Back to the Republic of China to be a editor

Sun Shi clapped his hands one last time.Under the command of the chief black man, six black men stood around Lao Xun's coffin, lifting it once and twice, once and twice, and once and twice. After three quick half-lifts, the fourth time they finally raised their shoulders.

Then, with a dressage-like pace, the black man turned Lao Xun's coffin 180 degrees clockwise and then 180 degrees counterclockwise.

"This is a popular funeral ritual among the primitive tribes on the Gold Coast of Africa," Tang Hua said loudly, while Pan Hannian, who was standing beside him, was stunned.

"The coffin-carrying dance is the unique death culture of the Gold Coast. The people of the Gold Coast have a very optimistic and open attitude towards death. They believe that death is a part of life, and the only thing the deceased needs is a dignified funeral. Or they will meet their ancestors in another world, and life will start in another form. Therefore, people in Gold Coast will publish obituaries throughout the tribe after the death of their loved ones. Obituaries also avoid directly saying "death", but Use euphemistic metaphors such as "he said goodbye to food", "the big tree fell", "the family fire went out", "the front teeth fell out" and so on. Relatives will make beautiful coffins, and sing and dance to send family members for the last journey. In fact , Chinese folks also think that the death of an extremely old man is a "happy mourning", which can be described as coincident. When my father was alive, he had studied the society, politics, economy, and folk customs of Black Africa in detail. He liked the coffin-carrying dance of the people of the Gold Coast very much, so he specially Request to be buried with this ceremony."

Pan Hannian showed a suddenly realized expression.

The black man walked out of the mourning hall carrying the coffin, and walked towards the hearse parked on the road at the gate of the small courtyard garden.Uniform dance steps, a colorful handkerchief in the hands of each black, walk a few times and wave it, or lightly brush the coffin with the handkerchief.Every three beats or ten steps forward, pause, and then take three steps back.When they left the garden, the six black people turned 360 degrees on the spot.

Tang Hua also followed the coffin out of the door, only to realize that the streets were blocked by passers-by.

Walking to the hearse, the black man put the coffin on the car with fancy movements, and then seven people also got on the car, hanging around the hearse.

The small band also came to the door and got into another car. After the band and the camera crew packed up, the funeral procession started slowly, separated from the flow of people, and drove to the cemetery.

In the cemetery, from getting off the car to burying, the professional team will perform again.

Chapter 10, Readers in Chongqing

Chongqing, "Zhou Mansion" at No. 50 Zengjiayan.

In the middle of the night on January 1, Vice Chairman Zhou was still writing on his desk.

Under Marshall's mediation, a new armistice agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was signed.On the day the armistice agreement was signed, the Political Consultative Conference was held in Chongqing, later known as the Old CPPCC.There are 38 representatives in this CPPCC meeting, including 8 from the Kuomintang, 7 from the GC Party, 9 from the Democratic League, 5 from the Youth Party, and 9 from the social elite.The Kuomintang and the Youth Party are actually on the same road, so the Kuomintang has the loudest voice at the CPPCC meeting.In order to resist the conspiracy of the Kuomintang, Vice-Chairman Zhou had in-depth talks with the Democratic League and social elites—that is, members of the CPPCC of the middle faction every day. The chairman would visit one of them every few days, and even personally visited Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu for an interview.In addition, they must regularly report and consult with Marshall, consult with the British and the Soviet Union, observe the people's conditions and social conditions in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, command and plan the special departments and the city's working committees, and participate in the overall command of the Liberated Areas as a member of the Central Military Commission. Armed, discussing and deciding whether to counterattack the liberated areas that are being encroached upon and small-scale firefights...

By the time the last statement was written, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening.Vice Chairman Zhou put down his pen, but it wasn't time to rest yet.He turned around and picked up a large stack of newspapers and periodicals, which were all major newspapers and magazines published in the Kuomintang-controlled area, including Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing.

In order to understand the people's sentiments and social conditions in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, in addition to providing information through the Kuomintang and underground organizations, newspapers and magazines are also important channels.The news published in the newspapers actually spreads quickly and is authentic, from which we can see the people's conditions and people's livelihood in many first-tier cities in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.

Vice Chairman Zhou picked up the "Central Daily", opened the headlines on the front page and read it quietly. He read the entire content within a few minutes, then flipped through pages two, three and four, and put it aside.

"Xinmin Daily" still quickly and carefully read the headlines on the front page, and then read other content.

Then I read "China Children's News". The nonsensical content on the front page made Vice Chairman Zhou smile slightly, but he still read the full text.

……

Magazine, the first one on the top of the stack, Vice Chairman Zhou is very familiar with the cover at a glance.

"Tang Xiong, what a pity."

The first page of "World Military Pictorial" reads:

Chairman: Tang Hua

Editor-in-Chief: Tang Hua

Executive editor: Liu Huagang

Republic of China 35th Year (1946) Issue 01

Date of publication: January 35, 1

"It's Tang Xiong's son. It seems that the son has inherited his father's business."

Vice Chairman Zhou opened the first article and read it quietly as before.

As he read, Vice Chairman Zhou read more and more slowly.

Unknowingly, after reading the first time, Vice Chairman Zhou turned the page, but immediately turned back and started to read the second time.

After reading it for the second time, Vice Chairman Zhou frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something.Then, Vice Chairman Zhou stood up, looked in the bookcase, and after a while took out two magazines, "World Military Pictorial", one in 1944 and one in 1945.

Two magazines were spread out on the desk, and both opened to the opening articles on the first page.Vice Chairman Zhou read all three articles again.

"Sure enough, it's not Tang Xiong's posthumous manuscript. It was written by this Tang Hua himself!"

Vice Chairman Zhou got up, opened the door and went out.Walked down the corridor and knocked on a door.

"Ruofei? Are you still asleep? This is Enlai." Vice Chairman Zhou said. "There is one more thing I want to discuss with you. It is an article."

……

In Vice Chairman Zhou's office, Wang Ruofei finished reading the opening article of "World Military Pictorial", went to the corridor to smoke a cigarette, and then returned quickly.

"Hao Pengju's uprising on the battlefield, I saw it in the briefing last week," Vice Chairman Zhou said, "Is there any more detailed news now?"

"Shandong has sorted out the detailed process and reported it to the office just yesterday," Wang Ruofei said. "In mid-December, Gu Zhutong of the Xuzhou Appeasement Office sent a large army to invade our Liberated Area in the north. The troops were divided into three groups. Hao Pengju's new No. 12 The Route Army was placed on the right side, which is most vulnerable to our army's attack, and acted as the forward. On the front were 6 columns of our New Fourth Army, the 3th Division of Lunan, and the 8th Division of Binhai. Supervising the battle. Hao Pengju realized that it was Gu Zhutong who was using a knife to kill and eliminate miscellaneous cards, so he passively stood by from the beginning of the operation and actively contacted us. On January 9, more than 1 people under Hao Pengju joined our army in the battlefield uprising. January On the 9th, the transfer of Hao Pengju’s troops was completed, and he himself sent a telegram announcing his withdrawal from the civil war. Following Hao Pengju’s uprising, Gu Zhutong’s three-pronged attack plan was also declared bankrupt.”

Vice Chairman Zhou pointed to the magazine on the table, "The first issue of 1946 was published on January 1st. This manuscript should have been written from December 1th to 12th. Gu Zhutong made three attacks. The combat plan was drawn up in early December, and the troops began to be mobilized in mid-December. But on December 20, the intelligence that our organization passed to me was not as detailed as Tang Hua’s article. Look, this paragraph: The third-line attack, our intelligence does not confirm that Gu Zhutong will attack in several ways. Moreover, Tang Hua also said with certainty that Hao Pengju will be used as cannon fodder, either to be wiped out, or... Tang Hua obviously estimated that either Hao Pengju will revolt, He just didn't say so."

"This Tang Hua is very powerful, where did he get the information?" Wang Ruofei said.

"When Tang Xiong was working on this magazine before," Vice Chairman Zhou said, "I read every issue. Tang Xiong's habit was to only talk about the foreign military situation and rarely talk about the domestic situation. During the Anti-Japanese War, this Tang Xiong analyzed and predicted the war. The situation is very serious, but Tang Xiong once said that he used the information published in foreign magazines, newspapers, and radio broadcasts to speculate. This Tang Hua is Tang Xiong's son. It seems that he inherited his father's inheritance. method of researching the problem."

Wang Ruofei picked up the magazine again and flipped through it. "Is this magazine also available in Yan'an?"

"I remember that there are," Vice Chairman Zhou said, "Kangda University and Yan'an University have subscribed."

"The prediction of the situation in the Northeast is written later..." Wang Ruofei said, "Tang Hua predicted that Du Yuming would launch an attack along the Beining line in February? What was our original judgment on this possible situation?"

……

While being judged by two bigwigs from Chongqing, Tang Hua was having a drink at the Shili Yangchang in Shanghai, and the object of the banquet was Fan Shaozeng who had met last time.

"Mr. Tang, since I... invest in making movies, of course this small matter is on my shoulders!" Fan Shaozeng chatted excitedly, and said loudly, "Although I, Fan, was abducted by Chang Guangtou, an army, but There are still some subordinates, the guard company, more than 200 people, half of them will be allocated for you!"

"Commander Fan is cool," Tang Hua raised his glass, ""The True Colors of the Sichuan Army" will definitely be finished next month!"

"But there is one more thing." Fan Shaozeng patted the shoulder of the heavily made-up woman beside him, "This concubine I haven't officially announced yet, Wang Yunmei, let the director arrange a role for her."

Chapter 11, those who eat sweet rice dumplings are not good people

XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

Although he lived in the Republic of China, Tang Hua did not intend to observe mourning for three years after his father's death, or even three months. On January 1, after the first seven days, Tang Hua started to come out to activities, planning the filming of "The True Colors of the Sichuan Army" with Fan Shaozeng. The two chatted speculatively, and even almost sworn brothers.

However, after finalizing the main matters of the movie, Tang Hua handed over the rest to the director and crew of Minhua Film Company, and he, Sun Shi and two servants went back to Guangzhou by boat.

Tang Hua-Tang Xiong's ancestral home is Guangdong, which is also an important reason why Lao Xun can get together with Cai Tingkai and Li Jichen.Of course, according to what Lao Xun said, Tang Xiong’s parents left Guangzhou to develop in Shanghai around the time of Gengzi. Now they have no ancestral home or land in Guangzhou, only a few distant relatives.

Tang Hua's trip to Guangzhou this time was not mainly to go home for the New Year, but was invited by Cai Tingkai. The main members of the ADCA should gather to prepare for the congress.

When Tang Hua arrived in Guangzhou, Cai Tingkai had already returned to Guangzhou from Hong Kong, and then other bigwigs in the promotion department also returned to Guangdong one after another.Hearing that Tang Hua lived in a hotel, Cai Tingkai simply invited Tang Hua to Cai's hometown Luoding to celebrate the New Year.

"Mr. Tang has been back to the country for a while, and everything in the family should have settled down. I don't know what is the plan for the future?" Cai Tingkai asked Tang Hua in Cai Tingkai's old house in Luoding.