Chapter 222: A Shocking Case
Lu Sheng's words made everyone understand at once, in fact, these obvious clues will be presented after sorting out the evidence, they just don't react as quickly as Lu Sheng.
It's not an ordinary trivial matter when it comes to the Japanese Kou. Lu Sheng's first task when he came to Jiangbei Province this time was to investigate the Starstriped Divine Soldier, and it was very likely that the Starstriped Divine Soldier was passed down from the hands of the Japanese Invaders.
Lu Sheng never expected to come to Tongnan Mansion to rummage through the files, ask the people, and inquire about some groundless news to find the whereabouts of the Starstriped Divine Soldier.
If it was so easy, Tongnan Mansion would have sent a report to the imperial court a long time ago. It would not be until now, when the star-striped divine weapon appeared in the Hundred Kingdoms, that the imperial court conducted a step-by-step reverse investigation from the Hundred Kingdoms.
Star-striped Divine Soldier? I'm afraid that the officials of Tongnan Mansion don't even know what a Star-Striped Divine Soldier is.
Lu Sheng ordered the corpses of this family to be collected, and each deceased person should establish files, portraits, and life and interpersonal relationships to be investigated clearly.
Lu Sheng already had a lot of say in Xuantian Mansion, so when he was in Jinling, he paid great attention to the details of intelligence information. Those things that were obviously a waste of paper in Shen Ling's eyes, Lu Sheng asked people to carefully organize and collect them.
He is well aware of the importance of intelligence. Critical clues, many of which are found in small things that don't matter. Especially in the face of shrewd criminals, they will try to cut off all clues and incriminating evidence. Therefore, Lu Sheng needs to be more careful and cautious than criminals.
The matter of collecting evidence afterwards, Lu Sheng can already hand it over to Lu Jian and them with confidence. Under Lu Sheng's training, Lu Jian's handling methods have become very mature. So back to the Criminal Division, Lu Sheng still hopes to find some clues from the archives of the past dynasties.
However, Tongnan Province has been so calm in the past five years. Like all other state capitals, day after day there is a millennium of unchanged sunsets.
"Sure enough, you can't see anything from the surface......"
An ordinary family was wiped out, which caused a lot of waves in the small city of Tongnan Province, which had always been calm. The major provinces of Gangbuk Province are fundamentally different from Gangnam Province, their personnel are basically fixed, and their ancestors have been in this land for generations.
Unlike the major cities in Jiangnan Province, there is a lot of traffic, large and small traders, large and small merchants, and there is an endless stream of martial arts people in the rivers and lakes. In Thong Nam Province, most people don't move, and the farthest place many people have ever been in their lives is the county seat.
Stability also represents calmness. So something so big happened, and in an instant, it was as if a boulder had fallen on the calm lake.
But the curiosity of the common people is only a few days, they come and go quickly. Three days have passed, and the people are still going to live as they should be. Except for the deliberate detour that felt cold when passing by the door of the house, nothing changed.
The head of the deceased's household is called Fang Dapeng, his wife is Li, and he has five children. The eldest daughter Fang Ling, the third son Fang Qing, the fourth son Fang Yu, and the youngest son Fang Ai.
The eldest daughter got married last year, and her son-in-law, Qiu Xuwu, opened a grocery store on East Street, and Qiu Xuwu's parents died of illness three years ago. None of the three sons are married, but the eldest son has already said that he is a family member.
We asked the villagers and neighbors around Fang's house, and no one saw any outsiders come to his house that night, but early that morning, the old woman of Fang's family went to the market early with her daughter.
They did look like they were doing things, but the neighbors asked, but they didn't reveal it.
Also, the Fang family did lose a child fifteen years ago, the child is called Fang Xin, that is, the second daughter of the Fang family, Fang Xin and Fang Ling are twin sisters.
This case triggered a lot of trouble 15 years ago, and even implicated a number of officials to resign. ”
"Losing a child doesn't affect a lot?" Lu Sheng suddenly felt that there was a big article in it.
"It's not small, because it's not one that was lost! It's more than 5,000 ......."
"What? Five thousand lost in one Tongnan City?" Lu Sheng opened his mouth wide and gasped with his round eyes.
"It's not one Tongnan City, it's the entire Jiangbei Province!" Lu Jian said with a solemn face, "Fifteen years ago, about seven months before and after, about five thousand of the seventeen provinces of Jiangbei Province were lost, all of them were children between the ages of six and ten. At its most rampant, almost all the children in a village were lost. ”
"What happened later, has this case been solved?" Lu Sheng asked in a cold sweat.
"It was said it was broken, but the child didn't get it back. This case shook the government and the opposition back then, and it can be said that many people were killed. ”
"What about the case?"
"It's all recorded in the dossier building, and my subordinates will go and get it. ”
"Well, go and get back. ”
Lu Sheng stood up hesitantly and walked around the study. In the dark, Lu Sheng had a hunch that that incident might be inevitably related to this incident.
Soon, Lu Jian arrived with a thick stack of files. The dossier was a few years old, and there was a thick layer of yellow dust on it. Before coming, Lu Jian had already cleaned up.
Lu Sheng snatched it and hurriedly opened the file and looked at it. This look is even more shocking.
Some homes, lost two at once. In the past six months, the government has received reports of 5,000 people. This directly alarmed the imperial court, and the imperial court ordered to solve the case within half a month.
Then on the last day, the case was solved. It was the command of the Seven Great Tooth Banks of Jiangbei Province that controlled a behind-the-scenes child trafficking gang. In this case, 23 of the first offenders were beheaded, and as many as 300 people were implicated, and all of them were imprisoned.
This is a major case that has not been seen in Tongnan Province for thousands of years. The breakthrough was that a guy from Dongsheng Yaxing reported that many children were secretly loaded onto big ships with the intention of being shipped out.
The government hurriedly pursued, but it was still a step too late, and the fleet had already gone to sea. Even more unfortunate was the fact that the fleet encountered strong winds shortly after going to sea, and the entire fleet was wiped out.
Looking at these, the cold sweat on Lu Sheng's forehead couldn't help but overflow and drip down.
It's not that I'm scared by the heaviness of this case, but that this case reveals a strong smell of conspiracy from the beginning to the end.
5,000 children have disappeared, and the government has done nothing in the past six months? No, the government must have discovered the anomaly within the first month and then took action.
However, such a crazy disappearance lasted for half a year. Half a year later, the number of missing children alarmed the imperial court. However, in the past six months, the government has not even found the mastermind behind it...... Can't even stop this from happening?
Until the court issues a death order, the case must be solved within half a month! And this order is more like a life talisman.
This group of orders is recorded in detail in the file, and within half a month, the case must be solved, otherwise, all the envoys from Jiangbei Province to the magistrates will be dismissed and investigated!
The government was powerless before, but now it has to solve the case within half a month. Lu Sheng knew that it was impossible even if he thought about it with his toes.
However, the turning point was on the last day. What a coincidence!
A guy from a dental agency reported to the government that their dental agency was involved in child trafficking. The government, which had been driven to the precipice, suddenly felt like it had grasped a life-saving straw.
One by one, they were red-eyed and immediately launched an investigation, and sure enough, five ships were to be transported out to sea from Lusi Port that night. And when the government caught up, the ship had already gone to sea.
Hurriedly transferred ships to intercept it, but before it could be successfully intercepted, a typhoon hit. The waves of the huge storm overturned the ship, and all five ships were buried at the bottom of the sea.
In the end, under the search and salvage of the official ship, five bodies were found. It's all the corpses of children.
The bodies were brought back to Thong Nam Province, and after verification, they were found to be five of the five thousand missing children. This is ironclad evidence.
That night, the Ya Shops were arrested by the government, and all seven Ya Shops in Jiangbei Province were implicated. Interrogated overnight, the behind-the-scenes boss of the Seven Great Tooth Shop confessed to his crimes.
The seven main criminals were executed by Ling Chi, dozens of accomplices, beheaded for public display, and implicated accomplices, family members, as many as hundreds.
The earth-shattering case of the disappearance of children has come to an end.
Looking at the cold record on the file, Lu Sheng only felt that his scalp was numb.
Although the five bodies have become ironclad evidence, the origin of this ironclad evidence is full of doubts. Moreover, as long as people with a little thinking ability can understand that it is impossible for a few tooth shops to do the case so seamlessly, otherwise, it would not be possible to be wiped out by the government so easily.
And why did the child find only five bodies in the end? Even if they were buried at the bottom of the sea, there would be other bodies floating up. Since then, however, not a single word of corpse has been seen floating out of the sea.
Obviously, the government has handled this matter hastily. Even, it can't be said to be hasty, but deliberate.
Obviously, this case was full of suspicions from beginning to end, but all the officials who handled the case turned a blind eye? Not because they were really incompetent, but because of the fatal deadline.
The deadline is set for fear that officials will not be able to do things well, but this also gives officials a reason to break the jar.
Drops of cold sweat dripped down the dossier, and the blood that had been sealed for fifteen years turned into these cold words.
In Lu Sheng's view, the Tooth Shop is engaged in the business of human trafficking, and it should not exist if it buys people as goods.
However, the tooth shop is a legitimate business in this world, and this is not something that Lu Sheng should not exist and will not exist.
Moreover, this world is not the same as in previous lives. Almost all the food and clothing in the previous life can be solved, even if you are poor, the children can still be supported. But in this world, from the perspective of the dark side, the tooth shop is both harming and saving people.
Some families are forced to sell their children to dental dealers. Not for those few taels of silver, but for the hope that the child will survive. If you don't sell it, you can only starve to death at home.
Therefore, Lu Sheng has never thought of punishing the people who are in the tooth line, killing them, and ensuring that one is accurate. But if you don't have teeth, you'll still die.
More than 5,000 children, and nearly 500 people were implicated in seven dental rows......
It's all gone!
The children were born and died, and nearly 500 people were used as scapegoats......
Yes, in Lu Sheng's view, it is a scapegoat. Although these scapegoats will certainly find evidence of the crime by investigating other crimes, they should not be convicted as the culprit in this case.
Lu Sheng didn't expect that such a case of exterminating the door would involve not only the widows, but also the big case fifteen years ago...... Lu Sheng felt tricky, very tricky.
There are too many involved, and more may be the entire Gangbuk Province.
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