With Jiangsu's help, most of the culprits of the 412 massacre, especially those in western Zhejiang, were captured by the People's Party. Wang Youhong was right, the people he handed over were the people that the People's Party needed the most, and the most important and crucial trial in western Zhejiang could already begin smoothly.

Cai Yuanpei was engaged in revolution in his early years and engaged in assassination. He never imagined that one day he would be tried as a counter-revolutionary, let alone that he, who has always adhered to local autonomy, would hear thousands of people in western Zhejiang shouting in a western Zhejiang dialect at the gate of the court, "Kill Cai Yuanpei!" Kill Cai Yuanpei! ”

All the glory and the group of people who once swore to defend have left Cai Yuanpei, even though he knew that falling into the hands of the People's Party would be certain death, Cai Yuanpei still felt the taste of despair. Of course, Cai Yuanpei did not want to bow his head to the People's Party, even if it was the People's Party's court, Cai Yuanpei still tried to refute the People's Party with his own ideas to expose the true face of the People's Party.

Cai Yuanpei was not the only one on trial, Feng Guozhang, Wang Ziming and other senior officials in Zhejiang all stood in the position of the suspect in frustration. The courtroom was full, and Cai Yuanpei did not feel scared even though he knew that these people were arranged by the People's Party. Feng Guozhang, Wang Ziming and others were all depressed, but Cai Yuanpei held his head high. When the clerk began to confirm the identity of everyone's lives, Cai Yuanpei replied: "I am Cai Yuanpei!" But I'm not the counter-revolution you call me! ”

The judge calmly interrupted Cai Yuanpei's attempt to start his speech, and Cai Yuanpei also calmly stopped and waited for the judge to speak. In Cai Yuanpei's experience, those condescending guys often say a bunch of nonsense. After they talk nonsense, it's a better time to refute. Even though the people who attended the trial were all members of the People's Party, Cai Yuanpei believed that refuting the People's Party judges in front of these people was something more valuable.

"Cai Yuanpei, we brought you here today, not because of what you thought, nor because of what you promoted. We brought you here today because of what you did! The judge's voice echoed in the court's trial hall, not condescending, let alone hoarse, but the judge's courage made the entire courtroom feel a kind of pressure on the people on trial and observers, "You are suspected of plotting murder!" You are suspected of being involved in the murder! You are suspected of directing murder! That's why we've brought you here for trial today. You are here to be tried as a murder suspect, not as a revolutionary. Please figure this out. ”

Characterised as a murder suspect by the judge, Cai Yuanpei felt that he had been greatly insulted. If we talk about the organization that has killed the most people in China in the past decade, the other organizations together cannot catch up with the People's Party. Cai Yuanpei felt that the killing machine of the People's Party actually tried himself in the name of a murder suspect, which can only be described as funny.

Without waiting for Cai Yuanpei to think about how to refute, the judge said in a whisper from the observer: "The prosecutor continues to prosecute." ”

The prosecutor did not accuse Cai Yuanpei personally at all, but presented evidence one after another. After more than a year of intelligence gathering and more than a month of investigation that cost a lot of manpower and material resources, the whole picture of the massacre in western Zhejiang has basically been investigated. One by one, from the collective massacres carried out by the Beiyang Army and the militia groups, to the lynching and murder carried out by the landlords and gentry. The prosecutor presented the full picture of the massacre to the court.

Most of the observers were members of the People's Party, and a small half were ordinary people from all over Zhejiang. Even so, everyone has more or less heard of the affairs in western Zhejiang. Even if they haven't heard of it, Zhejiang people know a little about Zhejiang's crazy killing. Even so, the entire court was frightened by the tragic scene of the massacre in western Zhejiang. Exclamations rang out from time to time in the courtroom, and some observers angrily shouted to kill Feng Guozhang, Cai Yuanpei, and others who were the culprits of the massacre, and the bailiffs immediately stepped forward to stop these people's behavior of disrupting the order of the court.

Cai Yuanpei could no longer say the speech he had already thought of, and the People's Party did not refute the personal character of Cai Yuanpei, the culprit, but pointed out what they had done. After more than an hour of narration, the prosecutor began to call witnesses again. Among the witnesses were officers of the Beiyang Army, gentry, and survivors of the massacre. Their testimonies, as well as the warrants they produced, proved that the 412 massacre was a premeditated, organized, and well-planned massacre against the people of western Zhejiang.

More than three hours in the morning passed in a blink of an eye, and the prosecutor's indictment was not yet over, but the time for the hearing had arrived. The judge adjourned for one hour for everyone to eat and rest, and the trial resumed one hour later.

In order to prevent collusion in confessions, all the leading figures on trial were detained separately. Cai Yuanpei was taken to the toilet to pee, made him wash his hands, and then taken to the detention cell. The meal was ready, but the chopsticks were not prepared. Just gave a very blunt wooden spoon. Cai Yuanpei sat at the table in despair, and did not eat for a long time.

The morning hearing shocked not only the observers, but also Cai Yuanpei. Cai Yuanpei did not regret killing the members of the Zhejiang West Branch of the Guangfu Society, nor did he regret killing the members of the peasant association and the trade union. Even at this time, Cai Yuanpei still firmly believes that the ideas of those chaotic parties are harmful to the country and the people, and they must be eliminated. What shocked Cai Yuanpei was the massacre and abuse of women and children in western Zhejiang. It is even more shocking that the People's Party has been able to spend a lot of energy and effort to collect this information so clearly.

If the People's Party were to convict Cai Yuanpei of these charges, Cai Yuanpei knew very well that he could not refute it at all. Although Cai Yuanpei never ordered the killing of women and children, he was already very clear when he issued the order to purge the party, and those relatives who refounded the party would definitely not have good fruit to eat. When considering these women and children, Cai Yuanpei has the malice to kill them however they want.

The People's Party's prosecutor did not believe that Cai Yuanpei gave the order to kill the women and children, but they believed that Cai Yuanpei was inescapable of being held responsible. In the face of these irrefutable facts, Cai Yuanpei really can't refute them. As a scholar, Cai Yuanpei doesn't care about killing people. Anyway, it's not him who does it himself, and he won't go to the front line, the history books are full of records of all the people in a certain place being killed in the war, and the dead people are just a fact on paper, not a reality that can move Cai Yuanpei.

And when the People's Party put the truth of the massacre in western Zhejiang in front of Cai Yuanpei, he finally found that he could not refute it. But being unable to argue means that you must admit guilt and obey the law, which is exactly what Cai Yuanpei originally thought was ridiculous. What is the crime of killing the rebels? This is a great and good thing for the benefit of the country and the people! As an early rebel, as a famous literati, Cai Yuanpei was caught in a dilemma. His heart could not prove that he was innocent, but he could not consider himself guilty. But the reality makes Cai Yuanpei understand without ambiguity that if he is so silent, then he will definitely be executed as a murderer's criminal, and he will be humiliated for the rest of his life.

An hour passed quickly, and the guards did not persuade Cai Yuanpei to eat some food. Their task is to monitor Cai Yuanpei not to commit suicide, not to take care of Cai Yuanpei's food, clothing, housing and transportation. As soon as the time came, they dragged Cai Yuanpei, who was still in a trance, and took him to court.

The prosecutor continued his morning work, and the atrocities of the massacre in western Zhejiang were too many. There are so many people to target that just stating the facts is extremely hard work. Not to mention that stating these facts is in itself a challenge to human nature. Sometimes when talking about the facts of those crimes, the prosecutor himself could not help but burst into tears and couldn't cry. The courtroom attendants were similarly in tears. The suffering of the masses in western Zhejiang is too great and too heavy. It is impossible for an individual to be unaffected. The bailiff who maintains order quiets the weeping observers or takes them out of the courtroom to avoid disturbing the hearing. They themselves have red circles in their eyes, or they simply have tears on their faces.

It took a day and a half just to make a statement, and the censorship was broadcast through a microphone. At the end of the first day, the crowd in Hangzhou who had listened to the loudspeaker had gathered at the entrance of the courthouse. When Cai Yuanpei, Li Yuanhong and others left the courtroom under the protection of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the crowd outside saw these people and were already shouting and scolding them. If it weren't for the protection of the army, the masses would have rushed up and tore Li Yuanhong, Cai Yuanpei and others to pieces.

"Kill Li Yuanhong!" "Kill Cai Yuanpei!" "Avenge the common people!" These slogans are getting louder and louder. Li Yuanhong, Cai Yuanpei and the others had never been surrounded by so many people, and although it was chaotic, it condensed the same angry roar, making them feel as if their bone marrow was frozen.

At the hearing the next morning, the bailiffs wasted a lot of effort to stop the crowd from saying, "Kill Li Yuanhong!" "Kill Cai Yuanpei!" The roar. At the end of the prosecutor's presentation, he asked the judge to sentence them to death for homicide.

"I'm not the mastermind! The mastermind is Cai Yuanpei! The matter of purging the party was planned by Cai Yuanpei alone! Li Yuanhong suddenly shouted.

Everyone in the court was stunned, everyone didn't expect Li Yuanhong to come with such a hand. And Li Yuanhong found this gap and continued to shout, "Our Beiyang Army are all outsiders, how do we know the inside story of the Restoration Society?" Cai Yuanpei himself ran to us to ask us to send troops, and President Yuan Shikai also ordered us to do it, so I was forced to send troops to follow Cai Yuanpei and them to do these things. I'm not the mastermind! I'm not the mastermind! ”

Wang Ziming, the governor of Zhejiang, immediately shouted, "It was Zhu Rui who participated at that time!" After Zhu Rui was killed, I became the governor of Zhejiang! I'm not involved in this at all! I...... I was wronged! My lord, I was wronged! ”

These two people took the lead, and others other than Cai Yuanpei immediately followed, and they shouted that they were coerced into this matter, and the mastermind was Cai Yuanpei and Yuan Shikai. They had to be forced to participate in it, and even if they did, they couldn't do it.

It's just that so a dozen people talk together, and the voices of various local accents are mixed together, but they can't hear anything clearly. The judge hurriedly struck the "shocking wood" with a hammer, and an angry roar came from the audience, "You are all farting! The crowd then stood up and shouted at the people on trial, and the entire courtroom was in chaos.

The judge waved his hand helplessly, and the bailiffs temporarily took the suspect out of the courtroom while trying to calm the emotions of the spectators.

Seeing that Li Yuanhong, Cai Yuanpei and other suspects were leaving, I don't know who took off their shoes and smashed them in anger. At this time, the audience was reminded, shoes, bits and pieces in pockets, coins, and some people took off their shirts and rolled them into a ball and threw them at Cai Yuanpei and others. In an instant, colorful fabrics flew across the courtroom.