Chapter 41: The Curse
It was May 17th morning when Yang Rui returned to the capital again. Cheng Rui, who was erect, hugged him and cried as he got off the plane. After the man cried, the woman went to his son to cry. After she cried, the welcome atmosphere at Nanyuan Airport seemed a little bad. Zhang Taiyan and others who came to pick him up were very embarrassed. They actually had a lot of things to discuss with Yang Rui, but it was difficult to get off the plane and talk about business. Therefore, they could only keep some words in their hearts and wait until they returned to Beijing before talking.
It has been three days since Qi Qingyuan put people under house arrest and now. In these three days, the whole country has basically returned to normal. Some counties that cannot be connected to the telegrams have also been contacted by planes. The contact is just a restorative treatment, but the damage caused by these three days is an extremely difficult and difficult problem to solve: whether to govern the country by virtue of the conscience or rule the country by virtue of law is the top priority. If the former is chosen, then the officials and cadres who killed people in accordance with Cai Yuanpei should be declared innocent; and for the latter, these people must be handed over to Dali Temple for trial. This is not comparable to the previous corruption case, not only in nature, but also in quantity.
To put it another way, it is impossible for Cai Yuanpei to destroy the ruling foundation of the Revival Society by killing members of the Revival Society. Because a member of the Revival Society will immediately be added. As long as this mechanism is present, the Revival Society member will never be killed. However, due to the massacre, the Revival Society management mechanism and the legal governance mechanism have irreconcilable contradictions. Once the case is handed over to Dali Temple for trial, the management mechanism within the association, such as the provisions of "democratic centralism" will be fully revealed and will eventually be cancelled. At the same time, the trial will naturally attach the legal provisions to the Revival Society, and any resolution within the future must first check whether it is illegal. This is equivalent to adding a legal chain to everyone in the Revival Society, and you can no longer do whatever you want as before.
Of course, this is the consequence of following legal procedures; another option is not to follow legal procedures. Punish some people at will and then suppress the matter. However, no matter how you suppress it, it is a political stain of the Revival Society. Although it can be suppressed now, it will eventually be revealed one day. Even if it is not turned over, it will spread in the streets and alleys. When the public agrees, the Revival Society has no longer any support for governing except for the gun.
Zhang Taiyan, Xu Huafeng and others were worried about this, but Yang Rui didn't care about it at all. When the car arrived at the Duke's Mansion, everyone waited in the living room for a long time. Finally, a servant suddenly ran out and notified that the lord was tired and he had something to discuss before going to work. Zhang Taiyan, who was stocking up all the talk, was immediately angry. He waved the folding fan and looked at Xu Huafeng and others and shouted: "What's this matter! The Tingwei Mansion is already in prison, and it will be public trial soon. The matter is burning. He is still... he can sit and sleep..."
When Xu Huafeng was at the airport, he saw Yang Rui's expression solemn and didn't want to rest after returning home. Seeing Zhang Taiyan unhappy, he had to smooth things over and laughed, "We were just tossed for a long time. Jingcheng was tossed for three days. Wuming was also injured. Yun Biao didn't know his life or death. I think Zhengcheng was really tired this time."
"But now..." Zhang Taiyan also knew that compared to his own few people, Yang Rui almost lost his life this time. It was normal to want to rest, but now... he shook his sleeves hard and said, "How to deal with things outside, you always have to express your opinion. Whether it is public or private, you have to say something!"
Zhang Taiyan still complained, but Xu Huafeng walked out with his shoulders. This time the discussion was a waste. However, this time, Yang Rui was still resting on the second day. The same was true on the third day. At this time, Zhang Taiyan, who could not control himself, pulled Xu Huafeng. Whether Yang Rui saw or did not see him, he rashly broke into the back house. At this time, Yang Rui was talking with Cheng Xu. It was not surprising to see him breaking in, but asked someone to take tea for him and Xu Huafeng to chair.
The men were discussing the matter, and Cheng Xu was about to withdraw, but Yang Rui grabbed her. He looked at Zhang Taiyan and Xu Huafeng and said, "If the life is right, I should still be on vacation."
"You are on vacation, but what should you do if you are in state affairs?" Zhang Taiyan blew his beard and even when he brought the chair, he was standing.
"State affairs?" Yang Rui smiled and said, "Isn't you there in state affairs? Is there any state affairs? Isn't it just a public trial?"
"What does it mean to be a public trial?" Zhang Taiyan retorted, "Public trial is not a trivial matter. Once the public trial is held, the Revival Society will not be a Revival Society. Now Sun Wen, Liang Zhuoru and others are having fun overseas. This is not exactly..."
"Sun Wen and Liang Qichao..." Yang Rui said, "If you want to make trouble, let them make trouble. If they really can rob this country, then rob them. My family doesn't have many people, and at least they can immigrate to Honolulu, Europe or something. I really don't want to care about these messy things anymore. They do whatever they want."
The immigrants said it, and Zhang Taiyan was so angry that he was trembling; Xu Huafeng on the side said, "It's impossible to act irresponsibly. Although the chaos has been calmed down, public opinion is extremely unfavorable to us..."
"The thing was done by Cai Jimin, what does it have to do with us?! If the people don't like us, they can ask Sun Wen to come back to be their president. They don't know the right or wrong, so why should we work hard for them? Why! I will write a few books for the annual salary of less than a thousand yuan, so why should I bow down for the money?" Yang Rui said indifferently.
"Yes...a..." Xu Huafeng had nothing to say now. After experiencing this major change, Yang Rui seemed to have changed into another person.
He didn't know what to say, but Yang Rui said, "Either just turn the table down and choose another prime minister; or you will talk about it after two or three months, and I'll be born. I'm not available now!"
"What should I do when the trial?" Xu Huafeng didn't expect that he didn't want to care about the current affairs at all, so he asked stupidly.
"You have to ask Wu Tingfang about this. Isn't he in charge of this?" Yang Rui replied.
"What Jingcheng means to completely hand over this matter to Wu Tingfang?" Zhang Taiyan, who was angry on the side, saw that Yang Rui had this attitude, immediately asked and confirmed.
"If you don't leave it to Wu Tingfang, can you still leave it to Liang Qichao?" Yang Rui glared at him. "What exactly does Cai Yuanpei want to do in his heart and why he does this? Who doesn't know? But who will believe it when we say it? Don't bother me. Butler, take the guests off!"
Yang Rui sent out the confused Zhang Taiyan and Xu Huafeng with the last sentence. But when he walked to the garden outside, Zhang Taiyan could not walk anymore. He stood in the sun and asked Xu Huafeng. "What he meant was to hand over the matter to Wu Tingfang and ask him to help us defend?"
"That's about that." Xu Huafeng was also thinking about Yang Rui's last words. "We say we are innocent, but no one believes it if we say it. But as long as we prove that we are innocent in Dali Temple, then someone will believe it."
"But what if it can't be proved? Or does Dali Temple don't want to prove it?" Zhang Taiyan continued to ask.
"How can't this prove it?" Xu Huafeng said. "Why did Jimin do this? He just wanted to destroy the reputation of the Revival Society and corrupt the reputation of the Revival Society. Is it easy to realize the democratic republic? Jingcheng said before that he killed the whole family after democracy. At that time, it seems that this is indeed the case. When he killed this, public opinion said that we are bad and dictatorial, but the problem is that everything has a good or bad side. Cars can carry people and can hit people. We use it as people, but Jimin used it to hit people. Is this the fault of the car or the fault of the driver?"
Xu Huafeng twisted his beard and said something. Finally, he affirmed himself: "I think the most important part of this case is to find out the fundamental motivation for Jimin to do this, and publicize it to win the trust of the people. With his motive for maliciously hitting someone, we can restore our innocence and exempt the person involved from being punished."
"But since Jimin has this intention, he will definitely not admit it. He will bite him to death and just want to seize power, and then he will say how the revival will be......" The road has been found, but how to go is another question.
"Of course, Jimin would not admit that he did this for the sake of democracy and republic. But what about the people around him? They might not admit that it was just for seizing power like him." Xu Huafeng glanced at Zhang Taiyan and reminded him again.
"Yes! Yes! Yes! The people around Jimin..." Zhang Taiyan suddenly remembered that he was Cai Yuanpei's secretary Xu Baohuang. "I'll go find Bosun right away." He was about to leave after saying that.
"You can't go!" Xu Huafeng pulled him away. "Now the Beijing reporters are flying all over the sky, and we will report whatever we do. Since Zhengcheng came to see Xu Bosun as soon as we went out. Isn't this obvious telling everyone that we are in the same group as Xu Bosun?" Xu Huafeng said Zhang Taiyan was stunned, but he also knew that Zhang Taiyan was concerned about it at this time, and said, "Although Uncle Mei is involved in this matter, there is no need to blame himself for it. Look, it is the right thing to keep silent and watch the changes. Since we are already at the bottom of the pot, let's see how the chef will cut the cow."
"What if the butcher Ding deliberately did not dispel the cow?" There is indirect responsibility for both of Qi Qingyuan's affairs, Cai Yuanpei's affairs, and Zhang Taiyan's affairs, so he had to hurry. Of course, he would easily be confused when he was anxious. Now even if he knew the solution, he was still worried that the method would fail.
"Then there is no need for us to hire him as a chef?" Xu Huafeng said, "Even if there is no need for a chef in the future, we will make up for this matter. Wu Tingfang cannot not know this. He can handle a case in a realistic manner. So whether the judicial system needs to continue to be independent will have a big question mark!"
Zhang Taiyan and Xu Huafeng were discussing in the garden, while Yang Rui was chatting with the woman in the back house. He was sitting in the special large rocking chair holding the woman, which was placed under the pergola, on the side of the fish tank, in the pomegranate flowers, and the cool breeze was extremely comfortable.
"The Imperial Hospital said that Wuming is cured and can also walk..." During the days when he disappeared, Cheng Wun shed a lot of tears for the man and his son. When he came back, he felt very distressed when he saw Wuming being so injured. Even when he talked about it, she still wanted to cry.
"The most important thing for men is to shoot. Wuming can not only shoot from above, but also shoot from below. What are you worried about!" Yang Rui said indifferently. He thought his son was going to die in Wendeng, but he didn't want to save him.
"You..." Cheng Xu couldn't keep up with the rhythm, and she said, "Didn't you say it's safe to step down before?"
"I used to think that it was safe to step down, but now I find that something is wrong. I am wrong! Only the United States or Switzerland are truly safe. Because they do not have 'kings, princes, generals, and ministers, wouldn't they have a genital'." Yang Rui seemed to be in Wendeng's green gauze tent at this time, and said leisurely again. "In Wendeng, someone wanted to kill me, but when they surrendered, they confessed that there were two reasons for killing me: one was to do it without stopping. Since the person who killed me was afraid of my revenge, he had to kill me; the other was that the phoenix was not as good as a chicken when he landed on the ground. Since the capital was already in power, he should kill me and then take my head to Jimin to receive a reward. The reason in the front was fine, but the one behind was very unsafe.
When there is a gun, people are afraid of you, but once you don’t have a gun, it’s a phoenix that falls into the ground, and even if you are the captain of a county patrol team, he still wants to kill you and then go to the new master to seek credit, even if you have been in many ways for them. This is not just ungrateful, it is the prey of the jungle. Wuming and I can live not because of the success of this country, but because of the failure of this country. In other words, I almost killed my son and I, but when I had no place in my past, saved my son and me, and there is no more ironic thing than this!”
Yang Rui's eyes seemed to be looking at the pergola on the top, but in fact he was looking at a place that Cheng Xu could not see. He continued: "I think only Shang Yang's practice in ancient times can be compared with it."
Seeing Yang Rui deeply denying and mocking him, Cheng Xu said with a heartache: "But you have done a lot of things for this country. And the things about Jimin are just accidents..."
"Shang Yang also did a lot for Qin, but whether he or Qin, he died in the end without a burial place, so he was destined to be broken by a car in the end, and he deserved the crime." Yang Rui said, "As for my accident this time, it is fortunate that there was this accident, otherwise I would be broken by a car in the future."
"Why do you always say such unlucky words?" Seeing the man say death again and the car breaks, Cheng Xu was a little disappointed.
"Isn't it auspicious? Maybe." Yang Rui subconsciously shook his head. He could not describe his experience and feelings in Wendeng to the woman. This accident instantly turned him from the throne of the prime minister to the fugitive. Although the time was very short, less than a day, the water of the Sow River seemed to flow under his feet, and the wetness of the green gauze tent continued to wrap him around. The endless barking and torches in the dark night were still floating in his sea of consciousness. What is the success, king and loser? This is the success, king and loser!
After escape, he turned into the prime minister with military power again, but he could not forget the experience of being a bandit. Of course, it was not that he would fall into that situation in the future, but that his son's son's son's son..., just like countless dynasties in the past, he would fall into that situation in the end. He has only been a one-day test now.
The phoenix that lands is not as good as a chicken. People in the world are used to putting in trouble and killing dogs. What is the mistake of those peasants who chase him? Who doesn’t want to catch him and use his head to seek credit from the new rulers of the dynasty? This is human nature, so he forgave everyone in Wendeng. This is just his personal forgiveness, and it does not mean that Dali Temple is because if he is in their position, he might do the same thing. In other words, if there are too many people in the world who are willing to do such things, can they be killed? Since they can’t be killed, then accept their fate. They have escaped, but if they want their descendants to escape this level, the best way is to leave here and run to places where they don’t shout “The kings, princes, generals, and ministers, would they be better off”.
In the world history he knows, Japan does not mention that the royal family in Europe is basically the same lineage. However, when China translated it, it turned into this dynasty and that dynasty, and they were actually the same bloodline.
If you use your strength to convince others, you will eventually be in poverty. The dynasty established by force will eventually be overthrown. This is a reality that no one can escape. Of course, this reality will never fall on him, but it will fall on his descendants.
Can that be able to not convince people with strength and not to come out of power from the gun? He also felt that this was not possible at all. If this was the case, there would be no Revival Society and no Great China. When did this country really speak reason? Since ancient times, it has conquered the world, so how can we talk about the world?
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The various things about Wendeng's journey made Yang Rui feel that he was in a flesh-and-blood casino, and he was the dealer at this time. There are countless gamblers who show their faces and do not show their faces. They only have one character, that is, they will do whatever they want! And there is only one rule for the casino: that is, the one who wins the success and the king and the enemy wins the victory. The world is delicious and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, and the world is squandered, without exception.
Since he became a dealer, he had to follow these rules and means. If he was soft-hearted, there would naturally be people who were more lawful and unscrupulous than him to replace him. He escaped by luck this time, but can his descendants escape? Zhu Yuanzhang could defend it, but can Zhu Youjian be defended? Dorgon could suppress it, cute Xin Jueluo and Zai Tian could suppress it?
The dynasty was prosperous and declining. Zhu Youjian could not defend the place where Zhu Yuanzhang defended; the Han people who could suppress Dorgon Shunzhi could not suppress them when Zai Tian. Similarly, it can be proved that Yang Jingcheng escaped, but naturally he could not escape when Yang Moumou.
Chapter completed!