The living room fell silent after the two of them finished saying 'endless troubles', this time it was Yang Rui who picked up the teacup, carefully opened the tea leaves floating on the water with the lid of the cup, and tasted the tea carefully, and Wu Tingfang held the teacup, but he didn't mean to drink it at all, he could fully imagine the consequences of Yang Rui's move, that is, to open the door to equal wealth and poverty, if this is the case, then there will only be poor people in this country in the future, and the rich will only live in the concession in order to preserve their property.

This is in the long run, and in the short term, not to mention that the landlords do not lend silver taels, and the tenant farmers have no capital to cultivate, the grain output will be greatly reduced, and the landlords will not know how many killings will be caused by their rebellion. In terms of justice, it is natural to protect one's own private property, but to protect one's private property, one has to fight against the state machine, and the final result can only be defeat.

The constitution respects the dignity of the human person, but the dignity of the human being will be ruthlessly trampled on by the state organs. Is this still a constitutional country, this is clearly an autocratic country!

Wu Tingfang's breathing became more and more rapid, and his beard became straighter and straighter, and finally, he spoke: "Your Excellency, please go back!" Although Ng Dinh Fong is not talented, he is well aware of the inviolability of human dignity and property, and if the Prime Minister's Office insists on promoting land reform, then the Ting Wai Mansion can only uphold the will of judicial independence and fight to the end to protect the Constitution......"

"Haha... Haha...... "Wu Tingfang didn't say anything about judicial independence, but when he said Yang Rui, he couldn't help laughing, he laughed again and again, but Wu Tingfang was a little inexplicable, but when a thick file was photographed by Yang Rui on the coffee table, and the black words on the cover, 'Assassination Trial Investigation' stinged his eyes, he finally understood what Yang Rui was laughing at. This is a scandal in the Tingwei Mansion, and he is also ordering the bailiffs to investigate the bizarre trial case in Shanghai. I don't want to be one step ahead of the Prime Minister's Office.

"The Tingwei Mansion was first established, and the judges followed the former Qing Dynasty. Old habits are inevitably not changed. With all due respect, Rome was not built in a day. Nor is it possible to establish an independent judiciary in a matter of years. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, if we want to truly achieve judicial independence and fairness, it will take the efforts of several generations, and we must not give up food because of choking. The Prime Minister is not a person who cares, so why can't he give the Tingwei Mansion more time......" Wu Tingfang said dejectedly.

"Most of the judges come from gentry and eunuch families, why is that? This is the reason for the unequal rights and uneven land, the richer the richer, the more unrich the money, the less money there is, and in the end, the officials protect each other, and the gentry protect each other. This negligent but not leaky network of relationships. How can there be an independent judiciary? Where is justice observed? Only economic equality can lead to equality of personality, and only equality of personality can lead to equality of law, otherwise judicial justice will always be in vain.

Laws, judges, Dali Temple, and Tingweifu cannot be transcendent from the world, and they are closely related to the whole country and the whole society. If the land is not equalized, the inequality will grow bigger and bigger, and the resentment of the people will accumulate deeper and deeper, and one day someone will shout, 'The sky is dead.' Huang Tian should stand, but by that time, it will be too late to do anything. ”

Yang Rui said a word, and he got up and arched his hand at Wu Tingfang without any further persuasion. Quietly walked out of the living room, out of the Tingwei's Mansion, and went to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Wu Tingfang sat in the living room for a long time. It was only when the clock rang that he came back to his senses in a daze. Distractedly, he looked through the draft land reform on the coffee table, and then looked at the thick trial file of the Shanghai assassination case. After a while, he instructed the clerks outside: "Go and invite Master Xu Jingren, Master Xu, Master Dong Zhujing, Master Xu Jilong, Master Xu, Lord Jiang Yiyunjiang, Lord Wang Shuheng, Lord Zhu Boyuan, Lord Zhu, as well as Lord Shen Bingfu, Lord Shen, Master Zhang Xing, Master Yan Zhang, and Master Zhang Rongxi, all come to my study." [Note: Xu Shiying, Dong Kang, Xu Qian, Jiang Yong, Wang Shitong, Zhu Shen (pseudo), Shen Junru, Zhang Shizhao, Zhang Yaozeng]"

In addition to these seven people, Shen Junru, Zhang Shizhao, and Zhang Yao also had a great influence in the Tingwei Mansion, especially Zhang Shizhao, although he claimed to be running a newspaper that day, he will be transferred from this position next year to take up important posts.

Half an hour later, a meeting of ten people was held in the study. At first, Wu Tingfang did not talk about the land reform, but about the assassination.

In addition to the trial records, there are also records of the parties before and after the event, photos, consumption records, bank deposit receipts, and even five recording discs - this is the recording of Cai Yin, the new chief official of Dali Temple in Shanghai, who has thousands of taels of silver, when he was prostituting in the concession.

The rubber disc was finally put away, and even Wu Tingfang, everyone was staring at each other with big eyes and was at a loss. After a while, I heard Zhang Yaozeng say: "Ladies and gentlemen, is it possible to forge this recording?" ”

"Since the Prime Minister will send these things over, how can it be faked?" Without waiting for others to speak, Zhang Shizhao spoke first, in his opinion, for Yang Rui, none of the people present knew him deeply. "Lord Wu, this time the prime minister personally came to deliver this thing, what do you want?"

Zhang Shizhao asked the point, and Wu Tingfang sighed: "He wants to equalize the land!" ”

"Homogeneous?!" Everyone was taken aback. Everyone knows about the affairs of Jundi in Korea, where it is said that there is no Dali Temple, no court, only a three-member committee. With the permission of the three men, the landlord would have confiscated his family property and land for war crimes, and his life would be forfeited by heavy hard labor, and this torrent would be pushed from the Yalu River to the shores of Pusan, causing the rich gentry of the whole country to flee to Japan and China.

Imagining the scene in North Korea, Justice Dong Kang said: "Why did the prime minister resort to such despicable means? What our country implements is a constitutional government, so how can it be concluded that the constitutional government has completely failed if there is a mistake in one case? If this is the case, all the nations of the world can abolish the law and change the system of man. ”

"That's right! The road to constitutionalism is long and bumpy, how can a single case be completely denied, is it because it is the prime minister himself who is involved? Xu Shiying also said, "I want to go to the Prime Minister's Office to present this matter to the Prime Minister!" I was responsible for this case at the beginning, and the crime of dereliction of duty should be borne by me, Xu Shiying, and it has nothing to do with the person in the Tingwei Mansion, let alone the constitution. ”

Dong Kang is a student of Shen Jiaben, and Xu Shiying, some people say that he and the second wife of the prime minister, Han Xianfeng, are related to each other, but this is just a rumor, no one has ever seen Xu Shiying go to the prime minister's private residence. I have never heard the second lady mention Xu Shiying. But now that I heard that Xu Shiying was going to the Prime Minister's Office to present the matter, several people thought about it again.

"It's useless for you to go." Wu Tingfang said: "The prime minister is here. It does not say that constitutionalism is bad at all, only that if the land is uneven. There will be economic inequality between people, and the result will be that the rich bully the poor, and there will be no justice. Taking the Shanghai assassination trial as an example, the reason for this result is that most of the judges in the government are gentry and the like, and they are all inclined to help the defendants, while the plaintiffs are either government officials or patrol policemen, and none of them will cry out for injustice. One is to complain and complain, and the scholars do not believe.

All dynasties in our country have given preferential treatment to scholars, and it was the gentry who shouted for constitutionalism at the beginning, and although constitutionalism is practiced now, because everyone is equal before the law, it is not forgotten that it is also those gentry who cannot be punished by doctors. Now that this case has been issued, it is certain that it will be handled strictly, and it is not so impossible to advocate constitutional wisdom. In addition, in order to prevent this from happening again, Dali Temple hired judges later. More children from poor peasant families should be hired and less children from wealthy merchant and gentry families should be hired, and the principle of avoidance should also take into account the difference between rich and poor, and the old precedents should not be blindly followed. ”

Wu Tingfang only explained how to deal with the fraud in the Shanghai assassination case. But he didn't explain how to deal with the matter of equalizing the land. But even so, as a native of Wujin, Jiangsu, Dong Kang, who is well aware of the local situation, is also uneasy. He said: "The fraud case in Shanghai involves the entire academic community. The old man Zhang mentioned in the recording is likely to be Zhang Yuanji of the Commercial Press. This person was the general office of Nanyang College in his early years, and the legendary special class was founded by him, and those people in the Ding Revolution Education Association were funded by him for a long time, it is said that the revival association was formerly known as the Patriotic Society, and it was because he funded thousands of taels to settle down after dropping out, if this person is implicated in the case, the world will be in chaos! ”

"The iron law is ruthless, why do you have so many concerns?" Wu Tingfang looked at Dong Kang very displeased, he stood up and said, "Just do it." ”

Wu Tingfang decided, and when the others were getting up and leaving the study, Xu Shiying said: "What about the land?" ”

"How? Any unconstitutional act will never be tolerated by the Imperial Governor's Mansion, and what my generation has protected in this life is the Constitution! Wu Tingfang said, what he said was decisive, but the others were still uneasy, and Justice Zhu Shen was a little worried, "My lord, aren't we not pleasing on both sides." ”

"A few years ago, I practiced law with Lord Shen, and we didn't like each other." Wu Tingfang recalled: "Lao Naixuan and others said that we have no monarch and no father, in a vain attempt to destroy thousands of years of inheritance in China; The new gentry called us Manchu minions and upheld Manchu rule with the Constitution. But I, Lord Shen, all think that the essence of the Fa is in my own heart, so why bother to please others? Go ahead, and I'll send this file to the Inspectorate myself. ”

"Yes, sir!" Wu Tingfang said this, and there was no other thing to say. In the afternoon of the next day, after Cai Yin, the chief official of Dali Temple in Shanghai, confessed, Xu Xilin, the imperial historian of the Inspectorate, personally took people to Dali Temple.

"You have the right not to speak, and if you do, everything you say will be a testimony in court; You have the right to have a counsellor and may require that a counsellor be present during the interrogation; If you can't afford to hire a lawyer, we'll ......"

After the arrest warrant was presented, the patrol officer recited a large number of inexplicable warnings as usual, and his voice was half perfunctory and half indifferent. Under the eyes of Xu Xilin and Xu Shiying, Yang Yinhang and Wang Chonghui, who were getting together to discuss how to deal with the arrest of Cai Yin in Shanghai, were as pale as earth, they didn't expect that Cai Yin, who had patted his chest and promised to be foolproof, would confess in one day.

"Take off their black gauze hats." Xu Shiying looked at the two Juris Doctors in the United States who were trembling like chaff in front of him, and hated that iron could not become steel.

"Yes, sir!" The bailiff next to him shouted loudly, and the two black gauze hats were immediately removed.

Glancing at the two of them again, Xu Shiying waved his hand weakly and said, "Take it away......"

With the arrest of Cai Yin, Yang Yinhang, and Wang Chonghui, the assassination case that had been settled made waves again, and on the morning when Tao Chengzhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, was about to submit the land reform case to the Inspector's Court, Cai Yuanpei hurriedly ran over.

"Actually, what the hell are you ...... What the hell are you going to do!! Cai Yuanpei's tone was both blame and resentment, he had just learned that Zhang Yuanji had also been taken away by the inspectorate.

"I, I didn't do anything!" Yang Rui guessed what Cai Yuanpei was talking about, but he didn't want to deal with it.

"Haven't done anything yet?" Cai Yuanpei shouted loudly, extremely out of shape, judging from the tooth powder marks on half of the corners of his mouth, he should have suddenly come here while brushing his teeth. "I ask you, why did you arrest Shinosai?!"

Xiao Zhai is Zhang Yuanji's word. Yang Rui said with a smile when he heard this: "I have long said that my country's judiciary is independent, and whoever is arrested will not be arrested. Whoever is judged or not is the matter of the Tingwei Mansion. It has nothing to do with the Prime Minister's Office. Wu Zhihui was acquitted last month, can I say half a word of complaint? It's not just about recognizing the verdict......"

Yang Rui talked unconcernedly. Cai Yuanpei just didn't believe it, he shouted: "If it's not that you, Premier Yang, are dissatisfied, how could this case become like this?" ”

"Brother Xiaomin, you look down on me." Yang Rui shook his head and said: "The Shanghai Patrol Police Station was convicted of improper defense, and the family members of the patrol officers who were sentenced to prison shouted grievances at the gate of the Shanghai Inspectorate every day, this matter is just the disdain of the Shanghai newspapers to report, how can it be said that it is caused by my dissatisfaction?" ”

"You!" Yang Rui's answer was not leaky, and Cai Yuanpei could only stomp his feet angrily, "Brother Xiaozhai will be of great help to me." Without Brother Shinosai, there would be no special class! There is no patriotic society without special classes! Without patriotic students, there would be no Renaissance! How could he, how could he go to jail?! ”

"According to what you said, Brother Xiao Zhai was just arrested, so how can he say that he is in prison? If he has not violated the law, let alone acquittal, I am afraid that it is impossible to even hold a trial, what do you have to worry about? Yang Rui saw that he was so eager, and couldn't help but say more, "Poor people." Don't you think about the fact that our revolution is to create a world in which everyone is equal before the law, but why do you always want to open up the net when you or someone you have a relationship with you defy the law? ”

"Yes. We want to create a world where everyone is equal before the law, but don't forget it, if it wasn't for the friendship in the first place. Friendship between teachers and students, how can you take those forty-four students? At the beginning of the creation of the Liaodong Revival Army. If it weren't for brotherhood and comradeship, how could you have formed a revival army so quickly? Cai Yuanpei counted the past events of the Fuxing Association. The words are sharp, "As long as it is useful before the success of the event, then nothing is taboo, but after the success of the event, but cross the bridge and draw the board, do not remember the old feelings, in the long run, the revival will one day fall apart." Do you really think that everyone in this world is as cold-blooded and ruthless as you? No, I was wrong. You are also merciful, if you are also ruthless, then Cixi will not die. ”

Cixi died at the hands of Cheng Ying, and Cheng Ying was able to kill Cixi because Yang Rui was too dedicated. In Yang Rui's view, the Hangzhou incident was caused by Cai Yuanpei's misjudgment and improper command; But in Cai Yuanpei's view, the root cause of Hangzhou's defeat was Yang Rui's dedication to Cheng Ying, and the rubber stock leak that occurred later was also caused by Cheng Ying's violation of discipline, and as for the North Korea incident some time ago, it was even more so. Although Yang Rui came back safely, but several times made it so that in Cai Yuanpei's view, Yang Rui repeatedly messed up state affairs for this woman, which can be described as favoritism.

Cai Yuanpei's words involved Cheng Ying, which suddenly made Yang Rui as alert as a hedgehog, he was not angry, but said carefully: "If the revival will be condensed because of personal friendship, then I can only say that this is the great misfortune of the revival association and the great misfortune of China." The sooner it dissolves the country, the sooner it will be saved, and the sooner the people will be eliminated, and I will shout long live for this.

Do you know why I keep mentioning my vision in the meeting? It is because I don't want the Revival Association to be an organization made up of personal friendships, and the members are not all young people lured by real profits, but everyone in the Revival Society has a vision of reviving China, knows why they are fighting, and knows who they are sacrificing for.

In the Shanghai assassination case, I was dissatisfied with the outcome of the trial before, but what I did was still within the permission of the law, and it was illegal to record the Shanghai judge Cai Yin, but who let his good friend be in the concession, and he himself is a big mouth, shaking everything out? The play is ruthless, **unrighteous, then**I heard that he accepted a bribe of thousands of taels but only gave himself a few hundred taels, and turned around and sued him to the Inspectorate. Who can blame for this? Blame me?

People have private feelings, but the public does not tolerate selfishness! Didn't you joke before, Lu Bicheng will become my third room in the end? But as long as she is my subordinate, then she will always be my subordinate; Let's look at the reason why any government item has to spend money to print the words 'public property shall not be used for private use', because many officials always move public things to their homes with personal feelings, so they have to print it.

Since the creation of Zhou Li in the Romance of King Wen, in addition to the troubled times of the rise and fall of dynasties, the other thousands of years have paid attention to relatives, especially later when there was a 'doctor who could not be punished', it was even more a disaster for the country and the people. If Wu Zhihui didn't have an old friendship with you, and if Zhang Xiaozhai didn't have an old favor with you, would you be guilty of coming to me early in the morning to shout and scream? Wu Zhihui and Zhang Xiaozhai have you running for them, but if this case doesn't involve me, who will run for those dead guards and patrol police?

Oh! The life of a scholar is precious, but the life of a clay leg is not valuable? Those who know will try their best to rescue, and those who don't know will fall into the well? What kind of country is such a country? And what kind of government is such a government? And what kind of bureaucrat would such a bureaucrat be? If this kind of thinking is not eradicated, then what is the difference between China and the Manchus, and what is the difference between revolution and non-revolution? If these are the results of what we sacrificed and fought for, then who of us would dare to face the martyrs after death? Who dares?! ”

"Good! Hello ......, don't talk about any martyrs, people are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless. I don't believe you didn't bend the law with favoritism. Yang Rui smashed over with a bunch of words, making Cai Yuanpei speechless, and it took him a long time before he spoke back.

"If I really bend the law with favoritism, I will go to the Inspectorate and turn myself in." Yang Rui said.

"Good! Very good! Very good! Cai Yuanpei's face suddenly calmed down, this time he didn't stomp his feet, but floated out of the prime minister's office like the wind, and he couldn't see it for a while.

"Prime Minister, Lord Tao's report over there is about to start, are we ......" After Cai Yuanpei left, after a long time, Li Zilong, who heard the silence in the house, walked in and said softly.

"Good! I see, I'll wash my face and go. Yang Rui replied, got up and walked to the bathroom at the back of the house. But when he was about to go out to the Suspect Academy, Lu Bicheng suddenly appeared, she held a resignation letter, and said a little shyly: "Prime Minister, I want to resign." ”

As soon as he heard Lu Bicheng say that he would resign, Li Zilong went out with a snicker, and Yang Rui realized that it seemed that he had said Lu Bicheng's third room or something when he was excited just now, and his face suddenly turned red when he thought of this, and he was at a loss for Lu Bicheng.

Fortunately, Lu Bicheng kept her head down, she stuffed her resignation into the man's hand, intentionally or unintentionally, and gently swiped her fingers on the man's hand, and she also went flutteringly. After she left, Yang Rui stood for a long time before touching his forehead with his hand, and said to himself: "Am I dying!" I didn't say I was going to marry three rooms! ”

After Yang Rui arrived at the Suspect Courtyard, he entered through the side door. The Inspectorate meets annually in October, November, December and March to discuss and approve government bills and policies for the next year. Although the war with Russia has not yet ended this year, everyone knows that the prime minister is hanging foreigners and wants to get more benefits.

Now that the war has ended, it is most important to determine a long-term national policy, and just now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Xie Zhangtai has just made a report on the diplomatic situation and the war situation in Europe, and now it is Zhang Taiyan who is making a report on the Ministry of Rites. After Yang Rui came in from the side, his speech was suddenly interrupted by sudden applause, and following everyone's gaze, he shook his head strangely when he saw Yang Rui coming in, as if he wanted to say, 'I said who else'.

As Yang Rui sat down, everyone's applause stopped, Zhang Taiyan knew exactly what Yang Rui was talking about, he compressed the report that was originally half an hour into ten minutes, and walked off the rostrum after reading it, in order to let Tao Chengzhang of the Ministry of Agriculture play earlier.

'Smack... Syllable... Syllable... In the sound of the wooden hammer ......, Speaker Yang Du asked the parliamentarians if they had any objections as usual, and this time it was different from before, and the venue was full of voices without objections. After hearing this, he smiled and said: "Then there is a need to invite Master Shangshu Tao of the Ministry of Agriculture to come to the stage to give a lecture on the long-term plan of the Ministry of Agriculture." ”

The members of the Revival Association had long known what Tao Chengzhang was going to say, and they immediately cheered when they heard it. Although these councillors are controlled by organizational discipline like archways, they are still peasants after all, and a large part of them are tenants. Dream-like becoming a member of the imperial court, following Zhu Kuansu to sacrifice to the heavens, these people seem to be reborn, and what they think about is no longer the livelihood of their own family, but the food and clothing of farmers all over the world. Although they may not be able to understand exactly what the land reform is all about and what it will bring, since the organization says that the land reform is a good governance that can feed every family and clothe everyone warmly, why not support it from the bottom of their hearts?

The applause was warm, the atmosphere was blazing, Tao Chengzhang made a gorgeous appearance, and Cai Yuanpei, who was sitting in the corner behind him, had a haze in his eyes. (To be continued......)