The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Tianjin British Concession, Huishi Hospital.

Sitting in front of the hospital bed, Feng Yong gnawed on an apple, gloated and said, "Not bad, he's still alive and kicking, and it looks like he'll be discharged from the hospital in a few days."

Zhou Hexuan smiled wryly and said, "It's a coincidence this time, the two gunmen collided with each other."

"Yeah, my follow-up arrangements are useless." Feng Yong regretted that he didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement.

Zhou Hexuan asked: "How is the situation now?"

Feng Yong didn't answer immediately, but said cheerfully, "Guess who sent you the warning?"

"Who?" Zhou Hexuan wanted to know.

"Du Xiaoshan," Feng Yong said, "that killer was also sent by him."

Zhou Hexuan was speechless for a moment: "He must be sick, let me know first, and then find someone to assassinate me."

Feng Yong said: "This kind of local snake is used to please both sides. No matter what the result is, he has favors in it. It's just that he never thought that you would actually involve the British, so he rushed to the concession patrol room to surrender. .”

Zhou Hexuan sorted out the cause and effect, and asked, "How does the consular court usually pronounce a sentence in this kind of case?"

Feng Yong said: "It must be judged according to British law, and the charge should be attempted murder."

English law is a curious combination of common law, equity and statute.

Common law refers to a set of rules created and developed by ordinary courts, characterized by "procedure precedes rights". Equity law, commonly known as case law, mainly relies on the conscience and justice of judges, and has a great degree of freedom in sentencing. Enactment laws are the laws enacted by Congress, with the highest status, and determine the upper and lower limits of sentencing, but they are rarely used in actual sentencing.

That is to say, although this is an attempted murder, if the judge thinks that the influence is bad and the means are cruel, then the final sentence of hanging may be imposed. Generally speaking, consular courts have imposed extremely severe sentences on cases of Chinese people infringing on foreigners.

The Ma Liu who shot and assassinated should have been sentenced to death if nothing else happened, because no one would come out to protect him. As for Du Xiaoshan and Chu Yufeng, the judgment depends entirely on the mood of the judge.

It was so useless in the Republic of China, and the judicial power of the concession was in the hands of foreigners. Even third-rate countries such as Brazil, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium have consular courts in China (Peru also enjoys consular jurisdiction, but has not opened a court in China).

The single concession is fine, but the judgment of the public concession is even more ridiculous, and which country's laws apply have to be discussed temporarily.

Zhou Hexuan asked: "I'm afraid Chu Yufeng will not be sentenced?"

Feng Yong nodded and said: "The British doctor is not dead, the judge certainly doesn't want to dig deeper, after all, it is very troublesome to involve the warlords. This case, at most, can be traced to Du Xiaoshan."

Zhou Hexuan said with emotion: "No matter what, Chu Yufeng will definitely not dare to do anything again in a short time."

...

As Feng Yong expected, the British guy didn't want to trouble Chu Yufeng at all. If Chu Yufeng is judged to be the real culprit behind the scenes, how should it be carried out? Once it cannot be implemented, it will hurt the majesty of British law.

Du Xiaoshan has to bear this blame if he doesn't want to.

But Du Xiaoshan insisted that the British doctor's injury had nothing to do with him, and only admitted that he sent someone to assassinate Zhou Hexuan, and that he was forced by Chu Yufeng.

The case is not clear at this point, because the assassin who used the rifle was not caught, the patrol room can only detain Du Xiaoshan and Ma Liu first.

Patrol room.

Chu Nanxiang walked in with a food box, and said blankly: "I have prepared good wine and food for you, you can finish it yourself."

Du Xiaoshan's eyes were dark and he said: "You want me to confess? No way!"

"Suicide in fear of crime is your best choice," Chu Nanxiang persuaded, "The commander-in-chief promised to take good care of your wife and children, and your brother Du Baozhen will continue to take over as the chairman of Bashantang."

Du Xiaoshan sneered and remained silent, not bothering to look at Chu Nanxiang again.

Chu Nanxiang continued: "Even if you are acquitted by the British consular court, you will not survive. Just the arms smuggling case and the slaughterhouse corruption case are enough to shoot you several times, not to mention your long-term misappropriation of charitable funds."

Du Xiaoshan used to be the chief of the general affairs section of the Tianjin Police Department. He was dismissed because of the arms smuggling case, and he saved his life only by relying on connections. The slaughterhouse is also a subsidiary of the police department. Du Xiaoshan used to regard the slaughterhouse as his own company and embezzled at least more than 100,000 silver dollars.

"Hahahaha," Du Xiaoshan laughed wildly, "Arms smuggling, can I smuggle without Li Jinglin's cooperation? You shot Li Jinglin too. And the public funds of the slaughterhouse, the former director and deputy director of the police department did not take it Benefits? As for misappropriating charitable funds, none of the charitable gentry in Tianjin can get away with it! And Chu Yupu, who was poor when he first arrived in Tianjin, who helped him raise military expenses?"

Chu Nanxiang said with a cold face: "Do you dare to reveal these things? You don't dare, so let's be honest and accept fate."

Du Xiaoshan smashed the pot and said: "Accept fate? I will stay in the concession and will not go out. Anyway, the money is stored in the foreign company, which is enough for me to spend my whole life. As for my wife and son, I can marry again after they die."

"Where's your brother?" Chu Nanxiang asked.

Du Xiaoshan said: "I can't even take care of myself, so how can I care about him?"

"Well, it seems that you are determined, and I will not persuade you anymore. Take care!" Chu Nanxiang turned and left after speaking.

"Oh!" Du Xiaoshan sighed.

From the moment Chu Yufeng asked him to send gunmen to carry out the assassination, Du Xiaoshan knew that he would definitely be responsible for the accident. After all calculations, the British are still missing. If foreigners are not involved, how can he turn himself in?

midnight.

Du Xiaoshan suddenly woke up from his dream. He caught a glimpse of two black figures in front of him and shouted in horror: "What are you doing? Get out quickly, help!"

Two Chinese patrolmen held Du Xiaoshan up, put a rope around his neck, and pulled him desperately.

A few minutes later, Du Xiaoshan was completely out of breath.

The Chinese patrolmen untied Du Xiaoshan's belt again, and tied him around his neck to the iron gate. Then he took out ink pads and helped Du Xiaoshan fingerprint a confession paper, which even had his "autograph" on it.

Du Xiaoshan, the former head of the general affairs section of the Tianjin Police Department, the boss of Bashantang, Chu Yupu's brother-in-law, and a well-known philanthropist, "suicide in fear of crime" in the patrol room.

When Zhou Hexuan heard the news, his vest felt cold, this nima did a great job!

The concession shooting came to an end. Du Xiaoshan "admitted" that he had conflicts with Zhou Hexuan, so he arranged for two gunmen to assassinate. One of the gunmen, Ma Liu, has been arrested, and the other is still at large.

Ma Liu was temporarily detained in the patrol room, only waiting for the British consular court to pronounce the sentence.

As for Chu Yufeng, nothing happened. But he was severely warned by Chu Yupu, and his actions became much more restrained, and he stayed at home for two or three months, which relieved the common people in Tianjin, at least women no longer have to worry about going out.