Sanya as the base of Haihan, after nearly seven years of business management, the local public security situation can be said to be quite good, although it has not yet fully reached the level of not leaving the road untouched and not closing the door at night, but criminal cases, especially homicides, are indeed rare in the local area in recent years, and this murder happened to occur in the most prosperous area of Sanya, and its nature is naturally more serious. The www.biquge.info happened to bump into the patrol team this time, and Fu Li, as a high-ranking member of the Ministry of Justice, naturally took over the case at the first time.

Johnson's conclusions after the autopsy gave investigators valuable clues, first, it was determined that the deceased had died of suffocation before entering the water, and the cause of death was by no means drunken stumbling and drowning as it seemed on the surface; second, the approximate time of death was determined, which basically ruled out the suspicion of the deceased's entourage; third, judging from the undigested food in his stomach, it was very likely that he had enjoyed a delicious meal near the port area before his death. These clues provide investigators with a clearer direction for investigation.

"Give a gag order to the victim's subordinates and other personnel involved in the case, do not leak the news, and take drowning as the preliminary investigation conclusion. The victims who they came into contact with after arriving at Victory Port this time should be investigated one by one immediately. Fu Li's thinking is very clear, since Hassan was murdered and dumped his body, but he was not robbing money, there may be other hidden secrets behind it, maybe it has something to do with the maritime trade he engaged in during his lifetime.

"The instructions of the chief of the covenant must also be taken seriously, and the restaurants near this scenic avenue must also be investigated, and if the place where the deceased ate before the accident can be found, there may be other clues. Lin Nan also lost no time in adding.

"Let's take care of one of the two of us!" Fu Li suggested: "Brother Lin, you are responsible for checking the restaurants here in Shengli Port, and I will go to Sanya Port to check the movements of the deceased's ship after it arrived at the port." Director Huang already had a job, so he was in charge of investigating the port area to see if anyone else had witnessed the whereabouts of the deceased in the vicinity that night. ”

Although Fu Li is young, his qualifications and background are much stronger than the other two, and he has studied under Ning Qi, Ren Liang and others, and he has the style of a general when he acts calmly and thoroughly. Lin Nan and Huang Tongyang did not object to Fu Li's division of labor, and the three of them took their own actions the next day.

The next afternoon, after a day of investigation, the three gathered again in the conference room of the Shengli Port Police Station and began to exchange their respective gains from the day.

The first is Huang Tongyang's report: "Today, all the people from the police station and the adjacent inspection department visited the port area. It mainly includes all the staff who were on the night shift at the pier on the day of the incident, and the crew members of all the ships docked at the third pier on the same day. ”

Huang Tongyang looked at his notebook and began to tell the results of today's investigation: "We interviewed a total of 327 people today, and we came to two main conclusions. First, from the day the deceased arrived in Sanya to the night of the crime, no one saw the deceased in the vicinity of Pier 3 in the past few days, and second, none of the subjects we interviewed claimed to know the deceased. So I think for the time being that the deceased's appearance at Pier 3 may have been a coincidence, or even that the murderer had asked him to meet there for the purpose of committing the murder. ”

No one had ever seen the deceased Hassan at Pier 3, which does not mean that Huang Tongyang's investigation work was in vain. If the deceased had dealings with a shipowner or cargo owner at Pier 3, and it is likely that he had been present there during his lifetime, and no one had actually seen him, the opposite can be inferred. Of course, if someone had been planning to kill Hassan, it would have been possible to have calculated this in the first place, invited him to meet him outside of the port area, and only took him to the docks after dark to kill him.

Huang Tongyang continued: "As we all know, there is no effective separation between the port area and the commercial area of Jingjing Avenue, so at night, except for the manned ships and some warehouses, there is no public lighting on the dock, and in fact, there is no movement outside. If the deceased had entered the port area through Scenic Avenue, it would have been difficult to see witnesses. In addition, we searched the area near where the body was found, and no other items related to the deceased could have been found, either on land or at sea. ”

"So I'm going to talk about the results of today's survey in the business district. After Huang Tongyang finished speaking, Lin Nan took the initiative to take over: "Maybe the news I have collected here will bring you some inspiration." ”

"I led a team to visit more than 30 restaurants in the business district today, and I found some interesting things. Lin Nan's tone was low, and his face did not show the slightest "interesting" expression: "In the short few days after arriving in Sanya, Hassan dined in the private room of Zuixian Building for two consecutive nights before the accident. ”

"So this person is likely to be the last person to see him?" Fu Li immediately asked. Zuixianlou is a relatively well-known restaurant in the local area, even if you haven't gone in to consume, you won't have heard of the name of this restaurant, so there is no need for Lin Nan to explain what this is.

Lin Nanying said: "I thought so too, so I carefully interrogated the guy from the Drunken Immortal Building, but he couldn't tell what this man looked like, because he hadn't seen this person's face from beginning to end." ”

Fu Li frowned and said, "How can this be? The guys of the Drunken Immortal Building shouldn't make such a low-level mistake, looking at faces and recognizing people is the most basic professional skill in their industry." ”

Lin Nan responded: "According to the situation described by the guy, this person seems to be hiding his appearance intentionally or unintentionally, every time he enters the room to serve food, this person's face is facing the direction of the window, so that he has not noticed this person's face. However, the guy also said a detail, on the day Hassan ate alone, according to his request, two people's dishes and chopsticks were served, maybe the same person made an appointment, but this person did not go to the appointment for some reason. ”

Or maybe the guy in the store didn't notice that the person he was dating had ever appeared. Fu Li added: "The flow of customers in the Drunken Immortal Building is not small, as long as this person has not touched the dishes and chopsticks since entering the room, and has not stayed for a long time, it is probably difficult for the guy to notice whether anyone is coming in or out." ”

Lin Nan nodded and said, "The situation you said is not impossible. ”

Huang Tongyang suddenly interjected and asked, "Did Lord Lin ask the guy, how did Hassan settle the bill after eating in the past two days?"

Lin Nanzan said: "Director Huang is careful, we have also verified this detail, Hassan has used cash to settle the account in the past two days, ten taels and one ingots, and the excess part has not asked for change." We checked the accounts at the counter, and there wasn't much oil and water left after paying for the meal. ”

Huang Tongyang said: "But we only found a few ingots of broken silver on the deceased, but there were several circulation coupons with a face value of ten yuan. This Hassan is probably used to reward people, but he obviously has enough money to spend in the restaurant, so is it necessary to bring silver ingots?"

"So in fact, it is possible that it is not Hassan who checks out, but the person who made an appointment to meet him?" Fu Li immediately understood what Huang Tongyang wanted to express.

Huang Tongyang nodded and said, "This is exactly what I mean. ”

Lin Nan muttered: "I also read the silver ingot, it is the ordinary Daming official silver, the kind that can be exchanged at any time in Haihan Bank." Most of the people who use this kind of money to spend in restaurants are newcomers who have not yet adapted to the local negotiable voucher system...... Or maybe he just didn't use the negotiable voucher at all. ”

Huang Tongyang continued: "There are numbers and secret marks on the circulation coupons, and it is possible that the origin of the history will be traced after the accident. If this is what we guessed, then this person's mind is quite deep. ”

"That's right. Fu Li nodded and replied: "I have already taken the several negotiable coupons found on Hassan's body today to inquire, and they are the payment paid by the Ministry of Commerce to him after this arrival in Hong Kong." The people in the Ministry of Commerce were shocked when they heard about this, because Hassan had just shipped a batch of valuable copper ingots three days ago. In terms of quantity, it is more than the output of the Shiroku mine in a month. The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry originally wanted to make a special appointment with Hassan to see if they could develop the copper ingot trade in the long term, but the accident happened before the appointment arrived. ”

The fact that Haihan has been importing copper from the outside world for a long time is not news to Lin Nan and Huang Tongyang, one of them works in the intelligence agency, and the other is responsible for the port area, so they naturally know this. Although they don't know how many copper ingots the Shilu mine can produce in a month, as the most important copper and iron ore producing area under the rule of Haihan, the miners are said to have thousands of people, and the output must not be too low, and the number of copper ingots transported by Hassan at one time is almost equivalent to one-tenth of the annual output of the mine, which will naturally attract the attention of the commercial department.

Lin Nandao: "Then the rest of the payment ......"

"All of them were found in his room, checks and negotiable bills, and the number was matched, and it was unlikely that his men had colluded with outsiders to make money and kill them. Fu Li knew what Lin Nan wanted to ask, and replied without waiting for him to finish speaking: "I talked to people from the Ministry of Commerce, this Hassan has also come to Sanya to trade in the past, but the goods he used to transport were mainly leather, but there has never been a precedent for transporting a large amount of copper." ”

Huang Tongyang frowned and said, "Do you know where he got these goods from?"

Fu Li nodded and said, "Leather and copper ingots are from the same place, Manila. ”

"Then he is actually running errands for the Spaniards?" Huang Tongyang's insight is not bad, and he knows Hassan's camp as soon as he hears Manila. Although there were also Daming maritime merchants who traveled between Sanya and Manila, it was impossible to obtain such a large amount of copper ingots from the local area. This thing is a strategic reserve in any country, and Hassan was able to buy so many copper ingots from Manila at one time and ship them to Sanya for sale, and if he did not have any private transactions with the Spaniards, then none of the three people here would believe it.

Lin Nandao: "Whether Hassan's identity is a merchant or something else, and whether he came to Sanya for any purpose other than trade, we currently lack empirical evidence. But the purpose of his contact with an unidentified person in the private room of the Drunken Immortal Building is likely to be related to the cause of his death. So far, the last person we know of who has had contact with him is probably this mysterious person, and if you find this person, maybe everything will fall into place. ”

Huang Tongyang scratched his head and said: "But no one can clearly say the shape and appearance of this person, how can he be dug out of the tens of thousands of people in Sanya? And if he is not a Haihan national, maybe he has already left here by boat." ”

Fu Li said: "I'll go through the timeline again and see how much we have now." Hassan arrived in Sanya five days before the deadline and immediately completed the copper ingot deal with the Ministry of Commerce and received the payment. But he was not idle in Sanya Port that day, and we found a train ticket from his room to and from Sanya Port and Shenglibao Station that day, and according to his subordinate's confession, he did leave Sanya Port alone that day. After a day's interval, Hassan reappeared alone in the Drunken Immortal Tower, and we also found the round-trip train ticket for this day in his room. On the fourth day, the day of the crime, Hassan was seen for the last time at the Zuixian Tower, but we did not find a ticket for this day on the body. Of course, this may also be that he hired a horse-drawn carriage or ox cart to complete this journey, so out of prudence, I also checked all the operating means of transportation, and found that no one took Hassan's business in Sanya Port that day, and he could not have walked ten miles to this side, so he should still come by train. ”

"So it's likely that the killer deliberately hid the train ticket...... But for what purpose?" asked Huang Tongyang, puzzled.

"I'll assume that Hassan came to Victory Port to meet the murderer, but the murderer had some purpose and didn't want anyone to know that Hassan had traveled back and forth between Sanya and Victory Port many times for this purpose. He didn't know that Hassan had also kept the train tickets for the previous two days, so he only took the tickets for the day he was killed, and tried to confuse the public. Fu Li slowly recounted his reasoning: "If we don't detect the anomaly in time during the autopsy stage, then Hassan will definitely be treated as an unlucky ghost who fell into the sea drunk." And he didn't have a train ticket on him, so we probably wouldn't have invested manpower and time to expand the scope of the investigation to the port of Sanya, ten miles away, for the sake of a drunkard. Director Huang, how did you deal with this kind of drowning in the past?"

Huang Tongyang's face turned red, because he thought it was just an ordinary drunken stumble and drowning at the beginning, and he didn't expect that there was a cat in it. Hearing Fu Li's question, he answered honestly: "Generally, the mortuary will be suspended for about three days, and a notice will be posted on the dock, and if no one recognizes the corpse at that time, it will be dragged to cremation according to the ownerless corpse." (To be continued.) )