The headline on the front page of the "Declaration" carried the results of the first trial of Tao Chengzhang's case, Jiang Zhiqing's crime was conclusive, and there were also the testimony of doctors, nurses, and other witnesses from the Guangci Hospital in the French Concession, and the pistol that killed Tao Chengzhang was also found, and the fingerprint identification proved that the last contact of the gun was Jiang Zhiqing, and the forensic doctor proved that the bullet that killed Tao Chengzhang was fired from this gun based on ballistics. Jiang Zhiqing's homicide evidence was complete, and he was convicted of first-degree murder, because although the methods were cruel and showed remorse, they were not enough to give a lighter punishment, and he was sentenced to death in the first trial.

Chen Yingshi did not say a word, and the defense lawyer made a not guilty defense, and the only evidence against him was Jiang Zhiqing's testimony, and the isolated evidence was not enough to be believed. Chen Yingshi found in the first instance that the evidence was insufficient to release him in court.

Sun Wen is the interim political axe president, and as usual, he does not have to appear in court to respond to the lawsuit, and a lawyer can appear in court on his behalf. The lawyer rejected the prosecution's complaint, arguing that there were insufficient reasons for summoning Sun Wen, and that none of the available evidence could show that Sun Wen was implicated in the murder of Tao Chengzhang.

After Chai Dongliang read the newspaper, he was speechless for a while. He never dreamed that Chen Yingshi would be acquitted, but the court sentence was also very fair. Chen Yingshi's instigation of Jiang Zhiqing's assassination of Tao Chengzhang was originally a secret room conspiracy, and there was no third person present, so naturally there would be no third-party testimony. Jiang Zhiqing was also the commander of the Shanghai Army, and the murderous pistol was originally his matching gun. Chen Yingshi did not provide him with weapons to commit the crime, nor did he provide financial support, and it was difficult for the court to convict him.

Kuang Haishan was indignant: "This kind of dog thief was actually released, is there still a royal law here?" The surnamed Jiang and the Duke of Huan have no grievances, and without Chen Yingshi's instructions, would he be an assassin? The judge doesn't understand such an obvious thing, is this judge blindfolded by lard, or has he taken the benefit of Chen Yingshi? ”

Chai Dongliang was silent, and from the bottom of his heart, he also wanted to cut Chen Yingshi with a thousand knives, but the surname Li told him that this verdict was fair, and the judge was not wrong at all. If you just want to appease the anger of the people, killing Chen Yingshi is undoubtedly the best way.

After Chen Yingshi was arrested and imprisoned, the Shanghai Legislative Council impeached him as soon as possible, and almost unanimously approved the removal of him from his post as governor of Shanghai. Various newspapers have repeatedly reported inside information about the assassination of Tao, including Tao Chengzhang's persuasion of Chen Yingshi to quit drug addiction and denounce Chen Yingshi's corrupt and corrupt life, and other conflicts between the two have been dug up. The members of the Council hated Chen Yingshi's arrogance, so they used pistols and axes to coerce the councilors to elect him as the governor of Shanghai.

For a time, Chen Yingshi suddenly changed from a revolutionary hero to a stinky shit, and the nickname of Yangmei Governor was well-known in China. The common people feel in their hearts that such a person who does not cultivate his personal virtues can be a good thing? Tao Chengzhang, who was assassinated, was touted by the press to the sky, in contrast to Chen Yingshi. Tao Chengzhang did not avoid the axe, twice went to Beijing to prepare for the sword Empress Dowager Cixi, Tao Chengzhang ran to Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui provinces, bridging the gap between the southern people's army, after the establishment of the Republic of China, and refused to resign from the post of governor of Zhejiang.

One is to use an axe to force the legislators to elect themselves as governors, and the other is to remove the governors who have been sent to them. Which is better or worse, the people naturally have rods and scales in their hearts. Annihilation always hates loyal ministers, since Tao Chengzhang is a Qing official and a loyal minister, then Chen Yingshi is naturally a corrupt official, and he is naturally a great annihilator!

What's more, this thief also killed the founding father's great loyalty Tao Chengzhang, in the eyes of the common people, the treatment of the annihilator is still a tiger's head to cut two pieces of pleasure, relieves anger!

Chen Yingshi worked for the revolution for many years, and the credit for recovering Shanghai and Nanjing was ignored by the press, intentionally or unintentionally, and the scandal was all revealed. Occasionally, the media talk about Chen Yingshi's exploits, and he is also scolded for being bloody, and he is open to annihilation, what is his intention?

On the day he was arrested, Chen Yingshi had already been sentenced to death by the people. If he didn't deserve to die, why didn't even President Sun intercede for him? It must be that the president has seen that he is a rebellious minister and a thief, how can the Holy Son of Heaven go to shield the ministers?

People all over the world are waiting for the moment when Chen Yingshi was sentenced to death, and now he has been acquitted, how can this not make people depressed!

Kuang Haishan's thoughts are the real thoughts of the most common people, and they can represent the will of the people very well.

The common law system used by the Ningbo court is convicted by a jury, and the members of the jury are all ordinary people who have nothing to do with either party, such as traffickers, pawns, pulp and dog slaughterers, and ordinary ordinary people who can no longer be ordinary ordinary people. When the Ningbo court was looking for jury members, it also made jokes. When ordinary people heard that the court was going to let them try the case, they were frightened and their legs weakened, and the more daring ones asked the yamen if they would pay money, and they were also disappointed when they heard that they only had to pay for food. If you don't give money for nothing, who will go? It's better to do some small business to subsidize the family.

The jurors who were finally found were basically poor and illiterate people who had no home or a job, and the purpose of coming to the courtroom was to have three full meals. They were not allowed to go home during the trial, so they were not swayed by the press, they had no innate prejudices in their minds, and most of them had never even heard of the names Tao Chengzhang and Chen Yingshi. They just felt that just based on Jiang Zhiqing's mouth, red mouth and white teeth, they decided that Chen Yingshi was the real culprit behind the scenes, which was too child's play, so they unanimously determined that Chen Yingshi was not guilty.

Chai Dongliang sighed and said: "Let's talk about this matter later, the most important thing at the moment is to catch the real murderer who killed our brothers in the First Brigade!" Thwart their plots. ”

Kuang Haishan said secretly in his heart, Lord Du Du must have eaten the ashes of the lamp grass, he touched his lower lip with his upper teeth, and said it so lightly! It is not clear who is behind the troublemakers, and it is also unclear what the purpose of the conspirators is.

The unknown threat is the biggest threat!

Both of them have heavy hearts!

Dividing line

Anqing City is in the center, the diagonal opposite of the original Anhui Governor's Yamen is the Anhui Provincial Bureau, four imposing black-clothed patrol police officers stand guard at the door, enter the big iron gate dotted with the pattern of tangled guava and sea tiger playing waves, inside is two courtyards side by side, connected to three three-storey small buildings, dozens of houses have courtyards in the courtyard, scattered and caused, these are just that, some of them are obviously with the style of Westerners, which is unique in the mansion of Anqing in the late Qing Dynasty.

This was originally a private house of the two Huai Salt Road that had retired, and later the descendants of the family road were sold to a big salt merchant, and the provinces and counties of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty had set up a council bureau, and the salt merchant took the initiative to contribute this house as a place for the office of the council bureau in order to please the governor of Anhui Zhu Jiabao.

There was a lot of noise in the bureau, slapping the table and hitting the bench and jumping to scold the mother, which was as lively as a temple fair in the countryside. Wu Jintang, who rushed from Wuhu to Anqing to attend the meeting of the Provincial Council of Representatives, even jumped directly onto the table regardless of his identity, shouting at the top of his voice and a group of people. A few of the most ferocious ones simply rolled up their arms and sleeves, picked up the chairs and directly staged a set of all-martial arts. The speaker's gavel was broken and no one cared about it, and in the end, a few black-clad policemen rushed in to barely separate the bruised and swollen councillors.

Today's agenda is the impeachment of Chai Dongliang, the governor of Anhui Province, and his removal from office. As soon as they heard this topic, those parliamentarians who had already invested in the Wuhu Industrial Park quit and stood up in protest. However, they are only a minority, and most of the councillors are from the squire, salt merchants, and merchants, who do not have hundreds of acres of land in the countryside, and some of the big landowners still hang up thousands of hectares. As a result, Chai Dongliang devised a progressive system of land tax, so that they could not make money by collecting rent, and he also stipulated that all members of the Council and Anhui magistrates must exchange land for 30 percent of the shares of the industrial park and 70 percent of the land bonds.

These parliamentarians didn't know the details at that time, and the guns were in Chai Dongliang's hands, for fear that he would make a mistake, so he turned his face and called his own soldiers to surround the Discussion Bureau, and then tied them all up and threw them into the Yangtze River to feed the fish. Now that the Republic of China has been established, and the provincial council bureaus have also been restored, forgive him Chai Dongliang and don't dare to kill people casually, right?

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty after the new policy, the provincial council bureau replaced the original Qingliu position, although there is no real power, but always occupy the supremacy of morality, Yanjing's senior government has once summoned Zaifeng, this imperial father regent is only like a primary school student meets a gentleman, was a group of parliamentarians led by Yang Du to cover the face is a few down. These legislators have long been accustomed to calling officials around, and although they have no actual power, they have also developed a surname that they are not afraid of officials and even take pride in scolding officials.

Chai Dongliang led the troops into Anqing, and after slaughtering the governor Zhu Jiabao, these people were also frightened, and recently looked at this governor and was not a murderer, and gradually he was not afraid, and he remembered the fields allocated to the mud legs in the countryside, and it was inevitable that his flesh hurt for a while. At this juncture, some people instigated that as long as Chai Dongliang was dismissed, the land could be reclaimed, and the original family would be returned to whom.

So, some people had the courage to put forward a motion to impeach Chai Dongliang, but I didn't expect most of the people to agree, although the opponents were fierce, but the number of people was too small after all. Now all you need to do is vote, and if two-thirds of the people agree, the impeachment will be validated.

Seeing that he was about to vote, Wu Jintang was anxious, and kept rubbing his hands and muttering: "How can this be obtained, how can this be obtained!" ”

Wu Jintang secretly complained in his heart that Chai Dongliang didn't leave early or late, but at this juncture, others were not in Anqing.

Once the impeachment is a resolution, it will be difficult to recover, the north-south peace conference in Shanghai Xiyin Hall has just ended, and the whole country is looking forward to peace and the rule of law, if Chai Dongliang is really impeached, does he dare to really rely on force to secede?

If this is the case, Chai Dongliang will become a sinner who destroys the peace situation, and he will inevitably be criticized by words and writings, and the world will condemn him!

"Vote now!" The gavel in the speaker's hand was about to fall, so everyone held their breath.

Wu Jintang and several other people who supported Chai Dongliang looked gloomy, and their faces were like ashes. More people are proud, waiting for the moment when Anhui history is about to be rewritten, and Chai Dongliang, who is the governor of Anhui Province with two salted duck eggs, is about to become an insignificant name in the history books like Sun Tiansheng, the governor of Yangzhou.

The situation is already at a critical juncture!

(To be continued)