At the end of the morning court, Fang Zhongzhe was still kneeling outside the palace, but no one of the officials passing by paid him any attention. But it was no wonder that the emperor wanted to build a prison. They were all in danger, and they had no time to care about others. Some of them had the time to care about others.
The officials also hurried home and strictly warned their nephew not to go out and not to interact with Fang Zhongzhe to avoid getting into trouble.
There was a storm in Nanjing, and Fang Zhongzhe was not stupid. It can be seen from the attitudes of the past officials that Hu Luer failed to save him. And this sense of powerlessness that his fate was not under his control enveloped him.
In his mind, a thought often appeared in his mind: No freedom, or rather death.
"If you don't have freedom, you would rather die." This sentence comes from the end of the first chapter of "The Dream of Great China". Fang Zhongzhe had no feelings at all when he saw this sentence before. Now, he has personally experienced what Wan Lei felt back then, that kind of control over destiny.
The feeling of powerlessness in other people's hands made him clench his fists from time to time.
Just when Fang Zhongzhe was angry and fighting, a figure appeared next to him, and a parasol blocked the sun for him. He turned around and saw a man in Chinese clothes looking at him expressionlessly.
He was none other than Xu Qin, the special envoy of the Republic of China in Nanzhou, whom he had met on the ship and had met several times.
Xu Qin patted Fang Zhongzhe's shoulder gently and whispered: "Get up, there is no point in kneeling here."
Fang Zhongzhe shook his head helplessly, but still did not stand up. Xu Qin stopped trying to persuade her and just asked calmly: "If I can save her, are you willing to pay any price?"
After hearing Xu Qin's words, Fang Zhongzhe's disappointed eyes suddenly regained their luster, but then dimmed again. He shook his head and said, "As a member of the Fang family, Fang must not betray the entire family for his own personal gain."
"Haha, little friend, you are worrying too much. Xu just wants you to give up some things that only belong to you. It has nothing to do with the family, and it has nothing to do with politics." Xu Qin smiled lightly.
"As long as the family is not implicated, Fang is willing to pay any price."
"I may be able to save her, but I'm afraid she will be separated from you. You may never see her for the rest of your life. Are you willing to pay this price?"
"As long as it can save her life, Fang will not hesitate to die. As long as she lives, even if we are far apart, Fang will have no regrets." Fang Zhongzhe gritted his teeth and knocked his head heavily on the ground.
"Get up. Although we are far apart, we may still see each other in the future. You must live well and never commit suicide." After Xu Qin finished speaking, he strode towards the palace gate. Fang Zhongzhe wanted to ask more questions, but it was too late, so he had to ask again.
He kowtowed twice and then stood up. However, he did not leave, but stood there waiting for the result.
As the special envoy of the Republic of China in Nanzhou, Xu Qin was related to the Zhu family, so he was naturally a frequent visitor to the palace. When the guards in the palace saw him, they immediately let him go, and even sent someone to report to the emperor's master. Zhu Yunwen listened.
He said that Xu Qin was here, and he showed up directly.
In public, Zhu Yunwen hated the government of the Republic of China the most, but in private, he still valued Xu Qin, not only because of his kinship, but also because of Xu Qin's talent and foresight. If Zhu Yunwen had any difficult matters, he would always be there.
Ask Xu Qin for countermeasures in an insinuating way.
Since Xu Qin took office, he has also obtained a lot of benefits for Nanming in trade through the convenience of his position. This made Zhu Yunwen secretly happy, because Xu Qin is really a person who values friendship and is trustworthy. No, after a while of greetings between the two parties,
, the guests and hosts sat down and chatted.
"Your Majesty, I heard that your country has caught a group of pirates who privately printed books. Do you know if this is true?" Xu Qin asked seemingly casually.
"It is indeed true. Those traitors secretly printed banned books. It is really abominable. I have sent them to prison with royal guards. Now we are interrogating them to find out the mastermind and accomplices behind the scenes." Zhu Yunwen said frankly, because he also knew that Xu Qin
He also has his own news channel, and this kind of thing cannot be hidden.
"These people are really hateful when they publish privately printed books. I heard that some of them privately printed books from the Republic of China. I wonder if this is true." Xu Qin asked again.
"It is indeed true. I am still tracing the source of these books. Once verified, I will punish them severely." Zhu Yunwen said angrily.
"This is your country's internal affairs. Xu should not have interfered with it. It's just that those people privately printed relevant books without the author's permission, which seriously violated the Copyright Law of the Republic of China. And your country has no copyright. Our country hopes to
These people will be extradited back to the Central Plains for trial to serve as a warning and a deterrent," Xu Qin said seriously.
"Extradition? What is extradition?" Zhu Yunwen had never heard of this term.
"Extradition means handing criminal suspects to other countries for trial. For example, if someone in your country kills a citizen of our country in your country, then the criminal suspect should be extradited to our country for trial. In the same way, if a citizen of our country kills a citizen of our country, the criminal suspect should be extradited to our country for trial."
Your country’s personnel in China should be extradited to your country for trial. Although these copyright infringement cases occurred in your country, the copyrights of our citizens were infringed, and they should also be extradited to our country for trial.”
"You mean to hand these prisoners over to you?" Zhu Yunwen was not stupid, and he began to think to himself: the extradition is false, but the arrest is real. But the prisoner wanted to come and take the prisoner as soon as he was caught, which made it clear that he had other motives.
Why is copyright infringement so simple? Maybe these people are your pawns.
Seeing Zhu Yunwen's disbelief, Xu Qin couldn't help but blush, as if someone had seen through his little calculation, and said apologetically: "It's like this, there have been too many patent infringement cases recently, many of them are
When something happened abroad, it was really hard to catch. President Zhou Da instructed that a group of role models should be caught to shock the enemy. So, I wanted to come to His Majesty to pick up a group of people so that I could send them back for business."
"It's not just as simple as giving someone a job." Zhu Yunwen looked at Xu Qin with playful eyes. Obviously, Xu Qin's rhetoric could not deceive him.
"Your Majesty has indeed realized that the President's intention is not just to arrest a few people, but to take this opportunity to sign an extradition treaty with your country and use it as a model to establish a judicial cooperation mechanism with neighboring friendly countries to jointly combat illegal crimes.
Molecule." Xu Qin had a sincere expression on his face.
"Is it really just like that?" Zhu Yunwen still didn't believe it. He was really afraid of being exposed.
"Of course it's not just that. Judicial cooperation is just the beginning. If the rule of law in each country is sufficient to protect the personal and property safety of citizens of the Republic of China, our country will also carry out deeper cooperation with other countries, including the export of talents and technology, and even
Low-interest loans can be issued to help countries develop their national economies." Xu Qin continued to paint a bright blueprint.
As soon as he heard that there was talent export, technology export, and even low-interest loans, Zhu Yunwen was immediately moved. What he lacks most now, isn't it talent, technology and capital? With these three things, plus Nanzhou
With abundant resources, a rich country and a strong army is no longer a dream.
"What are the terms in the extradition treaty?" Although Zhu Yunwen was moved, he still asked very cautiously. After all, those people in the Republic of China are so bad. They give benefits openly and set traps secretly. If they are not careful, they will really take advantage of them.
Dark loss.
"This is a draft agreement drawn up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Your Majesty can take a look at it first. However, please hand over those prisoners to us quickly, because our ship will return soon. If there are no people on board this time, I'm afraid
If you wait several months, you will miss a big deal."
"I will summon my ministers to discuss it now. Please wait in the side hall for a while, and I will give you an answer as soon as possible." After Zhu Yunwen finished speaking, he stood up and left. The reason why he was so anxious was because of the copy of the draft agreement.
He added several clauses, stating that after the treaty is signed, the Republic of China will give the Nanming Empire a set of ore washing equipment, a set of steelmaking equipment and a complete set of design drawings for the steam engine. These are things he has dreamed of and he can’t wait to get them right away.
Got it.
Looking at Zhu Yunwen's leaving back, Xu Qin's mouth showed a hint of a bitter smile, because someone was fooled again without knowing it. Those equipment blueprints and so on were all eliminated by the Republic of China, and were exchanged for some from the Nanming Empire.
It is worthwhile for anti-imperialist liberals, because these liberals will become the most powerful promoters of subverting the Nanming Empire.
And those things given away are just small capital, because once the Nanming Empire collapses, the Republic of China can use various means to make the newly established country return the capital with interest, and maybe even get a developed country.
Nanzhou is beginning to take shape. This kind of profit-making thing is really not something that ordinary people can think of and do.
As Xu Qin expected, he just drank a cup of tea, and Zhu Yunwen left and returned. In addition to making changes to some terms of the peace treaty, he also asked for a set of cotton spinning equipment, because Nanzhou also produced cotton.
He wanted to engage in cotton weaving and provide enough food and clothing by himself, so as to reduce his dependence on trade with the Republic of China.
The two parties bargained for a whole morning, and finally reached a letter of intent to sign a contract, and agreed to formally sign the contract within three days. At the same time, Zhu Yunwen also agreed to hand over the "pirate dealers" imprisoned in the imperial edict to Xu Qin to take away.
Of course, before handing over the prisoners, Zhu Yunwen also asked what the Republic of China would do with these prisoners. When he learned that these prisoners would be sentenced to more than ten years in prison or even be exiled overseas, he breathed a sigh of relief.
From his point of view, as long as these scourges don't come back to undermine him, then there's nothing he can say about it.
At noon, Xu Qin had lunch in the palace and then left the palace. Jin Yiwei also escorted several prisoners and followed him. Fang Zhongzhe was still waiting anxiously outside the palace at this time and saw Hu Lu'er being held by two Jin Yiwei.
When I came out, my heart ached. I wanted to go up to greet you, but I was stopped by the two attendants brought by Xu Qin.
"This is not the place to talk. Go home. At ten o'clock in the evening, a letter will be sent outside the door of Fang Mansion." An attendant whispered in his ear.