Chapter 307 Comrade Stalin was a little anxious
Zhongnanhai, Huairentang, the crown is gathered, the sages are all over, and almost all the most famous social elites in China have arrived today.
Today, Han Lihong is going to answer questions in person.
People came so together, many people didn't give Han Lihong face, but Han Lihong's shelf was too big, but Han Lihong's attitude was the key to many things, if they wanted to question Han Lihong in person, they couldn't help but come.
Han Lihong has always done things concisely, and when he arrived, he invited everyone to ask questions.
There were a lot of journalists present, but on this occasion, there was no opportunity for reporters to ask questions, they were just responsible for recording and reporting.
The first to ask a question was barrister Zhang Kaizhi, who asked: "Mr. Han, everyone is created equal, why should there be a legal division of 369 and so on?" β
Zhang Kaizhi refers to the crime committed by officials, the crime is added to the third degree, and the same crime, the higher the rank of the official, the heavier the punishment.
Looking at Zhang Kaizhi, Han Lihong said: "Mr. Zhang, everyone is created equal, I don't agree with this future first, everyone is born equal, not before, not now, and will not be in the future." β
Zhang Kaizhi wanted to debate, but Han Lihong waved his hand lightly and said, "Mr. Zhang, I'm not here to debate today, I'm just here to state some of my views today." β
Nest fire, not only Zhang Kai's nest fire, many people nest fire, but no matter how hot it is, there is no way to endure it. Moreover, as soon as Han Lihong's words came out, he blocked 90% of what they wanted to say.
Aggrieved, Han Lihong is simply too domineering, even more domineering than Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek is not like him, he doesn't save face at all.
Han Lihong continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, as I said, I am a defender and practitioner of tradition, and in terms of law, I believe that our eyes should look at our ancestors and draw wisdom from our traditions, rather than the so-called modern civilization of the West. β
"Our ancient traditional society has always paid attention to leniency and prudence, but even in the period of leniency and prudence, officials, especially corrupt officials, have always been severely punished."
"Why is this?"
"Putting aside the moral factor, I don't think anyone will deny that this is beneficial to the governance of the country and social stability, and to put it bluntly, it is to safeguard the interests of the ruling class itself."
"A healthy society should have classes, peasants, workers, merchants, bureaucrats, and so on, not classes. The existence of classes means that social contradictions are intensified, and violent revolutions begin to be born. Twenty-four histories, twenty-four emperors with surnames, where are they now? How did they die? And how many high-ranking officials, eunuchs, rich businessmen, and tycoons perished with them? β
"Everyone thinks it's okay if I'm greedy, and it's nothing if I force a common person to die...... All rich and powerful people think so, so when the storm comes, these people will also die with their families, such as Zhu Yuanzhang's children and grandchildren, and in the end, aren't there several who were boiled in broth. β
"For thousands of years, the Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, and the Han people have no time to mourn themselves...... The Tang people have no time to mourn themselves, and the Song people have no time to mourn themselves...... The Ming people have no time to mourn themselves...... Do we have time to mourn today? β
Han Lihong counted one dynasty after another, and many people were terrified.
Han Lihong's voice was calm, but there was a faint anger rising in his heart.
In the previous life, those elites who returned from overseas openly advocated the theory of sub-superiority, believing that [***] would contribute to social progress, and then under the banner of human rights and the right to life, they wanted to completely abolish the death penalty for economic prisoners in law.
These elites and corrupt officials, who have tried their best to lead China to the West, will sing and harmonize, step by step, and finally issue all corrupt officials in China a gold medal that only the emperor can issue back then, so as to completely mess up China.
In Han Lihong's view, even if all the laws are complete and corrupt officials can really be imprisoned to death, this kind of gold medal for avoiding death cannot be issued, and it should not be issued.
Corrupt officials have always been the real source of chaos in the country, and they must be curbed.
There was a faint cold light flashing in his eyes, and Han Lihong said: "Here, I declare that I will put the theory of corrupt officials into the constitution, and I will rise to a sacred and inviolable status in the hearts of the people, no matter what stage of social development it has reached, this article cannot be changed!" β
There was silence for a while, and suddenly, applause erupted.
Han Lihong saw that most of these people who applauded from the bottom of his heart were people from the [***] side, and he couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.
Subsequently, the second question was about procedural justice and substantive justice.
Han Lihong said: "On the whole, the proportion of scum among the powerful and wealthy is much higher than that of ordinary people, and because they are much stronger than ordinary people, so a necessary angle of legislation is to restrain these people, and this is the essential difference between Eastern and Western legislation." β
"You are all educated, and you should know that we have a complete legal system for a long time, much earlier than in the West. The law flourished in the Song Dynasty, and at that time people said that nothing in this dynasty could not be ordered. Wang Anshi changed the law, and law became a compulsory subject for officials, and every official knew the law himself, so they didn't need a lawyer. However, this is not the case in the West, which has long been a strictly hierarchical and privileged society, and Western lawyers have served the powerful from the day they were born. So, lawyers have become litigants in our country, and in the West they have become the upper class. β
The Song Dynasty was a civilian society, because the officials did not use lawyers, so lawyers had to serve the common people, but serving the common people could earn a few dollars, so most of the lawyers in the Song Dynasty adopted the method of planting a wide range of crops and increasing their income by increasing the number of cases.
However, China is a humane society, and there is a tradition of settling lawsuits, and Confucius advocated no lawsuits, so how can there be so many cases for them to do? As a result, lawyers began to create litigation cases, such as sowing discord, turning small contradictions into big contradictions, and finally going to court.
What's more, they indiscriminately represent cases, such as children, deaf elderly, and mentally ill people.
At that time, these problems had just become social problems, and there was no such thing as the subject of litigation, so lawyers directly encouraged children to go to court, or instigated people with unsound intelligence to go to court, with the result that even if the parties succeeded in the lawsuit, most of their property fell into the lawyer's pocket.
This is how lawyers have become litigators in China.
Excessive litigation has caused a great waste of resources and social problems, and a reasonable and healthy society cannot allow lawyers who make money from lawsuits to become the mainstream, so the Southern Song Dynasty began to govern lawsuits.
The mediation system, the subject of litigation, and the requirement for witnesses to tell the truth by American courts all existed in the Southern Song Dynasty.
After explaining it in detail, Han Lihong said: "Western law is essentially for the powerful, and now the feudal privileges have disappeared, but in their place are the privileges of capital, which they have made the law extremely troublesome and complicated, which is done by the capital magnates and lawyers in collusion." The more complex the law, the more loopholes there are, and it is the lawyers who can find these loopholes, but who can afford to take care of these lawyers? The powerful, of course. β
"From what angle of legislation is an extremely serious question, the laws of the Song Dynasty were naturally not made by the common people, but by the officials, they are the ruling class like the privileged class in the West, but why do they make laws that are different from those in the West?"
After a pause, Han Lihong said: "Because they are smarter than Westerners, see farther than Westerners, and know the long-term truth, only when society is stable, they and their children and grandchildren can enjoy a good life, and this is the essential difference between our traditional political axe centralization and Western capital centralization." Today, to put it mildly, some of the people here are either for their own selfishness, or they are monkeys who worship the monkey and crown it. β
This scolded too harshly, but if you think about it carefully, what Han Lihong said is not unreasonable.
"I compare the advanced Britain and the United States to monkeys who are crowned by monkeys, and many people must be dissatisfied, because the monkeys are stronger than us, and their people's lives are much better than ours. However, everyone worships monkeys, and don't forget that monkeys' buttocks are red, and how their prosperity comes from. β
"For hundreds of years, the Western powers have plundered wealth from all over the world, and it is this wealth that has temporarily alleviated their domestic contradictions, but this good story of wanton looting will not last forever, and there will always be an end one day. Now, I can assert here that their short-sightedness is bound to dig up the lifeblood of the West when they cannot maintain their strength by plundering! β
Whoever said the same words came out of his mouth, these words came out of Han Lihong's mouth, and they would inevitably turn into a storm.
Immediately after, the big discussion of surnames in the country began again.
At this time, there were very few "elites" and even fewer reverse nationalists, so the tendency of the great debate was one-sided.
-- The Spring Festival of 1939 is destined to be engraved in the hearts of many Chinese and will never be forgotten. This year's Spring Festival, there is too much joy, and the land of China is soaked with something called "happiness".
Needless to say, the Chinese who understand the meaning of this year's Spring Festival are those Chinese who are ignorant of national affairs, and they are also soaked in happiness.
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yan Xishan took the lead in announcing in Shanxi Province that within three years, the upper limit of land rent would not exceed 30%.
Immediately afterwards, the provinces also announced the policy of limiting land rent, but the intensity was not as strong as that of Yan Laoxi.
In fact, Yan Xishan is so brave that there is no way, forced, who let Shanxi and the Black God Army be next to each other, and the common people are staring at him like wolves.
The provinces have sent Spring Festival gifts to the peasant brothers, naturally it is not the landlords and old wealth who have changed their minds and become Buddhas, many provinces are like Yan Laoxi, they are purely forced to do so.
Two months before the Spring Festival, the Black God Army put forward a motion in the council bureau to ask the provinces to implement rent and interest reductions.
This is another great righteousness, and no one opposes it, but there are difficulties, all kinds of difficulties, in short, it cannot be implemented, and the council has become a bitter and heartfelt bureau.
However, when the Black God Army squirted out the bad water, the councilors who were complaining bitterly were all stupid and stared.
The Black God Army announced that if the council was inconclusive, then the central government would issue a decree ordering the provinces to reduce rents and interest rates.
There are two types of decrees promulgated by the central government on a national scale: one is passed by the Council and has a certain binding force; The other category is not approved by the Council and is not binding in the slightest.
At this moment, the parliamentarians have realized that although the central political axe is virtual and has little power, it is also very, very important to grasp the central political axe.
Now, the central political axe is the rubber stamp of the Black God Army and [***], and you can cover it however you want.
Once the central government has promulgated this decree and several provinces have implemented it, the peasants in each province themselves will rise up and demand that the provincial government axe carry out the central government decree.
At that time, the problem will be big, once the trouble starts, who knows if the peasants will demand the implementation of the new rural construction of the Black God Army?
The situation has developed to this point, either the next step or the previous step, and the struggle for power in the province is enough for those in power to drink a pot.
Therefore, the council has reached an agreement, and this little matter will not bother the central government, and the provinces will take care of it themselves.
Ground rent, as far as the whole country is concerned, fifty percent of the rent is too little, six or seven percent is very common, and it is not uncommon to become **, so it is conceivable that this Spring Festival gift will make the beneficiary farmers happy!
Through this incident, many people have a new understanding of the country and the central political axe, and it turns out that the central political axe is not so vain.
For those who want to fight for power, it is necessary to intensify the struggle for the central political axe in the future, and for those like Han Lihong who want to promote the substantive reunification of the country, they find that the situation of autonomy in the provinces is not as bad as previously thought, and there are still many points of focus.
It's the New Year, and Yanjing City is bustling and boundless.
Yanjing City is a large community of rich people, and there has never been such a large and complete rich gathering area in the world throughout the ages.
In such Yanjing City, the social elites are like fish in water, but they are very distressed.
ββββThe central seat of [***] has been moved from Yan'an to Wei County in Chahar Province.
In order to ensure the safety of the central location, Han Lihong dug an air defense underground fortification in the central station, in case the little devils came to bomb.
[***] is no longer the [***] when he was in Yan'an, he controls Chahar, Rehe, and Inner Mongolia, and now there are more than 400,000 regular troops, and the equipment of the troops is even more incomparable before, and the same is true for all other aspects.
It can be said that China [***] has reached an unprecedented heyday.
In the bitter cold wind, Yang Shangkun pushed open the door of the conference room of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee with a bag of things.
In the conference room, Taizu, Prime Minister, Mr. Zhu, [***], and Ren Bishi were around the stove, roasting sweet potatoes and discussing things.
Seeing Yang Shangkun come in with something, Taizu smiled and said, "Good things are here again." β
The things that Yang Shangkun carried were sent by Han Lihong, who regularly translated the newspapers of major countries and sent them over.
These newspapers were Taizu's favorite.
Yang Shangkun sent not only newspapers, but also telegrams.
After receiving the telegram and reading it, the prime minister's brows furrowed slightly, and he said: "Comrade Stalin is sending a special envoy again." β
Ren Bishi asked: "Old Mao, which play is Comrade Stalin?" β
Recently, the Soviet envoys have been running towards them in a hurry, and counting the one who has not yet arrived, there are already five.
Taking a puff of his cigarette, Taizu didn't speak, and after a moment of contemplation, he stood up and walked over to the wall where the huge map hung on it.
Everyone looked at each other with a look of surprise in their eyes.
After a while, Mr. Zhu stood up, walked to Taizu's side, and asked, "Lao Mao, you said you were going to attack the Soviet Union?" β
Taizu said lightly: "If it was just a book, it would not have made Comrade Stalin look up to us so much." β
With that, Taizu turned around, returned to his seat, sat down, and continued: "Comrade Stalin's concern is that Germany and Ben will attack the Soviet Union at the same time. β
On September 1, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland and partitioned Poland; On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany; On 5 September, the United States issued the "Declaration of Neutrality."
[***] said: "Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland, and there was a secret treaty between them. β
Nodding, Taizu said: "This is certain, but the secret agreement can also be torn up." After a pause, he added: "However, whether Hitler wants to attack the Soviet Union or not depends on how well the German army fights in Europe." β
After thinking about it, Ren Bishi said: "If there is really a situation that Comrade Stalin fears, then our opportunity has come." β
In this room, there is no taboo in this regard, and after Ren Bishi finished speaking, Taizu and the others laughed.
Indeed, it is a bit strange that Ren Bishi's words on the one hand addressed Comrade Stalin, and on the other hand, he thought about how to use Comrade Stalin's suffering to seek his own interests.
Ren Bishi also smiled after speaking, and then sighed: "It would be nice if I could take the opportunity to take back the Far East!" β
It would be nice to be able to take back the outer Mongolia, everyone was silent.
After a while, Taizu said, "It's not impossible. β
As soon as Taizu said this, everyone else looked at Taizu in surprise, and the prime minister asked, "Chairman, is this really possible?" β
nodded and said, "I think the Black God Army must have made this idea a long time ago." β
[***] said: "I'm afraid this piece will not be easy to gnaw." β
Taizu nodded and said, "It's not easy to gnaw, but it's not impossible to overcome." β
With frowning brows, Mr. Zhu said: "If you don't get it right, if the Soviet Union loses, it will be troublesome." β
If the Soviet Union had been defeated, then Germany and the Soviet Union might have joined forces to clean them up, and if that really happened, the situation would not be something that anyone could grasp.
Taizu said: "We have to prepare for the worst, but we must strive for the best result." β
Ren Bishi said: "Wealth and danger are sought, this may be our only chance to recover the Far East, we must not miss it!" β
Mr. Zhu: "Enlai, you can talk to Han Lihong after you return to Yanjing and see what his opinion is." β
At this time, Taizu shook his head and said, "Now is not the time. β
Mr. Zhu smiled, indeed, the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, what can be talked about now.
(To be continued)