Chapter 300 Killing Ke Liwei
"Second Young Master, the eldest young master's boat has arrived." Just as Li Zhaocheng and William were having fun chatting, a servant came over and said to Li Zhaocheng in a low voice.
Li Zhaocheng looked around and the atmosphere of the cocktail party was quite warm. He said to William Xiao: "William, continue, I'll go to the port."
"Let's go together, maybe I haven't seen my elder brother for a long time." William said with a smile.
Li Zhaocheng thought about it, nodded and said, "I'll go and tell Brother Rong, you have an explanation to your father, the eldest brother shouldn't come here, so we won't come back once we leave."
"What a pity, there will be a dance party later. There are many beautiful girls. Have you seen Zelenko's daughter? It's very beautiful." Little William said half-jokingly.
After Li Zhaocheng gave a few words, he came to the door. After a while, Little William slowly came out. He wore a hat and gloves and surrounded his face with a facial scarf. Fortunately, it was already winter in Xijin, and this outfit would not attract anyone's attention. There was nothing we could do about it. Little William had porphyria and was afraid of the sun.
The two of them came to the port. Because it was already winter, the port was a little frozen, and icebreakers needed to open a route to enter Xijin. Therefore, the efficiency was much lower, which caused the place to be very busy even at night. The car lights illuminated the port. Li Zhaocheng found the passenger ship that his brother was on. Li Xiaomeng couldn't help but sigh that the imperial royal family was as low-key as ever. Even as Li Zhaoyu, he only sat in the first class on the passenger ship, rather than using the royal royal ship.
"Okay, this matter is not over yet. I still have a lot of opinions to express, and you didn't convince me."
"Of course, I have sufficient evidence to prove my point of view, but just because the person involved is not around, I don't want to say it out, lest you think I made up."
"No, I have already understood you all the way back. I don't think you are a lie person. If you tell those examples, I will believe it, but I can't convince me. Brother Yang, only global data analysis is useful, and some examples are not important at all. Just like when you see a homeless person on the roadside in Xijin, it cannot be said that the empire is a poor country." Li Zhaoyu was in the waiting area of the dock, and he stood under the street light with a young man, debating with him on his face.
Under the illumination of the car light, the two looked red and their voices gradually became louder. This is what Li Zhaocheng saw when he found his brother.
"What's the situation?" Li Zhaocheng led William to run over.
"It's nothing, we're just discussing some issues." Li Zhaoyu couldn't see clearly the face that was trying to persuade him, because his eyebrows and beard were covered with ice particles, but his voice was familiar.
When the young man named Guo saw Li Zhaocheng and his servants coming, he thought he had encountered a gangster and shrank in fear. Li Zhaoyu said, "Don't worry, this is my brother and a few friends."
When the carriage arrived, the servants began to move things to the carriage after seeing that they were fine. Li Zhaocheng looked at the young man: "Why don't you go back with us? I think it will take some time for your debate to decide the outcome. I treat you to a meal, can you eat and discuss it?"
"No, I have something to do, I'm in a hurry." The young man waved his hand.
Li Zhaocheng smiled and said, "You're welcome, my eldest brother's friend is my friend."
"Don't force him, he's really wrong."
"What can I do? The boat came from Ceuta this night again." William said with a helping voice. He was very familiar with Li Zhaoyu. Li Zhaoyu has been steady and generous since childhood. He has never been able to pick Li Zhaoyu's emotions like this when he was blushing. The young man in front of him should have some remarks.
Li Zhaoyu said: "He came back to Xijin to get married because the ship was postponed and the wedding date was the day after tomorrow. He was going to Shanyang."
"Young Master, the earliest train to Shanyang is 7 o'clock tomorrow morning." said a servant.
Li Zhaoyu immediately said to the servant: "Brother Guo is my friend. You use this carriage to carry him to a nearby hotel to settle the luggage. Don't go home, just wait in the hotel. Go to the train station tomorrow to get the ticket for him. At this point, the tickets will be sold out. At that time, we can just sell our face."
The attendant nodded. Not to mention the face of Prince Yu's Mansion, he could get a ticket even if he showed his identity as a attendant of Prince Yu's Mansion.
On the carriage, Li Zhaoyu glanced at the note in his hand, which had several addresses written on it. Obviously, the debate along the way did not determine the outcome, and the two were about to develop into pen pals and debated from a distance.
Li Zhaocheng stretched his head and looked at it, and found that the address was a village address, which was obviously from his hometown, a certain street in Penang, which was obviously a home address, and a magazine address, which should be his workplace.
"Reporter..." Li Zhaocheng looked at three addresses and recalled the image of the young man surnamed Guo. He had golden silk glasses and white shirt, a small face and a white mouth, a pen on his chest, and his legs and feet were quick and sharp eyes.
Li Zhaoyu put away the note: "It's a travel writer."
"Is there any difference?" asked William Little.
"The world is not moral, and the media takes over all the money." Li Zhaocheng said with a smile.
Li Zhaoyu said: "My father and others do not recommend that we communicate too much with journalists and lawyers."
Little William frowned. The two professions in Prussia have just appeared. He is not very familiar with them, but when he was in Shin Kyung, it seemed that people from these two professions were indeed rare in Prince Yu's mansion, and there were no one in the royal circle.
"We are taught to be down-to-earth, do more, and talk less." Li Zhaoyu added.
"What's the debate between you and the man named Guo seems to be quite fierce." Li Zhaocheng asked on his own initiative, and William came over. He was also very curious because it was not like Li Zhaoyu's style of arguing with others in public like today.
Li Zhaoyu said: "What we are debating is whether the rule of law needs to be supplemented by man."
After hearing this topic, Li Zhaocheng and William looked at each other and seemed to understand something. The reason was very simple. Li Zhaoyu came from Panama. He had just finished his inspection tour in Panama and came to Xijin via Ceuta to celebrate the New Year with his father and brothers.
After staying in Panama for so long, Li Zhaoyu did one thing, supervising the "Shiwan Case".
Shimao is the Japanese child Li Zhaoyu rescued in Panama, which involved local corruption and child labor. Li Zhaoyu did not hesitate to enter a state of military control to find out the case.
Of course, the military control state lasted only half a month. After controlling all the people involved, it was lifted. The Shiwan case became a big news because of Li Zhaoyu's intervention, or the role played by the royal family in this case.
Although many tragic things were found during the investigation of the case, such as child labor being abused until death, considering this era and this place, this is not a rare case, nor is it a major case. An important member of the imperial royal family, a third generation of the imperial royal family who was rumored to be competed for the throne, caught this case, which really gave people a feeling of making a big deal. So many people speculated whether this case was related to someone and what happened, and conspiracy theories were once rampant.
It was not until the emperor gave Li Zhaoyu a commission to serve as a inspector that the superiors and subordinates understood that this was the "internship subject" of a royal family.
With the authority and power of the royal family, as well as the manpower and material resources mobilized by Li Zhaoyu, the Shiwan case can be completely ended with a quick knife to cut the mess. However, Li Zhaoyu has been busy for seven months, not because he is inefficient, but because Li Zhaoyu has always followed the principles of the royal family and does not interfere with the judiciary as much as possible.
Therefore, Li Zhaoyu could only appear as a supervisor, but even such a supervisor put huge pressure on the local area and was regarded as interfering in the judiciary by many interested people.
Because in the history of the founding of the Empire for more than 40 years, members of the royal family had never done anything similar in the jurisdiction of the Imperial Cabinet, but had done a lot in the jurisdiction of the Lifanyuan.
Li Zhaoyu's intervention made no one in the prisoners in the Shiwan case escape. Whether it was big fish or small shrimps, they were all over the place. It can be said that it was an overcorrection. The final result was that one main culprit and four accomplices were sentenced to death, more than 20 other people were exiled to the isolated island of the South Pacific, and more than 20 people were punished. You should know that there were only more than 120 victims in the Shiwan case.
The lightest departure was to apologize to the victims, and some people were cancelled in bonuses. Because Li Zhaoyu was involved in every detail, no one could escape. Even those who apologized were watched by him with his own eyes. One of the women was an ordinary nurseryman in the nursing home. Because of the insincere apology, he was ordered to apologize five times, and then apologize for his insincere attitude.
It can be said that most people do not understand why Li Zhaoyu did this. Some people think he was crazy, and some people think he was a little nervous. Even the press officers sent by the emperor to Panama were a little inaccurate.
Generally speaking, when the royal family is working on a foreign affairs, or encountering any public affairs, the emperor will arrange press officers to avoid some media taking the opportunity to spread rumors and cause trouble. Press officers will control public opinion and sometimes they will take the initiative to carry out positive publicity, including some details. However, in the Shiwan case, Li Zhaoyu's details were not highlighted.
Li Zhaoyu's serious attitude and his spirit of pleading for the people were recognized by the empire, but the "merit" aspect is really hard to say. As some media said: Compared with similar cases in the empire in previous years, the royal family's intervention only killed a few more people, and there was no more constructive result such as "reforming the stewardship house" and "legislation to protect child labor".
Obviously, the man surnamed Guo also thought so. Because he didn't know Li Zhaoyu's identity, he was expressing a point of view along the way. In that guy's opinion, Li Zhaoyu's behavior in Panama was to interfere with judicial justice, and to interfere with the rule of law by rule of man. As a royal family, he had huge political influence. If he was willing to do something for the people, he could do more meaningful things in seven months.
"That guy seems to make sense." Li Zhaocheng smiled after hearing his brother's complaint, but he still patted Li Zhaoyu on the shoulder: "But, brother, I still support you."
"Why support me? Because I am your brother?" Li Zhaoyu asked.
Li Zhaocheng said: "Of course, but it's not just this. You did not do this wrong. This is the most critical thing. In seven months, you can do more meaningful things, but you can also do nothing. Doing things and doing the right thing, and I have no reason not to support you."
"Then why do you think what Mr. Guo said makes sense?" Li Zhaoyu continued to ask.
Li Zhaocheng remembered the work of the office in Odessa during this period and sighed and said, "I have figured it out. Killing people does not relieve revenge, and killing people does not solve the problem."
But William Little said: "Killing people can establish authority."
"Making authority? No, it's not necessary. It took me seven months to kill people and establish authority. William, you underestimate my elder brother too much." Li Zhaocheng looked disbelief.
Li Zhaoyu said, "This is my purpose. I want to tell all the people in power in the empire, the so-called upper classes, when the royal family wants to get along with you, even if you choose a legal way, you will be unable to resist. I also want to tell those people that people are doing, God is watching, and I, Li Zhaoyu, are watching."
Little William nodded: "Yes, this is very important. Zhaocheng, this is really important. You and I will be people who will do big things in the future, so we cannot be without majesty. Killing is the best way to establish authority. If you want to do things, you must make others afraid of you. The more people are afraid of you, the bigger the things you will accomplish."
"The emperor and uncle said that governing the country should be ruled by the kingly way, and rule of law should be used." Li Zhaocheng thought for a while and said.
"Is what my uncle said must be right?" Li Zhaoyu narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Zhaocheng.
Li Zhaocheng was even more surprised. In the past, his elder brother was the one who looked the most like his uncle and admired him the most. How could he make such a big change after walking around?
Li Zhaoyu had such a question, it was actually very simple. The imperial royal family was committed to balancing politics, and at the center of the empire, the power of the bourgeoisie was balanced with nobles. This was done quite well, but it was impossible to do this in local areas, especially in overseas provinces.
The capitalists who lost their rivals were in a state of turmoil and could not be cured. This was the most heartbreaking thing that Li Zhaoyu saw when he visited Panama. He couldn't help but doubt the emperor's policies, believing that the emperor was too tolerant of these capitalists.
Chapter completed!