Chapter 76 Court Trial
Zhang Ji was a little surprised when he heard the incident and saw that everyone looked depressed, and said anxiously: "Why don't we find a few classmates and get Uncle Mei and Wei Dan a few kidnapped......"
"Pu Quan, don't mess around!" Ye Han quickly interrupted him, "Now Uncle Mei and Wei Dan can survive, all depend on the concession. Foreigners want face, civilized, and unwilling to be taken away from their rights, so it's okay. If you make a fuss, then..."
Wu Junsui was more mature and said, "This matter is not possible. It is better to find someone to find out the situation of the editors and reporters of the newspapers first, and then find someone to clear the situation of familiar newspaper editors and reporters." Then he took out a few silver coupons from his arms and said, "Xiao Xu, it costs money to find lawyers to support me. This is my savings, so I will be in charge of you."
Wang Jitong hurriedly said he didn't dare to do it, but Wu Junsui grabbed his hand and refused to give in. He had to accept the silver notes. Seeing this, the other people paid for it. He had to continue. In fact, he had just arrived recently, which was the edition fee for those math books. When Yang Rui left, he asked Mr. Xie from the printing library to discuss with the Japanese merchants. In the middle of the month, Mr. Xie found Zhong Guanguan and said that the Japanese merchants were willing to buy them for 5,000 yen each. Yang Rui had explained this before, and as long as the money was paid, he would sell it no matter how much. So he took out Yang Rui's authorization letter to sign. The 5,000 yen was exchanged for more than 14,000 pounds, and he was ready to remit it to Yang Rui, but the case was given up. After all, the lawsuit was very expensive.
Everyone discussed the charter and left. When they left, Wang Jitong deliberately walked with Zhang Shizhao and asked, "What are you going to do after Xingyan's matter is settled?"
Zhang Shizhao was still confused since the incident and sighed and said, "What else can I do? I guess I'll just start a newspaper. But I didn't think about it carefully. I just wanted to save Uncle Mei and Wei Dan and others. I also blame me for this. If I had heard Mr. Chen's words at the beginning, the article would not be so intense, then this matter would not have been like this." When Zhang Shizhao was just editor-in-chief of Su Daily, he saw his fierce article boss Chen Fan persuaded him, but he was young and energetic for a while, but in the afternoon
When Chen Fan seemed to have changed his body, he came over and told him to do whatever he wanted and do his best. Later, he found out that it was Qian Baoren who said something to him. Qian Baoren was a gangster in Zhenjiang. When he came to Shanghai, he saw the school club giving a speech in Zhangyuan and shouting about the revolution, so he pretended to be Sun Zhongshan. Zhang Taiyan had met Sun Zhongshan in Japan. Therefore, the people of the school club knew his background. When he saw him speaking on stage, he was not easy to drive him away. However, Chen Fan had never seen Sun Zhongshan and believed that he was Sun Zhongshan and obeyed his words.
When Wang Jitong saw him, he still wanted to run a newspaper. What should I say? The result of the discussion before was that he wanted him to join the Revival Association and then go to Tanzhou to approach Zhu Changlin's family. But now it seems that he still has to wait a little longer and talk about it later. Wang Jitong still read the incident thoroughly and advised: "This is not the intense words of the newspaper, but the "Revolutionary Army" written by Wei Dan is very influential. With the words of Uncle Mei's uncle, "Zai Tian clown, can't distinguish between beans and wheat," then Manguo exclaimed that the Qing court could not sit still and was in great danger. He was afraid that the world would not be in chaos. He even advertised it on it and invited the world's ambition to fight against the Qing Dynasty to gather in the Carp Inn, which made the spies from the Qing court all over the city look for Carp Inn these days. It was really foolish."
As Yang Rui thought, this revival would be popular, but when it became even more popular, there was such an inn in the world that was anti-Qing and Rest Ming, which was amazing. So people in the concession seemed to be looking for the fabricated Carp Inn. Yang Rui personally taught the little ghosts that were not afraid of causing trouble. He made an advertisement for the place without silver in several major newspapers: "Longmen Inn opened on August 15, and this inn and Carp Inn are absolutely unrelated." As soon as the advertisement came out, the world was in a thrilling and laughing, and the newspaper immediately wrote an article.
The title of Carp Jumping Dragon Gate determines that Longmen Inn is Carp Inn, which must be very involved with the Revolutionary Party. Please ask the court to search. If you dare to advertise here, you will naturally hold it. That is, the inn is in the concession and is the boss of foreigners. If the Qing court searches, it would be absolutely unreasonable, so there are only two newspapers to talk to each other. The most beneficial thing for the fight between the mouth is Longmen Inn. In less than a week, even in Hankou, Beijing and other places knew that there was a Longmen Inn in Shanghai that had "no connection" with the Revolutionary Carp Inn. The inn was still being renovated and had not opened, and someone actually stayed there.
Wang Jitong couldn't help but say, "Why didn't I think of it?"
Someone else said, "What's wrong with Xiao Xu? Why are you shouting?"
Wang Jitong looked around and whispered: "I think of the people who create public opinion. I will find them tomorrow." He hurriedly said goodbye to everyone and went to find the little ghosts at Longmen Inn.
Wang Xiaolin and a few classmates were complacent in looking at the newspaper. Since Mr.'s teaching, they have not practiced this way. This public opinion can be manipulated as Mr. taught. For example, the report that questioned that Longmen Inn was a Carp Inn was forwarded under their design. "As long as this power is used correctly, it will be powerful." Wang Xiaolin reminisced about this sentence and agreed with this. The facts now fully prove this point. As long as you go to a teahouse casually, as long as you talk about this major case, you have to mention the "no-no-connection" inns of Carp and Longmen. Anyone who can read newspapers in the world knows that there are two most famous inns in Shanghai, one is the Carp Inn, the old nest of the Revolutionary Party, and the Longmen Inn, which has no-connection with the Revolutionary Party.
Just as he was thinking about how to plan the next newspaper debate, the door was knocked. His bed was closest to the door, so he had to get up and open the door. He saw Mr. Wang standing outside. Mr. Wang was taciturn and good-looking, but the math he taught was the most damn big. He was surprised and stuck out his tongue and hurriedly invited the teacher in.
Wang Jitong came in to find a place to sit down. The students thought he had something to do, so they hurriedly sat up. Wang Jitong waved his hand and told them not to wear clothes, saying, "You guys are calling the advertisement for Longmen Inn."
Wang Xiaolin was shocked. He didn't know what Mr. Wang asked about this, but he still honestly said: "Yes, sir."
Wang Jitong said straight to the point without any silence: "There is one thing you have to leave to you. If it is done, then it can save a few lives. If it is not done well, hey... it's not your fault. It's just that the world is like this."
Everyone was shocked and didn't know what was going on. In the end, Wang Xiaolin said in a trembling voice: "Then, sir, please make it clear that we will do our best and will never be careless!"
Wang Jitong nodded and said, "This time, all the people arrested in the prison were friends of the teacher. Now the court wants to extradite all these people to Nanjing. The imperial edict has been issued, saying that they are going to be executed by Lingchi. In fact, they did nothing, but wrote something that the people didn't know, and everyone dared not say. The court did not allow them to say. Now foreigners want to extradite but don't want to extradite. Your teacher sent a telegram to ask me to find a way to guide newspapers and public opinion. I can't. This matter can only be handed over to you. If it is done well, they can save their lives without extradition. I will entrust them to you here." As a revolutionary, Wang Jitong expressed deep sympathy for Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong. He was in a flash and stood up and bowed deeply to the students. Wang Xiaolin and others hurriedly stood aside and dared not accept the courtesy.
Wang Jitong bowed and left. The students of the planning team did not sleep all night. Three days later, major newspapers in Shanghai and the capital began to introduce the punishments of various countries. In comparison, it was the most violent of the Qing Dynasty. It was known as the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty. This article was just an appetizer. There were more details about the punishments of the Qing Dynasty. For a time, newspapers in the world told the court that the laws of the court were too strict, and at the same time advocated the rigorous civilization of Western laws. These newspapers were either in the concession or reported the facts. The Qing court saw that the public opinion was one-sided but had no choice. After all, the Qing Dynasty did not have the Propaganda Department.
Wang Jitong and some people in the school were deeply relieved. Zhong Guanyu also brought good news. Rutt also did a lot of work. At least Germans completely refused extradition. Of course, many members of other countries in the Works Department also did not agree with extradition. The forced closure of the Soviet newspaper office was not tried a few days ago, which made foreigners dissatisfied. Now, the public opinion trend is in a row, and more members of the parliamentarians believe that extradition criminals is a compromise with the Qing court. Only the general office of Nanyang Public School, Fu Kaisen, encouraged that there is no need to offend the Qing court for these rust people in the Qing Dynasty.
At the same time, under Brown's planning, the society spent more than 3,000 yuan to invite several famous lawyers in Shanghai to form a lawyer group. In fact, at this time, there were only nineteen lawyers in the entire concession. In short, those lawyers were qualified, and there were only seven real lawyers. The Qing court invited two of them, and there were not many left. The slogan of the lawyer group was very loud, that is, to let some uncivilized people know what civilization is. English newspapers began to be long articles.
The laws of the British Empire and the laws of the Qing Dynasty believed that the legal trial of this case had epoch-making significance for China's civilization progress, which was a great opportunity to show the great European civilization. As soon as this language came out, the extradition of the Qing court was hopeless and had to put his mind on the Beijing ministry. The parliamentarians who were originally inclined to extradition began to proudly express that they would never compromise barbarism in order to show the great European civilization. The trial must be carried out in the concession, and the same is true for prison.
According to the opinions of the lawyer team, the best way to win this case is to not plead guilty, that is, not to admit that the remarks in the books and newspapers were written by themselves. However, when visiting prison, Zhang Taiyan said that he could not accept this, Zou Rong also said that he would not do so, and Wang Jitong's persuasion was useless. If Zhang and Zou were really like this, they would not have been imprisoned at the beginning.
Just as the mutual struggle behind the scenes, the first trial began in the public office on July 14.
The prisoners were riding in a carriage to the government office. Zhang Taiyan and others were sitting next to each other. There were dozens of police guards outside the carriage to protect them. There were police guards guarding at all intersections and alleys. The entire protection was very loud. Because the Ministry of Works Department had accurate information, Yuan Shuxun ordered 500 officers and soldiers to take off his clothes and lurk around the government office, intending to extradite the prisoners directly to the concession, so the Ministry of Works Department had such strict security.
The prisoners entered the public hall and stood in the hall in unison. The Qing court presided over the trial of the magistrate of Shanghai Wang Yaoting, in order to show his majesty, shouted loudly: "Kneel down."
Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong ignored them. The others were about to kneel down, but the lawyer group Havato took the lead and stopped him, "Slowly! This is the public concession trial party, not the yamen of the adults. Moreover, kneeling is very uncivilized, and there is no such list in all countries. Even if they are not allowed to sit, they should be asked to stand and be tried."
Wang Yaoting's momentum was taken away, and he saw that it was difficult for foreigners to refute, so he could only agree. The government was actually a court in the constituent, but unlike the Qing court, he agreed that the trial of foreigners would be tried by the consul or the consul sent by the consul of the country, and the jury who simply involved Chinese people should not interfere. However, this agreement was only a few decades ago. Under the intimidation of foreigners, even the approval of Chinese people was interfered by foreigners.
At the beginning of the trial, the plaintiff's lawyer Gu Bai first filed a complaint and all crimes on behalf of the Qing government:
Chapter completed!