It took three days for the public concession to check the dirty things and dirty money confiscated; It took another day to go through the trials of more than 2,600 people, of whom more than 1,000 gamblers, prostitutes, and smokers were released after education; Among the remaining people, some of Zhang Xiaolin's apprentices, apprentices, and gangsters; The other part is ordinary people who work in Zhang Xiaolin's industry, but if you want to say innocent words, they are definitely not counted.

After Wang Renqiang, who was in charge of screening, reported, Li Junhao instructed that the latter part of the people should be fined and released; The former were sentenced to three months to a year's hard labour depending on the degree of their crimes, and those who were more guilty were to be reconvened in a public trial and formally punished.

For this idea, he went to visit Zheng Pingru's father Zheng Yue for the second time, and originally wanted to ask him to come forward to serve as the judge of the public office, but he was educated by him!

After some explanation, Li Junhao understood that this was a question of nature.

The existing concession in Huhai was originally colonial, and the name of "leased land boundary" was a fig leaf, and the nature of the trial office, which had been established for decades, was actually the embodiment of the colonizers' extraterritoriality in China.

After many arduous efforts, the Chinese side abolished the French Concession and the Public Concession respectively after the May Day Massacre in the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), and nominally returned the judicial power of the concession to China. If the public office is reconvened at this time, it will actually represent a kind of regression of the judicial system.

Since he understood this, Li Junhao simply suggested that these criminals be handed over to the Second Branch of the Su Provincial High Court for trial, and Zheng Yue, the chief prosecutor, would be in charge.

Zheng Yue was very pleased that this American young man could respect China's justice, but when he heard this, he shook his head and refused, because according to the current laws of the Republic of China, as long as the license is obtained, it is not illegal; Although the sale of tobacco is illegal, the punishment is only confiscation and fines, and it is difficult to criminalize. Therefore, it is impossible for Li Junhao to sentence these people to heavy sentences through the courts of the Republic of China.

Now, Li Junhao is blind, this can't work, that can't work, can he only be like those warlords, convicting people with one word?

Unexpectedly, when he said this, Zheng Yue nodded approvingly: "This is actually a way." You must remember that it is precisely because of this impossibility in the current war that we can better re-establish a society with a legal system after the restoration of peace, so that the people can feel the preciousness of having a law to follow! ”

Well, Li Junhao was persuaded by him, and it seems that he can only do this for the time being.

On November 11, on this Singles' Day in the future, Li Junhao ordered more than 200 criminals with serious crimes to be sent to Tilanqiao Prison for detention, and the other 900 people were sentenced to three months to one year of hard labor, and they worked together with the more than 1,000 people who are now serving hard labor in Jiaozhou Park! ——

In the course of these few days, there has been no calm on the Chinese battlefield.

On November 7, in the winter "sweep" carried out by the Japanese army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, the Eighth Route Army killed Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, the commander of the Japanese independent mixed brigade and the "transformation of famous generals", in the siege and annihilation battle of Loess Ridge. This was the highest-ranking Japanese general killed in the War of Resistance Against Japan.

When the news came out, the military and civilians across the country were excited, but the Japanese side was like a mourner, which was slapped in the face too hard!

While rejoicing at this victory, Li Junhao safely sent the last batch of arrested people of the underground party out of Huhai, fulfilling his previous promise.

On the Kuomintang side, Wen Qiang was rewarded for the hundreds of anti-Japanese righteous soldiers who were "rescued" from him, and for a while he actually consolidated his position as acting district head, and Chen Gongshu seemed to have no movement.

For the hundreds of political prisoners who had defected in the prison, Li Junhao arranged for Wang Renqiang to screen them one by one, pick out those who did not have blood debts in their hands, and give them one to several years of labor camp punishment according to the severity of their problems;

And those who are stained with blood debts, betray their comrades-in-arms, colleagues, and Chinese...... After thinking about it for two days, he gave the order to purge it!

- From this moment on, his heart was even harder! ——

On November 15, the Sino-Japanese Battle of Guinan began, which was an offensive by the Japanese army to seize China's Guangxi region, and many believed that Guangxi was dangerous and that the Japanese army might take another province of China.

Li Junhao knew that the territory of the Chongqing government was running out now, and Li and Bai of the Gui family would never give up their territory, and this battle had to be fought, and it would take several months, and then the Japanese army would occupy a few big cities at most, and most of Guangxi would still be Chinese, or rather, the Gui system.

For this reason, a group of officers under him also made a bet with him, the bet was to wipe his leather shoes for a month - Li Junhao secretly thought to himself: This is good, his leather shoes will be wiped in the next few years! ——

In the first half of November, Li Junhao's key work was on the reorganization of the three regiments, but on the 16th, he got two unexpected news in a row!

The first was that the Italian Consulate General suddenly announced the evacuation of the concession, and it took only three days to leave Shanghai by boat with the 700 Italian soldiers and more than 1,200 expatriates, and the destination turned out to be Tianjin!

The second news is that the British and American consulates general will start negotiations with the French consulate general on the merger of the two concessions, and even the place of the negotiation has been chosen, which is in the US consulate general.

The two news were very sudden, and Li Junhao felt that there had been a fork in the road in this historical process, and he didn't know if it was because of his own tossing, but at present, it seems that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!

In the following days, Li Junhao was also asked to attend several meetings on the issue of the coordination of military forces in the two concessions. The feeling given to him during the meeting was also very strange, and the military attachés of Britain and France were obviously perfunctory, as if they were about to leave next, and they were gradually retreating from the demands of the United States.

After this phenomenon attracted his attention, he tried to recall a lot of memories, in the history of his previous life, at the beginning of next year, when Germany began to attack France, the British and French garrisons almost evacuated the concession and returned to China.

At a closed-door meeting between the Military Attache of the US Consulate General and the military team of the Observer Mission, Li Junhao put forward this viewpoint.

As a result, in the subsequent negotiation process, the conditions of the US side were increased layer by layer, but the British and French pressed forward step by step, and many of the terms were so generous that the US representatives had not even thought about it before!

(End of chapter)