Liu Hai saw that the prisoner below was almost dying of pain, and knew that it was almost over, so he waved his hand to the government officials below, who quickly removed the two sets of torture instruments from the front and back of the prisoner.
At this time, the prisoner could no longer kneel down. As soon as the torture device was removed, he immediately collapsed to the ground.
At this time, Liu Hai looked at the assassin below and asked with a sneer: "Are you going to tell me? If you don't tell me, I still have a lot of good work waiting for you."
The assassin looked at the sneering bangs, lowered his head helplessly, and said, "I'll do it."
After hearing this, Liu Hai was satisfied, and then asked: "Who forced you to assassinate me."
By now, the assassin knew that he was no longer immune. In order to avoid suffering any physical pain, he could only explain everything.
It turned out that the one who sent him here was Xiao Kun, the Wu generation leader of the Shanghai Bund Youth Gang. As for why, the assassin really didn't know.
When Liu Hai heard this, he was very surprised. A small gang leader dared to assassinate a high-ranking member of the imperial court, and he still wanted the king's law.
When Liu Hai wanted to go down to capture Xiao Kun, suddenly a government official came in to report.
"Commander, Pei Dazhong, the magistrate of Shanghai County, is asking for an audience with his servants outside."
As soon as Liu Hai heard what he was doing, he had been in Shanghai for many years and had no contact with the magistrate. At this time, he had just interrogated the assassin, and he came in a hurry. What was going on?
But since the other party was here, there was no reason to stay behind closed doors, so he ordered the government officials to bring the magistrate to the lobby.
When Pei Dazhong came to the Tang Dynasty, the first thing he saw was the assassin paralyzed on the side. He saw that the assassin had been tortured by clamping the stick in two places, so he couldn't help but said: "Admiral, according to the rules of the court, you are not allowed to clamp the stick in one place again."
If you use torture, you will have gone beyond the rules."
When Liu Hai heard that the magistrate was accusing him, Liu Hai's face was full of anger, "I was stabbed at the dock, what did you do? Now I am interrogating the assassin, and you plead for him instead. Are you the mastermind behind the scenes?"
Pei Dazhong was shocked after hearing Liu Hai's words, thinking that Liu Hai was now the admiral of the Nanyang Navy and had countless elite soldiers under his command. If he really pissed him off, he really wouldn't be able to deal with it.
So the magistrate quickly apologized to Liu Hai, "My lord, please forgive me. I was just impulsive, so I said the wrong thing."
Liu Hai didn't have time to chat with him right now, so he asked directly: "What brings you to my Nanyang Navy Yamen?"
After hearing this, Magistrate Pei Dazhong was a little embarrassed. He glanced at Liu Hai and then said: "Sir, I heard from the people below that you caught the assassin who committed the assassination, so you came here to take over according to the rules of the court."
After hearing this, Liu Hai looked at him with gloomy eyes and said, "I have my own reasons for this matter. You can go back."
But the magistrate couldn't bear to see the assassin below receiving such a severe punishment, so he gritted his teeth and said: "I am also worried about your Excellency being assassinated, but according to the rules of the court, Your Excellency should avoid this matter.
Please also ask your Excellency to hand over the assassin to the lower official, and the lower official will definitely give you an explanation."
After hearing this, Liu Hai could no longer hold back, "What explanation are you giving me? I have already verified this matter. It was ordered by Xiao Kun, the leader of the Shanghai Bund Youth Gang. Now that Xiao Kun is taken away, all the truth will be revealed."
After hearing Liu Hai's words, the county magistrate was immediately shocked and said: "This Xiao Kun has always lived in the concession and rarely rents out the concession. If we want to arrest him, we must arrest people from the concession. I'm afraid it will cause international disputes.
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Liu Hai calmed down immediately after hearing this. If this person was hiding in the concession, it would be hard for him to do anything openly.
But Liu Hai immediately thought of a way. Although I couldn't do it openly, I could do it secretly.
This method was not Liu Hai's idea, but Liu Hai remembered that Huang Huangrong, who was a powerful figure in Shanghai, offended the son of a Jiangsu warlord, and was secretly kidnapped from the concession by the other party. In the end, it was not Du Yuesheng who came to the door in person. I'm afraid
Huang Huangrong had already been destined to die.
"Okay, I understand this matter. I will never embarrass the court because of my own selfishness."
When the county magistrate heard Liu Hai's plea, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I wonder if your lord can hand this assassin over to my subordinate."
After hearing this, Liu Hai refused directly, "This person not only came to assassinate me, but also shot my bodyguard several times and died. My bodyguard is also an official of the imperial court. According to military regulations, this person must be executed."
After finishing speaking, Liu Hai didn't waste any time and directly ordered his sailors, "Pull this man to a mass grave and kill him."
After the soldiers below heard this, two men came up and dragged the assassin out.
The magistrate did not say anything after hearing this. He knew that this time Liu Hai, as the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, had suffered such a great injustice and was not allowed to vent his anger. I was afraid that this young and energetic boy would cause some trouble.
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After a while the soldier came back, holding a human head in his hand.
"Commander, the assassin has been executed."
Liu Hai looked at the assassin's head with disgust, and then said: "Throw it out and feed it to the dogs."
After hearing this, the soldier immediately carried the head and went out.
The magistrate watched Liu Hai kill the assassin and had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.
After Liu Hai dealt with this matter, he asked the warship officers on both sides to go back to rest. He himself returned to his house with a group of guards.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw his wife, Zeng Yuying, holding a child in her arms, waiting for him under the hall.
As soon as Liu Hai saw Zeng Yuying, he hurriedly stepped forward and took her hand. He went into the back room and complained: "You just gave birth, right? Why didn't you pay attention to yourself, didn't take the confinement period, and just ran back from Nanjing?"
Already."
After the two entered the house, Zeng Yueying smiled and put the child in front of Liu Hai: "This time I got a big fat boy. My son hasn't seen you yet. Please take a look."
Liu Hai was also excited after hearing this. This was the first time in his life that he had an offspring. So he gently held the child in front of him, as if he was holding some treasure.
Perhaps the son in his arms felt uncomfortable leaving his mother's warm and soft embrace. As soon as Liu Hai hugged her, she immediately started crying.
Liu Hai immediately laughed when he heard this, "This child looks like me. Hearing the sound of crying, he must be a promising person in the future."
Zeng Yuying saw her son crying and hurried over, took her son from Liu Hai's arms, and then glared at him: "My son is crying, why are you laughing? You have no idea what it is like to be a mother."
Liu Hai could only rub his nose after hearing this. He felt that his status in the family had begun to decline. He used to be the first one Zheng Yuying cared about, but now he was one step behind and became the second.
"Aren't you in the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion? Why are you back?"
After listening to Liu Hai's question, Zheng Yuying glanced at him secretly, and then said nonchalantly: "The child has been born, and the confinement period has also been completed. I can't stay at my mother's house all the time."
Although Liu Hai heard the tone of the voice relatively calm, he already felt that there must be some reason behind it?
However, after all, this was an internal matter of the Zeng family, and it was not convenient for me to inquire more, so I opened my mouth to divert the matter and focus the topic on this child.
"The child hasn't been named yet, has he?"
"Yes, I only gave him a nickname: Goudan. I heard the wet nurse said that a cheap name would make a living."
After hearing this, Liu Hai complained in his heart. What are these names? There is no scientific basis at all. In the future, if someone in the family calls themselves Shunkou and becomes a bitch when he speaks, where do you want your son to put his face?
But since Zeng Yuying wanted to call her that, he had no objection. If his son wanted to ask questions in the future, let him go to his mother.
At this time, Zeng Yuying held her son in her arms and glanced at Liu Hai, then pretended to be nonchalant and asked: "Who is the woman you sent back today?"
When Liu Hai heard this, he started to ask more questions, but he couldn't help but answer. Fortunately, this was in ancient times. If it were in modern times, the two of them could fight each other.
"Oh, Yu Ting is the daughter of the Chen family, a wealthy family in Nanyang. Her father specially asked her to serve me because I relieved the Chinese people in the Philippines. I couldn't help but accept it."
After hearing this, Zeng Yueying just vomited, and then asked: "Since you have come to our house, what status should you be given?"
Liu Hai touched his nose and said with some embarrassment: "What other identity can I have? Let him be a concubine."
"Then I will arrange a room for her temporarily. After our new house is built, I will arrange a maid and a yard for her. What do you think?"
"These matters are all decided by my wife, and I will not interfere with these matters in the back house."
Next, Zeng Yuying asked what name she should give her child.
Liu Hai thought for a while and then said: "Our family is considered a scholarly family, I think we will call him Liu Wenhao."
After Zeng Yuying heard this, she was very satisfied with the name. She knew that Liu Hai was ignorant, so she was thankful that she could choose such a more elegant name.
That night Liu Hai had a good meal at home, and then washed away the fatigue from this period of time.
Early in the morning of the second day, I went to the Nanyang Navy Admiral's Yamen in high spirits.
Because there are still a lot of things to deal with next. After a long voyage, the warship should be inspected and repaired, and the attachments on the bottom of the ship should also be cleaned.
Of course, there is nothing we can do about these things in Shanghai, because the Shanghai shipyard that Liu Hai is planning to build has not yet been designed by the foreigners.
Therefore, the warship can only sail to Fujian and undergo maintenance there.
Regarding this matter, Liu was not ready to go in person. Instead, he took photos of Liu Yu as the temporary commander of the fleet and went to Fujian with 8 large warships.
After receiving Liu Hai's order, Liu Yu immediately discussed with the commanders of several other warships, and everyone decided that Liu Yu would go south with a first mate of the warship.
As for the warship officers, they continued to return to the Nanyang Naval Academy for further studies. This long-distance voyage and the battle with the Beiyang Navy made them discover many of their shortcomings, so they all wanted to continue to learn more.