The court session began at 10 o'clock, and after the routine pre-trial matters, the court debate procedure entered at 10:30 o'clock. The plaintiffs and defendants hired British lawyers, and they needed on-site interpreters to understand foreign languages. The plaintiff's lawyer, Gao Yi and others, insisted that compensation for land requisition needs to be fair and reasonable, and the basis for fairness and reasonableness is fair trading, that is, paying compensation for cultivated land at the current price, and submitted to the court the transaction documents of the sale and purchase of cultivated land in Shanghai in the last ten years to prove the unreasonableness of the land price approved by the defendant.

In addition to this stack of transaction records, Gao Yi also submitted the report of the Inspectorate of the Guò rent reduction bill in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China as evidence in court. A copy of the report on the rent reduction bill had calculated the relationship between the land price of cultivated land and the land rent, and at that time, the Court of Inspectors believed that the land rent was too high, and that many cultivated land could exceed the land price in less than 10 years, so it asked the landlord to reduce the rent.

The government's injustice is now compensated for the land price that was officially recognized at the same time. Gao Yi's move can be described as the spear of the son and the shield of the attacker, which won the applause of most of the reporters present, but Zhang Hongding, the incomparably strict chief judge, immediately struck the gavel and shouted 'silence' to suppress their excitement.

The plaintiff's lawyer was in high spirits and had a chance of victory, but the defendant's lawyer, Hatohua, had to pretend to be relaxed, and the evidence he began to submit was the original price of the land purchased by the landlord. Because the land sale is subject to deed tax, the price is never high, and the landlord, as a local tyrant, does not care about the hidden land price, because the plaintiff originally received the land at a very low price, some of which are less than five taels and one mu. This kind of price is sensational, but there are capable people among the plaintiffs, and the court will be held in the afternoon to argue, and the plaintiffs invite people from the Shanghai Money Industry Office to testify in court. The depreciation of silver in recent decades is raised, and it is believed that five taels a few decades ago is equivalent to fifteen taels or even twenty taels now.

The theory of the depreciation of silver renders the debate based on the original price of Hatohua largely invalid. He had to go another route: after submitting a report on the livelihood of the tenants, he admitted that the tenants' ability to pay could not support the high land prices. In the spirit of the constitutional amendment. Agrarian reform would only be based on the ability of tenants to pay. At present, the land reform office is based on the ten-year ability of tenant farmers to pay, and if the land price is set too high, the land reform will not be implemented.

At this stage of the debate, it is no longer a matter for the plaintiff's lawyer, and it is entirely up to the judge to decide whether to use the market price or the seller's price as the basis for pricing, or whether to use the buyer's ability to pay as the basis for pricing. Take general commodity trading as an example, if the buyer and seller cannot agree on the price. If you want to make a sale, it will naturally drop some, and the buyer will raise some, and the two sides will compromise and make a deal; But now the seller does not sell the deal at all, if it were not for the compulsory constitutional amendment of the Auditor's Court, they would not want to buy at all, although the land rent has been reduced, but the 20% land rent is not better than the compensation of the 20% land price.

At 3:30 p.m., the Trial Chamber adjourned for 15 minutes, 15 minutes later. The Trial Chamber reconvened. Presiding Judge Zhang Hongding calmly faced the substantive gaze of the original defendant and the reporters present, and made closing arguments in full accordance with the trial procedures: "...... After deliberation, the evidence submitted by the parties is authenticated as follows...... in summary. In accordance with Article 17 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Paragraph 1 of Article 53 and Paragraph 2 of Article 54 of the Administrative Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China, and with reference to the provisions of Article 25, Paragraph 1 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China, the judgment is as follows: All parties are requested to stand up. 1. Revoke the defendant's Shanghai Special Market ......"

As soon as the presiding judge spat out the words 'withdraw to the defendant,' the entire courtroom cried out as if on fire. Zhang Hongding's continuous striking of the gavel could not stop the chaos in the hall; And Tao Chengzhang, who had two sideburns and green tendons, stood up suddenly, stretched out his hand and pointed at the presiding judge and said something excitedly. But his voice was immediately drowned out in the noise of the hall, and even Chen Zhenxian beside him couldn't hear it; However, Chen Zhenxian was completely stunned at this time. Although the plaintiff had the upper hand during the court defense, he did not dare to imagine that the Dali Temple of the Tingwei Mansion would dare to reject the decree of the Inspectorate and the Prime Minister's Office, such a judgment would cause civil strife, once the peasant associations in various places were not controlled, then hundreds of millions of tenant farmers would flood all the cities, it would not be the Boxer Rebellion or the Hongyang Rebellion, it would be a vigorous revolution!

After a long period of more than ten minutes, the boiling trial court finally quieted down, and the presiding judge Zhang Hongding continued to read out the trial results after striking the gavel: "1. Abolish the defendants Shanghai Special Municipal Government and the Shanghai Special Municipal Land Reform Office, and submit the defendants Tang Hengxu, Wang Guofan, Guan Hengqi, Zhang Zhaoyuan, Wang Jiarui, Zhou Junlie, and Sun Quanfang to the plaintiffs Tang Hengxu, Wang Guofan, Guan Hengqi, Zhang Zhaoyuan, Wang Jiarui, Zhou Junlie, and Sun Quanfang on December 17 of the third year of Shenwu...... Hu Zi No. 178 to No. 305 land requisition notices;

2. Within 60 days of the effective date of the judgment in this case, the defendants Shanghai Special Municipal Government and the Shanghai Special Municipal Land Reform Office shall re-examine the plaintiffs Tang Hengxu, Wang Guofan, Guan Hengqi, Zhang Zhaoyuan, Wang Jiarui, Zhou Junlie, and Sun Quanfang...... and other cultivated land compensation matters, and issue a new land requisition notice. ”

With a bang, the gavel struck again, and the presiding judge, Zhang Hongding, said again: "All parties are invited to sit down, and the case acceptance fee of 0.8 yuan in this case shall be borne by the defendant defendant Shanghai Special Municipal Government and the Shanghai Special Municipal Government and the Shanghai Special Municipal Land Reform Office, and shall be paid within seven days after this judgment takes effect." The above is an oral judgment and the judgment will be served on the parties within 15 days after the closing of the hearing. In addition to the main text of the judgment, the text of the judgment shall be subject to the judgment delivered after the trial. If you are not satisfied with this judgment. Within 45 days from the date of service of the judgment, an appeal may be submitted to this court, and copies may be submitted according to the number of opposing parties, and the appeal may be filed in Dali Temple, Jiangsu Province.

Plaintiffs Tang Hengxu, Wang Guofan, Guan Hengqi, Zhang Zhaoyuan, Wang Jiarui, Zhou Junlie, Sun Quanfang, ......, sued the defendants Shanghai Special Municipal Government and Shanghai Special Municipal Government and Shanghai Special Municipal Land Reform Office The case of farmland expropriation compensation has now been concluded and closed! ”

As soon as clerk Wang Zhennan opened his mouth and said, "Please leave the courtroom, the presiding judge," the violent sound of firecrackers outside rang out, and if you listen carefully, there are still gongs and drums.

Fei Yugui, the chief official of the land reform yamen, Ha Tuohua and others all had iron blue faces, and they got into a carriage and left Dali Temple under the escort of the bailiff in the ridicule of the crowd outside Dali Temple, and Tao Chengzhang, who had always walked on foot, was stopped by reporters a few steps out of Dali Temple, and they had already recognized his identity.

When confronted with the question of reporters, "How do you feel about the outcome of the trial in this case?" Tao Chengzhang laughed angrily, he looked at the reporters around him and said: "The trial of Tingwei Mansion and Dali Temple is very fair. The national policy of judicial independence, which the Prime Minister established in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, is very good. Mrs. Nice!! ”

"Master Tao, we know that if it is impossible to ask the government to compensate the owners of cultivated land according to the current land price, if the government loses the case again in the second instance, will the government still implement land reform? Or will there be other remedial actions? The reporters in Shanghai have always been tricky, and Tao Chengzhang was so excited that they wanted to pry something out of his mouth.

"I have always believed that the revolution in China is not complete! This is not thorough. The biggest manifestation is that there are not enough people dead!! Tao Chengzhang looked at the landlord hanging the cross of the life-saving Christ behind the reporter, and wanted to bite them to death, "All dynasties and dynasties, without war for forty or fifty years, without tens of millions of people, without corpses in mountains and seas of blood, without bloodshed, the filth of the old dynasty is difficult to remove!"

The Prime Minister's original wish was to preserve the vitality of the country as much as possible, to kill as few people as possible, and to avoid enmity as much as possible. to unite the people and rejuvenate the nation; But the examples of the three years since the founding of the country show that the prime minister is too merciful! Some people can't treat them as Chinese because they have yellow skin and speak Chinese, which is not right. These people took advantage of the benevolence of the new dynasty. He used the laws of the new dynasty to find ways to retain his privileges and interests.

This behavior is legally just, but because of the remnants of the old dynasty. These privileges and interests of theirs are an injustice to the majority of the rest of the people. It is precisely because there are too many remnants of the old dynasty that there is today's formal justice and fairness. In essence, there is no justice or fairness. The Shanghai government will not recognize this verdict! The Ministry of Agriculture will not recognize this verdict! The Prime Minister's Office will not approve of this verdict either! 158 million tenant farmers will not even approve of this verdict!! If the verdict of the second instance is still the same, then I believe that China needs a real revolution with rivers of blood! ”

"Lord Tao. Master Tao, the Revival Association has always stated that it wants to govern the country according to the law, and if the revival will revolutionize again, does it mean that the rule of law has gone bankrupt? Tao Chengzhang's explosive-like speech gave the reporters great stimulation, and seeing that he wanted to leave, the reporters hurriedly asked the last question.

"Rule of law?" Tao Chengzhang smiled disdainfully: "If the law is really useful, then why do you need war?!" ”

"Lord Tao, Lord Tao......" The reporters wanted to ask again, Tao Chengzhang had been escorted away by the city government.

Looking at the two worried landlords, Lin Changmin, the propaganda minister of the Constitutional Protector Party, who was standing at the gate of Dali Temple with a coffin, shouted loudly to the crowd: "Gentlemen, hear clearly!" Hear me clearly! Master Tao of the Ministry of Agriculture, the patriarch of the Revival Association, what is he talking about? What did he say? He said, 'If the law works, then why war?' ’。 Ladies and gentlemen, this is the essence of Revival Society's superficial civilization and actual brutality! We must not support such a government! Such an official. We must be defeated! Gentlemen, protect the Constitution! Protect the Constitution! Protect the Constitution!! ”

The originally scattered county town of Shanghai was moved by Lin Changmin, and the landlords of the whole city shouted in unison, "Protect the constitution!" Protect the Constitution!! Constitutional !! ”

"Brother Huanqing, hey, ......" Back at the Shanghai Municipal Government, Fei Yugui heard that Tao Chengzhang shouted the revolutionary slogan on the spot, both admiring and helpless. He is a veteran of the Revival Society, the mayor of the Shanghai Special City -- the six special cities of Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Dalian, which are equivalent to vice provinces -- went to Dali Temple to be tried but lost face, and I really don't know how this mayor will be in the future.

"I'll bear the blame from the prime minister!" It's not the first time Tao Chengzhang has been disciplined, he doesn't care about it, he doesn't mention this stubble, and only asks: "What should I do next?" ”

"What can I do?" Fei Yugui took out a cigarette, lit it for Tao Chengzhang, and lit it for himself, "Continue to appeal." I don't believe that the provincial Dali Temple will also be judged like this, so they are not afraid of causing civil strife? ”

"But Dali Temple is also smart this time, they didn't say how much the price of this cultivated land should be compensated, only that the compensation is not appropriate, and it must be redetermined. I'm cāo fucking, there's a kind of he says a land price! Thinking of the trial just now, Tao Chengzhang was extremely angry, and now that he talks about it, he is still very excited.

"Brother Huanqing, how can Dali Temple say the price of land?" Fei Yugui just laughed, "Wouldn't it be better for those dog officials to wash their feet and go ashore to watch us fight to the death with the Constitutional Protectorate?" No matter who wins or loses between us and the Constitutional Protectorate, their position will only become more and more secure. Look at them, do they need to eat this standard fucking meal? Fei Yugui stuck a chopstick on the lunch box sent by the staff. Really annoyed, "We're tired like dogs." Take the least, eat the worst. In the end, it is simply unreasonable to have to obey their control! Where were they at the time of the revolution? What were they doing when we shed our blood and died......"

"That's it!" Fei Yugui's words are too good for Tao Chengzhang, "This world has nothing to do with these bullshit judges, why can they point fingers?" I immediately went to Beijing and asked the prime minister to cancel the independence of the judiciary, so why bother to put a tight spell on myself, I am simply full of food and support! ”

Tao Chengzhang said that he would do it, and immediately quit Fei Yugui and went to the municipal government guest house to pack his things. He was in a hurry, and he didn't even see him out of the city hall. A four-wheeled carriage followed.

As if it were a cool breeze in summer, the results of the trial at the Dali Temple in Shanghai were instantly transmitted through guò wired wireless telegraphy throughout most of China, and countless state capitals lit firecrackers and beat gongs and drums. However, no matter how lively the foreign world is, the city of Beijing is also deserted, and the wind from the southeast blows to the tall outer walls of the capital and is blocked back, as if the city will never be transformed for thousands of years.

Lord Tingwei Wu Tingfang sat in the alley of the high monument. Looking at the telegram sent from Shanghai, he was silent. The Supreme Justice, Dong Kang, who had read the telegram first, said, "My lord, the Shanghai city government has nothing to say. On the contrary, Tao Chengzhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, who was watching the trial in Shanghai, was very dissatisfied with the outcome of the trial and clamored for murder and another revolution. ”

"Is there any connection between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Tingwei Mansion?" Wu Tingfang asked puzzled.

"Hui adult, there is no connection." Dong Kang's voice was a little quieter. However, he remembered one more thing, and said uneasily: "My lord." If the government loses the case again, the Revival will be opposed by everyone. The prime minister may not be able to hold it down, right? In the event of another revolution, the independence of the judiciary will be an empty word......"

"If the government expropriates people's money, it should be compensated according to the price. Shanghai Dali Temple tried according to law, what is the fault? Wu Tingfang said: "The law is the law, why bend for perfection?" Even if the revival of the second instance will be revolutionized again, the Tingwei Mansion and Dali Temple will still uphold the original verdict! I'd rather give posterity a short-lived Fa than a Fa that posterity compromises! If the judiciary is not independent, how can it be impartial? Can judicial impartiality be called law?

Teach the scriptures, you and I are both from the old dynasty, do we want to go back to the old dynasty? Today, when the Revival Society is in power, we will be attached to the Renaissance Society, and tomorrow when the Kuomintang is in power, we will be subservient to the Kuomintang. In this way, what else do you need to do, it is better to simply set up a memorial arch outside Gaobei Hutong, and everyone will be a turtle slave.

Right is right, wrong is wrong, and the law is the law, and there is no ambiguity at all. There is a tradition of martyrdom among judges in our country, so why not start with those of us? Even if the revival will be revolutionized again, how long will the revival be in power? 100 years, 200 years, 300 years? All dynasties, no matter how prosperous, will eventually have the day when the country will die. When the new dynasty is rebuilt, we will be remembered by future generations, and our spirit of wholeheartedly protecting and abiding by the law will surely be reborn in the new dynasty. ”

Unexpectedly, Wu Tingfang still had the idea of martyrdom, Dong Kang was extremely moved, but after a while, he said calmly, "My lord, if the new dynasty is also a figure like the Revival Society, won't he remember us?" ”

"Future generations will always remember it." Wu Tingfang was extremely calm, "Even if this period of history is erased by revival, we ourselves will have a clear conscience." What is the Fa, for us, isn't this Fa our original intention? ”

"Yes, sir, I see." Dong Kang said, the anxious god please finally began to ease.

"Send a telegram to Xingyan, and the next issue of the Legal Newspaper will ask him to write an article on martyrdom to see how many people have been martyred in history." Wu Tingfang still commanded calmly.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Dong Kangdao. went out to send a telegram to Zhang Shizhao, who was watching the trial on the spot in Shanghai.

The telegram sent by the Tingwei Mansion was not immediately delivered to Zhang Shizhao, and in the boudoir of an elaborate study room called 'Pingxiangju' on Sima Road, a pair of men and women were still naked and tired together. Listening to the love words spoken by the man, Li Xiangpingyu pointed at the man's forehead with her hand and said coquettishly: "Hmph! Now it's so good, in the past few years, I have gone to the capital and ignored others, isn't it that the sister of the Bada Hutong is better than the Peugeot in Shanghai? ”

"What the hell is there?" The man hurriedly denied it, "The people in Tingwei's Mansion have always been very self-disciplined, and no one goes to the Bada Hutong. ”

"There is no cat in the world that does not steal fish." Women don't believe in men at all. The two of them have been on good since more than ten years ago, that year Wan Fuhua assassinated Wang Zhichun, the governor of Guangxi, the man was stupid and implicated in the Huaxing Association and was detained in the patrol room, but after coming out, he stayed here for a long time before going to Japan to study.

"Xingyan, how do you arrange people......" The woman looked at the man and closed her eyes, so she had to pinch him, and then asked about the things that were not easy to say before Huan Hao.

"I told my family, but ......" Zhang Shizhao avoided the woman's gaze a little. Because his wife Wu Wannan was a member of the Alliance, she not only mixed with Qiu Jin's tigresses, but also the secretary of the Shenzhou Women's Revival Association; Then there is the father-in-law Wu Baochu, who helped the Fuxing Society in the late Qing Dynasty, although Yang Jingcheng is known as the Prime Minister of the Three Nos, but he is still extremely grateful to those who have helped the Fuxing Society. If you offend Wu Baochu, you will offend the Revival Society, even if he belongs to the Tingwei Mansion, it is absolutely impossible.

With the man's 'but', Li Xiangping turned sideways and cried behind the man's back, Zhang Shizhao hurriedly half got up to comfort, not wanting to persuade the woman to cry more and more, and in the end he could only let the woman cry happily in his arms.

In the boudoir, the woman cried and the man persuaded her, outside the study, Uncle Li, who was wearing a sword at his waist and a major general's official uniform, was holding a gift in his hand, and was being stopped by Li Xiangping's aunt, "General, Mr. Yi is not feeling well, and it is not good to see ......guests today."

"I came to visit her," Li Shutong, who had just returned from North Korea, heard that his aunt said that Li Xiangping was unwell, so he hurried upstairs, only to make the people in the study room anxious.

"General... The general ......" Aunt Niang stopped and called the maid's servant, "Go and call Mr..., just say that General Li is here." ”

Li Shutong is not a foolish person, when he saw his aunt's behavior, he knew that Li Xiangping was not unwell, but had guests. Then the boots stopped at the staircase and said, "Since your husband is unwell, then I will come back another day." This is Korean ginseng brought back from North Korea, so let's boil it for your husband to replenish his body. ”

"Yes, yes, Allah will sue Mr. Sù." Aunt Niang was like an amnesty, and she was busy taking the things in Uncle Li's hand.

She followed, and Li Shutong looked at the closed door upstairs, laughed and went downstairs, and the aunt sent him out and immediately went upstairs to report back. At this time, the men and women on the bed had already gotten up after listening to what her aunt had reported, but she just glanced at Zhang Shizhao sadly and put those gifts on the table.

Zhang Shizhao met Li Xiangping after Su reported the case, and Li Shutong fell in love with Li Xiangping after entering Nanyang College. However, Li Xiangping belongs to Zhang Shizhao, so Zhang Shizhao knows a little about the same thing as Uncle Li. Seeing the woman looking at herself sadly, Zhang Shizhao wanted to persuade Li Xiangping to take advantage of the two years to take a concubine and marry Uncle Li, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't bear to speak, so he had to straighten his clothes and go straight.

Li Shutong, who left Pingxiangju, actually didn't leave, and kept waiting in the carriage outside the study. He knew that with Li Xiangping's reputation as a courtesan, he didn't have to close the door to accompany the guests at all, because he wanted to see who this person was, and he didn't want to wait at the door for a while, but it was Zhang Shizhao who came out. When he was in the Patriotic Society, Zhang Shizhao was a man of the hour, and he naturally recognized it, but who would have thought that the man of the year who reported the case to Su was now the chief writer of the legal newspaper of the Tingwei Mansion, but he was Li Xiangping's benefactor.

"Let's go back." Li Shutong struggled a few times with the hand holding the gun and put it down, his voice was very silent, and when the adjutant urged the carriage, he said again: "Let's go to the four roads and find a place to drink." ”

Li Shutong's carriage left the study, and Zhang Shizhao also got on the sedan chair outside the door of the study, and hurried to the inn on Baoshan Street. After arriving at the inn, he thought that Xu Shiying, the supreme justice who came to Shanghai to supervise the trial, would blame, but as soon as the two met, he heard Xu Shiying say anxiously: "Be strict, the big thing is not good, Tao Huanqing was stabbed!" (To be continued......)