It will take two days before Zhang Xueliang will return to Peking, and he will take Zhou Hexuan to visit Zhang Zuolin at that time.

So Zhou Hexuan had to wait. In addition to having sex with a group of poets such as Xu Zhimo, he also met other celebrities from Tsinghua University, such as Jin Yuelin, who just founded the Department of Philosophy of Tsinghua University, and Feng Youlan, the super big shot in modern Chinese philosophy.

In the remaining time, Zhou Hexuan was creating "The Goddess".

As soon as the story appears, the heroine is imprisoned and talks to the ghost in the prison in a trance. The ghost says she was killed and silenced, and tells her tragic experience. Then the timeline jumps suddenly and suddenly flashes back to the year of the Xinhai Revolution. A bad gentleman gathers bandits to respond to the revolution, turns himself into a revolutionary party, and kills into the city to announce an uprising. The heroine's father was originally a member of the city, but he died in this chaos and is displaced at a young age.

Then there was a severe drought in the local area, and the governor of the new society led the people to sacrifice and pray for rain. The heroine, who was only 10 years old, was regarded as a sacrifice to the Dragon King. Amid the people's pious cheers and prayers, she sank into the river along with fruits and vegetables, cattle and sheep.

Half-dream, she met the River God. The River God said that the foreign warship was too powerful, which ruined his rainfall spell and took the heroine to travel around the river. When she woke up, she found that she was rescued by the fishermen on the river and became the adopted daughter of the fishermen.

The timeline jumped again, and the fisherman's stupid son married the heroine. On the second day of marriage, he encountered a warlord fight, the fishing boat was sunk by a shot, and his adoptive father and husband drowned in the water, and his mother-in-law sold her to a human trafficker.

Within a few days, Zhou Hexuan wrote 40,000 words and showed them to Liang Qichao. Liang Qichao's comment on the novel: "Absurd and creepy."

Because although the heroine's experience in the book is tragic, each scene is very happy, and even the description of the warlords fighting is humorous and interesting. Whether it is warlords, bandits, corrupt officials, people, fishermen, and human traffickers, they all live in their own world, and they take it as a matter of course to harm the heroine.

That morning, Zhou Hexuan was writing novels again.

Liang Qichao rushed in and pulled him away: "Stop writing, your novel is so terrifying, follow me to give a lecture."

Lectures were very popular during the Republic of China period, and universities were also keen to invite famous lectures, and the rewards were quite high. Zhou Hexuan lives in Tsinghua University now, so Tsinghua University naturally would not let him go, so he had invited him to give lectures long ago.

Zhou Hexuan followed Liang Qichao to the History Department. Seeing the crowds of people in the classroom, he said in surprise: "There are so many students in the History Department of Tsinghua University?"

"Students from other departments also came to listen to the lectures." Liang Qichao explained with a smile.

Chen Maode, founder and director of the Tsinghua History Department, shook hands with Zhou Hexuan enthusiastically and said, "Mr. Zhou, I have long admired my name and have long wanted to see the style."

"Director Chen is polite." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Chen Maode said: "The Tsinghua History Department was first established and there were insufficient preparations in many aspects. Mr. Zhou also asked him to give me some theoretical methods of historical research."

Zhou Hexuan said: "I dare not be a professor, so I will do my best."

Tsinghua University officially established various departments a month ago, including the history department and even the archaeology and other disciplines, which were counted as historical research. That is to say, many of the people who came to listen to Zhou Hexuan's lecture today were Tsinghua's first history department students.

Zhou Hexuan walked up to the podium and glanced downwards. He found that Chen Yinke, Wang Guowei, Liang Suming, Li Ji and other professors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences were also sitting and listening to his lectures. He felt very stressed.

In fact, since the establishment of the Tsinghua History Department, students from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been incorporated into the History Department in disguise, and many professors have become teachers in the History Department.

"Hello everyone," Zhou Hexuan bowed to the audience, and then said, "I, Zhou Hexuan, is a little talented and has never been to a serious school, and does not even have a high school diploma. I was deeply frightened by Director Chen and Professor Liang invited him to give lectures at Tsinghua University. Not to mention all the teachers here, even any of my classmates, have higher diplomas than me. So if you agree with what I am talking about today, you will applaud, and if you don't agree with it, you will fart."

"Hahaha!"

A chuckling came from the audience, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

After greeting and making courtesy, Zhou Hexuan finally got to the point. He said: "Since the war ten years ago, a new trend of historical research has begun to emerge in the Western historical community, which is very different from Renaissance history. Let's call it modern historical."

Zhou Hexuan wrote the four big words "Modern Historiography" on the blackboard, and the teachers and students below immediately took it seriously. Because this kind of historical research has not formed a theory of completing norms in the West, and is still exploring it gradually.

Zhou Hexuan pointed to Liang Qichao in the audience: "Mr. Liang Rengong said in his "Chinese History Research Method" that human life is very short, human society is very long, and society often develops in a spiral shape. He believes that history and society are continuous changes and development, emphasizing the overallity, continuity and causality of history. I agree with this view. However, I think it is not enough!"

The teachers and students from the audience looked at Liang Qichao together. Liang Qichao shook his head and smiled bitterly. Zhou Hexuan was invited to give a lecture, but as soon as he came on stage, he stood up as a target.

"I think historical research must include the following aspects." Zhou Hexuan wrote "history", "politics", "economics", "ethnicity", "diplomatics", "diplomacy", "culture" and "individuals" on the blackboard respectively.

He continued: "The history here is a historical event in the traditional sense. Politics, economy, and culture are three very important factors in historical research. He directly or indirectly promotes historical events. History is not isolated, so diplomacy and nation must also be studied. As for individuals, it is the influence of historical figures, such as Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of Han, and many of the actions of historical figures are accidental, but their influence is very far-reaching."

The teachers and students in the audience showed thoughtful expressions. Many of them actually did this research, but they were not as generalized and comprehensive as Zhou Hexuan said.

Zhou Hexuan also said: "As for the analysis of separate historical events, I think we should start from these four aspects."

He also wrote "cause", "process", "result" and "influence" on the blackboard, and said: "Let's take the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 as an example. What is its cause? This requires analyzing the historical environment at that time, as well as the political, economic, cultural, ethnic, diplomatic, personal and other factors of China and Japan, and even Western countries. Why did the war fight and why could it be fought? Let's talk about the Japanese side first..."

Zhou Hexuan first analyzed Japan's Meiji Restoration and the development difficulties faced by Japan at that time. He concluded that if Japan wants to continue to develop, it must implement the policy of "striving South Korea and invading China". However, China's internal and external troubles gradually became a semi-colonial area. North Korea was the last fig leaf in China. The rulers at that time did not look down on Japan very much, so they naturally tried to maintain the dignity of our Qing Dynasty.

After talking about the cause of the war, Zhou Hexuan talked about the war process, the diplomacy of the two countries, the systems of the two countries, the economy of the two countries, the military strength of the two countries, including Cixi Ciyu, also included: "It is inevitable that China will lose the war. Before the war, China and Japan experienced a 20-year arms race. China's naval strategy was mainly defense, while Japan was an offensive navy. In the 1889 US Navy report, it was believed that the Chinese navy ranks first in Asia and ninth in the world, and even ranked ahead of the United States and Japan.

Li Hongzhang was complacent about this and believed that the Bohai Sea Portal was unshakable. Japan felt that the naval power was insufficient, so it increased the naval military expenditure to the maximum extent, and spent huge amounts of money to build three large-caliber and fast-speed warships. In the following years, the Chinese navy stopped moving forward, while Japan was still accelerating the development of the navy. As a result, one went up and down. By the time the war broke out, Japan had surpassed China in terms of the number of warships, and many of the warships' performance also exceeded China. The overall strength had actually surpassed the Chinese navy and ranked first in Asia."

"This is the military aspect, let's talk about diplomacy. China has no diplomacy at all, it can only be the object of division between the great powers. And Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany and France all support Japan to launch a war, and China is in a diplomatic isolation."

"Why do these great powers support Japan's invasion of China? This starts with their own political and economic development..."

By the time Zhou Hexuan finished explaining the cause and process of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894-1895, the teachers and students in the audience were already stunned. This battle was too familiar to the Chinese, and there were countless related research, but no one was as thorough as Zhou Hexuan.

"Smack it!"
Chapter completed!