He had not returned to China for seven years and had not returned home for more than ten years. Hu Shi was worried about returning to his home soon. He returned to his residence for a long time and did not know what to do. How to calm down at night and sent the book to Shanghai Youth Magazine, and the "Revisions on Improvement" and other books, which had launched the vernacular movement in history, were put into his suitcase. ￡∝,

The next day, he went to the principal Professor Dewey's house to bid farewell. He has been here for two years and has a lot of affection for Mrs. Dewey's family tea party. Finally, he went to Qisejia to bid farewell to his classmates and the American silly girl. Ten days later, Hu Shi, who crossed 3,200 miles of the American continent, finally arrived in Vancouver. He will take the Japanese cruise ship to Yokohama here, and then go to Shanghai.

On the afternoon of December 5, 1916, Hu Shi arrived in Yokohama.

"Shizhi!" Hu Shi, who was alone all the way, just wanted to go ashore, but he didn't want Pan Gongbi, Guo Yushang, and Yu Songhua, from Jiading, on the dock. They and Hu Shi were both students of Chengzhong Middle School in Shanghai. The difference was that Hu Shi was studying in the United States, and they stayed in Japan.

"Ah! It's you!!" There is nothing more joyful than this when we meet old friends in a foreign land. Hu Shi screamed and became excited, saying, "How come you are here?"

"Ren Shuyong (Hongjun) sent us a telegram, so we know." Pan Gongbi also laughed, and Guo Yushang next to him took out the telegram, "Look, in order to save money, Shuyong gave us the six words "Return to the Japanese Empress", which made us think so much, and I thought you were really with the Japanese Empress..."

"Yu Shang..." Yu Songhua, a more mature Taicang native, immediately called Guo Yu Shang to the Japanese Empress. China and Japan have been loving and loving for the past two years, like lacquer and glue. This year, it has passed a strange and funny initiative. It would be fine to ask the Chinese not to insult the Emperor; it even asked Japan not to call China China. From this we can see that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Capital was really a group of uneducated people, and the Chinese was Sanskrit. The English Hina came from this. The revolutionary students who opposed the Qing Dynasty in the past few years even claimed that they were Chinese rather than Qing people.

Now he is asking not to say that China. I really don’t know if the books read by the imperial court were thrown into the belly of the dog. In this way, people have no choice but to use the template of the “Great Japanese Empire” to give a respectful title of “Great Chinese Empire”. Britain and France have followed suit and agreed. Now, China, which is not an empire, has also become an empire.

"Shizhi, I remember you have never been to Tokyo. This time you can stay in Tokyo for a few days..." Pan Gongbi did not care about Yu Songhua, but just happily invited Hu Shi to stay in Tokyo.

"You can go to Tokyo, but you don't want it if you stay for a while. This boat will be driven in the middle of the night." Hu Shi hurriedly refused. Although he could meet his old friend on the way, he still had to go back to his home. Especially now that the European war is affected, the tickets are extremely expensive, so he doesn't want to pay for the tickets to return to his country again.

"Hey..., this is a bad thing!" Pan Gongbi smiled and said, "This boat is much slower than the train. You can stay in Tokyo for two days. It is not too late to wait for this boat to arrive in Nagasaki after three days."

"Ah, this is OK?" Hu Shi said in surprise, but he thought the train was indeed much faster than the steamer, so he happily brought his luggage with everyone to Tokyo with everyone. But at this moment, another ship docked, and a Japanese official and a military band in high clothing suddenly appeared on the dock, and the salute also sounded. Hu Shi didn't count the number of sounds. He only turned around and saw the people who came off the boat seemed to be wearing Chinese costumes. The difference was that: "Who is this here?"

"The newspaper said that it seems that Yang Xizi, the president of the Academy of Sciences, visited Japan." Yu Songhua replied in the majestic national anthem, the song of the Yellow River. He was the one who cares most about the current affairs. As soon as he saw the person wearing a first-rank red official robe, he guessed that Yang Xizi, the speaker of the Academy of Sciences, came. Seeing that Hu Shi was puzzled, he said again: "The Germans are very powerful in unlimited submarine warfare. The British were sunk 700,000 tons of merchant ships last month alone, and the British could no longer bear it. The largest number of merchant ships in the world today are China and Japan, each with a huge size of 2.6 million tons, ranking second in the world. Although the two countries had four million tons of merchant ships sailing on the Atlantic Ocean before, Britain still lacked ships..."

"Then is related to Yang Xizi?" Although Hu Shi did not understand practice, he, who had always paid attention to rationality, only felt that this was not logical.

"Haha, isn't you paying attention to the situation in the United States?" Yu Songhua smiled, "Now British merchant ships have suffered heavy losses, but they produce only 500,000 tons of merchant ships per year [Note:], and they have to seek help from other countries. Among them, merchant ships are my country and Japan at most. However, a few years ago, the merchant ships of China and Japan joined forces. Japan is an ally of the United Kingdom, but my country is not. Besides, all the docks in all shipbuilding stations in Japan are built by our country, and the orders for docks and ship platforms under construction are also from our country. Engagement in shipping can generate huge profits..."

Before Yu Songhua finished speaking, Guo Yushang next to him smiled and said, "So now the Japanese feel that they have suffered a loss with our joint ventures, and they have suffered even more losses in signing shipbuilding contracts with our country. They are extremely dissatisfied. Major newspapers have asked the government to save their rights and scolded the Japanese officials who signed shipbuilding agreements for stolen the country. Therefore, the Japanese government had to invite our country to negotiate on the pretext that the war between allies needed merchant ships. In fact, they wanted to change the Sino-Japanese shipbuilding contract and share more profits, so they invited Yang Xizi over."

"Didn't this regaining profit and power that we used to shout?" Hu Shi was suddenly confused. Has the world really changed?

"The dynasty is so vicious." Today's Chinese people call King Min, and Yang Rui is the dynasty. Guo Yushang said again, "Before the war in Europe started, they built a dock and built an iron factory in Guangxi. They also got a contract that seemed to suffer but actually made a big profit, so they were in trouble, so they could not say what they had to suffer."

"This matter..." Hu Shi only knew that on the way back to China, the German submarine sank the British cruise ship again, and several Americans died. President Wilson no longer settled the matter this time. In order to show that the right of passage to the ocean is a right that every country deserves, he had requested parliament to send naval ships to the Atlantic Ocean to escort. Although this move did not declare war on Germany, the navy's order to sink the enemy's submarine that threatened the safety of the merchant fleet was equivalent to declaring war on Germany. The relationship between the United States and Germany is so tense, and Hu Shi really didn't know at all. He only remembered the Japanese navy and said worriedly: "But this merchant ship is on the sea after all, and the Japanese navy is better than our country..."

"So what?" Guo Yushang obviously read the domestic newspapers sent by mail. He firmly believed what the newspaper said, "Japan's shipbuilding steel plates are all supplied by our country. Once our country does not export steel plates, his ships cannot be built either. Iron sand and pig iron are all purchased from our country. If the supply is really cut off, Japan cannot even make guns and cannons. Besides, Japan has warships, but our country has submarines. I only learned today that German submarines were designed and built in cooperation with our country. It is said that my country has more than 150 such ocean-going submarines. If war starts, these submarines are enough to... "

Guo Yushang was indeed a little unrestrained. He is now among the Japanese. He actually talked about the war between China and Japan. Yu Songhua called him again, and he said unexpectedly: "It is a blessing to the old man who lost his horse. If the government really earns hundreds of millions of silver during the European war, it may not be a blessing to the people. He hasn't returned to China for a long time, and he will know after returning to China."

Yu Song's Chinese is vague, but Hu Shi did not go into it because he could stay in Tokyo for several days. The first thing he thought was to visit Mr. Chen Zhongfu, the editor-in-chief of Youth Magazine, who was living here, and wanted to know what he planned to do after the youth magazine was banned.

Hu Shi thought about Chen Zhongfu, and in the 20th century China, the editorial department of the Tongmenghui Journal. Chen Zhongfu, Su Manshu, Yang Yongtai, and Deng Qingchu were glaring at the sudden Japanese police. The Japanese police led by the Japanese did not understand Chinese. He grabbed a youth magazine and said in Japanese: "I warn you, please do not sell your magazines before you obtain a legal issuance license from our government."

"But we only sell it to Chinese people." Yang Yongtai stopped Chen Zhongfu, who was about to get angry, and defended.

"It's not OK to sell it to Chinese people." The Japanese police did not say that they were difficult to speak Chinese. They kept shaking their heads, "This time it was just a warning. If there was another time, you would be deported by our government." The police spoke in a tough tone, but after he said that, he bowed politely and then took the people away.

"Oh..., Shanghai cannot be done, Tokyo cannot be done. That old thing Zhang Taiyan is going to force us to death!" Su Manshu, a revolutionary monk named Sun Wen, complained that after Shanghai magazines could not be sold, the remaining thousands of copies were brought to Tokyo by everyone, intending to use Japanese students as the audience to run magazines here. Who knew that as soon as the remaining magazines were sold, the Japanese police came to the door.

"China and Japan are now wearing pairs of pants." Deng Qingchu had long opposed the plan to go to Japan to run a magazine, but Chen Zhongfu insisted on saying that there were thousands of students studying in Japan. At the same time, because the external ship could pass through the inland ports in China at will, this avoided the postal route controlled by the government, and did not expect to suffer a severe blow at the beginning.

"If Japan doesn't work, then go to Annan, Nanyang, and Honolulu." Chen Zhongfu was so angry that the previous month, Youth Magazine was sealed for no reason. At that time, he asked his former friend Zhang Shizhao to find out the situation. Unexpectedly, Zhang Shizhao replied that the water in the pond was very deep. He said that there were several articles in the Youth Magazine written by Dai Jitao, who accused the government of land reform for forcing people's wealth to oppose land reform, which was not allowed by a certain factory...

"Then you have to go to the sales points of each generation to collect the accounts, and then sell it out before leaving." Deng Qingchu reminded him. After saying that, he said mysteriously, "Actually, this place is also evil enough. In the past ten years, four or five newspapers and magazines have been published, either blocked or closed down..."

"Don't be so superstitious!" Chen Zhongfu was unhappy. The purpose of Youth Magazine was to eliminate superstitiousness and advocate science. Deng Qingchu said this obviously was not in line with the purpose. "Everyone clean up the place and then go and ask who would take over the magazine."

Thinking of moving out of Tokyo again, the few people felt tired, but finally they forced themselves to do it. The magazine was packing up, but Hu Shi, who was putting down his luggage, arrived. The apartment where Pan Gongbi rented was not far away.

Seeing that the sign of the Youth Magazine was taken down, Hu Shi and Yu Songhua who came with him, Pan Gongbi was very surprised. Hu Shi asked Deng Qingchu, who was holding the sign of the Youth Magazine, and said, "Sir, is this the Youth Magazine?"

"This is the Youth Magazine. Who are you looking for?" Deng Qingchu looked at these people and thought they were ordinary international students.

"I'll look for Mr. Chen Zhongfu." Hu Shi asked, "Is he here?"

Even after studying in the United States for several years, Hu Shi still has a Jixi accent in Mandarin, and Deng Qingchu, who is also from Anhui, smiled and said, "Zhongfu is here, who are you?"

"Oh, I'm Hu Shizhi, I've been there..." Before Hu Shi finished speaking, Deng Qingchu's voice suddenly became high and said, "So it's Mr. Shizhi, you. Are you in the United States?"

"Oh, I'm already graduated. Before returning to China, I received a letter from Mr. Zhongfu and knew that Youth Magazine had moved to Tokyo. So I came to visit him." Hu Shi contributed to Youth Magazine because of the introduction of Wang Mengzou of Yadong Books; and Chen Zhongfu joined the Youth Magazine, which was supported by Wang Mengjiao. Wang Mengjiao and Hu Shi were both from Jixi, and he and Chen Zhongfu worked together twelve years ago when Chen Zhongfu held the Anhui Monopoly Newspaper.

"Okay!" Deng Qingchu said yes, while looking at Hu Shi, who was wearing a suit and full of foreign flavor, then happily took him to the editor-in-chief room and shouted to Chen Zhongfu: "Zhongfu, guess who is here?" After that, he couldn't help asking and answering, "It's Dr. Hu! He has graduated from the United States. He heard that we are here and came to visit him."

"Shizhi!" Chen Zhongfu was worried about where to run a magazine. When he heard that Hu Shi was coming, he was worried and lost. He immediately stepped forward and held Hu Shi's hand and said, "I finally saw you!"

Hu Shi was also happy when his hand was held by Chen Zhongfu. He said, "Mr. Zhongfu. I am so happy to see you. Haha, I thought I would bow to you after returning to China."

"What kind of bowing!" Chen Zhongfu also laughed, "This kind of old antique should have been in the garbage dump of history long ago. When people meet, they should perform Western handshakes. This will increase friendship. Come on, please sit down. There are also these friends, please sit down."

Chen Zhongfu hoped that everything in China would be new and modern. In his opinion, all the traditions of the past were imprisoning and fooling people. They should be abandoned completely. He would pass by Hu Shi, and then shake hands with Yu Songhua, who came with Hu Shi, and then talked about the situation of the Youth Magazine.

"It's just one year since the magazine was launched. From the beginning of selling 300 copies a month to more than 2,000 copies now, it's not easy. However, the magazine has just improved a little, but it has been banned. Now, the Japanese government has not approved the launch of this magazine for some reason..."

"Brother Zhongfu, why does the Ministry of Rites ban the magazine? Could it be that Mr. Zhang is because we advocate new intentions?" Hu Shi read the Youth Magazine during the period, but did not see anything illegal and rebellious.

"This..." Chen Zhongfu lowered his head and pondered for a moment, "Now the government has extremely strict supervision of publications. In addition to the margin review system, there are new things such as sensitive words..."

"Mr. Zhongfu, what is a sensitive word?" Hu Shi has not been in China for several years and has never heard of sensitive words. Therefore, he intervened and asked questions again.

"Sensitive words are those words that the Ministry of Rites of the Revival Association forced the printing office to not be arranged, similar to the taboos of feudal dynasties. For example, "Yanzhou Punishment", "Dictory Society", "Yang Hatou", "Zhu Mazi", "Zhang Crazy" and "Xiao Yinfeng"... If the author insists on writing these words, the printing office can only replace them with the "*" number, and readers will see a few asterisks."

Chen Zhongfu has been running a magazine for a long time and has been used to sensitive words. He is not angry when he speaks it, but Hu Shi, who just returned from the United States, was very angry. He seemed to have his hair standing up and said loudly: "How can this be done! Is there a constitution? Is there still freedom of speech? Is this still a democratic country? This is simply a feudal dictatorship!"

The turtle who returned from overseas travel always had to adapt to it as soon as he returned to China. Chen Zhongfu was used to it. He smiled and said, "According to Yang Jingcheng's statement, our country has never claimed to be a democratic country. In fact, sensitive words can be avoided. As long as it is not intentionally attacking the government, it is okay to use other words instead. Youth magazines were blocked because there were articles by revolutionary Dai Tianchou in the magazine, and those people in the Dongchang also knew the circulation of our magazine. After they calculated, they found that the magazine was always operating at a loss. In addition, the magazine had articles by revolutionaries, so... "

This is the reason for being banned. Hu Shi suddenly realized that he couldn't ask Chen Zhongfu magazine if he really accepted the gift from the revolutionary party. He only asked, "How do they know whether the magazine loses money or makes money? This is an internal matter!"

Before Chen Zhongfu could speak, Deng Qingchu answered first, "I don't know what's right. According to the Private Enterprise Law, the Company Law, and magazines are also companies, and have legal person qualifications. Therefore, they not only have to register at the Industrial and Commercial Administration Office, but also have to open a registered capital at the designated bank account. They also have to hire a part-time accountant, or go to the IRS to study for accounting for half a year and pass the examination, so that they can be qualified to open a business. After establishment, they have to issue invoices when doing business with the outside world. Cash transactions are prohibited from large amounts, and they can only go from the bank to use checks. In addition, the monthly salary of us editors and handymen, they have to go to the IRS to file taxes in order to pay personal income tax.

Although the magazine is in the concession, foreigners in the concession have also allowed the IRS to collect taxes on Chinese companies and Chinese people in the concession this year. So when the IRS checked, the magazines with a price of two cents sold only 2,000 copies a month. According to the thickness of the magazine, the printing cost is calculated, and then the rent and salary are calculated. You will immediately know whether you have lost or made a profit. This revival club will do everything to make trouble for people. In order to collect taxes, I went to the IRS to take the accounting certificate, but after three times, I barely passed the exam. It's so damn..."

Deng Qingchu was angry when he talked about the accounting certificate exam. This was not the four-pillar accounting method at all, but a double accounting method that was more complicated than that of foreign merchants. What are the loans and borrowings, what vouchers and invoices? These things made him look a few times. People from the IRS check the accounts from time to time, and they had to correct small problems whenever there were small problems, and they would be fined for big problems. They were so full that they were full.

"The IRS only cares about collecting taxes, no matter whether the money is stolen or robbed, as long as you have income, you have to pay taxes. In Yang Jingcheng's words, death and taxes are inevitable in life." Chen Zhongfu said. "It's just that the government is so arbitrary that the magazine is funded by the Revolutionary Party, so I do not plead guilty. Besides, did I make friends with them? These people were friends from the Revival Society before, and they are really different from the party!"

"Mr. Zhongfu, what should I do next for the magazine?" Deng Qingchu was angry with the IRS. Hu Shi couldn't say that the IRS in the US may not be like this. It's just that he never talked about the bad things in the US in front of the Chinese people, and was very secretive about the tragic situation of the European war, and was afraid that the Chinese people would be hostile to and exclude advanced Western culture because of these. If this is the case, how can the comprehensive Westernization be implemented?

"I don't know where to go now!" Although Chen Zhongfu was going to Nanyang and Annan, that was just anger. The place was full of Guangdong and Fujian, and people from both places were very superstitious. They would not buy more youth magazines.

Chen Zhongfu was worried, and Su Manshu outside the door seemed to be talking to someone. After a while, he ran in with a letter and said, "Zhongfu! Xingyan said he would invite us to the capital!"

"What?" Chen Zhongfu, who was not sure where to go, looked at the fake monk with a smile in front of him, and said in confusion, "What are you doing in the capital?"

"Xingyan said that he had told Mr. Jimin about our affairs. Mr. Jimin also read the youth magazine we run and said that since the magazine was banned, we should run the magazine to Peking University." Su Manshu said.

"Is it still banned when I run Peking University?" Although Chen Zhongfu was worried, he snatched Zhang Shizhao's letter from Su Manshu. Before he could read it, Yang Yongtai next to him said, "Zhongfu, I remember that the school magazines in the university are internal publications and are only distributed internally and are not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites."

Yang Yongtai said this, and Hu Shi also said: "This is really great. I will teach at Peking University this time when I return to China. Everyone is in Beijing and can get together every Sunday."

When Hu Shi said Sunday, everyone laughed. He was like a foreigner, and he didn't know that there was no Sunday in China. For this reason, some religious government officials and churches protested, hoping that believers who have become civil servants could adjust their leave: the two days on the first day of each month and the two days on the fifteenth day of each month will be adjusted to every Sunday in the Jesus calendar for a total of four days.

But in order to hold scientific research and appoint officials every three years, the government agencies are extremely streamlined. Each position has a job description and every operation has a sop document. This gear chain is generally a seamless administrative machine. It is obviously not possible for the screws to work four days a month. When the machine is not turned, it is not possible for the screws to exercise for four days. Especially now, more and more policies are to be implemented: land reform, agriculture revitalization, new rural construction, water conservancy repair, late marriage and good parenting, industrial and commercial investigation, five-year popularization education, and promotion of tax bills. There are many, endless official duties, everyone is tired like a dog, but you go to church for a week, so please go home and pray.

The job description and sop documents have already dismantled grassroots administrative affairs with Ford-style assembly lines, even disabled people can operate it. There are more people taking civil service exams outside than locusts in the yellow areas. Why do you give you four days off? Just because God is a real god?

So the final result is that either these people do not worship and concentrate on being officials; or they resign and go home to concentrate on serving God. There are only a few senior positions, such as the Minister of the Territory Ministry, Comrade Pei Yili, the Prime Minister, is very concerned about his work and life, and specially authorized him to go to the church to report his work to God every Sunday; as for the officials and believers in the provinces, prefectures, counties and townships below, let’s make a choice between official positions and God. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!