On November 20, 1922, Lin Zixuan began his first class at Shanghai University.

He also brought gifts to the students, all of which were books he wrote.

It includes the poetry collection "A Generation", the novels "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Border Town", the fairy tale "The Little Prince", and the drama scripts "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise".

These books were published by Wanxiang Bookstore. In order to please Lin Zixuan, Pingqianya printed 20,000 copies each, but in fact, the best-selling "A Generation", only sold 8,000 copies.

In order to make up 10,000 books in total, I sent two thousand copies for free to all parts of the country, which was a loss of money and gained publicity.

The sales of other books are basically around two or three thousand volumes, which is still under the name of Lin Zixuan. The sales of "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" published under the pseudonym of Cao Yu are even less than one thousand volumes. It can be seen that new literature books have basically no market.

This situation of being well-known but not popular may improve in a few years, but at present, even Luxun’s novels cannot be sold much. The situation in Peking should be better, and Shanghai is still the world of old literature.

These books are moldy when placed in the warehouse. It is better to take them out and send them to students, as free publicity for themselves.

As for why we don’t bring "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Gone with the Wind", of course, it is because these two novels are popular literature and do not feel that high-end.

And the sales volume is so good and the price is so expensive, it would be a pity if you give it for free.

There are only 42 students in the Department of Chinese Literature at Shanghai University, including two girls.

But today is Lin Zixuan's lecture. There are about 70 students in the auditorium. Fortunately, his books were brought in at 100, and the rest of the books were donated to the school.

In order to show his importance to Lin Zixuan, Vice Principal Shao Li will introduce Lin Zixuan this time.

Shao Li was born in 1882 and was from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He passed the provincial examination in 1902. He entered Fudan Public School in 1905 and later went to Japan to study.

In the late summer of 1910, he returned to Shanghai and founded the Minlibao, advocated the spirit of national independence, and actively promoted the Northern Expedition.

In 1913, the Minli Daily ceased its publication and went to Fudan Public School to serve as a Chinese teacher, and later served as the director of Chinese Literature at the private Fudan University.

In January 1916, the Republic of China Daily was founded in Shanghai.

This person is an old senior in both the education field and the newspaper industry. He also plays an important role in the Shanghai literary world. He is the initiator and organizer of Nanshe. Lin Zixuan dare not neglect it.

After the introduction, Shao Lizi sat down with some professors from Shanghai University to listen to what Lin Zixuan was going to say.

Not only the students, but even these teachers were a little curious about Lin Zixuan.

The main reason is that Lin Zixuan is too young and famous. He talked about "Dream of Red Mansions" at Fudan University and finished the Hongxue directly. I wonder what magical performance can be achieved at Shanghai University this time.

Lin Zixuan was calm and asked a few students to distribute the books he brought. Everyone had them, and those teachers were no exception.

"These are all books I wrote. Today we meet for the first time, which is a gift for everyone." Lin Zixuan stood on the podium and said with a smile.

"Mr. Lin, it's not right. "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" were written by Mr. Cao Yu." A student asked in confusion.

Not bad, he is a good actor who supports the role. Lin Zixuan looked at the student and praised him secretly.

"Oh, Cao Yu is the pseudonym I use." Lin Zixuan said lightly.

Suddenly, the audience roared and the students and teachers were shocked.

Cao Yu is known as the founder of modern drama. The two dramas "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" have wiped out the bad habits of civilized dramas and caused a great sensation in the drama industry.

Even Luxun praised "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise", but he did not expect that Mr. Cao Yu was just Lin Zixuan's pseudonym.

Thinking about it, although Mr. Cao Yu is famous, he has never appeared before. No one knows who Mr. Cao Yu is. Some troupes that want to ask Cao Yu to write the script cannot find this person at all.

Some people have long speculated that Mr. Cao Yu is the pseudonym of a literary master, but after guessing, there is no result.

Now that the answer is revealed, it is difficult for the students below to accept it for a while.

Lin Zixuan's reputation in the field of new literature can be said to be mixed.

Those who like it very much, and those who don’t like it think that Lin Zixuan is a borer mixed in the field of new literature and is a representative of the Western bourgeois reformists.

Because Lin Zixuan's works are either Western background or love poems, there are few works that expose the suffering of the people in China. Even poems like "A Generation" and "Born Water" use symbolic writing.

Therefore, for the literary youth who pursue progress, Lin Zixuan has no revolutionary spirit.

The members of the Creation Society also used this view to attack Lin Zixuan, believing that Lin Zixuan's origin determined his position, and he could not write, nor did he dare to write a new literature full of revolutionary spirit.

This is what some progressive newspapers and magazines comment on Lin Zixuan.

However, today, when Lin Zixuan admitted in this understatement that he wrote "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise", some students below were quite ashamed.

They actually didn't want to listen to Lin Zixuan's lecture, but to pick on the tricks.

They wanted to reveal the true face of Lin Zixuan's hypocritical bourgeois reformists, and prepared some tricky problems for this. Even if they could not drive Lin Zixuan out of Shanghai University, they would embarrass him.

At this time, the students all had a spirit of freedom and were a little unruly.

Unlike later students who are oppressed by studies and employment, they do not even have the most basic sense of resistance to authority, and they only know how to cultivate talents with their own ideas.

Lin Zixuan looked at the people below and felt quite contented.

To deal with these young people, it is true that they can only resonate with them. "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" have a great influence among progressive young people. Many school troupes have rehearsed the drama troupes, believing that this is the best script to expose the old society.

He even compared these two dramas with Luxun's novels and regarded Cao Yu as their revolutionary mentor.

Now you are happy!

Lin Zixuan thought a little mischievously.

Anyway, both dramas have been performed, and "Sunrise" has also been filmed into a movie and has been widely accepted. At this time, the impact of telling one's identity will be much smaller.

After the students calmed down, Lin Zixuan did not continue to talk about this matter. It seemed that this was just a trivial matter and was not worth mentioning at all.

In this way, his image in the hearts of the students became a little taller, just like a hidden master, if he didn't make a sound, he would make a splash.
Chapter completed!