The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 292 June (Part 3)
This chapter's subtitle: A scar falls from the sky
It is said that April on Earth performed the most standard and elegant curtsy as taught by the nuns of St. Mary's College.
Just as she was about to express her admiration, she heard the other party say in a very respectful tone: "When Yuan saw Miss Lin, I couldn't help but think of..."
"Yellow flowers and blue blood, the Three Forests of Minhou!"
As we all know, Lin Juemin, one of the "72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang," was Lin Huiyin's uncle. However, there were two other martyrs with the surname Lin from Minhou who were not only fellow villagers but also born and died in the same year as Lin Juemin.
These three people are collectively known as "Sanlin".
One of them was Lin Huiyin's uncle and Lin Juemin's cousin, Lin Yinmin. He had an older brother named Lin Zhaomin, who was an underground member of the Tongmenghui in the Fujian New Army during the Xinhai Revolution. He participated in the Fujian Uprising and later served as a senator of the Military Senate of the National Government.
The other one is Lin Shishuang, also known as Lin Wen. His grandfather, Lin Hongwen, was the first top scholar in Fujian Province during the Qing Dynasty and served as the governor of Yunnan.
How to say it, the deeds of these revolutionary martyrs are certainly heroic and touching.
But our Master Yuan is a keyboard warrior and truth-teller in later generations. He has always looked down on the military qualities of the two great revolutionaries, "Sun Tanxiang, who led by example" and "Huang Keqiang, the invincible military god."
The Guangzhou Uprising launched in 1911 was not the first time that "Sun and Huang" launched a revolution, but the tenth time!
To put it bluntly, the ten revolutions they launched were mostly for fundraising overseas.
Before the Guangzhou Uprising, Huang Xing said, "We knew this battle was impossible, but we still fought it because the revolution's survival was at stake. Even if we were defeated, the revolutionary spirit will live on, and the glory of the national spirit will shine through the ages. That is why we firmly reject the idea of an extension. We would rather die on the battlefield than be defeated before the battle."
Why did they "do this battle knowing it was impossible"?
Of course, it’s because “I was forced to raise funds for the revolution”!
So to be clear, Yuan Yanshu was not unmoved by the dedication and patriotism of people like Lin Juemin, he just felt that the "Ten Revolutions" of Iron Fist were a mess.
According to the way "Sun Huang" is doing things, they are not overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, but are eliminating the rebels for the Qing Dynasty.
"Um?"
Before Lin Huiyin could come to her senses, the handsome man in front of her recited with great emotion: "I now bid you farewell with this book! When I wrote this book, I was still a human being in the world; when you read this book, I have become a ghost in the underworld..."
"I love you so much! This very thought of loving you gives me the courage to die!"
"...Alas! My handkerchief is short, yet my feelings are deep. There are still thousands of things I haven't expressed. You can imitate them. Now I can't see you! You can't leave me. Do you often look for me in your dreams? I'm so sad!"
Our Master Yuan recited the entire "Letter to My Wife" in one breath, then took out a white handkerchief from his chest, wiped his eyes, blew his nose, and sighed deeply, saying, "Mr. Doufei (Lin Juemin's nickname is Doufei) is truly a man of profound emotion and nature. Hongjian cannot help but feel pity every time he reads his poems. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."
Manshufeier, who hadn't understood what he was saying after a long while, saw his expression and movements and knew that he had finally finished, so she reminded him, "Ah, are you still dancing?"
"OF COURSE!" Yuan Yan immediately stuffed the handkerchief back and nodded to the two guests, saying, "Ms. Lin, Qi Sen. Excuse me."
As he spoke, he embraced the "Queen of Bohemia" and stepped onto the dance floor...
Xie Wanying, one of Yuan Yanshu's most admired students, wrote a famous novel in 1933, "Our Wife's Living Room," in which she satirized a large number of high-ranking intellectuals in Beijing and Tianjin, including Lin Huiyin, Liang Sicheng, Hu Shizhi, Xu Zhimo, and Jin Yuelin.
Of course, that was in the original timeline.
By the way, after Lin Juemin was executed, his family sold their ancestral home to seek refuge. The buyer was Xie Luanen, who had a granddaughter named Xie Wanying. When Bing Xin grew up, she wrote an article to commemorate her former residence.
Among these, Bing Xin 's most satirical character is "our wife," a woman who is surrounded by men, loves to show off, and is scheming. It can be said that she can easily "play" with the men around her.
Needless to say, the prototype of "our wife" is Lin Huiyin.
In fact, Xiao Linzi is indeed a little vain, a little narcissistic, and a little bit of a "favorite woman".
But then again, it is normal for a beautiful, intelligent, knowledgeable, and intellectual woman who knows how to protect herself to have these "problems".
It is absolutely human nature to enjoy the feeling of being admired by the opposite sex.
How could a woman who knew her own beauty not love herself?
The most important thing is that this beautiful woman made a calm and rational choice in marriage, the most important thing for a woman.
Frankly speaking, among the talented women of the Republic of China, only Lin Huiyin could be said to have a perfect life and a happy family. She neither met the wrong man nor had an affair, and her life could almost be described as "PERFECT."
However, Lin Huiyin, who has always been very popular and knows that she is very popular, was confused by our Master Yuan's artificiality.
Since she came of age, that is, when she was fifteen or sixteen, it was the first time she met a man who treated her like nothing. And this man clearly did not like other men.
In the eyes of others, I am unexpectedly, unexpectedly, and even not as good as my two deceased cousins.
Moreover, this man is so handsome. Not only does he write novels and poems so well, he also dances so handsomely...
Lin Huiyin had mixed feelings in her heart. The seventeen-year-old girl didn't know how to hide her emotions well, so her face naturally looked ugly.
"Phyllis, don't be angry with Hongjian." Xu Zhimo also realized that something was wrong and hurriedly advised: "You don't know Hongjian, right? It's just, it's just, it's just..."
Not knowing what to say, he clapped his hands and said, "Hongjian once wrote two lines of poetry: 'I once whipped a famous horse when I was drunk, fearing that my love would tire the beauty...'"
"I know. This is what he wrote to his fiancée, Miss Wei Mingzhu." Lin Huiyin said with a sour tone, "She is also a great beauty."
In fact, the marriage between Yuan and Wei was also a sensational gossip in the overseas Chinese communities in Britain and the United States.
A rich girl like Miss Wei Mingzhu also has many admirers . It would be fine if she was just won over by our Master Yuan.
However, Miss Wei had come to Yuan Yanshu crying and shouting that she wanted to marry him, and even broke the door and left on the spot. What was even more outrageous was that she actually agreed to let her husband have a concubine.
When this news reached back to Britain, many people dropped their eyes to the ground.
However, as Master Yuan became more and more famous, more and more people came to believe that Miss Wei was indeed an extraordinary woman who recognized and respected heroes!
Lin Huiyin had originally thought that Wei Mingzhu had a pretty face for nothing, and that she was just a flower maniac. Now she finally realized that her flower mania was also very reasonable.
"Let's dance too," Xu Zhimo suggested.
Lin Huiyin didn't want to upset her male companion, so after nodding in agreement, the two of them started to "bang bang bang".
After the song ended, people in the dance floor clapped politely and started chatting in groups of three or four.
In fact, tonight is a social dance party, not a dance party for the sake of dancing, so the interval between the two songs is particularly long, giving everyone enough time to communicate.
At this moment, Yuan Yanshu's "My Friend Xu Zhimo" happened to meet an acquaintance: "Mr. Kaihensi, why are you here too?"
"Hello, Hamilton. And Miss Lin, good evening." Mr. Kaihensi began to explain, "The London branch of the First National Bank of New York sent me an invitation. I happened to have nothing to do, and I heard that your friend, NY from NY, was also there, so I came."
This man is a celebrity in the British financial world, especially after he became the chairman of the National Mutual Life Insurance Company this year. His annual reports to shareholders have always been must-read news for people in the financial world.
"What a coincidence!" Xu Zhimo said in surprise, "Then I will be your introducer."
As he said this, he led the guest to our Master Yuan.
"Hongjian, let me introduce you. This is..."
Yuan Yan, who was flirting with Manshufeier, suddenly turned around when he heard the voice and happened to see the face of the new guest.
He shuddered and blurted out, "Mr. John Maynard Keynes?!"
"Dr. Yuan, do you know me?" The "pioneer of macroeconomics" looked a little surprised.
What I said is, how could I not know you, old man?
There would be no macroeconomics without you... Well, that's not accurate.
It should be said that macroeconomics will eventually be proposed by others. However, just like Einstein's theory of relativity and Freud's psychoanalysis, macroeconomics will not appear so timely.
These three theoretical achievements are collectively known as the "three major revolutions in human knowledge in the 20th century."
Anyway, you are the ancestor who gives us food to eat!
"Of course, Mr. Keynes. Your book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, was the top-selling nonfiction book in the United States last year. I benefited a lot from reading it!"
The title of this book is translated into Chinese as "The Economic Consequences of the Treaty of Versailles" and was published by Keynes at his own expense in 1919.
A small incident occurred during this period. The book was printed in Edinburgh and was being shipped to London when the ship wrecked en route, and 2,000 copies of the book washed up on a Danish beach. According to Danish law, the books were auctioned off locally. The proceeds naturally belonged to the seizure.
At this time, Keynes, who had just suffered a minor misfortune, suffered another major misfortune. He lost more than 20,000 pounds in foreign exchange trading and was almost bankrupt...
That's right, among the famous economists, the one who is best at short-term trading is our Uncle Ma. Perhaps he realized that capitalist financial markets are not so rational.
Logically, he had no money to publish the book, but Keynes was Keynes after all. He foresaw that the book would be a big seller, so he gritted his teeth and borrowed some money to continue publishing it.
As he expected, The Economic Consequences of the Treaty of Versailles became a bestseller, especially on the other side of the Atlantic.
A professional economics book has a total circulation of 140,000 copies, and sales in the United States alone reached 100,000 copies. This is not because the American readers are too sophisticated, but because the book criticizes the Treaty of Versailles as an eyewitness and professional. You must know that Keynes was the representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference.
He considered the Treaty of Versailles to be a "Carthaginian peace."
After the Romans defeated the Carthaginians in the Third Punic War, they inflicted the most brutal punishment. They razed the city of Carthage to the ground and searched house by house, killing all the inhabitants. They even salted the land around Carthage to ensure that no one would ever settle there again. Thus, the Carthaginian civilization was destroyed.
This conclusion made Americans even more dissatisfied with the results of the Paris Peace Conference. Public opinion not only opposed joining the League of Nations, but also made them begin to sympathize with the Germans.
It can be said that this book played a role in the disasters in the later years of President Wilson's administration, the Democratic Party's defeat in 1920, the resurgence of American isolationism, and the subsequent American aid to Germany, the "Dawes Plan."
A little later, the Bretton Woods system and the Marshall Plan, which Keynes helped to establish, also drew on the experience summarized in this book.
A little later, after World War II, the rapid rise of West Germany and Japan was also due to this reason.
Keynes laughed when he heard this and said, "Hahaha, speaking of this book of mine, I also want to thank you for sending me 'Socialism'..."
Our Master Yuan is distributing his doctoral thesis everywhere, will he let go of this person in front of him?
He continued, "This book is a very comprehensive summary of socialism, and its views on economic calculation are quite insightful. I find it hard to believe that it came from the hands of a young economist like you."
By the way, John Keynes at that time was not yet a "Keynesian", and he was currently a liberal economist like our Dr. Yuan.
It was not until his 1923 Theory of Monetary Reform that he questioned the use of simple market regulation, arguing that the process of regulation might be too slow, leading to huge economic losses and social unrest.
There is a famous quote in this book, "In the long run, we are all mortal."
"Mr. Keynes, speaking of this, I was just about to ask you about the function of money in a planned economic system..."
No matter what, Yuan Yanshu has been an economics scholar in both of his lives.
With a "bang", the "pioneer of macroeconomics" fell from the sky. We must seize the opportunity to have a good chat with him.
It's like a quantum physicist traveled through time and met Einstein, the "pioneer of quantum physics."
Or maybe a civil engineer traveled through time and met Lin Huiyin, the "pioneer of ancient Chinese architecture research"...
Poor Miss Lin, not to mention that she has not yet become a "pioneer in the study of ancient Chinese architecture", even if she really did become one, she would not be able to understand the professional conversation between these two... well, a real great economist and a fake great economist.
She felt annoyed and was about to pull Xu Zhimo to continue dancing, but after pulling for a while, she found that her male partner seemed unaware.
Lin Huiyin then remembered that Xu Zhimo also had a master's degree in political economy. He was listening with great interest and didn't notice that his girlfriend was a little impatient.
She sighed, let go of her little hand, and walked out of the ballroom...
