When Zhou Hexuan returned to Tianjin by train, Fairbank and Fei Weimei also went to Tianjin. The two foreign devils were ready to travel around China, Fairbank was to familiarize himself with Chinese customs and customs, and Fei Weimei was to investigate Chinese folk architecture.

Their first stop was Tianjin, and then they prepared to head south to Shanghai, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shantou, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou.

These cities were all treaty ports in the late Qing Dynasty. In order to write his doctoral dissertation, Fairbank worked hard enough, and he had to go through all the treaty ports, looking for and reading the customs historical materials of the year, and by the way, he also had to visit the local chronicles of various cities.

We have to admit that Fairbank's research on modern Chinese history has left a valuable legacy to the Chinese historiography. He worked tirelessly throughout China all year round and collected many precious historical materials. Many of these materials were destroyed in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and it was only thanks to Fairbank's efforts that future Chinese historians could get a glimpse of it.

This has created a very helpless phenomenon, and when Chinese scholars study modern Chinese history, they often have to read the works of Fairbank, an American.

When Zhou Hexuan took Fairbank and his wife back to Sanletang, except for Meng Xiaodong who went to Shandong to sing, several other women were at home.

Although "Lady of the Flowers" was banned in Nanjing, it was particularly popular in the north. These days, "Mrs. Blossom" has almost become Meng Xiaodong's masterpiece, widely circulated in North China, and even adapted into a drama performance by patriotic youth.

There's no way, the insinuation of this Peking Opera is too strong, and the audience with a little brain knows that it is satirizing the non-resistance policy. As a result, Meng Xiaodong's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and he is almost as famous as Mei Lanfang.

No, even Han Fuyu from Shandong sent a telegram to invite Meng Xiaodong to perform, saying that he wanted to sing a birthday party for his wife.

Ji Hongchang seemed to want to win over Han Fuyu to fight against Jiang and resist Japan, and he also disguised himself and mixed in the troupe, and followed Meng Xiaodong to Shandong, but Zhou Hexuan was not optimistic about Ji Hongchang's action.

Han Fuyu was the first fierce general of the Northwest Army to betray Feng Yuxiang, and hung Yan Xishan to fight during the Central Plains War. This person is a selfish old-fashioned warlord, if he wants him to oppose Chiang's resistance to Japan, unless he can come up with huge benefits that can be seen and touched, it is useless for the king of heaven to persuade him.

Now Han Fuyu has become the emperor of Shandong, except for Qingdao, the whole of Shandong is under the control of Han Fuyu, and even Chang Kaishen can't reach out to seize power. Two years ago, Zhang Zongchang wanted to make a comeback, and quietly made trouble with the support of the Japanese, but was directly killed by Han Fuyu.

But to be honest, Han Fuyu's ability to entrench himself in Shandong is actually a good thing for the people of Shandong.

Shandong has experienced years of wars and famines, bandits are rampant, warlords are everywhere, and it is precisely the local strength of Han Fuyu that needs to be suppressed by local powers.

According to statistics, from the Xinhai Revolution to the early 30s, 84 of the 107 counties in Shandong Province were plagued by bandits, of which there were more than 370 bandit gangs, and some bandit forces numbered as many as tens of thousands at their peak.

After Han Fuyu occupied Shandong, the first thing he did was to recruit a small group of warlords, and those who did not agree to the incorporation were directly punished as bandits. The second thing he did was to suppress the bandits, integrate the forces of the army, the police, and the militias, and carry out a joint eradication of the bandits in the counties.

Chang Kaishen ordered the warlords in various localities to "clear the township", but in fact, he arrested the communists in the name of "clearing the township". After Han Fuyu received the order from the Nanjing government, he was really "clearing the township", specifically eliminating bandits and bullies, and linking the suppression of bandits with the achievements of civil servants. He successively promoted more than a dozen local officials who were effective in suppressing bandits, so that the grassroots officials in Shandong were like fighting chicken blood, and they would copy the bandits when they saw them, and every bandit was a living political achievement.

Shandong's bandits have become a disaster, and in some places the entire village is full of bandits, and they can fight hard with the army with the help of tulou and tubao. In the face of such a bandit village, his order was: In addition to women and children, all men between the ages of 15 and 50 in the bandit area who did not "even protect the environment" should be shot, and the villages where the bandits were hiding would be burned down.

Liu Heiqi, the leader of the big bandits, defended the danger and fought with Han Fuyu's army for more than 40 days. Han Fuyu was angry, and actually applied for aircraft support from the Central Army, and beat Liu Heiqi to escape to Tianjin as a duke. This is not the end, Han Fuyu hired assassins to go to Tianjin to play assassination, and shot Liu Heiqi three times, but he didn't kill the bandit leader.

By purging the countryside and suppressing bandits, Han Fuyu, a warlord from the Northwest Army, has completely controlled the whole province of Shandong, and his influence has even penetrated into various counties, towns and villages.

Although Shandong under Han Fuyu's rule still has harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, due to his crazy anti-bandit actions, Shandong's public order has been quickly stabilized, and the common people have indeed received great benefits.

……

"This is my wife, Zhang Leyi."

"This is my wife, Wanrong."

"This is my wife'......"

With Zhou Hexuan's introductions one by one, Fairbank and Fei Weimei were already dumbfounded. In particular, the appearance of Vivien Leigh made them feel even more incredible, there is such a beautiful British woman who is willing to marry a Chinese man as an aunt's wife.

Since Vivien Leigh became pregnant, she moved into Sanle Hall to facilitate the baby. In the face of the surprise of Mr. and Mrs. Fairbank, she seemed very natural and calm, as if she had long been accustomed to this situation, and took the initiative to shake hands and joke: "Mr. Fei, Mrs. Fei, the two of you are good." It's really fateful, my surname is Fei, according to the Chinese saying, we are all our own family. ”

"It seems so." Fairbank couldn't help but wonder.

Everyone greeted each other for a while, and Fairbank followed Zhou Hexuan to the study.

It has been almost 10 years since Zhou Hexuan crossed over to the Republic of China, and his study is very large. There are several cabinets on the lowest floor, which put celebrity calligraphy and paintings, antique cultural relics and unique ancient books, the middle layer of the bookshelf is a variety of important local historical materials, and the upper layer is densely packed with Chinese and foreign masterpieces.

If you want to move in the future, you will need more than a dozen large boxes to pack the things in this study.

Fairbank's eyes lit up, especially the local chronicles and customs chronicles on the middle floor of the bookshelf, which were the materials he wanted to get in touch with the most. I couldn't help but rub my hands and said, "Mr. Zhou, I want to borrow some of your books." ”

"Of course you can," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "You and your wife can stay here first, and it's not too late to go south after checking the information." In a few days, the Lantern Festival will be held, and maybe you can experience a traditional Chinese festival. ”

"Thank you so much!" Fairbank excitedly held Zhou Hexuan's hand and said.

Fairbank is only a doctoral student in the United States, but after he came to China, he received selfless help from a large number of top Chinese scholars, including Zhou Hexuan, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Hu Shi, Jiang Tinghuang, etc. This made Fairbank very emotional, and at the same time made him fall in love with China, which he felt was a country full of human touch.

More than 50 years later, "Fairbank's Memoirs of China" was published, in which the second part, chapter 9, "Our Chinese Friends", contains more than 6,000 words about Zhou Hexuan. Fairbank wrote in his memoirs -

"Mr. Zhou Hexuan is an interesting person, he has an open mind, a broad vision and a keen eye, but he is very traditional at heart. As you can tell from his family connections, when I first visited, he introduced me to five wives. One is the daughter of a wealthy businessman, one is a theater star, one is the last empress of the Qing Dynasty, one is a Japanese female spy (I didn't know about Madame Liao's identity until the 70s), and the other is Vivien Leigh, a later Hollywood superstar.

It's hard for me to imagine how these beautiful women could live in peace as it is to manage a city. This situation was very common in China at that time, and men with power and money often had many wives at home. One is a legally recognized wife, and the others are called aunts, equivalent to concubines in the Qing Dynasty.

However, China's progressive scholars would not marry their aunt's wife so blatantly. For example, my friend Mr. Hu Shih, I know that he has several lovers, but only one wife from beginning to end. It seems to be about reputation, and taking a concubine and marrying an aunt is a sign of backwardness and reaction, and is to be condemned by progressive intellectuals.

Mr. Zhou Hexuan has no scruples about this, he never cares about other people's opinions, and he does not deliberately hide the fact that he married his aunt's wife. On the day of the Chinese Lantern Festival, he took several of his wives to go shopping in public, and accompanied them to put lanterns on the banks of the Haihe River. I also made a lantern with my own hands, but unfortunately it didn't seem to have good technology, and it was only a few meters away before it capsized in the river......"

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