On April 15, 1926, Zhang Zuolin's Feng army occupied Tianjin, and on the 17th, the Feng army entered Peiping.

Feng Yuxiang's national army was defeated towards Mongolia.

At this point, the war ended with Zhang Zuolin's victory, and most parts of northern China fell into the hands of Zhang Zuolin, and he became the most dazzling figure in Chinese politics.

It was in the limelight for a while.

Many people believe that Zhang Zuolin is most likely to unify China and has the appearance of an emperor.

In history, people who raised troops from the north often had the advantage, rushed south, and achieved hegemony.

The Fengtian army's entry into Beijing marks that Zhang Zuolin controlled the center of China's political rights, and the Northeast region naturally needs to praise it.

Harbin where Lin Zixuan is located is full of joy. There are even calls for Zhang Zuolin to take office as president in the local newspapers. It seems that Zhang Zuolin is the one who is destined to save China.

Lin Zixuan knew that this was just a flash in the pan. This period was the peak of Zhang Zuolin, but unfortunately it was not lasting.

For him, the good news is that the war has subsided and he can leave Harbin and go to Peking.

On April 20, Lin Zixuan came to Peiping and found that the situation in Peiping was quite serious and could be called terrifying.

There are garrisons inside and outside the city of Beiping City, and flags for recruiting soldiers can be seen everywhere at the city gate, and there are constant friction between armies of different factions.

This situation affects the daily lives of the people.

It was less than six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, and the bustling streets on weekdays were shut down, and the people coming and going were all panicked, as if a disaster was right in front of them.

This is just the life of ordinary people, and the cultural circle has been affected even more seriously.

The Feng army sealed newspaper offices in the city, searched the dormitories of teachers and staff in various schools, and arrested the rioters who made trouble.

Including Peking University, Peking Normal University, Women's Normal University, China University and other places, Peking University is the focus of searches.

Many students and teachers were arrested, and a group of celebrities who motivated students were on the list of arrests. Everyone in the city of Peking was in danger.

Since the Republic of China, the political atmosphere in Peking has been quite relaxed.

Scholars in the cultural circle have used various public petitions and activities to continuously challenge the tolerance bottom line of those in power with an increasingly high attitude, exacerbating the tense confrontation between them and the Beiyang government.

However, the struggle between the two sides has always been within a controllable range.

But in this year, the March 18th Massacre broke through their respective bottom lines and made the situation completely out of control.

Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zongchang and others sealed the newspaper office and hunted down journalists. The professor's actions reflected a different thinking logic than the previous leaders of the Beiyang government.

They don’t care whether you are a celebrity or a reporter or a professor, you will catch them when you catch them. If you catch them, you will kill them.

Adopt high-pressure policies to control public opinion and kill whoever is disobedient.

This puts the Peking cultural community, which has always lived in a relatively relaxed public opinion environment, into a panic situation.

Whether in the education world or not, whether in the education world, whether in the teachers or students, everyone seems to be in a very uneasy state.

This is described in Modern Review.

"In the past seven or eight months, the city of Peking has always been in a state of terror. At first it was the terror in the air, then the terror of the army entering and leaving the city, then the terror of countless officers or military agencies taking people at will."

Lin Zixuan was in panic and waiting and watching while talking to members of the Crescent Society.

Some people who noticed the danger had left Peking to take refuge.

The National News Weekly reported: "The elements who can call and jump all hurriedly left Peking, and as a result, the educational community in Peking became more dusk."

However, most people are not willing to leave.

Peking is an ancient capital with rich cultural heritage, with many universities and academic research institutions. It has profound academic accumulation and is the center of Chinese cultural education. If it is necessary, few scholars choose to leave.

In their eyes, Shanghai is a commercial city, while other cities in China are cultural deserts and are not suitable for research and research.

However, these people are not in a good situation in Peking.

Due to the change of the Beiyang government's regime, education funds cannot be in place and the school has no funds. The wages of faculty and staff are seriously arrears.

Taking Peking University as an example, there was news that Peking University could not start school on schedule due to shortage of daily maintenance funds, and even the water source was almost cut off due to the inability to pay the tap water fee.

Peking University professor Gu Jiegang has recorded it in his diary.

"In January 1926, Peking University was unable to pay the salary on time. The part-time Confucius School, who worked at the Confucius Institute, had no choice but to ask Chen Jianshi, director of the Chinese Studies School of Peking University Research Institute, to borrow 88 yuan from the school."

Even Hu Shi, who had a good salary, had difficulties in life due to wage arrears.

Peking University, which owns Cai Yuanqi and others, has fallen to this point, and the situation of other schools can be imagined.

According to newspaper reports, in 1926, except for institutions related to foreigners, the Beiyang government paid wages on time, other departments had serious wage arrears.

If you just have to bear wages, you can still bear it. At worst, life will be harder.

Now Zhang Zuolin has adopted a high-pressure policy, which has silenced the cultural world, and literati dare not write articles or newspapers dare not publish them.

Many newspapers have canceled editorial columns and started publishing entertainment novels, which shows that there is no space for speech in Peking at this time that accommodates diverse ideas.

Before this, life was just in trouble, but now the living environment is in danger.

Under the dual economic and ideological controls, escaping from Peking has become a more common and realistic choice, and the large-scale southward movement of the knowledge group has become an inevitable trend.

Lin Zixuan encountered this situation as soon as he returned from the Soviet Union, which was like a withdrawal of the Soviet Union's control over culture.

He welcomed these intellectual elites to Shanghai. The political environment in Shanghai is much more relaxed, and this group of people can bring cultural prosperity and improvement of education quality to Shanghai.

These people understand that if they go to Shanghai in the future, they may rely on Lin Zixuan and respect Lin Zixuan more and more.

In the past, Lin Zixuan was in Shanghai and had a weak presence in the Crescent Society and the Modern Review School. When he arrived in Shanghai, Lin Zixuan would become the core figure of this group.

This is a future event. Lin Zixuan doesn’t want to stay in Peking in this atmosphere, it’s too depressing.

He persuaded Zhang Henshui and I to leave the right and wrong place of Peking. It was not uncommon to be arrested in the style of running a newspaper. This is the price of telling the truth.

Chengshe I politely rejected Lin Zixuan's invitation. He felt that when he was now in a state of silence, he was needed to stay in Peking.

1926 was a special year in the Republic of China, and it can be said to be the most intense and turbulent year.

In this year, the rule of the Beiyang warlords was on the eve of collapse. The warlords fought the most times, mobilized the largest number of people, and involved the widest region.

Warlords of all sizes fought each other, and the situation of separation and resilience also developed to the most subtle level.

It was also during this year that intellectuals, mainly college teachers living in Peking, were trapped in political pressure and economic embarrassment, and started a trend of migration that attracted attention.
Chapter completed!