Chapter Seventy-Six: The Trial

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Zhang Ji, who was still a little frown when he heard the matter, saw that everyone's expressions were gloomy, and he hurriedly said: "Why don't we find a few classmates and rob Uncle Mei and Wei Dan out of the house, so as to save ......."

"Pu Quan, don't mess around!" Ye Han hurriedly interrupted him, "Now Uncle Mei and Wei Dan can survive, all rely on the concession, foreigners want to save face, talk about civilization, and don't want their rights to be taken away, so it's okay, if you make a fuss, then it's ......."

Wu Jun was more mature and said: "It's not okay to do this, it's better to find someone to find out the situation of the editors and reporters of those newspapers first, and then find someone to dredge up to see if there are any familiar newspaper editors and reporters." Then he took out a few silver dollar coupons from his bosom and said, "Xiao Xu, it costs money to find a lawyer and find a solution, so I have a little savings, so I will leave it to you to preside." ”

Wang Jitong hurriedly said that he didn't dare to dare, but Wu Jun grabbed his hand and didn't give in, he had to accept the silver ticket, and several other people also paid money when they saw this, and he had to continue, in fact, he just got a sum of money recently, that is, the edition fee of those mathematics books, Yang Rui asked Mr. Xie of the printing house to negotiate with the Japanese businessmen when he left, and in the middle of the month, Mr. Xie found Zhong Guanguan and said that the Japanese merchants were willing to buy it for 5,000 yen, Yang Rui had explained this matter before, as long as he gave money, he would sell it no matter how much, so he took out Yang Rui's power of attorney to sign on his behalf, The exchange of 15,000 yen into foreign dollars is more than 14,000 yuan, and the exchange of more than 1,800 pounds is ready to be remitted to Yang Rui, but this case will be abandoned as soon as it comes, after all, this lawsuit costs a lot of money.

The people discussed a charter and left. When leaving, Wang Jitong deliberately walked with Zhang Shizhao and asked, "What are you going to do after this matter is over?" ”

Zhang Shizhao was still at a loss from hiding in the case, and sighed and said: "What else can I do, I guess it's better to run a newspaper." But I didn't think about anything else, I just wanted to save Uncle Mei and Wei Dan. This matter is also to blame me, if I had listened to Mr. Chen's words and the article was not so intense, then this matter would not have been like this. At that time, when Zhang Shizhao was just the editor-in-chief of Su Bao, he saw his fierce article boss Chen Fan persuaded him bitterly, but he was young and did not respond for a while, but in the afternoon, Chen Fan seemed to be a different person, and came over to say that he could do whatever he wanted. Later, I inquired and found out that it was Qian Baoren who had spoken to him. This Qian Baoren was originally a gangster in Zhenjiang, and when he came to Shanghai to see the society in Zhang Yuan, he gave a speech and shouted revolution, so he pretended to be Sun Zhongshan, Zhang Taiyan met Sun Zhongshan in Japan, and the people of the school knew his details, and it was not easy to drive him away whenever he came to the stage to talk about revolution, but Chen Fan had never seen Sun Zhongshan, and he was convinced that he was Sun Zhongshan and obeyed his words.

Wang Jitong saw that he still wanted to run a newspaper, and it was not easy to say some things, and the result of the previous discussion was that he unanimously wanted him to join the revival association and then go to Tanzhou to get close to Zhu Changlin's family, but now it seems that he still has to wait a little longer, and he will talk about it later. Wang Jitong still saw this case very thoroughly, and persuaded: "This is not the newspaper's fierce rhetoric, but the "Revolutionary Army" written by Wei Dan has a great influence, plus Uncle Mei's sentence 'Carry the clown, do not distinguish the wheat', this is the Manchurian exclaim, it is because the Qing court can't sit still, and the prison is up, and it is also afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and it is also advertised on it, and it actually invites people who are aspiring to oppose the Qing Dynasty to gather at the Carp Inn, so that the spies of the Qing Court are all over the city looking for the Carp Inn, which is really stupid. ”

As Yang Rui expected, this revival will be on fire, but when it is even more popular, the Carp Inn, there is such an inn in the world that is anti-Qing and the restoration of sight, which is really amazing. So the people in the whole concession seemed to be looking for the apocryphal carp inn, Yang Rui personally taught those little ghosts not to be afraid of getting into trouble, and put an advertisement in several major newspapers that there was no silver three hundred taels here: "The Longmen Inn opened on August 15, and this inn has nothing to do with the carp inn." As soon as the advertisement came out, the world was in an uproar, laughing and laughing, and immediately a newspaper wrote an article with the title of carp jumping over the dragon gate, concluding that the Dragon Gate Inn was a carp inn, and it must be very involved with the revolutionary party, and asked the imperial court to confiscate it. Dare to advertise here, that is, the inn is in the concession, and it is also the owner of the foreigners, if the Qing court confiscates it, it is absolutely unreasonable, so there are only two newspapers to fight, the most beneficial battle is the Longmen Inn, less than a week, even Beijing Hankou and other places know that there is a Longmen Inn in Shanghai with the revolutionary party carp inn "has nothing to do", the inn is still renovated and has not been opened, but there are people staying overnight.

Wang Jitong couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the advertisement of the Dragon Gate Inn, "Why didn't I think of it." ”

Others said differently: "What's wrong with Xiao Xu, what's the matter?" ”

Wang Jitong looked around and said in a low voice: "I thought of the person who created public opinion, I will find it tomorrow." He hurriedly said goodbye to everyone and went to find those little ghosts at the Dragon Gate Inn.

Wang Xiaolin and a few classmates looked at the newspaper and were complacent, since Mr. taught, they had not practiced it in this way, and this public opinion could be manipulated as Mr. taught, for example, the report that questioned that the Dragon Gate Inn was a carp inn was turned around under their design. "As long as this power is used correctly, it will be infinitely powerful." Wang Xiaolin recalled this gentleman's words and agreed very much. Now the facts have completely proved this, as long as you go to a teahouse casually, as long as you talk about this big case, you have to mention the carp and Longmen, a pair of inns that "have nothing to do", as long as you can read the newspaper in the whole world, you know that there are two inns in Shanghai that are the most famous, one is the carp inn, the nest of the revolutionary party, and the other is the Longmen inn, which has nothing to do with the revolutionary party.

Just as he was thinking about how to plan his next newspaper debate, there was a knock on the door. His bed was closest to the door, so he had to get up and open the door, only to see Mr. Wang standing outside, Mr. Wang was a man of few words, and he was a good person, but the mathematics he taught was the most head-starting, he stuck out his tongue in surprise, and hurriedly invited Mr. to come in.

Wang Jitong came in to find a place to sit down, and the students thought he had something to do, so they sat up busily. Wang Jitong waved his hand and asked them not to wear clothes, and said, "You guys hit the advertisement of the Dragon Gate Inn." ”

Wang Xiaolin was taken aback, and he didn't know why Mr. Wang was asking this, but he still said honestly: "Yes, sir." ”

Wang Jitong didn't lie, and said straight to the point: "There is one thing to be handed over to you, if it is done, then a few lives can be saved, if it is not done well, hey...... I don't blame you either. It's just that this world is like this. ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and they didn't know what it was, and finally Wang Xiaolin said in a trembling voice: "Then, please sir, please sir, please make it clear, we will do our best, and we will not be contemptuous!" ”

Wang Jitong nodded and said: "In this prison, the people who were arrested are all friends of the teacher, and now the imperial court wants to extradite these people to Nanjing, and the holy decree has been issued, saying that Ling Chi will be executed." In fact, they didn't do anything, they just wrote something that the people didn't know, everyone didn't dare to say, and the court didn't let them say, and now the foreigners want to be extradited but don't want to be extradited, your teacher telegraphed and asked me to find a way to guide the newspaper's public opinion, I won't, this matter can only be handed over to you. If they had done a good job, they would have been able to save their lives without extradition. I've entrusted it to you here. Wang Jitong, as a revolutionary, expressed deep sympathy for Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong, and stood up and bowed deeply to several students. Wang Xiaolin hurriedly stood aside and didn't dare to accept the salute.

Wang Jitong bowed and left, this night several students of the planning group did not sleep all night, three days later, the major newspapers in Shanghai and the capital began to introduce the punishments of various countries, compared to the most violent in my Qing Dynasty, there are ten tortures in the Manchu Dynasty, this article is just an appetizer, there are more detailed details of my Qing Dynasty's criminal training, for a time the world's newspapers are telling that the imperial court law is too strict, and at the same time advocating the strict civilization of Western law, these newspapers are either in the concession, or it is to state the facts, The Qing court saw that public opinion began to be one-sided, but there was no way to do it, after all, the Qing Dynasty did not have a propaganda department.

Wang Jitong and some people in the society breathed a deep sigh of relief, Zhong Guanguan also brought good news, Rutte also did a lot of work, at least the Germans completely refused to extradite, of course, there are many parliamentarians from other countries within the Ministry of Industry and Bureau who do not approve of the extradition of these criminals, a few days ago without a trial to forcibly close the Su Bao Pavilion made the foreigners very dissatisfied and discussed, and now there are more parliamentarians who think that the extradition of criminals is a compromise with the Qing court, Only the head of Nanyang College, the American Fu Kaisen, agitated that there was no need to offend the Qing court for the sake of these rusty people of the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, under Brown's planning, in addition to the lawyers hired before, the society spent more than 3,000 yuan to invite several well-known trial lawyers in Shanghai to form a lawyer group. In fact, at this time, there were only 19 qualified lawyers in the entire concession, minus those lawyers, there were only seven real trial lawyers, and the Qing court invited two of them, and there were few people left. The slogan of the lawyers' group is very loud, that is, to let some uncivilized people know what civilization is. The English newspapers began to compare the laws of the British Empire with the laws of the Qing Dynasty at length, believing that the legal trial of this case was of epoch-making significance for the progress of Chinese civilization and was an excellent opportunity to show the great civilization of Europe. As soon as this language came out, the Qing court's extradition was suddenly hopeless, so it had to call the Beijing legation. Some of the parliamentarians who were inclined to extradite began to proudly say that in order to show the great European civilization and never compromise with barbarism, the trial must be held in the concession, as well as in prison.

According to the opinion of the lawyers' team, the best way to win this case is for the defendant not to admit guilt, that is, not to admit that the statements in the book and newspaper were written by himself. But when visiting the prison, Zhang Taiyan said that he couldn't accept this, Zou Rong also said that it would not be like this, and Wang Jitong's hard persuasion was useless, Zhang and Zou would not have taken the initiative to go to prison if this was the case.

It was in the midst of this backlash that the first trial began in the public office on July 14.

The prisoners traveled to the public office by carriage, Zhang Taiyan and others each sat next to a British patrol, there were dozens of patrols outside the carriage to protect, and there were patrols stationed at various intersections and alleys, and the whole protection was huge, because the Ministry of Industry Bureau had accurate information that Yuan Shuxun ordered 500 officers and soldiers to take off their uniforms and lurk around the public office, intending to extradite the prisoners and directly rob the rental area, so the Ministry of Industry Bureau was so heavily guarded.

When the prisoner entered the public hall, he stood in the hall, and the Qing court presided over the trial of Wang Yaoting, the magistrate of Shanghai, in order to show his majesty, and first shouted: "Kneel." ”

Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong ignored it, and several other people were about to kneel, but Hahuato, the lawyer group, took the first step to stop them, "Slow!" This is the public concession meeting and trial office, not the yamen of adults, not to mention that kneeling is very uncivilized, and there is no such thing in all countries. Even if they are not allowed to sit, they should be put on trial standing. ”

Wang Yaoting's momentum was taken away, and seeing that it was a foreigner who was not easy to refute, he could only agree. This public office was actually a court in the concession, but unlike the Qing court's yamen, it was originally agreed that if the trial involved foreigners, the consul of the country or the jurors sent by the consul would be tried, and the jurors who only involved Chinese were not allowed to interfere. But this agreement was only a few decades ago, and under the intimidation of foreigners, even the approval of Chinese people was slowly interfered with by foreigners.

At the beginning of the trial, the plaintiff's lawyer, Gu Bai, filed a complaint on behalf of the Qing government and the money for each crime:

"After investigation, this lawyer has clearly examined the reasons for the personal crimes, and the Su Bao and the prisoners in custody deliberately slandered Jinshang, slandered the government, and rebelled," Then, Gu Bai read out the text of the Su Bao Crazy Newspaper accused by the Qing court one by one, and at the same time, Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army" is also the focus of the lawsuit, and the rebellious content of the accusation was too much for a while, and the lawyer Gu Bai read it for an hour to finish reading, these contents were very rebellious, and the Qing Dynasty people who were watching the trial were excited to listen to them - I have never seen such an arrogant anti-thief, Zhang Taiyan's sentence" Zai Xiang (Guangxu) clown does not distinguish wheat", Zou Rong's "exterminate the Manchurian species", and Yang Rui's purpose of the revival association "armed revolution, oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty" caused an uproar in the whole hall, and the presiding judge Wang Yaoting was even more shocked, shouting "Quiet, quiet." ”