In December, the clouds of war once again enveloped Shanghai.∈◆,

The Zhili warlord Wu Peifu was defeated, and the Anhui warlord Duan Qirui and the Fengli warlord Zhang Zuolin joined forces to capture the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Lu Yongxiang, who had fled to Japan, came to Tianjin and received the support of Duan Qirui and Zhang Zuolin. He sent troops south and headed straight to Zhenjiang.

Qi Xie, the direct warlord who had just occupied Zhejiang and Shanghai, retreated step by step and retreated to the vicinity of Shanghai. The battlefield was in Longhua, Caohejing, Minhang and Xujiahui.

The nearest battlefield is less than ten miles away from Lin Zixuan's residence, and the sound of gunfire is clearly heard.

The consuls of the British, American, German, Italian and other countries stationed in Shanghai sent their governments to the south with the Fengtian army, believing that the situation in Shanghai had been out of control and asked to quickly transfer warships to important ports of the Yangtze River.

The Second Jiangsu-Zhejiang War broke out like this.

This time, more than 500,000 refugees flocked to the concession. What does this mean?

In 1924, the Shanghai Public Concession had a population of about 1 million, and the French Concession had a population of no less than 280,000, and the number of refugees was equivalent to one-third of the population of the concession.

The concession is not ready to accept such a large number of refugees, and the chaos can be imagined.

With the experience of the last time, refugees believed that the concession was a safe place and rushed in, but they couldn't stop it. Instead of being beaten to death by the rioters outside, it would be better to fight to break into the concession for refuge.

As a result, refugees were everywhere in the concession, and looting incidents often occurred, and the police station could not maintain order.

The Western directors of the Concession had to let the gang forces in the Concession deal with refugees. Gang members became an important force in maintaining public order, which is also an important reason why gangs can survive in the Concession.

They can do these dirty work for foreigners.

At the same time, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and various social groups are also doing the work of resettling refugees.

Lin Zixuan also participated in it, and asked someone to print leaflets, tell the refugee concessions about resettlement sites and methods for emergency help, and also promote it on the radio station.

However, there are new refugees every day, and the chaos remains.

As long as the day of war does not end, this situation will not stop.

New Year's Day of this year came in the war. Lin Zixuan drove back home and saw it all the way.

The Lin family belongs to the high-end residential community in the French Concession, and the French sent troops to patrol. Refugees generally do not come here to disturb them.

The rich businessmen in the concession are most worried about refugees. Most of these refugees just want to take refuge, but some people take advantage of the chaos to make trouble and encourage refugees to loot and even kill wealthy businessmen.

Under the so-called "law does not punish the public" mentality, refugees committed many crimes.

This kind of tragedy occurred several times, causing everyone in the concession to be in danger and would not go out normally.

The same is true for the Lin family. The family rarely goes out. Lin Zixuan has to bring bodyguards when he goes out, let alone go deep into refugees.

Even those celebrities who visited refugees would bring soldiers with them with live ammunition to prevent any changes.

Lin Zixuan came to the backyard and saw Feng Chengcheng and the third lady of the Song family teasing the child.

Since the war broke out and refugees poured in, he took Miss Song's third son and her mother. Their yard was not protected at all and was very unsafe.

If it was the original New Year's Day, there would be various celebrations in the Shanghai Concession, and Westerners would also hold New Year's cocktail party and concerts, which was the best time of socializing in the year.

But now people are in panic and cinemas rarely open, let alone other entertainment.

Several people talked about the situation outside, hoping that the war would pass as soon as possible. But things went against their wishes, and the war was still continuing.

While citizens in the concession are hiding at home, newspapers have become an important way to understand the outside world.

It is not only news and current affairs newspapers, but also various entertainment newspapers. Anyway, you have nothing to do when you stay at home.

Among them, "Happy Forest" and "Popular Novel Daily" are the best-selling ones.

Because "Happy Forest" publishes Lin Zixuan's "Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" and "Popular Novel Daily" carries Zhang Henshui's "The History of the Spring and Ming Dynasties", these two novels can be said to be popular all over the country.

These two novels have one thing in common, that is, they have a large structure and a very wide range of areas, describing the style of the entire era.

"The Foreign History of the Spring and Ming Dynasties" uses the love story of newspaper reporter Yang Xingyuan, singer Li Yun, and female poet Li Dongqing as the running clue.

The story is background of a broad and the narrative is calm, rich families, brothels, theaters, apartments, clubs, schools, high-end hotels, clubs, temples, scenic spots, and all kinds of religions and all kinds of religions.

From the president, the prime minister, to the singers, actors, and people who have all the famous and beautiful people.

It can be said to be a picture of the customs of Peking in this era.

Lin Zixuan's "The Smoke and Clouds of Jinghua" is no less than Zhang Henshui's "The Story of the Spring and Ming Dynasty", or it is better.

"The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" writes the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, writes about the grudges and hatreds of the large family, and reproduces the life of that era in a very realistic way.

There is a depth of history, a breadth of society, and Taoist ideas are integrated into it.

"The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" is more profound in terms of ideological nature than "The Foreign Histories of the Spring and Ming Dynasties".

As the story unfolded, those who used to want to see Lin Zixuan jokes shut their mouths.

They realized that this "Beijing Hua Smoke" is completely different from the ordinary Mandarin duck butterfly novels, and may become a masterpiece that reflects an era. If this level can be maintained, it will definitely leave its reputation in the literary world and become a classic.

How popular are these two novels?

Newspaper dealers lined up at the entrance of the bookstore for the newspaper to be published. Many readers also waited at the entrance of the newspaper in order to have a sneak peek. As soon as the newspaper came out, they were immediately stolen.

The only thing that makes Shanghai readers dissatisfied is that these two novels are written in stories that take place in Peking. Although they are enjoyable to watch, they always have a little regret.

Mr. Zhang Henshui is from Anhui and lives in Peking. It is understandable that he wrote "The History of the Spring and Ming Dynasties", but Lin Zixuan is an authentic Shanghainese, so he should write a story about Shanghai.

Many readers wrote letters to Lin Zixuan to write a masterpiece with Shanghai as the background to bring glory to Shanghai people.

This is a bit of a joke.

There are many writers who write about Shanghai in the Shanghai literary world, but when it comes to historical heritage, Shanghai is not as simple as Peking.

Novels written in Shanghai always have some commercial atmosphere and fashion elements, while novels written in Peking will be infected with political atmosphere and urban habits. These are different cultures carried by the two cities, each with its own characteristics.

If Lin Zixuan wants to write novels about Shanghai, Zhang Ailing's novels are undoubtedly the best choice.

However, Zhang Ailing's novels look at the city of Shanghai and the men and women living here from a female perspective. Lin Zixuan's writing is inevitably a bit weird.

Just like a female writer who is involved in a male team, it makes readers feel that this is not like a man's writing style at a glance.
Chapter completed!