Chapter 54 Let's talk about reservations

Because I mentioned Liu Gengsheng's crimes, I thought of speaking and writing. In today's China, it is really difficult. To be safe, it is better not to speak out.Otherwise, it is often unavoidable to get it on your own head. Here are a few examples - Twelve years ago, Lu Xun wrote an article "The True Story of Ah Q", which was probably intended to expose the weaknesses of the people, although he did not say whether he was also included in it.But this year, a few people refer to themselves as "Ah Q", which is the bad retribution of this world. Eight or nine years ago, honest men and gentlemen ran a newspaper [1], saying that the opponents had taken rubles, so they caused trouble in the academic world.However, after four or five years, the gentleman became a professor again, and the gentleman turned into a director [2], living on Russian money [3], and when he heard that the payment was stopped, he had to fight hard.Although this is a good reward in this world, it always gets on my own head.

But people who use pens, even if they are careful, are always a little less thoughtful.The most recent example is that in various newspapers, "enemy", "rebellion", "false" and "puppet country" are used so much that they turn against the sky.Not writing in this way is really not enough to express his patriotism, and will be dissatisfied by readers.Unexpectedly, "a certain agency notified [4] that it is necessary to pay attention to the reality in resisting insults, and to over-stimulate the words against the enemy, which will not benefit the reality, and should be used in the future", and Chairman Huang [5] came out against the flat and expressed his political opinions, saying that it was true. "China and the war are both passive, and the solution is hard to say. The national crisis is more than one end, and it is urgent to seek the final rescue" (see the "Da Evening News" on the 18th, Beiping News)? ... Fortunately, the newspaper really only saw headlines such as "Japanese Aircraft Threats Peking", and there is no "excessive stimulation" in the words, but the words "traitor" are still there.The Japanese are not enemies, and the Han and He Yun are treacherous. This seems to be a big loophole.Fortunately, the Han people are not afraid of "over-stimulating the literal meaning". Even if they cut off their heads and hang them on the street to admire Chinese and foreign ladies and gentlemen, no one would say a word.

In these places, we know the difficulty of speaking. After the literary prison of the Qing Dynasty[6], literati did not dare to do unofficial history. If anyone can forget the horror of three hundred years ago, as long as he captures newspapers and saves their elites, it will be an immortal masterpiece.But of course, there is no need to be oversensitive and change the name to "Shangguo" or "Tianji" in advance. May 17th. 〔1〕 Gentlemen of integrity ran a newspaper referring to the weekly "Modern Review" founded by Hu Shi, Chen Xiying and others in December 1924 in Beijing.Chen Xiying once published an article "Gossip" in the seventy-fourth issue of the magazine (May 8, 1926), slandering progressives as "people who directly or indirectly use Soviet Russian money." "An upright gentleman" was the flattery of the modern critics by Beijing's "Datong Evening News", which supported the Beiyang government at the time, see the newspaper on August 7, 1925. 〔2〕A gentleman is also a professor, and a gentleman turns into a director. Chen Xiying used to be the director and professor of the English Department of Peking University, and the dean and professor of literature at Wuhan University.Hu Shi used to be a professor in the Philosophy Department of Peking University, and in 1931 he was the dean of the Faculty of Arts of Peking University. [3] Russian Section After the success of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, the Soviet Russian government announced the renunciation of all the privileges of imperial Russia in China, including the refund of the unpaid part of the boxer indemnity.In May 1924, China and the Soviet Union resumed diplomatic relations, and the two countries signed the "Sino-Russian Agreement", which stipulated that, in addition to repaying various debts of the Chinese government that had been pledged by Russian funds, the remainder would be used for Chinese education.At the beginning of 1926, "Modern Review" published consecutive articles talking about "the use of Russian funds", striving for Russian funds for the "Beijing education circle".After the September 18th Incident, the Kuomintang government repeatedly suspended the Boxer indemnity payment for education expenses under the pretext of "coping with national disasters", which caused panic and protests in the educational circles.

〔4〕A notice from a certain agency refers to a special notice issued by Huang Yu to curry favor with Japan after he took office as the chairman of the Beiping Government Affairs Reorganization Committee. [5] Chairman Huang is Huang Yu. 〔6〕 Literary prisons in the Qing Dynasty The Qing Dynasty strictly enforced the policy of ethnic oppression, and constantly developed literary prisons in an attempt to eliminate the resistance and national ideology of the Han people with severe punishments. Zeng Jing prison; Hu Zhongzao's "Jian Mo Sheng Shi Chao" prison during the Qianlong period, etc.