The opening of the expo, the extermination of locusts by airplanes, and the assassination of the prime minister were the three major events in September, the first two were all happy events, but the last one was an assassination case, involving more than 50 students, although in accordance with normal judicial procedures, after the trial to obtain evidence, the Shanghai Inspectorate will prosecute the people involved, but public opinion believes that arresting so many people is suspected of harming the innocent, and some people deliberately add fuel to the fire, but the matter has a tendency to become more and more troublesome.

The Assassins all came with the intention of death, and they confessed to their crimes without trying themselves, and the Assassins all denied that they knew each other, let alone that they were also involved in the assassination. One night passed, two students confessed that they were instigated to besiege them, but this was only a marginal person, and they did not have any evidence to prove that the Obscure Society was involved in the assassination, so the interrogators could only send a note to the Ministry of Industry and Bureau the next day to patrol the room, thoroughly search the Obscure Society, and arrest other members of the Obscure Society.

After experiencing the initial panic and learning that the Tongji University Hall had adjusted its regulations in view of the assassination incident and forbade students from observing, the work-study and mutual aid students in Shanghai were completely chaotic, and under the semi-spontaneous and semi-mobilization, hundreds of students went to the Shanghai Patrol Police Station with banners to protest and demand that the police station release the arrested students. The students were so agitated that they suddenly rushed into the police station after protesting for a long time and saw that the petition was invalid, so the situation was tragic, and two students were shot dead in the chaos.

It was a few days after Yang Rui's sudden incident in Shanghai reached his ears, and he received a telegram about the bloody case in Shanghai -- Yang Rui couldn't help but think of the bloody case that Wang Ji and others had caused in Shanghai a few years ago, and he didn't look at it. He immediately slapped the telegram on the table and said angrily: "The Shanghai police station can't even subdue hundreds of students. Still going to shoot?! ”

"Prime Minister, according to the memories of the parties. The police didn't want to shoot, but suddenly two gunshots were heard in the crowd, and a patrol officer was shot and fell to the ground, so they opened fire. "Yang Rui didn't read the telegram, so Li Zilong only dictated the content of the telegram." According to the Security Service, this is most likely the result of the revolutionary party's deliberate murder. The students of the Obscure Society, who originally believed in anarchism, believed that the arrest of people by the police station was intended to announce personal vendettas, otherwise those students would have been released long ago. ”

During demonstrations. Deliberately shooting to provoke trouble, this is a common trick of the revolutionary party, Yang Rui immediately understood that things in Shanghai were not so simple, and immediately asked: "What about those students now?" ”

"I ran a few of them, but more of them were charged. The Security Service and the Inspectorate are now involved in the investigation. Li Zilong said.

"What's the use of that? If someone had deliberately shot him, he would have run away. Yang Rui heard that not all the students were caught, but he felt that things were tricky.

"This matter is probably going to be reported tomorrow," Yang Rui stood up, feeling so sleepy. He walked a few steps in the room, and then said: "Call Wang Xiaolin, public opinion must be controlled in this matter." ”

"Understood. Premier. Li Zilong said, but before he turned around, he thought of another thing that he hadn't reported, and said, "There is one more thing." Now there are students of the Obscure Society who confess that Wu Jingheng once took one of the murderers to the Obscure Society. He asked for the help of student premier Liu Sifu, saying that he wanted him to help take some students to Tongji University Hall to audit......"

"Wu Zhihui, this old dog!" Thinking of that day, he also helped Wang Zhaoming and others to say good things. I didn't think I was involved. Yang Rui was suddenly angry, "What about him now?" ”

"After obtaining the evidence yesterday, the police department sent a note to the Ministry of Industry, and now it should have been arrested. It's morning. Li Zilong said......

"Morning and evening, all those who come to intercede are in my way." Yang Rui hated it very much, and then gritted his teeth and said: "I want to see how many people will jump out to make trouble even if he is brought to justice!" ”

As soon as Yang Rui's words fell, the second-level secretary outside knocked on the door and said through the door: "Report to the Prime Minister, Master Cai of the School Department has arrived in the living room and said that he wants to see him urgently on official business." ”

As soon as he talked about the school outside, Yang Rui's eyes were cold, he really said that Cao Cao Cao was here, so he said: "Please come here, I want to see what he has to do." ”

When Yang Rui ordered Cai Yuanpei to be invited in, Cai Yuanpei was waiting anxiously outside the living room, and he also temporarily received a telegram from Zhang Yuanji in Shanghai that Wu Zhihui had been arrested and imprisoned, so he came to Yang Rui urgently. Although Wu Zhihui is extremely close to the Sun Wen Alliance, and there are also many conflicts with Uncle Mei, after all, he is a former colleague, and this person has never been involved in political affairs, it is absolutely impossible for him to plan and participate in the assassination, there must be some misunderstanding in this.

Cai Yuanpei had no intention of sitting in the flower hall, but just wandered around like an ant with a hot pot in his hand, and suddenly heard that Yang Rui had summoned him, so he hurriedly went to the inner hall. When he arrived at Yang Rui's office, he was blocked by Yang Rui before he could speak: "You're here, what urgent business do you have here, is there any problem with the specific plan of the education popularization case?" ”

Yang Rui said that the education popularization case, Cai Yuanpei didn't know that he was doing it on purpose, so he immediately stomped his feet and said: "It's done, oops!" When is it, let me ask you, how could this Wu Zhihui be involved in the assassination case? Didn't you catch the wrong person? ”

"Wu Zhihui?" Yang Rui was stunned for a moment, pretending to be thinking, and then said after a while: "It seems that there is such a thing, why, the people are not here for official business, but for private affairs?" ”

"What and what!" Cai Yuanpei patted his thigh: "No matter what Zhihui says, he was also a colleague back then, everyone used to eat on the same stove, why is this today!" ”

"Wu Zhihui was involved in the assassination case, so he will naturally be arrested." Yang Rui looked at him and sneered: "Now it depends on whether the matter is true, if it is true, the Inspectorate will file a lawsuit, and how it should be judged, why do you bother with that idleness?" ”

"This!" Cai Yuanpei thought that it was just a matter of arresting people, and he didn't want to involve appeals and sentences, so he said slightly calmly: "It's done, the assassin has already been arrested, why should he involve unrelated people?" Be forgiving and forgiving! ”

"Son, you should go to the Tingwei Mansion, you shouldn't come here." Yang Rui said: "You know my rules. Recognize the law or not, in my dictionary. There's no such thing as bullshit benevolence and morality, forgiveness and forgiveness. To break the law is to break the law, and to be guilty is to be guilty. Is it because he used to eat with us on the same stove? Teaching in a school can open up the net, extrajudicial grace? Don't say that I don't have such thoughts, even if I have, then there is no way, this matter is in the hands of the Tingwei Mansion, and it has nothing to do with the Prime Minister's Office. ”

Yang Rui said Cai Yuanpei's words on the phone, but he actually thought he was a person. No matter who it is, as long as he has a little knowledge, or is even more praised as a master, and he has not done anything immoral, that is to save him in distress and intercede jointly, not to mention that his former colleague Wu Zhihui is now in prison. "Aren't you afraid that others will say that you are cold-blooded and ruthless?"

"I pride myself on being cold-blooded and ruthless, and I've made it my lifelong goal! Whoever says that about me, I'm going to be happy and can't sleep for days. Cai Yuanpei's questioning made Yang Rui very angry. His tone suddenly became intense: "If you are not convinced, then come and assassinate me, or you can remove me from power, I like to have someone fight with me very much!" ”

"You!" Looking at Yang Rui's hideous expression, Cai Yuanpei was startled. He spun around in place, stomped a few more times and left in a huff. I don't want him to just return to the Yamen of the school, and the telegram from Shanghai came again. This time it was no longer Wu Zhihui's matter, but that the students in Shanghai had a conflict with the police station. Two students were shot and killed, and several were injured.

Students are Cai Yuanpei's lifeblood, and he doesn't dare to think about how those students were beaten and tortured by the patrol police. The eyes are red. Cai Yuanpei's face was also hideous, he ran out of the yamen again, got into the carriage and wanted to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion again, but thinking of the person who was 'proud of being cold-blooded and ruthless', he had to let the coachman transfer to the Tingwei Mansion.

With the political structure of the Great China State, the above of the Inspectorate is the puppet emperor, and the following are the three governments of the Taiwei, the Prime Minister, and the Tingwei, and the military, government, and law are independent, but in fact, the post of Taiwei is concurrently held by the Prime Minister, that is, the Prime Minister, which is obviously different from the independence of the commander-in-command of Germany and Japan, but paradoxically, the Constitution does not explicitly stipulate that the two positions of the Taiwei and the Prime Minister must be held by the same person, but it is stipulated within the Revival Association that the chairman of the Military Committee of the Renaissance Society is concurrently held by the president. However, it is not explicitly stated here: what does the Revival Military Committee have to do with the position of Grand Lieutenant.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, such a deliberately unclear setting is so that Yang Ruiwan can still control the army when he comes out of power, but unlike the painstaking efforts in the control of the army, there is only the only condition for the Supreme Justice to be evaluated once every ten years on the Tingwei side, and then there is that the Inspectorate has always been in the hands of the Fuxing Society, and other things such as Dali Temple and the Tingwei Mansion that contains the functions of the Criminal Department are not within the sphere of influence of the Fuxing Society. When the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shen Jiaben served as the position of Tingwei, and Shen Jiaben passed away in the middle of this year, and he was succeeded by Wu Tingfang, who practiced law with Shen Jiaben that year.

Tingwei is an old man, and the judges and directors in Tingwei's mansion are also legal talents left over from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and other law students with no party background. Because the new dynasty allowed the officials of the previous dynasty not to wear the official uniform of the dynasty, so as not to become a second minister, many people in the court governor's mansion were linen white shirts. In Fu Wei's case, Wu Tingfang personally presided over the trial, examined the evidence of his guilt, and finally sentenced him to death in accordance with the law, which made the government and the opposition in an uproar, which couldn't help but make people who had prejudices about this before shut up. However, in Yang Rui's opinion, Shen Jiaben and these people can remember the old feelings, but they still worship the law in their bones, after all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is dead, and the only thing that can become their spiritual pillar is judicial independence, so he is very relieved of them.

The school department is in Donghua Gate, the Tingwei Mansion is in the second row of official offices on the west side of Tianjie, and when Cai Yuanpei thought of Yang Rui's previous meeting to explain why he was very relieved about those Manchu relics, his brows tightened again, what colleagues and revolutionaries really want to use to persuade those Manchu old ministers, it is simply looking for death, and they wish that the revolutionary party in front of them was all dead.

The carriage soon arrived at the Tingwei Mansion, and when the bailiff at the door repeated the question of 'Who is the Lord looking for' again, Cai Yuanpei suddenly thought of two people, and immediately said: "I am looking for Lord Zhang Xingyan Zhang, or Lord Wang Liangtao ......"

"Lord Wang is out on business, and only Lord Zhang is there. Do you want to find Zhang-sama? "The bailiff returned to the guard room and presumably made a few phone calls and reported the news.

"Good, good! I'll just look for Master Zhang......" Cai Yuanpei nodded, and said that he was about to go inside.

"My lord, please get off the bus and register. This is the rule. The bailiff said, just waiting for him to finish the register. He was given a sign and let the carriage in.

Cai Yuanpei had shown his official card before. He didn't want him to get out of the car and register in person, he muttered this, and only waited for the coachman to tell him through the front window that he had arrived at the place, and then he took off his official robe and black gauze hat, and got out of the car in a grand manner.

Receiving a call from the bailiff in the guard room, Zhang Shizhao was already waiting downstairs, and when he saw Cai Yuanpei with a worried face, he asked with concern: "Brother Xiaomin, what's wrong." What are you doing here? ”

"Hey!" Cai Yuanpei let out a long sigh, looked at the people around him, and said, "Is there anything to talk about, I have something I want to talk to you about, it's very important." ”

"Go to my office." Zhang Shizhao took Cai Yuanpei upstairs, although the funds of the Tingwei Mansion are not much, but they are sufficient, and now this building was newly built last year, and he is the editor-in-chief of the Legal Daily. There is still a huge set of offices.

The two went up to the second floor, and as soon as they sat down, Cai Yuanpei said: "Okay, I'm here for the Shanghai assassination case, and now it's not just Brother Zhihui who has been arrested by the patrol police." The students who went to the patrol police station to petition were shot dead and wounded by them, you say! You said! That's the thing! This is different from the previous Manchu Qing Dynasty. Isn't this a matter of carelessness for human life? ”

"Ahh Shot and killed a student? Zhang Shizhao was taken aback, as the editor-in-chief of the Legal Daily. The news is also very well-informed, and I don't want to go to Shanghai except for the assassination case. And something like this happened. He looked at the excited Cai Yuanpei and comforted: "Brother Xiaomin, don't worry, I'll go and inquire about what happened, you wait for me for a while." ”

Zhang Shizhao wanted to leave, Cai Yuanpei wanted to stop him, but he thought that he was going to inquire about the news, and he couldn't help but put down his hand again, he only waited anxiously for a while, only to see Zhang Shizhao walk in with an unhappy face, he sat down and said: "There is indeed such a thing, the Shanghai Inspectorate and the Security Bureau have intervened, and I think there will be definite news in a few days after tomorrow." ”

"How many days after tomorrow? Why tomorrow? Cai Yuanpei was very atmospheric when he heard Zhang Shizhao speak like this, "Now hundreds of students have been arrested by the police station, and I am afraid that a few more will die in the next few days!" ”

"Brother Xiao Min, now that the Inspectorate has intervened, that is to say, every move of the police station has to be carried out under the supervision of the inspector, what else can happen? Our judiciary is independent, and even if we want to, we can't interfere. Zhang Shizhao said.

"The Inspectorate is independent? Xu Xilin, the president of the Inspectorate, is not yet a member of the Renaissance Association. Cai Yuanpei knows more things than Zhang Shizhao, and he is not too optimistic about judicial independence: "Now I came to save those students, and Brother Zhihui, he is just a scholar, how can he have anything to do with the assassination?" It must be that the patrol police below saw that the prime minister of the dynasty was assassinated, and they wished to arrest more people to curry favor with the officials, this kind of trick has been used since ancient times. You'll have to help get those people out. ”

"This..., Brother Xiaomin, I'm just a newspaper operator, how can I release people?" Cai Yuanpei's invitation made Zhang Shizhao very embarrassed, he knew about Wu Zhihui, this person lived in the concession, if the patrol police did not have conclusive evidence, they would never take him. But he was also a member of the Patriotic Society, and he understood why Cai Yuanpei came to save people, so he really didn't know how to say these truths.

Zhang Shizhao said that he couldn't save it, Cai Yuanpei said: "Be strict, don't forget the patriotic school." Brother Zhihui, I know what he is, and those students, think about the former Nanyang College, the students were not forced by the teacher, who would drop out? This is simply the patrol officers below forcing the people to rebel and disregarding people's lives! ”

Cai Yuanpei's words were heavier and heavier, and Zhang Shizhao listened to it very unpleasantly, but when he thought of the Patriotic Society, his heart also softened, and said: "Brother Xiaomin, there is conclusive evidence that Wu Zhihui was arrested, he took the assassins to the Obscure Ming Society, and asked them to help the assassins familiarize themselves with the environment of the academy and the courses of various subjects. He didn't know the purpose of the assassins or not, but he couldn't clear his own connection with the assassination because he didn't report it afterwards, and he went to Jingcheng to ask for a light sentence for those assassins.

There are also those students, I don't know what happened when they shot in the back, but more than 10 of the more than 50 students arrested on the night of the assassination did participate in or knew about the assassination, and there were also a few other suspects, but those people refused to confess, and the patrol police department originally wanted to release those students who had no evidence today, but they didn't want such a thing to happen. ”

Cai Yuanpei only believed Zhang Yuanji's telegram before, but he didn't want to have such a case, he began to feel a little uneasy, but he still insisted: "Since the assassination case did not succeed, why did it have to be so extensive?" No matter how Zhihui is, he is also a great talent in the country, a celebrity in the academic world, and he really wants to be sentenced to prison, so how will he deal with himself in the future? And those students, even if they participated, it was caused by being bewitched, how could they really sue in court? ”

"Brother Less!" Zhang Shizhao saw that he was still obsessed, so he had no choice but to say: "In the assassination case, the guards of the Prime Minister's Office were killed and wounded, and the one who died was killed by the assassin hiding among those students. If Dali Temple or the Inspectorate did not do their duty, what would they say? Maybe the Tingwei Mansion will close tomorrow. The reason why the judiciary should be independent is to be able to enforce the law impartially and selflessly, and the League was fond of assassination in its early years, and if it is not punished severely, it will be even more lawless in the future. A few days ago, Captain Wu Tingfangwu held a special meeting on this case, saying that this case should be severely sentenced and must not be tolerated. ”

Zhang Shizhao was sentenced heavily, and Cai Yuanpei's coolness rose from the bottom of his heart, "Can't you be extrajudicially merciful, it's like... It's like that, what Fu Weikang is promising? ”

"Difficult!" Zhang Shizhao made another assertion: "The Manchus will be tolerated because there are many old gentry and old Manchu ministers." Then the Manchurians want to restore, and everyone also feels that it is excusable, the dynasty changes, and the old dynasty always has to come several times. But those assassins in Shanghai, what are they for, are they really for the Democratic Republic? ”

Zhang Shizhao recalled those people in the Alliance, and then recalled Huang Xing, shook his head and sighed: "How can it be called a democratic republic?" It's not about whether Sun Wen will be the president and the alliance will sit in the world. If it is Sun Wen's president, the world of the League, it is a democratic republic; If he were not the president and the alliance would sit in the world, it would definitely be an autocratic dictatorship, and in the final analysis, it would still be inseparable from the struggle for power and profit. The Confession would agree to pardon the Manchurians, but it would never agree to pardon the Confederacy. ”

"It's not fair." Cai Yuanpei shook his head, unable to agree with what Zhang Shizhao said. Revolution is extremely sacred in his eyes, and because of this, he feels that Yang Rui's approach is very excessive, you must know that these people are revolutionary comrades.

"Brother Xiaomin, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers. In this world, there are grandsons without Yang, and there are Yang without grandchildren. In all fairness, Yang is stronger than Sun, and now that Yang is in the world, Sun can only be abandoned. Zhang Shizhao said that this pair of enemies in the world today, he was very emotional, thinking that when he translated the dream of Miyazaki's monstrous thirty-three years of falling flowers, he felt that this China was irretrievable, but he didn't want to go to this day, but he avoided the ocean: "Hey, you can rest assured, justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and Mr. Sun's work for the revolution will one day be known to the world." ”

After he finished speaking, he was still worried when he saw Cai Yuanpei, so he had to say: "Master Wu attaches great importance to the case in Shanghai, and has sent someone to Shanghai, Wang Liangtao is among them, if you can really help anything, you can only look for him." ”

"Wang Liangtao went to Shanghai?" Cai Yuanpei suddenly felt that he had grasped a straw, this Wang Chonghui was originally a student of Nanyang College, Gengzi participated in the Self-Reliance Army, and fled to Japan in defeat, but the following year he went to the United States to study by Zhang Yuanji Baoju and obtained a doctorate in law from Yale University. Since he went to Shanghai, he can just talk to Zhang Yuanji.

"Hmm. Go, it's a big case. Also there were Xu Shiying and Yang Yinxing. Zhang Shizhao was not from a Shanghai school and was not familiar with Wang Chonghui's past, but he still saw some clues from Cai Yuanpei's expression, and said: "They just went to inspect and did not participate in the trial." ”

"I see." Cai Yuanpei only thought about sending a telegram to Zhang Yuanji earlier, spoke absent-mindedly, stood up and arched his hand, and hurriedly said goodbye.

Cai Yuanpei left in such a hurry, and at this time, in the cell of the Shanghai Patrol Police Station, Xu Shiying, Yang Yinxing, and Wang Chonghui, who had just gotten off the train, were reviewing the files of the Patrol Police Station. They originally came for the assassination case, but they didn't want the shooting of students to happen at the police station, which had a great impact, so they had to review the facts of the case first to reassure the people. (To be continued......)