Chapter Seventy-Three: The Murder Case
The interview went very smoothly, and several injured officers recounted the process of being injured as required, and as for the rest of the part, it was up to Xu Chengyan to process and render it himself, and this kind of article Xu Chengyan wrote more and more easily, anyway, he said a lot of disgusting words, and he slowly got used to it.
After the interview, Xu Chengyan left the army hospital and came directly to the Jushu Museum, today he made an appointment with Zhang Zhiyuan to meet and arrange the affairs of the tile kiln field.
At this time, it was almost noon, there was generally no one in the library, the library was just a cover, when Ding Mingrui was in business, he deliberately reduced the types of various books, and the shelves were full of some old books and magazines that did not sell well, so there were few people patronizing, and the business was poor, and the library was much quieter, which was also convenient for the members of the intelligence group.
Xu Chengyan entered the library, saw that there was no one in the library, and asked Ding Mingrui, "Is Zhiyuan here?" ”
"It's been a while, it's inside!"
Xu Chengyan nodded slightly, went directly into the back hall, and pushed open the door, at this time Ji Yun and Zhang Zhiyuan were talking in a low voice inside, and when they saw Xu Chengyan come in, they both stood up.
After Xu Chengyan sat down, Zhang Zhiyuan stepped forward and handed him a leather bag: "Senior, this is the money you want, a total of 10,000 legal currency, 5,000 bank notes, and 3,000 US dollars." ”
Xu Chengyan nodded, he went to Peking this time, I don't know how long he will stay, there are a lot of things to do during the period, so he naturally has to bring more money with him, he didn't care about the purse, pushed it aside, and asked Zhang Zhiyuan: "The old plan told you?" ”
"I said it, we were still discussing it just now, to see what excuse we could find to make some trouble for this Boss Fei."
Xu Chengyan turned his head to look at Ji Yun, he had deliberately explained before, about the secret under the tile kiln, he couldn't tell Zhang Zhiyuan, at least when he wasn't completely sure, he couldn't tell him, he had a lot of use for this money, but he didn't want the above to know.
So he pondered for a moment and ordered: "You have to listen to the old plan for what to do." ”
"Yes!" Zhang Zhiyuan nodded in acceptance, and then said: "There is another incident that happened today, I think it's a little strange. ”
Xu Chengyan was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"This morning we received a report, there was a homicide near the small north gate, I followed Xu Jun out of the scene, just on Beiling Street near the small north gate, this was not a big case, but the identity of the deceased is a little special, it is Lu Zhixing, deputy director of the Taiyuan Arsenal."
"Taiyuan Arsenal?" Xu Chengyan sat up straight all of a sudden, "You say it carefully, especially in Lu Zhixing's case."
Zhang Zhiyuan's mouth of the Taiyuan Arsenal, in Shanxi and even the whole country is very famous, was established in the Qing Dynasty Guangxu years, the site is placed in the vicinity of the small north gate, after decades of development, in the heyday, a total of thousands of equipment, tens of thousands of employees, its scale can be comparable to the country's largest Hanyang Arsenal, Shenyang Arsenal.
With the strong production capacity of this arsenal, Shanxi formed as many as 300,000 Jin troops, with strong soldiers and sophisticated weapons, and was a strong army in the Republic of China.
The explosives used by Xu Chengyan in the "328 Explosion Case" were invented by the Taiyuan Arsenal and were also special equipment explosives for the Jin Army.
However, at this time, the Taiyuan Arsenal has been much worse than before, since the Japanese entered and occupied Shanxi, the Jin army in the retreat, in advance of the transport of part of the equipment.
The Japanese also painted gourds in the same way, dismantled the entire arsenal, disassembled and packed most of the equipment, and shipped it to Tokyo and Osaka in Japan, as well as Shenyang and Dalian in the Northeast Puppet Manchuria.
So at present there is only an empty shelf left in the arsenal, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and there are still thousands of employees in the arsenal, who are responsible for repairing and modifying all kinds of weapons by using some of the remaining broken equipment.
Therefore, the arsenal is also an important military department, and the killing of the deputy director Lu Zhixing is, of course, a major case.
"According to our on-site investigation, Lu Zhixing was sneaked into his home last night, the murderer used a dagger to cut his throat and died, the home was also turned into a mess, all valuables were looted, the preliminary judgment was that it was a thief who entered the house and stole it, and was found by Lu Zhixing and killed people.
But in the end, Xu Jun overturned his previous judgment, thinking that the murderer was specially here to assassinate Lu Zhixing, and the robbery was just to cover up the real purpose, so he reported it to the special high class, and after Yamada of the special high school brought people over, he also checked it, and finally took over the case, and we withdrew it. ”
Xu Jun is the new chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Department, and he is also a close confidant of the director Niu Xingfa, like Zhang Zhiyuan, he was promoted from the position of head of the unit this time, but unlike Zhang Zhiyuan, a novice, Xu Jun has been serving in the Criminal Investigation Department and can be regarded as a veteran of criminal investigation.
Hearing this, Xu Chengyan's mind quickly thought, such as this kind of criminal case of the killing of Chinese, is generally handled by the criminal investigation department of the police station, unless it involves relevant espionage and intelligence activities, the special high school will intervene.
In other words, the special high school also thinks that this case is not simple, so it will do this.
Xu Chengyan frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Why do the Japanese attach so much importance to it?" The arsenal has become an empty shelf, this Lu Zhixing said that it sounds good to be the deputy director of the arsenal, to say that it is ugly, now he is just a foreman engaged in maintenance, and he is using such a big fight? ”
Zhang Zhiyuan continued to explain: "I heard Xu Jun say that since the explosion, the special high school has been tracking the source of explosives everywhere, and has been investigating the internal warehouses of the Japanese army and the security army during this time, and the arsenal will be found in the near future, but it happened to be Lu Zhixing, so I suspect that this case is related to the explosion." ”
"Is there still explosives in the arsenal?" Xu Chengyan asked with some confusion.
If you want to talk about guns and bullets, the arsenal must still have it, but explosives, an important military material, are estimated to have been emptied long ago after the Jin army and the Japanese took turns plundering and transferring, and according to his understanding, the current Taiyuan arsenal no longer has the ability to produce explosives.
"I don't know." Zhang Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "However, the investigation of the special high school this time is very careful, and every unit that may store explosives will not be spared, and the arsenal is also one of them." ”
Xu Chengyan then asked, "Then what flaws did they see at the scene?" What is the basis for believing that the murderer was directed against Lui Che-hang? ”
"Nothing else, but Lu Zhixing was killed in the bathroom, and he didn't have any clothes on his body when he died.
Xu Jun thinks that if the thief is just for money, he will never go to the bathroom to kill people, and there is nothing in the bathroom except people, so he judged that the murderer was going to people, and the looting was just to cover up and create the illusion of accidental death. ”
Sure enough! The purpose of the thief is just for money, no one will go to the bathroom to kill people, even if he is found by the victim when he is stealing, and he is killed when he comes out to check, then he should not die in the bathroom, this murderer was careless, did not handle the scene well, and left this flaw.
Ji Yun, who was on the side, asked, "You say, could it be that our people did it?" ”
"Possibly!" Xu Chengyan thought for a moment, "If the explosives we used were really obtained from the arsenal, it is really possible that this case was done by our people!" ”
Before the bombing, Chu Guangji had told him that there were some problems with the arms channels of the intelligence station, so that they could not provide enough explosives, so did this question refer to Lu Zhixing?
The more Xu Chengyan thought about it, the more reasonable it became, and he instructed Zhang Zhiyuan: "Find a way to inquire about the progress of this case, and if there is any new discovery, report it immediately!" ”
"Yes!" Zhang Zhiyuan nodded and took the order.
After saying this, Xu Chengyan asked with a smile: "Before I go to Beiping, I have to report to the stationmaster, and I asked you to consider your code name before, have you thought about it?" Just report to the stationmaster. ”
Zhang Zhiyuan smiled and said: "I think the senior is right, since he is a member of the viper team, he will use the snake as the code name, but it is too bad to call the snake, so it is called 'Zhu Yeqing', what do you think?" ”
"Zhu Yeqing! That's a good name. Xu Chengyan tasted it slightly and nodded with satisfaction.
"Zhu Yeqing" is also a well-known poisonous snake among the people, which shows that Zhang Zhiyuan recognizes the identity of a member of his pit viper team very much, and his name is also elegant, at least it is much better than a viper and a pit viper.
After talking about the things that needed to be explained, Zhang Zhiyuan couldn't delay any longer, got up to say goodbye to the two seniors, and left first.
Watching him leave, Xu Chengyan slowly smiled, turned to Ji Yun and asked, "You didn't tell him about the treasure map, did you?" ”
"Of course not!" Ji Yun shook his head, "It's a little early to tell him now!" ”
"It depends! It is best to be able to cover up the past. Xu Chengyan thought for a while and said.
It's not that he wants to eat alone, although he values money, but it is also to use it where it is really needed, and he does not have the idea of being greedy and not enjoying it.
If it was those brothers when he was in southern Jiangsu, who treated each other with sincerity and entrusted their lives, he would naturally not hide his secrets, but the time he spent with Zhang Zhiyuan and others was still short, and he didn't know each other well enough.
He continued: "I'm going to visit my Japanese teacher in Peking the day after tomorrow, and it's not sure when I'll come back, so I'll leave the matter of the tile kiln to you, and the design must be thorough, and it's best to get the land in hand."
Now that it is no longer a martial law zone, if we don't take it, others will take it in the future, and we can't tear down the platform again and again to do things, and sooner or later something will happen. ”
Ji Yun nodded and said: "Don't worry, such a character, if you really have the heart to calculate him, he can't hide, he must let him spit out the land obediently!" ”
Listening to Ji Yun's tone, Xu Chengyan was still a little uneasy, and continued to instruct: "Don't be careless, if there is anyone behind the surname Fei, you have to know it yourself, and when you get the land, we can't come forward ourselves, find an irrelevant top outside, and after digging out something, just throw off your hand, don't let the people from the Political and Health Department target you, these people are now hooking up with the Japanese, and they can't be trusted!" ”