Chapter Seventy-Six: The Troubled Times
After Lin Chengjia left Lin Zhe's office, he thought back to Lin Zhe's words just now, and at first he didn't quite understand how Lin Zhe made it flexible.
But after taking a few steps, he showed a look of enlightenment, and then beckoned one of his subordinates over, and then whispered a few words.
After his men left, he said to himself: "Don't you Englishmen want murderers, then I will give you murderers!" ”
The next day, the patrol police department publicly announced that the Chen Jiaqiao robbery and murder case with bad influence had been successfully detected, and the murderer resisted with arms during the arrest of the patrol police department and was killed on the spot, and then the patrol police department searched for a large amount of evidence at the murderer's residence.
Although the British consul in Shanghai, Ali Guo, was dissatisfied that the murderer was directly shot dead by the Chinese patrol and could not confirm it, since the case had been solved, he had nothing to say, but repeatedly emphasized that the security of the trade area had caused a serious threat to the lives and property of British merchants.
Together with the American consul Ma Hui, the French consul Aitang, and other Danish, Portuguese, Dutch and other consuls, a total of five countries sent a joint note to the Yamen of the trade zone, demanding that the Yamen of the trade zone strictly rectify the law and order of the trade zone and eliminate bandits as much as possible!
Lin Zhe was under tremendous pressure from ministers from many countries, so he naturally turned the pressure to Lin Chengjia, the general office of the patrol police department in charge of public security affairs in the business zone.
In the face of Lin Zhe's pressure, Lin Chengjia gritted his teeth, once again showed his military style, formulated a strict patrol law enforcement system, and applied to Lin Zhe to equip dozens of patrol officers under his command with Minny step guns, and required the patrol police to carry guns and ammunition on duty on the street at all times.
At the same time, he asked Yu Shengjun for assistance to set up checkpoints in various important places in the business area to search for criminals, and at the same time, due to the lack of patrols in the patrol department, he also began to recruit patrol officers on a large scale.
Lin Zhe agreed with Lin Chengjia's measures, and at the same time gave him advice: the patrol police department set up a household registration management agency, register every foreigner and Chinese who enter the business zone, and strictly manage the flow of people in and out.
At the same time, in order to accompany the patrol police department's law and order rectification action, Lin Zhe also instructed the judicial department to judge the arrested criminals strictly, and hinted at the guiding opinion of 'kill if you can, and find a way to kill if you can't'.
According to Lin Zhe's guidance on this significance, in November of the Western calendar, the judicial department concentrated on the trial of 87 criminals of various kinds, and in addition to a considerable number of these people for serious crimes such as robbery, armed assault on police, and homicide, more than half of them were petty theft and other misdemeanors, but all of them were sentenced to death.
November 23rd, heavy snow!
Although Shanghai is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it is impossible for the snow to fall in this season, but the heavy snow season in the south of the Yangtze River is still enough to make people feel the chill.
In the open space in front of the patrol office on the south bank of the pidgin in the business area, there is a small wooden high platform, surrounded by many people, not only a large number of Chinese, but also a considerable number of foreigners, the total number of which is not less than a thousand.
The reason why they are here today is because the judicial department of the Yamen in the business zone will carry out the sentences of criminals who have been arrested and tried for death in recent months.
As time slowly passed, Lin Chengjia Huitong Judicial Department General Office Chen Xingyi appeared in front of everyone, Lin Chengjia first said what nonsense such as outstanding public security achievements in recent months, and then Chen Xingyi, the general office of the Judicial Department, took over the conversation and publicly announced the criminals and trials of many criminals.
Immediately afterwards, the judge of the British court also came to the stage and announced the hanging of two British Indian sailors, who were sentenced to death for burglary, rape and finally brutal murder of a British upper-class woman, the girlfriend of British businessman Arthur Smith.
After a group of people briefly came to the stage to give speeches, the next onlookers saw a scene that they will never forget for the rest of their lives!
I saw rows of prisoners pressed up, the first were the foreigners, the executioners sent by the countries themselves put ropes on them, and then pulled down the pedals under the gallows, and in an instant, these foreigners were like bacon swaying in the air with the wind.
And then, I saw a large number of Yu Shengjun soldiers pressing a row of criminals to the stage, not many, only ten!
Then, an officer-like officer Yu Shengjun drew his command knife and shouted: "Load!" ”
These soldiers of Yu Shengjun were obviously some newly recruited recruits, and some of them were about to usher in their first killing in their lives, so the hands of a few people began to tremble, and the reloading was a little slow.
The young officer's face was expressionless, and he waited quietly for his soldiers to reload, and when all the soldiers were reloaded, he said, "Aim!" ”
"Shoot!"
As the order was given, a dense crackling sound sounded, and the ten criminals who were tightly bound all over their bodies and even had strips of cloth stuffed in their mouths fell down in an instant.
Then more than a dozen Yu Shengjun soldiers came out, their Mini rifles were loaded with bayonets, and I saw them go up and see these criminals who were hit by bullets, regardless of whether they were dead or not, and directly aimed their bayonets at everyone and stabbed them several times in a row.
Then the Yu Shengjun soldiers, who had shot and mended their knives with bayonets, stepped down, and a group of dozens of Yu Shengjun soldiers came up, taking ten criminals with them as they had started.
Then they repeated the previous movements of the remaining soldiers!
Because the soldiers of Yu Shengjun who executed did not pull away those criminals who were dead or not dead, but let them pile up on the stage, and a large pile of corpses was piled on it, not only did the fourth batch of death row prisoners who came to the stage have a violent resistance, but even caused a certain panic among the onlookers in the audience.
Many people who have good eyes and can see clearly, but who can't tolerate it, have already begun to vomit, and many people have left the scene early.
Even a few foreigners who came to watch couldn't help frowning, and from time to time there were words like 'barbarians' and 'too disgusting'!
By the time Yu Shengjun's recruits took turns on the stage to complete the execution of more than 80 criminals, there were already a large pile of corpses on the stage, many of whom were still not dead, and were still in the last pain before the temporary occurrence**.
And the nearly 1,000 people who were watching from the audience had already gone before the execution, although these ordinary people liked to watch, join in the fun, and even regarded the beheading of the vegetable market as a lively view, but if you let them see that nearly 100 people were killed in a centralized manner, and those corpses were still piled up in a pile, blood was flowing, then few people must be able to stand it.
As soon as the execution of the heavy snow day was over, at least thousands of people quietly left the trade zone, these are either the Jianghu Hui Party or habitual offenders, some time ago they came to the trade zone and thought they had found a good place to make a fortune, but they didn't expect the people in the yamen of the trade zone to be so ruthless, regardless of whether you steal or shoot, if you are caught, they will be shot, and there is no room for maneuver.
Subsequently, the first and only existing newspaper in the business district, the North China Jiebao, reported on the matter, and the British commented that this was an unprecedented crackdown on crime!
It is said that in order to maintain law and order in the business area, the government of the business district has taken many unconventional measures!
Of course, in the end, it is inevitable to say that the law enforcement methods of the patrol police department are too barbaric, and at least six people were directly killed in the law enforcement process of the patrol police department last week alone!
And the final execution is even more uncomfortable, violating the norms of civilized people.
Looking at the evaluation of his policies in this English newspaper, Lin Zhe frowned a little, this public opinion can't be controlled by these foreigners, but it's not good to run it directly by yourself, the government runs the newspaper, you might as well just make the Di Bao public as a newspaper.
And he didn't feel at ease about letting outsiders do business, so he called Pan Lixuan over, didn't say much, but directly asked him to gather people and prepare to prepare a newspaper.
Pan Lixuan was a little puzzled when he heard this, and asked him what to do with the report, Lin Zhe directly put this Beihua good news in front of Pan Lixuan: "What should it do, you will do it!" ”
I was also worried that this Pan Lixuan directly became the second English newspaper, so I still said a few more words: "If it is done in Chinese, you can publish advertisements and trade information, as well as some current affairs comments, readers' letters, etc., in addition, if there is any government decree promulgated on the side of the trade zone in the future, it will also be published directly through guò this newspaper, the scale does not need to be large, just set up a shelf first, in the early stage, you can publish 100 copies every week, and how to do it in the future you let people watch it!" ”
Lin Zhe asked Pan Lixuan to engage in newspapers, mainly because he wanted to let himself have a public opinion position, and he couldn't let foreigners say everything, he could only shut up.
Although the outside world has certain accusations against the violent law enforcement of the patrol police department and the strict trial of the judicial department, it has to be said that the effect is quite obvious, and the party and Jiangyang thieves who were quite active in the past were either arrested or fled, and the violent cases that affected the image of public security have been rapidly reduced, and the remaining cases of ordinary petty theft have also been greatly reduced.
When there was a slightly stable public security environment, Lin Zhe finally put his energy into the planning of the business zone.
In order to achieve the sustainable development of the business area, or to make the land sell at a better price, Lin Zhe has come up with the planning of business area, industrial area, ordinary residential area, and high-end residential area from the beginning.
But in order for these plans to become a reality, a lot of infrastructure must be built first, that is, the construction of docks, roads, and bridges.
However, it costs money to do these infrastructure projects, and the yamen of the business zone has just opened, and the amount of tax is still relatively small, and the largest income is the real estate transaction tax for the time being.
According to the regulations, the sale and purchase of land in the business zone, well, the transfer of 'perpetual leasehold', regardless of the price, is taxed at 5% of the transfer price.
The yamen of the business zone has just opened, and there are many places to spend money in all aspects, and it is impossible for Lin Zhe to extract the military expenses of Yu Shengjun and put them into the yamen of the trade zone.
In the financial situation of the yamen in the business zone, Lin Zhe set his sights on the Chinese merchant banks and foreigner banks.
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