The lights in Yan Dabei Public Building were brightly lit. The patrolman suddenly broke into the campus and arrested the students and seriously injured a girl. Acting principal Lu Zhiwei negotiated but failed and had to convene an emergency meeting of the school evaluation committee. It was twelve o'clock at night, and the other professors were all here, but Hu Shi had not arrived - he called his house and said he had gone to his friend's place to play cards, and then called his friend's place to say he went out to drink, and no one knew where he was.

In the auditorium of Beigong Building, Lu Zhiwei briefly informed the situation. Professor Gu Jiegang of History was the first to speak: "The patrolman hunted 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 Da Ben is a place for study and a place for freedom. This... this..., everyone, the capital is so big that it can no longer be placed in a peaceful desk!" Gu Jiegang's last sentence made everyone nodded deeply, and he said with great pride: "Yes! We must protest to the authorities and ask them to release the arrested students immediately and stop this **********!" Wu Mi, a professor at the School of Literature, also said. Hu Shi should have been there at this time, but Hu Shi..., others didn't know where Hu Shi was, but he knew that Hu Shi should be drinking wine in the Eight Great Hutongs at this time, and his two old lovers were in Yanzhi Hutong.

"The current international situation is unpredictable, and the Imperial Daily is a nonsense. I am worried that someone is doing this on purpose, and the purpose is to provoke Sino-US relations, especially when the negotiations in Washington were frustrated." Xiao Gongquan, a professor in the Department of Politics, helped him in his glasses and said such an assumption. "Everyone, I am sure this matter has something to do with the Japanese, and they always want to disrupt the negotiations in Washington. The burning of the Imperial Daily newspaper and beating the editor must be a conspiracy between them and some of the authorities!

Think about it, something happened in the Empire Daily at twelve o'clock in the afternoon. At night... at 9:00 p.m., at 10:00 p.m., and every arrest is accurate. It is said that it was done by Yan University students. How could it be so coincidental?! The case was solved so quickly?! The theft case in the Forbidden City two years ago has not been solved yet. This time, the case was solved in nine hours, and more than nine hours..."

After all, he studied politics. Xiao Gongquan's assumption made everyone in the Council think deeply, but American professor Xie Dirk, who attended the meeting at the same time, said: "Gentlemen, do I want to know if those police officers have arrest warrants and search warrants?"

Professor Yang's idea was different from that of Chinese professors. Lu Zhiwei pondered for a moment and said, "Sometimes, when they were searching, I went to Caizhen Building in person, and the sheriff who led the team showed me the arrest warrant and search warrant of the Inspectorate."

"so..." Shedick shrugged, "I think it's very clear, they took the arrest warrant and search warrant approved by the prosecutor, which is legal and we should hire lawyers for the seven students arrested."

"Professor..." Seeing the foreigners so naive, Xiao Gongquan couldn't help but stand up, and he shouted: "Things must not be that simple! This must be a conspiracy! You don't understand the matter in China. This is obviously *******!!"

"Then how do we prove it?" Shedick spread his hands, his blue eyes staring at Xiao Gongquan very seriously. In his opinion, the matter was very simple. The student was suspected of burning a report. He was then arrested by the police, who held a warrant and search warrant permitted by the prosecutor.

"The conspiracy cannot be proved, it can only be imagined." Wu Mi patted the excited Xiao Gongquan and asked him to sit down. At the same time, he explained to Xie Dik in a harmonious manner: "In China, what is shown is completely different from what is actually. We are negotiating with the United States. But the Japanese oppose us negotiating with the United States, so they want to create destruction. Everyone knows that Yan University is a school run by the United States. This incident is a conspiracy to destroy Sino-US relations, creating public opinion by falsely accusing students of burning newspaper halls."

"This is really complicated..." Xie Dik looked at Wu Mi and then looked at the acting principal Lu Zhiwei. Seeing that everyone seemed to agree with this view, he had to put down his hands with his spread, and asked, "What should we do?"

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

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

Zhaoxian was Jiang Menglin, the Minister of the Wen Department of the new cabinet, and Guo Bingwen was the Minister of the Secretariat. Within the liberals, the term "Stariat" was a representative of backward feudalism, so everyone called him the minister. Lu Zhiwei immediately left everyone to welcome guests, and walked to the hall and saw Jiang Menglin wearing pajamas. Obviously, he came urgently.

When he walked to Lu Zhiwei's office, closed the door and then spoke: "Brother Zhiwei, there is something you should know, that 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 expect to tell him bad news. "Is this true?! I was just being trembling by their...those...those..." Lu Zhiwei trembled all over. He choked for a moment before saying, "...because they were beaten to death?"

"Before I came, I called the Beijing Police Department. The general situation was that the deceased was the girlfriend of the chief culprit Wang Huazhi... This should have been learned after the police department interrogation. At that time, the deceased saw the patrol officer preparing to enter the Cai Building to arrest people, and she had just come out from Wang Huazhi's place to help the injured deal with the wound, so she judged that these patrol officers were here to arrest her boyfriend Wang Huazhi. So when she left the Cai Building, she turned back to report the news, and closed the door at the same time, trying to prevent the patrol officer from entering. During the collision with the patrol officer, she accidentally bumped into the fire extinguisher box, so..."

Jiang Menglin roughly said the matter in a low voice, but Lu Zhiwei, who was shocked and angry, had no worries at all. He only knew: the patrolman beat an innocent female student to death! It took him a while to come back to his senses and asked, "What is the name of the patrolman who beat her to death?"

"I don't know. I only heard that the patrol captain who led the team to the school to arrest people was Du Sha, a native of Liaodong. He was transferred to the Fuxing Army and had a strong background. Seventeen years ago, when the patrol officer entered the Yanda school, he shot and injured a female student in public. Although he was demoted afterwards, it was still fine." Jiang Menglin briefly introduced this person to Lu Zhiwei. He said: "I asked, if the situation is really what the patrol officer said. This female student held the gate and stopped the patrol officer from entering, he still had no responsibility. At most, he would be demoted, and maybe even not demoted."

With a loud bang, Lu Zhiwei's hand suddenly hit the table, and tea splashed everywhere. He shouted: "Can my student die in vain? How old is she! How old is she? How could they be so cruel! How could they be so cruel!!"

"Brother Zhiwei, calm down, people cannot be resurrected..." Seeing Lu Zhiwei excited, Jiang Menglin advised, "The student burned the newspaper office and injured the editor, and it is very important to arouse some people's actions. This is the critical period of Sino-US negotiations. The Prime Minister means that if you can, you should endure it first!"

"I can't bear it!!" Lu Zhiwei carried it over in anger, and waved his angry hand sharply, "I can't watch my student be beaten to death and remain indifferent! No matter how strong his background is, the murderer will pay his life, even if Yang actually gets married!"

"Zhiwei!" Lu Zhiwei's attitude made Jiang Menglin very dissatisfied. He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Studying in the United States. At this time, he wanted to make a big deal for a female student who hindered public affairs. He had to say explicitly: "It is a big deal to burn newspapers for students! It is an extraordinary time now, and it is no benefit to us to make things bigger. This will give the Conservatives the excuse: You see, don't you want freedom of speech? Now that you burn the Imperial Daily newspaper, how can you still have freedom of speech..."

"Fuck! Shouldn't the Empire Daily burn?!" Lu Zhiwei was already mad at this time, and the thoughts hidden in his heart suddenly burst out. He turned around and danced his arms hard like a fight. "The Empire Daily should have been burned long ago! This kind of newspaper that promotes superstition, propriety, feudal and foul people should have been burned long ago! Unfortunately, we burned only newspapers last year. What is it promoting now? Promoting the war between China and the United States! Promoting the New Crusade! Promoting the Trinityists to strictly guard against Christian conspiracies and be enemies with Christians! Such remarks are fascism! They should have burned them! If it was really what Wang Huazhi and the others did, they did nothing wrong, and they could not do it right!"

"Zhiwei, don't talk crazy! American newspapers also advocated **** and said they should be wary of the conspiracy of yellow people, but which newspaper in the United States was burned?" Seeing Lu Zhiwei like this, Jiang Menglin, who was afraid of causing a big incident, had to refute.

"You all know that it is 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? There is only endless autonomy! There is only endless ignorance! There is only endless superstition! I wish the US team will come tomorrow! I wish they would occupy Beijing one day earlier! They will win one day earlier, and we will be liberated one day earlier! Isn't you thinking so too? Don't your brothers think so? What was our original ideal? What was the purpose? Isn't it all for that day to arrive earlier?!"

"But this requires a strategy!" Jiang Menglin was also angry when he said it, and he felt that he was full of grievances. "We have four thousand years of civilization. If we want to abandon all of them and embrace new civilizations, how can we achieve it overnight? Not to mention the Revival Society, not to mention those clans, just say the people. Will the people support us? Will they agree with us? Take Japan as an example. Japan is still using the old calendar and celebrating the old festival, but it has been 60 years of reform, and how many years have we maintained..."

"Then why don't you talk about India? Why don't you talk about the Philippines? For people who do not believe in democracy and fool the people, they can use bayonets to make them obey. Haven't they been obedient and used to being dictatorial..." Lu Zhiwei refuted. The topic of the two gradually fell into a long-term debate within the Brotherhood, namely: the revolutionary theory and the reform theory.

The former view is that according to the current situation, China will never achieve democracy. Because the feudal and conservative forces are gradually growing, they will kill all the buds of democracy and make China a country of ignorance forever. This view is mainly based on members who have converted to Christ and received baptism. As Christians, they can feel that the church members are declining and the missionary cause is being suppressed. As a countermeasure, they believe that a real revolution should be launched in China, that is, arousing learning and tide, creating bloodshed, and using international pressure to force the government to abolish the state religion, rewrite the constitution, abandon feudalism, and promote democracy.

The latter's view is obviously pragmatic and rational, or they are not as fanatical as the members of the teaching. Their view is that China's affairs cannot be solved by their own generation. All they can do is to retain the spark of democracy and participate in politics through remnants of politics. They use retreat to advance and unyielding changes to the atmosphere of ignorance and superstition in the country; they believe that being too intense will inevitably cause a counterattack from conservative forces, especially the counterattack from the nobles outside the gates.

None of the two factions could convince each other. However, after the London Navy negotiations failed last year and Sino-US relations became increasingly tense, the two sides had new changes. The former believed that surrender should be surrendered to the United States. Let the United States completely help China achieve democracy by occupying the Philippines, while the latter believed that surrender would arouse disgust among the people across the country and arouse resistance from the people. The best way is to use the huge pressure exerted by the United States to gradually force the country to transform into a democratic direction.

Originally, the two sides should have been consistent at this time, but the revolutionaries were still dissatisfied and believed that it would not be considered as realizing democracy alone. What should be done at this time was to cause a war between China and the United States, and let the nobles outside the pass, such as Yang Jingcheng, die at the hands of the US military, and after surrender, the US occupation forces came forward to completely destroy the feudal forces. Only in this way can the democratic republic be truly realized and the future troubles will be eliminated. For this reason, a beautiful name was specially given to the plan: phoenix-plan.

Regarding the radical fantasy of the revolutionaries. The reformists have to remind: that once all Yang Jingcheng and these people died, all the land outside the pass will definitely be occupied by the Soviet Union. Maybe the Soviet Union's cannon will be placed under the Great Wall in the future, and the country will be out of power from then on. Of course, this statement cannot convince those Christians who are caring about God. Their thoughts about the landing of American soldiers in Shanghai are stronger than expecting God to appear; as for the Soviet Union, they believe that American church members will protect themselves.

Excited, Lu Zhiwei said the views of a radical faction, and Jiang Menglin was obviously a loyal reformist. He had to consider the overall situation. After Lu Zhiwei pointed and scratched, he lit a cigarette and handed it to Lu Zhiwei. After taking several sips, he said: "Brother Zhiwei, we actually have the same fate, just one by one. You are right. The Philippines and India have also achieved democracy, but how many years have they been ruled by Spain and India? You have to do what they have done for hundreds of years in China for decades. The price is countless casualties."

Smoking a cigarette, opening the office window, and the cool breeze in the middle of the night made Lu Zhiwei's hot mind 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 will die on the battlefield are nobles and tribes, and there are clans. I believe that blood and death will tell them what the consequences are if they don't believe in God! This world is going to be democratic after all, and the sooner we realize it, the smaller the price we pay."

"Half people?" Jiang Menglin looked at Lu Zhiwei who was smoking with his lips pursed. "I only heard Yang Jingcheng said that even if 100 million people die, China will be strong. You should be fine, half of them will be gone."

"So what?" Lu Zhiwei frowned, "According to the past, those who do not believe in God are pagans. No matter how many pagans kill, they will be innocent and meritorious. Of course, they will have a chance to convert to God before they die, but they must be pious. 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 those living on this land. No matter how much the price it pays for this is worth it. You can't both want this and that, you can only choose the most important thing and then abandon the rest.

In other words, someone always needs to be the executioner. You said that improvements are actually lacking the courage to change, and you are too nostalgic for the previous pots, pots and jars. So what's there to be nostalgic for? After real democracy, not to mention those broken cultural relics, even the entire Forbidden City, this symbol of the special system should be burned out with fire.

You are afraid of death. While you yearn for democracy, you are proud of the trash left by the corruption and tyranny of four thousand years. You think this is the capital of the pride of the nation. How can you sing this?! I really think that the Jiyi Academy, and I really think that the Hong Fan Jiuchou is democracy? It is not at all! Only by erasing all the decay marks left by these four thousand years, including language and words, can we go lightly, gain new life, and become truly free people.

This is the road to democracy, the road to freedom. Four thousand years is too long! Those (decayed) things have been deeply engraved in our bone marrow. If you don’t erase them all, you will be restored if you accidentally. Since Yang Jingcheng, he has paid great attention to archaeology. Chaoge in the Shang Dynasty was excavated, Yanshi in the Xia Dynasty was also excavated, and what else is the ancient city of Shimao? Why did he and Zhang Fengzi do all this? This is actually the same as the principle of protecting classical Chinese at the time, in order to enhance the inheritance of Chinese civilization.

The more connected to ancient times, the more people are excavated. The more people tend to be conservative, the more free and democratic, the more rejected this kind of foreign culture. We can only make a choice between the two civilizations of the East and the West. Either choose the East, that is, continue to be ignorant and feudal; or choose the West. From then on, we can achieve freedom and democracy, and we will never have the best of both worlds. For example, Zhang Zhidong said that middle school is the body and Western learning is the use of it. This kind of thing was used by old bureaucrats to fool the court. How could we believe it? Yang Jingcheng saw this clearly about these things. His previous speech refuted Zhang Zhidong's view..."

"You said that Eastern and Western civilizations can only make one choice, but why can Yang Jingcheng integrate science into his theory of civilization?" Jiang Menglin also knew that speech was said when Tongji University was founded.

"The scientific spirit cannot fully represent Western culture. The root of Western culture is Christ rather than science. In ancient times, the West could have inventions and creations. In the East also had inventions and creations. But as Yang Jingcheng said, after the famous artists were not horses, China lacked the tradition of speculation and logic. Looking at the great scientists like Newton, they had been studying God for the rest of their lives, so there is no essential contradiction between science and religion. The so-called Bruno was burned to death due to the propaganda heliocentric theory, just a legend made by some people.

You, you always deceive yourself and think that the situation will get better and better, but what I see is that the situation is getting worse and worse. More and more people are leaving the church, and it is becoming more and more difficult to preach; students from Yan University and St. John, who graduated from church schools, are becoming more and more difficult to find jobs. Even if they find jobs, they are mostly working in the churches. Some people can only become front-line workers; the newspapers are increasingly disagreeing with the speech of Christ. In the past, we could preach in newspapers and in schools, but now we can only preach in churches…”

"It will always get better and better." Jiang Menglin said perfunctorily. Lu Zhiwei said everything is true. Over the past twenty years, fewer and fewer believers, especially Christians, have become less and less young. Even the main battlefield of universities, because middle schools and primary schools cannot control, conservative students still account for the vast majority. I remember that once in class, he briefly introduced the Chinese political system, pointing out that the emperor was only nominal, and students immediately stood up and left the stage. But so what? The tricky thing now is politics, not faith.

"The students' affairs are about to turn big things into small things, and small things into small things." After perfunctory, Jiang Menglin remembered his task again - to ask Yan University, or the academic community to remain calm and not cause trouble to allow conservative forces to make excuses. Now is a critical period for Sino-US negotiations.

"Then you have to let the police department release the seven students." Seeing Jiang Menglin say this, Lu Zhiwei was excited by the death of the female student, and gradually calmed down through venting. "And the patrolman is called Du Sha, so he must strip his tiger skin that is fake."

"Du Sha might find an excuse to dismiss his post, but if he wants to release the students..." Jiang Menglin smiled bitterly, "You know, our country's judicial system is completely independent. The Tingwei Mansion has been unified since its establishment. Even the judicial school is under their own control, and no one can interfere. The Prime Minister's Office can do very limited things. Besides, beating people and setting fires is a criminal case. If the inspector does not let go, people will definitely not be able to let go."

"I don't care about this. The one who died was my student, and the one who was arrested was my student. How could I explain to other students? Do you want me to say that their classmates died in vain?" Lu Zhiwei felt very uncomfortable when he said this. He said bluntly. "If students don't marches and protest, these two must be done!"

"Let's try." Seeing Lu Zhiwei like this, Jiang Menglin had to nod, and then left Yan Da a little heavy. 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 middle of the night, and Jiang Menglin whispered to the phone, "Zhiwei has two conditions, saying that one must first, the patrol police station release people immediately; the other must lead the team to arrest and kill the student... Yes, yes, yes, it's him... He wants us to remove the patrol captain named Du Sha... Yes, yes, he said these two must be done, otherwise... "

"I understand!" Weng Wenhao, who was awakened by the arrest of Yan University student after falling asleep, hung up the phone. Jiang Menglin's affairs were completed, but now all the problems are piled up with him. The Inspectorate and the Patrol Hall, the former is completely independent in terms of law and formality, and the Prime Minister's Office has no choice but to do anything to them; while in the latter, many patrol officers are actually professional officers of the Fuxing Army. Although Du Sha doesn't know the origin, he is sure to be in harmony with Fuxing. If he really touches him, he might...

But if the matter is not done, Lu Zhiwei will incite students to cause trouble again. This is not Yanda University’s first school, Tsinghua University, UnionPay, Fu Ren, Nankai, St. John, Hujiang, Jinling,... There are not many students in these churches, but the amount may be large. If it really makes a fuss, it will affect the negotiations in Washington. It’s really a dilemma!
Chapter completed!