Unlike ten years ago, the Commercial Press is no longer a small bookstore in a residential home, but the expansion of the primary and secondary school textbook market brought about by the transfer of the school to the school, and the government's emphasis on education after the founding of the People's Republic of China, have made it change from a small bookstore with an annual sales of tens of thousands of taels to a large company with an annual sales of several million taels. Although there is competition from the traitor Lu Feikui's Zhonghua Book Company, in the end it still relies on the support of Cai Yuanpei of the school department to obtain an absolute advantage in the textbook market.

In the Commercial Press, although Xia Ruifang and others are the founders of the Press, it is Zhang Yuanji of the former dynasty Hanlin who really presides over the overall situation. Although Zhang Yuanji is proficient in printing books, he is more proud of educating people. At that time, the special class of Nanyang College became the Patriotic Society, and the Patriotic Society became the first phase of the South African Military Academy, and finally became many founding generals.

The founding generals were all students of Zhang Yuanji, but Zhang Yuanji's students were not only those founding generals, this time Yang Yinhang and Wang Chonghui, who came to Shanghai to review and supervise the case as the court governor's office, were all his students, and they all went abroad to study abroad because of his guarantee.

In the compilation office of the Commercial Press on Baoshan Road in Zhabei, Zhang Yuanji looked at the two students in civilian clothes in front of him, relieved and a little uneasy at the same time, and only said: "Now you are disciplined as an official, don't say what you shouldn't say." I just want to know if Zhihui has to die? There are also those students who have been arrested, and now the patrol police have arrested hundreds of people, which is a shock to the world! How could the assassination be so widely implicated? This. This, this is clearly the officials below in order to curry favor with the officials. Torture is caused by tricks, otherwise why is Zhu Lian so bad?! ”

Zhang Yuanji was born in Haiyan and Hanlin. is not only white, but also very gentle, but when it comes to the current case, it is really heartbreaking. There are many cases of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the one that is so extensive and deeply involved is the assassination of the prime minister in Shanghai. Although there is now a rumor in the China Times, saying that there is sufficient evidence to prove that the students were involved in the assassination; In the case of the police station, it is said that the students stormed the police station and shot and killed the patrol officer first. It's rhetoric. But few people believed it, Zhang Yuanji was one of them, and he used this issue of Oriental Magazine to refute the news announced by the government.

"Sir,......" Yang Yinhang and Wang Chonghui, who had long known why they were here, saw Zhang Yuanji like this, and couldn't help but want to comfort Zhang Yuanji in unison, but both of them knew the inside story of the case, and they didn't know how to go on after just opening their mouths.

"Hey, you ...... too" Zhang Yuanji looked at the two students who wanted to speak and stopped. Knowing that they had concerns, they were immediately extremely disappointed.

"No, sir." Yang Yinhang saw that his teacher was disappointed, so he had no choice but to tell the truth: "Brother Zhihui's case. He did bring the murderer into the Obscure Society, and asked the people of the Society to bring them into the Tongji University Hall to familiarize themselves with the environment, as well as those students. Sixteen confessed that they had known about the assassination in advance, but they did not know who the assassins had killed at the time; And the police case. It was indeed the students who rushed into the police station, and it was the students who fired the first shots. A dead student and a seriously wounded patrol officer were removed from the body and found that the bullet was not fired from the patrolman's gun......"

Yang Yinhang, a native of Wuxi, was sent to Waseda University in Japan to study the year before entering Nanyang College, and participated in the inspirational meeting, but later concentrated on his studies and did not join any revolutionary organization. He babbled on and on to introduce the case, but Zhang Yuanji frowned when he heard it, and when he said later that the bullet was not fired from the patrol gun, he couldn't help but interrupt: "Mending Tang, could it be so coincidental that even the bullet can be clearly distinguished from which gun?" ”

"Yes, sir." Yang Yinhang said: "The Inspectorate has shown that the bullets fired by each gun will carry traces of rifling in the rifling, and if you put the bullet under the microscope to look closely, the bullet fired by any gun is different, and the rifling imprint of any bullet fired by any gun is the same." The rifling of the rifling of the patrol officer's pistol was recorded, and the bullets of the person who was shot at the scene were taken out by the forensic doctor, and after comparison, the first person to be shot was ......"

"Since those patrolmen can shoot, why don't they just find one and shoot it and throw it away?" Zhang Yuanji listened to the conclusivity of what Yang Yinhang said, and couldn't help but interject again, he didn't ask for evidence, only reasonable.

"Sir, but the patrol has no motive to shoot?" Wang Chonghui next to him said.

"It's not that everyone in Shanghai doesn't know, there is no difference between them and white-faced people and red guys, and sometimes they even work with them to do evil. The students stormed the police station, and the patrolman opened fire in anger. We don't know if each gun has imprints, but the patrol officers know that there are many foreign travelers in Shanghai, so why not buy a gun at will? Zhang Yuanji felt that the two students were too pedantic in the evidence, and had to remind them of the essence of the patrol police in Shanghai, but his impression of the patrol police was still the same as in the past.

"Sir......" It is not impossible for Zhang Yuanji to guess like this, but as professional legal scholars, Yang Yinhang and Wang Chonghui cannot make themselves believe this kind of speculation, but because Zhang Yuanji is a teacher, neither of them can refute it.

Zhang Yuanji also seemed to know and understand their thoughts, so he had no choice but to say: "I asked you to come this time to save people, not only to save Zhihui, but also to save those students who have gone astray." Even if they are guilty, they are all scholars, when will the scholars of all dynasties not be treated preferentially? The laws of this new dynasty are so ruthless, is it even harsher than the previous Qing dynasty? In the past few years, those who made revolutions, even if they committed capital crimes, but they only went astray and did not make a big mistake, and they were finally released; But now? If you grab some so-called evidence, you will sentence hundreds of students to prison, this ......, what kind of thing is this! ”

Zhang Yuanji thought of the difference in law between the old dynasty and the new dynasty, he was very uncomfortable, and he assassinated the prime minister, if it was in the previous dynasty, those students would have been released a long time ago, and Wu Zhihui, a scholar, although there was a mistake, but the big mistake was not made - isn't the prime minister still alive, at most it is a reprimand, after all, he will be pardoned, but now it is good, he died a guard and a patrolman, and he mobilized the people. Hundreds of strains are connected, is this still a post-Ming dynasty? No matter how you look at it, this looks like a violent Qin!

The words of the tyrannical Qin were originally written in an article in the Oriental magazine that criticized the government, and it did not just refer to the assassination of the prime minister. He also refers to the tax collectors of the IRS who show no mercy and squeeze the oil out of the sand. But when the article was typeset and went to print, Zhang Yuanji asked people to change that sentence again. He did this, in addition to knowing that the adults of the new dynasty were extremely honest and self-loving, and also because the new dynasty defeated Japan and recovered Taiwan and Korea.

After Zhang Yuanji drank a big sip of tea to suppress the unevenness, Yang Yinhang said: "Sir." For the sake of today's plan, let's find a few good lawyers for Brother Zhihui and the students, as long as the trial of Dali Temple in Shanghai can win against the prosecutors and prosecutors of the Inspectorate, then they can naturally be saved. ”

"Good!" Finally heard a few useful words, Zhang Yuanji said happily. "Is it enough to find a lawyer?"

"Sir, finding a lawyer is only one thing. The relationship between the Dali Temple, the Inspectorate and the Patrol Police Bureau in Shanghai is extraordinary, and for the sake of justice, the chief officials of the Dali Temple and the Inspectorate should also be replaced. Next to him, Wang Chonghui also suggested. As soon as he said this, he saw Yang Yinhang look at him in surprise. He added: "Lord Xu has already returned to Beijing, and Shanghai is up to you and me, and they can be transferred out of the principle of avoidance." This case, after all, is not a major incident. The prime minister is also safe and sound, as long as the killers are brought to justice. Brother Zhihui is not deeply involved in the world, although he is involved. However, the assassination may not be known, and a light sentence is sufficient; And those students. All of them are reading seeds, intervening in them. It is also caused by young willfulness, who can be right. ”

"Good! Good! Good! Zhang Yuanji said three numbers in a row, he felt that this case really had to be as Wang Chonghui said, that is he could explain, although Wu Zhihui and he did not have a direct relationship, but the relationship can still be involved, the reason why he helped carefully this time was because he was entrusted by the deceased.

Since this is the case, Yang Yinhang and Wang Chonghui discussed one or two more before leaving. The next day, the two sent a telegram to the Tingwei Mansion in Beijing, requesting that Huang Qinglan, the secretary of the Dali Temple in Shanghai, and Chen Ying, the imperial historian of the Shanghai Inspectorate, be transferred out to avoid the assassination and the police station. Yang Yinhang Wang Chonghui is in Shanghai, so he is naturally the most familiar with the inside affairs of Shanghai, and they proposed that the current judicial chief in Shanghai should recuse himself, and there is a reason, but it is only applicable to the case of the police station, not to the case of assassination, but the two cases were filed at the same time, and there is still a connection between them, so this request is not too much. It's just that Wu Tingfang can manage Dali Temple, but he can't manage the Inspectorate, Xu Xilin did not agree to his proposal, but Chen Ying finally resigned by himself, so the final result was that the chief justices in Shanghai were all transferred.

Hundreds of people have been arrested in a series of death lawsuits in Shanghai, and now the chief justice has been replaced. As soon as this news was published in the newspaper, the audience was even more convinced that it was caused by the reckless disregard for human life by the patrol police station, and now the chief officials of the Dali Temple and the Inspectorate have been transferred, and the literate scholars have even decided that it is necessary to be strange, if not, why should they be replaced before the trial.

There was a lot of public opinion in the newspapers, but Yang Rui concentrated on the preparations for the land reform, and did not ask any questions, only waiting for a certain day to arrange the affairs of the provinces, the army, and the peasant associations in various places and then review the matter, the case had already been judged. Hearing Li Zilong's introduction of the results, he was extremely surprised and said: "Wu Zhihui was also acquitted? Didn't it be said before that Sun Wen had found a letter to him, and the letter asked him to assist Zhu Zhixin and others, isn't this ironclad evidence? ”

"Prime Minister, the judge presiding over the case believes that what is said in the letter cannot be verified, because no one has Sun Wen's handwriting, and there is no proof that the assassination was assigned by Sun Wen, so the evidence is invalid." Li Zilong said. He remembered that he had reported the case before, but Yang Rui did not respond.

"Who said that there is no Sun Wen's handwriting, Uncle Mei, Qiu Jin, Song Dunchu, and even Yang Du have Sun Wen's handwriting. What exactly do they mean? Yang Rui suddenly became a little angry, he felt that things were not so simple.

"Prime Minister, the Inspectorate provided these letters, but the judge did not accept them, and the lawyers he hired were also extremely tricky and ......, including the case of the police station, the lawyer was also difficult to deal with, and the Dali Temple in Shanghai did not recognize the theory that the bullet had a fixed rifling, and ruled that the responsibility for the police station case was the patrol police station, and many patrol officers were imprisoned." Li Zilong said.

"It's a fart!" Yang Rui was furious, the rifling theory was recognized all over the world in later generations, and the inspectorate and the police department also communicated with Dali Temple about this and fingerprints, but they didn't want to be regarded as invalid now, how could this be true! "Go and find Zhang Yinge, I want to see him."

Hearing that the prime minister was going to find Zhang Chengyue, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Li Zilong didn't know how to say more: "Prime minister." The case has been tried, and public opinion everywhere has praised it. This is going to overturn the case, I'm afraid? ”

"Am I the Prime Minister or are you the Prime Minister?" Yang Rui looked at him and was angry: "If you want to go and please, please go and please!" ”

"Yes. Premier! Being glared at by Yang Rui, Li Zilong was shocked and had to go out to call. Half an hour later, Zhang Chengyue, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, arrived at the Prime Minister's Office.

"Is there a problem with the patrol police in the case in Shanghai?" Yang Rui looked at this student who was becoming more and more accustomed to silence, and there was an indescribable warmth in his words.

"Sir, the case has been decided. As a result, the Shanghai police station was not convinced, and more than 30 people resigned yesterday alone. Zhang Chengyue said. If you want to say that there is really a problem with this case, such as the Dali Temple said that it is over-defense, then it is really ......" Zhang Chengyue said here is just a sigh, "Sir, Xie Yuan of the Shanghai Police Station, you should remember." This person was patrolling the house of the Ministry of Industry Bureau earlier, and Mr. Xiao Xu was rescued by him back then. I know him as a person, and the police station really has to make mistakes, don't talk about others, and think that he is jealous and hateful. He will say it himself. ”

"Xie Yuan, I know." Yang Rui nodded, when he commanded the great uprising in Shanghai, he had seen this person. "Old comrade, I believe his words. That is, there is a problem with Dali Temple. ”

"It's really a problem." Zhang Chengyue said: "Before the trial. The chief official of the Dali Temple in Shanghai was transferred, and the chief officer of the Inspectorate also said at first that he would be transferred, but Lord Xu was unwilling. In the end, it was Inspector Chen Ying who resigned on his own initiative. After the trial of this case, there are many doubts. But ......"

"But what?" Yang Rui was originally standing with his back to look out the window, but he couldn't listen to him. When even turn around.

"It's that every time the prosecution presents a new piece of evidence, the opposing lawyer's lawyer seems to be prepared, and the answer is not leaky." Zhang Chengyue was silent for a while, and suddenly said the biggest doubt.

"You mean someone leaked it?" Yang Rui's face suddenly sank, and the death case turned into a living case, which made people angry when they thought about it.

"It's possible." Zhang Chengyue said. "Originally, the judiciary was independent, and the Shanghai Security Bureau did not monitor judges, but after the case was decided, there were rumors in the Shanghai teahouse and restaurant that Wu Zhihui was saved because there were people in Beijing."

"This is just the first trial, the lawsuit can be fought again, and I will see what tricks they can play." Yang Rui said.

"Sir, this is the second instance of the case." Zhang Chengyue looked at Yang Rui a little strangely, very strange.

"So the case is closed?" Yang Rui was shocked. It was only then that he remembered that according to the civil law system, criminal trials were concluded in three instances, but after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were limited judges, and for the sake of efficiency, criminal cases were changed to be concluded in the second instance.

"Yes. Mr. Zhang Chengyue said carefully. Now the Shanghai patrol police are not convinced, and it takes a lot of effort for the students to appease their dissatisfaction. ”

After Zhang Chengyue finished speaking, Yang Rui was silent for a long time, he picked up a stack of briefings, threw away the top ones, and finally found the news of the conclusion of the first trial.

Skimming through the briefing in a hurry, Yang Rui threw it away and said extremely calmly: "This matter is not that simple. ”

"Sir, but the case has already been tried, if you act rashly, won't that hinder the independence of the judiciary?" Zhang Chengyue didn't know what Yang Rui was going to do, he knew that Yang Rui liked to drill the horns of the bull many times, paid attention to absolute fairness, and had no good impression of the gentry and the like. Judging from the information he obtained, this case is fundamentally the collusion of the Jiangsu gentry with Dali Temple, which is why there is such a result, otherwise with the evidence held by the patrol police station and the inspectorate, Wu Zhihui cannot be put to death.

"If the Shanghai patrol police have an opinion, you don't want to appease it." Yang Rui took a deep breath of cigarette, and after exhaling it, he suddenly said in the smoke. "Let them make trouble. Why are the patrol officers not human. ”

"Ahh Zhang Chengyue was shocked, "Sir, Shanghai is the expo, the police force everywhere is increasing, if they make trouble, ......"

"The people who come to the expo are all foreigners, and the foreigners are all in the concession, and the patrol police can't hurt anyone if they don't go to work. There are peasant associations in the countryside, and no one can be hurt, and the real place where there is no patrol police will cause chaos is still in the city. Yang Rui swallowed the clouds and spit out his opinions. Let the patrolmen go and make trouble, just control the guns. ”

"Sir, this won't work." The more Zhang Chengyue listened, the more uneasy he became, in the prosperous places of Shanghai, there are a lot of traitors, if the patrol police don't go to work, then it's okay. "Say it again. Since the final judgment has been made, the result must be recognized. Otherwise, who will serve the judgment of Dali Temple in the future? ”

Yang Rui is not afraid, what does it matter to him to die. He was just angry that the gang in the Tingwei Mansion were actually playing tricks under his nose. What judicial independence, fart judicial independence! In this world, as long as there are relationships and old friendships, who can't buy off judges? Eventually, capital sins become living crimes, and guilt becomes innocence. The gentry and bureaucracy are always one, especially the people in the Tingwei Mansion, and the reason why they were able to study law abroad in the first place was because they had money and people. Now, these people are united because of Wu Zhihui's case and because of the police case. Played such a trick.

Yang Rui thought about the overlapping network of these bullshit gentry, his face became more and more gloomy, and his hope that judicial independence and judicial justice would be achieved suddenly collapsed at this time.

"Hey......, go back!" Yang Rui said suddenly. The voice was so lonely that Zhang Chengyue couldn't hear that it was him.

"Sir," seeing Yang Rui like this, Zhang Chengyue was a little worried.

"It's okay, you're right, now that the case has been decided. Then the verdict must be recognized, otherwise how can it be called judicial independence. Yang Rui smiled dumbly, very gaffe, "I was too busy some time ago." I remember that Li Zilong told me about the first trial, but as soon as I heard it, I was interrupted by other things, and I didn't think to pay more attention to this case. ”

"Sir." Zhang Chengyue shook his head a little, the interval between the first and second trials was originally about a month. I don't want this case to be strange for only fifteen days. He didn't think much of it at the time, but it was already the case. It is useless to say more.

"By the way, Li Zilong was also interrupted by me before he finished speaking, how is Wang Zhaoming?" Yang Rui suddenly asked with a smile.

"Huang Fusheng shot and killed the guard and was sentenced to death; Wang Zhaoming, that is, the one who pretended to be a policeman, because he didn't hurt anyone, just indefinitely. Zhang Chengyue said.

"Well, I see, you can go back." Yang Rui said, very calm. However, under this calm, he has no intention of working, and the paperwork sent in from outside was thrown on the table by him, and he did not move.

He actually wanted to go to the Tingwei Mansion to find Wu Tingfang to question, but he believed that with Wu Tingfang's bullish temper and in order to maintain the so-called judicial independence, he would not admit even if he was wrong, and after the final judgment, he could no longer appeal, so what was the use of looking for him?

The anger in his heart grew deeper and deeper, and when he was about to explode, Li Zilong suddenly reported that Yang Du was coming. Yang Du came as agreed, the purpose was for the land reform, thinking of this, Yang Rui suppressed his anger and said, "Please come in." ”

"Yang Du has seen the prime minister." From the beginning of the negotiations with Japan, Yang Du felt that he was getting closer and closer to the center, and the land reform was a major event of the country, and the prime minister calmly invited him, which made him feel that he was more and more valued by Yang Rui, and he was smiling every day.

"Sit down. cough ......" Yang Rui suddenly lost his voice when he spoke, and couldn't help coughing. After Yang Du sat down, he said, "What do you know when you come to you today?" ”

"Yang Du knows, it's a matter of land reform." Yang Du said, "Du found that there is still a loophole in the land reform plan, and Du can just help." ”

"Okay, then you can tell me how to do it." It is indeed effortless to talk to smart people, Yang Rui looked at him with interest.

"Our system is independent of the three governments and does not interfere with each other. The result of the assassination case in Shanghai was very unexpected, but it was deeply praised by the gentry, which means that if the government has something to do, the gentry will sue in court. If the government really wants to issue a land decree, those gentry and landlords will definitely sue the government, and Dali Temple is ...... in the current situation" Yang Du glanced at Yang Rui when he said this, and then said: "Dali Temple will definitely judge this bill unconstitutional." ”

"Well, that's the truth, you go on." Yang Rui nodded, Cen Chi had mentioned this matter before.

"So this road doesn't work, if you really want those people in Dali Temple to have nothing to say, they can only revise the constitution." Yang Du said.

"Looks like everyone has thought of a piece." Yang Rui nodded again, "Then you say, can this constitution be repaired, and if it can be repaired, how should it be repaired?" ”

"We account for more than eighty percent of the people in the Inspectorate, and the land reform only moves the landlords, that is, people with more than 50 acres of cultivated land, and their number is very small, but only a few 3.0 percent. Yang Du said confidently, "The key is how to repair the constitution, this Yang Du has not yet thought about it." (To be continued......)