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 house at night without picking up leftovers on the road, criminal cases, especially murder cases, have indeed not been reported locally in recent years. It is rare, and this murder happened in the most prosperous area of Sanya, so its nature is naturally more serious. This time, the inspection team happened to come here again. As a senior member of the Ministry of Justice, Fu Li naturally 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 had suffocated before entering the water. The cause of death was by no means the apparent drunkenness and 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 provide investigators with clearer investigation directions.
"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 initial investigation conclusion will be drowning. Who has the victim come into contact with after arriving at Victory Port? We must immediately start a investigation. An investigation." Fu Li's thinking was very clear. Since Hassan was murdered and his body was dumped, but it was not a robbery of money, there might be something else hidden behind it, and it might be related to the maritime trade he was engaged in during his lifetime. .
"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.
"One of us will be responsible for one side!" Fu Li suggested: "Brother Lin, you are responsible for checking the restaurants at Victory Port. I will go to Sanya Port to check the movements of the deceased's ship after it arrived. Director Huang was 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, and he is calm and thoughtful in his actions, and he has the style of a general. Neither Lin Nan nor Huang Tongyang expressed any objection to Fu Li's division of labor arrangements, 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 were interviewed as long as they could be found, but not much valuable information was obtained.”
Huang Tongyang looked at his notebook and began to tell 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 a coincidence, or it was even possible that the murderer arranged for him to meet there for the purpose of committing the crime.”
Just because no one had seen the deceased Hassan at Pier 3 does not mean that Huang Tongyang's investigation work was 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 before his death. However, in fact, no one has seen him, and the opposite inference can be made from this. Of course, if someone was deliberately planning to kill Hassan, they might have calculated this from the beginning, arranged to meet him outside the port area, and then brought him to the dock after dark to kill 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. It was active outside. If the deceased entered the port area from Landscape Avenue, it would be difficult to have witnesses. In addition, we searched the area near where the body was found and found no other items that may be related to the deceased at sea or on land. ”
"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 store clerk's recollection, 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 have never eaten there, you have heard of the name of this restaurant, so there is no need for Lin Nan to explain what it is.
Lin Nan responded: "I thought so too, so I carefully interrogated the guy from 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 clerk, 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 serious face, but the waiter also told a detail. On the day Hassan was eating alone, he served two people with dishes. Maybe it was the same person who made the appointment, but this person had a certain reason. Didn’t keep the appointment for various reasons.”
"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 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 did not ask for change for the excess. We checked The account was recorded at the counter, and there wasn't much money left after paying for the meal." Huang Tongyang said: "But we only found a few pieces of broken silver on the deceased, but there were several ten-yuan coupons. The broken silver is probably used to reward people, but he clearly has enough circulation coupons to spend in the restaurant, 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 muttered: "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 newcomers. He didn't adapt to the local circulation voucher system...or he simply didn't use the circulation vouchers on purpose."
Huang Tongyang continued: "There are numbers and secret notes on the circulation coupons. After the incident, the origin may be traced. If this is true as we guessed, then this person has a very deep mind."
"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, they were all shocked, because Hassan had just shipped a batch of valuable copper ingots three days ago. In terms of quantity, it was more than what the Ministry of Commerce and Industry originally produced in a month. I also wanted to make a special appointment with Hassan to see if we could develop the copper ingot trade in the long term, but something happened before the appointment could be made.”
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, so naturally they are well aware of this. Although they are not sure how many copper ingots the Shilu Mine can produce in a month, as the main copper and 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. The number of copper ingots shipped by Hassan at one time was almost equivalent to one-tenth of the mine's annual output, which naturally attracted great attention from 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 were Ming maritime merchants traveling between Sanya and Manila, it was simply impossible to purchase such a large amount of copper ingots from the local area. This thing is a strategic reserve material in any country. Hassan can purchase so many copper ingots from Manila at one time and transport them to Sanya for sale. If there is no private transaction between him and the Spaniards, then the three people here must be I don't believe it.
Lin Nandao: "We currently lack evidence as to whether Hassan's identity is a businessman or something else, and whether he came to Sanya for any other purpose 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 person. If we find this person, maybe everything will come to light."
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Huang Tongyang scratched his head and said: "But no one can clearly describe his appearance. 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. .”
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. We found the train ticket between Sanya Port and Victory Fort Station on that day from his room. According to the confession of his subordinates, he did leave Sanya Port alone that day. 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 incident, 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 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 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 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 took the tickets for the day of Hassan’s murder 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 he does not have a train ticket. We probably will not invest manpower and time to expand the scope of the investigation to Sanya Port, which is ten miles away, for a drunkard. Go over there. Director Huang, how were cases of drowning like this usually handled in the past?”
Huang Tongyang's face turned red, because he thought it was just an ordinary drunken accident and drowned, and he never thought that there was something fishy involved. When Fu Li asked, he responded honestly: "Usually, the corpse is kept for about three days, and a notice is posted on the pier. If no one recognizes the body by then, it will be dragged and cremated as an ownerless body."
(End of chapter)