Upon hearing this, Wu Mai immediately rushed to the scene of the accident to investigate and collect evidence, and came uninvited the next day. At this time, in order to please foreigners, the jury officer in China hastily asked two sentences, and then decided that "the defendant in China beat the British sailor unreasonably, which constituted a crime of injury, sentenced him to one year's criminal detention and fined him two hundred silver dollars". There was an uproar.
Wu Mai said angrily, "The British sailors beat the China coachman first, and the first choice constitutes a crime of injury. 200 yuan should be fined first and investigated for criminal responsibility!"!
Not as good as the British jury's speech, the fresh and shameless China jury official immediately said, "The driver didn't serve well. The British sailor hit the driver when he lost self-control, and his responsibility should not be considered! "
Seeing this, Wu Mai was furious. He suddenly stepped forward, "pa, pa", unexpectedly slapped the jury officer twice and said, "hitting people constitutes a crime of personal injury, but hitting dogs does not constitute a crime. When I meet people like running dogs in Wu Mai, I will beat them 50 times! "
Wu Mai was once the director of the major general of the political department of the new three armed forces of the National Revolutionary Army. Once he was on a business trip in Hankou to cross the British Concession, an Indian policeman shouted at him, asking him to take off his military uniform, take no guard, take no bus and walk alone in casual clothes. Wu Mai was furious and immediately returned to the army, leaving his general behind, and roared off. Since then, he has traveled all over the country, taking it as his duty to safeguard national rights and civil rights in China.
As a lawyer, Wu Mai certainly knows the authority of the law. But he couldn't hold back his anger and hit people in court, which was reckless. Fortunately, a large number of people stood up to defend Wu Mai, which made British judges worry that it would trigger a popular uprising. In order to appease the people, they had to make concessions to arbitration.
This shows Wu Mai's strong personality.
Even in the face of Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme leader of China at that time, he had no fear. On one occasion, Chiang Kai-shek held an enlarged meeting of the regular meeting of the Kuomintang in the presidential palace in Nanjing to discuss the policy of seeking compromise from the Japanese aggressors. Wu Maite rushed back to Nanjing from Shanghai and entered the meeting place with a special pass. At the beginning of the conference, he stood up without authorization and said, "Chairman Jiang, why didn't the Kuomintang revolutionary government you led revolutionize? Today's so-called Three People's Principles have existed in name only! First of all, as far as nationalism is concerned, the Japanese invaders invaded Jinan and killed innocent people. The government only printed "National Monument" and "Tragedy" on the calendar. If we don't stand up and resist, our Chinese nation will perish! Besides, your civil rights are just empty talk, and the people have no rights. It is the gentlemen sitting here today who have deprived all their civil rights. Third, people's livelihood is more bitter. At present, people in Henan live on grass roots, and ordinary people have a bad life. Aren't you selling pork when you shout so loudly about implementing the Three People's Principles? "
Before his words were finished, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and left. There was a riot. However, Wu Mai remained humble and refuted a Kuomintang official who questioned his qualifications: "Does patriotism require any qualifications? All right, I'll just pose for qualification. First, I am a national party member. Can't party member point out the mistakes of comrades in the Party? Second, I am a national citizen. Can't citizens supervise the government? Third, I am one of the masters of the country. Can't the host reprimand the public servant? Don't think that you can do whatever you want when you are in power. You must know that public opinion can't be bullied, and public anger is even harder to commit! "
These words made Chiang Kai-shek's face livid with anger, his hands trembled and he announced an immediate adjournment. Gu, the commander of the capital garrison, will immediately be detained at the headquarters detention center.
On the night of detention, a letter from Wu Mai to Chiang Kai-shek was even more wonderful. Chiang Kai-shek thought Wu Mai was humbly apologizing, but when he opened the letter, it read: "... the laws promulgated by the national government clearly stipulate that prisoners in custody must be transferred to court for trial within 24 hours. Long-term detention is illegal, and so is filing a case. There are still such illegal things happening in the capital, but what will happen to the township and county governments at the grassroots level? With the respect of the chairman, junior officials can do whatever they want, even if they trample on the national law. How can Wang Can be safe for a barrister like Wu Mai who dares to violate human rights? What is the use of the so-called "Six Laws" except that bottle of soy sauce? "
Of course, Wu Mai is famous. When the news of his arrest came out, Nanjing and Shanghai immediately held large-scale demonstrations to protest against the illegal arrest of patriotic lawyers and demanded the release of Wu Mai. Chiang Kai-shek was intimidated by public power and social pressure and had to agree.
Dare to criticize and criticize the President in public, in China's thousand-year history, there is no one but him! Wu Mai ignored life and death, as an old saying goes: People are not afraid of death, why not? However, his strength is not only aimed at specific small things. What he pursues and considers is national character and national dignity! This is also the charm of his personal character.
In addition, there are stories of angrily breaking into the mayor's office, scolding without feeling avenged, and angrily beating the mayor Wu Tiecheng. After the Songhu Conference, Japan took advantage of the Nanjing government's desire for peace and signed the Songhu Armistice Agreement, which humiliated the country. Since then, Wu Maiwen has organized more than 500 patriotic students and people to go straight to Shanghai to denounce Wu Tiecheng.
Wu Tiecheng got the news in advance and fled to the British Concession Industrial and Commercial Bureau to hide. Wu Mai followed him and told the Indian police who stopped him that the Japanese Empire was trying to destroy China, just as Britain was trying to destroy India. Today, in order to resist Japan and save the country, Shanghai residents expressed their public opinion to Mayor Wu, just like your Mahatma Gandhi's righteous act against the British revival. Now you are working for Britain and working as a bodyguard for the scum of our country. What do you think of Mahatma Gandhi when he retires to China in the future? "
After listening to Wu Mai's passionate speech, the Indian patrol was very moved and automatically turned the horse's head to evacuate. Wu Tiecheng failed to seek help from the British Concession, so he had to promise to meet Wu Mai in the mayor's office the next day.
When they met, Wu Tiecheng's Ai Aidit shirked his responsibility: "This is the order of the central government, and it is hard for me to disobey it!"
Wu Mai immediately thundered, "If the Central Committee orders you to play the honey trap and send your wife to express condolences to Japanese general Masaaki Shirakawa, I guarantee that you will be ashamed to fight and the whole family will make a noise. However, in recent years, thousands of sisters in Qian Qian, northeast China, have been abused by the Japanese army, which is terrible. You know this, indifferent. Isn't it the usual behavior of traitors and traitors to value family humiliation and despise national humiliation? "
Wu Tiecheng was speechless. Wu Maiyue became more and more angry and said, "Everyone can kill traitors. Today I will die with you and serve my country! " "Say, picked up the cup on the table and the spittoon in the mayor's office and threw it at Wu Tiecheng's head. Unfortunately, it only hit the left shoulder. Scared Wu Tiecheng even called for help. The police rushed in and took Wu Mai away by force.
Of course, as before, Wu Mai is supported by the public. What he did was aboveboard, and he took an open and selfless road! The next day, the Shanghai Federation of Salvation Organizations from all walks of life joined students and citizens from various universities in Shanghai to demonstrate at the municipal government, and the Shanghai Lawyers Association set up a "Save Wu Mai Lawyers Group" to sue Wu Tiecheng. Worried that people's anger would lead to great changes, the Nanjing government had to order the release of Wu Mai and the dismissal of Shanghai police chief Wu Zhixian. This is the famous "Three Noises on the Beach".
1930, Wu Mai borrowed the Dalin Temple in Lushan Mountain and wrote a book "Photographs of the Movement of Recovering Consular Jurisdiction", which recorded in detail the fierce struggle between him and the diplomatic envoys of various countries in China. Poetic pen: "When you study at Dalin Temple, aviation descends from the sky. Spring is solid, and national humiliation and hatred are not satisfied. Unity is a city, and Siren must stand shoulder to shoulder. What does the wall mean? I would like to say * * *. "
1933, when the Japanese invaders invaded North China, Wu Mai destroyed his family to ease the plight. In addition to peacefully dissolving his engagement with his wife and sending his eldest son under the command of General Zhang Xueliang, he also went to Feng Yuxiang and asked to join the first batch of anti-Japanese death squads. However, Feng Yuxiang disagreed. He gently advised Wu to go abroad and used his reputation to publicize and organize patriotic overseas Chinese to support the domestic war of resistance. Wu Mai agreed.
However, on 1936, after hearing the news of the "Xi incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, he immediately returned from Singapore to represent Mr. Li Ji to Xi 'an. But some people in China don't want or like his coming back. Before leaving, he was killed by a mob.