Chapter 858 857 [Eight Women Threw Themselves Into the River]
Let’s continue from the previous chapter. To evaluate historical figures, except for traitors and heinous people, all others must be evaluated from both sides. It is very naive to use black and white.
Take the later book "Southern Crossing and Returning North", which describes the internal migration of literati, as an example. Mr. Feng Youlan was actually written as a villain. Many quotations in the book are deliberately confusing and confusing, and more than one of them is false, making uninformed readers feel disgusted with Feng Youlan, and making informed readers wonder whether the author has a personal grudge against Feng Youlan.
To be honest, compared to Lao Wang's "The Rise of Local Stalls in the Republic of China", "Southern Crossing and Returning to the North" is more like a local stall literature.
The author of that book not only denied Feng Youlan's character, but also denied Feng Youlan's scholarship. He also quoted Hu Shi's diary to deny Feng Youlan's scholarship, and made up a piece of Hu Shi's evaluation of Feng Youlan.
In fact, Hu Shi was Feng Youlan's teacher, and they just had different academic views. We are on good terms with each other, how can we say bad things to each other?
Hu Shi published "An Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy (Volume 1)" in 1919, thus becoming the founder of modern academic research in China, which was indeed remarkable considering the circumstances at the time. Hu Shi was also very proud of this, predicting: "In the future, no matter whether at home or abroad, people who study this subject will not be able to escape the influence of this book. Anyone who cannot use this method and attitude, I can say, will never stand in the world." Live."
However, in 1931 alone, Feng Youlan's "History of Chinese Philosophy (Volume 1)" completely surpassed Hu Shi's book, and did not conduct research according to Hu Shi's methods. After more than half a century, until the time when Zhou Hexuan traveled through time, there was no monograph that was overall better than "History of Chinese Philosophy".
Can such academic achievements be blackened?
I really think all readers are fools.
In our book, there is no real villain. Even Kong Xiangxi can find some good points.
After talking so much nonsense, I actually wanted to change the plot naturally - Kong Lingkan was half-paralyzed. This is the fate of the villain who offended Zhou Hexuan.
At the end of October, Master Kong was caught and raped in bed by the cuckold while he was playing with someone else's wife.
Hongmen has bribed the local mafia with the funds provided by Zhou Hexuan. The mafia plotted to lure the cuckold into their trap, leaving the unlucky guy with a huge gambling debt. At the same time, it was revealed that the Kong family was extremely rich, and it encouraged the cuckold to find an adulterer to get money to repay the debt.
Mr. Cuckold is also very ambitious, asking for $1 million. Of course Kong Lingkan was unwilling, and only agreed to pay 50,000 yuan. The two sides started fighting when they disagreed.
The Hongmen brothers who were ambushing in secret didn't take action, so the three people in the room took care of themselves.
What happened was this. The arrogant and domineering Master Kong directly drew a gun and pointed it at the opponent's head to threaten him. Upon seeing this, the woman quickly persuaded Kong Lingkan and grabbed Kong Lingkan's arm to grab the gun. During the argument, the cuckold also joined in the process of grabbing the gun.
It was a clandestine tryst, and Kong Lingkan's followers were not around, so the three of them were entangled in the bedroom.
Suddenly there was a gunshot, and the woman suddenly started bleeding from her abdomen. The remaining two men couldn't tell who fired the gun. Kong Lingkan was a little frightened, and Mr. Cuckold was aroused. He took the opportunity to grab the gun and fired at Kong Lingkan randomly, finishing all the bullets in the gun.
When Kong Lingkan was hit by the second shot, he was so frightened that he ran away crazily. He fell down when he was hit by the fourth shot, and then was shot a fifth time by the opponent.
The cuckold robbed Kong Lingkan of all his belongings, evaded the police and the mafia, and fled to Mexico overnight. Kong Lingkan and the woman were taken to the hospital by neighbors who heard the gunshots. The woman died after being shot only once, but Kong Lingkan was unexpectedly saved. He was shot five times and was rescued.
However, one bullet hit his spine, and the doctors did not dare to remove it. He could only spend the next life in a wheelchair.
Things went as smoothly as expected. Zhou Hexuan only paid the woman to seduce Kong Lingkan, and then made the cuckold lose all his family property. The rest was all done by the person involved.
In this regard, Zhou Hexuan is also a bastard. He involved two innocent people and caused other people's families to be destroyed.
Kong Xiangxi and his wife were devastated when they received the news about their son. Soong Ailing took a special plane directly from Hong Kong, flew to Hawaii, and took a boat to the United States to deal with the matter. After police investigation and Kong Lingkan's narration, it was found that this was a tragedy caused by a relationship dispute and had nothing to do with Zhou Hexuan.
As for Zhou Hexuan, he is still immersed in writing a book in New York.
On October 25, Wuhan fell, and the four-month-long Battle of Wuhan came to an end. The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge funded and built by Zhou Hexuan was also blown up by Chang Kaishen on the day of retreat.
At the end of the month, Chang Kaishen issued a statement insisting on persisting in the war of resistance to the end, which not only strengthened the confidence of the Chinese people, but also strengthened Roosevelt's confidence.
Roosevelt agreed to re-launch loan negotiations, but before doing so, he named Zhou Hexuan, the special envoy for negotiation, to talk.
November 10th.
Zhou Hexuan met Roosevelt at the White House and attended the president's family dinner.
Roosevelt was much fatter than when they last met. He shook hands with Zhou Hexuan in a wheelchair and said with a smile: "Long time no see, Mr. Wizard of the Far East, the predictions you made back then are becoming reality step by step. For example, Japan's full-scale invasion of China, and other examples Germany annexes Austria.”
"I'm very sorry about this. In fact, I hope none of this happened." Zhou Hexuan said with his hands spread.
"But you imagine me too badly." Roosevelt took out a few printed documents.
Zhou Hexuan took it and took a look, but it was an article he published in "Fei Gong" more than half a year ago, which had been translated into English. The article said that in the early days of the Sino-Japanese War, the United States definitely provided strategic resources to Japan for its own benefit. After instigating Japan to provoke a war, it then helped China. The United States had eaten its own share of the East and had eaten the West. All of this was under the control of President Roosevelt.
Zhou Hexuan smiled faintly: "Isn't it like this?"
"You are too conspiratorial. I can't think that far-term." Roosevelt took out his cigar box and handed one to Zhou Hexuan. "In fact, I am currently very worried about the Sino-Japanese War. Different interest groups are about to kill me." Split in half.”
Zhou Hexuan lit his cigar and said: "But you definitely want to find a suitable time to suppress the isolated public opinion in the United States and join the war with the most glorious image."
Roosevelt laughed: "The premise is that Europe wants to fight, and the situation in Europe must reach a stalemate, otherwise the United States will not be able to intervene. It is not difficult to speculate, it is just a replica of the last war."
"But it's more complicated." Zhou Hexuan added.
"It's true," Roosevelt took a puff of his cigar and exhaled the smoke. "Tell us about China. Can you really stop Japan's attack? To be honest, the situation in China is very bad. If this continues, the capital will have to be moved again by the end of next year at most."
Zhou Hexuan did not answer directly, but took out a scroll: "Your Excellency, this is my gift to you."
Roosevelt slowly unrolled the scroll. It was an oil painting. The overall painting style tends to be dark and bloody, but the sunshine above the head is extremely bright, as if indicating a bright future. Eight Chinese women stood on the river bank, with the roaring waves behind them and the ferocious Japanese invaders in front of them. These women smashed the rifles in their hands, opened their mouths and shouted something.
"This painting seems to have a story, can you explain it?" Roosevelt was very interested.
Zhou Hexuan recounted: "This painting is called "Eight Girls Throwing into the River" and it was created based on real events. Just a month ago, a Chinese guerrilla group was chased to the river by the Japanese army. There was no way out and there were enemies behind. Fortunately, The enemy did not notice them for the time being. The eight female soldiers of the Women's Regiment did not hesitate when they were in danger. They went around to the bushes on the flanks and opened fire to attract the enemy's attention and cover the breakout of the large forces. Their plan succeeded, but they were blocked in the river. After the bullets were fired, they threw the last grenade, shouted "Down with Japanese imperialism", destroyed the guns, turned around and threw them into the raging river. Among them, the oldest was 23 years old, and the youngest was only 13 years old. .”
The smile on Roosevelt's face gradually disappeared, and he lowered his head to admire the oil painting carefully. After a long time, he said: "I have believed in the determination of the Chinese people to resist aggression. You deserve respect."
Zhou Hexuan actually hid important information. These eight female fighters were all from the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance, and the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance was related to the Soviet Union. Talking about this would make Roosevelt unhappy. But after cutting off the beginning and ending, it was enough to shock Roosevelt.
In fact, the artistic level of this painting is not high. Due to time constraints, Zhou Hexuan temporarily found a student studying in the United States to paint the painting. It only took five days to complete the creation, and many details were very rough.
But this painting remained in Roosevelt's private collection until it was donated to China's Anti-Japanese War Museum more than 70 years later.