The Three Judicial Offices interrogated Sun Xin and the other defendants. The evidence that Prince Lu had colluded with Japanese pirates and sold military equipment was already complete, and the Northern Enforcement Division had dispatched Imperial Guards to Yanzhou;
The Investigating Censor in South of the Yangtze had submitted a memorial based on reports, suspecting that Prince Lu had colluded with Sea Pirates to intercept and kill the diplomatic mission;
At this time, Lu Mingzhe, Prefect of Quanzhou, submitted a memorial stating that the bandit leaders of the Sea Pirates who had gone missing after the fire in Quanzhou's prison before the New Year had been found. They confessed that the interception and killing of the diplomatic mission had been carried out by Prince Lu, Earl of Huichang, Earl of Jingyuan, and others in collusion with powerful clans such as the Chen family of Fujian, all to prevent the Imperial Court from lifting the maritime ban.
Once the memorial reached the Capital City, the entire court was shocked. A few believed it, a few doubted it, and the great majority watched from the sidelines. Like Pan Yun, they stared wide-eyed every day, gorging on gossip until they were full.
But! Matters of state always made one's heart ache when considered carefully. So, while eating their fill of gossip, the court officials also grew furious and searched for a solution.
Ministers were people too, and people loved singing the opposite tune. The more they were forbidden from doing something, the more they wanted to do it.
Seeing that these imperial relatives, powerful nobles, meritorious aristocrats, and local great clans did not want the Imperial Court to lift the maritime ban, they insisted on lifting it!
Amid the uproar, after you finished singing, I took the stage. Though the cases had yet