When Baron Klimov set off to Izmail to bring reinforcements, Bucharest, thousands of miles away, was becoming more and more agitated. These days, surrounding the assassination of Sir Thomas Edwards, the multinational joint investigation team was noisy.
They were at loggerheads, especially Cohon and Perrier, who were almost at each other's throats, and no one was convinced by the other.
"How do we know that your conclusion is correct? How can you support it if it is without evidence?"
Ke Hong retorted sullenly: "This is obvious, there is no need for evidence at all! What evidence is needed for things that are known to everyone!"
But Perrier didn't buy it, and still insisted: "Everyone knows? How come I don't know? If we want to get real and credible conclusions, all investigations must be well-documented, and any conclusion without evidence cannot appear in the
In investigative reports, this is the most basic common sense!”
As he spoke, he also sarcastically said to Ke Hong: "Don't you even have this basic common sense?"
Ke Hong's nose was almost crooked with anger, because these days the investigation team has been focusing on trivial matters and unimportant details. Every detail wastes a lot of saliva and time. Anyway, after these days of quarreling, Tom
The assassination case of Sir Edwards is still going around in circles without any progress, and there is even a suspicion that it is going in reverse.
This made Cohon hate the French even more. He felt that the French were here to stir up trouble. The French would oppose every suggestion he made, and every conclusion he made would be torn apart and crushed by the French.
After repeated review, any slightest flaw will be found out and attacked repeatedly by the French.
All in all, Ke Hong felt exhausted mentally and physically, and regretted becoming the leader of this investigation team more and more. Because the team leader was responsible for organizing meetings and maintaining order, and anyway, the chores were too many and cumbersome. The team members only had to pick their brains.
It's time to find fault.
If he had given up the position of team leader to a Turk or a Wallachian, why would he have so many troubles now?
It's a pity that it's no use even if Ke Hong regrets it, he has to finish the sex with tears in his eyes. Even if he wants to regret and quit, he can't lose his face.
The only thing Cohon can do is to mobilize his men to sniff around like dogs for clues. Only by finding favorable clues and evidence can he slap the French in the face and put the investigation on track.
So is the evidence easy to find?
Objectively speaking, it is very difficult to find. Because the assassination that day was originally an accident, Alexei's target was not Sir Thomas Edwards, so naturally there will be no evidence against this Sir.
If you scout in this direction, you will really fall into a pit and be unable to climb out. Anyway, Kehong fell in and fell miserably at the beginning, and only after he was exhausted did he realize that this was meaningless.
In his report to his boss Palmerston, he admitted: "Based on this period of reconnaissance, I have to reluctantly admit that I have no clue. There is no clue to prove that this assassination was a premeditated action. The assassin completely
There is no trace left, and there is no trace at all!”
"This makes me start to wonder, did we go in the wrong direction from the beginning, otherwise how could we have done it seamlessly? I feel like there is something wrong here. Could it be that this assassination was an accident?"
Cohon finally began to realize that something was wrong. He began to wonder whether the death of Sir Thomas Edwards might have been an accident or whether the assassin had killed the wrong person. Because it was indeed possible, because at that time the city hall was crowded with dignitaries from Bucharest.
Rich people, it is entirely possible that these people are the targets of the assassins. It is not even ruled out that the targets of the assassins are the French. After all, the French have offended many Wallachian rich people before.
But what makes Kehong depressed is that there are too many possible targets at the scene. Dozens of people may be targets. Even if the most prominent among them are allocated, there are about a dozen. The men he has on hand are not enough to deal with all these people.
Once verified, the workload was too great. Moreover, the incident had already occurred for a week, and a large amount of evidence had been eliminated by time, making it impossible to investigate even if we wanted to.
If an ordinary person encounters this situation, he may have no choice but to give up, but Cohun is not an ordinary person, and he has never been interested in finding out the truth. The reason why he went to find out more is to blackmail the Wallachian Provisional Government.
Submit.
So Cohon immediately made adjustments. He only needed to throw out the conclusion he hoped to get. As for whether it was true, does it matter?
He immediately targeted the Provisional Government of Wallachia and fired fiercely: "From the investigation in recent days, I can draw a conclusion, that is, even if the Government of the Provisional Republic of Wallachia is not directly responsible, it is indirectly responsible!
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"After the incident, there was no active search for the assassins. All the arrests were just formalities and perfunctory. This makes me have to wonder whether the assassins have something to do with the government of the Provisional Republic of Wallachia? Is this the case?
Some people in the government with ill intentions towards Britain led this assassination! Otherwise, how could their performance be so casual and perfunctory!"
As a representative of the Provisional Republic of Wallachia who participated in the joint investigation team, Nikolai Ionescu immediately felt a pain in his stomach. In fact, he did not want to participate in this investigation team. As long as he is not stupid, he will know that this is a sinkhole.
, if you fall in, you will have to take the blame.
But both Jan Djika and Jan Constantine were slippery than loaches. One of them ran away with an excuse to go to Turkey as an envoy, while the other said that he was a party to the incident and had to avoid suspicion. As a result, this was an unlucky mission.
It fell on his head because he was jumping up and down and shouting that he wanted to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Wallachia and could not bow down to the British and meet their rude conditions.
The Revolutionary Committee feels that since you, Nicola Ionescu, are so capable and awesome, then you should go for it! We all support you spiritually!
But Nicola Ionescu is really just a talker. He is a good hand when he is sarcastic and badmouthing others, but if he is asked to personally protect the national interests, he is really powerless!
So when facing the aggressive Cohon, Ionescu really didn't have any confidence, especially in the previous investigation, the Bucharest police and the National Guard were too slack in tracking down the murderer, and their performance was really ugly. Naturally, he
His speech became softer.
"Consul General Kehong, this... this... is definitely a misunderstanding," he hesitated to organize his words, and then looked around with his eyes, hoping that Perrier next to him could help to speak and share the pressure, but Perrier was temporarily
Without any expression, he could only bite the bullet and continue: "The Provisional Government of Wallachia attaches great importance to this and has no intention of being perfunctory! I am sure that it is definitely a misunderstanding!"