Chapter 48: Occupied
In order to make Shanghai truly the No. 1 capital of the Far East, with the approval of Yin'an Hall, the Shanghai Municipal Government built a tall and grand office building near Xiaobeimen after demolishing the old city. In order to highlight the style of combining Chinese and Western Shanghai, this government office building specially designed by foreign designers was designed with a strange house like a Western building with a Chinese roof. Once such an "unparalleled" design came out, no one else could say it, and he thought that its style would be difficult to pass the review of relevant departments in the capital, but Fei Yugui was not worried about it. After he went to the capital once, the matter was settled immediately.
The wide and towering European stone buildings, the polished and smooth Indian marble interior, and the seemingly simple and luxurious interior decoration, the entire office building does not look like a government agency. If neon lights can be added, it will be a nightclub for later generations. Although Xu Xilin, the left censor of the Inspectorate, who was wearing a first-class crimson official robe and a jade belt, did not understand the nightclub, his face suddenly became indescribable when he stepped on these marble floors.
"Sir, the front has been stopped. The city patrolman blocked our people at the stairs." Chen Ying, the Shanghai Inspectorate, led the way, but as soon as he received the help, he had to report back.
"Have you revealed the imperial edict and the document of the inspector's office?" Xu Xilin's face suddenly turned cold. He had arrested fewer than a few thousand people over the years, and he had never encountered anyone who dared to stop the bailiff.
"It's clear. But the person who led the team was a revolutionary veteran. He said he did not recognize the imperial edict and only recognized the Prime Minister's handwritten letter." Chen Ying smiled bitterly, "We said we could not stop the inspector from taking people, but he said he didn't know which number the inspector was."
"That's intentional!" A smile appeared on Xu Xilin's face, and after laughing, his face sank, "Order the bailiff to shoot in!"
"I understand, sir!" Chen Ying hurried forward, and after a few gunshots, the bailiff who was blocked at the stairs on the first and second floors rushed up.
The arrest was originally a sudden and secret, but gunfire rang throughout the municipal building, and the arrest began to turn brightly. At this time, in the mayor's office on the top floor of the building, Fei Yugui, who rolled up his sleeves and was sweating, had just hung up a call in the city. He heard the secretary report that the bailiff rushed up. Half excited and half panic, he snatched the inside phone from the secretary's hand and shouted to the director of the city guards on the other end: "I order you in the name of the Revival Society, in the name of the revolution: stop them! Swear to stop them to death!!"
Fei Yugui roared wildly, but there was no echo on the other end of the phone. There were only noisy voices and some gunshots. It was obvious that the third floor was also broken through. Fei Yugui, who knew that this time, suddenly opened the office drawer and seized the Bai Langlin Qurut pistol, which was seized by the Russian official for a long time, was caught by him. After pushing the magazine, he did not point the muzzle at himself, but aimed at the office door.
The door was closed, but with the chaotic footsteps, the light at the bottom of the door was bright and dark. Just as Fei Yugui was thinking why they didn't rush in, someone outside shouted: "Fei Ziyi, we are the Shanghai Inspectorate, you have been arrested." After the voice shouted, the office door was pushed open with a "wow" sound. The light on Fei Yugui's eyes were pierced. He was already hysterical and he shot three shots at the door. However, the door was opened but no one came in, and the three shots were shot.
"Fei Ziyi. You have been arrested! Stubborn resistance is just a dead end..." Chen Ying, the voice of the Shanghai Inspectorate, came over.
"Fuck! Fuck your mother's fart!" Fei Yugui fired two more shots, and the bullet hit the floor, and there was no trace of "Swoosh". "If you have the ability, you will rush in. I am a military post, you can't control me!"
"Random!" another voice shouted. "Ziyi, put down the gun." This voice was from Zhang Chengyue. He did not hide behind the wall like a bailiff. He walked into the office through the gate while drinking. Perhaps he was shocked, perhaps he recognized this classmate and comrade in the past. Fei Yugui, who was holding the gun, only looked at Zhang Chengyue in a daze.
The sound of footsteps of the 'bang' took advantage of this gap. The bailiff holding a gun rushed into the room. Fei Yugui, who felt that the situation was over, put the gun down. He clapped his hands and said, "You want to arrest people, right? OK! I'll follow you to see what you can do!"
"Drop his gun." Xu Xilin looked at Fei Yugui who was fearless, with a terrifying face. He had never seen arrested and so righteous.
Feeling Xu Xilin's angry gaze, while the bailiff was reading the warning before arrest, Fei Yugui teased: "Yu Hum, isn't this Xu Binggu? I really didn't expect that I thought it was Gong ** from Yichun Garden, Eight Hutongs. "
"Don't be presumptuous! Fei Ziyi, relying solely on yourself and your order to shoot and arrest the subordinates is enough to sentence more than ten years." Xu Xilin glared at him, wanting to know what he was thinking at this moment.
"Haha! Look at what you said, I am a revolutionary hero, and I was killed in the sea of blood. How can you do that? Just you, a rebellious spy!" Fei Yugui didn't take Xu Xilin seriously at all. Everyone still adhered to the duties of the officialdom, but now it's time, and he says whatever he thinks.
"You'll say these words to the judge." Xu Xilin didn't care about being called by someone. Xu Banggu, who had been tortured, had never been afraid of anything. "Take it away!"
Fei Yugui, who was sweating like a dog who fell into the water, was actually most afraid of others ignoring him. Seeing Xu Xilin like this, he was pulled away by the bailiff and shouted, "Why should I torture me? I am a revolutionary hero! I am a revolutionary hero! Why should I torture me? Yinge, you are a mother-in-law, you are a mother-in-law, you are a mother-in-law, you are a mother-in-law! You are talking..."
Fei Yugui was pulled out of the office by the bailiff and taken to the corridor outside. Although it was getting farther and farther away, his voice became louder and more and more shrill. Looking at Zhang Chengyue, who was like an iceberg, Xu Xilin took out a cigarette and handed over it.
After taking Xu Xilin's cigarette, Zhang Chengyue suddenly asked, "Do you want to lock him up in Shanghai?"
"No." Xu Xilin shook his head violently, "There are too many people involved in the case in the officialdom and business world. If something is bound to happen in Shanghai, it will only be sent to Beijing. Besides, the major cases of this level can only be tried by the Dali Temple of Tingwei Mansion. Who else can suppress it?"
"Yes." As the smoke exhaled from Zhang Chengyue's nose, he nodded softly.
"Xi Lin is too worried. If there is no Yin Pavilion this time, things will be in trouble." Xu Xilin expressed his kindness. He was a little wary of Zhang Chengyue before, and he only knew the arrest time.
"Haha..." Zhang Chengyue chuckled, not saying anything. He wiped out half of the cigarette cartridges and left the office that was being searched by the bailiff.
"Sir. Found it." Chen Ying's face was full of sweat, but his eyes were bright. In the lounge of this office, the specially arranged compartment was opened behind a Western oil painting. In addition to bundles of foreign bills, the inner wall of the black velvet was full of various foreign watches. Xu Xilin saw the twenty-nine diamond Patek Philippe watch at a glance. He smiled slightly on his face and said, "Take a photo, enter the file, and follow the procedure. Don't make any mistakes, and those lawyers find the loopholes."
"Yes, sir!" Chen Ying nodded like a chicken pecking at the rice. This time he stepped on Fei Yugui's 'corpse', and he felt that his promotion was just around the corner. "Hurry! Take photos, follow the procedures, and don't make any mistakes..."
‘Bang…bang…’, the photographer ignited the magnesium powder, and the narrow inner room was instantly reflected. Just as Xu Xilin left, his hand accidentally brushed across the desk but stopped. On the other side of the desk, a bailiff knocked on the table and was stunned. Xu Xilin also knocked on it and finally said: “Release it, how heavy is it?”
The lord ordered the squad policeman quickly stood up and grabbed the table legs and wanted to move it, but as a result, he let his face flushed and used all his strength to eat, and the table did not move at all. "Sir, this may be made of silver."
"No, it's gold." Chen Ying used his sword to slim the legs of the table, under the black pigment. The inside was full of gold.
"Take a photo." Xu Xilin shook his head, but this time he did not smile slightly. Instead, he was shocked.
While arresting Fei Yugui in the morning, other places in Shanghai were also conducting arrests. In the morning, the city was full of running tax police and bailiffs and police carriages for arresting people. The people arrested were not only government officials, but also business circles, leaders of the Qian industry, foreign companies, and compradors. In less than a morning, the entire Shanghai was in anarchy. Fortunately, Xu Xilin spoke on the radio and announced that Shanghai would implement military control and order martial law within 72 hours, and said that a press conference would be held in two hours to inform the citizens of the situation, and the situation barely stabilized.
People in Shanghai were panic, and the capital was in chaos. Chen Youji planned and directed by Fu Sinian, the "Driving Jiang Ying Cai" parade was in chaos before leaving the Peking University gate. On the first day of the junior high school, the tall Shandong man Fu Sinian took the students of the college and held a wooden stick to force students of other colleges to go out to the school. The students of the law and medical school were all thorny, but the students of the business school were all thorny at this time. At this time, the students of the parade who felt that the momentum was very manic, and a clerk named Zhang Biao immediately opposed the parade.
The night before the parade, Xinchao Club held a meeting and made a resolution. As long as they did not join the parade, they would be backward students. It would be useless to say more to these backward students. If they didn’t join the parade, they would be beaten up. But the question is who Zhang Biao was? After being hit by a few sticks, he fled to the bottom of the business school dormitory building and shouted that as long as the business school students in the dormitory immediately swung the broom stick, took off the legs of the stool and rushed down. The students in the school were all nerds, and because they had to mobilize the whole school, there were not many people coming, so the students from half of the college rushed out and beat them together. Therefore, from Luo Jialun, two hundred people were beaten to the spot.
The business school resisted forcefully, and although other colleges did not resist, they just closed the dormitory door and did not leave the school to march. How could they have so much time to recruit people one by one? As a result, there were more than 3,000 people in the school, and less than 1,000 people actually marched out of the school. Many of the students who were forced to follow were halfway. Even if they met with Yenching University and some other students who did not know the truth halfway, the number of people in the parade was only more than 1,000.
Banners, banners, queues, slogans, and students in Peking University dressed in uniform student outfits were at the forefront. Even though there were quite a few students at Yenching University, the students who had not really marched and fought, performed much better than those of primary school students who lined up to watch movies in the cinema. Only the activists in front of the queue were excited like aphrodisiacs, and the students behind were only shopping. In Chen Youji's words, the scale of the parade was too small and the momentum was not strong.
When the march was still preparing on campus, the news reached Yin'an Hall, and Yang Rui was very surprised. It was said that Cai Yuanpei was not nominated as the Minister of the School yesterday, and these students started to make trouble today. Politically speaking, this is not an ordinary fool. With all procedures legal and public opinion's disgust towards Cai Yuanpei, the first impression of the march was that Cai Yuanpei, who stepped down, encouraged to learn to mock him in order to keep his official position. This was as hateful as his questioning of the Prime Minister as Wang Mang the previous month.
Therefore, Yang Rui suppressed the march for a while before notifying all the members of the Standing Committee. When everyone arrived, Qiu Jin, who did not agree with Yang Rui's words before, spoke first: "What are you doing when you encourage me to learn to ridicule?"
"I didn't know they would strike and march." Cai Yuanpei looked bitter and Chen Youji had mentioned the study tour to him before. He completely opposed it at that time. Of course, Cai Yuanpei, who had never been a villain and was ashamed of being a politician, did not explain to Chen Youji that the highest power of China seemed to be in the Academy of Stories, but in fact it was in the Supreme Standing Committee of the Revival Society. At the meeting at the end of last year, he was already accused by Yang Rui of wanting to mock his learning to seize power. He was not aware of anything. He was still aware of it. Now that he really started to learn to mock his ideas, he would not be able to argue, and his position was very embarrassing.
This is different from Yang Rui's resignation. Although Yang Rui's resignation is a bit irresponsible, it is understandable that this is a self-clearing under his inspiration and questioning. Inspiring students to marches, especially when he is not nominated as the Minister of the School, it is simply a violation of the law and discipline. If Yang Rui really compromises with the students, then anyone can decide the candidates for the cabinet by launching a strike, strike, or market strike. This is not only a chaotic government, but also a chaotic country.
"Students are just a bucket of gasoline. Since they see Mars, they cannot be destroyed. It is good to be honest with the people, but those teachers and students planning the parade may not think so." Yang Rui did not accuse Cai Yuanpei. Instead, he suspected the justice of the parade students and the teachers' daily behaviors. He said this to make Cai Yuanpei even more distressed.
"Okay, since the matter has come out, I'll think of a way to solve it." Xu Huafeng looked at Yang Rui and Cai Yuanpei helplessly and sighed secretly. Everything was fine and state affairs were thriving, but these two former revolutionary comrades were like guns and medicine, and they twisted everything. When they thought of the corruption case in Shanghai, Xu Huafeng only felt that this was a troublesome spring.
"It's better for me to go out and persuade me. The students are parading for the people. It may be effective for Jiemin to come forward to persuade me." Du Yaquan suggested. He glanced at Yang Rui again and said, "It's better to calm down as soon as possible."
"You can try it. But I don't think this will have any effect. In the eyes of these students, I will definitely think that I was forcing Jimin, and Jimin had to come forward to dissuade him." Yang Rui reminded him with a slight smile. "If you don't believe me, you can try it."
The reason is this. A few people look at me and I look at you. In the end, they still think that Cai Yuanpei should be sent to try it. The inner city of the capital is not big. Cai Yuanpei met the parade students not far from the Yin'an Hall. He shouted at everyone to go back to school at the top of his voice. He didn't expect that the eldest leader Fu Sinian waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Mr. Jimin must have been forced. Students, let's go to the Prime Minister's Office to argue with him!"
The parade for a long time was unhindered, and even the patrol police deliberately blocked the road. At this time, the students were getting more and more courageous. As soon as Fu Sinian said he went to the Prime Minister's Office, a small group of people immediately shouted and echoed. Soon, the parade arrived at Damucang Hutong. There were few guards at the gate of Yin'an Hall that had not made any preparations. There were more than a thousand students blocked, and the entire road was filled.
"We are representatives of schools in the capital. We came to the Prime Minister for the dismissal of Lord Cai in the school. This is our ten thousand words." Fu Sinian, the leader, said to the guards at the guard booth outside the gate, but his eyes looked at the roads and flowers inside through the gate opened by the Prime Minister's Office. Since Yang Rui determined to work here, this place has become a symbol of China's highest power, just like the Forbidden City.
There are many people from all over the country who come to the Prime Minister's Office to ask for the Prime Minister. They are not unfamiliar with the guards of ten thousand words, blood letters, petitions and other objects. He took out a form according to the procedures and said, "You can register here now."
According to the truth, soldiers always respectfully and give in to students when they see them, but the guards outside the Prime Minister's Office only treat these aggressive students equally, especially in the face of so many students, they were almost unmoved and did not even scan the parade team and glanced at the banner. When Xu Yanzhi, who was taking over Luo Jialun's work, was about to take over the registration book, Fu Dapao, who had long been displeased, waved his hand to knock down the registration book in the guards' hands and shouted loudly: "We are asking for the people, please go and report quickly!"
"Everyone, the Prime Minister's Office has regulations. The rules of the Prime Minister's Office are to register first, then receive ten thousand words, and then inform. As for when the Prime Minister can meet everyone, it depends on the arrangements inside. Since you are students, you should know that this is the important place of the court and you must not make trouble here." The guards had received a call to prohibit conflicts with the students. Otherwise, they would not have been so polite before. Now the students are shameless, and the face of the guard's duty leader immediately sank.
"What court! What nonsense! China only has a government. There is no court. We are the representatives of students in the capital, and we are not nonsense." Fu Sinian has a fierce personality. What is rare is that he is so fierce and talented but is better than others. He seized the grammatical problem of the duty monitor and immediately scolded him loudly, with an aura of no difference. Seeing this, the students behind him immediately started to clamor. The whole alley was in chaos.
He was always responsible or had some ability to be on duty at the Prime Minister's Office. As a veteran of the revolutionary disabled, he still suppressed his resignation when he saw the student so arrogant and angry. He handed over the registration book he picked up by his subordinates and said with a temper: "Whether the court or the government, it is necessary to pay attention to the regulation of laws. The Prime Minister's regulations are to register first, then receive ten thousand words, and then report. Whether you see or not, you must arrange it by the Secretariat, and no one can violate it! Please, please."
"Students, don't reason with the bureaucrats, let's ask for your own meeting!" someone shouted behind the team. When the students were about to echo, another voice came from behind the team, "Students, calm down! Students, be calm down!"
Cai Yuanpei was in his early forties, but the literati were always weak, and the students were walking much faster than him. At the same time he chased Damu Canghu, the students had already negotiated with the guards again. They squeezed up from the team panting. Cai Yuanpei looked at Fu Sinian, the commander-in-chief of the march and said, "Students. The government cabinet... nominations are...the prime minister's...consideration. How can you...be...how can you...for the Prime Minister with...one's own thoughts, and force the Prime Minister to agree..."
Cai Yuanpei was very tired. He could only say half a sentence. Seeing that he still did not support the march, Fu Sinian immediately shouted again: "Students, we support Lord Cai, we want to meet the Prime Minister! We support Lord Cai, we want to meet the Prime Minister!..."
These two slogans took turns, and the more they shouted, the louder they became. Cai Yuanpei had to give up when he saw this. Yang Rui's words, "Students are just a bucket of gasoline. Since they see Mars, they will not be able to be destroyed until they are burned." He was powerless at this time, and it was not good to enter Yin'an Hall, nor was it good to stand at the door, and was completely at a loss.
Cai Yuanpei was at a loss. Seeing that he could not control the situation, Du Yaquan turned around and entered the Prime Minister's Office. When he walked inside, he saw Yang Rui calmly dealing with official duties. He breathed a sigh of relief and said as calmly as possible: "It's done, the students are blocking the door, and Jimin can't persuade him to leave. Do you see if it's..."
"It's useless for me to go." Yang Rui put down his pen and said, "They wanted me to get rid of Zhuzhuang and re-appoint Jimin. If I don't agree, they will continue to make trouble. If I agree, will this list be opened and I am a fake Prime Minister?"
"What should I do now?" What Yang Rui said may not be unreasonable, but Du Yaquan was very worried that the student union and the Prime Minister's Office had a conflict. If there were casualties, it would be bad.
"Let's wait." Yang Rui smiled. "When they are tired, they will naturally go back to class. We are a legal government, not a crowd, so what are we worried about."
Yang Rui didn't care, and Du Yaquan couldn't think of any other way, so things were stalemate here. But the students outside could not wait. Not to mention that Fu Sinian, known as Fu Dapao, was in charge of command outside. You should know that this Peking University student was already arrogant and had a special style. In the first year of the Republic of China, they dared to protest in groups and drive away the principal Ma Liang whom they disliked. The following year, in the name of "the principal violated the law", more than a hundred people rushed into the principal's office. Not only did they smash the principal, but they also forced the successor He Yishi to resign on the spot. Now these people are not only organized, but are also blocked at the gate of the Prime Minister's Office. In addition to the guards, no one has seen him treat him as a dish for more than half an hour. The student leader Fu Sinian suddenly became angry and yelled and took the lead in rushing in.
Chapter completed!