Chapter 66: Please do something
Today's lunch is probably the most embarrassing meal Sun Wei has ever eaten in his life, but as far as he estimates, the only person at the table, including the bodyguard, who is not embarrassed is Lingling, who knows nothing about anything, and she has become the most active of all at the table of the rare grandfather who is not stern.
As a standard housewife, what Wang Qian does every day is nothing more than to watch the children, or help Wu's mother sew and mend, and her biggest entertainment is to gather a group of ladies and wives who also have nothing to do to play mahjong, and the reason why she happened to appear in the new house today is to prepare some clothes for when the weather turns cold before the official move.
After lunch, Sun Wei really couldn't stand this embarrassing atmosphere, so he left a few women and slipped away under the pretext that there was something to deal with in the room.
As a detective of the public concession, Sun Wei actually has a lot of things to do every day, in addition to dealing with many major and difficult cases in the jurisdiction of the Central Patrol House and the Laozha Patrol Room, he also has to take into account the coordination between various forces on the ground in the public concession and even the Chinese realm, and in the more than half a month since he was discharged from the hospital, he has come forward to mediate no less than ten disputes between gangs in order to maintain the stability and harmony on the ground.
"Inspector, this is an invitation sent by Mr. Karlowitz, the head of the Lihe Foreign Company, inviting you to his daughter's birthday party in the evening." As soon as Sun Wei entered the office of the capture room, Huang Wensheng, his dog leg in the capture room, followed, and then put an invitation card on his desk.
"His daughter, how did I not know that he had another daughter?" Sun Wei has a deep cooperation with Lihe Foreign Company in business, and the two have met many times during this time, and even yesterday's action was through the introduction of Johann von Karlowitz to get the foreign boss of "Declaration" to agree to send a reporter to accompany him for an interview, but he has never met Johann von Karlowitz's family, let alone know that he has a daughter.
"Mr. Karlowitz's family is said to have been in Germany all along, and they must have only recently come to Shanghai." Huang Wensheng explained.
"Oh, I see, you go get busy." Sun Wei picked up the invitation, then waved his hand at Huang Wensheng and said.
The invitations sent by Johann von Karlowitz were all written in German, not to mention the contents, and he didn't even know his own name, so he took a casual look and went straight back to the table.
Participating in other people's daughter's birthday party naturally can't go empty-handed, buying gifts is still a must, but fortunately, the gifts at this time have not yet reached the dazzling situation of later generations, and the shots that can be given to women are nothing more than some perfumes and gold and silver jewelry.
At this time, although there were no big cases in the public concession, there were still a lot of things about Sun Wei, not long after Huang Wensheng walked out of his office, the people in his office were knocked again, but this time it was not the person who was looking for Sun Wei who was arrested, but a wealthy businessman in the jurisdiction of the public concession, for his son who was arrested by the house patrol.
The handling of cases in the public patrol house is also in line with the fine tradition of the Chinese nation throughout the ages, and the emphasis is on the fact that the people do not hold officials accountable, and everything that does not hinder the harmony and stability of the public concession is generally not concerned with this idle matter, but once the matter is big, the arrest house must come forward to solve it, even if the perpetrator has a deep social status.
The wealthy merchant who approached Sun Wei this time was a factory owner in the Public Concession who ran a flour business, and his son had been helping him take care of the factory since graduating from the school run by foreigners in the Public Concession.
As a standard Xiaokai in Shanghai, the son of this wealthy businessman has the shortcomings of all rich children, and the most important of them is women.
Maybe his biological mother died early, this Xiao Kai loves his wife, but unfortunately an employee in his factory happens to have a very beautiful wife.
In Shanghai, a place where people are drunk and obsessed, there is a general impetuous mood among the people, and everyone thinks that people like Huang Jinrong and Sun Wei have become rich overnight from a poor boy, and their pursuit of money and luxury life has reached the point of obsession, so the wife of the man could not withstand the teasing of the rich businessman's son, and soon abandoned her husband and children.
As the saying goes, brothers are like siblings, women are like clothes, dare to rob my clothes will cut off his hands and feet, so out of anger, the husband of the wife of the man took a pig-killing knife to find the adulterous husband and adulterous woman fornication of the outer house, but unfortunately his revenge this time not only did not achieve the goal, but was knocked out of the house by the small open three or two.
If the matter is over here, not only will Xiao Kai not be guilty, but he can go to the patrol room to sue the husband of the man's wife for trespassing into the house, but the divine turning point of the matter is that this Xiao Kai felt that he was blocked in the house afterwards and lost face, so he took a dozen helpers to the house of the man's wife's husband directly, and beat the husband of the man's wife to only half his life, and also broke a leg.
In the previous life, the Chinese people always said that if they don't do it, they won't die, and this blatant revenge of Xiaokai naturally attracted the arrest of the house patrol, and in the near future, it will be pressed to the trial of the public party.
The Qing government in the seventh year of Tongzhi and the British, American, French consuls in Shanghai agreed to set up a council yamen in the concession, its official name of the Qing government is the first council yamen in the north of Pidgin, the yamen stipulates that Chinese and foreign officials are sent to jointly try cases between China and the West, and then this yamen is renamed the trial office.
The public office stipulated that an official selected by Shanghai Province should be the presiding judge, and the British vice-consul should be the jury, and that all cases committed by Chinese in the concession would be tried by Chinese officials alone, and all cases involving Chinese and foreign parties should be tried by foreign jurors.
However, in the trial of cases, foreign consuls are called jurors, but as long as the case involves their interests, the foreign jurors actually become the presiding judges, the Chinese presiding judges become decorations, the so-called triumphs are in vain, and finally even lawsuits between pure Chinese in the concession must be manipulated by foreign consuls.
Since its establishment, this trial office can be said to have gone through several twists and turns, last year because of the foreigners' wanton interference in the case of the Chinese caused the Chinese to make a big fuss about the trial of the public party, although this matter was finally because the concession and the Manchu government both sides were very tough, and the foreigners could not start a war for this matter, and finally it was over, but the Qing government was still a lot of rights for the Chinese in the concession.
During the Xinhai Revolution in the previous life, the Chinese members of the public party fled with money, and foreign consuls took the opportunity to take over the public office, and promulgated the "Eight Articles of the Provisional Measures for the Public Examination", stipulating that the Chinese triage officer must be appointed by the consular office, so that the public office completely fell into the hands of the concession, although the public office was still nominally a Chinese court, in fact, it had become the transfer organ under the control of the foreign consular corps in Shanghai, and all the members had become employees of the foreign consular corps in Shanghai.
In the case of a case, whether criminal or civil, the Shanghai Judicial Party will issue a summons, which is limited to the same day to be paid bail, and there is even a special summons, which can be issued at any time at the request of the plaintiff, and at the same time, the public office has no appellate organ, and no matter how big or small the civil and criminal cases, the first instance is concluded, and there is no chance of appeal and rehabilitation.
It is precisely because of these two reasons that the judges of the public party have been doing whatever they want for a long time, and the merchants and people of Shanghai have suffered the most, so after the May Day tragedy, the people's demand for the recovery of consular jurisdiction and the abolition of the trial of the public party became stronger and stronger, and finally in 1927, it was withdrawn by the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and then a provisional court was established.
At this time, although the power of the trial office was not completely in the hands of foreigners as after the Xinhai Revolution, the foreigners still had great power, and the judges sent by the Manchu government were often a decoration in the trial office.
Although the trial is in the hands of foreigners, what foreigners really care about are those sensational cases, such as the case of the son of a wealthy businessman who came to ask Sun Wei to do things this time, most of them are directly handed over to the detective who reported the case to convict, if the detective says it is serious, then the crime of the person being tried will be heavier, and if the detective says it lightly, then the crime of the person being tried will be lighter.
At this time, in the patrol room of the public concession, foreign detectives are already a very rare animal, and they are either the high-level of the house, or the auxiliary personnel responsible for civilian work, and few of them are directly involved in the detection of the case, so most of the cases that are not favored by the high-level of the house are determined by Chinese detectives.
This chapter is not finished, and the following is the content of another book, which will be corrected after writing at two o'clock in the morning.
Sun Wei felt that his whole body was falling apart, lying on the ground weakly, and it was difficult to move even his fingers. Sun Wei opened his eyes and found that the sky was gray, and the afterglow of the sun was about to dissipate. It is a miracle that the violent explosion did not kill himself, and he did not even blow up his clothes, but only shook himself to the point of weakness. Sun Wei raised his arm with difficulty, and the hands of the watch showed that it was half past seven. Consciousness gradually recovered, and Sun Wei suddenly thought that there were two more bandits. Sun Wei laboriously supported his whole body with his hands, and looked around, and the two bandits were lying on the stone next to him, their heads covered in blood and motionless, not knowing whether they were dead or alive. Sun Wei put his hand next to the nose of a bandit and found that he was no longer breathing, he probed and probed that the other bandit was also dead, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, shouting that he was so lucky.
He lay on the ground weakly, and it took about ten minutes before he gradually regained his strength. Sun Wei slowly stood up, only to find that the place where he was lying was the shore of a small lake, through the last rays of the sun could see a row of buildings that could enter the Chinese cultural heritage, a few people in long shirts could be vaguely seen walking around the street, and a few policemen with rifles and big braids under their big caps were driving people on the street. "Where am I" Sun Wei thought blankly: "Am I wearing it too, this is too bloody." "Thanks to Sun Wei's reading more novels, he has a strong receptivity, so he won't be scared into mental illness." Look at the outfit, this should be the end of the Qing Dynasty. Sun Wei thought.
After accepting the fact that he had crossed over, Sun Wei began to check his things, after all, life had to go on. My backpack is still there, which is a blessing in misfortune. The phone was broken and reshaped, but it was kept as a souvenir. The drawings in the bag are enough to make a living in this world, and Sun Wei is not so entangled when he thinks of this. Sun Wei turned around to look at the two robbers and was immediately happy. The robbers had two AK-47s, two bulletproof vests and two backpacks, one of the robbers had two small pumpkin grenades hanging from his waist, and the other robber only had two grenade rings on his waist. These two grenades didn't blow themselves up, but they brought themselves to this unknown world, and they didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse.
Sun Wei took off the robbers' bulletproof vests, one in his bag, and one in his clothes. Sun Wei opened the robbers' backpacks, one of them was loaded with one or two dozen grenades and some bullets, about a few thousand rounds, it seemed that the robbers were going to fight a protracted battle for the police but were destroyed by themselves. When he opened the other backpack, his eyes immediately straightened, and he exclaimed that he had made a fortune. It turned out that the other bag contained a bag of gold and silver jewelry and some jewelry, which was worth seven or eight million if it was worth not 10 million in modern times, no wonder the two robbers were so desperate.
When Sun Wei was happy, a gunshot came from a distance, and Sun Wei's hand shook and he dropped the bag on the ground. With the sound of gunfire came a revolutionary slogan, Sun Wei dropped the bag he was carrying on his back, took off the grenade from the corpse and hung it on his body and threw the corpse into the water, put a gun in the bag where the weapon was placed, and walked towards the shouting place with another AK-47. Sun Wei clearly knew that this was his chance, he did not have braids, once he was caught by the Qing army, he would definitely be killed as a revolutionary party, and if he joined the uprising, he might even get the title of a revolutionary meritorious service. The future is a revolutionary party, and the mainstream is a republic, and since we have come to this world, we will fight for it, and it will not be in vain for us to wear this meeting. Forty or fifty rebels shouting for revolution stopped when they saw the young men in front of them wearing strange clothes (casual clothes) and holding strange guns, and they all pointed their guns at Sun Wei, if they hadn't seen Sun Wei without braids, they would have opened fire.
At this time, a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young man walked out of the crowd and said to Sun Wei: "Who are you, why are you blocking our way!" Sun Wei said: "I am Sun Wei of the Revolutionary Party, and I came to command the uprising on the orders of Mr. Sun Yat-sen. When everyone heard that he was also a revolutionary, Sun Wei breathed a sigh of relief and said secretly: "It seems that Sun Cannon's cannon has a deterrent effect everywhere." The young man said, "Since you were sent by Mr. Sun Yat-sen, what evidence do you have?" Sun Wei didn't have any evidence, and hurriedly said: "My gun is a gift from Mr. Sun himself, and the power is comparable to the Maxim machine gun." After saying that, he fired several shots into the distance, and everyone was shocked. Sun Wei continued: "I also brought the activity funds in front, you can go and have a look." With that, he pointed in the direction he had come. (To be continued.) )