XXXVII. Sentencing Conference

(Maopu Chinese) At that time, the county government office was also the seat of the city government in He Xiaojun's previous life, and it was a European architectural art style building with a garden.

He Xiaojun, who was born and raised here, certainly has a certain understanding of the building in front of him. This building was built in the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931) and completed in the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933).

The building covers an area of about 10 acres, which is a major symbol of modern architecture in Haishan, which integrates the unique British bell tower architectural style of the European cultural revival period. Two thousand years later, the building was declared a cultural relics protection unit by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government.

He Xiaojun, who has lived in this city for more than 20 years, also knows that this building has been used as the exterior location of many movies such as "The Interim President", just because it was built majestically enough to look like a fake presidential palace.

Looking at the buildings that were no different from the old and the new more than half a century later, He Xiaojun had a feeling that things were right and wrong, and he couldn't help but feel nostalgic.

At the same time, He Xiaojun's understanding of the era in which he lives has been taken a step more accurately, that is, between 1935 and 1939.

He Xiaojun and Da Niu waited in front of the county government for a while, and the document that had been passed down from the gate to Chen Village in the morning to report the commendation met them and took them to the scene of the sentencing meeting.

The sentencing meeting was held at the location of the city sports square in He Xiaojun's previous life.

At this time, the location of the sports square is just a vacant land, an open space of about 10,000 square meters, and at one end of the vacant land, there is a rostrum built of blue bricks.

After He Xiaojun and the others came to the square, they saw that the square was already crowded.

Judging from this situation, this place should be the county seat where the people were concentrated at that time, and it was used to hold people's meetings or conduct large-scale people's movements.

He Xiaojun walked with the county clerk and looked at the audience in the square.

There were about four or five thousand spectators in the square, and these spectators were clearly divided into two camps.

Concentrated in the center of the square were the orderly formation of people who were in order, and they were the students, who were watching with curiosity the bandits with their hands tied and dejectedly escorted by a soldier behind each of them.

In this student's phalanx, He Xiaojun saw a strange phenomenon, that is, the student phalanx was also clearly divided into two camps, one camp was all boys, and the other camp was all girls. There are about five or six times more boys than girls.

Didn't many materials in the later era say that in many places in that era, girls were not allowed to study? Could it be that this small place of Ningcheng is an exception? Could it be that Ning Cheng was so enlightened that it was different from other places in that era? Otherwise, where did so many schoolgirls come from? Moreover, what kind of students should be separated from men and women? Didn't boys and girls study together at that time?

After He Xiaojun tried to recall, he figured out the reason why the male and female students were separated.

Yes, at that time, male and female students could not study in the same school.

He Xiaojun has recalled that in his previous life, one of the two middle schools in the city with a history of nearly 100 years was called a female teacher in the past, that is, in the past, only girls were allowed to attend. It can also be seen that they already had a culture of women going to school here more than half a century ago, and He Xiaojun does not know why such an enlightened atmosphere was formed.

Compared to the students who lined up in a neat square, the crowd of onlookers standing on the periphery was much more messy. However, it can be seen from this that these masses were not organized, and should have been some people who came to the sentencing meeting spontaneously.

In those days, there were no entertainment programs in society, and people had free time, so watching the excitement was also a good group entertainment.

He Xiaojun and the two of them were directly brought to the edge of the rostrum by the documents of the county government.

When they came to the rostrum, the clerk of the county government asked He Xiaojun and them to stand here and wait, and when the names of the people related to Chen Village were called on the stage, they went to the stage to accept the award.

After the paperwork was finished, he walked up to the rostrum and sat down on the empty stool at the very end of the row of stools that were already full of people on the podium.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sentencing meeting began on time.

After a person who presided over the meeting announced the start of the meeting, the first person to speak on the stage was He Xiaojun and the person they knew, that is, Liu Jinzhong, the squad leader who fought side by side with them in the suppression of bandits.

When squad leader Liu came to the stage, he first introduced some bandits in his county, and then gave a detailed account of the process and results of this crackdown on bandits.

Because squad leader Liu was there, of course he was clear about the battle situation this time, and this operation was indeed wonderful, so he spoke eloquently and won a warm applause from the audience.

After squad leader Liu finished speaking, the middle-aged man in a Mao suit who was sitting in the center of the row on the stage was then walking to the front of the stage. This middle-aged man is about forty years old, with a shrewd face, and he looks extraordinary.

The middle-aged man in a Mao suit came to the front and back of the stage and said loudly to the crowd below: "Dear Haishan's fathers, brothers and sisters, I am Xie Changhai, the county magistrate of Haishan. Today, on behalf of the Haishan County Government, we are holding a sentencing meeting here to pronounce sentences on a group of bandits who have harmed the people in accordance with the law. ”

"Yesterday, the garrison of our county and the villagers of Chen Village fought a beautiful victory in Chen Village, eliminating 21 bandits who came to invade Chen Village, capturing more than 30 bandits headed by 'Ya Gongsheng', and destroying the nest of this gang of bandits. After several days of interrogation, the county has confirmed the crime of this gang of bandits, and now I announce the verdict of this gang of bandits. ”

"The bandit leader, 'Ya Gongsheng,' committed a heinous crime, and he immediately corrected the law on the spot to set an example; the other stubborn and wicked bandits who were captured, and five of them were killed, also decided to correct the law. Other bandits who did not commit any life were to be punished with 80 lashes and to be punished with hard labor ranging from two months to three years. ”

After the county magistrate Xie Changhai announced the verdict, the soldiers who were escorting the bandits immediately escorted six people, including the bandit leader "Ya Gongsheng", to prepare for the on-the-spot execution.

When the bandit leader "Ya Gongsheng" was escorted to the execution ground, he struggled desperately, shouting fiercely, "Lao Tzu is a good man again after 18 years".

At this time, the students at the meeting hall organized themselves to chant slogans such as "eradicate bandits, stabilize the normal life of the people in Haishan," "eliminate bandits, and defend the homeland," and so on, suppressing the dying wails of the "duck public voice."

After a few gunshots rang out from the "horn" and "horn", several gangsters who committed the most heinous crimes went to the underworld to report.

The place of execution was on the beach of a large river on the edge of Ningcheng City, not far from the square.

In He Xiaojun's previous life, the place where the execution ground is now used has been built into a wide avenue along the river. At that time, he had also heard the old man say that this place was an ancient execution ground. After seeing it with his own eyes today, he believed many allusions, and it was really not groundless. Cat flutter Chinese