After the "9.18" murder case, there were many rumors about this case in Xinleng County at that time.

Some people say: Li Hong was too arrogant and fierce in his usual life, which angered several nearby coal mine bosses, so they jointly hired people to kill him;

Some people also said: Because Li Hong often seduced other people's wives and cuckolded many well-known characters on Xinleng Street, one of them spent money to hire a professional killer and "killed" him;

There are also people who say: Li Hong sent a lot of money to the local officials, but this guy is not strict in his mouth, and he is too arrogant, and often threatens those officials who get his money, and he talks about the money he sends to the officials......

All in all, among the various rumors of the people of Xinleng, although this Li Hong is a victim, no one sympathizes with him, and in the rumors, all of them are his bad deeds and inauthentic behaviors, which belong to the ranks of those who should be killed......

In fact, Li Hong is indeed such a nouveau riche who started by relying on coal mines, then amassed money by various means, and finally relied on the rich and powerful to do misdeeds.

Gu Yixin, director of the Public Security Bureau at that time, personally commanded and participated in the investigation of the "9.18" case, and after summarizing all kinds of on-site investigation evidence, collecting a lot of reporting clues, and understanding all kinds of rumors, he and the people in the task force, the object of suspicion in their hearts, all pointed to two people, Gong Zhichao and Chen Yuanqiao.

At that time, not long after Chen Yuanqiao moved out of Xinleng to the provincial capital, Gu Yixin and others learned that the reason why Chen Yuanqiao suddenly left Xinleng was because the contradictions and conflicts with Li Hong had reached a white-hot level, and the two people had fought openly and secretly many times in order to compete for the mining rights of a high-grade antimony mine in Jinhai Village, Shishan Town, competing with each other to throw money at the land and resources department, competing with Jinhai to raise the rental price, competing with Jinhai to draw land and drill pits on the hillside where the antimony mine was located, and even many crowd fights occurred between the two sides.

And on the congenital night when Chen Yuanqiao left Xinleng, his only daughter Chen Mengqi was kidnapped by a group of people, but in the process of being kidnapped, Chen Mengqi was magically rescued by a high school student and recorded a confession at the police station, but Chen Yuanqiao didn't seem to want to make trouble with the public security organ at all, after his daughter recorded the confession, he immediately took her home, and moved the family out of Xinleng early the next morning.

At that time, many people speculated that Chen Mengqi's kidnapping was controlled by Li Hong behind him, and the purpose was to control Chen Mengqi in his hands and force Chen Yuanqiao, who loved his daughter more than his own life, to agree to the conditions he offered, and not to compete with him for antimony ore resources in Jinhai Village, Shishan Town.

And Chen Yuanqiao, at that time, was far less powerful than Li Hongda, and only Gong Zhichao of his subordinates was relatively good on the street, but he had not yet formed his own strength, and he was far from being the opponent of Li Hong's "Four King Kongs".

So, Gu Yixin and they speculated: In order to avoid trouble, in order to prevent his daughter from being threatened again, Chen Yuanqiao first moved away from Xinleng and hid far away in the provincial capital, avoiding Li Hong's powerful range, and then, he commanded remotely in the provincial capital, so that Gong Zhichao, who was thoughtful and neat, could get rid of him in one fell swoop by taking advantage of Li Hong's relaxation......

This speculation, Gu Yixin thinks it is very reasonable, and it is also very in line with Chen Yuanqiao and Gong Zhichao's style of acting, but unfortunately, this is just a guess and a way of solving the case......

Now, as soon as Gu Yixin heard Li Botang's words, he immediately understood: At the beginning, he and the people of the "9.18" case task force had the right idea to solve the case, and now, if Zeng Qiang can find a murderer who participated in the shooting of Li Hong back then, and let him come out to testify against Gong Zhichao and Chen Yuanqiao, no matter how good Gong Zhichao's relationship is and how hard the background is, he will definitely not be able to escape the charge of murder......

However, Gu Yixin still had some doubts about whether Zeng Qiang could really provide the whereabouts of a killer, so he asked Li Botang: "Mr. Li, what kind of role is this Zeng Qiang, why did he come out to turn himself in to testify against Gong Zhichao, is he reliable." ”

Li Botang smiled and said, "Old Gu, do you still have doubts about my ability to do things, or if you are curious, I will explain the ins and outs of this matter to you." ”

It turns out that Zeng Qiang has been hating Gong Zhichao and Tietuo and others since he was taught a lesson by Gong Zhichao because of tax collection last time, and he was scared to pee his pants by Tietuo gun, although Gong Zhichao later provided him with 500,000 yuan of funds to let him make profits in the building materials market, but he is a villain who only holds grudges and does not remember gratitude, and his hatred for Gong Zhichao and others has not been eliminated.

Moreover, this Zeng Qiang himself is still a big gambler, since he got the 500,000 yuan funded by Gong Zhichao, he made money with interest on the one hand, and gambled openly on the other hand, as a result, the money he lost every day was often several times the money he made with interest, and in just a few months, he lost the principal and interest he earned.

And one of his gambling friends is Li Zhi.

Li Zhizhi said that he was originally one of Gong Zhichao's subordinates, so he intended to win over and get acquainted with him, and when he lost money, he borrowed 200,000 yuan to him as a gambling book, and did not want his interest, so that Zeng Qiang was grateful to him, so he successively told Li Zhichao some things about Gong Zhichao, so that Li Zhizhi told him a lot of illegal and criminal facts that Gong Zhichao had not been grasped by the political and legal organs, especially when Zeng Qiang told him about Gong Zhichao's murder of Li Hong on the order of Chen Yuanqiao, which made him even more treasured.

According to Zeng Qiang: Back then, he and Tietuo and others were the "Five Tiger Generals" under Gong Zhichao, but Gong Zhichao didn't trust him very much, so when he murdered Li Hong, Gong Zhichao deliberately put him aside, and selected three ruthless and outstanding marksmanship from the little brothers of Tietuo and others to serve as killers.

After killing Li Hong, Gong Zhichao immediately arranged for three killers to escape from Xinleng and dispersed to several cities in the southwest region, where Gong Zhichao contacted them one-way, sent them living expenses every year, and ordered them not to return to Xinleng for fifteen years.

Among these three people, there is a killer named Peng Hua, who turned out to have a very good relationship with Zeng Qiang, and it was this Peng Hua who told Zeng Qiang the whole process of the "9.18" murder without reservation.