The students who burned the newspaper hall were actually arrested, and of course Hu Shi, a professor of Yan University who was admired by progressive students, was to be rescued, but the suspicion academy was about to vote, and the lack of student cheering would hinder the previous plan. In the end, after weighing up, Hu Shi asked the students who came with him to take most of the students to the Suspect Academy, and he went to Tangzi Hutong to save people.

Tangzi Hutong is just south of Luomashi Street, between Caishikou and Hufang Bridge, just sandwiched by Guozi Lane and Fanfang Liuli Street, two north-south streets. Hu Shi was surrounded by more than a dozen students and came in from the side of Liuli Street in the Fan Fang, and when he arrived at the place, he saw a few men holding guns at the mouth of the alley. These people are three or five thick, wearing old felt hats, blue coats, bloomers, and a white towel around their necks.

Smiling and glancing at these men, Hu Shi wanted to wait for them to ask, but these people ignored him. He had to cough a little, and said, "May I ask you about this ......?" He suddenly felt that he didn't know how to say hello, and finally had to pretend not to know: "May I ask how many students you can see despicable?" ”

"Contemptible? Hehe......" a man laughed maliciously, "Oh, it turns out that you, the old bastard, instructed those little bastards to burn the newspaper hall, didn't you?" He said here, but he said, "Brothers, the master is here, tie him up!" ”

"You guys! How can you ......" When Hu Shi heard that they were actually going to tie up people, his face immediately changed greatly. At this time, the students who came with him also volunteered to stand up, and the first one shouted: "How can you arrest people casually? ”

The students wanted to theorize, but the reckless man was in charge of so much. Last time the newspaper was burned. The lower half of the alley affected the pond fish, and the arsonist was caught. But the problem is that these people -- the students who go to church schools -- may not be able to afford to pay the money, and they don't have insurance. Fortunately, Lu Hongkui, the owner of the newspaper hall, had a conscience attack and helped everyone with some money (in fact, he was happy to get the four-character comment of Mr. Hexagram teller', "the more you burn, the more prosperous"), this matter can be regarded as barely over. This time, the students came to burn the newspaper hall again, and of course the residents in the alley were resentful, and whoever wanted to catch the students and come to the teacher, then they had to be tied up. So, more than a dozen students didn't stop these men, Hu Shi dragged them out of the wheelchair like a dog, and locked up with the previous students.

"Appropriate ......for him" In the Huzhou Guild Hall, Weng Wenhao, who was hiding from the Japanese ambassador, heard Wu Jingchao say that Hu Shi had been arrested. After understanding what happened, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed. The matter in the morning is very critical, how can Hu Shi do bad things for a few students!

"Prime Minister, let's take a few patrol officers first." Wu Jingchao suggested. To deal with the rough people in the market, you can only borrow the official skin of the government, but now that the patrol police are not out of the police, they have to let Zhu Jiahua, who is in charge of the national patrol police, go in person.

"No way!" Weng Wenhao shook his head resolutely, "It's a critical time for the Inspector's Academy, what if you can't get through?" You have to watch first. Just wait for the right side, those people are just kidnapping people, not beating people. Weng Wenhao cared about the proposal of the Doubting Institute, and Wu Jingchao had to put this matter down. The heart drifted to the Mystery House with Weng Wenhao.

Wang Jitong, who was bored with the discussion, always felt that something was wrong when he came to the Academy in the morning, and the back half of the palace had already been blocked by students, and Di'anmen Avenue and Dong'anmen Avenue were ......, and wherever students could enter. They are all occupied by them. In the House of Doubts, as soon as Speaker Wu Jinglian announced the start of the discussion, as soon as the KMT members banged the table and clamored for an immediate vote. Otherwise, as soon as the Japanese government declares war, it will fall into the land of China's catastrophe from which it will never recover.

Before Yang Wuming flew to Tokyo in a hurry, Yang Rui discussed with him the secret leak of the mixed yuan bomb, and later Yang Wuming's telegram from Tokyo also indicated that the purpose of rushing there had been achieved -- the Japanese government would choose to ask the League of Nations to mediate rather than declare war on the United States. The Kuomintang obviously wanted to use this to intimidate the gentry who were afraid of war and kept money like their lives. in order to achieve the goal of withdrawing from the alliance......

Wang Jitong, who was sitting on the seat of the Li Fan Academy, thought about the joints, and thought that Yang Rui would change his main intention to land on the North American continent. The time of panic always passed quickly, and when the secretary reminded him, Wu Jinglian, the speaker of the House of Doubts, was already hammering a wooden hammer and asking if anyone else was speaking.

Subconsciously, Wang Jitong raised his hand, but he regretted it as soon as he lifted it. After a long time in the Inspector's Academy, he had already seen through the disgusting face of the representative of Guannei, and perhaps he was just thinking about what Yang Rui said, giving them some bloody lessons to make him completely alert.

"I ......" Wang Jitong paused when he said a word into the microphone on the seat, and after a half-loud hesitation, he still kindly reminded: "Everyone, it's already eight o'clock now, and it is said that the speech of the Japanese emperor has ended, but why has no one notified here?" ”

Wang Jitong did not say whether to withdraw from the alliance or not, but only said that the Japanese side had already made a decision, and these words blew through the entire hall of suspicion like a phoenix, and the deputies began to chatter again. "That's right, it is said that the Japanese emperor has finished speaking, but why is there no news yet...... one person said, and then a hundred people said, seeing that the scene became chaotic again, Speaker Wu Jinglian immediately pounded the table and asked the orderly: "Why hasn't the news from Japan come yet?" ”

"Speaker: We can't hear from us!" It was the head of the communications office who was being asked, and he was hurrying down from the communications room to report the matter. "The electricity has not been working since the morning, and I called the power supply bureau and said that the line is fine......"

"!" Wu Jinglian pointed to the overhead light with a wooden stick, "Isn't this electricity?" Why can't you get electricity?! ”

"My lord, this is just two kinds of electricity, our radio is a super high-power radio, it needs three-phase electricity to use, and now there is still a lack of one-phase ......" The director of communications defended, and he randomly said shocking news: "My lord, our emergency generator is also broken, and the phone can't be answered......"

"Go down." Hearing that the emergency generator was also broken down and the phone was even more inaccessible, Wu Jinglian immediately knew the situation.

"Speaker, I see the ...... of this debate, and from yesterday afternoon to today, the meaning of the deputies is clear. At present, it is not important what choice Japan makes, the key is what we choose for ourselves is the most important thing. Roger, the representative of Hunan nationality, suddenly stood up and spoke. As soon as he said it, he echoed it on the spot.

"Yes. The key is what we choose, not what Japan chooses. Tao Baolin, editor-in-chief of Oriental Magazine, echoed the second speech. Tensions in the Pacific today. Because of the East Asia Alliance Treaty, if you want to eliminate the war, you should vote to withdraw from this alliance, so as to ensure the peace of the people. ”

"You are traitors!" A Mongol stood up at the seat of the Lifan Yuan and spoke as the representative of Inner Mongolia, Obo Katai. He actually carried a horsewhip, and when he spoke, the horsewhip was whipped on the table, and the momentum was very terrifying. "Immortal Heaven will bring disaster to us!"

"Silence! Quiet! "This time it was Wang Jitong knocking on the table, and Obo Gatai was right, but he did not follow the speaking procedure.

Obo Gatai still wanted to speak. Hearing Wang Ji knock on the table, he had no choice but to sit down, but he was still not angry, he whipped his horsewhip, ripped off his official robe, and let out a big breath on the seat shirtless. Tao Baolin just sneered contemptuously when he saw him like this, there are rules for speaking in the Inspector's Court, those Mongolians who kill people and drink alcohol are no one can compare, but they can talk through loopholes. How can it be compared to the Han people. He thought so in his heart, but his mouth tightened: "I once again ask the two speakers to announce the start of voting. Whether Japan will go to war with Japan or withdraw from the alliance to eliminate the scourge of war is a matter of justice in the hearts of the deputies. ”

The debate began yesterday afternoon. Today was supposed to be a vote, although I may be able to wait for news from Japan, but it is ....... Thinking of this, Speaker Wu Jinglian looked at Wang Jitong. I don't want Wang Jitong to be looking at him, and his eyes are staggered after informing each other's hearts. Wu Jinglian knocked on the table and said, "Now, I announce." Voting on withdrawal from the East Asian Alliance began. ”

Before Wu Jinglian's words fell, the Kuomintang congressmen got up and went to the ballot box to vote. Roger, who took the lead, had to stop when he put the ticket down, and the reporter who was present took a picture of him before smiling and putting the ticket down. The Kuomintang delegates voted for the Kuomintang, followed by the Kuomintang representatives, and the two sides together had only 138 votes, but because they rushed to vote first, the number of votes in favor of withdrawing from the alliance remained high, and when the delegates of the Renaissance Society voted, the number of votes against withdrawing from the alliance slowly rose.

However, the Revival Society at this time was not the Revival Society of more than 10 years ago, and although it was an organization, there were great differences among the representatives of the Revival Society on the issue of whether to fight or not to fight. To fight a war, it is necessary to raise taxes, which is the most basic, and to fight a war, it is necessary to conscript soldiers -- according to the Chinese military system, it is not the poor who are conscripted, those people are not qualified to serve as soldiers, and it is the children of propertied families who really go to war. Not only do you have to donate your life, who likes to do this thing, anyway, it means that the old man doesn't do it.

By the time Wang Ji and others stood up to vote, the number of votes in favor had risen to 415 -- almost the vast majority of the delegates in Guannai were in favor of withdrawing from the East Asia Alliance, but he was still unfazed in his heart. In accordance with the principle that a two-thirds majority is required for major proposals, this is clearly not enough. The current session of the Court of Inspectors has 630 deputies, and if the motion is to be passed, it must have 420 votes in favor, but now there are only 415 votes, and there are still five votes short.

"Fortunately, there is no shame." Wang Jitong muttered quietly when he stepped forward to vote, but when he returned to his seat, he saw Yu Ziyi's expression change greatly, and when he saw Wang Jitong coming back, he said in a low voice: "Mr. Xiao Xu, we don't have enough people!" ”

"Not enough?!" Following Yu Ziyi's gaze, Wang Jitong looked at the last row on the left - although the representative left the table to vote, the table lamp on the seat should be on, but there were several table lamps over there that were not on, which was obviously because no one came.

"How many are there?" Wang Jitong asked with a calm face, he didn't know what was going on.

"Probably ...... Eighteen did not arrive. Yu Ziyi carefully counted the audience just now, and a total of eighteen table lamps were not lit.

"So many people!" Wang Jitong was surprised, it was not uncommon to oversleep, but yesterday he clearly told everyone to arrive earlier, but these eighteen people turned a deaf ear.

"Mr. Xiao Xu, it's okay if the others don't come, but it's impossible for Mr. Gu Hongming not to come!" Yu Ziyi said that Gu Hongming, an English professor at Peking University who was selected for two terms as a representative of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, although this person does not like to hold meetings, but he always arrives on time, and it is really strange that he does not come. Although it was strange, after a while, the two suddenly remembered something, so they said in unison: "Those students! ”

"It must have been the students who stopped them." Yu Ziyi said. "When I came in the morning, I thought it was strange, it turned out to be like this. Sir, what shall we do? ”

"What else can I do? I can only call the hospital police to pull people in. Wang Jitong finally got a little moved. He then knocked on the wooden crumble and said, "Delegates. You must have seen the students outside the palace walls before you came, but now there are many representatives of the Revival Society, especially those of the Rifan Academy, who are blocked by the students and cannot be admitted to the hospital. ”

Everything is calculated. Seeing that Wang Jitong was trying to expose the students outside at this time, it was Liang Qichao, the leader of the National Party, who stood up and spoke. After obtaining permission from Speaker Wu Jinglian, he spoke: "Mr. Xiao Xu. What if these delegates don't come on their own? We can't wait until tomorrow to announce the results of the vote, can we?! I would like to propose that the Assembly make an exceptional wait of 15 minutes, and if the late delegates do not arrive after 15 minutes, the result of the ballot will be announced. ”

"That's right! You can't wait until tomorrow. What about the vote after that? Voting every day? Some of the delegates cheered.

"Ren Gong is confused! There has never been such a precedent in the Inspectorate, how can there be a wait of fifteen minutes, I don't think there is a need to wait for a minute. Another man said in a loud voice, and he said that he did it and then echoed it.

"Silence!" Seeing that the scene was chaotic again, Wu Jinglian, the speaker of the parliament, had to bang vigorously on the table, and only after the scene calmed down did he speak: "There is no precedent for waiting for late delegates. However, this time there was an exception, and you must have seen the students blocking the door when you came, so I suggest that the hospital police be sent to each gate to keep the road in and out clear. ”

"Speaker: It's one thing to send the police to maintain order, but we can't just wait, can we? There has never been a precedent for the Inspectorate to wait for a sluggish representative, and how to vote after this column opens, everyone said that their own people have not arrived, and it will drag on endlessly......" It was Zhang Junmai of the National Party who spoke, and he and his teacher had no different opinions, and they just wanted to seize the opportunity to announce the voting results immediately.

"Alright. Just fifteen minutes! Wang Jitong, who was sitting on the other side, shouted loudly, he really had the resentment of breaking the jar at this time - it didn't matter how many delegates were late, but what he didn't expect was that they actually played tricks.

Wu Jinglian was originally going to fight for thirty minutes, but Wang Jitong spoke there. He chimed in, "Fifteen minutes, then." The clock will start now, and the result of the vote will be announced in fifteen minutes. ”

From Di'an Gate, Dong'an Gate on both sides, Xi'an Gate is also good. Any of the three entrances and exits of the Inspectorate is more than one kilometer away. The Forbidden City can only be walked, not driven, and the terrain of Jingshan is high. The road is beautiful and tortuous, and even if it is a run, this kilometer is more than a road. With the legs and feet of those old and frail representatives, they can't run for fifteen minutes. But the police were under the command of the two councilors, and they ran to the nearest Dong'anmen Gate like the wind, and sure enough, the cars of several representatives of Gu Hongming were blocked by the tide of students, and the cars with nameplates seemed to be reefs in the angry sea, constantly being slapped by the waves.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! "The police at the head knew they had chosen the right path when they saw the driver, but unfortunately they didn't have bayonets but batons. When the students saw them coming, they gathered around them, shouting 'Defend the peace'!

"Let's ...... Open! A tall police officer pushed the student through a crack and stuck himself in the gap to let his colleagues through. It's just that the further you go, the more students there are, and there are a bunch of people around the car that the representative is riding, and the car can't open at all.

"Students, you can't let them go!" A voice shouted, and people crowded into the car at the same time, preventing the people inside from opening the door. This is true for one student, and even more so for other students, and there is nothing that can be done by a dozen police officers to take these students.

"The window ......," Gu Hongming in the car anxiously knocked on the windshield. From 7:50 a.m., he was blocked by the students - apparently, the students knew who was in the car by looking at the nameplate outside the bus, and they knew where he was. Before, he wanted to reason with these students, but then he could only get angry and blow his beard. Now, as soon as he asked the driver to open some windows to speak, the students squeezed their hands in.

The representatives of the adults ordered to smash the car windows, and the hospital police had nothing to hesitate, and the two hospital police officers immediately jumped on the front cover of the car and smashed the windshield with batons. The cars, especially the cars of the representatives of the Inspector's Institute, are all high-end goods worth thousands of dollars, and the students only thought of blocking them before, but they didn't expect the hospital police to smash them. When they wanted to step forward to stop them, the hospital police stopped them from standing under the car, and finally had to helplessly watch them smash the glass. Soon, within a few smashes of the windshield, it shattered with a 'bang', and the glass foam splashed all over the ground.

"Quick! Block! Gu Hongming's official hat has been dropped, but he doesn't care about this, he just wants to go to the Suspicion Institute to vote immediately.

"Don't let Gu Hongming run away!" Seeing that the people who have been blocked for a long time want to run. The students became agitated again, and stopping the car turned into arresting.

Inside the Auditory Hospital. The table clock at the lowest point in the middle is ticking, a minute passes, two minutes pass. After 14 minutes, the Kuomintang and Kuomintang people, who had been a little worried, finally breathed a sigh -- the number of votes in favor was 415, and the number of delegates present was 612, and as long as no more than nine representatives of the Revival Society arrived, they would have won.

Liang Qichao looked out of the door and looked at the clock, and when he was about to be relieved, a shout came, and the first six representatives to get out of trouble were carried by the hospital police and ran over.

"Teacher!" Zhang Junmai, who was beside Liang Qichao, was very uneasy when he saw this, if six can come, it means that ten can also come.

"Don't worry. We won. Liang Qichao's position was close to the central aisle of the Suspect's Courtyard, and he could see the road facing the door, and there was no one on the road at this time.

"Speaker, the time has come." Liang Qichao smiled, and Roger, the representative of Hunan nationality, stood up to speak again, and there was still five seconds left.

Glaring at Roger and then at the table clock, Wu Jinglian's hand holding the hammer hesitated, but it still struck it when the second reached twelve o'clock. "The result of the vote is now declared ......"

As soon as his voice fell, the clerk who had already known the result said with some smugness: "The result of the vote on the proposal to withdraw from the East Asian Alliance ......." There were 415 votes in favour, 183 votes against and 20 abstentions. More than two-thirds of the votes cast in this vote, namely. The proposal was adopted......"

The more the clerk talked about the end, the more unpleasant it became, and Gu Hongming, who had just entered the Detective Institute at this time, and was only wearing half an official robe, barefoot, and loose braids, felt even more uncomfortable. He. Even the prime ministers and ambassadors of various countries must be polite and polite when they see him. But today, he was blocked by the students outside the Suspect Institute for an hour; And when he came in, the student not only tore his official robe, but also lost his official boots, and almost tore off his braids...... The Registrar said that the proposal had been adopted. The Suspect Courtyard was full of cheers, but the appearance of Gu Hongming choked the voices of these shouters.

"Mr. Gu......" Looking at Gu Hongming, who was not clothed, Wu Jinglian hurriedly got down from his seat and helped him stumble forward. But Gu Hongming obviously doesn't want to go to his place, he just wants to talk, he just wants to vent, he just wants to scold.

"More than 26 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people's livelihood, economy, national situation, everywhere are better than my Qing Dynasty, I, the remnants of the former Qing Dynasty, have to admire this country, and I feel that the revolution of the Renaissance Society was indeed right, but today I know. This big country, this big East Asian state, in addition to having more money and more people, is still not as good as my Qing Dynasty after all! ”

Gu Hongming's last sentence was loud, which made him cough violently, but it was this cough and this unclothed appearance that made everyone forget to coax.

"I would never do this kind of betrayal of friends and seek glory, let alone ......" He lifted up the half of the official robe that was still hanging on his chest: "I will not stop a dignified representative of the National Assembly by such a subordinate means!" What is it? What is this doing? If you dare to instigate the students to stop the deputies and prevent them from coming in to vote today, will the deputies be disobedient and unagreeable in the future, and let these students be dragged out and shot like the butcher Cai Yuanpei did back then? Shameless! It's shameless! I, Gu Hongming, have never seen such a shameless method!

I would like to ask those behind the scenes: Is it the more than 600 representatives of the Inspectorate here in this country who are in charge, or the thousands of students outside? If the students are in charge, then please go back and give them this academy of doubts, and they can vote as they like; If we, the elected representatives, call the shots, then don't do this!

Those who commit many acts of injustice will kill themselves, and those who play with fire will burn themselves. This is an ancient admonition, so let's do it. ”

After Gu Hongming finished speaking, he walked out barefoot and naked, not caring about the reporters who were constantly taking pictures of him and Wu Jinglian, who didn't listen to him. When he had finished speaking, the twelve delegates who arrived later turned blue with anger - the clerk signaled that their votes were invalid.

"Guys, sit down." Wang Jitong persuaded them loudly, and his heart was like water at this time. The KMT's method of instigating students to stop opposing legislators was very inferior, but the crux of the matter was that they were able to get more than 400 votes. It is not important whether or not to withdraw from the East Asian Alliance, but what is important is that almost all the representatives in the customs are on their side, except for Shanxi and Guangdong.

'How can the people of our country learn a lesson if the bomb does not fall on their heads and does not shed blood?' Yang Rui's words that day echoed in Wang Jitong's ears again, and he sighed, he really guessed everything! (To be continued.) )