The Yan Dabei Mansion is brightly lit. The patrol police suddenly broke into the campus to arrest students and seriously injured a female student. At this time, it was twelve o'clock in the night, and the other professors had arrived, but Hu Shi had not arrived—he called his house and said that he had gone to a friend's place to play cards, and then called his friend and said that he had gone out to drink, and no one knew that he was there.

In the auditorium of Pei Gonglou, Lu Zhiwei briefly briefed him on the situation, and Gu Jiegang, a professor of the Department of History, was the first to speak: "The patrol police searched for students at night and injured a female student who had nothing to do with this matter, no matter what reason they had, they should protest." Yan Daben is a place of study and freedom, and the authorities are like this, which ...... This ......, gentlemen, the capital is so big that it can't put a calm desk anymore! Gu Jiegang's last sentence made everyone nod deeply, and he himself said quite proudly: "Yes! We must protest to the authorities and ask them to immediately release the arrested students and stop this ********! Wu Mi, a professor at the Faculty of Arts, also said. Originally, Hu Shi should have been present at this time, but Hu Shi was ......, and the others didn't know where Hu Shi was, but he knew that Hu Shi should drink flower wine in Bada Hutong at this time, and his two old friends were in Rouge Hutong.

"The current international situation is unpredictable, and the Imperial Daily is a nonsense report, and I am worried that this matter is deliberately done by someone in order to sow discord between China and the United States, especially when the negotiations in Washington are frustrated." Xiao Gongquan, a professor of political science, lifted his glasses and said such an assumption. "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure this matter has something to do with the Japanese, who are constantly trying to sabotage the negotiations in Washington. The burning of the Reichsette newspaper office and the beating of the editor must have been a conspiracy by them and certain people in the authorities!

Come to think of it, there was just an accident in the Imperial Daily at twelve o'clock at noon. At night...... At nine or ten o'clock in the evening, I went to Yanda to arrest people, and I caught one by one. Let's just say that the students of Yan University did it, how can things be so coincidental?! Solve the case so quickly?! The theft of the Forbidden City the year before last has not been solved until now, but this time it is good, the case was solved in nine hours, more than nine hours......"

After all, he studied politics, and Xiao Gongquan's assumptions made everyone in the council think deeply, but at the same time, the American professor Shadik said: "Gentlemen, I want to know if those police officers have arrest warrants and search warrants?" ”

Professor Yang's thoughts were different from those of Chinese professors, and Lu Zhiwei groaned. "Yes." While they were searching, I went to Caizilou in person, and the sergeant who led the team showed me the arrest warrant and search warrant from the Inspectorate. ”

"So......" Shedik shrugged his shoulders, "I think things are very clear, they have arrest warrants and search warrants approved by prosecutors, which is a legal act, and we should hire lawyers for the seven students who were arrested." ”

"Professor......" Seeing that foreigners were so naïve, Xiao Gongquan couldn't help but stand up, and he said loudly: "Things are definitely not so simple!" This must be a conspiracy! You don't understand the Chinese thing. This is obviously ********!! ”

"So how do we prove it?" Xie Dik spread his hands, and his blue eyes looked at Xiao Gongquan very seriously, in his opinion, the matter was very simple, the student was suspected of burning a report. Then they were arrested by the police, who were armed with arrest warrants and search warrants approved by prosecutors.

"Conspiracy cannot be proven, it can only be imagined." Wu Mi patted the excited Xiao Gongquan. Let him sit down. At the same time, the harmony explained to Shedik: "In China, what things show is completely different from what is actually done. We and the United States are negotiating. But the Japanese are against us negotiating with the United States, so they want to cause sabotage. Everyone knows that Yan University is an American-run school. This incident is a conspiracy to undermine Sino-US relations, creating public opinion by framing students for burning down newspapers. ”

"This is really complicated...... Xie Dike looked at Wu Mi, and then at the acting principal Lu Zhiwei, seeing that everyone seemed to agree with this point of view, he had to put down his outstretched hands helplessly, and asked, "Then what should we do?" ”

"We should protest! Professor. Xiao Gongquan sat down and stood up again, his face full of resentment, "We want to unite all schools in the country to protest against the authorities, expose their conspiracy, and stop their persecution." ”

"Sir......" Xiao Gongquan was excited, and Lu Zhiwei's secretary suddenly appeared at the door, "Sir, Minister Zhaoxian is here." ”

Zhaoxian is Jiang Menglin, the secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Culture of the new cabinet, and Guo Bingwen is a squire. Within the liberal faction, the term Shangshu Shilang is a representative of backward feudalism, so everyone calls him a minister. Lu Zhiwei immediately left everyone and went out to greet the guests, but when he walked to the hall, he saw Jiang Menglin in pajamas, obviously, he came urgently.

walked to Lu Zhiwei's office and closed the door before Jiang Menglin spoke: "Brother Zhiwei, there is one thing you have to know, that is, the injured female student died on the way to the hospital. ”

"What?!" Lu Zhiwei originally thought that Jiang Menglin was here to help discuss countermeasures, but he didn't want to tell himself bad news. "Is this true?! Just like that, they were ...... Those...... Those ......" Lu Zhiwei trembled, and he choked for a moment before saying, "...... Did they kill you? ”

"Before I came, I called the Jingshi Police Department, and the general situation was that the deceased was the girlfriend of the first offender Wang Huazhi...... which should have been known after the police department's interrogation. At that time, the deceased saw that the patrol officers were about to enter the Caizi Building to arrest people, and she had just come out of Wang Hua's place to help the injured treat his wounds, so it was judged that these patrol officers were here to arrest her boyfriend Wang Huazhi. So when she got out of the building, she turned back to report the news, and at the same time closed the door to try to prevent the patrol from entering. In a collision with the patrolman, she accidentally hit the fire extinguisher box, so ......"

Jiang Menglin said the matter in a deep voice, but Lu Zhiwei, who was in shock and anger, didn't have the heart to listen to what was going on, he only knew: The patrol police killed an innocent schoolgirl! It took him a moment to come back to his senses and ask, "What's the name of the patrolman who killed her?" ”

"I don't know. I only heard that the patrol captain who led the team into the school to arrest people was called Du Kill, a native of Liaodong, who had been transferred from the Fuxing Army, and his background was very hard. Seventeen years ago, when the patrol police entered Yan University and closed the school, it was he who shot and wounded a female student in public. Jiang Menglin briefly introduced this person to Lu Zhiwei. He added: "I asked, if the situation is really what the Patrol Police Department said." The schoolgirl held up against the gate to prevent the patrol from entering, but he was still not responsible. At most, it will be a demotion, maybe not even a demotion. ”

'Bang! With a loud bang, Lu Zhiwei's hand suddenly slammed on the table, tea splashed, and he shouted: "Could it be that my student died in vain like this?!" How old is she! How old is she?! How can they be so vicious! How could they be so vicious!! ”

"Brother Zhiwei, calm down, people can't be resurrected after death......" Seeing that Lu Zhiwei was excited, Jiang Menglin persuaded, "The student burned the newspaper and injured the editor has a great impact. It is likely to provoke some people's actions, but this is a critical period of Sino-US negotiations, and the prime minister means that if you can bear it, you can bear with it first! ”

"I can't take it anymore!!" Lu Zhiwei turned his back angrily, and waved his hand full of anger sharply, "I can't watch my students being beaten to death and be indifferent!" I don't care how hard his background is, the murderer pays for his life, even if Yang actually gets married! ”

"Zhiwei!" Lu Zhiwei's attitude made Jiang Menglin very dissatisfied, and he was also a member of the Brotherhood in the United States. At this time, he wanted to do a bad thing for a female student who obstructed official business, and he had to say clearly: "The matter of students burning the newspaper library can be big or small!" It's an extraordinary time again, and it's not good for us to make a big deal out of it. Instead, it would give the Conservatives an excuse: Look, don't you want free speech? Now that you've burned down the Imperial Daily, how can you still talk about freedom of speech......"

"Fart! Shouldn't the Imperial Daily burn?!! Lu Zhiwei was already mad at this time, and the thoughts that he usually hid in his heart suddenly burst out. He turned around and danced his arms as hard as he fought, "The Imperial Daily should have been burned a long time ago!" This kind of propaganda superstition, monopoly. systematic, feudal newspaper of the foolish people. It should have been burned a long time ago! It's a pity that last year we burned only newspapers. What is it advocating now? Advocate that China and the United States must fight! Advocate a New Crusade! Advocate that Trinity Christians should guard against Christian conspiracy and be enemies of Christians! This kind of rhetoric is fascism! It should be burned! If it was really Wang Huazhi, they did it. They didn't do it at all, they couldn't have done it right! ”

"Zhiwei, don't talk crazy! Newspapers in the United States also preach **** and say that they should beware of the conspiracy of the yellow race, but which newspaper in the United States has been burned? Seeing Lu Zhiwei like this, Jiang Menglin, who was afraid of making a big incident, had to refute.

"You know it's America!!" Lu Zhiwei said louder, "It is a country of freedom, a country of democracy, and a country of civilization. What are we here? What's there? There is only an infinite number of specializations. System! There is only endless ignorance! There are only endless superstitions! I can't wait for the U.S. army to come tomorrow! I wish they would occupy Beijing sooner rather than later! The sooner they win, the sooner we will be liberated! Become a truly free person sooner rather than later! Don't you think so? Don't the brothers all think so? What was our original ideal? What is the purpose? Isn't it all about coming sooner?! ”

"But this requires strategy!" Jiang Menglin was also angry by what he said, and he felt that he was all wronged. "We have a civilization of 4,000 years, how can we abandon it all and embrace a new civilization? Don't talk about the revival society, don't talk about the clans, just talk about the people. Will the people support us? Will they approve of us? Take Japan as an example, Japan still uses the old calendar and celebrates the old festivals, but it has been 60 years since the restoration, how many more years have we been renewing......"

"Then why don't you say India? Why not say the Philippines? For the people who do not believe in democracy and are ignorant to the bones, it is completely possible to use bayonets and force to make them obedient. Is it ......?" Lu Zhiwei retorted. The topic of the two gradually fell into a long-standing debate within the fraternity. Namely: the theory of revolution and the theory of reform.

The former's view is that under the current situation, China will never be able to achieve democracy. Because the feudal conservative forces are gradually growing, they will stifle the germ of all democracy, and will make China forever authoritarian. The kingdom of ignorance. This view is dominated by members who have been converted to Christ and baptized. As Christians, they can feel that the number of Catholics is dwindling and that the missionary work is being suppressed. As a countermeasure, they believe that a real revolution should be launched in China, that is, agitation. With the help of international pressure, the government was forced to abolish the state religion, rewrite the constitution, abandon feudalism, and promote democracy.

The latter's views are obviously more pragmatic and rational, or rather they are not as fanatical as the members of the congregation. Their view is that China's affairs are by no means something that can be solved by their own generation, and what they can do is to preserve the flame of democracy and participate in the discussion of politics through residual participation. to retreat as advance, twists and turns to change the atmosphere of ignorance and superstition in the country; It is believed that being too drastic will inevitably lead to a counterattack from conservative forces, especially from the Kanwai Honorable Clan.

Neither of the two factions could convince anyone. However, after the failure of the London naval talks last year and the increasing tension between China and the United States, there have been new changes between the two sides. The former believed that it should be surrendered to the United States. The best way for the United States to help China achieve democracy as thoroughly as it did with the occupation of the Philippines, while the latter believes that surrender will arouse the resentment of the whole country and provoke popular resistance, and the best way is to use the enormous pressure exerted by the United States to gradually force the transition to democracy at home.

Originally, the two sides should have converged at this time, but the revolutionaries were still dissatisfied, believing that this alone could not see the realization of democracy. At this time, the most important thing to do is to cause a major war between China and the United States, let the troops of the nobles such as Yang Jingcheng and others die at the hands of the US army, and after surrender, the US occupation forces will come forward to completely destroy the feudal forces, so that the democratic republic can be truly realized and there will be no future troubles. For this purpose, the program has also been given a beautiful name: Phoenix-plan.

Radical fantasies about revolutionaries. The reformists had to be reminded that once Yang Jingcheng and these people all died, all the land outside the border would definitely be occupied by Soviet Russia, and perhaps in the future, Soviet Russia's artillery would be listed under the Great Wall, and the country would no longer be a country. Of course, this argument does not convince Christians who have God in their hearts, and their desire for the landing of American GIs in Shanghai is stronger than the hope that God will appear; As for Soviet Russia, they believed that the parishioners in the United States would protect themselves.

In the excitement, Lu Zhiwei said a lot of radical views, and Jiang Menglin was obviously a loyal reformist. He has to think about the big picture. After Lu Zhiwei pointed and scratched, he lit a cigarette, handed one to Lu Zhiwei, and smoked several puffs. He said: "Brother Zhiwei, we are actually on the same path, but we are just slow together. You're right. The Philippines and India also achieved democracy, but how many years were they ruled by Spain and India? You have to do what other people have done in hundreds of years in China in a few decades. The price is countless deaths and injuries. ”

Smoking a cigarette and opening the office window, the cool breeze in the middle of the night made Lu Zhiwei's fiery brain gradually calm down. He smiled and said, "If you want democracy, you always have to pay a price." In my opinion, even half of the people are worth it. Moreover, those who go to war and will die on the battlefield are all nobles and Trinity members, and then there are clans. I believe that blood and death will tell them what the consequences of not believing in God are! After all, the world is democratic, and the sooner we achieve it, the smaller the price we pay. ”

"Half of them?!" Jiang Menglin looked at Lu Zhiwei, who was smoking a cigarette with his mouth pursed, "I only heard Yang Jingcheng say that even if 100 million people die, China will be strong." You're good, half of it, 300 million people are gone. ”

"So what?" Lu Zhiwei frowned, "According to the past, those who don't believe in God are infidels, and no matter how many infidels they kill, they are innocent and meritorious. Of course, they will have a chance to convert to God before they die, but they must be religious. Over the years, I have seen clearly that only Jesus Christ can save this dead land, and only freedom and democracy can give new life to the people living in this land. No matter how big the price is, it's worth it. You can't have this and that, you can only choose the most important thing and discard the rest.

In other words, someone has to be the executioner. When you talk about improvement, you actually lack the courage to really change, and you are too nostalgic for the pots and pots of the past. So what's there to be nostalgic for? After the real democracy, not to mention those broken cultural relics, even the entire Forbidden City, this specialty. The symbols of the system should also be burned in one fell swoop.

You are afraid of the dead, you yearn for democracy while you are proud of 4,000 years of decay and tyranny. The rags left behind by the system, I think this is the capital of national pride, may I ask what kind of song is this?! Do you really think that the set of the Institute of Doubts, and the set of Hong Fan Jiuchou is democracy? Not at all! Only by erasing all the traces of decay left over the past 4,000 years, including the written and written language, can we travel lightly, be reborn, and become truly free people.

This is the road to democracy and freedom. Four thousand years, that's a long time! Those things are deeply engraved in our bones, and if you don't erase them all, it will be restored if you are not careful. Since Yang Jingcheng's time, he has paid great attention to archaeology, the Shang Dynasty's Chaoge has been excavated, the Xia Dynasty's Yanshi has also been excavated, and there are still some Stone Pleiades ancient cities. Why did he and the chapter madman do all this? In fact, this is the same as the reason they used to protect the Chinese language at the beginning, in order to enhance the inheritance of Chinese civilization.

The more connected you are to the ancients, the more you excavate those artifacts. The more conservative people will be, the more liberal democracy – this foreign culture will be excluded. We can only make a trade-off between the two civilizations, the East and the West. Either choose the East, that is, continue to be ignorant and feudal; Either choose the West. From now on, freedom and democracy will never be the best of both worlds. Like Zhang Zhidong said that the middle school is for the body and the West is for use, this kind of thing is used by the old bureaucrats to fool the imperial court, how can it be believed? Yang Jingcheng can see these very clearly, and he has refuted Zhang Zhidong's view in a previous speech......"

"You say that there is only one trade-off between Eastern and Western civilizations, but why can Yang Jingcheng integrate science into his theory of civilization?" Jiang Menglin also knew that speech, which was said when Tongji University Hall was established.

"The scientific spirit does not fully represent Western culture, which has its roots in Christ and not science. The ancient West could have invented and created. There are also inventions in the East. It's just that, as Yang Jingcheng said, after the famous white horse is not a horse, China lacks the tradition of speculation and logic. Looking at a great scientist like Newton, he has been studying God for the rest of his life, so there is no essential contradiction between science and religion, and the so-called Bruno being burned to death for propagating heliocentrism is just a legend fabricated by some people.

You, you guys, always lie to yourselves, thinking that things are going to get better and better, but what I see is that things are getting worse and worse. More and more people dropped out, and it became more and more difficult to proselytize. It is becoming increasingly difficult for students who have graduated from church schools such as Yan University and St. John's to find jobs, and even if they do, most of them are working in their own factories. There are some people who can only become frontline workers; The press is also increasingly disagreeing with Christ's rhetoric, and we used to preach in newspapers and schools, but now we can only preach in churches......"

"It's always going to get better and better." Jiang Menglin said perfunctorily. What Lu Zhiwei said is the truth. Over the past 20 years, there have been fewer and fewer Christians, especially Christians, and fewer and fewer young believers. Even the main position of the university hall is because the middle school and elementary school cannot control it. Conservative students still make up the majority. I remember one time in class, he gave a brief introduction to the political system of China, pointing out that the emperor was only nominal, and some students immediately stood up and left. But so what? Now it's politics, not faith, that gets the tricky spot.

"It's better to make the student's affairs big and small." After the perfunctory, Jiang Menglin once again remembered his task - that is, to Yan University, or the academic community, to stay calm, not to cause trouble so that the conservative forces have an excuse to exert their strength, and now is a critical period for Sino-US negotiations.

"Then you'll have to get the police agency to release those seven students." Seeing Jiang Menglin say this, Lu Zhiwei, who was excited by the death of the female student and gradually calmed down through venting, made his own conditions. "And what is the name of that patrolman, you must pick up his tiger skin of a fox and a fake tiger."

"Du Kill may be able to find an excuse to dismiss him, but I'm afraid it will be ...... to release the students" Jiang Menglin smiled bitterly, "You know, our country's judiciary is completely independent, and the Tingwei Mansion has been unified since the founding of the country, and even the judicial school is in their own hands, and no one can interfere, and what the Prime Minister's Office can do is very limited." Besides, beating someone and setting fire is a criminal case, and if the inspectorate doesn't let go, people will definitely not be able to let go. ”

"I don't care about this, it's my students who died, and it's my students who were arrested, how can I explain to other students? Do you want me to say that their classmates died in vain? Lu Zhiwei was very uncomfortable when he said this, and he said bluntly. If students don't march in protest, these two things must be done! ”

"I'll try." Seeing Lu Zhiwei like this, Jiang Menglin had to nod, and then left Yanda with some heaviness. After returning home, he immediately dialed the phone to Weng Wenhao's house.

"Prime Minister, it's me..., Zhaoxian. …… Yes, yes. It was already the second half of the night, Jiang Menglin whispered into the phone, "Zhiwei has two conditions, saying that one is to release people immediately from the patrol police station; Second, the ...... who wants to lead the team to arrest and kill the students, yes, yes, yes, it's his ......, he wants us to remove the patrol captain named Du Kill from his post...... yes, yes, he said that these two things must be done, otherwise he will ......"

"I see!" On the other end of the phone, Weng Wenhao, who was awakened by the arrest of Yan University students after falling asleep, hung up the phone. Jiang Menglin's matter is finished, but now all the problems are piled up with him. The Inspectorate and the Patrol Department, the former are completely independent in legal form, and the Prime Minister's Office has no way to take them; And the latter, many patrol officers are actually professional officers of the Fuxing Army, although I don't know the origin of this killing, it is sure that it is in the same breath as Fuxing, and if he is really moved, maybe he will .......

However, if the matter is not done, Lu Zhiwei will incite the students to make trouble, this is not a school of Yan University, Tsinghua, Xiehe, Furen, Nankai, St. John's, Hujiang, Jinling, 、......,these church students are not many, but the amount may not be small, and it will really stimulate and affect the negotiations in Washington. What a dilemma! (To be continued.) )