Chapter 557
Due to her sudden pregnancy, Vivien Leigh's plan to go to the United States was stranded, and she had to stay in China to raise her baby.
Back in Tianjin, Zhou Hexuan stayed at home all day, reading books, reading newspapers, writing, editing manuscripts, and spending time with his wife and children, living a chic and fulfilling life every day.
At this time, a big news suddenly broke out in Beiping—when five batches and hundreds of thousands of treasures from the Palace Museum arrived in Shanghai, Zhu Shusen, the prosecutor of the Nanjing Supreme Court, suddenly dispatched and took people to the Forbidden City by train to seize the accounting department. , because someone accused Yi Peiji and Li Zongtong of embezzling and stealing cultural relics.
Who's doing it?
Of course it was Zhang Ji, and his wife Cui Zhenhua.
Although Cui Zhenhua is a woman, she serves as a supervisory member of the National Party Central Committee, and she is not inferior to her husband in terms of position.
If Chu Minyi, Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan, is only afraid of his own internal affairs, then Zhang Ji is afraid of his wife to the point of death.
Once, Zhang Ji's good friend Peng Jiqun came to visit. Since the two had a good personal relationship, Peng Jiqun entered the house without waiting for the servant to inform him. It turned out that Zhang Ji was kneeling in the living room, surrounded by several of his children. His wife Cui Zhenhua beat her husband with a whip, and the children were too frightened to persuade him.
Cui Zhenhua who beat someone was a little embarrassed, but Zhang Ji who was beaten didn't care. He said, "Brother Peng, please don't worry about it. My wife is a good person. Let her beat her up." After this kind of battle, I turned around and left in embarrassment.
Another time, the executive member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and the president of the Legislative Yuan was in the middle, and went to Zhang Ji's home to pay New Year's greetings. When he came to the gate of Zhang's house, he found a toilet at the door. Juzheng thought it was very strange. The person accompanying him said: Mrs. Zhang must have punished her husband for cleaning the toilet again.
Juzheng walked in curiously, and saw Zhang Ji kneeling in the living room, and he hurried to help him. Zhang Ji waved his hand and said: "This is a matter of my family, please don't ask me." Juzheng had no choice but to exchange a few words and hurriedly left. After going out, he said to his companions: "Zhang Ji's good temper is used at home, but it is with me. Fight and fight."
In fact, Cui Zhenhua treats people very kindly, graceful and dignified, and looks like a lady from a great family. Those who don't know think she is a good woman.
However, it was Cui Zhenhua, a tigress, who instigated the case of framing Yi Peiji for stealing and selling cultural relics. She felt that it was unforgivable that her husband, who was the vice president of the Judicial Yuan and the chairman of the National Cultural Relics Management Committee, could not control the power of the Forbidden City.
Not only that, but Yi Peiji had offended Cui Zhenhua before. At the beginning, Yi Peiji was sick and did not go to the Forbidden City to take up his post. It is reasonable that Zhang Ji, the vice president, should be in charge of the work. , can’t let him be the head of the Forbidden City.”
Yi Peiji offended Zhang Ji and Cui Zhenhua and his wife because of this, and this time Cui Zhenhua counted new and old grudges together, and planned to punish Yi Peiji to death.
Today, Zheng Lie, Director of the Procuratorate of China's Supreme Court, was single-handedly promoted by Zhang Ji. Cui Zhenhua colluded with Zheng Lie, secretly colluded with many parties, and bribed witnesses at the same time. As soon as he came up, he charged Yi Peiji with stealing and selling cultural relics, and sent prosecutors to the Forbidden City to detain relevant personnel.
After the incident, Yi Peiji resigned angrily and filed a complaint against Cui Zhenhua and Zheng Lie's joint frame-up to the National Party Central Supervisory Committee, the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Justice.
Cui Zhenhua is a real femme fatale. They bought newspapers to report Yi Peiji's embezzlement of cultural relics, and his whereabouts are unknown. He may have fled in fear of crime.
Public opinion across the country was in an uproar, and Yi Peiji and his son-in-law Li Zongtong (Secretary-General of the Palace Museum) were instantly criticized by thousands of people.
When Yi Peiji proposed to resign and countersued Cui Zhenhua, Cui Zhenhua bribed the newspaper to report that "Yi Peiji was ordered to resign" and distorted "voluntary resignation" into "forced suspension".
Major newspapers followed up and reported that the common people saw that Yi Peiji had been "removed", and they were even more convinced that Yi Peiji and Li Zongtong were guarding themselves.
Yi Peiji couldn't explain it to a hundred words, and was so angry that he fell ill, and now he just waited for the court hearing. However, Cui Zhenhua played tricks again. She took advantage of her position to transfer the case from the Supreme Court to the Nanjing District Court. The Nanjing District Court is full of cronies promoted by Zhang Ji. This is equivalent to being both the plaintiff and the referee. .
The case was scheduled to start in February 1934. Zhou Hexuan went to the Forbidden City in January, found Yi Peiji and asked, "Dean Yi, how are you preparing?"
Yi Peiji said angrily: "Uncle Xuan (Li Zongtong) has already made all the preparations, and I have also invited barrister Liu Chongyou to defend. The case is sure, and it is a complete frame-up. I am in Peking waiting for the truth to be revealed." information."
"Aren't you going to Nanjing to appear in court?" Zhou Hexuan asked in surprise.
Yi Peiji said, "No need, I'm too lazy to confront those plotters."
Zhou Hexuan smiled wryly and said, "If you don't appear in court in person, I'm afraid the newspapers will report indiscriminately again, saying that you have a guilty conscience and dare not show your face."
Yi Peiji waved his hand and said, "The one who cleans up is himself. I believe the law will give me justice. Thank you Mr. Zhou for your kindness!"
Zhou Hexuan persuaded: "Dean Yi, you'd better go to Nanjing yourself."
"I really don't need it," Yi Peiji said with a sneer, "I haven't done those things, and the Nanjing District Court can't make random judgments."
Zhou Hexuan secretly sighed in his heart, a villain hides his penis, and a gentleman hides his balls, Yi Peiji will be able to bear it this time.
When a high-minded scholar meets a bureaucratic villain, who will be unlucky and suffer, you can guess with your toes.
Sure enough, when the court session started in early February, although the barrister Yi Peiji hired was very powerful and made the plaintiff's lawyer speechless, the Nanjing District Court did not let Yi Peiji go easily, and only announced the case on the ground of the complexity of the case. The trial was postponed, but Yi Peiji was not declared innocent on the spot.
Afterwards, Zhang Ji and Cui Zhenhua once again bribed the newspapers to publicize that Yi Peiji was too guilty to appear in court.
The situation has reached such a point that even if Yi Peiji finally wins the lawsuit, his reputation will be so bad that his political future will be almost completely destroyed.
However, Zhang Ji and Cui Zhenhua did not intend to let go. They wanted to kill Yi Peiji completely, and secretly ordered the officials of the Procuratorate to seal up the cultural relics moved to the south, and invited cultural relic experts to identify them one by one.
This is a very large project, and it will take at least several years to complete the appraisal. If a few fakes are identified, Yi Peiji will be finished. Even if no counterfeit is found, Yi Peiji will not be able to become an official in the next few years, because he is "wearing a crime". What is even more frightening is that after a few years, everyone has forgotten about this matter. Even if Yi Peiji can prove his innocence, he is still a thief of cultural relics in the eyes of the common people. Due to the negative public opinion, it is absolutely impossible for the central government to reuse Yi Peiji .
The villain's revenge is bloody.