Xu Zhimo had this plan before returning to China.

New literature in China is indeed booming, but it also faces many practical difficulties, that is, it cannot be accepted by the vast consumer group, that is, readers.

Not many people read in this era, and even fewer of these scholars like new literature, which creates a situation where people are very popular but not popular.

The newspapers were very lively, and everyone argued with each other, and the new literature seemed to be in a prosperous situation.

But there are not many bookstores that are truly willing to publish new literature books.

Some bookstores publish such books not for making money, but for fame, because they only publish works by writers like Luxun and Hu Shi who are prestigious in new literature.

As for other new literary writers, it is extremely difficult to publish their works.

This is like later generations, pure literature books can never be compared with entertaining books.

Therefore, many new literature groups will raise money to run a bookstore themselves, such as the more famous Beixin Bookstore later.

Beixin Bookstore comes from the Xinchao Society of Peking University and is supported by Luxun.

"After May Fourth, Peking University became the center of the leadership of the new thoughts. At that time, the publishing industry was extremely quiet and most of them failed to undertake the publishing task. Li Xiaofeng and others learned this and organized a publishing organization in accordance with the spirit of the Peking University Xinchao Society, named Beixin, and distributed new literary and artistic new thoughts books. In the short term, the publication of books became popular all over the country..."

This is the current situation of the publication of new literature books.

After three years of development, the new literature has been achieved from nothing and is well known to the public. The next step will be a tough battle to compete with the old literature for the publishing market.

Why does the literary research society go to war with the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School?

In addition to differences in the literary path, competing for the market is also an important reason. Only by defeating the Mandarin duck butterfly school can readers be won over and new literature can be made more deeply rooted in people's hearts.

This involves survival and interests, and is a long-term and difficult task.

In fact, entertainment novels represented by the Mandarin ducks and Butterfly School have never died, but have become even more prosperous in later generations.

Xu Zhimo understood the current dilemma of new literature, so he had to bring Lin Zixuan into the group.

On the one hand, we can borrow Lin Zixuan's reputation and gather a group of intellectuals who tend toward Western ideas.

On the other hand, it is to borrow Lin Zixuan's publishing and distribution channels.

Lin Zixuan warmly received this good roommate from the past.

The two chatted about the past in the United States and talked about Xu Zhimo's interactions with those British intellectual elites in the United Kingdom.

Lin Zixuan didn't expect that he accidentally became popular in the UK, which was considered an unintentional move.

In fact, as "The Old Man and the Sea" and "The Little Prince" gradually become well-known, he will become more and more popular in the Western world.

Lin Zixuan was quite hesitant about establishing a literary group, and he did not want to be limited to a certain group.

He came from later generations and knew that Xu Zhimo's Crescent Society was a literary group with relatively complex members. He had great achievements in poetry creation and the connection between members was relatively loose.

Within the past two years, a large number of literary groups will appear and then disband. Those who can support more than ten years have left their own traces in the history of modern literature.

But he couldn't refuse directly.

After all, Xu Zhimo came to invite him in person, and the relationship between the two was pretty good.

He could only vaguely say that he was busy with banking affairs and film companies, and was in Shanghai, and had no time to participate in the activities of literary groups, for fear of causing bad effects.

As for the issue of publishing books, Lin Zixuan agreed.

As long as books are not overly radical, Vientiane Bookstore can publish them. Moreover, Xu Zhimo's poems are full of romanticism, and they are still very marketable in this era.

In addition, his untimely death is legendary...

By the way, should you remind him not to take cheap flights?

Forget it, it’s too early now. Who knows what happens in the middle? Saying such words inexplicably will offend people.

Lin Zixuan suppressed his inner impulse and smiled at Xu Zhimo.

Xu Zhimo looked at Lin Zixuan's strange smile, and for some reason he was suddenly shocked.

He did not stay in Shanghai for long, so he went to Peking.

The reason is very simple. Xu Zhimo had already divorced his wife in March, so of course he had to go to Peking to pursue Lin Huiyin.

Before returning to China, he found a job for himself and worked as an English secretary in the Songpo Library founded by Liang Qichao.

Songpo Library has two yards, one is at No. 7, Shihu Hutong near Xidan, and the other is Kuaixue Hall in Beihai Park. He lives in the old house at No. 7, Shihu Hutong.

There is another interesting thing here.

Liang Qichao's son Liang Sicheng is pursuing Lin Huiyin. The two often meet in Kuaixue Hall in Beihai Park and have a tryst in the library.

Xu Zhimo often came over to disturb him, which made Liang Sicheng very annoyed. He posted a note on the door of the library, which said, "Lovers do not want to be disturbed."

After coming to Peking, Xu Zhimo did not only know how to pursue Lin Huiyin. He also made friends with literati in the literary world of Peking and published poems in Hu Shi's "Effort Weekly".

Maybe Lin Zixuan didn't refuse too clearly, maybe Xu Zhimo didn't explain it clearly, anyway, he often mentioned Lin Zixuan's name when he was trying to win over other literati.

Therefore, many literati believe that the Crescent Society was founded by Lin Zixuan, and that the poems and articles of the Crescent Society were also published by Wanxiang Bookstore.

Lin Zixuan is the founder of new poetry, so it is natural to create a literary group dominated by poetry.

Xu Zhimo became the spokesperson of this literary group in Peking. A group of poets or scholars who were summoned by Lin Zixuan's reputation gradually gathered at No. 7, Shihu Hutong.

The prototype of the Crescent Society was formed in this way.

Lin Zixuan, who was far away in Shanghai, had no idea that he had created a literary group and became the mastermind.

He never paid much attention to the affairs in the literary world in Peking. It was not until Zheng Zhenduo, the editor of "Novel Monthly", talked about this with him that he knew the whole story.

I haven't been the boss for many years!

Now that things have come to this point, Lin Zixuan doesn’t know what to say, and denying it will be useless. This is something that cannot be clarified. You can only pay attention to it in the future and not get too close to those people.

In November 1922, an American Aosbon ordered a set of radio broadcasting equipment arrived in Shanghai from the United States.

The amateurs from the Shanghai International Radio Association were excited and enthusiastically helped Osbon install equipment and debug. They set up two large antennas on the roof that were about 70 meters high from the ground.

A large number of radios were also shipped with the ship.

In order to make money, Osbon immediately began to sell his radio in Shanghai, claiming that he would receive radio stations in a few days.

Lin Zixuan also got an ore radio. He heard Douglas Sheila say that this thing is easy to assemble and has no technical content.

He secretly looked for Chinese radio enthusiasts and prepared to study and imitate this ore radio.
Chapter completed!