Before this, although Lin Zixuan targeted Zhang Shichuan and others, he did not take any action, but left room for nothing.

His main purpose is to regulate China's film market and promote the regularization of Chinese films.

As long as Zhang Shichuan and others join the Film Association and act according to the rules, everyone is Chinese, and there is no need to make trouble to the death.

But Zhang Shichuan's resignation to the Japanese reached Lin Zixuan's bottom line.

In fact, many businessmen in China have trade with Japan. This kind of thing cannot be solved by shouting a few slogans of "boycotting Japanese goods", which involves huge interest relations.

Take the textile industry that the Lin family is engaged in for example.

Japanese textile mills adopt advanced technology and advanced management experience. The fabrics produced are not only of good quality but also of a wide variety. What is more important is to improve production efficiency and reduce the price of the fabric.

Good quality and low price. Various stores are willing to purchase goods, and Chinese people are also willing to buy them.

This is a huge dilemma facing China's textile industry.

The previous small workshop-style production methods will be eliminated, and only upgrading and transformation can resist the impact of Japan's textile industry.

As a leading enterprise in Shanghai's textile industry, the Lin family is also actively responding, reducing costs while improving technology, and fighting a price war with Japanese textile factories.

Lin Zixuan has a personal experience of this.

Domestic cloths are of poor quality and high cost, so it is no wonder that ordinary people want to buy imported foreign cloth.

Therefore, he cannot blame anything for those people who buy Japanese goods.

Similar to later generations, many people shouted "boycott Japanese goods", but in fact, they used Japanese products at home.

Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, China has opened many trading ports to Japan, and Japanese merchants have entered China in large numbers to trade goods, forming a fixed chain of interests.

Lin Zixuan can't control such things even if he wants to. He can only ensure that he can try to weaken the influence of the Japanese in the areas he controls.

Movies are his field.

The Chinese film circle is not big, so he issued a ban on Zhang Shichuan's Huaying Company.

Lin Zixuan proposed "two whatevers", and no Huaying's movies can be screened in his theaters. No Huaying's actors or employees' film companies will accept them.

This is to force people in the Shanghai film circle to take sides.

This time it was not just a talk, but a serious one.

He issued a death order very seriously at the meeting of the Film Association. He had not left Huaying within three days. Once Huaying collapses in the future, these people should not want to work in film in Shanghai.

Some people privately think that Lin Zixuan is too domineering and has exceeded the scope of normal business competition.

In the shopping mall, harmony has always been a priority for making money. If we don’t really have deep hatreds, few people will fight so hard.

But Lin Zixuan insisted on his own opinion and wanted Zhang Shichuan to find the staff to shoot movies even if he had money.

Just think about it. Japan is willing to invest money to support Zhang Shichuan in filming, which is definitely used to promote and beautify Japan.

In this era, once Japan is involved, it is no longer as simple as personal grievances, but also about the country and nation.

Under the threat of the ban order, some people withdrew from Huaying. Lin Zixuan would not let them lose their jobs. All celebrity film companies will accept them and arrange their jobs.

Zhang Shichuan could only retain some greedy people with high salary.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese were not willing to be outdone and mobilized a group of Japanese film industry practitioners from China to Shanghai.

They are not at ease with Zhang Shichuan, only their own people can feel at ease with him. Zhang Shichuan is just a cover, and Japan needs a Chinese to confuse Chinese audiences.

This is Japan's first step in entering the Chinese film industry.

Lin Zixuan knew that he would have a fight with this Chinese film company in the future, and the next stage would probably be to compete for theaters.

At this time, Pearl Buck returned from the United States.

She studied for a master's degree in the English department at Cornell University in the United States. After a year, she obtained her master's degree.

Her graduation thesis is "On the Influence of the West on Chinese Life and Civilization".

While in the United States, she also wrote a novel called "A Chinese Woman Says", which tells the love story between a couple of young men and women of different races.

The short story was published in Asia magazine.

Pearl Buck took it to Lin Zixuan and looked forward to receiving comments.

Most of her past wrote life essays, recording her views on China, or autobiographical texts. She told about her life, and this was the first time she had seriously created a novel.

According to her, her writing philosophy is to restore real life as much as possible.

"I don't like works that write the Chinese in bizarre and absurdity, and my greatest wish is to make this nation appear as true and correct in my books as they did."

After reading this novel, Lin Zixuan discovered the difference in writing between Chinese and Western writers.

No matter how many years Pearl Buck has lived in China, she received education or Western education. Christianity is deep in her heart, so her articles contain the meaning of Christian preaching.

Moreover, in China, she is just a bystander and participates in the lives of Chinese people to a limited extent.

The truth she saw was not necessarily the actual thoughts of Chinese farmers, but the Eastern world in the eyes of Westerners.

The gap between Chinese and Western cultures is not so easy to smooth out.

Then the question is.

It is also a novel about rural China. Why can Americans accept Pearl Buck's novel, while the English translation of Luxun's novel has no sales in the United States?

In addition to the different nationalities of the two writers, the biggest difference is that their writing styles are different.

Pearl Buck is more suitable for Western readers to read, and Chinese readers read like a translated novel.

In China, when facing Chinese readers, she also writes about Chinese farmers, and her novels are incomparable to Luxun in terms of profoundness.

But in the United States, her novels are more acceptable and more popular than those of Luxun.

To figure out this problem, Lin Zixuan believes that Pearl Buck does not need to change his writing style, but should continue to adhere to this way of writing to create novels.

You can't ask a Westerner to think about problems and see things with Eastern thinking.

At the same time, he did not intend to hand over the novel "1984" to Pearl Buck's translation, because the novel is too dangerous, so he should give it to the compilation office of Vientiane Bookstore.

After sending off Pearl Buck, Lin Zixuan received a warning that the Shanghai Chinese community would not be safe from leaving the concession in the near future.

The reason is that in order to cooperate with the Northern Expedition of the Guangzhou National Revolutionary Army, someone is secretly planning to organize an armed riot in the Chinese community in Shanghai to overthrow the warlord Sun Chuanfang's rule in Shanghai, establish a special city in Shanghai, and realize local autonomy in Shanghai.

Lin Zixuan once participated in the Shanghai local autonomy conference, and the gentry in Shanghai always paid attention to peaceful struggles.
Chapter completed!