Chapter 523 Secret Investigation
The means of the Fourth Department are becoming more and more mature. Wang Jian always smiles when he talks about it. Coupled with the continuous improvement and deep digging of the file library, a lot of information can be quickly deduced and derived after being collected, making effective decisions for specific investigations and infiltrations. auxiliary.
For example, this time, according to the analysis of the Fourth Department, Qin Xiuyuan himself didn't just stop at eating sweets, but did some research. It is said that he has very high requirements for the fragrance, and he will not ask for it if it is not to his liking or there is a deviation in the preparation. So Qin Xiuyuan has been buying from the same sweet candy shop all along, and never pretends to be someone else, but goes to the shop to inspect the goods himself.
In this way, things will have the first sieve, which will screen out many trivial guesses. One of the key points is: since Qin Xiuyuan bought and inspected the sweets himself, and he is quite knowledgeable about sweets, if the person who killed him really relied on the sweets, how would he have been able to deceive him? Woolen cloth?
Shen Hao's thoughts were the same as those analyzed by the fourth part: Either Qin Xiuyuan lost the judgment he should have when he took the poison, such as problems with his sense of taste and smell. Or he couldn't tell the difference, so he ate it by mistake.
The situation of the autopsy was mentioned in the "First Volume" that Shen Hao was going to return from the Department of Major Cases. Although the above was rather rough, it briefly mentioned the general situation of the corpse, and did not mention that Qin Xiuyuan had a sense of smell. What's wrong with taste.
Of course, the autopsy methods in this world are far behind that of the other world, but this post-mortem situation can also be used as some reference. Plus eyeliner did not receive any words, including rumors, that Qin Xiuyuan's sense of taste and smell was impaired. Basically, the possibility that Qin Xiuyuan ate it by mistake due to his lack of judgment can be ruled out.
The latter, "unable to judge genuine and fake gum" is the most likely cause of death.
Shen Hao has never studied the sweets, and he doesn't even eat them. But he can compare fragrant sugar to the "wine" that he likes and has done some research on. Just imagine if someone wants to deceive him with a jug of fake wine and succeed, then the jug of wine must not be just "fake wine", but must also be It is "good wine".
It seems contradictory, but it is the truth. If you want to deceive experts, you have to use 90% of the truth as a cover, and leave 10% of the fake to mix in. Otherwise it is impossible to succeed.
So what Shen Hao is now letting the eyeliners scattered in the imperial city carefully watch is a candy shop called "Jin Feng Yuan". Before Qin Xiuyuan's death, he bought gum from this shop all the year round. Moreover, this shop is very famous in the sugar circle in the imperial city, and many dignitaries and dignitaries buy gum from them.
Keep an eye on the shop, and follow the shop to find the workshop for making gum. Each family has its own formula for this stuff, which is "confidential", and is usually set up on the Zhuangzi outside the city. These are not difficult to check, but it takes time to get useful information.
It's just that Shen Hao definitely doesn't have so much time to spend on this case, he needs to open a breakthrough as soon as possible. Moreover, he has already determined that Qin Xiuyuan's death can definitely find a breakthrough from Xiangtang, and the murderer behind it must also be inseparable from the Qin family themselves.
So an order came to Wang Jian, and then to Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao controls the final part of the Blackwater Project, which is the "Ministry of Impermanence". It is mainly executed against the intelligence collected and analyzed by the other three departments.
This time, the Ministry of Impermanence was personally led by Zhang Liao. A total of six people came to the imperial city in two days in batches. Combined with the intelligence of the eyeliner, a series of investigations were carried out on the shops and workshops of "Jinfengyuan", and finally a sneaking plan was formulated. plan.
No matter how famous "Jinfengyuan" is, it is just a private shop. Although there are many servants and warriors as defenses including the workshop, there are also some magic circles as means of defense. Basically, there is no difficulty at all.
Sneaking into shops and workshops is not for making money, but for rubbing books. Regardless of whether it is the materials coming in and out of the workshop or the finished products coming in and out of the store and the flow of water, as long as "Jinfengyuan" writes down and keeps them as records, they are all within the tasks of the chapter bureaucrats.
It took a group of six people two full nights to complete the task, and what they brought back was a rubbing text that was three feet thick.
There is no need for Shen Hao to screen and check the texts one by one. Naturally, the four departments under Wang Jian will do it.
The four departments will screen out information that they think may be problematic overnight and then feed it back to the Ministry of Impermanence for a second screening and investigation, and then the results of the second screening will continue to provide evidence for the analysis of the other three departments. In the end, it is repeated in this way to form the final intelligence note.
Shen Hao received a brief message from Wang Jian with a thousand-mile note, one of which confirmed Shen Hao's speculation all along, and the details will be sent to the imperial city in the form of copper strips for Shen Hao to review later.
There are no problems with the store accounts of "Jinfengyuan", or the kind of problems Shen Hao is looking for. And there is no problem with the records of material in and out of the sugar workshop of "Jinfengyuan". The "problem" is a sugar master in the workshop who receives a high monthly salary.
The reason why this person came into the sight of the four screenings was because he frequently extracted sugar-making materials from the material library of the Fragrant Sugar Workshop some time ago, but the number of finished products put into the warehouse each time was somewhat different from his previous sugar-making efficiency. .
If a master sugar maker suddenly misses something, the people in the workshop will not have the slightest opinion, and even if they do, they will not say anything immediately. But isn't the timing of this person's "miss" too coincidental for the screening of the fourth part? It happened to be a few days before Qin Xiuyuan's accident.
So I asked the Ministry of Impermanence to investigate the sugar master. Although he was found, he was lying in the mourning hall and had just died two days ago. It is said that he accidentally drowned in a pond when he was drunk and walked at night.
died? The combination of two coincidences would make even the most careless person feel that something is wrong. This sugar master died too strangely.
Then the matter of deep digging fell to Zhang Liao and others. However, those who are unfamiliar with the place and want to dig deep into this kind of news will definitely not be able to do it in a day or two, and the necessary time is still in a hurry.
Fortunately, Shen Hao is now in the dark, and successfully pushed Shou Wang and the chief case officer of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to the front to block the sight of others, and there is still a time gap. At the very least, he judged that it would take three to five days for Xue Gui and others to figure out the progress of the situation he has now. If there is any change in the middle, it will definitely take longer.
"Prepare the car, go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I should go and urge the surname Xue. Otherwise, he should be suspicious." Shen Hao smiled and joked with Wang Yiming. The little banner officer of the yamen ran over.
"What's the matter?" Wang Yiming went up to meet him.
"My lord, this is the post I just handed over to Master Shen."