As the battle situation escalates, the number of foreign ships in the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River estuary has increased to 27.

As long as the war spreads to the concession, these warships take protecting the concession as their key task. Once the concession is breached, they can evacuate their own expatriates as soon as possible to ensure the safety of their own country's people.

In fact, many important foreign figures in the concession have been transferred to warships.

Western countries put pressure on the Beiyang government to immediately stop the war in Shanghai.

On January 15, 1925, the Beiyang government held a cabinet meeting and issued three orders on the Shanghai issue.

Article 3 stipulates that Shanghai is a major trade site and a mixed place for China and foreign countries. It will never station troops thereafter and no military agencies shall be set up.

However, this order cannot stop the war. Duan Qirui of the Anhui clan and Zhang Zuolin of the Feng clan were not the same. Zhang Zuolin did not want to give up the good situation. He wanted to control the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.

Even if it cannot be occupied, it can still negotiate conditions with Duan Qirui of the Anhui clan in exchange for control in other regions.

On January 28, 1925, after conquering Kunshan, Suzhou, the Feng army arrived at Shanghai North Railway Station. On the second day, Zhang Zongchang led more than 10,000 troops to Shanghai and occupied Xujiahui Railway Station and Nanshi.

The Zhejiang army led by Sun Chuanfang withdrew to Longhua and Songjiang.

The two armies of Zhejiang and Fengtian confronted each other in Xinlonghua and Xujiahui, and the war was in a stalemate.

On February 3, Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zongchang signed a ceasefire agreement in Shanghai.

It is stipulated that Sun Chuanfang hand over the arsenal and retreat to the army near Shanghai within 3 days. Sun's army retreated to Songjiang and Feng's army retreated to Kunshan. The next day, the command of his subordinates to stop military operations.

At this point, the Second Jiangsu-Zhejiang War ended.

The signing of the armistice agreement made the whole of Shanghai feel relieved. The nearly two months of war caused the stagnation of business in Shanghai and the losses were heavy, not to mention casualties and damage to buildings.

The newspapers estimate that the damage caused to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas by these two wars will take at least ten years to recover.

Also because of this war, the Beiyang government decided to establish Shanghai as a special city, which belongs neither Jiangsu nor Zhejiang. It decided to use 22 townships in Shanghai and Baoshan as the region to establish a special city for Songhu.

It is equivalent to a municipality directly under the central government in later generations.

Refugees continued to return home and rebuild their homes, warlords compete for territory, and the people were the ones who suffered in the end.

The concession has resumed its former life. Lin Zixuan has received a lot of letters from Peking.

During the war, the information was not smooth, and many letters sent to Shanghai were lost or delayed, including manuscripts from Crescent Magazine and Modern Reviews. I had to ask Xu Zhimo from Peking to mail a copy again.

Most of these letters were letters of condolences, worried about Lin Zixuan's safety in Shanghai.

Some of the letters were more interesting, and they asked him to persuade Hu Shi. After reading the letter, he realized that Hu Shi was going to attend the "aftermath meeting" organized by Duan Qirui.

This involves the dispute between Sun Zhongshan and Duan Qirui.?〔?

Sun Zhongshan went to Peiping and proposed to convene a national meeting and convene all sectors of society to discuss the country's status.

The aftermath meeting proposed by Duan Qirui was to safeguard the interests of warlords and politicians. To put it bluntly, it was a spoils-sharing meeting.

As a celebrity, Hu Shi was also invited.

In his reply message, he said: "I am a person who has advocated a peaceful meeting for two years. I still believe that the current situation solution is always better than the armed battle. Therefore, although I have many doubts about the aftermath meeting, I am willing to give him a try."

Hu Shi's attitude aroused dissatisfaction in the cultural circle of Peking, and even many of his original friends criticized him.

Lin Zixuan was quite speechless. Hu Shi was difficult to evaluate. He was stubborn and would do what he thought was right.

When Sun Zhongshan broke up with Chen Jiongming in Guangzhou, he supported Chen Jiongming and criticized Sun Zhongshan, believing that Sun Zhongshan had ruined Guangzhou in order to avenge his revenge.

When Feng Yuxiang drove Fu Yi out of the palace, he ran to the palace to meet Fu Yi and protested against this violent behavior.

I don't know much about this, but he still does his own way.

If it weren't for his fame, someone would have been in trouble with him long ago.

He advocated new ideas and new cultures, and advocated Western systems. He was considered a new person, but he also had the scholarly spirit of traditional literati, and could also be regarded as a pedantic side.

Therefore, people are a contradictory complex, and there is no such situation of being either black or white.

Based on the friendship of friends, Lin Zixuan wrote a letter to Hu Shi and advised him to withdraw from Duan Qirui's aftermath meeting. Although he didn't know if it was effective, he just tried his best.

In January 1925, the Women's Magazine, a subsidiary of Commercial Press, released the album "New Sex Morality Number", which caused social controversy.

Women's Magazine is edited by Zhang Xichen and Zhou Jianren, and is in a competitive relationship with the family magazine of Wanxiang Bookstore.

Zhang Xichen has been an editor at Commercial Press for nearly 15 years, and initially assisted Du Yaquan in editing Oriental Magazine.

In 1919, Zhang Xichen took over the Women's Magazine and became the editor-in-chief. With the assistance of Zhou Jianren, he carried out drastic reforms on Women's Magazine, and the number of transactions increased from 20,000 to more than 10,000.

Zhang Xichen is also considered an expert in women's issues.

This time, Women's Magazine's "New Sex Moral Number" put forward a controversial point.

"If two spouses allow, there is a form of immorality with the nature of a man or a man of a man, as long as it does not harm society and others, it cannot be considered immoral."

It means that as long as it does not harm society and others, men and women can live whatever they want, as long as they are willing.

This is the true liberation and freedom of marriage.

They believe that true marriage is based on the complete freedom of gender relations, which is automatically monogamy in humans, while the Western monogamy system is hypocritical.

It is monogamy that is maintained by law and public opinion, and it is impossible to guarantee that men and women will not betray each other.

Even from later generations, Lin Zixuan was surprised by their boldness.

Although the government stipulated that monogamy was required during the Republic of China period, the actual situation was that polygamy was common.

This argument is considered to defend polygamy, to destroy the family and harm society.

The views raised by this issue of Women's Magazine are actually from some feminist writers abroad who advocate sexual freedom and sexual liberation, believing that this is the equality between men and women.

Or the spiritual equality between men and women is only through sexual liberation.

Obviously, even in China during the Republic of China period, it would be difficult for China to accept this view, which is contrary to the basic morality of Chinese society, especially the proposition of "poly-married couples".

Lin Zixuan admired their courage, but did not agree with their views.

It is not that the views introduced by the West are good, but also depends on the actual situation in China. Otherwise, it will only mislead the Chinese people, rather than truly liberating the mind.

Moreover, it would be better to talk about such things in private, but it would be wrong to publish them in magazines to influence the public.

They may think they are pioneers, but they don’t know that what they bring in is not fire, but dross.

Lin Zixuan realized that this was a good opportunity to crack down on Commercial Press, so he asked his magazines and newspapers to slam Zhang Xichen and Women's Magazine.

However, there is another Zhou Jianren in this matter, Lu Xun's third brother.

Since then, the relationship between Lin Zixuan and the Zhou brothers has become increasingly distant. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!