The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

1956, early summer.

University of Cambridge, Trinity College.

Zhou Weilie threw away the chalk, patted the chalk dust on his hands and said, "Okay, this semester's class is over, I wish you all the best for your exams. get out of class is over!"

The students left the classroom one after another, but a blond girl came up to the podium holding a textbook.

"Professor, can you tell me about your new 'Zhou Weilie Program'? I'm very interested in it." The blond student blinked her eyes, with a bright smile on her face, and her freckles seemed to come alive.

Zhou Weilie packed up the handouts and said, "You are only a sophomore in college now, and you will ask this question after you finish your graduate studies."

"Why?" The blond student girl's tone was drawn out, which sounded more like coquetry.

Zhou Weilie completely ignored it, and said mercilessly, "Because you still don't understand."

The blond student girl persevered: "Then tell me how you perfected and proved the 'Gushan-Shimura-Zhou Conjecture', and how did you combine this conjecture with your 'Zhou Weilie Program'? Let's go to a bar or a coffee shop for a while." Talk slowly."

"Another day." Zhou Weilie walked out of the classroom with the handout in his arms.

The blond student stomped her feet angrily, muttering and cursing: "It's such a cold machine, it deserves to be single for the rest of its life!"

...

Of course Zhou Weilie was not single all the time. It took him four years to get two master's degrees and a doctorate from Cambridge University. At the age of nineteen, Zhou Weilie followed Turing to Manchester University as a researcher in the computer laboratory and engaged in the software development of "Manchester One".

During this period, Zhou Weilie made a girlfriend.

The relationship ended without a problem, and Zhou Weilie left Manchester a little depressed, and was hired as a mathematics lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Two years later, due to the extended application of the "Riemann-Roch Theorem", Zhou Weilie emerged in the international mathematics community, and thus became an associate professor at the University of Cambridge.

This year is the year of Zhou Weilie's mathematical achievements. He ran into Toyo Taniyama and Shimura Goro at the International Mathematical Conference. During the chat, he learned that the two had proposed new conjectures about elliptic curves and model forms. He was very interested in this, and found that this conjecture was flawed during the research process, so he completed and proved this conjecture.

The mathematics community named it the "Taniyama-Shimura-Zhou Conjecture".

At the same time, Zhou Weilie published "Preliminary Conception of Linking Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Reduction Groups" in "Nature". This is a topic he started to study when he was studying for a Ph.D. At that time, it was just a scattered idea. Combined with the new theoretical results introduced by other mathematicians in recent years, Zhou Weilie finally completed his conjecture.

Once this paper was published, it directly shocked the entire mathematics community and played a pivotal role in the development of mathematics in the future. Its results were called "Zhou Weilie's Program".

Zhou Weilie was not only promoted to a professor at the University of Cambridge, but was also awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences, was admitted as a member of the Royal Society, and was praised by Science Magazine as "a new star shining in the world of mathematics".

At this time, Zhou Weilie was only 26 years old.

...

When the students of Cambridge University were taking their final exams, Zhou Weilie used the excuse of visiting relatives to leave school early for Hong Kong.

Walking out of the pier with a suitcase in hand, there were seven or eight rickshaw drivers soliciting business, eagerly asking, "Sir, how about a car?"

"Go to Taiping Mountain." Zhou Weilie chose one at random.

Hong Kong and the UK seem to be two worlds. There are not only speeding rickshaws on the streets, slow trams crawling like turtles, but also ox carts and donkey carts pulling goods. Many street children running and playing were naked from head to toe, as if their families couldn't even afford clothes.

Poor, Hong Kong is very poor and has nothing to do with the "Pearl of the Orient".

While running, the coachman asked, "Where is Mr. Taiping Mountain?"

Zhou Weilie said, "Go to the foot of the mountain and take the cable car."

"The top of the mountain is so beautiful that most of Hong Kong can be seen," the coachman asked with a smile, "Did you come back from studying abroad, sir?"

Zhou Weilie replied bluntly: "Yes."

The coachman said: "Mr. has a future. Anyone who has drunk foreign ink can make a lot of money. My cub is studying in Mr. Zhou's Hope Primary School, and his grades are very good. When he grows up, I will send him to study abroad. By the way, sir. Your name?"

"Surname Zhou." Zhou Weilie said.

"Oh, I'm still in the same family as Mr. Zhou," the coachman said bitterly, "Mr. Zhou is a good man who runs a school that doesn't charge tuition fees and specializes in taking care of the poor. My cub can also speak Mandarin, which is quite standard. He can speak better than many people from mainland China.”

In Hong Kong in the 1950s, Mandarin was the common language in society, because most Hong Kong people fled from the mainland. Hong Kong films also basically have Mandarin lines, and the main box office market is Taiwan (a few years ago, they could be sold to the mainland). Cantonese films did not gradually become mainstream until the early 1970s.

Zhou Hexuan has moved to Hong Kong for ten years. In addition to opening mines and factories and smuggling materials to the mainland, what he has done most is to set up education.

Not to mention the establishment of private secondary schools and universities, Zhou Hexuan has also established more than 30 Hope Primary Schools in Hong Kong. At this time, the number of schools in Hong Kong was limited, and most children were unable to study. Zhou Hexuan's Hope Primary School became the first choice for poor families.

Zhou Hexuan mixed private goods when running education, but in any school he founded with money, students must be able to speak and speak Mandarin, and there is an oral test of Mandarin at the end of the semester.

...

Victoria Peak, Zhou Mansion.

Zhou Weilie rang the doorbell, and the old porter rubbed his eyes, and suddenly said happily, "It's the young master who is back!"

"Hello, Uncle Du." Zhou Weilie smiled.

"The young master is still so polite." The old porter said with a smile.

Several children in the garden were running and playing. When they saw Zhou Weilie approaching, they immediately shouted:

"Uncle!"

"elder brother!"

The two oldest are Zhou Hexuan's sons, and Zhou Xuan gave birth to a young daughter last year. As for the one who calls "Uncle", it is Wan Rong's grandson, Zhou Shuoming got married and had children when he was 18 years old.

Zhou Shuoming, the second young master of the Zhou family, is not good at studying or doing business. His only advantage is that he is tall and handsome. When this guy was in college, he made the grandniece of the richest man in Hong Kong, Ho Tung, pregnant. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and get married—this is also a marriage between the two major families in Hong Kong.

After graduating from university, the young master on Tuesday joined the family company to work, but he messed things up again and again. Zhou Hexuan was so angry that he threw him into Hope Primary School as a teacher. But Zhou Shuoming actually picked up a female teacher at school, and when his wife found out, the school immediately became restless.

After leaving school, Zhou Shuoming soon went to become an actor again, and unexpectedly became a hit. He became a big star in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and was promoted to a self-propelled self-propelled gun in the Hong Kong entertainment circle.

In just a few years, there were no less than ten female stars who had been rumored to have had affairs with Zhou Shuoming, and recently they were frantically pursuing the newly popular actress Chen Sisi. Moreover, he seemed to be serious, and repeatedly argued for a divorce and remarry, so angry that his wife went back to her natal family to file a complaint.

As for Zhou Yangjiao, the third son of the Zhou family, he lived in Japan all year round and assisted his mother Liao Yaquan in managing more than ten companies. This kid seems to still want to be in politics, and clamored to become a Japanese citizen, but he was scolded by Zhou Hexuan during the Spring Festival last year before he gave up.

The eldest daughter of the Zhou family, Zhou Lingjun, is also not worried. She is still single at the age of 27 and has been studying for a Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art. She is proficient in literature, music, and painting, and looks down on men with high eyes. She has not yet had a serious relationship after graduating from a doctorate.

Zhou Hexuan even suspected that his daughter was gay, but suddenly brought a boyfriend home this year. That man was only 20 years old, and he hadn't graduated from college. He was seven years younger than Zhou Lingjun!

But I have to say that Zhou Lingjun's little boyfriend is handsome, not sissy handsome, but heroic handsome, just like the one who came out of the comics.

Zhou Hexuan finally found out that her daughter is not gay, but a super face control party.

Zhou Chunxi, the second lady of the Zhou family, settled in England. She is the best friend of Queen Elizabeth and has become a strong woman under the influence of Her Majesty the Queen. When she was still in high school, Zhou Chunxi learned how to manage the company from her grandfather Ornish. Today, she is basically in charge of Royal Pharmaceuticals, and Ornish is only in charge of the helm behind the scenes.

At the beginning of last year, Zhou Chunxi and Queen Elizabeth attended the royal family dinner together. The Belgian King Baudouin fell in love with her at first sight and asked Queen Elizabeth to be a matchmaker in person.

With an indifferent mentality, Zhou Chunxi tried to date the King of Belgium a few times, and the feeling was pretty good, and he kept in touch with each other since then. The king is young and handsome, with extraordinary conversation, profound knowledge, and cheerful personality. He is like a first-class diamond king.

The two had been exchanging letters for more than a year, and Mr. King thought the time was ripe, so he flew to London to propose marriage.

Zhou Chunxi's reply was: She can agree to get married, but there are three requirements. First, for at least nine months every year, she must live in the UK to manage the company; second, the Belgian royal family must not interfere with her private life;

Regarding the second and third requests, His Majesty the King agreed, but the first request made him so embarrassed that he was still considering it.

...

living room.

Zhou Hexuan, Xu Zhimo, Ye Lingfeng and Xu Yu are playing mahjong, chatting about the situation of literary creation in Hong Kong while playing cards.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Zhimo stayed in Shanghai, and the war quickly washed away his innocence and sloppyness. Together with his friends Shao Xunmei and Xiang Meili, he was engaged in underground publishing in Shanghai, specializing in printing various anti-Japanese patriotic pamphlets.

In this time and space, the rapid spread of "On Protracted War" in Shanghai is also due to Xu Zhimo's contribution.

For this reason, Xu Zhimo and Shao Xunmei, two rich sons, threw all their property into it, and even hired bodyguards and hid in Tibet.

It was during the days of avoiding the search by the Japanese invaders that Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman finally broke up completely. Lu Xiaoman and Weng Ruiwu finally came together, and both chose to stay in the mainland. Xu Zhimo came to Hong Kong and remarried Zhang Youyi in 1950. Now both husband and wife are teachers at the University of Hong Kong. Xu Zhimo teaches literature and Zhang Youyi teaches German.

As for Ye Lingfeng, she belongs to the old man of the Creation Society, and was comrades-in-arms on the literary front with Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, and Tian Han. Together with Pan Hannian, he edited "Fantasy Continent" and was banned, and edited "Modern Fiction" and was arrested. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Lingfeng participated in the editing of "Salvation Daily". After the fall of Guangzhou, she moved to Hong Kong and stayed in Hong Kong without moving.

Compared with Xu Zhimo and Ye Lingfeng, Xu Yu's reputation is much weaker. This person graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, went to Paris University to study abroad, and returned to China immediately after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, but was trapped in Shanghai. He made a living by selling literature, spent two years raising travel expenses, and traveled all the way to Chongqing via Guangdong and Guangxi to serve as a professor at Central University.

Xu Xu was known as a "ghost talent" in the literary world of the Republic of China, and his works always contained ghosts and ghosts. In 1943, his "Wind Xiao Xiao" received the most attention. Estimated to be the earliest Chinese spy war novel, this work tells the struggle between three female spies (Kuomintang, Japanese and American spies).

The "Wind Xiao Xiao", which describes the spy war, made readers feel refreshed. At that time, it was described like this: "On the Chongqing river cruiser, almost everyone has a piece of paper...reproduces the grand occasion of Luoyang's expensive paper." Not only that, this novel also gave birth to a new era in China. Literary genre, that is, "late romantic school".

After moving to Hong Kong, Xu Yu's creative career entered another peak period. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Xu Yu was a leading figure in the Hong Kong literary world!

"Four pieces!" Zhou Hexuan shot a piece of mahjong.

Xu Yu said with a smile: "Old principal, you play this card very tricky. It's not right for me to eat it, or not to eat it."

When Xu Xu was studying at Peking University, Zhou Hexuan happened to be the principal, so he called Zhou Hexuan the "old principal".

"Eat, don't you eat the one delivered to your door?" Ye Lingfeng laughed.

"Don't eat or eat, self-reliance, drawing cards is the most important thing," Xu Yu said with a smile, "We are all people with a bottom line, and we are determined not to eat what we get."

Zhou Hexuan said happily: "Xiao Xu's satirical skills have improved again."

"Those green backs should be scolded!" Xu Yu said as he slapped out a card, "Nine barrels!"

"Green back culture" was very popular in Hong Kong at this time, almost dominating the Hong Kong literary world. The green of the "green back" is the green of the US dollar. The US government specially established the "Asia Foundation" in Hong Kong to fund publishing companies and magazines to publish political literature.

Countless literati who fled from the mainland and came to Hong Kong couldn’t afford three meals a day, and their lives were difficult, so they led their creations with US dollars, and attacking the mainland and communism became politically correct. Among them, Zhang Ailing's "Yangge" and "Love of the Earth" were written when she first came to Hong Kong to live in difficulties. The quality of literature is extremely poor, and she only lives on US dollars.

At the moment, the four people at the poker table are still sticking to the bottom line of literary creation, and they hate the "green back culture". It has nothing to do with politics, they simply feel that it is disgusting to use dollars to create and tell lies in their works.

Take Zhang Ailing's "Yangge" as an example, it is about the "tragic situation" in the rural areas of New China. This woman has never been in the countryside of New China at all. What can she write? It's all about making things up.

Throughout the 1950s, the Hong Kong literary world was in a confrontation between camps, with the "greenback group" on one side and the "anti-greenback group" on the other.

"Dad, I'm back," Zhou Weilie pushed the door open, "Hello Uncle Ye, hello Uncle Xu!"

...

night.

Zhou Hexuan asked in surprise, "What, are you going to the mainland?"

"Yes," Zhou Weilie explained, "China has set up a computing technology planning group, and Mr. Hua Luogeng is the leader of the group, preparing to develop electronic computers belonging to China. Two months ago, I received a secret letter in London, inviting me to join the upcoming Created the Computing Technology Planning Group and the Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences."

Zhou Hexuan objected: "You are a mathematician and software engineering expert, what kind of computer are you going to develop?"

Zhou Weilie took out two rolls of microfilm from his bag and said, "This is the design drawing of the latest generation of computers in Britain, and I took pictures of it on microfilm."

"You're crazy, this is an act of espionage!" Zhou Hexuan said in shock, "Also, how did you get the design drawings?"

"Don't worry about it," Zhou Weilie said with a smile, "When I left England, I hid the microfilm in the gift from the Queen, and no one in England dared to open it."

Zhou Hexuan was silent for a moment, and asked, "Have you really decided?"

"It's decided." Zhou Weilie said with a serious expression.

"Wait a minute," Zhou Hexuan quickly finished writing a letter, warning, "Give the letter to Duke Zhou, remember, only do research, not politics!"

"Understood." Zhou Weilie put the letter away.

Regarding the choice of his son, Zhou Hexuan did not intervene too much. With his role in Hong Kong, he can completely guarantee that his son is safe and sound. Zhou Weilie is definitely a key protection target when he goes to the north.