Goldfish Hutong is in the bustling area on the east side of Wangfujing Street, and the Wangjia Garden in the Hutong was once the private garden of the former Qing Dynasty's Tirenge University Shi Natong, but the dynasty changed, how did the Manchus come from outside the Guan, and how they returned from the Guannai after the founding of the new dynasty. Except for Beizi Zaizhen, who hugged the thighs of the new dynasty, and Guangxu's big family, the other Manchurian real estate, regardless of whether they were high or low, were all recovered by the household department in four taels and one room.

In any genealogy, or the house deed of the former Ming Dynasty, or any other documents or family letters, anyway, as long as it can be proved that their ancestors had real estate in the capital when the Manchurians entered the customs, and there was a specific address and number of houses, their descendants only need to pay compensation to the household department at the price of four taels and one room, and the ancestral house more than 200 years ago will come back.

Chinese people always recognize some hard truths in doing things, and no one can say anything wrong with the looting of the property of the Manchurians. According to this method, the gold and silver treasures were confiscated in the name of the stolen money other than the reward of the Lulu, and the real estate was redeemed in the name of the former Ming and Han people.

On the day when the Inspectorate passed the bill, there were people in the outer city who took the yellowed and tattered Qianming house deed to the household department to claim it, and when the first new dynasty house deed appeared in the newspaper, the whole country was suddenly a sensation. However, after all, it was more than two hundred years ago, and less than three percent of the real estate was finally claimed, and among the three percent, the most famous is this garden, when Wang Tiezhu, who was in Guizhou, carried dry food and took the ancestral deed to the capital to shout grievances, the claim trend had long passed, and the garden was also assigned to the navy as a club.

The title deed is replaced as if it were fake. The situation is really pitiful (at that time, when the Wang family was driven out of the inner city by the Manchurians, there was no so-called four taels of redemption to buy silver. As soon as the Baoyi entered the house and killed, the whole family was left with Wang Tiezhu's great-great-great-grandfather and an old servant surviving. The two of them spent the night in the firewood house, and the next day they left the city alone, leaving with only a family tree, including a house deed. At that time, the country was overturned, and the Qing army soon crossed south, and it was not until they went south to Guizhou that they had no hope of stopping. For the future livelihood of the little master, the old servant made the master before his death and engaged to a local iron household, and the Wang family became naturalized in the local area, and the iron was struck for generations). It is another ancient and modern anecdote.

The Department of Culture and Propaganda of the Ministry of Rites, who felt the publicity value of this matter, immediately suggested that Wang Tiezhu enter the palace to meet King Min the next day. The grass people fell to the ground and cried bitterly, the emperor loved the people like a son, and there was a windfall from the sky, this kind of drama that the world loved to watch immediately moved countless fools, and even the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Rites also compiled a script, in order to highlight the effect of fools, a distant nephew of Wang Tiezhu (this person was a revival member, and later died heroically) was written as his son. Of course, in the play, Wang Martyr is by no means revolutionizing his ancestral home - people didn't know about their ancestors' real estate at that time, but they accepted the great truth of the Fuxing Society, followed Mr. Jing Cheng and Mr. Taiyan, and revolutionized all the Han people in the world who were oppressed and bullied by the Manchurians.

From now on. After negotiating with Wang Tiezhu, the navy still leased the West Garden as a club, and Wang Tiezhu became a waiter in the garden, not only having a job, but also taking care of the ancestral house day and night.

On the morning of the eighth day of the eleventh year of the eleventh year of Shenwu. Dressed in Western-style dresses and with flowers on their chests, Lu Ding and his wife were standing in the Wang's garden, looking forward to the guests who came from afar, of course, they didn't think about the story of the garden at their feet, they only stared at every car or sedan chair that came by. I only hope that the nobles are all guests invited by themselves, so as to save some face at the wedding - you must know that the royal family of this wedding is in addition to showing his face and his son is wearing a groom's dress. All other affairs and expenses are all handled by the Lu family. So low, three times and four to send her daughter to the door upside down. If the guest grade is crushed by the in-laws again, then the daughter will be ......

Among the guests of the Lu family, the most famous in Jinjing is Xiao Man's father-in-law Tang Zaili - it was he who introduced Wang Geng to the Lu family, but the Beiyang family suffered a great loss of vitality after the European War, and he himself retired early with the rank of major general, which can only be regarded as a sunset; In addition to Tang Zaili, Cao Rulin of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also a person who can help the Lu family save face, not to mention that he also brought five or six officials from the headquarters, when these people arrived, Lu Ding ran around excitedly, wishing to come and let hundreds of guests know that this was the Lu family's guests.

It's just that Cao Rulin has just arrived on the front foot, and Wang Zhengting, who was the minister of the Persian Kingdom and is now just recalled, has arrived on the back foot. Because he advocated the construction of the Western Regions-Persian Railway, so that the coast of the East China Sea could be connected to the Persian Gulf, he was valued by the prime minister, and the limelight must have been above Cao Rulin, so as soon as he arrived, Lu Ding was as soft as a deflated ball. Later, it was Cao Rulin's friend Zhang Zongxiang, although the grade was not high, but the key person was the 'factory guard' - even if he was only an official of the West Factory, the guests present also respected him, and after Wang Zhengting came, the Lu family's descendants fell into the limelight again.

But just like when Cao Rulin arrived, Lu Ding was not happy yet, and Viscount Zhan Tianyou arrived again, which is really an amazing character. Although Lord Zhan had a serious illness a few years ago, if it weren't for the holy monk's Buddhist medicine, I am afraid that he would have ...... it a long time ago, and now he doesn't care, but he is completely at the level of Shangshu, with him, the open and secret battle between the two families of Lu Wang and the Lu family is completely lost. Seeing that there was still an hour before the wedding began, his wife Wu Manhua pulled Lu Ding and asked him to go in to greet the guests, and the most important thing is that the Lu family also had to greet them - who made himself inferior to others.

Lu Ding knew that his wife paid a lot of attention and had high wrists, so he went as if he was fated, but when he arrived in the hall, he didn't see his son-in-law Wang Geng, so that the servants couldn't find it, so they had to greet the guests by themselves. Lu Ding's son-in-law in the West Garden was not found, but Wang Geng and a group of friends were in the Clarification Pavilion in the East Garden, he did not have the anxiety and urgency of the groom official, and only talked around Hu Shi with everyone.

"With Zhang Taiyan and his group of nationalists, the vernacular text cannot be pushed, this is the lesson we have learned in the past few years." Famous disabled person, Westernizer, professor of Peking University (deputy), doctor in the United States (false, thesis overhaul), general representative of the public knowledge artillery party (deputy; Yang Jing idiom) Hu Shi Master Hu said matter-of-factly. Although he became a Y monk the year before last and was frightened overnight in Haiyuan, more than a year of cultivation allowed him to return to the spirit of the past. Sitting in a wheelchair, he waved his hand, "But there is always a way, and Maki Sen's new poem will make this unique!" ”

Maki Sen is Xu Zhimo. He and Hu Shi have been corresponding, and just after returning from England the month before last, Hu Shi called the capital. As soon as he said Akimori. Everyone looked at Xu Zhimo, who didn't have half a hair on his chin, and was scrutinized by so many people, Xu Zhimo was suddenly a little embarrassed. Seeing that everyone was looking at Xu Zhimo like this, Hu Shi immediately coughed a few times, and said with some sadness: "Gentlemen, let's not underestimate the importance of habits and language!"

If China wants to fully westernize, it must eliminate the classical Chinese, and at the same time, it must completely eliminate the clans and the lunar calendar, and at the same time change the name of the country. Whether it is a republic or a republic, it cannot be Greater China anyway, let alone the Chinese Empire. Of all these things to do, language is the most important thing! The text doesn't matter, from the small seal to the line of calligraphy, if the text is not pinyin, it is of little significance to change.

What kind of language has what kind of thought, and what kind of thought has what kind of people. Medically speaking, the reproduction of germs needs an environment, and similarly, the growth of ideas also needs an environment, and the only way to change the old language environment is to change it. Only through culture can we innovate, can we remove the dregs of feudalism, and can freedom and democracy take root. So, in the midst of everything that needs to be changed. Language is the first priority, as long as you beat it. Then the next trend of the times will be led by those of us, which is the reason why Taiyan and others adhere to the quintessential party constitution.

The Kuomintang in order to confuse the people. Say that 'the custom of using written Chinese and oral vernacular has existed since ancient times, and the difference between Chinese and white has been different for thousands of years, and there is no need to improve it'. We must not be fooled, and if this is the case, then we should oppose it for the sake of opposing it. In the past, we promoted vernacular novels, for example, Yushan wrote several vernacular novels, and the novels were indeed well written, but the newspapers did not allow them to be published, so the effect was completely lost.

Therefore, the short and beautiful new poems must be unique. How so? Because poetry can be sung orally, and a novel, no matter how short it is, cannot be sung. Didn't those old pedants say that classical Chinese is vulgar and beautiful......"

Speaking of this, Hu Shi unnaturally lifted his glasses, at that time, when he was arguing for the vernacular of essays at Peking University, there were two troubles. First, Huang Jigang, who is also a professor at Peking University, talked about the vernacular and classical Chinese, which is more concise, and gave an example: "For example, if Hu Shi's wife dies and his family sends a telegram to report the funeral, if you use classical Chinese, 'your wife will return quickly after mourning';

Another is to respond to Huang Jigang's example, at a lecture Hu Shi said that the vernacular is more concise than the classical Chinese, and then let the students give examples, a female student of Beijing Normal University stood up and said an idiom: 'powerless'; Hu Shi immediately said: Four words are too expensive, three words are enough, that is, 'can't do it'", the audience applauded like thunder; but Peking University is a lot of bad people after all, and the next student directly reads: 'Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together, and the autumn water grows together in the sky', please simplify. Hu was stupid, and a group of people who supported the vernacular were also dumbfounded, and they were speechless.

How so? The reason is that vernacular may be more concise than classical Chinese, but it cannot express the beauty of language and artistic conception that classical Chinese can express. Not to mention that many of the classical Chinese are catchy to read, the life scene composed of the four scenes of 'Luoxia', 'Lonely Crane', 'Autumn Water' and 'Changtian' is exhaustive and cannot be expressed in all vernacular texts, because this is to depict life in a higher dimension, and the unique beauty of the Chinese language is also hidden here.

You can't do it in the vernacular, and you can't do it with any other alphabet. Because in the final analysis, Chinese and Chinese characters are originally a picture, and the classical Chinese has one word and one meaning, and the paintings and paintings are connected to each other, so they become a picture; The vernacular is just words, no matter how accumulated the words are, they are dead things after all, it is not a painting, but a ruler, and it is impossible to measure life and beauty with a ruler. Of course, a ruler-like language can eventually be reduced to a formula, e.g., E=mc2, but that's another kind of inhuman beauty.

Huang Jigang is just a disciple, so he made a mean mockery of 'his wife returns quickly', but Zhang Taiyan is a master after all, and let people relay the sentence 'Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together' to ask for the life of the vernacular, this shortcoming is the inherent defect of the vernacular, and it is also the innate advantage of the Chinese language. For this reason, when he saw Xu Zhimo's beautiful new poems, Hu Shi was immediately empowered and his brain was opened, and this is the scene where everyone is pulled to talk about it at the wedding today.

Hu Shi unhappily swept the past out of his mind, and put all his energy into speaking. He continued: "The new poems are beautifully written. For example, this one: "Hu Shi recited affectionately:"

I have a relationship; ——

I love the stars in the sky;

I love their crystals;

There is no such god in the world.

In the twilight of the cold twilight,

In the lonely gray early morning.

At sea. On the top of the mountain after the storm -

There will always be one, ten thousand stars! ”

After the affectionate recitation. Hu Shi said again: "There is a collection of poems by Yu Sen, all of which are new poems, some lyrical, some eloquent, and some cynical, anyway, I think they can be unique, and these poems are very short, catchy, and easy to be sung. ”

Xu Zhimo's poems didn't look much at it. Listening to Hu Shi's recitation now, I feel that it does have some meaning, everyone glanced at Xu Zhimo again, and Liu Bannong asked, "Then what should we do?" Is everyone going to write new poems? ”

"It's just one of them." Hu Shi smiled, very proud, and he said again: "Second, immediately set up a poetry club and run a new poetry magazine at the same time - don't worry, this is poetry." The Ministry of Rites may not notice this kind of little thing, we don't criticize current affairs, we only write about the wind and snow; Finally......" Hu Shi glanced at Xu Zhimo and said, "What does Sen mean is to invite Tagore, an Indian poet and the first Asian Nobel Prize winner in literature, to come to China to ......"

Hu Shiyi said Tagore. A few people around almost jumped up, and Zhou Zuodao said, "Really?!" Then he grabbed Hu Shi and asked, "Shizhi, is this true?" ”

Surprised to see so many people. Hu Shi smiled: "Of course it's true!" It was Akimori who knew and proposed it. Although this person is a literati, he is also a patriot. I went to Japan six years ago, and I wanted to come to China but no one invited me. This time, we want to build momentum for Mr. Tagore's visit to China. Let the whole country develop a trend of reading and writing new poems. As for the invitation, let's leave it to Zhaoxian. ”

Zhaoxian is Jiang Menglin, and when he returned to China, he was recommended by Cai Yuanpei and was appointed by his successor Jiang Weiqiao as the dean of the School of Literature of Peking University to replace the vacancy after Chen Youji was dismissed because of diploma fraud. He fully understood what Hu Shi meant, so he said: "I think that in addition to Peking University, Nankai University, Tsinghua School, and Southeast University can be jointly invited." ”

Zhang Boling, the president of Nankai, Zhou Yichun, the president of Tsinghua University, and Guo Bingwen, the president of Southeast University, are all ......, and Hu nodded and said, "Okay, this is more powerful." I think the crazy man is going crazy again. Fighting poetry with Tagore, their old characters won't, not fighting poetry with him, that is tantamount to putting Tagore in the limelight, haha......"

Hu Shi laughed out loud when he said it, and the other people around Jiang Menglin, Zhou Zuoren, Zhou Shuren, Liu Bannong, Qian Xuantong, Wang Geng and others also laughed, but they felt that those people in the Ministry of Rites would definitely have nothing to do with themselves this time.

The young man laughed, and Zhan Tianyou, who came out of the garden to take a breath and take a walk before the banquet, and saw them from a distance, said to Wang Zhengting: "Confucianism, look at these young people's ......, whenever I see them, I feel that I am really old." ”

The Western Regions Railway was repaired, Zhan Tianyou was really successful and retired, although he was hired as a consultant of the Ministry of Transportation at this time, he was basically at home to enjoy Qingfu. He was so relaxed, but Wang Zhengting sighed: "Hey! Brother Dependent City, the situation is not optimistic! If it's really ......," Wang Zhengting lowered his voice and said in Zhan Tianyou's ear: "If there is really a fight, what should we do with these people?" ”

Although Zhan Tianyou has not been close to official business for three years, he still knows about the political situation and diplomacy, and he was also heavy when Wang Zhengting said it, and he walked for a while before saying: "Is there really no way?" ”

"In my opinion, there really is no way. Judging by the Thucydides trap, there is really no way to do it. He couldn't help it, and he felt that what he said was too professional, afraid that Zhan Tianyou would not know, and explained: "The ancient Greek historian Thucydides believed that a newly rising power would inevitably challenge the existing powers, and the existing powers would inevitably respond to this threat, and this kind of war became inevitable.

The Second German Empire and Britain are the best examples, of course, Thucydides in ancient Greece was aimed at Athens and Sparta, when the rapid rise of the sea hegemony Athens shocked the land overlord Sparta, the war between the two countries lasted for more than 30 years, and finally ......" Wang Zhengting despaired: "In the end, both countries were destroyed because of the war. ”

"yes." Zhan Tianyou knew Wang Zhengting's worries, but he didn't have anything better to do about it, so he said: "Can Britain really do this?" ”

"She's done that now. Although the Yin'an Temple improved relations with Soviet Russia. At the same time, it formed an alliance with Japan and built a railway to the Persian Gulf. But ......," Wang Zhengting thought about those relations, and affirmed: "Soviet Russia is unreliable. It is also very likely that the Persian railways will be blocked in time of war, and even Britain will join the war and declare war on us when the situation becomes clear......"

"Hmm. So what do we do? Zhan Tianyou said, "Is the Confucian Hall willing to give up the current position?" ”

"I ......" Wang Zhengting was asked by Zhan Tianyou about the itch. The longer he gets along with Yang Rui, the more he admires his personality and marvels at his vision, but the reality is: they are not all the way at all! "I don't know what to do?" He said weakly. "A lot of times I feel very lost, I don't know what we want to do, can liberal democracy really make people in this country live well? I used to believe in it, but now I ....... I think Yang Jingcheng's theory of good and evil is not necessarily unreasonable. ”

"Hehe, the theory of good and evil ......" Zhan Tianyou smiled: "This is just an incomplete explanation of interpreting Western thought with Eastern thinking." Western thought can not be summed up by the words good and evil. Rutang, don't forget Mr. Rong's last words, and don't forget the ideals of our generation! At the same time, with the United States, I believe it is still possible to talk, didn't it handle it very well at the last Washington meeting? ”

"But there is a specific background to this," Wang Zhengting argued for some reason, "we were in the interests of the United States at that time, and we were in the interests of Britain – Britain wanted to see us confront the United States, but ten years, twenty years at most." We are bound to pose a challenge to the United States, which attaches great importance to its sea power in the Pacific, not to mention the deep contradictions between Japan and the United States, and our alliance with Japan. When we rise....... No, no," Wang Zhengting shook his head vigorously. "It should be that the United States is going to start a war before we have even risen. Germany's now. It may well be our future. ”

"And what if we don't form an alliance with Japan and withdraw from the alliance?" Zhan Tianyou asked again. When he said that there is a way, he meant this way. "Give up the sea power as it is now."

glanced at Zhan Tianyou solemnly. Wang Zhengting said: "This is impossible. Do you say that the German Empire at that time would have demolished its own fleet before the Great War? I don't think even if the Kaiser had agreed, the parliament, the people, and the businessmen would not have agreed. This kind of Thucydidesan war is not caused by individuals, but is a natural confrontation between two strong men, and it is also the inevitable result of economic development, and they will either be separated from the fierce war or destroyed together in the war.

Yang Jingcheng famously said that the East and the West are like a seesaw, when one end sinks, the other will lift, and vice versa. We and Japan benefited from the Great War in Europe, but when Germany and Austria sank, we were bound to be suppressed. Germany and Austria have already failed, and China and Japan will ...... in the future."

"The United States and us accounted for the vast majority of the reasons for the defeat of Germany and Austria, and without our participation, the outcome of the war would be unpredictable. And we are different from Germany, we can be self-sufficient in food, oil, most minerals, and the population is more than 40,000,000 people, if we want to defeat such a country......" Zhan Tianyou shook his head, he glanced at Wang Zhengting deeply, and said: "Unless it is the same as Russia, a revolution breaks out because of the war." ”

Wang Zhengting compared China to Germany, and did not want Zhan Tianyou to think of Russia. Of course, China has the characteristics of these two countries, and in a nutshell, it is Russia's physique, Germany's fate, and whether the outcome of the war will be the Russian Revolution or German democracy is ultimately unclear.

Thinking about this question, the two of them had turned back to the West Garden, but before they entered the living room, they heard a panic inside, and a woman screamed and wailed from the bottom of her heart: "Mei'er...... Mei'er, why can't you think about it! …… Whining...... Eyebrows, ah......". Accompanied by the woman's cry, several other voices shouted, "Quick! Fast! …… Get to the hospital......"

The two were surprised, Lu Ding, the woman's parent who was welcoming her outside just now, ran out quickly with a white person, and was not surprised how could he be so vigorous and flying, and the two saw that it was today's bride who was being held, her neck hung weakly, and she was wearing a white wedding dress, half of which had been stained red with blood, and the red was extremely dazzling.

The chubby Lu Ding rushed in front of the two of them with his daughter in his arms, followed by a group of people from the Lu family, and the crying Wu Manhua was supported at the end. Obviously, because of the bride's suicide, the well-prepared wedding was ruined. (To be continued.) )