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Whether it is love or law is a question for the jury, but for the army, it is a simple question, for the army, there is always only orders.

In the center of the city, a sentry with a gun stands alone, wearing an overcoat that looks like a sculpture, but in fact, he is enforcing martial law. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, thousands of cities entered a state of emergency, which was not found in Henggu, but behind the state of emergency, more than two million troops were stationed in the cities to uphold the law and suppress civil unrest.

Under the butts, bayonets, and even guns of the army, order was quickly restored, and more importantly, for the common people who were accustomed to "imperial power does not go to the countryside", they really experienced for the first time the public authority with the law as the core in addition to "taxation".

If there is any additional benefit to this state of emergency, it is that the large-scale presence of the army has reduced the living space of the mountain bandits and robbers, and in the interrogation of the participants in the civil unrest, there are always many people who report the whereabouts of the bandits they know in order to "make meritorious contributions", and the suppression of bandits has become a by-the-way.

Different from the participants in the civil unrest, the bandits as "quasi-war objects" according to the customs of the northeast, the first chance is to be tried by a military court, and the jury members of the military court are all soldiers, there is no doubt, the vast majority of bandits are in capital punishment, for a time, most of China, gunshots will be fired almost every day, hundreds of thousands of bandits in the north and south of the river, and even many "village bandits" who are busy for the people and bandits in their leisure time, have become the ghosts of the guns.

Even, because people are afraid of beheading more than shooting, the way of public beheading is often adopted for bandit leaders to deter the people. Under the heavy crackdown on the whole country, the living space of the bandits has been compressed to the point that it almost no longer exists. This may be an added benefit.

Although almost everyone is dissatisfied with the government's suppression, and even in private, they call the emperor a "tyrant", but on the other hand, the establishment of public authority has reversed the people's idea of "respecting officials and not fearing the law" for thousands of years.

"Not everyone has become a "green master"! ”

In the palace of Xiaohongshan, putting down the newspaper in his hand, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips raised slightly.

"Zhang Qing, look at this newspaper, someone actually proudly claimed that the verdict of not guilty is tantamount to a fierce mockery of the so-called "law" and makes the law a dead letter. ”

The newspaper reported a trial in Sichuan, in which the 12 jurors still chose the nostalgia over the law and rendered a not guilty verdict in the face of conclusive evidence.

"Your Majesty, you are just a fool in a village and a village, how can the laws of this country be completely controlled by it?"

Zhang Zhidong made his attitude clear at the right time, according to tradition, he naturally preferred the decision of the judge rather than the decision of the twelve ordinary people with different identities, in fact, this is the reason why they have accepted the civil law system.

"It's nothing more than a simple judgment of right and wrong, the murderer pays for his life, only when the evidence is sufficient, people can naturally make a decision, without evidence, they naturally want to release people, whether it is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go, or rather let go of a thousand, it is not bad to kill a person, I am more inclined to the latter, use evidence and facts to speak......"

Then Tang Haoran pointed to the newspaper and said.

"This case is not representative, what we have to see is that this incident involves so many people in the country, through the trial of the jury, almost all cases are in line with the will of the judiciary, and this is just an example, individual cases do not represent everything, after all, we have to believe that everyone has a scale in their hearts, and they will naturally bend the merits, and then ......"

Tang Haoran did not say what happened next, and to some extent, the use of the jury is also a shield for the government to get rid of accusations, because it is the jury that makes the judgment, not the judge.

Just as so many people were involved in this incident, and the people who finally convicted them were not government officials, but their fathers and villagers, and those ordinary people made their judgments with the most basic sense of right and wrong in their hearts, at least in the future, people may be able to accuse the government of arresting too many people, but they will never blame the miscarriage of justice.

Because the stick of fairness is given to ordinary people, to lawyers, not to the government.

"It's good to have arguments, so that everyone can carry out legal education, only when the people recognize the authority of the law, they will believe in the law, fear the law, in the past, our people are respectful of the official and not afraid of the law, to be honest, I hope that one day, they can fear the law and not respect the official, this is far away, Zhang Qing, what do you think of the petition sent by Dongying."

In the past few years, in the official language, "Japan" or "Nicholas Governor's District" is no longer used to refer to the four islands with a strip of water, but "Dongying" or "Fuso", which actually shows the official attitude, after all, Japan has perished, and calling "Nicholas Governorate" means recognizing Russia's occupation of Japan, so the most appropriate title is "Dongying" or "Fuso", such an ancient name.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this is a great thing!"

Zhang Zhidong replied respectfully.

It can be said that this petition fundamentally solves the problem and solves the problem of including it as the four provinces of the empire, because this is not what we proposed, but the voice of the people should be "Dongying" and it should be included as an imperial province! ”

Although there has been a debate over how to deal with the "Toei", in fact, the most basic consensus, both in the Tohoku and the current upper echelons of the Empire, is that the "Toei" should be included as a province of the Empire, rather than as a vassal state. As a matter of fact, the Chinese Empire did not have a "vassal state" at all, and now, at the request of the Korean side, the inclusion of Korea as an imperial province has entered the final stage, and all that is left is a "brand", and the name of the Unified Supervision Office is a sign of the provincial government, after all, after more than ten years of deliberate "preparations", the Unified Supervision Office has already completely controlled Korea, and there is no difference between the current North Korea and the imperial province.

However, on the issue of "Dongying," it is not so simple -- the more than 40 million "Dongying" people have lived under Russian colonization for 10 years, and their resistance to "colonization" is an issue that Tang Haoran has had to consider, and it is precisely because of this that the issue of receiving "Dongying" has dragged on until now; of course, the more important point is that the domestic situation is not at peace, so that the government cannot take any time to take over Japan, and more importantly, it is very difficult to reach a consensus.

Whether to directly establish the governor's palace and use the governor-general's provinces as an excess, or to directly divide the "Dongying" into four provinces according to the original idea, and promote the "integration of the Dongying" into China through the "split" of the "Dongying".

But now, the problem has reached the point where it must be solved, after all, the time has come when "Dongying" must be accepted.

"The province is easy to accept, but it is just a piece of paper, but this province is very difficult to do, whether to implement the governor system, or the implementation of the provincial government system, after all, this is directly related to the future positioning of "Dongying"! ”

The governorship system in Tang Haoran's mouth is different from the domestic governorship, which is more inclined to the governorship system of the western colonies. Like the Viceroyalty of Nikolai, which was established in Russia, it is a local body set up in Russia for different regions. As the Tsar's direct agent in the colonial Viceroyalty, the Governor was the supreme ruler of the Viceroyalty, combining military, administrative, and financial powers. It can be said that to some extent, it is the emperor of soil at all.

The introduction of the viceroyalty system means that the so-called provinces are nothing more than a disguised colonization of the "Dongying" region, just like the Russian colonization of the "Dongying", although the "Nicholas Governorate" is ostensibly part of the Russian Empire, but Russia pursues a different policy there.

"The introduction of a governorship would necessitate the establishment of a governor, which would be contrary to the long-term decision to divide and rule the four islands in the future, and whether the governorship might cause the people of the "Dongying" region to alienate themselves from the empire, all of which must be considered, after all, we need a land of long-term stability, not a colony full of riots. ”

At the beginning, people were more inclined to regard the entire "Dongying" as an independent province, but Tang Haoran advocated the establishment of four provinces on the basis of the four islands of "Dongying" under the pretext of a large population, so as to achieve the fact of "splitting" and "Dongying". Perhaps, Tang Haoran can say that "East Asia has the same language and the same species", but in fact, the defensive psychology towards Japan will not be eliminated.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this governor-general system can be implemented, and the provinces can also be implemented, and that, as in the past, it is possible to set up a "Toei" governor-general, and a "Toei governor-general's office" can be established in Tokyo, with the governor's office governing the four provinces of Hokkai, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and the four provinces will have separate provinces......"

Zhang Zhidong's suggestion made Tang Haoran's brows raise slightly.

"The governorship system in the country must be abolished after all!"

Could this be a temptation? Tang Haoran glanced at Zhang Zhidong, but finally dispelled this idea, because it was Zhang Zhidong himself who suggested that the governor be abolished, and even the first to cancel the governor was Huguang.

"Your Majesty, that is domestic, not overseas, perhaps, "Dongying" is the same status as the imperial provinces, but after all, it is a new land, naturally needs special treatment, this needless to say, therefore, in the opinion of the ministers, the implementation of the governorship system in "Dongying" is not in any conflict with the abolition of the governorship system in the country, and furthermore, its governor's authority can be different from that of the Philippine colonial governor! ”

The Philippine colony, the only colony in China, which was inherited from Russia, spent ten years, with the help of guns and bayonets, turned the Philippines into a cow full of tropical plantations, and now for China, all it needs is to take over there, continue Russian rule, and even religiously, it can continue to carry out the "indoctrination" that began in the Spanish era, compared to Confucianism, Catholicism has long been accepted by the Filipinos.

Of course, the more important point is that the country has never regarded the Philippines as a part of "China", so colonization and even enslavement are acceptable, colonies are colonies, and they don't even have the possibility of becoming the empire's proper, and as for the natives living there, it is impossible for them to become citizens of the empire.

However, Dongying is different!

In the past decade, millions of Dongying people have been exiled to China, and tens of thousands of Dongying people have served in the Chinese military, government, and factories.

"Yes, there has to be a difference from the Philippines, otherwise, there will be a lot of people who will be dissatisfied! Even there will be people in the country who are dissatisfied. ”

Tang Haoran nodded helplessly, in this time and space, those Dongying people may have been full of ambitions for China, but after the death of Japan, those Dongying people and the domestic connection became closer and closer, especially under the propaganda and agitation of "East Asia with the same language and the same species", not only the Japanese were affected, but many Chinese people were also affected, in the domestic view, the Dongying people should be given an equal status, just like the Koreans, but they obviously ignored one point - they first served the Koreans for more than ten years, And the Koreans have been bent on things for hundreds of years, but what about Japan?

Japan has never had a big heart!

Now, Tang Haoran fully understands what it means to be "conceited to be a silkworm", and the implementation of "East Asian culture and the same species" did attract many Japanese, and indeed maintained the closeness between the three ethnic groups, but it made it impossible for him to "train" those Japanese as he did with Korea in the past. And the only thing that can comfort him a little is that the reverence of power in the bones of the Japanese and the pursuit of the strong make him believe that in the future, those Japanese will not oppose the rule of the empire.

"Well, since that's the case, let's do it, Zhang Qing, who do you think is more suitable to be the governor in Dongying?" (To be continued.) )