In the next few days, Xiang Nan's new poem "Believe in the Future" spread on campus, and soon spread from Peking University to various schools in Beijing, and even all over the country.

  The young people who saw this poem were all shocked by Xiang Nan's new poem.

  The high fighting spirit, surging momentum, and unyielding belief all aroused strong resonance among readers.

   Coupled with the poems such as "A Generation" and "Answer" written before, Xiang Nan has been further recognized by young readers, and he is even called "Youth Poetry Soul".

  Xiang Nan's popularity and influence among young people has also reached a new height. This also caused a large number of auditors to gather every time he took his class.

  Not only are the classrooms full, but even the windows are full of people, sloppy, as if watching rare animals.

   Fortunately, Xiang Nan is used to seeing big scenes, so he doesn't take it seriously. If you were someone else, you would have to be taken aback.

  Seeing that his popularity and influence are so high, Xiang Nan is naturally secretly happy. For him, the higher the popularity, the stronger the ability to protect himself.

  If you become a well-known university student in China and the West, you will be welcomed wherever you go. Even if Japan invades in the future, they dare not do anything to him.

  …

   "Down with Great Powers Down with Great Powers

  In addition to warlords in addition to warlords

  We want to be masters

  We want to be masters

  Let’s sing together, let’s sing together’

  On the campus of Peking University, the students gathered together to sing, full of vigor and high morale, Xiang Nan couldn't help but be attracted by them and stopped to listen.

   "Mr. Jin, you can sing too." The students invited him when they saw him.

  Xiang Nan nodded with a smile, turned around, and cast a new song on "Peking University Journal" - "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant".

   "Facing the waves with arrogance

  Hot blood like the red sun

  Bitter like iron and bone like fine steel

  Broad-minded and far-sighted

  …

  Stand tall and hold your chest high, everyone will be a pillar

   Be a good man

   Use my hundred points of heat

  Illuminate a thousand points of light”

  As soon as the new song came out, it immediately attracted attention.

  However, at that time, there were still few people who could read notation, and singing and singing always felt that it was not flavorful enough.

   "Mr. Jin, how do you sing "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant", can you teach us?" Then, the students found Xiang Nan and asked.

   "Okay." Xiang Nan coughed lightly, and then sang.

  …

   "A Man Should Be Self-Strengthening" was written based on the ancient music "General Order".

  "General Order" was created in the Tang Dynasty, with a history of more than a thousand years, and it has been passed down to this day, which shows that everyone's acceptance is still relatively high.

   "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant" was written by Huang Zhan, full of enthusiasm, heroic and uninhibited, full of high-spirited momentum and self-improvement spirit, so it was very popular after it was released.

   Now that Xiang Nan sings, it naturally makes the students very happy.

   "What a good song~"

   "Mr. Jin, this song is really nice."

   "A man should be self-improvement! That's really good!"

   "Use my 100 points of heat to illuminate a thousand points of light, isn't it just about us?"

  The students praised, they all wanted to learn from Xiang Nan.

  Xiang Nan naturally did not hesitate to teach him.

  The reason why he wrote this song is that he knows that songs are easier to spread than novels, dramas, and poetry.

  After all, novels, dramas, and poems still need a certain level of appreciation, at least you have to be literate to read them.

  But during the period of the Republic of China, the literacy rate of the people was less than 10%, so even if all the literate people read Xiang Nan's books, it was only a small part.

  However, songs are different. Even if you are illiterate, you can learn them by listening to others sing them. The popularity of a good song is much wider than that of novels, dramas, and poems.

  …

   Sure enough, the song "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant" spread from Peking University and was unanimously welcomed by young people.

  In the early days of the Republic of China, vernacular songs were generally not pleasant to listen to.

  One is that the development time is not long enough. Vernacular songs started from Western-style school songs. Before that, the common people in China listened to operas, ditties, slang tunes and folk songs.

  Western-style schools were only established in the late Qing Dynasty, and it has only been ten or twenty years since then. In such a short period of time, vernacular poetry and vernacular writing have not yet been popularized, let alone vernacular songs;

  Second, the investment is not enough. There were very few composers and lyricists at that time, so borrowing doctrine was basically prevalent. It is to use the melody of Western music, and then fill in your own words.

For example, "Song of the National Revolution" is adapted from the French nursery rhyme "Brother Mark"; Li Shutong's "Farewell" is adapted from the American song "Dream of Home and Mother"; "Adapted from...

  Until 1927, Mr. Li Jinhui's "Drizzle" was popular all over the country. It was the first self-produced pop song in China, and he was therefore called the "Father of Chinese Pop Songs".

   Therefore, there is no cinnabar, and red clay is more expensive. The song "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant" has a beautiful melody and inspirational lyrics. Naturally, it quickly gained everyone's approval and spread quickly.

   Soon, even Hujiang, Yuezhou, Tianfu, Shengjing and other places sang this song, which made Xiang Nan's reputation even more popular and his talent was further recognized.

  …

   While Xiang Nan's career was booming, in the second half of 2024, the political situation became more and more uneasy.

  The second Zhifeng war started. In this war, the Zhili warlords used 250,000 troops, and the Fengtian warlords used 170,000 troops.

   It seems that the Feng Faction has fewer soldiers, but in fact the Feng Faction has better equipment. It has imported a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from Germany and Japan, and the troops have also been reorganized, making their combat effectiveness more tenacious.

  The direct army is not only inferior in equipment, but also has many internal contradictions and fights against each other. Even at the critical moment of the war, several major generals actually initiated political changes.

  In this way, the direct line was defeated and the Feng line won, thus controlling Peiping and becoming the new talker.

  The second Zhifeng war took only more than 50 days in total, and the war has taken a sharp turn for the worse. The situation has deteriorated faster than anyone imagined.

  Even Jin Quan didn't expect that the direct lineage, which has 70,000 more soldiers than the Feng line, would lose so badly and so quickly, which is simply unheard of.

   "How did the situation get so bad?! It's ridiculous!" He said to Xiang Nan very depressed.

  It has only been half a year since he resigned as Prime Minister, and he did not expect that the state affairs will be so sloppy.

   "Father, look away." Xiang Nan persuaded, "The current situation has been turbulent these years, how can there be an eternal king? In troubled times, everyone wants to be the king.

  Just like during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, powerful towns established themselves as kings one after another, so the saying was left behind, 'The emperor would rather have a kind, and the strong soldiers and horses are the ears. '

   In addition, what the big powers need is a divided, internally strife, and chaotic China, and they will not let any one party dominate, and they will not allow any party to have a chance to unify China.

  Whoever is stronger, weaken it. Which side is weak, give support. It has been nearly twelve years since the Zhili and Anhui clans ruled the world, and now it is the turn of the Feng clan to rule. "