Chapter 27 Section 3 Where to find a safe place to live

After the brothers Shi Jin and Zhu Wu of Shaohua Mountain were merged and reorganized by the Liangshan armed group led by Chao Gai and Song Jiang, Shi Jin was included in the leadership of the Thirty-Six Tiangang in the subsequent balance of power and brotherhood. Inside, Zhu Wu ranks as the head of the seventy-two evil stars.After Tao Menghe led his troops to accept the reorganization, his team was not divided and dismembered according to the method of Liangshan. It was still kept according to the original system, just to distinguish it from the old system, that is, the top of Shaohua Mountain, so that everyone who has been reorganized can know If you are here or there, you must do your own thing. The name was changed to the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academia Sinica. Tao Menghe served as the director of the senior leadership as the eleventh star of the Academia Sinica. It is held by Tao's old department, and he is regarded as a member of the earth evil star.When the new pattern was formed, history gave Tao Menghe an opportunity to be invincible, that is, to recruit troops as soon as possible and cultivate his own team, so as to compete with Lin Chong and other former Liangshan troops and former Erlongshan returnees to avoid being attacked. The tragic fate of Wang Lun, a scholar in white, was annihilated by fire.Because Tao Menghe has taught at Peking University for many years, his tree has deep roots and has a certain appeal.Before that, all the staff of the former Peking University Institute of Social Research came from Peking University, but what is different now is that Cai Yuanpei, as the "father of Peking University" and the dean of the Academia Sinica, had great influence and appeal to this institution and students. Naturally, Tao Menghe and his predecessors could not hold a candle to him.Therefore, after being merged into the Academia Sinica, Dow changed its original strategy and tactics. In addition to recruiting personnel from Peking University, it began to cast a wide net in universities such as Tsinghua University, Yanjing, Nankai, Wuhan, Fudan, and Zhongda (Nanjing) to recruit graduates. The graduates entered the research institute that he presided over, and with this unique mixed-breed new force, he laid the foundation for himself and the research institute itself to gain a foothold in the Academia Sinica.Because Tao Menghe dreamed of becoming big in one fell swoop, he first overwhelmed the heroes in the mountains in terms of momentum, and the graduates from various universities were coming in fiercely. Tao Menghe was unable to select and hire "sea turtles" who had studied abroad until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. In the research institute with more than 50 researchers and reserve personnel presided over by Dow, there are only 4 "sea turtles" including Liang Fangzhong, and the others are "earth turtles" with mixed party colors. The small model with little reputation is equivalent to Zhu Wu and Chen Da in Liangshan, and cannot be compared with the Liangshan heroes Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Cao Zheng, Shi En, Zhang Qing, Sun Erniang, etc. The original Erlongshan School The academic "predators" such as Fu Sinian, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren, Li Ji, Liang Siyong, Li Fanggui and other super-large "sea turtles" with world-class martial arts are on a par. Fu, Chen, Liang and others are also from famous families, and they attach great importance to their family background and their own Because of his status in the academic world, staff from other institutes of the Academia Sinica, including Fu Sinian and Chen Yinke from the Institute of History and Philology, jokingly called Tao Menghe's survey institute the "earth turtle" or "earth bun" survey institute, with a strong intention of contempt.Even so, Tao Menghe didn't care about other people's opinions and titles, and still followed his own philosophy and way of doing things, leading several generals such as Tang Xianglong, Liang Fangzhong, and a group of young men to operate silently on his own small mountain bag, And gradually work hard to create a world. In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War was launched, Tao Menghe led all the staff of the Institute of Social Sciences to move westward from Nanjing, from Hunan to Guangxi, and then to Yunnan, until they moved to Lizhuang, Nanxi, Sichuan.

The relocation of the Institute of Social Sciences from Kunming to Lizhuang was done hastily.Previously, since Tao Menghe failed to send personnel to Lizhuang to investigate and negotiate with the local gentry like Tongji University or the Institute of History and Philology, a passive situation has formed.When Tao led his troops to the unfamiliar land of Lizhuang, almost all the teachers and students of Tongji University occupied the "Nine Palaces and Eighteen Temples" inside and outside Lizhuang Town, and they were in the leading position. It was given to the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum controlled by Li Ji.The second level of history and language occupies the Zhang family compound in Chinli Ao in the suburbs and the surrounding houses, and its power is relatively strong.The situation after the arrival of the Institute of Sociology is that there is no reinforcements before, no food and grass for the future, no human and financial resources to support them, and they can only play low-level roles such as "third wives".Looking back and thinking again and again, Tao Menghe had no choice but to let go of his status as a teacher and beg Fu Sinian, the overlord of the student generation. On October 28, 1941, Tao Menghe, who was still at a loss in Kunming, called Fu Sinian in Chongqing: "Please allocate a few rooms in the courtyard of the Zhang family for temporary use by the agency. More than ten people have gone to the agency." That is to say, Tao Menghe didn't know where these people should settle in Lizhuang to keep out the cold until the people from the Institute of Social Sciences dragged their families and drove in a car on the steep and dangerous Wumeng Mountains.

Dow is Fu Sinian's mentor, and when he was in charge of the editorial work of "New Youth" at Peking University, he edited and published several articles by Fu Sinian. Whether it is a teacher's inheritance or a personal friendship, it is not bad, but the two people have very different personalities and ways of doing things. Fu Sinian, with his arrogance of "conscientious man in the sky" and a kind of domineering and heroic arrogance of a green forest, did not pay attention to this elder who was once the provost of Peking University.When Shiyu was located in Kunming, it was not far from the Institute of Social Sciences, but the staff of the two institutes seldom interacted with each other, and Tao and Fu seldom came to live there.Now, more than 10,000 foreign teachers and students, scientific researchers, and family members have poured into Lizhuang Town, and the palaces and temples have been occupied by nearly 10,000 teachers and students of Tongji University and the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum.It is a fact that Chestnut Au on the top of the mountain in the outskirts is an independent kingdom with houses and houses, but the local aborigines live here, and there are not many vacant houses waiting for people from Academia Sinica to fill in the gaps, a historical saying added Nearly 100 staff members and family members of Peking University's Liberal Arts Research Institute poured in, and it was already quite crowded. How could we force ourselves into a social science research institute?If the director of the Institute of Social Sciences was not Tao Menghe, but Hu Shizhi, a friend of the Tao family, Fu Sinian would have tried his best to find a resting place for him in Liao.It is a pity that Tao Menghe is not Hu Shizhi, and of course Fu Sinian will not work hard for him. The gate of the huge Chestnut Aol Lifeng Villa was mercilessly closed to Tao Menghe.

Poor Institute of Social Sciences, when all the team members arrived in Lizhuang, the heads of the town and the gentry did not know that there was a sociology institute before, so they were not prepared to find a courtyard for it and prepare a room, so they got it. Unprepared, Tao's brigade wandered around the streets, not knowing where they would take shelter.It was already winter, and although the weather in Lizhuang was not as cold as in the north, the moisture from the Yangtze River filled the sky and blocked the sunlight, making people feel a gloomy chill.And this kind of climate is even more difficult for people who have just migrated from Kunming, which is like spring all the year round.For this reason, many researchers of the Institute of Social Sciences, especially the family members of the young and old who went with them, fell ill one after another. Miserable bleak sight.In desperation, Tao Menghe, who hurried to Lizhuang, had to negotiate with local gentry such as Luo Nankai and Zhang Guanzhou to break up the staff of the social science institute and their families into pieces, and disperse them in the homes of the heads of households who had vacant rooms. Restore your body, wait until you get through the severe winter, and then try to resettle in the next spring.

When the spring of 1941 came, Tao Menghe finally found three warehouses attached to the Zhang family ancestral hall in Lizhuang Town, and negotiated with Zhang Guanzhou, a gentry of the Zhang family, to use it as an office for the Institute of Social Sciences. house.But Tian didn't cooperate. The warehouse had been leased to Lu Zuofu's Minsheng Company before, and some of the company's materials were stored. If these materials were to be moved to other places, Minsheng Company's consent must be obtained and sublease compensation should be paid.Tao Menghe deeply felt that he was weak and unable to compete with Lu Zuofu, the wealthy boss of Minsheng Company, so he once again condescended to ask Fu Sinian to come forward and negotiate with Minsheng Company.Fu Sinian was in Chongqing and was dealing with various affairs as the acting director-general of the Central Research Institute. It was his own job, so he and Tao Menghe jointly called Lu Zuofu, the boss of Minsheng Company and the deputy director of the Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government, requesting "to borrow your bureau's warehouse in Zhangjiaci in Lizhuang for three months as a temporary office for the two offices." If you agree, please call the manager of the warehouse for negotiation."

Unexpectedly, this matter encountered trouble again. Since the fall of Wuhan, the scope of Minsheng’s activities has been compressed in the Chuanjiang River Basin. Due to the shortened shipping lanes and frequent boat traffic, Minsheng has leased warehouses to store goods at many large and small docks along the river for more efficient operations.If it was half a year ago, based on Fu Sinian's prestige in the government and the public or his personal relationship with Lu Zuofu, it would have been entirely possible for Minsheng to give up the warehouse, but this time it is quite different.Due to the shipwreck in Yibin where Minsheng Company transferred materials for the Institute of History and Language, the precious books of the Institute of History and Language fell into the Yangtze River and caused heavy losses. Fu Sinian personally found Lu Zuofu in Chongqing and insisted on making him compensate.Faced with conclusive witness and material evidence, Lu knew he was wronged and was powerless to argue, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to pay compensation.Calculated based on the value of these books, the entire shipping fee earned by Minsheng Company for the relocation of several institutes of the Academia Sinica is far from worth the huge sum of money to be compensated.Although Lu Zuofu holds a high position and is patriotic, he can be called a national hero, but a businessman is a businessman after all, and his professional characteristics will not change. Moreover, if a huge livelihood company wants to survive and develop, it is always unpleasant to capsize and pay compensation all day long .For this reason, Lu Zuofu was rather annoyed, but he couldn't vent his anger on Fu Sinian. He had to take the method of knocking out his teeth and swallowing his blood, and kept his sullen anger in his heart.At this time, Fu Sinian, Tao Menghe came to him uninvited and asked for help as if nothing had happened. Lu Zuofu's mood can be imagined, and there is no need to think too much about his choice.He immediately called Fu and Tao back and said: "I promise to temporarily borrow the warehouse of the Zhang Clan Temple in Lizhuang. I apologize for the difficulty. I hope to check." It is conceivable that Lu Zuofu dictated this to the secretary in his spacious office. In just 20 words, there must have been an imperceptible sneer on the corner of his mouth.

The so-called not eating mutton made him ashamed, Fu Sinian was made ashamed, and he scolded Lu Zuofu for being a villain, and kept mumbling "There must be a place to raise a father here" and so on without much substance Sexual nonsense.In order to show his "tough bones" spirit, and to save some face in front of Mr. Tao, Fu Sinian simply gritted his teeth and told the other party to try to squeeze out two yards of Li Zhuang Chin Li Ao's site first, so that Tao Meng could be in harmony with the society. Some of the staff live and work.Facing Fu's loyalty and blood, Tao Menghe was quite moved.After returning to Lizhuang, I first approached Li Fanggui, the agent of Chinli Ao Historical Language Institute, to take the lead, and then negotiated with the local gentry and the owner of the house, and finally got two small yards.Because the yard is too small, it is obviously impossible to arrange all the staff of the social institute to live and work here. Tao Menghe had to lead his people to run around in the outskirts of Lizhuang again, looking for land. Shiyawan and Menguantian (also known as Manguantian, famous for its sweltering summer heat and airtightness) found a foothold.Although the two places are separated by four or five miles, it is extremely inconvenient for living and researching, and the office of Men Guantian is next to the cowshed, separated only by a bamboo "wall". It can be said that he has really entered the cattle and horse pen, but after all, he has settled down a peaceful desk and has his own shelter.Under the personal command of Tao Menghe, the staff of the Institute of Social Sciences moved into their residences and offices in batches.

So far, the number of foreigners in Lizhuang has reached 11,000. These "Xiajiang people" took root in this strange land along with the schools and academic institutions they attended and served in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. new life course.