What happened to the dock coolies?

Hundreds of the dock coolies were sentenced to hard labor when they tried to destroy the machines, and they went to the Xuwen Salt Works to dry salt. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Even the head of the guild was fined 10,000 taels of silver for indulging in coolie rebellion, and because he couldn't pay the fine, his house was auctioned off by the government.

Although this matter is not big, it somewhat makes people understand the government's attitude of "the law must be held accountable to the public", in fact, in the past two years, they have experienced the most these four words, and of course, they have more and more faith in the fairness of the law.

"Do you really want to fall into chaos in Guangdong?"

Hearing what the governor said, Zhao Cunnan suddenly became anxious.

"Most of the coolies at the wharf come from other places, not the local natives of Guangzhou, the adults are pressed, naturally there will not be more than one generation of Sixi shutdown households, they have long been the natives of Guangzhou, if the adults are strong to suppress, I am afraid that it will be difficult to end at that time!"

Li Ziyuan, who was threatened like this, suddenly turned from dark to black:

"Naturally, the officials appointed by the Han Governor are responsible for this Guangzhou matter, so you don't have to worry about it."

I never thought that the attitude of the governor, who had always been admired by the business circles in Guangzhou, was so strong, Zhao Cunnan was extremely unhappy with his attitude, and replied coldly:

"If this happens, it will lead to a radical change among the gentry!"

"Cataclysm!"

Li Ziyuan stood up with a brush.

"Who dares? The government has its own laws! Provincial capital, its own gendarme! Someone, send off! ”

With that, he walked out of the living room.

What does it mean to have your own law and your own gendarme?

Could it be that when the people ask the government to open their eyes for their livelihood, will the government also send troops to suppress it?

How could this government be so savage!

Looking at the steps of the governor who hurriedly went out, Zhao Cunnan only felt that his chest was full of grief and indignation.

"I don't want to hear the sound of the dead country......"

As soon as he said a word, a thick stream of blood rushed in his chest, rushing through his throat and squirting out of his mouth, his eyes were dark, and the whole person fell to this living room, not knowing anything.

"Zhao Huishou!"

The staff of the governor's yamen were frightened by the scene in front of them, and shouted in a miserable voice.

Li Ziyuan, who had just gone out of the door, heard that the voice was wrong, and hurriedly turned his head, and when he saw this, he was shocked in his heart, and frowned violently, he immediately realized that this incident may not be so easy to be good.

When several people lifted Zhao Cunnan up. Li Ziyuan commanded:

"Take him to the hospital and inform his family. I have important things to do. ”

What else is important, as a magistrate, Li Ziyuan knows very well what the news of Zhao Cunnan vomiting blood in the yamen will lead to, and now he must prepare in advance.

After returning to the office, Li Ziyuan immediately picked up the telephone from the special drawer of his desk, and now the telephone, as a confidential communication tool, is only installed in the offices of a few officials, except for internal use in the army, and cannot be installed in the open.

"Hey, pick up the gendarmerie!"

When the operator's inquiry came out of the phone, Li Ziyuan, who was holding the phone, said, and soon the phone was connected.

"I'm Li Ziyuan......"

"Bell, bell......"

Riding on the bicycle, Ma Hui pressed the bell on the handlebar from time to time, and he looked a little proud at this time -- as an agent of the Detective Section of the Guangzhou Military Police, he could freely use one of Corey's five bicycles, and this No. 3 car was his "car."

Bicycles are a "new gadget" introduced by the Hanyang Arsenal a few months ago, although the Germans invented the wooden bicycle decades ago, and the Englishman Macmillan also invented the pedal-pedal bicycle. But the performance is not as good as this invention of the Hanyang Arsenal, its front and rear wheels are the same size, in order to maintain balance, and the diamond-shaped frame is made of steel pipes, the wheels are also changed to steel rings and spokes, pneumatic rubber tires are used, and the car uses rolling bearings, flywheels, handbrakes, etc., of course, more importantly, it uses chain drive, and the rotation of the rear wheels is used to push the car forward.

Cavalry can only maintain a speed of 80 kilometers per day, and its duration cannot exceed 7 days, but a soldier on a bicycle can travel 120 kilometers or even 150 kilometers a day, and can maintain it for more than 10 days. Bicycles not only have the advantage of being fast, but they are also safer and easier to use, which is why the military has begun to use bicycles as a means of transportation for heralds.

The city gendarmes also have a need for bicycles, such as the Criminal Investigation Bureau, which needs to arrive at the scene quickly, which used to be on horseback, but now it has been changed to a bicycle, which is faster and does not need to be on all kinds of horse materials. What's more, bicycles are more convenient to travel through the city, and the brakes are flexible, so you don't have to worry about bumping into people.

However, it only took 20 minutes for Ma Hui to arrive at the scene of the crime on the embankment of the Pearl River, located outside the city. He looked around for the local patrol gendarmes, and finally found them gathered by the lake below, crouched beside a low willow tree, with a pile of light-colored things at their feet. Sitting on a tree stump next to him was a young man, dressed in a blue cloth Han costume, with his head buried between his knees, looking a little nervous.

Ma Hui took the last puff of his cigarette and threw the cigarette butt on the ground. It hissed and went out in the mud. Then walk towards the lake. When a patrol gendarme saw him coming, he immediately saluted.

"Sergeant!"

As an agent in the Detective Bureau, Ma Hui held the rank of sergeant, and he received detective training at the Military Police School in Wuchang. After returning the salute, he walked straight through the muddy grass to the scene.

It was the corpse of a middle-aged man. Cold, thin and thin, because of being soaked in the river, his complexion was pale and swollen. The body had some sludge on it, its back was down, and its upper body was stranded on the shore. The corpse's eyes were closed.

Without leaving the corpse, Ma Hui continued to ask,

"When did you find it?"

"An hour ago, sir. When we were patrolling here, we heard shouts from here and when we found the body, we gave priority to it and sent someone to notify the Detective Bureau. ”

The patrolling gendarmes are responsible for the maintenance of law and order as well as for general cases, because they have no experience in handling these cases, and criminal cases such as homicide are often handled by the Investigation Section, whose agents are often the brightest men selected from the gendarmes, and receive detective training at the Military Police School in Wuchang, where they are trained by both foreigners and domestic officials and servants.

When ordinary gendarmes discover cases such as murder, they will give priority to the first level, that is, send someone to the team to inform the Investigation Bureau, and watch the scene at the scene to avoid damage to the scene.

"Who found him?"

The gendarme pointed to the young man behind his shoulder, and the young man quickly stood up. He looks like a typical urban civilian. Ma Hui noticed that the man seemed to be frightened, so he asked in a gentle voice.

"What's your name?"

"I, my name is Li Mingyi, chief, sir, in, as a buddy in the nearby Li family restaurant......"

He spoke with a shingy sound, a little stuttering,

"Lee's Restaurant......"

Ma Hui knew that place, it was a small restaurant.

"The shopkeeper just now asked me to go to the house to get the materials, I didn't expect to see this person on the road......"

The young man said timidly.

"Did you see anyone else?"

Ma Hui asked in a kind tone, sounding like a relative of this young man, but not like a gendarme.

"No one, sir. I was scared away, shouting as I ran, and then I ran into two officers who were patrolling......"

He looked at the corpse again. He was blistered and looked very fat. Apparently it's been more than two days.

"Pull it out of the water! This is not the first scene. ”

As soon as Ma Hui's words fell, a voice came from the side,

"Don't, don't wait a little longer......"

Turning around, seeing the person who came, Ma Hui's brows furrowed, it was his colleague - Fang Shijie, he was an old servant, and Corey was hired as an agent, but he was not a gendarme, Corey was just using his experience.

"Yo, Agent Fang, you're awake! Drunk too much again last night? ”

"Woke up, woke up, drank two more glasses......"

Fang Shijie grinned, at this time, his whole body was full of the smell of wine, he walked straight to the corpse, carefully examined the corpse, and finally carefully examined it before speaking.

"Detective Ma, you're really right, this is really not the first scene......

Nonsense!

Soak for at least two days! Could it be the first scene?

"Maybe it's floating upstream! I think it is still necessary to contact and unify with several cities upstream! ”

Before Ma Hui's words were finished, Fang Shijie said.

"It's not the first murder scene, but I'm sure it's the first corpse dumping scene!"

What the?

Ma Hui opened his eyes wide and looked at the drunk Fang Shijie, what did he say?

"Detective Ma, look at this series of footprints next to this corpse, when you go down to the river bank, the footprints are deep, when you go up, the footprints are shallow, these are the footprints of the same person, you look at these footprints, there is some confusion, if I didn't guess wrong, when he threw the corpse, he must have touched someone, so he couldn't throw the corpse into the river......"

While Fang Shijie said his reasons one by one, Ma Hui continued to carefully examine the traces of the scene, criminal investigation has always been in the process of learning for the military police, which is also the reason for hiring those officials, a few of them have a certain amount of experience.

"So you're sure it's a murder?"

"It must be a murder, and the murderer's location should not be far away, it should be within two miles, there should be a small lake near his house, you see that the lower limbs of the corpse have traces of binding, he must have been tied with stones, and somehow the rope was broken, so he was moved here, ready to be thrown into the river, let it flow down the river......"

Just as Fang Shijie was analyzing the case, a bell rang from the river embankment, and then I saw a gendarme running over in a hurry, saluting the two who were analyzing the scene, and then conveying the order of the superiors.

"Sergeant, the commander orders you to return to the team immediately, there are other tasks!"

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