"Fourth master, in Xia Wu Wanghai."

When Wu Wanghai walked into the private room of this Yiren Fang.

There weren't many people in it, just a few people.

Two men and three women, two men, one is Wu Wanghai's father Wu Bingde, and the other must be the boss of the Cao Gang, Huang Siye Huang Si Mazi.

The three women are dressed almost the same as they are not, and they are obviously dusty women.

Wu Wanghai, who saw this scene, couldn't help frowning.

He's a barrister.

Going to prostitution is also prostituting high-end goods.

Not to mention love chess, calligraphy and painting, at least it should be snowy and windy.

Like this kind of direct exposure, he really doesn't like it.

"Fourth master, come on, come on, this is the dog Wu Wanghai, Hai'er, come to see the fourth master." Wu Bingde greeted warmly.

"The fourth master is right, Wu Wanghai is below." Wu Wanghai arched his hand and said.

"Under Huang Si." The man also arched his hand casually, raised his hand and asked Wu Wanghai to sit down.

"Fourth master, why don't we talk about business first, your young master has made a mistake?"

Huang Si sighed: "This kid is a headache, he doesn't study well, he eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, smokes five drugs, and now he is caught smoking a lot by the government, and the handle is in the hands of others." Lawyer Wu, as long as you can get my son out this time, you can use it in the future, just let me know! ”

What can I do with you?

Asking you to go to the stubble field in a lawsuit?

Wu Wanghai complained in his heart.

The mouth was very polite: "Then thank you Fourth Master." ”

As he spoke, he pulled a document out of his bag.

"Fourth master, you still let the young master sign this stable document first, this is a power of attorney hired to act as a lawyer, with him, you can go to the cell to meet your young master, you can talk to him alone, and you can also look at all kinds of files related to the case. After I have talked to the young master, I will find a way. ”

The judiciary of the Ming Dynasty also embarked on the sea of files, and as long as a barrister could be hired, the criminal responsibility could be greatly reduced - this was also to give those rich a sense of security.

Otherwise, it's the same as before.

The prefect of the county who broke the house and destroyed the door.

Who would dare to take out their money and invest it for profit.

What if you get targeted?

So now the judiciary of the Ming Dynasty has learned many methods of "capitalist countries".

Barristers and judges are arguing, and there is a public trial.

If a rich person can afford a barrister, the big crime will become smaller, and the small crime will become nothing.

If you don't have money, you can only stand up and see how the judge decides.

It's really too dark and so unfair.

"Mr. Wu is a licensed barrister who graduated from Daohua University?" Huang Si took the lawyer's contract, looked at it carefully, but asked.

"Exactly!"

Huang Si nodded, "In this case... There's a reluctant plea below. ”

"Fourth Master, please speak."

"Can you please ask Lawyer Wu to be our lawyer for the Shanghai Cao Gang? Now I won't tell you, our Cao Gang is now entangled in lawsuits, and it has nothing to do with the government, it is too much to lose money to fight lawsuits, Mr. Wu, you might as well move the law firm to Shanghai, specifically to help us fight lawsuits, the money thing is easy to say, we are not short of money now! ”

When Wu Wanghai heard this, his face showed a look of interest, and his body leaned forward slightly.

Pudong, Shanghai, in the Emperor's Palace.

Some young men in birch suits walk around a factory building.

The sign hanging at the entrance of the factory reads "Daming Academy of Sciences - Internal Combustion Engine Project Research Room." ”

That's right, this is the "cutting-edge science and technology research base" invested by Emperor Zhu.

It's not just the internal combustion engine.

It also includes the study of electromagnetism.

The engine of the first industrial revolution was the steam engine.

The second industrial revolution began with the widespread use of the internal combustion engine and electricity.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu has been laying out the research in these aspects very early.

Especially this internal combustion engine project laboratory.

A large number of mechanical experts from the West have been hired, as well as many outstanding graduates who graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Daohua University.

The annual investment is up to 2 million yuan.

But the current results have made Emperor Zhu frown.

In front of him was a very large "compressor".

"Your Majesty, compression ignition has been experimentally verified and proved to be feasible, but due to the limitations of materials, it is not yet possible to manufacture reciprocating machinery, and in terms of fuel, many substances extracted from oil are difficult to ignite directly, and the separation of oil must continue to be studied."

A researcher said beside Emperor Zhu.

In short, it is difficult.

That's right.

Although Emperor Zhu knew the principle of the internal combustion engine, he knew that the principle was still far from designing and manufacturing an internal combustion engine that could be truly practical.

Mechanical design, materials, fuels, etc., are all studied from scratch.

It took a few years to verify what the experiment was about "compression heat generation".

Emperor Zhu felt that his money had been burned.

However, Emperor Zhu also knew that there was no way to do it, and there were still too few science and engineering talents in the Ming Dynasty.

The study of the internal combustion engine can at least see a little bit of eyebrow.

The study of electricity is really a black eye.

Emperor Zhu is just a doctor, and he knows an electromagnetic induction for electricity, what copper ring cuts magnetic inductance lines or something.

I don't know anything else.

Plus electricity, this thing can't be seen or touched.

It's not as easy to understand as an internal combustion engine.

Historically.

If it weren't for the geek of Tesla.

I'm afraid it will be a few decades before electricity enters practical application.

"Not bad! The progress is okay, Liu Qing, you are the director of the internal combustion engine project has done a good job! ”

Although Emperor Zhu was disappointed in his heart.

But there was still a smile on his face, praising the researchers' efforts.

This made several high-level members of the research room present laugh with their eyebrows open.

The emperor expressed his satisfaction.

It shows that the funds will not be cut at least - in fact, many officials in the court are a little dissatisfied with the emperor's investment in the internal combustion engine, what electromagnetic phenomenon, what oil separation and other unregulated technical research, so the cabinet simply rejected the application for research funds submitted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Ming Dynasty, so that Emperor Zhu had to pay out of his own pocket.

However, Emperor Zhu also has money anyway.

So he can still afford it.

And decades later, the prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty were annoyed when they thought that their predecessors had given up the research of such a promising technical path - decades later, all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty had to pay a lot of patent fees to the royal consortium, and even the key production technology of internal combustion engines and motors was still in the hands of the royal consortium, so that the Ming cabinet begged the then Emperor Dexing (Zhu Yichi) every year to ask the royal consortium to give up the monopoly on the key technologies of internal combustion engines and electricity.

But Emperor Dexing always shirked it on the grounds of "the will of the first emperor".

The current Emperor Zhu obviously can't see the day when the results of internal combustion engine research will be achieved.

It is estimated that it will take more than ten years for the finished product to come out.

has been burning money for more than ten years in a row, and only he, the emperor, can afford to burn.

If you look at other emperors in history, I'm afraid that no one is willing to invest money in this place.

Emperor Zhu was not interested in the internal combustion engine.

Or rather.

He had things in his heart.

After coming out of the internal combustion engine research laboratory, he ordered people to call Luo Fangbo, Zhao Si and others.

Obviously.

What Emperor Zhu really cared about was not the research project on the internal combustion engine, which was still in sight.

It is the germ of the Ming workers' movement that has now begun to emerge.

Although Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si are now going home to tease their grandson.

But their status in the rivers and lakes is still here.

Zhao Si used to be the head of the Heaven and Earth Society, and later after following Emperor Zhu, his seniority in the Heaven and Earth Society also rose, and the bigwigs from all over the world had to give some face when they saw it.

Luo Fangbo used to be a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, but later he fell out with several halls of the Nanyang Heaven and Earth Society and broke away from the door to establish Lanfang Company.

But after returning to the Ming Dynasty, Luo Fangbo also had a love affair with the bigwigs on the rivers and lakes again.

So now Hongmen is about to go down the wrong path of leading the workers in the struggle.

If you don't do a good underworld, what kind of union do you want!

It's not going astray and it's going astray, it's going astray.

As the chief scoop of Hongmen, Emperor Zhu decided to rectify this bad sign.

Fighting with the workers and the capitalists?

This is to undermine the harmony and stability of the Ming society.

This undesirable wind.

It must be resolutely curbed.

Squeak

Inside Shanghai's Longhua Prison, the door of a cell opens.

Compared to the dungeon of the previous Qing Dynasty.

The cell environment in Shanghai is still very good.

It's not a dungeon that doesn't see the light of day, it's a room with iron windows.

Of course.

As a capitalist dynasty.

This prison is also capitalist.

If you don't have money, go and live in a multi-person room with someone else.

If you have money, you can live in a single room for a little money.

It's really about inequality.

"Young Master Huang, are you awake?"

The jailer asked with a smile on his face.

Obviously.

Huang Siye's baby son, the money must have been spent.

Not only did he live in a single room, but even the jailer was so polite to him, obviously he didn't give less red envelopes.

'Wake up. ’

A wry smile appeared on Huang Mu's pale face.

Where can he sleep?

I'm afraid I'm going to pass the hall today.

Half a month ago, his lawyer proposed to be outside of prison pending trial, and the old man also took out a bail of 200,000 yuan.

However, it was rejected by the judge of the Shanghai Judicial Hall.

I haven't heard from the outside for half a month, and I don't know what the situation is now.

The prison door slammed open.

Huang Mu thought to himself, wouldn't he take himself to the court?

"Young Master Huang, it's Lawyer Wu who is here, and he's coming to see you."

After the jailer finished speaking, he said politely to Wu Wanghai, who came in: "Lawyer Wu, you came early today. ”

"It's not okay if you don't come sooner, there's too much going on." Wu Wanghai smiled and took out a red envelope from his pocket.

"Oops, you're still so polite."

"It's okay, our young master is bothered by you to take care of it, even if you take it, Fourth Master Huang remembers your goodness."

In the jailer's call of "oops, how can this be made", Wu Wanghai stuffed the red envelope into the jailer's pocket smoothly.

Then the jailer lit a few more candles in the cell.

It brightened up the somewhat dimly lit cells a lot.

Then he stepped back and slammed the door shut.

, "Young Master Huang...... Let's have some breakfast first. Raise your spirit, and face this court well today...... But you don't have to worry, as long as you follow what I taught you, this case can definitely be overturned, at most it is a crime of illegal opium, and a fine of money will be fine. ”

Originally, opium smuggling was nonsense.

Huang Mu smoked opium by himself. But it is true that it is not drug trafficking.

As long as he is a playboy with all kinds of drugs, how could Huang Si let him be in charge of the opium business?

It's not that Huang Si doesn't know how sinister these rivers and lakes are, and his precious son can't play at all.

A few months ago, Huang Mu was arrested while smoking opium, and 30 catties of opium were confiscated from his residence on the spot—exactly the amount that could be convicted.

How could this be such a coincidence?

It must have been shaded.

So Huang Mu also knows.

This is an offense to the people of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Many bigwigs in the world are heroes from the dragon.

There is a relationship in the government.

People want to use the power of the government to get you, although this is not very in accordance with the rules, but you can't help it.

My father is a boss of the Cao Gang, but this is in the rivers and lakes, in the imperial court, what is the boss of the Cao Gang? It's not worth mentioning at all.

Thousands of brothers in the Cao Gang can make a living with Huang Si, but if it is said that they rebel with him, it is simply impossible.

Not to mention.

Even if you really dare to rebel.

That's also to deliver food.

Now the Ming army is the elite of the founding of the country, and there are countless elite soldiers.

Who can beat it?

Young Master Huang was indeed hungry, so he directly grabbed a fried bun with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

Although under Huang Si's activities, his food in the prison is not bad.

But where did he have the heart to eat?

If you are found guilty today, you will be exiled to Siberia!

That's 10 years of hard labor, and I'm sure I'll die in Siberia......

Now seeing Wu Wanghai's confident look, his heart is a little settled, and he feels hungry in his belly.

"Your case is actually not a big deal. They also don't have much evidence...... Smoking guns, cigarette lamps, and a little bit of opium smoke don't mean much. ”

Wu Wanghai was full of confidence, cheering up Young Master Huang.

"And no one from your father's disciples and grandchildren has come out to testify against you, and the most powerful evidence for the prosecution is your own confession...... You can retract your confession in court. And there is no way to form a complete chain of evidence based on your confession alone, the upper and lower families are all made up, and the goods are just a little bit. If I hadn't been a lawyer in such a case, I might have been able to convict him. But with me, don't worry, it'll be fine. ”

"Really? Mr. Wu has a way? ”

Young Master Huang's face showed joy.

In his opinion, this barrister is so confident, there must be someone above.

"What do you want?" Wu Wanghai sneered, "As long as there is justice, it's fine." ”

Huang Mu's face became gloomy again, judicial fairness?

It doesn't sound like Chinese!

This time, it is clear that his father has offended someone, and he is a big man.

Where is justice?

This kind of thing can only be settled with money!

If the money is not good, it seems that his life will really be thrown away in Siberia.

(End of chapter)