Chapter 959 Detection Process

Sanya is the base where Haihan was founded. After nearly seven years of management and management, the local public security situation can be said to be quite good. Although it has not yet completely reached the level of not closing the door at night without picking up leftovers on the road, criminal cases, especially murder cases, have indeed not been reported locally in recent years.

It's rare, and this murder case happened to happen in the most prosperous area of ​​Sanya, so its nature is naturally more serious. This time, the inspection team happened to come here. Fu Li, as a senior member of the Ministry of Justice,

Of course, I took over the case as soon as possible.

Johnson's conclusion after the autopsy brought valuable clues to investigators. First, it was determined that the deceased entered the water after suffocation. The cause of death was by no means the apparent drunkenness, slipping and drowning. Second, the approximate time of death was determined.

, thus basically ruling out the suspicion of the deceased’s followers as committing the crime; thirdly, judging from the undigested food in his stomach, he most likely enjoyed a delicious meal near the port area before his death. These clues are all for the investigation

The personnel provided a clearer direction for the investigation.

"Give a hush order to the victim's subordinates and other personnel involved in handling the case. Do not leak the information to alert the public. The preliminary investigation conclusion will be drowning. Who has the victim come into contact with after arriving at Victory Port? We must immediately start an investigation.

An investigation." Fu Li's idea was very clear. Since Hassan was murdered and his body was dumped, but it was not a robbery of money, there may be other hidden reasons behind it, and it may have something to do with the maritime trade he was engaged in during his lifetime.

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"We must also pay attention to the instructions from the Chief. The restaurants near the Landscape Avenue must also be investigated. If we can find the place where the deceased ate before the accident, there may be other clues." Lin Nan also lost no time in adding.

road.

"Each of us should take charge of one side!" Fu Li suggested: "Brother Lin, you are responsible for checking the restaurants in Victory Port. I will go to Sanya Port to check the movements of the deceased's ship after it arrived. Director Huang originally

Since I have a job, I will be responsible for investigating the port area to see if anyone else witnessed the deceased's whereabouts nearby that night."

Although Fu Li is young, his qualifications and background are much better than the other two. He has studied under Ning Qi, Ren Liang and others. He is calm and thoughtful in his actions and has the style of a general. Neither Lin Nan nor Huang Tongyang has any doubts about it.

Fu Li objected to the division of labor arrangement, and the three of them started their own operations the next day.

The next afternoon, after a day of investigation, the three gathered again in the conference room of the Shengli Port Police Station and began to share their findings from the day.

The first is Huang Tongyang’s report: “Today, I mobilized all the people from the police station and the nearby inspection department to visit the port area. This mainly includes all the staff who worked the night shift at the pier on the day of the incident, and all the ships docked at the third pier that day.

The crew members on board and everyone they could find were interviewed, but not much valuable information was obtained.”

Huang Tongyang looked at his notebook and began to describe the results of today's investigation: "We interviewed a total of 327 people today, and we came to two main conclusions. First, counting from the day the deceased arrived in Sanya to the incident,

That night, no one saw the deceased near Pier 3 in the past few days. Secondly, no one we interviewed claimed to know the deceased. So I temporarily believe that the deceased will appear at Pier 3.

Maybe it was just an accident, or it was even possible that the murderer arranged for him to meet there for the purpose of committing the crime."

No one has seen the deceased Hassan at Pier 3, which does not mean that Huang Tongyang's investigation work has been in vain. If the deceased had trade dealings with a certain ship owner or cargo owner at Pier 3, it is very likely that he had appeared there during his lifetime.

In fact, no one has seen him, so we can make the opposite inference. Of course, if someone is deliberately planning to kill Hassan, it is possible that they have calculated this from the beginning and arranged for him to go somewhere outside the port area.

They met him, and after dark, they took him to the dock and killed him.

Huang Tongyang continued: "As we all know, there is no effective separation between the port area and the commercial area of ​​Landscape Avenue, so at night, except for people on duty on ships and some warehouses, there is no public lighting on the pier. In fact, there are no people.

Active outside. If the deceased entered the port area from Landscape Avenue, it is indeed difficult to have witnesses. In addition, we searched the area near the body where the body was found, and no other items that may be related to the deceased were found at sea or on land.

Already."

"Then let me talk about the results of today's investigation in the business district." After Huang Tongyang finished speaking, Lin Nan took the initiative and took over: "Perhaps the information I collected here will bring you some inspiration."

"I led a team to visit more than 30 restaurants in the business district today, and I found some interesting things." Lin Nan's tone was low, but there was no "interesting" expression on his face: "Hassan arrived at

In just a few days since Sanya, I had dined in the private room of Zuixianlou for two consecutive nights before the accident. According to the waiter in the restaurant, Hassan seemed to be alone the night before, but there was a person on the night of the incident.

The man ate with him in the private room and left together after paying the bill."

"So this person is probably the last person to see him?" Fu Li immediately asked. Zuixian Restaurant is a relatively well-known restaurant in the local area. Even if you haven't eaten there, you have heard of this restaurant.

It's a famous name, so there's no need for Lin Nan to explain what it is.

Lin Nan responded: "I thought so too, so I carefully interrogated the guy at Zuixianlou, but he couldn't even tell me what this man looked like, because he never saw his face from the beginning to the end."

Fu Li frowned and said, "How could this happen? The guys in Zuixianlou shouldn't make such low-level mistakes. Recognizing people by their faces is the most basic professional skill in their line of work."

Lin Nan responded: "Based on the situation described by the waiter, this person seems to be hiding his appearance intentionally or unintentionally. Every time he enters the room to serve food, this person's face is facing the direction of the window, so that he never

I noticed the man's face. But the waiter also told a detail. On the day Hassan was eating alone, according to his request, he served two people's dishes. Maybe the person who made the appointment was the same person, but this person was motivated by a certain reason.

I didn’t keep the appointment for some reason.”

"Perhaps the waiter in the store didn't notice that the person he made an appointment with had appeared before." Fu Li added: "The flow of customers in Zuixian Tower is not small. As long as this person has not touched the dishes and chopsticks after entering the room, he will not stay there for a long time."

Long, it’s probably hard for guys to notice if anyone comes in or out.”

Lin Nan nodded and said: "The situation you mentioned is not impossible."

Huang Tongyang suddenly interrupted and asked: "Did Mr. Lin ask the waiter how Hassan paid the bill after eating in the past two days?"

Lin Nan praised: "Director Huang is very attentive. We have also checked this detail. In the past two days, Hassan used cash to settle the bill, 10 taels per ingot, and no change was required for the excess. We checked

The bill was recorded at the counter, so after paying for the meal, there wasn’t much left over.”

Huang Tongyang said: "But we only found a few pieces of broken silver on the deceased, but there were several circulation coupons with a face value of ten yuan. Hassan probably brought the broken silver to reward people, but he clearly had an amount of money with him.

I have enough circulation coupons to spend in restaurants, is it necessary to bring silver ingots?"

"So it's possible that the person who paid the bill wasn't Hassan, but the person he met with?" Fu Li immediately understood what Huang Tongyang wanted to express.

Huang Tongyang nodded and said: "This is exactly what I mean by humble position."

Lin Nan pondered and said: "I also looked at the silver ingots. They are ordinary Ming Dynasty official silver, which can be exchanged at any time at Haihan Bank. Most of the people who use this kind of silver to spend money in restaurants are first timers here.

He didn't adapt to the local circulation voucher system...or maybe he simply didn't use the circulation vouchers on purpose."

Huang Tongyang continued: "There is a serial number and secret mark on the circulation certificate. After the accident, the origin may be traced. If it is true as we guessed, then this person's mind is quite deep."

"That's right." Fu Li nodded and replied: "I have checked the few circulation coupons found on Hassan today. They are the payments made by the Ministry of Commerce to him after arriving in the port. People from the Ministry of Commerce heard that

After saying this, I was shocked because Hassan had just shipped a batch of valuable copper ingots three days ago. In terms of quantity, it was more than the output of Shilu Mine in one month. The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry originally

I also wanted to have a special meeting with Hassan to see if we could develop the copper ingot trade on a long-term basis, but something happened before we even made the appointment."

The fact that Haihan has been importing copper from the outside world for a long time is not news to Lin Nan and Huang Tongyang. One of them works in the intelligence agency, and the other is responsible for the port area. Naturally, they are well aware of this. Although they don't know much about it.

I don’t know how many copper ingots the Shilu Mine can produce in a month, but as the main copper-iron ore producing area under Haihan’s rule, the number of miners is said to be several thousand, so the output must not be too low, and this Hassan

The number of copper ingots transported at one time is almost equivalent to one-tenth of the mine's annual output, which naturally attracts the attention of the business department.

Lin Nandao: "The rest of the payment..."

"I found them all in his room. There are checks and negotiable papers, and the amounts are right. It's unlikely that his men colluded with outsiders to seek wealth and death." Fu Li knew what Lin Nan wanted to ask, so he didn't wait.

After he finished speaking, he answered: "I talked to people from the Ministry of Commerce. This Hassan also came to Sanya for trade in the past, but the goods he shipped before were mainly leather, but he had never shipped a large amount of copper.

precedent."

Huang Tongyang frowned and said, "Do you know where he shipped these goods from?"

Fu Li nodded and said: "Leather and copper ingots both come from the same place, Manila."

"Then he is actually running errands for the Spaniards?" Huang Tongyang is also knowledgeable. He knew Hassan's camp as soon as he heard about Manila. Although there are Ming maritime merchants traveling between Sanya and Manila, it is impossible to get from Sanya to Manila.

Such a large amount of copper ingots were purchased locally. This stuff is a strategic reserve material in any country. Hassan was able to purchase so many copper ingots from Manila at once and transport them to Sanya for sale. It must be said that there was no private relationship between him and the Spaniards.

Trading, then these three people here must not believe it.

Lin Nandao: "We currently lack evidence as to whether Hassan's identity is a businessman or something else, and whether he has any other purpose for coming to Sanya besides trade. But he and an unidentified person were in the private room of Zuixianlou.

The purpose of the contact is probably related to the cause of his death. As of now, the last person we know to have had contact with him is probably this mysterious figure. If we find this person, maybe everything will come to light."

Huang Tongyang scratched his head and said: "But no one can clearly describe the appearance of this person, so how can we dig him out from the tens of thousands of people in Sanya? And if he is a non-Haihan national, he might have left here by boat.

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Fu Lidao: "Let me go through the timeline again to see how much information we have now. Hassan arrived in Sanya five days ago and completed the copper ingot transaction with the Ministry of Commerce as soon as possible and collected the payment.

.But he was not idle at Sanya Port that day either. We found the train ticket to and from Sanya Port and Fort Victory Station that day from the room where he lived. According to the confession of his subordinates, he did leave Sanya Port alone that day. There was an interval in the middle.

One day later, Hassan appeared alone in Zuixian Tower again, and we also found the round-trip train ticket for this day in his room. On the fourth day, which was the day of the crime, Hassan appeared in Zuixian Tower for the last time.

But we did not find a ticket for this day on the body. Of course, it may also be that he hired a horse-drawn carriage or an ox cart to complete this journey, so out of caution, I also checked all operating means of transportation and found that

No one took over Hassan’s business at Sanya Port that day, and it was impossible for him to walk ten miles to get here, so he should have come by train.”

"So it is very likely that the murderer hid the train tickets on purpose...but for what purpose?" Huang Tongyang asked puzzledly.

"I assume that the purpose of Hassan coming to Port Victory is to meet the murderer, but for some purpose, the murderer does not want anyone to know that Hassan has traveled back and forth between Sanya Port and Port Victory many times for this purpose. He

I didn’t know that Hassan also collected the train tickets from the previous two days, so he only collected the tickets for the day Hassan was killed and tried to confuse the public." Fu Li slowly told his reasoning: "If we are in the autopsy stage,

If the abnormality is not discovered in time, then Hassan will definitely be treated as an unlucky guy who fell into the sea drunk. And since he does not have a train ticket, we probably will not invest manpower and time for a drunkard and expand the scope of the investigation to Sanya Port, which is ten miles away.

Over there. Director Huang, how were cases of drowning in the water usually handled in the past?"

Huang Tongyang's face turned red, because he thought it was just an ordinary drunken person who slipped and drowned at the beginning, and did not expect that there was something fishy in it. When Fu Li asked about it, he answered honestly: "Usually, it takes three days to bury a corpse.

In the next day or so, a notice will be posted on the pier. If no one recognizes the body by then, the body will be towed and cremated as an ownerless body."
Chapter completed!