry of Education replaced 37 chief education directors in 15 years, and the pace was changed almost once every six months.

The chief education director at this time was Qi Yaoshan, who passed the imperial examination in the fifteenth year of Guangxu and became a Jinshi in the 16th year of Guangxu.

If you look at his resume from 1920 to 1922, you will know the situation within the Beiyang government.

"In June 1920, he was appointed as the governor of Shandong Province. In May 1921, he was appointed as the Chief of Internal Affairs of the Beijing Government and the Prime Minister of the Hunger Relief Association. In June, he was appointed as the Chief of the Beijing Municipal Government. In July, he was appointed as the President of the Commercial Bank and the Director of the Education Department in December. In 1922, he was appointed as the President of the Grain Investigation Committee. In April of the same year, he was dismissed from the Chief of Education and the Chief of the Agricultural and Commercial Bureau in June."

This is the chaos in the appointment of bureaucratic appointments within the Beiyang government during this period.

In fact, in December 1920, Huang Yan should have been the chief education director, but Huang Yan's accompanying him did not come at all, so he had to let Qi Yaoshan serve as a part-time position. He was dismissed more than a year later.

The head of the Ministry of Education has come and go in such a hurry, without understanding the situation at all, and has no time or energy to do things.

So, Luxun directly told Lin Zixuan not to ask the Ministry of Education to issue a certificate. It will probably take several months for a meeting to discuss, let alone no time for you.

Lin Zixuan has several statements issued by domestic scholars, but they are useless in the United States and are not recognized in court.

Hu Shi is amazing enough. He is an advocate of new literature in China and an idol among the hearts of thousands of young people. However, in the United States, he is not as important as an ordinary professor in an American university.

Lawyer Peterson took a different approach and linked Lin Zixuan's "Lin's Chinese Pinyin Plan" with "Esperanto".

Esperanto is a language created by Polish doctor Dr. Zamenhof in 1887.

In 1894, Chamenhof published the first Esperanto dictionary.

Esperanto is an artificial language created based on the Indo-European language family.

It aims to eliminate language barriers in international interactions and enable people of all races and colors to live in harmony like brothers and sisters in the same human family.

It has a total of twenty-eight letters, and the writing is made of Latin letters.

This is very similar to Lin Zixuan's Chinese pinyin scheme, but Esperanto is more famous abroad and has been recognized by educational institutions around the world.

In 1921, the French Academy of Sciences recommended Esperanto as the language of world scientific communication.

In the same year, Cai Yuan took a Chinese education delegation to Honolulu to attend education conferences in various Pacific countries. At this meeting, Cai Yuanwu drafted two proposals to promote the spread of Esperanto.

Lawyer Peterson found an Esperanto expert at the University of Washington and showed him Lin Zixuan's plan.

This expert believes that Lin Zixuan's Chinese pinyin scheme is a beneficial supplement to Esperanto and promotes the process of Latinization of Chinese characters.

Lawyer Peterson and Lin Zixuan both understood that the two actually had no direct relationship.

The reason why this expert said this was to expand the influence of Esperanto, and the other was that Lin Zixuan gave him a high consultation fee.

Lin Zixuan thinks the latter is the main reason.

In court a week later, lawyer Peterson took the certificate issued by Esperanto experts, believing that since the legal status of Esperanto was recognized, it could show that Lin Zixuan's pinyin plan was feasible.

The other lawyer naturally disagrees.

Next was another fierce debate, and the court finally announced that the trial would be held again half a month later.

If both parties do not have further evidence, a jury will need to make a decision on whether it is guilty and the judge will make a judgment. If either party is dissatisfied with the judgment, an appeal may be filed in the Massachusetts Superior Court.

This was expected by lawyer Peterson.

Even if the Boston District Court ruled that Ji Hongming won, the case was not over and they still had a chance.

The case will be concluded unless the U.S. Supreme Court makes the final judgment.

This is the first time Lin Zixuan intuitively feels how Americans sue, and lawyers undoubtedly play a crucial role in it.

He has watched some American legal dramas in later generations, and he always saw lawyers talking endlessly in court, and then bad people get away with justice. Lawyers are especially good at confusing right and wrong and confusing black and white.

He agreed with Peterson's strategy.

When the influence of "Gone with the Wind" appears, it is likely to affect the opinions of the jury.

He had half a month of free time, and in addition to continuing to write novels, he also had to meet Marie Beckford.

Lin Zixuan wrote some plots and suggestions about filming "New York Holiday" in New York, sent them to the Hollywood star, and asked for a detailed meeting.

With Marie Beckford's interest in remakes this movie, he will definitely agree to meet.
Chapter completed!
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