A large-scale fight broke out at the voting point southwest of the city, which naturally alarmed the chairman of the "Shaoguan Election Preparatory Committee", that is, the mayor. He immediately asked the sheriff to bring several leaders of the fight to the government office to inquire.

In fact, even if the leader of the election preparatory meeting is not the mayor, the sheriff will bring people to him, because the leaders of the fight are all candidates for congressmen, all of whom are well-known upper-class people in Shaoguan City, and these people cannot be locked up in the Public Security Bureau and beaten up before talking about it.

Because Shaoguan is relatively backward compared with Haijing and other places, officials do not have the power or courage to ask the emperor to allocate funds to build Western-style office buildings, but still follow the "Jintian Spirit" of the founding of Haisong Kingdom and use the old official office as their nest.

This official yamen was the former Shaoguan yamen of the Qing Dynasty, but the vermilion inside and outside were all painted white, and the interior was also repaired and reinforced.

It is not possible to not repair and reinforce. Qing Dynasty officials pay attention to "officials do not repair yamen", believing that the Feng Shui that would hinder their career and were easily caught by others. Therefore, although the officials were rich, the yamen were one by one and one by one. Shaoguan was once repeatedly occupied by the Song army and the Qing army. The yamen had been played with a lot of things. There was a shell in the garden. If it was not repaired and reinforced, it might collapse one day and smash the mayor and his subordinates to death.

Therefore, although the Shaoguan Yamen is old, it is painted clean and beautiful white inside and outside, with Western office utensils inside, which makes people feel as if they are not angry and arrogant.

A group of Shaoguan gentry followed the sheriff into the yamen, and the mayor had been waiting on the steps of the yamen.

Seeing these guys with bruised noses or indifferent faces coming in, he even forgot to smoke his pipe in his hand, and said to himself: "Are these bastards full? Will they even fight for an inexplicable election? Isn't it just a vote, why will they fight?! If the superiors know this, what else can I do if my city elections have caused such an incident?"

But looking at the bastards, the mayor sighed again: They are all rich and noble guys, and they are not easy to deal with: For example, Li Lianwen, who was walking in front of him, covered his heart and pretended to be a Westerner, is also considered a celebrity in Shaoguan, and news about his family is often found in the newspapers; aren’t Zhou Wen, Wang Jiezhong, and Zheng Qiangzai, who are walking behind, all of them are the bosses and directors of the Opium Pavilion back then? Not long ago, he resigned for no reason, and suddenly came out to run for the election a few days ago.

These two irrelevant guys, no, why did the two gangs of poisonous insects, which are all remnants of the Qing Dynasty, bite each other?

Thinking of it, he turned around and left, sat down behind the desk in his office. In a short while, a few people from Shaoguan came to prominence.

"What the hell is going on? Can you still fight if you vote?" the mayor asked angrily.

Li Lianwen, who was in front, looked at the mayor, twitched the corners of his mouth, suddenly started to cry, and shouted: "Master Qingtian, is there any other way around? They are cheating!"

As he said that, he took out a stack of votes with his temperature from his arms, pointed at Zhou Wang Zheng and others and shouted: "They bribed the voting supervisor, stole the ballots privately, filled in their names, and secretly stuffed them into the ticket pot. I caught them! Is there any other way to the king?"

"Is there such a thing?" The mayor was not good at showing his authority again. He stood up and took the stack of votes and flipped through it. It turned out that they were exactly the same names, just the few people in front of him.

"You really did this?" The mayor gasped and looked up and asked the guys at the Opium Guild.

"There is evidence! Someone has evidence! Please check the supervisor of the square-faced black-skinned man at the southwest voting site in the city! He was caught by my family and beaten to death!" Li Lianwen shouted.

"Hmm? Really?" The mayor glared at the opium guild people. Unexpectedly, these guys whose faces were pale and turned a step on the same side, revealing a hollow passage, all turned their faces and looked back, as if their souls were standing behind them.

The mayor followed their eyes and looked back. The flashing air path was standing at a stranger in a suit and tie, which was Fang Bingsheng.

"Who are you? You are not a candidate, are you? How did you come in?" the mayor asked suspiciously.

"He is...he is...he is..." The person from the Opium Pavilion explained stammeringly, but he really couldn't remember how to describe his identity.

"He is also a mastermind! He is the one who beats people and gives orders!" Li Lianwen pointed at Fang Bingsheng excitedly and shouted. When he thought that his children and grandchildren were beaten to the point of being blue and swollen, who would not be excited?

Of course, everyone would not be allowed to enter the mayor's office, but Fang Bingsheng was surrounded by people from the Opium Guild, and his decent clothes and majestic expression made the guards think that this must be a person related to this matter: either a witness or a participant; so he didn't ask, so he followed him in.

At this moment, Fang Bingsheng walked forward, took off his hat and put it on his chest, bowed deeply to the mayor's desk, stood up and said with a smile: "Below, Bingsheng, the Haijing people, came here to assist Mr. Zhou and others in the election."

"Oh, the master from the capital." The mayor nodded suddenly with enlightenment, then turned his face, smashed a stack of votes in his hand on the glass plate of his desk, and roared: "What the hell is going on? Do you want to mess up the emperor's first election? And this is an important task on my territory! Damn! You must dare to smear me on my face. Believe it or not, I let my subordinates shoot you!"

The mayor, who was born in the war, showed the murderous aura of a soldier, which scared the group of people in the foreign medicine guild trembled and shrank their necks to see Fang Bingsheng. Li Lianwen on the other side was so excited that his white beard was tilted and he said repeatedly: "Sir, wise! Please arrest the cheating supervisor immediately, issue the ticket to check the tickets, and put these shameless thieves in jail awaiting trial!"

"Hmph!" Fang Bingsheng sneered, pushed away the fat man blocking him, and moved forward with the mayor's murderous aura.

"What do you want to do?" The mayor raised his eyes at the guy from this big city. The former strong general in the imperial guards, the regiment commander who rushed in and out of the enemy formation would not be afraid of anyone.

Fang Bingsheng bowed to the mayor again, straightened his waist, and suddenly turned sideways, from facing the mayor to facing Li Lianwen. He pointed at Li Lianwen and sneered at the mayor: "Sir, don't listen to this person talking nonsense! Most of the gentlemen behind me are well-known gentlemen from Guicheng. They are enthusiastic about charity in the countryside and support the Holy Lord, so they actively run for the election, hoping to assist the Holy Lord for the Song Dynasty and seek benefits for their hometown. How could they cheat and vote? This person slandered!"

"It's you who talk nonsense!" Li Lianwen also understood who the young man in front of him was. He was a jackal invited by the group of wolves of the foreign medicine guild. He was not a good thing at all. He pointed at Fang Bingsheng and sneered: "The supervisor hid the ticket in his crotch, and countless people saw it with their own eyes! As long as he was caught, I was afraid that he would be punished for deceiving the chief in a while."

"It is not the crime of deceiver, it is the crime of false witness." The mayor looked at the two guys standing in front of his desk and pointed at each other, and asked, "Where is that supervisor? Where is it?"

The blue-faced supervisor Lao Wang had been waiting outside the yamen. At this moment, he followed the two guards in tremblingly, looked at the people in the office, looked at the mayor who was staring at him, bowed quickly, opened his eyelids that were beaten like a bun, and shouted: "Little Man Wang Youqin, the supervisor of Yuhua voting site, has seen the adults."

"Someone said you cheated on voting, what do you say?" The mayor asked slowly, crossing his legs.

Wang Youqin's eyes were turning in a crack in the bun, and he glanced at the proud Li Lianwen, the opium party with a worried face, and Fang Bingsheng, who held his arms high and looked down on him,

He bowed and said, "Sir, the villain is guilty, but the villain has indeed cheated!"

"What?" Mayor and Li Lianwen shouted in unison.

The former crossed his legs and fell down. His body was pressing against the glass plate of the desk, and his chin pressed against the pen holder on it. He didn't expect this kid to admit it so happily. He thought he was going to watch a performance that was about to swear to the sky;

Li Lianwen was also shocked: Outside the voting site, the opium party members came up and beat people. It was so fierce that the old Wang was obviously bribed. Why did he plead guilty so happily?

"What's going on? Tell me!" the mayor slapped the glass board and shouted.

Wang Youqin bowed and said, "Sir, the villain is a devout Christian. He has been gathering in the Catholic Church southwest of the city. A few days ago, he was fortunate to ask for the voting supervision point. He wanted to abide by his duties: serving Jesus and serving the emperor. I have been working hard, and several colleagues at my voting point can testify..."

"I asked you about cheating, but I didn't ask you which church you belong to!" The mayor interrupted the tragic confession of the man with a bun face.

Wang Youqin nodded, suddenly pointed to the nervous opium party next to him and shouted: "Sir, you know I am a Christian! I hate opium as a harmer! This is a poison! How many people can't quit if they get stuck in opium. Not only do they waste money in the world and seek pleasure, but they will go to hell if they die!"

"Aren't you from the foreign medicine guild?" The mayor frowned and pulled the cheating votes on the table, and asked a rhetorical question.

"How could it be with them!" Wang Youqin glanced at Fang Bingsheng, clenched his fists and jumped up, shouting: "I hate opium the most, and I hate these vampires who make money by opium! But because I have the benefits of being close to the water at the voting site, I can see whose votes the people vote? Who would have thought that these people were fascinated by the little accomplice of Fatty Zhou and all voted for them! I was so angry! Last night, it happened that the team leader and I were on duty. While the team leader fell asleep, I stole his key, opened the votes, picked up the votes for the opium vampire voters, and tucked them in my arms and took them home secretly!"

"What?" The mayor's eyes almost popped up. He picked up a cheating vote and asked, "Are you saying that you stole it from the vote?"

"He is talking nonsense! He steals it, why should he put it back again? And he put it in in his crotch!" Li Lianwen could have seen that the limelight suddenly became a little bad, and he shouted anxiously.

"Yes, since you hate opium sellers and steal votes, even if what you said is true, why should you stuff it back? Are you sick?" the mayor sneered.

Wang Youqin sighed, closed his two bun-like eyelids, and said to the sky: "After the villain came home and thought about it, he remembered that Jesus taught us to be honest. Even if he voted for a vampire, it must be fair and fair. I cannot do such cheating. I shed tears and felt that my sin was serious. So the next day, I stuffed the votes in my pants and took them back, thinking of returning the items to the original owner. Unexpectedly, when I returned the votes to the tickets, I was discovered by this old man Li Lianwen. He misunderstood me..."

"You fart!!!" Li Lianwen yelled: Where is this strange thing? He stole the ticket and took it away and then secretly put it back? And according to him, these tickets were not cheating tickets but were all compliant votes! Looking at the cold and sure-win expression on the face of the little man from Haijing's man and the joyful look of other opium gangsters, Li Lianwen knew that this was a trick.

The supervisor admitted that cheating was a vicious plan to retreat to advance!

Looking at Li Lianwen who was furious, the supervisor stretched out his hands towards the mayor, made a shackle-wrinkled expression, and said, "Sir, I've finished talking. I plead guilty."

The mayor saw the man for a while, then waved his hand and said, "Come on, take him to the Public Security Bureau to record his confession."

"Sir, don't mistakenly believe nonsense. You must interrogate this thief!" Li Lianwen bent down and bowed with fists and reported.

The mayor gave Li Lianwen a blank look and said to himself: Who believes it? That boy doesn't care whether he is talking nonsense. Anyway, he has exposed his trump card and it is impossible to change his statement easily. How to interrogate? You can't just put a chili water tiger bench in my office, right? And I don't care about this.

Just as he was thinking, Li Lianwen stood up again, pointed at the opium party and shouted: "Sir, Wang Youqin must have been bought by this group of people and ordered to cheat! Sir, you can also put them in jail awaiting trial!"

After saying that, he was still not satisfied. Looking at Fang Bingsheng who was holding his arms, Li Lianwen gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be proud! The mayor will definitely give me a satisfactory statement. This matter is not over!"

"It's not over." Fang Bingsheng sneered and walked to Li Lianwen, as if a hungry wolf was looking at his prey. He circled the tall Li Lianwen for a while before he stopped and smiled: "Since the supervisor's affairs have come to an end, it's time to talk about your and my lawsuit!"

"Your and my lawsuit? I haven't sued you yet! Do you want the evil one to sue first?" Mr. Li Lianwen, who has been majestic at home for a long time, was also exasperated by the thin wolf in front of him. He raised his eyebrows and stared at Fang Bingsheng without giving in, like an angry bull.

"You have a lawsuit with him?" The mayor who listened to the side also asked with interest, and was also curious: OK, it's a guy from the capital, he is so arrogant when he was caught in pickpocketing! Rare!

Fang Bingsheng sneered, pointed at Li Lianwen ferociously and said to the mayor: "One of the first thing I sued him to deceive the emperor and disturb the election; the other thing I sued him to spread cults and poison the people!"

"Click!" It was the sound of the mayor's chin knocking down the pen holder.

Apart from this sound, the whole room was quiet, so quiet that even a needle could be heard.

Li Lianwen's eyes were about to be cracked by his eyes and his mouth could not be closed; not only him, but also the three opium party members next to him were stunned, as if a mouse squeezed into the corner of the wall saw a ferocious cat, and he almost sat on the ground.

You should know that whether it is deceiving the king or spreading cults, it sounds terrifying. The former is a serious sin passed down from the Qing Dynasty; the latter is really there, and Song Jun attaches great importance to it. For example, if someone openly claims that Hong Xiuquan is Jesus' brother, Hong Xiuquan is not dead and is resurrected on him, then he will be put in prison immediately and sent the coal mine to dig coal the next day.

When I heard this crime in Mengkeli, I felt as if I found a snake with a white belly in the delicious soup, and anyone would be shocked.

"What did you say?" The mayor lifted his chin off the table with difficulty, staring at Fang Bingsheng and asked, his eyes full of disbelief.

Although Li Lianwen next to him closed his mouth, he immediately opened his eyes excitedly again, and shouted inside: "You are slandering!"

"Listen to me," Fang Bingsheng said a cruel smile on his face. He pointed at Li Lianwen, who was white-bearded with his fingers, and asked: "Why do you sue you for deceiving the king? Don't you know that candidates for parliament must have Christianity. Are you a Christian? Which sect do you belong to?!"

A sentence was like a bolt from the blue, and it immediately made Li Lianwen stunned.

Although he is currently a Christian grandfather and father, how could he worship foreign religions himself?

After a while, the blood of Confucianism was boiling at the critical moment. Li Lianwen swallowed and fisted and shouted: "How do you know that I am not a Christian? I worship Jesus! I am a Christian!"

There is no way, this is in front of the mayor, Li Lianwen intends to pretend to be a Christian.

"Very good, you are a Christian, which sect do you belong to!" Fang Bingsheng pressed step by step.

"Everyone worships Jesus! Brothers and sisters in the world are family! Why should we divide the sects?" Li Lianwen quickly responded to the moves. What he said was right. There are indeed many Christians from sects who refuse to label themselves, believing that Christians in the world are family and have no sects.

"Very good, it turns out you are a liberal Christian," Fang Bingsheng's response made Li Lianwen feel relieved, but Fang Bing's words almost stopped his heart.

This sentence is: "Then please recite the Lord's Prayer to me?"

The Lord's prayer is: "O our Father in heaven, may all the world respect your name as holy. May your kingdom come, and your will be done on earth as in heaven. Our daily diet is given to us every day. We are free from our debts, just as we are free from others. Do not let us meet temptations and save us from the evil ones. Kingdom, authority, glory, are all yours, forever. Amen."

This is the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, which is very important. Almost every Christian will recite because he prays like this every day.

But if Li Lianwen was trampled on a seven-inch snake, his face was full of pain. How could he recite this? In fact, he was not very clear about what the Lord's Prayer was.

"I am old and my eyes are dizzy. I can't read the Bible. They are all read for me by my children and grandchildren. I have a bad memory. Without the scriptures, I can't say it." Li Lianwen wanted to escape again with a cold sweat on his forehead.

"Christians do not know how to pray for the Lord? It's so strange." Fang Bingsheng sneered, looking at Li Lianwen as if he was a wolf and looking at the old deer with a lame leg, he continued, "It's okay if you are old. Then I'll ask you the most basic one, Jesus, Jehovah and the Holy Spirit, who is God?"

Knowing that the other party was testing his Christian identity, Li Lianwen soaked his white hair in cold sweat. He went to see the mayor in a way that he wanted to change the subject, but the mayor stared at him in a daze, waiting in his eyes: Yes, who accused him of deceiving the king in front of him and some of him doing cults. How could he be the mayor be relaxed?

Thinking that his grandchildren often say, "Believe in Jesus and receive eternal life", it must be that Jesus is God, Li Lianwen whispered: "Jesus is God..."

In a word, Fang Bingsheng turned around and smiled at the mayor and spread his hands. The mayor had changed his face.

Who is God? The Trinity of the Holy Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all God! - This is common sense in Christianity, just like you ask Confucius and Mencius disciples whom Confucius and Mencius pointed.

"I am old, how can I tell so much? I am a Christian!" Looking at Fang Bingsheng's expression, I knew that he had been exposed, but Li Lianwen still did not give up. He was so angry that he relied on his seniority, which was also his last life-saving straw.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Fang Bingsheng turned around and suddenly asked, "Li Lianwen, are you a sinner?! Is the mayor a sinner?!"

"You are the sinner! You crazy! You dare to insult you! Are you crazy?" Li Lianwen stamped his feet in anger and turned his head to point at Fang Bingsheng and shouted to the mayor: "Mayor, this crazy guy insults you! Hurry up and arrest him!"
To be continued...