Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 676 I am not convinced, I want to appeal (fourth more, please subscribe)
"You must release Mr. Sassoon."

Wade, the British envoy to the Qing Dynasty, immediately rushed to Haizhou after learning that Sassoon had been "kidnapped" by Ming Dynasty.

"Now is now, otherwise the series of diplomatic troubles caused are beyond what you can bear."

"What kind of diplomatic trouble?"

Liu Kunpeng sneered.

"I don't know what kind of diplomatic troubles arresting an opium dealer will cause, but we all know that Daming will never give in to any threats."

"you……"

Wade stared at the other party for a long time before uttering a word.

"It's British."

Looking at Liu Kunpeng's smiling face, Wade almost confused the country he represented with another country. The country he represented would never succumb to British pressure.

"Just an opium dealer."

"You have no right to arrest people from the British Concession."

Okay, now what rights are we talking about again?

"He may have been arrested in the Ming Concession. Who knows?"

Faced with such an unreasonable answer, Wade was a little at a loss as to how to deal with it.For a country like Daming, verbal threats are meaningless.

It took him a while to say unwillingly.

"In that case, let London and Ying Tian negotiate directly."

"On the one hand, the negotiations over there will not yield any results. After all, he is just a drug dealer."

……

Where is the man from London?

Sassoon has been asking this question ever since he was decompressed to Daming.But obviously no one could answer him.However, this did not prevent him from being brought to court.

"Mr. Sassoon, do you admit to selling opium to Ming?"

Facing the prosecutor's questioning, Sassoon said directly.

"Ridiculous! This is simply the most absurd thing in the world. Maybe buying and selling opium in your country is illegal. But buying and selling opium in the Qing Dynasty is a legal trade, and it is a legal trade protected by international conventions. What right do you have? Bring it here from the Qing Dynasty, and use your laws to go. Judge me. For my legitimate business in other countries."

Standing in court, Sassoon seemed to have become a fighter, and he wanted to prove it to the world.How ridiculous is this trial.

"Your Honor, please record the suspect's answer. He has admitted to selling opium to Daming."

The prosecutor went to Zhao Hongbo to support the frame of the gold-rimmed glasses, looked at Sassoon and sneered.

"The laws of Ming Dynasty don't care whether the so-called legal trade you conduct there is legal in the local area. We only care about your behavior of selling opium like Daming."

That answered Sassoon's earlier question, and then the prosecutor added.

"Next, we would like to ask the witness Hartung to appear in court to prove that Sassoon had clearly instructed him to transport opium to Peru through gangs in Chinatown, and then transport it to Daming to open up new markets."

Hartung became their witness.

After hearing the news from the lawyer before, Sassoon was surprised in his heart. In any case, he never thought that Hartung would betray him, but all this seemed to be taken for granted. After all, facing this kind of thing, everyone People will first protect themselves.

When the Jews are faced with this choice, they will definitely make the choice that is most beneficial to them at the first time.

Soon his classmate went to court, and he stood on the witness stand and answered the prosecutor's question one by one.His answer was neither embellished nor falsified, it was Sassoon's direct advice.Even in the face of repeated questioning by Sassoon's defense lawyers, he answered without any questions.

The trial was doomed from the start.

Until the third day of the trial, a lawyer finally appeared in front of Sassoon, a Hispanic Daming lawyer.

"Hello, Mr. Sassoon, according to your family's entrustment, starting tomorrow, I will serve as your defense lawyer and provide you with defense."

Romario, a lawyer, just received a telegram from London yesterday.

"Finally know where I am."

Sassoon said excitedly.

"The British government, what is the attitude of the British government now? Do they know that I was kidnapped in Haizhou?"

Facing Sassoon's inquiry, Romario answered directly.

"Now the British ambassador is negotiating with the Ming officials, please rest assured, I believe they will fully consider this factor, but..."

Romario, who knew Daming very well, shrugged helplessly, and then said.

"As far as I know, they will definitely not make any concessions on this issue. After all, they need to prove it, and use you to prove that anyone who sells drugs to Daming will pay for their actions."

"Damn it, they're just killing chickens for monkeys to see."

Sassoon immediately thought of this Chinese proverb, and then he said it.

"So how will they sanction me according to their laws? I'm not afraid that I will go to jail or pay a fine. If I can, I hope that I can use a fine instead of a sentence. You can tell them that there is nothing wrong with money, no matter how much it is. "

As long as he doesn't go to prison, Sassoon believes that he can always earn money back outside.

Looking at the confident Sassoon, Romario didn't even have the heart to pierce his fantasy.

"Mr. Sassoon, our only hope now is to break through the diplomatic representations of Britain. They can have some scruples not to sentence you to death. As for imprisonment, this is inevitable. Maybe one day in the future, we can pass further Negotiate and let you be released."

"What? How dare they? How dare they do this to me? They want to kill me, they want to kill me, the British will definitely not agree. The British will never let it go, they don't have the guts."

Sassoon shouted excitedly.

"How dare he? I'm English. How dare they kill an Englishman?"

Looking at the excited Sassoon, Romario couldn't bear to tell him.This is no longer a big name. It is the first time that the British have been sentenced to death in court. Before that, when they just occupied Argentina, some British who tried to overthrow their rule were sentenced to death.While they were being hanged, their property was confiscated.

"Mr. Sassoon, you don't know them. They will never let you go because you are British, just like they can bring you here for trial, sir, what you need now is to live Come down, if possible, do you have anything to trade with them? For example, other criminals like this must know that there are other criminals smuggling opium here."

Facing the lawyer's question, Sassoon was stunned for a while before answering.

"This is a new market."

As a businessman, Sassoon is very good at opening up new markets. His pace of opening up new markets is almost closely related to the direction of Chinese laborers.In the past few years, he has not only sold opium to San Francisco in the United States, but also to Gold Mountain in Australia, and of course there are mines and plantations all over Southeast Asia. In his opinion, these are all new markets worth exploring.

Once upon a time, these new markets brought him extremely rich returns, and he even proudly showed off to others how shrewd he was, able to seize new markets first when no one was aware of those markets, Thereby earning huge wealth.

But while he was making a huge fortune, it never occurred to him that one day this new market would kill him.

And now that day has finally arrived. Two days later, after hearing arguments from both the prosecution and the defense, the jury delivered their verdict—guilty.

According to the verdict of the jury, the judge made his verdict according to the corresponding legal provisions-the death penalty!
When the judge just said those two words, Sassoon stood in a daze between the iron bars, unable to speak in fantasy.It was a long time before he said.

"I don't accept it, I don't accept it, I want to appeal, I want to appeal."

(End of this chapter)