Chapter 22 In the second quarter, Hu Fulin leaves mysteriously

When Rui Yifu went to Lizhuang to investigate, a seemingly insignificant case of rebellion happened in the nest, but Fu Sinian was greatly annoyed. On August 23 of this year, Hu Fulin (Housuan), an assistant at the Institute of History and Philology who worked at his desk all day in a dark room in Longtou Village, Kunming, to identify and compile oracle bone inscriptions, suddenly asked Fu Sinian for leave, saying that he had a good friend named Xu Xinwu. , found a job for his wife in Beibei, Chongqing. Because the road from Kunming to Chongqing was difficult and there were many bandits, he had to personally escort his family to Chongqing, and said that he would return to Kunming immediately after one month to sell the vacation, and he needed to pay nine to twelve months in advance. The salary is used for travel expenses and so on.After hearing this, Fu Sinian felt that life was difficult for his brothers, and it was a good thing for his family members to find a job in Chongqing, the accompanying capital. However, considering that the Institute of History and Philology was about to move, he advised the other party not to leave at this time, and it was best to do it after entering Sichuan. Intend.If you take a boat from Sichuan to Chongqing directly along the Yangtze River from a new place, this route is much more convenient than traveling from Kunming to Chongqing.Unexpectedly, Hu Fulin disagreed and insisted on leaving.After repeated hesitation, Fu Sinian finally gritted his teeth and agreed, and told the other party to go and come back quickly, so as not to miss the move in the office.Mrs. Hu nodded in agreement, and the matter was considered over.

A few hours later, Fu Sinian came to Li Ji's residence, and told about Hu Fulin's leave to go to Chongqing. Both public and private are justified.Now that the whole institute is about to be relocated, many utensils need to be sorted and packed, and there is a shortage of manpower. If Xiao Hu leaves at this time, it will be extremely detrimental to the work of the Institute of History and Philology.Fu Sinian, who was already somewhat reluctant, was quite remorseful when told by Li Jiyi, and immediately found Shi Zhangru, who was arranging utensils in the studio, and asked him to find Hu Fulin as soon as possible and convey Fu and Li's opinions, hoping that the other party would stay for now. After moving with the place, go to Chongqing.As soon as Shi Zhang got the order, he hurried to the small dark room and dormitory where Hu Fulin worked, and found that the room was empty.They also searched for the place where the Institute of History and Languages ​​was located and where the Maitreya Hall might be hiding, but there was still no trace of Hu Fulin.Could it be that this person can't disappear?Shi Zhang thought so, and after many inquiries, he learned that the Hu family had quietly left Kunming.

Hu Fulin was admitted to the History Department of Peking University from Baoding Peide Middle School in Hebei in 1928 and graduated in 1934.During this period, the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica moved from Guangzhou to Jingxinzhai, Beihai, Peking University. Jiang Menglin, the president of Peking University, hired Fu Sinian, Li Ji, Dong Zuobin, Liang Siyong and other big names from the Institute of History and Philology to give lectures to strengthen the prestige of the School of Liberal Arts of Peking University.Since the second half of 1931, Gu Jiegang, in addition to being a full-time professor at Yanda University, was also employed as a part-time lecturer in the Department of History of Peking University, giving a few hours of class every week.The student Hu Fulin gradually established a closer teacher-student relationship with Gu Jiegang out of admiration for Gu's knowledge.After Hu's graduation, Fu Sinian and Li Ji got him to work in the Archaeological Group of the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica because his studies were not bad.From then on, Hu Fulin followed Liang Siyong to Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province to participate in the tenth and eleventh archaeological work, and independently presided over the excavation of the tomb No. 1004 in the Northwest Gang Mausoleum of Houjiazhuang.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he followed Dong Zuobin to sort out the oracle bones unearthed from the Yin Ruins, and also worked on the interpretation of the "Yin Ruins Characters A Series".According to Shi Zhangru's recollection: "Previously in Nanjing, the oracle bones excavated one to nine times were anxiously published in the "Yinxu Characters Jiabian", so the oracle bones in pit YH127 were only put on the shelf, and they were not moved after being packed." In August 1941, the colleagues of the Institute of History and Philology felt that "there is still some time before the move, and we don't know the location of the move, so we might as well take the opportunity to open the box and number it. The three groups of colleagues can help unpack the box, and the number will fall to Hu Houxuan and Gao to find it." On the two gentlemen... Hu Houxuan and Gao went to find someone to write the number and a record. If there are fragments that can be combined, maybe there are two numbers, they will take the opportunity to reorganize. Mr. Dong will describe and classify the important things... The work starts from I was busy from morning to night, and continued to work overtime until ten o’clock after dinner.” While this intense and complicated work was going on, Hu Fulin quietly left.

At that time, the entire Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica was full of masters like Lin, and a small assistant like Hu Fulin had to take a one-month vacation, which was not worth mentioning.The extraordinary thing about this matter is that when Shi Zhangru was ordered to search for Hu Fulin's traces, he suddenly found that all Hu's books, documents, daily necessities and other utensils disappeared without a trace along with himself.Shi Zhangru felt something was wrong and felt that there was a fraud, so he immediately reported to Fu Sinian and Li Ji.When Fu and Li heard this, they also found it inconceivable, so they started investigations at the Institute of History and Philology and surrounding academic institutions with doubts and puzzles.The next day, I learned that Hu Houxuan had indeed followed Gu Jiegang to run a research institute at Qilu University in Chengdu.When Fu Sinian heard the real news, he was furious, thinking that Xiao Hu had played himself like a monkey, so he shook his fat body in front of several clay statues in the Maitreya Hall, jumping his heels from time to time, to Hu Fulin and Qilu University together with Gu Jiegang, Qian Mu and others cursed.After the scolding, he wrote a letter to Hu Fulin, saying: "Brother Qingwen was shocked by the Qilu University incident. If there is such a thing, please ask to dispel it; if there is no such incident, please let me know." Then he ordered The archaeological group of the Institute of History and Philology issued a letter: "At the request of Director Fu, please leave the two articles "Wuding with Many Wives and Many Sons" and "Agriculture in the Yin Dynasty" and bring them to Mr. Wang Hezong for compilation into the collection."

After writing the two letters, Fu Sinian felt that the hatred in his heart had not been relieved, so he wrote another letter, venting the false fire in his stomach to the person in charge of Qilu University. The book said: One day after Hu Fulin, a staff member of our firm, asked for leave and left the firm, our firm received some oral reports, saying that the Institute of Chinese Studies of your school had appointed Mr. Hu Fulin, who is currently working in our firm, as a professor a year ago, and the salary was paid.His duties this year are: (1) Purchase books for your school in Yunnan. (2) Transcribe all the unpublished materials that Intuos is studying in this institute for future use by your school's Institute of Chinese Studies.The matter involved is so bizarre that it is hard to believe... According to the report of the person in charge, in the past year, the person has transcribed a lot of important historical materials collected by the institute.The official work [data] of the firm was also taken away by this staff member. What is the purpose?It's really hard to guess... In the letter, Fu Sinian strongly urged Qilu University to immediately "check whether the above-mentioned rumors are true" and give an explanation to the Institute of History and Philology.Qilu University was co-founded by Anglo-American Presbyterian missionaries in Jinan in 1917, but it failed to file a case for a long time. Later, under the secret care of Kong Xiangxi, a so-called Christian and Chiang Kai-shek's "second child", in December 1931, the Nanjing National Government The Ministry of Education approved the Shandong Provincial Department of Education for approval to file a case in Jinan, recognizing its legal status.Because of Kong's great contribution to this, Qilu University took the initiative to hire Kong Xiangxi as the honorary president of the school according to the philosophy of doing things with Chinese characteristics.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Jinan fell, and Qilu University was exiled to Chengdu, Sichuan, and lived on the campus of West China Union University in Huaxiba.At this time, Gu Jiegang had resigned from the teaching position of Yanda University. He first organized a Northwest inspection team to investigate the northwest frontier, and was hired by Xiong Qinglai, the president of Yunnan University, and arrived in Kunming in October 1938 to serve as a professor at Yunda University.Not long after, the Peking Research Institute (South Press: not the Academia Sinica) moved to Kunming, and Gu Jiegang concurrently served as the director of the history group of the Institute of History of the academy. In the spring of 1939, Liu Shichuan, the president of Qilu University, invited Gu Jiegang to come to the school to serve as the director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. Gu believed that the conditions listed by Qilu University were more beneficial to his life and academic research, so he readily agreed, and quietly recruited him who was teaching at Southwest Associated University. Qian Mu joins in together.

Qian Mu was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He studied in a private school in his hometown when he was young. He grew up as a teacher in a middle school in Suzhou. Although he is full of knowledge, he has been unknown.It wasn’t until Gu Jie had just returned home from Beiping to visit relatives that he was introduced by someone and accidentally discovered that this rural talent was knowledgeable and unique in history and culture. A specimen-like character who has become a talent, he unconsciously cherishes his talent.As soon as Gu Jie returned to Peiping, he tried his best to recommend money to the academic circle and got a response. In the autumn of 1930, at the age of 36, Qian Mu left Suzhou for Peiping. He first taught at Yenching University with Gu Jiegang, and was later recommended by Gu to teach at Peking University.Since then, the Qian family has leaped into the top institutions of higher learning in the country, and has quickly become a bright star in the history circle.

Due to differences in personal growth experience, academic views, and personalities, the relationship between Qian Mu, Fu Sinian, Hu Shi and other people in the group has gradually changed from superficial politeness to no longer politeness, and the emotional rift has become wider and wider.The inside story is complicated, but the general context can be seen. According to Qian Mu himself, there were two major factions in the historian circle at that time, one was the "reformist school" and the other was the "scientific school".Qian disapproved of Hu Shi and Fu Sinian, the representatives of the so-called "organization of national heritage with scientific methods".In Qian Mu's eyes, the value of this school is not great. It is nothing more than "shocked by the reputation of 'scientific method', it often cuts off historical facts and pursues local and narrow investigations. It replaces living personnel with dead materials".Comparing Hu and Fu, Qian Mu looked down on Fu Sinian even more, because Hu Shiwei had an "Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy" published in the first volume.Fu Sinian has always been opposed to "writing history", advocated focusing on special research, and advocated the empirical and objective theoretical mantle of the German Langk School. This point contradicts Qian Mu's view of history with the taste of Suzhou sweet rice cakes and salted fish. Mutual dissatisfaction in speech and communication, eventually leading to personal relationship deterioration.According to Qian Mu's own recollection, he and Fu Sinian were comrades only in criticizing Kang Youwei's theory of doubting the past by modern writers, but after that, they were completely different.After Fu Sinian passed away in Taiwan, Wang Fansen, a researcher at the Institute of History and Philology, was ordered to check and sort out all the archives of Fu’s family in Taiwan, and found that there were only two correspondences between Fu and Qian, both of which were public affairs. Yao Congwu and Yao Congwu jointly wrote a letter to Fu Sinian to fight for scholarships for students, which shows the thin relationship between the two.

In the 1940s, Fu Sinian publicly declared that he had never read Qian's books, and Qian Mu had clearly shown his distaste for Fu. And resentment has not been resolved in a lifetime.According to an insider's recollection, Qian Muchang said that Fu Sinian was very domineering, that he was a kind of mountain king in Liangshan Loyalty Hall in Shuibo, and that he was a bandit leader who rebelled.On the other hand, Fu Sinian scolded Qian Mu as a dog-headed and cat-headed rat, at best, a small southern tailor with superficial roots and no plans.After the Anti-Japanese War, Qian Mu's "Outline of National History" was published. Zhang Qiyun (zi Xiaofeng), who was once a professor and director of the Department of History and Geography at Zhejiang University and then the director-general of the Chinese Geographical Society, met Fu Sinian at the head office of the Academia Sinica in Chongqing and asked thoughts on this book.Knowing that Qian and Fu were at odds, Zhang deliberately asked, but it was nothing more than a dark psychology at work, sowing discord and watching the excitement.Of course Fu Sinian was not stupid. He knew the other party's intentions but he didn't pay attention to the other party and Qian Mu and other idiots in his mind, so he replied loudly: "I never read a word of Qian's books. People have repeatedly talked about how Western and European academics are, but those knowledge are actually copied from the "Oriental Miscellaneous Magazine", and there are no inventions of their own."

After hearing this, Zhang Qiyun immediately widened his broad bean-shaped eyes, bared his teeth like a mouse, and yelled back: "Since you claim not to read a single word of Qian's book, how do you know such details?" Fu blushed and let out a "sigh", and then scolded angrily: "Damn, if you don't read his book, you don't know how shallow and ridiculous it is? Have you met your grandfather, that is, your grandfather's father?" ?” The other party didn't know what to say, shook his head and said: "No, he died a long time ago." "Do you have a grandfather?" Fu Sinian quickly asked, shaking his small body like a mountain bag, and hurried forward, posing in a posture that multiplied his volume by his speed, and gave the opponent a fatal blow.

"Of course I have a grandfather!" Seeing that the situation was not good, the other party took a few steps back and said in a whisper. Fu Sinian suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and then said with a serious face: "It means that I don't read a word of Qian's writing, because I know its absurdity!" Zhang Qiyun was stunned for a while, and finally came to his senses, he was deeply afraid of Fu Sinian's laughter and cursing, fearing that if he continued to argue, he would not only lose sight of the excitement of the other party, but might be beaten up by the living hell king in front of him, so he shrank his head and turned his back, Like a mouse, it turned its head three times at a step, and hopped away. From Qian Mu's reminiscence articles in his later years, it can be seen that when he was at Peking University and Southwest Associated University, Tang Yongtong, Meng Wentong, Xiong Shili and others had the closest contacts with him.None of these people were part of the "New Culture Movement," with the only exception being Gu Jiegang—although Gu did not have many notable achievements in this movement.Qian Mu has always been kind to Gu. The reason why he left Southwest Associated University to assist Gu in Chengdu was related to Gu Jiegang’s invitation, but it was also related to the political atmosphere on campus at that time.According to Qian Mu's self-report: "Since Yu left the UNU, left-leaning ideas have become more and more arrogant, and teachers and students have sung with each other. Wen Yiduo is especially domineering, and he publicly scolded Yu in the newspapers as being stubborn. ... There are almost all left-leaning professors in the UNU. Treat Yu as a public enemy." Wen Yiduo jumped on tiptoe and yelled that Qian Mu was not a thing. Although it happened after Qian left the United Nations General Assembly, it is conceivable that there were already many opponents before he left. in continuous expansion.As far as Qian Mu's behavior at that time was concerned, he was not a pile of stinky shit and useless as Fu Sinian said. According to Qian, if it is in Kunming, it should be "a court where you can sue Wen Yiduo and others for defamation".It was precisely because of factional strife and complicated reasons that Qian Mu accepted Gu Jiegang's suggestion and resigned from his teaching position at Southwest Associated University. In September 1939, he first went back to his hometown in Suzhou to visit relatives, and then went to work at the Research Institute of Qilu University in Chengdu, Sichuan.But at this time, almost no one in the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica knew that Gu Jiegang had secretly established contact with Hu Fulin, and brought Hu Fulin into the Qi University Research Institute together. Whether it was during the Peking University period or after the Anti-Japanese War, the relationship between Hu and Gu was relatively secretive, and there are not many people who are familiar with the relationship between the two.But Fu Sinian, who has always been dissatisfied with Gu Jiegang, has always been kept in the dark.If Mrs. Fu knew the close relationship between Hu and Gu, it would be impossible for Hu to work at the Institute of Historical Philology. Even if he entered the Institute of Historical Philosophy by accident, he would be kicked out by Fu Sinian.Hu Fulin and Gu Jiegang kept secret all the time, which is the cleverness of Hu family.According to Shi Zhangru’s deduction, when Hu Fulin in Longtou Village, Kunming learned that the Academia Sinica might have to relocate, he “feeled that the future was unpredictable, so he contacted his former teacher Gu Jiegang… Gu had a lot of part-time jobs and was apparently inactive, but In fact, it was very active. The Peking Research Institute was in Heilongtan at the time, and Gu Jiegang lived in Langkou Village in the northwest of Longtou Village, just across the Jinzhi River from Heilongtan....Since Langkou Village is not far from Longtou Village, it is possible that Gu and Hu Houxuan Connected." Shi's guess was indeed good. Many years later, Hu Fulin explained this experience: "Mr. Gu Jiegang, who was teaching in Yunnan, lived in Langkou Village not far from my place in the countryside. He often sent his teacher and wife to 'Jiezi' At the (market), he brought me a note, ordering to search for information. Mr. Qian Mu also came to the southwest with the United Nations University, and his family stayed in Suzhou on the way. Mr. Gu returned to the east to visit his mother. At this time, Mr. Gu and Harvard Yan The Jingxue Society got a special fund and established the Institute of Chinese Studies at Qilu University, which moved to Chengdu. He invited Mr. Qian, who was teaching at the Southwest Associated University, and me to be researchers. Mr. Gu told Qilu University that there was a collection of oracle bones belonging to a righteous man in Qilu University that needed to be sorted out, so an appointment was made. I went together. In this way, when the Institute of History and Philology moved from Kunming to Sichuan, I transferred to Chengdu and came to Qilu University in 1940. Mr. Qian Mu also arrived in Chengdu via Chongqing in the same year after returning home to serve his relatives for a year. " The martyr Hu Fulin mentioned was originally a member of the Canadian church. His English name was James Mellon. He was sent by the church to preach in Anyang, China. Seeing that the local oracle bones had cultural relics and academic value, he took the opportunity to purchase and preserve a batch of oracle bones with written characters. . In 1932, Yishi Ming brought these oracle bones to Qilu University as a professor of archeology, and set up a museum in the school to collect some of his oracle bones.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the University of Qi moved to Huaxiba in Chengdu, and some oracle bones also moved with it.It is conceivable that Gu Jiegang, who wanted to abandon Kunming and go to Chengdu, needed manpower to strengthen his prestige, and Qilu University had a large number of oracle bones collected by Ming Yishi that needed to be sorted out. Rahu joins in.Out of consideration of personal interests, Hu thought that the opportunity to set up another mountain was coming, so he hit it off with Gu, and that's how Hu Fulin left strangely later. Fu Sinian's arrogance and status and status in the academic and political circles are naturally well known to those in power at Qilu University. They did not dare to neglect the letter of inquiry. They replied to Fu Sinian on September 20, 1940, explaining: "Three years ago, our school I once purchased the oracle bones hidden by the martyrs of the Ming Dynasty to sort out the people in need. I heard that Mr. Hu Fulin was a master of learning, so he hired him. Although this proposal was made last year, Mr. Hu said that the work in your institute could not be completed for a while, so he could not thank you. And return the original letter of appointment, this is a matter in October last year. In April of this year, Mr. Hu sent a letter saying that you will have another three or four months to work in your company. Because our school sent out the letter of appointment again, it was stipulated that it will start from September this year. The salary starts on the first day of the month, but because the road is difficult and difficult, a special payment of 1,000 yuan in national currency is given for travel expenses." Yun Yun. This letter unambiguously confirmed what Fu Sinian had heard. Although Fu thought that "the matter is so bizarre that it is hard to believe", this time he had to believe it.For this reason, Fu Sinian was even more annoyed, thinking that it was an ominous move for Gu Jiegang and Qian Muzheliu to set up a separate hill to challenge themselves against the Institute of History and Language.Li Ji, Dong Zuobin, Liang Siyong and other academic figures heard the news and expressed their indignation, and encouraged Fu Sinian to criticize the Qilu University (actually Gu, Qian, Hu and others) to set the record straight.Therefore, Fu Sinian rolled up his sleeves and waved his arms, and once again fired at Qilu University, saying: Hu Fulin, an assistant at the Chaben Institute, asked for leave on August 23 this year to send his family to Chongqing for one month. He stated that he would return to Yunnan after one month to spend the leave, and advanced his salary for September and December for travel expenses.Before leaving, he did not express his intention to resign, and said that his wife was introduced by Mr. Xu Xinwu to work in Beibei, which is convincing.The member has a letter of appointment from the Institute, and the term of office will end at the end of this year.However, according to the letter from your school, the employee has accepted the letter of appointment from your school and has set a salary starting from September 1st of this year. This kind of contradictory fact should be explained by your school or by Hu Fulin himself. It is irrelevant. Those who have to inform your school: the Institute has always imposed no other restrictions on service personnel except for a few conditions stipulated in the contract that both parties must abide by and principles recognized by all cultural and national academic institutions. Both parties have the obligation to strictly abide by it.For more than ten years, the appointment, renewal, termination, and resignation of our colleagues have all followed their will and followed the rules, and their coming and going are very bright.There have been many precedents for other academic institutions to borrow experts from our institute, and most of them were done after the contract expired, or the requesting institution obtained the consent of our institute, and our institute is also happy to sponsor.It is the first time that Hu Fulin accepted the letter of appointment from your school and received the salaries of both parties without resigning from our firm.This person has been working in our institute for a long time, and he is still diligent and has no foreign affairs. Unexpectedly, your school uses US dollars to earn money, and foreign exchange soars. One thousand yuan is paid for the travel expenses from Yunnan to Sichuan, which makes a young scholar renege on his contract. The responsibility and the way of being a human being have not been discussed with the firm beforehand. Whether these measures are based on the so-called "Christian spirit" of your school, you should still ask your school to think about it.This kind of behavior seems to be inconsistent with the identity of the academic institution, and it is easy to have a bad influence on the minds of young scholars, which is really regrettable. After accusing and learning a lesson, Fu Sinian issued a warning to Qilu University with a sharp posture and offensive: From then on, the Institute has nothing to do with Hu Fulin's personal actions. However, during the period when this person is serving your school, if any materials that have not been published by our institute are contained in any publications of your school, your school should be responsible , the Exchange shall take appropriate measures.In addition, the letter from your school, such as Kunming's "difficulty in purchasing books", did not know that Hu Fulin was here, but bought books from Beiping and Shanghai, and forwarded them to your school.And so on, there is no big emotion, no time to discuss in detail, everything is hoped to be investigated. It was already November 1, 1940 when Fu Sinian sent out this fierce crusade. At that time, Hu Fulin had already quietly diverted to Chengdu Qilu University, where he successfully joined forces with Gu Jiegang and others in Laijiayuan, Chongyi Bridge, northern suburb of Chengdu. Research residence.Regarding Fu Sinian's anger and accusations, after discussing with Gu Jiegang and Hu Fulin, Qilu University officials believed that although Fu's domineering, but after all, beyond the reach of Qilu University, Qilu University is not a huge threat, and the honorary president of Qilu University is the powerful Kong Xiangxi, Under the protection of Master Kong, Fu Sinian would not dare, or in other words, not be able to break ground on Tai Sui and do things that are not good for Qi University.As a result, the school authorities, Gu, Hu and others smiled knowingly as victors and ignored them.But what Gu Jiegang and Hu Fulin did not expect was that as early as 1936 before the Anti-Japanese War, Yishi Ming returned to Canada for vacation. None of the Chinese people knew about their actions.When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Qilu University moved to the south, but this batch of oracle bones with the most academic research value did not move to Chengdu with the school. What the school took away in the chaos was only a small number of scattered oracle bones.Therefore, after Hu Fulin arrived at the institute, he didn’t have much room to play, and he was quite angry (South Note: It was not until the summer of 1951 that Lin Yangshan, then dean of the School of Liberal Arts of Qilu University, handed over to the authorities a copy of the burial site of Ming Yishi. The secret map of this batch of oracle bone treasures was dug out from the basement and reappeared). On May 19, 1941, Hu Fulin sent a letter to Fu Sinian, asking if he could quote the "Example of Handling Manuscripts in Ten Volumes and One Appendix" of the Institute of History and Philology in his latest "Oracle Bone Studies and Business History Essays Collection".After Fu Sinian discussed with Li Ji and Dong Zuobin, both Li and Dong thought it was impossible, so Fu wrote back to refuse.Unexpectedly, Hu Fulin did not give up. He sent a letter to protest, accusing several giants of the Institute of History and Philology of being unreasonable and worldly.When Li Ji learned of this, he was furious. In his letter to Fu Sinian on July 30, he said unceremoniously: "My brother really hates Hu Fulin. Whether the few things he protested can be effectively answered is up to Mr. Yan." One more person in Shilin means one more scumbag, what do you think about respect?" On August 3, Fu Sinian replied to Li Ji: "As for Hu Fulin's matter, if you argue with him about the article he quoted from the old man, it is not easy to say. Can you scold him for the last "last resort" verse. Brother Jueying writes back a letter, please let me know how you respect it." It is not known whether Fu Sinian and Li Ji responded to Hu Fulin's protest, or how they began to scold them.But since then, the Institute of History and Language and Literature has completely severed its relationship with Hu Fulin. Although Hu still offered letters to Fu, Li, and Dong in the future, they all treated them indifferently.