Chapter 32 Aladdin's Lamp and Sanitary Pads (2)

In Taiwan there was a man named Jiang Tingfu, a professor at Tsinghua University, who later cooperated with the Kuomintang government and became Taiwan's "ambassador" to the United States. At that time, he was Taiwan's "ambassador" to the United Nations when there were still "diplomatic relations".He and Hu Shi are good friends.Once it was mentioned that Hu Shi was in Taiwan. He said: Mr. Hu, the older he is, the more gentle, thoughtful, and polite his speech is. Sometimes we can’t figure out whether he agrees or disagrees with a passage he said.Why is Hu Shi so polite when speaking in Taiwan?Because he encountered some difficulties, that is, in the environment of Taiwan, is it suitable for him to speak such serious words?Like when Hu Shih wrote articles in 1928 and 1929 to publicly criticize the Kuomintang and publicly attack Sun Yat-sen, was Hu Shih at that time different from the Hu Shih in Taiwan?Now we ask, Hu Shi and Lu Xun—if Hu Shi was in the mainland, or Lu Xun was in Taiwan—is it still different?

According to Jiang Tingfu, their generation was the last generation in which intellectuals influenced politics and respected intellectuals. After this generation passed, intellectuals were not taken seriously.During the "Cultural Revolution", intellectuals were stinking old nines.Why are intellectuals not taken seriously?Because the intellectuals have no power, the real power has gone to the hands of the soldiers, the political parties, the businessmen, the entrepreneurs, and the rich. Not taken seriously.Therefore, the generation of Hu Shi and Lu Xun was the last generation to be taken seriously, but now we intellectuals are not taken seriously.What is the reason?That is, you are already out.

I think that I am the last person who can feel proud of the intellectuals, that is, even though I was hit in Taiwan, imprisoned twice (sitting in a cowshed), and banned for 14 years, I myself I didn't lose my ambition and blame others. I continued to work on my own, and I continued to work as a self-employed person.I once said: That record——I have ninety-six books that have been banned. No one has ever written so many banned books, and there has never been a government that is so bastard that banned ninety-six of them. Six books, until the authority and the government that banned my books were taken away, and I survived.Of course, you'd say because I'm lucky.However, I must say that when I was suppressed and I was able to express myself, I never gave up.In other words, I myself did not give in.So, when I was blocked, you can see that the New York Times published my picture.The "New York Times" of the United States published my story on May 13, 1971.This is rare in the world of U.S. imperialism. It publishes photos of you, a person of color, in the form of a column, how my diary was smuggled out, and how it confronts the Kuomintang.Therefore, I always believe that as long as we work hard, as long as we don't give in, as long as we are prepared to pay the price, we will get a lot of relative gains, and of course it is a miserable price.That harvest is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, and ordinary people don't think that way.Most people will complain about others, feel that I should not be suppressed, and complain about the persecution against me.Let me tell you, I never complain, the reason is that we can work hard to transform a new environment, we can create it.

Many people failed, like Hu Shi who failed in his later years.After he came to Taiwan, he once wrote an inscription for someone, and wrote such a word: "The belt is getting wider and wider, and I will not regret it, and I will make people haggard for Yixiao." It was written by Hu Shi in Taiwan on December 7, 1952.Some people may ask: Is there any mistake in writing, the wanderer misses the motherland? There is nothing wrong.why?Missing the motherland must be overseas?You call your country the motherland just as you do at home.Do you still have evidence? You see, this is the evidence, everyone see: "Be vigilant and defend the motherland-Mao Zedong".See, Mao Zedong also wrote this word, so there is nothing wrong with using "motherland".However, Hu Shi often wrote poems for others, so he wrote a poem about Du Fu’s Qiang Village. He said, “When the world is in chaos, life is by chance.” The area is gone, I hope I can survive, but sometimes my wish will be fulfilled, sometimes it will not be satisfied, sometimes it is very clear.

Hu Shi died in Taiwan, and his last voice could not be conveyed to the motherland.I was very lucky. Although I was not respected as an intellectual like Hu Shi's generation, I was not defeated under the pressure of the military, political parties, and the media. Still alive until now, if I have the chance, I still want to say my words. At this time, we saw the problems encountered by Lu Xun and Hu Shi.Hu Shi met me once in his later years, and he told me a story, he said: Li Ao, have you read the book "Lu Xun's Letters"? I said: I secretly read this book.He said: Have you seen a letter inside, which is a letter written by Lu Xun to Hu Feng? The letter said that no matter how I work, there is still a whip behind me.Hu Shi said: Do you know who that leather whip is?That is Zhou Yang, who is in charge of literary and artistic work on the left wing of the Communist Party.Zhou Yang and the others forced Lu Xun, and then beat him with a whip, so there was such a passage in Lu Xun's letter to Hu Feng.Today, it was confirmed from the mouth of Lu Xun's son: Mao Zedong said that if Lu Xun lived to this day, he would either go to jail or shut up.

Zhou Yang was the one who trapped Lu Xun to punish him and forced him to turn "left". In the end, he became a warrior.However, after Zhou Yang himself became the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, this is how he ended up during the "Cultural Revolution".Do you see it?He became a "counter-revolutionary revisionist", wearing a sign, this is Zhou Yang.We find it very interesting that Zhou Yang pushed Lu Xun so hard back then, but what happened to him? This is what happened to him. We don’t mean to say that it’s interesting, just to the extent of gloating, but to tell everyone: We may have this fate, which is one kind, and there is nothing wrong with it; No matter how many blows, no matter how many blocks I have encountered, whether it is four years or fourteen years, as long as I have the opportunity, I will still take root, bloom and bear fruit, and I will do what I want to do.

Of course, some people will say: Is your speech too sentimental? Do you not love Taiwan? You also advocate the use of missiles to hit Taiwan's high-voltage power line towers. Is there something wrong with you?I tell you: this just proves how much I love my fellow man.Don't you like missiles hitting towers?Do you like missiles to hit people?Is it better to knock down one electricity tower, or to kill a thousand people?That's why I do this. My opinion is to protect compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, so that no bloody incidents can occur, and the problem can be solved.Many people are too narrow-minded, thinking that I am reminding the People's Republic of China (mainland) how to attack Taiwan.no.I am telling everyone that if Taiwan refuses to submit and has to fight with each other in the end, it is best to hit its electric towers instead of killing its people.This kindness, this kindness, this avoidance of bloodshed, doesn't it represent my good heart?Those idiots really don't understand me.