It was quiet in the inspection office at midnight, and the office was silent, and the dim light of the oil lamp illuminated the not very spacious office.

"Engineers from the Arsenal?"

Looking at the information of the deceased, Ma Hui, who was hunched down at the desk, lit another cigarette. He flipped through the information in his hand and looked down carefully.

There is nothing suspicious about it from the information.

What the hell is going on?

Who killed him?

Was it an accident?

Or has it been planned for a long time?

There's got to be a reason.

Although he is not familiar with this person, there does not seem to be anything suspicious at least from the archives.

His background is very innocent, and he is an ordinary person who couldn't be cleaner.

"Xingqian graduated from the chemistry department of Qinghe Academy in the first year, and in July, he entered the Qinghe Arsenal. Xingqian was transferred to Nanjing in five years and served as the leader of the chemical team ......"

This is a scholar with a very clean background.

According to normal thinking, no one will definitely kill him.

"Captain, look at him, he earns 480 taels a month, plus bonuses, last year's income was 6,300 taels, obediently, he will top us for a year a month, he will have a son in the future, no matter what, he will go to a good academy, spend a little money now, and earn a lot of money in the future!"

Li Fei, who was on the other side, looked at the deceased's income information, and sighed that the other party's income was so high.

Very high indeed!

Any experienced engineer can get a few hundred taels of remuneration, even if he is a recent engineer from the academy, he can also get close to a hundred taels of remuneration, which is also the reason why Ma Hui sent his son to the best school, only in this way will they have a better future.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Li Fei looked at the information and said.

"Captain, look, something is wrong!"

"What's wrong?"

"He's got too much money!"

"Huh?"

Putting the information down, Ma Hui asked.

"What's the matter?"

"Captain, look at this guy, there are actually three properties in Zhongdu, and there are four in Nanjing, and they are all inner cities, and that place is all an inch of land, a house like this, without tens of thousands of taels, will definitely not be able to take it down!"

Li Fei's words made Ma Hui's eyebrows raised, he took a look, good guy, isn't it the best place in Zhongdu and Nanjing, Zhongdu doesn't know, a house like Nanjing, the deceased can buy one place in his life, it's good, not to mention that he also bought four places!

"There must be a problem! He is from an ordinary family, check, check if he has any investment! ”

After checking around the next day, Ma Hui could already determine that the deceased was not as innocent as he imagined. In less than six years, people who have spent more than 54,000 taels to buy seven properties, and in addition to buying more than 100,000 taels of railway bonds, is it possible to be innocent?

He can't earn this silver in his life!

That night, when he was about to get off work, Ma Hui finally found a place that made people very suspicious.

The deceased rented a house outside the city!

He has so many properties in Nanjing, he still needs to rent a house?

"Let's go, let's go to the commercial port!"

The so-called commercial port is a commercial port built with the railway station as the center, which is now the most lively place in Nanjing, and it is also a mixed place, and the house rented by the deceased is in the slum near the commercial port, where there are even more mixed fish and dragons, and I don't know how many people who have left their hometowns to seek a living gather there.

As soon as he entered this slum, Ma Hui felt chaos, his ears were filled with dialects from all over the world, and there were many shirtless young men sitting at small tables on the side of the road, often because they could not inherit the family business, and could only go out to earn a living.

Although according to the "Da Ming Law", their father and brother should marry them and give them a property for them to live in after separation, their hometowns often have no job opportunities, and in order to earn a living, many people sell their houses and come to a big city like Nanjing with dozens of taels of silver to earn a living.

It is not easy to live in Nanjing.

Even in such a slum area, a small courtyard with two main houses and two compartments cannot be bought without five or six hundred taels, and if you change to a better environment, it will cost seven or eight hundred taels. As a result, they are often confined to a small room, and even then, they have to pay two taels of rent a month.

Why would the deceased rent a house in such a place?

Just when Ma Hui, Li Fei and two local patrolmen arrived at the small courtyard where the man was renting, something unexpected happened.

A fire burst out of the courtyard, and with a violent explosion, the door was blown open, and the shockwave engulfed all four of them in an instant.

Before Ma Hui could shout, he was blown down by the shock wave and spoke backwards, and the patrol officer by the door was directly blown away.

After the explosion, the whole street became very quiet, and everyone stood there blankly, everyone looked at a loss.

What happened?

They were in a daze for only a few seconds, and then the cries and screams echoed here. Ma Hui, who had recovered some of his senses, saw a severed arm on the ground with the corner of his eye.

At this moment, there was an intuition that told him that this case was not that simple.

After a loud explosion, several houses were blown down, and the burning flames poured into the surrounding houses......

The slums were full of people's cries, people who were still there drinking and telling jokes, screaming in fear, survivors crying the names of their families, and many more looking for their families as if they were crazy.

Ma Hui, who had recovered from the impact of the explosion, immediately shouted loudly, directing the people to extinguish the fire, many houses in the slum were made of wood, and if the fire spread, there would be a big problem.

Compared with wooden houses, it is easier to burn the linoleum on the roof, which ignites as soon as it sees the fire, and it is difficult to extinguish, the fire burns more and more, and in the end, it is completely out of control, even if Ma Hui and others continue to pour buckets of water on it, it is difficult to stop the spread of the fire.

It wasn't until the fire brigade of the Housing and Housing Bureau arrived with a horse-drawn carriage that the fire was controlled within a certain range with the help of the high-pressure water flow in the roadside hydrant, but it still could not extinguish the fire, but only controlled the fire with the help of water cannons, and set up a separation zone by demolishing nearby houses.

By the next day, when Ying Tianfu Yin arrived at the scene of the accident in a horse-drawn carriage, the fire had been extinguished, and the fire brigade searched the rubble for the bones of survivors or the dead.

After getting out of the car, Yin Yu Jackie Chan of Yingtianfu, who was wearing a red robe, his face was cold, he had just come to Nanjing to take office, and he encountered such an incident, how could he not be annoyed.

As he walked towards the fire, he saw a little girl with a dusty face approaching him. Her size and face were immature, she looked like she was only seven or eight, and for some reason, she kept walking forward with her head up, looking like she was looking for something.

"Little girl, what are you looking for?"

Yu Chenglong walked over, and the little girl raised her head to look at this official, and said.

"I, I'm looking for my dad and my mom, they were at home yesterday, why don't I have a ...... at home"

The girl cried as she spoke, begging the person in front of her to help her find her parents, and finally picked up the crying girl, Yu Chengchan's face became more and more cold......

"Is it arson?"

Li Guangzong, who was the director of the Ying Tianfu Inspection Bureau, also arrived at the scene, and he directly asked Ma Hui, who was present at the time.

"No, I can't say yet."

"Didn't you report that there was an explosion?"

Li Guangzong twitched his nose, and his face was equally ugly.

"Yes, there was an explosion, it was an explosion, it was not arson, the fire was caused by an explosion, that's true, but the question is, how did the explosion happen!"

Ma Hui looked at the firefighters and civilians searching for the dead in the rubble, and then fell silent again.

"Why is this happening? Did a gunpowder shop explode? Or who hid gunpowder in the house? ”

"I don't know, look there!"

Pointing to the deep pit on the side of the road, Ma Hui smiled bitterly.

"Such a big pit, a few pounds of gunpowder can't blow up the ......"

"Who is crazy enough to put dozens of pounds of gunpowder at home?"

Li Guangzong shook his head and said.

"What else would it be?"

"Who is the victim who rented this house?" '

"Engineer of the Arsenal."

After that, Ma Hui added bluntly.

"He is not clean, his income and property do not match, the gap is very large, the difference is more than 100,000 taels!"

"Huh?"

Li Guangzong's eyes widened, and then he muttered to himself.

"If that's the case, then there's something wrong with him."

Then he stared into the distance and said in a deep voice.

"Detective Ma, this case is what you are chasing, give me a chase to the end, I have to get this matter to ...... to the bottom"

Just as Li Guangzong said this, Ma Hui looked at the people coming from afar, and then said with a wry smile.

"Director, I guess we can't ask about this case."

"Huh? What's going on? ”

"The people from the military department are here!"

"Hmph, Junzhengsi, those guys can only check the personnel related to the army, the deceased is just an engineer, not a soldier! You just check it out! ”

Dropping these words and turning around, Li Guangzong walked towards those people.

"I'm the director of the Ying Tianfu Inspection Bureau, what are you doing here?"

Staring at the leading Junzheng, Li Guangzong asked without showing weakness, when he was in the army, he was not afraid of these Junzheng.

"Hello, Director Li, I am the ...... of the Nanjing Office of the Detective Team of the Military Principal Division."

Without waiting for the comer to finish speaking, Li Guangzong immediately refused.

"As far as I know, there were no soldiers among the deceased, and this is not a military jurisdiction, so this case is from our inspection office and has nothing to do with the military department."

Jurisdiction!

For the Ming Dynasty, which was in the seventeenth year of Xingqian, this was nothing new, especially when something clashed, and this kind of dispute was always inevitable.

In particular, the local government and the army are two distinct boundaries, which no one can cross, and in Nanjing, a place where there is a garrison, the patrol inspection and the military have long been in a situation of fire and water, even those who are from the military background of the patrol will also be cold to the army, after all, the contact between the two sides is more often a conflict.

"Who knows? But last night there were soldiers who did not return to the camp at night! ”

Looking at the director in front of him, Zhao Wu said seriously.

"It's inevitable that some of them will come here to visit their fellow villagers, so I think there may be soldiers among the dead here, so we have the right to investigate."

In fact, if it weren't for the order of his superiors, Zhao Wu would not have come here to investigate, although yesterday's fire was amazing, but this is a local matter, if he can, he will not interfere, unless the other party takes the initiative to ask, but since he has an order, he can't help but come.

"You say you have it!"

Li Guangzong's eyes widened, staring at Jun Zheng in front of him, and asked loudly.

"You don't have any proof that you don't, don't?"

The soldiers are arrogant and domineering, Li Guangzong can be said to have a deep understanding of this, but he didn't expect that the other party would be so direct, and he even had an urge to give the other party a whip.

But he knows what the price of this whip will be, the soldiers are arrogant and domineering, provided that as long as they do not break the law, the army is very protective!

Taking a deep breath, Li Guangzong stared at the other party and said.

"You can enter the scene, but you must be accompanied by our people!"

This is the biggest concession that Li Guangzong can make, and now, he only has one thought, that is, to stay away from these people, aren't they just relying on their own names with a "royal" in front of them?

In the future, the inspection can also add a "royal", and at that time, see who can cross whom.

What Li Guangzong was thinking in his heart, Zhao Wu didn't care at all, what he cared about was what he could find on the spot.

Arsenal Engineer!

Huge fortune!

Everything is concentrated in one problem - where did the money come from, and as long as this problem is solved, everything will be solved, but compared to solving the problem of who killed the dead. Zhao Wu was more concerned about what he had done before the deceased, what he had done, and the silver he had gotten!

As for what murderers...... It's just an accessory to the investigation, and the detective department of the main department of the army is different from the inspection, the inspection needs to be the real murderer, and justice needs to be served, while the detective department only needs to find out what this person has done, whether he has done something unfavorable to the country.

At the scene of the fire, where the explosion was first made, the inspectors and military officers searched for clues to find the cause of the explosion.

Gunpowder!

Gunpowder for sure!

It's just that how much gunpowder does it take to be so powerful?

Standing in the center of the explosion, looking at the walls and courtyards that were knocked down, Zhao Wu even had the illusion that there were at least hundreds of catties of gunpowder here, and if there were only a dozen catties of gunpowder, it would be absolutely impossible for them to cause such great damage.

"Why is he putting so much gunpowder here?"

Standing in front of the crater, Zhao Wu's brows were tightly locked, and at this moment, he saw a severed limb on the ground, and among the ruins, there were many fragments of corpses, obviously at the time of the explosion, there were people in this courtyard, and there was more than one person.

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