"You don't need to know who handed it over to the official, the official just wants to tell you that the scholar doesn't want to make the case bloody, so he decided to severely punish the evil and forgive you, if you insist on going your own way, then no one can save you!"

The young official naturally didn't answer Lu Hai's words, and after retracting the alliance contract in his hand, he said, "Your luck is really good, if you meet a benevolent person like a scholar, if you change to this official, you will definitely be cut down!" ”

"Big ...... Will a scholar really be lenient and coercive? Lu Hai's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he naturally heard the meaning of the young official wanting to let him go, so he hurriedly asked.

"Humph!"

The young official sneered, looked at Lu Hai with cold eyes and said, "The scholar is too soft-hearted, and he is worried that someone will take the opportunity to make the case bigger and invite credit, so he actually sent this official for you, if it weren't for the repeated advice of the scholar, then the official would definitely let you be in a different place!" ”

"Dare to ask what this official is called?" Lu Hai heard from the young official's words that his identity did not seem to be simple, so he asked tentatively, wanting to know the identity of this young official.

"The official's surname is Ma, his name is Xianglin, you must already know the official very well, and the official almost died on your assassination!" The young official's eyes flashed coldly when he heard this, and his voice was cold waiting for Lu Hai to say.

"You...... You're the guard officer next to the scholar! Lu Hai was taken aback when he heard this, and looked at Ma Xianglin with a shocked face.

Due to the overseas trade, the businessmen of the Ningbo Smugglers Gang naturally knew the people around Li Hongyu, among whom Ma Xianglin was Li Hongyu's personal guard captain and Li Hongyu's out-and-out confidant, no wonder he had a Sichuan accent.

"Big ...... What about the bachelor's degree now? Then, Lu Hai remembered an extremely important matter, and couldn't help but look at Ma Xianglin nervously and asked, he still didn't know how Scholar Li was injured in the assassination.

"Hmph, it's wishful thinking to hurt the university scholars with your indiscriminate methods." When Ma Xianglin heard this, a trace of anger suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he said coldly to Lu Hai.

In fact, Li Hongyu's stand-in was seriously injured, and the power of the explosives at that time was too powerful, but this matter could not be known to outsiders, so Ran Xingrang reported to the court that Li Hongyu was slightly injured in the assassination incident.

Lu Hai immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, the lighter Li Hongyu's injuries were, the smaller their culpability, and they didn't know about Li Hongyu's use of a stand-in.

After this incident, Li Hongyu will have to replace with a new stand-in, fortunately he has already prepared a stand-in and prepared a stand-in, and the standby stand-in will exercise the power of a scholar on his behalf.

"The officer asked you, can you plead guilty?" Ma Xianglin saw that Lu Hai's expression became relaxed, so he asked with a cold expression, wishing that Lu Hai would refuse.

In fact, he did not approve of leniencing these people who attempted to murder Li Hongyu in his heart, but after careful consideration and weighing in order to get out of the overall situation, Li Hongyu felt that the smugglers in Ningbo had the value and necessity of their existence, and if they were eradicated, they would destroy the commerce and economy within the sphere of influence of the Ningbo merchants.

Therefore, Li Hongyu finally decided to punish only those who were angry after being angry, after all, Ningbo will also be an important port city of the Customs Department in the future, and there is no need for him to eradicate those people in the Ningbo Merchant Gang, these people's power in the local area is complicated, and they can be more effective if they are used.

Ma Xianglin naturally knew what Li Hongyu meant by following Li Hongyu for so long, but he hated those who tried to assassinate Li Hongyu, and if it wasn't for Li Hongyu just using a stand-in, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Hongyu didn't hate those who wanted to murder him in his heart, but as an auxiliary minister of the Ming Dynasty, he had to solve the problem in the long run, not act willfully, and maximize the benefits he obtained, so he had to suppress the anger in his heart and adopt a compromise method to solve this matter.

"Official, what kind of punishment will you get if you confess?" Lu Hai came back to his senses, looked at Ma Xianglin nervously and asked.

"The scholar said, knowing your mistakes can improve a lot, you are all local celebrities and gentry, I hope you can go on the right path in the future and don't disappoint him." Ma Xianglin's eyes flashed with a look of disgust, and then he answered Lu Hai quietly.

"Big ...... The university is going to spare us? Hearing this, Lu Hai's eyes suddenly lit up, his eyes were full of surprise, he heard the meaning of Ma Xianglin's words, Li Hongyu was ready to give them a chance to mend their ways.

"That's up to your performance, if you want to resist to the end, then this official doesn't mind sending you to the execution ground!"

Ma Xianglin looked at Lu Hai coldly, he couldn't understand Li Hongyu's decision at first, but now he gradually realized Li Hongyu's good intentions, everything Li Hongyu did was to stabilize the situation in Ningbo Prefecture, otherwise the Ningbo business community would be hit hard and his vitality would be greatly damaged.

"Official, is this true?" When Lu Hai heard this, he knew that Ma Xianglin wanted him to express his position, and after hesitating for a while, he asked tentatively, if Ma Xianglin deceived him, then he would want to cry without tears.

"Is there any other choice now?" Seeing that Lu Hai was suspicious of him, Ma Xianglin couldn't help but sneer, "With that letter of alliance just now, it is enough to cut off your head, and you still want to bargain with this official!" ”

"That's not what I mean, that's not what I mean." An embarrassed look suddenly appeared on Lu Hai's face, and he waved his hands again and again, for fear that Ma Xianglin would withdraw the conditions just now, and then hurriedly said, "Zhao, I am willing to confess my crimes." ”

"Say, Where is your covenant?" Ma Xianglin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he finally successfully completed his persuasion of Lu Hai, as long as Lu Hai opened his mouth, then the rest of the businessmen would definitely not be able to withstand it.

"Back to the official, I hid it in the ground of the ancestral grave."

Lu Hai hesitated for a moment and said with a wry smile, once he handed over this agreement, it would mean that his fate was pinched in his hands by Ma Xianglin, in case Ma Xianglin turned his face, he would want to cry without tears.

"Who is the mastermind?" Ma Xianglin asked expressionlessly, this is the key person in this case.

"Master Hui, the mastermind is Tian Gaofeng, who proposed and tricked everyone into murdering the scholar." Lu Hai hesitated again when he heard this, and then said helplessly to Ma Xianglin, he knew that once he was identified as the mastermind, he would definitely die.

"You write down what happened, sign and draw it as evidence in court." When Ma Xianglin heard this, he asked the two entourages guarding the door to come in, spread the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table next to him, and said to Lu Hai in a deep voice.

Lu Hai smiled helplessly, walked forward and wrote down the incident on the table, and then signed on it, which became his confession.

"Do you know what to say tomorrow in the lobby?" Ma Xianglin checked the confession, put it away, and asked Lu Hai in a deep voice.

"Yes, yes." Lu Hai nodded again and again, tomorrow in the court, he naturally wanted to identify Tian Gaofeng as the mastermind, this Tian Gaofeng was the round-faced middle-aged man who instigated them to assassinate Li Hongyu at that time.

"You know for yourself!" Ma Xianglin glanced at Lu Hai when he heard this, turned around and led the two entourages away, he had more things to do tonight, and he had to meet several other smugglers who were imprisoned to ensure that tomorrow's court trial could go smoothly.

Waiting for Ma Xianglin to leave, Lu Hai couldn't help but walk around the cell, looking extremely excited, he originally thought that he would definitely die this time, but he never expected that Li Hongyu would magnanimously let them live, which made him very excited now, like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.

The next day, the Ningbo Mansion.

Since the culprits of Li Hongyu's assassination case are to be tried in the public today, the government office was surrounded by the lively people early in the morning.

In order to ensure the safety of the scene, the Ningbo Wei commander mobilized a large number of soldiers to maintain order, and Ningbo City has not been so lively for a long time.

Among the crowd watching the excitement, there is no one who is most concerned about the facts of the case than the businessmen in Ningbo and the people who eat the bowl of rice in the smuggling business; once those big businessmen are served by Li Hongyu, then I don't know how many people will be implicated, and how can the local businessmen near the sea in Ningbo have no connection with the smuggling business at sea.

For those people who rely on smuggling business to make a living, if those big businessmen fall, they will lose their livelihood and will have no livelihood in the future.

Ordinary people are also very concerned about this case, Ningbo is a commercial business, if something happens in the business community, then the lives of the people will also be affected.

Because the person who was assassinated this time was a dignified Ming minister, and then contacted the identity of the smugglers of those merchants, there were soon rumors in the market that those merchants killed Li Hongyu in order to stop the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty, which was an out-and-out felony in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the outside world is basically unanimous on the outcome of this court trial, believing that those arrested businessmen will not escape, and if the Customs Department has not found conclusive evidence of the crime, how can they be arrested?

Although the governor of Zhejiang and other dignitaries came to Ningbo City, because the case was from the Customs Department, the chief judge of the case was Ma Xianglin, and officials, including the Ningbo prefect, could only be jurors.

The prefect of Ningbo looked tired, his eyes were bloodshot, his expression was haggard, and his complexion looked very bad.

In the lobby, the governor of Zhejiang and other officials of the jury sat on the seats on both sides of the lobby, talking while drinking tea before the court trial began.

Ma Xianglin sat behind the desk in the lobby and looked serious about the case file in his hand, and outside the lobby was full of people who came to watch the excitement, chattering there.

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