Lin Zixuan received an appointment by Zheng Zhenduo for "Novel Monthly".

He met Zheng Zhenduo because of the debate about new poetry last year. Zheng Zhenduo was the editor-in-chief of the supplement "Xuelantern" at that time, published his views on new poetry and counterattacked Guo Moruo.

However, he was not familiar with Zheng Zhenduo, or with the literary research association represented by Zheng Zhenduo.

The reason is very simple. The Literary Research Association has been fighting against the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School since its establishment.

The Literary Research Association advocates realist literature, opposes literature as a pastime, and opposes literature as a tool for personal complaints, and advocates literature as life.

Their base for publishing articles is "Novel Monthly".

"Novel Monthly" was founded in Shanghai in July 1910, and is sponsored by Commercial Press and is published on the 10th of each month.

Before 1919, it was a publication of the Mandarin duck butterfly school. With the increasing spread of new ideas, Commercial Press had to follow the trend and make partial improvements.

In January 1920, some reforms were carried out, and the editorial work of the newly added "New Novels" column chaired by Shen Yanbing was taken over, and vernacular novels, new poems, translations and papers were published.

Since 1921, Shen Yanbing was the editor-in-chief, and comprehensively innovated the content, becoming an important base for the Literary Research Association to advocate "for life".

After the publication was innovated, there were columns such as commentary, research, translation, creation, special edition, and miscellaneous edition.

Among them, the creation column is mainly novels, as well as poetry, drama and prose.

Lu Xun, Zheng Zhenduo, Ye Shengtao, Zhu Ziqing and others have all published articles in the Novel Monthly.

By the way, Zhang Henshui submitted a manuscript to the Novel Monthly when he first started writing, but he had not published it after waiting for several years.

On July 10, 1922, Shen Yanbing published an article "Naturalism and Modern Chinese Novels" in "Novel Monthly" criticizing the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School.

It is believed that the Yuanyang Butterfly School is written most often as the central idea of ​​love novels or family novels, and it is nothing more than a feudal replica of the various colors of "there is a golden house in the book, and the female face is like jade in the book".

This move caused dissatisfaction among writers of the Mandarin duck butterfly school, and joined forces to put pressure on Commercial Press.

The conservatives of Commercial Press also took the opportunity to ask Shen Yanbing to apologize. After Shen Yanbing flatly refused to apologize, the Commercial Press authorities inspected the manuscripts of "Novel Monthly".

Shen Yanbing formally protested to the Commercial Press, and the two sides had a quarrel.

This is a major event in the Shanghai literary world this summer, and it is also a confrontation between the old and new literary schools.

Lin Zixuan, Zhou Shoujuan and Yan Duhe have good friendships with these writers of the Mandarin ducks and Butterfly School. They also write popular novels, so they go far from members of the Literary Research Association.

Shen Yanbing criticized the Saturday magazine founded by Zhou Shoujuan.

Zhou Shoujuan published a short story in almost every issue of "Saturday", and was arranged in the first article.

The Mandarin Duck Butterfly School also has publications such as Half Moon, Red Magazine, and Happy.

It can be said that the Mandarin duck butterfly school has a huge influence in the Shanghai literary world and is closely linked to major newspapers and bookstores.

Because their novels are best-selling, there is a market among the people of Shanghai, especially the petty class, who love to read such entertainment novels the most. Shanghai newspapers and magazines are almost monopolized by writers of the Mandarin duck butterfly school.

Even Lin Zixuan's "Popular Novel Weekly" has to publish their novels.

This time, the attack of the Mandarin duck butterfly school was a counterattack against new literature. They were dissatisfied with the invasion of their market and wanted to drive new literature out of the Shanghai literary world.

After Shen Yanbing and Commercial Press had a quarrel, they were temporarily suspended from their position as editor-in-chief and were temporarily replaced by Zheng Zhenduo.

By the end of the year, Shen Yanbing resigned and Zheng Zhenduo officially became the editor-in-chief of "Novel Monthly".

It was when two new and old literary schools were fighting endlessly that Lin Zixuan received a commission from Zheng Zhenduo.

This was a difficult time for Zheng Zhenduo.

Commercial Press needs to check the manuscripts of "Novel Monthly". Some radical or targeted at the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School cannot be published, but Zheng Zhenduo is unwilling to compromise with the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School.

At this time, he thought of Lin Zixuan.

Lin Zixuan is the founder of new poetry and a master of popular novels. From Zhou Zuoren, he heard that Lin Zixuan also wrote realistic plays, which can be said to be a versatile one.

He hopes that Lin Zixuan can write a realistic novel.

This not only shows new literature, but also, Lin Zixuan has a friendship with writers from the Yuanyang Butterfly School and will not be troubled by writers from the Yuanyang Butterfly School.

With Lin Zixuan's reputation in the Shanghai literary world at this time, he is the best candidate to break this deadlock.

Zheng Zhenduo explained the current situation in his letter. As long as this period of time, there will be a result of handling within the Commercial Press. If conservatives take the upper hand, the Literary Research Association will withdraw from the editorial work of "Novel Monthly".

If the reformists have the upper hand, the Novel Monthly can return to normal.

In fact, within the Literary Research Association, Lin Zixuan is quite controversial.

Some people think that Lin Zixuan has a tendency to make progress and can win over; some people think that Lin Zixuan is too close to the Mandarin duck butterfly school and writes entertainment novels, which belong to the type of criticized and sweeping.

Zheng Zhenduo held the former attitude and believed that Lin Zixuan could win over. From "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia", we can see that Lin Zixuan is patriotic.

Lin Zixuan is quite depressed.

This matter can be said to have nothing to do with him, and he did not want to have conflicts with Zhou Shoujuan and others.

Zhou Shoujuan has made great efforts in promoting the movie "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia". Before the screening, he introduced the movie in "Shen Bao" and wrote several compliments after watching the movie.

Although he is a movie lover himself, this is also for Lin Zixuan's sake.

For Lin Zixuan, who came from later generations, new literature and popular literature are not contradictory, but can complement each other. Just like online literature and traditional literature, there is no need to oppose each other.

But he is in this turbulent era, and the wave of new literature is sweeping over, and he wants to sweep all the old literature into the garbage dump of history.

Without standing at this historical juncture, it is hard to think about how sharp the contradiction between the two is.

This is a life-and-death struggle.

Lin Zixuan is willing to help Zheng Zhenduo through this difficult time because Zhou Zuoren once helped him, but he is unwilling to have conflicts with the Mandarin ducks and Butterfly Sect.

Then it is very important to write a novel.

He took out a piece of paper from the locked drawer on the bottom of the desk, which read the name of the novel he remembered.

Some are crossed out, some are marked and must be written out, and some are still hesitating whether to write...

These novels were his capital to become a literary giant.

After making some careful choices, he spread out the manuscript and started writing.
Chapter completed!