Shadow Spy

Chapter 237 The nature of the issue is very serious

It took three days of busy work in the public settlement to fully count the seized dirt and dirty money; it took another day to review more than 2600 people, of which more than 1000 were gamblers, prostitutes, and smokers after education. were released; among the remaining people, some were Zhang Xiaolin's disciples, youth gang members, and gangsters; the other part were ordinary people working in Zhang Xiaolin's industry, but they were definitely not considered innocent if they were to be called innocent.

After Wang Renqiang, who was in charge of the screening, reported, Li Junhao instructed that the latter group of people should be fined and released; the former group of people should be sentenced to three months to one year of hard labor according to the degree of their crimes. Among them, those with more serious crimes would be sentenced to hard labor. A meeting was held to examine the public servants, a public trial was held, and formal punishments were imposed.

For this idea, he visited Zheng Pingru's father Zheng Yue for the second time. He originally wanted to ask him to serve as the judge of the public court, but he gave him a lecture!
After some explanations, Li Junhao understood that this was a nature issue.

The existing concessions in Shanghai were originally colonial in nature, and the name "leased territory" was a fig leaf. The Huishen Gongshe, which had been established for decades, was actually the embodiment of the extraterritorial rights that the colonists obtained in China.

After many arduous efforts, China abolished the French Concession and the Public Concession after the May 14th Massacre in the 1925th year of the Republic of China ([-]), and nominally returned the judicial power of the Concession to China.If the public trial is reopened at this time, it will actually represent a regression of the judicial system.

Now that he understood this, Li Junhao simply suggested that these criminals be handed over to the Second Branch of the Suzhou Provincial High Court for trial, with Zheng Yue as the chief prosecutor in charge.

Zheng Yue was very pleased that this American young man could respect the Chinese judiciary, but he shook his head and refused after hearing this, because according to the current laws of the Republic of China, pornography and gambling are not illegal as long as you obtain a license; while selling cigarettes is illegal, there are still penalties The only penalties are confiscation and fines, and it is difficult to impose a prison sentence.Therefore, it was impossible for Li Junhao to use the courts of the Republic of China to sentence these people to severe sentences.

This time, Li Junhao was caught blind. This would not work, and that would not work. Could it be that he could only convict people with one word like those warlords?

Unexpectedly, when he said this, Zheng Yue nodded in approval and said: "This is actually a way. You have to remember that it is precisely because of this helplessness in the current war that we can better re-establish the legal system after peace is restored. Society, let people feel the preciousness of having laws to follow!”

Well, Li Junhao was convinced by him, and it seemed that this was all he could do for the time being.

On November 11, this Singles' Day in later generations, Li Junhao ordered more than 11 criminals with serious crimes to be sent to Tilanqiao Prison for custody, and the other 200 were sentenced to three months to one year of hard labor, which is the same as the current Jiaozhou Park Let’s go work together with the more than 900 people who are working here! ——
In the past few days, the battlefield in China has not been peaceful.

On November 11, during the Japanese army's winter "mopping up" in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, the Eighth Route Army killed Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, the commander of the Japanese independent mixed brigade and the "famous general", during the encirclement and annihilation battle in Huangtuling.This was the highest-ranking Japanese general killed during the Anti-Japanese War.When the news came out, the military and civilians across the country were excited, but Japan was in mourning. This was such a slap in the face!
While Li Junhao was happy for this victory, he safely sent the last batch of underground party arrestees out of Shanghai, fulfilling his previous promise.

On the Kuomintang side, Wen Qiang received awards for the hundreds of anti-Japanese martyrs he "rescued", and for a while his position as acting district chief was consolidated. Chen Gongshu seemed to have stopped moving.

Li Junhao arranged for Wang Renqiang to screen the hundreds of political prisoners who had rebelled left in the prison one by one, and singled out those who were not stained with blood debts. Depending on the severity of their problems, they were given one to several years of labor reform punishment. ;

And those with blood debts, betrayal of comrades, colleagues, and Chinese people... After two days of consideration, he issued an order to eliminate them!
——From this moment on, his heart becomes even harder! ——
On November 11, the Sino-Japanese War in Southern Guangxi began. This was an attack by the Japanese army to seize the Guangxi region of China. Many people believed that Guangxi was dangerous and that the Japanese army might seize another province in China.

However, Li Junhao knew that the Chongqing government did not have much territory now, and Li and Bai of the Guangxi faction would never give up their territory. This battle had to be fought, and it would take several months. By then, the Japanese army would be at most Although it occupies several large cities, most of Guangxi is still Chinese or Guangxi.

For this reason, a group of his officers also made a bet with him. The bet was to polish his leather shoes for a month. Li Junhao thought to himself: This is good, someone will polish his leather shoes in the next few years! ——
Throughout the first half of November, Li Junhao's focus was on the reorganization of the three regiments. However, at No. 16, he received two unexpected news in a row!

The first one was that the Italian Consulate General suddenly announced that it was evacuating the concession, and it acted quickly. It took only three days to leave Shanghai by boat with the 700 Italian soldiers and more than 1200 foreigners. 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. The negotiation venue has even been chosen, right inside the US Consulate General.

Both news were very sudden, and it gave Li Junhao the feeling that there had been a fork in the historical process. He didn't know if it was because of his own efforts, but at present, it seemed that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages!
In the following days, Li Junhao was also asked to attend several meetings, and the topic was the coordination of military forces in the two concessions.He also had a very strange feeling during the meeting. The British and French military attachés were obviously perfunctory, as if they were about to leave next step, and they gave in step by step to the demands of the United States.

After this phenomenon caught his attention, he tried hard to recall a lot of memories. In his previous life, when Germany began to attack France at the beginning of next year, the British and French garrisons almost evacuated front and back. After leaving the concession and returning to China, could it be that because of certain changes in the world, they had to leave half a year in advance?

Li Junhao raised this point of view at a closed-door meeting between the Attaché Office of the U.S. Consulate General and the military team of the Observer Mission. After thinking about it seriously, the officers found that it seemed to be true!
Therefore, in the subsequent negotiation process, the United States increased its conditions step by step, but Britain and France pressed harder step by step. Many of the terms were so generous that the American representatives had never even thought of them before!
(End of this chapter)