Chapter 957 Murder Case

When the sky was just getting dark, the docks of Victory Port began to get busy. Teams of laborers came in one after another and began to move goods under the command of the foreman. It was winter, and although the temperature did not drop much, the length of the day did.

It is shortened to about 11 hours, and the sun sets and gets dark at 6 p.m., so the time left for dock workers to load and unload cargo is even more urgent every day.

In order to improve the operational efficiency of the terminal, the Ministry of Shipping has begun to implement standardized shipping for its own cargo ships a few years ago, dividing bulk carrier terminals and general cargo terminals, supplemented by different cargo handling equipment. There are

Belt conveyors driven by steam engines are specially used for loading and unloading bulk goods with large transport volumes such as coal and ore. General freight terminals are equipped with tall hangers for lifting standardized wooden containers and other uniformly packaged goods.

There are also several tracks on the wharf for rapid transfer of goods between the train station and the wharf. Point-to-point transportation between the cargo ships in Victory Port and the factories in Tiandu Industrial Zone can be achieved in as little as one hour.

transport.

Compared with the trading ports of the same era, the operational efficiency of Victory Port is at least three or four times higher. This is also one of the important reasons why businessmen from various countries are willing to choose this place as an entrepot trade port. And it takes a lot of effort to achieve this operational efficiency.

The price is a huge amount of infrastructure investment and high-intensity labor arrangements. At the cargo terminal of Victory Port alone, more than 2,000 workers work in shifts every day to ensure that the goods can be loaded and unloaded as soon as possible and will not be stranded.

At the port.

Except for the foremen, most of the laborers are new immigrants who have not yet obtained naturalization and lack any skills. They can only temporarily sell their labor here to make a living. Thousands of dock workers, plus

The population density of the port area is quite high for the sailors and crew entering and leaving the port. In order to maintain normal operations, various supporting management agencies and service facilities are also available. For example, the agency responsible for public security is located in Yulin Inspection

The Shengli Port Police Station next to the Si Yard.

Although the inspection department is still there, the former Yulin inspection officer Wei Ping has long been engaged in business and has no regard for political affairs. This organization is only kept to facilitate the handling of disputes between some Ming businessmen or non-Han people. Of course

, people from the Inspection Department came forward to handle the matter, but it was the police station affiliated with the Haihan Ministry of Justice that made the decision. The two agencies are actually the same team now, they just opened two different yamen to handle things more easily.

Huang Tongyang is the current director of Shengli Port Police Station. He immigrated to Sanya from Guangdong in 1628 and then joined the Haihan Militia. However, he was injured in the back during the Battle of Hue in Annan the following year and was discharged from the army due to injury after returning to Sanya.

Of course, the military did not just give him a demobilization fee, but arranged for him to be transferred to the judicial system and continue to serve in the police force. After a few years, Huang Tongyang gradually rose to the rank of

The position of director.

It is not an easy task to manage security work in an area where thousands of floating people come in and out every day. For example, drunken fights between sailors and sailors are basically routine disputes that occur every day, and they come from different countries and regions.

Young adults of different races are concentrated in this port area, and it is difficult to avoid something happening. In order to handle various international disputes in a timely and effective manner, the staffing of the Shengli Port Police Station also adheres to the international tradition of Haihan.

Among the members, there are not only Han, Li, and Miao people, but also Annan and Japanese people, as well as mixed descendants of Portuguese and Malay people.

Such a complex multinational force is a trouble in itself, and Huang Tongyang not only has to manage this group of people, but also has them maintain the security of the port area. The work pressure can be imagined. However, Huang Tongyang went to victory a few days ago

When Bao attended the judicial system meeting, Director of the Police Department Ren Liang had already greeted him. As expected, he would be promoted within the year, and his position and salary would be further improved.

Precisely because the opportunity for promotion is imminent, Huang Tongyang dare not slack off. Recently, he has arrived at the work unit at dawn and left work after dark, almost taking a break with his fellow laborers in the port area. He works so hard

, the purpose is to ensure that no trouble occurs in his district during the period before promotion, so that even if an unexpected situation does occur, he can react and deal with it as soon as possible.

Huang Tongyang also arrived at the office early that day, and started to deal with the files that had not been completed the day before. They were all trivial matters. Both theft cases were caught, and both the people and the stolen goods were caught, so they can be given away today.

Went to the hard labor camp. There was also a drunken fight. Fortunately, the police arrived in time to stop it. They arrested both parties and put them in solitary confinement. After this night, they were probably sober from the alcohol. Let’s wait.

The perpetrator can be released after paying a fine and giving a warning.

After handling yesterday's unfinished business, Huang Tongyang has to arrange today's work in advance. According to the schedule, an immigration ship should arrive at the port today. About three hundred immigrants from the northern region of Ming Dynasty will arrive on the ship. Huang Tongyang needs to

Coordinate the schedule with the civil affairs department and send people to the passenger terminal to maintain order. If necessary, you may need to ask the military to send some people to help. These northern immigrants lack understanding of the situation in Haihan, so many people come here

After that, it became very noisy and unruly. There have been incidents of immigrants attacking civil affairs staff before, so the police must also take some preventive measures.

Huang Tongyang flipped through his calendar. The monthly higher-level inspections should have happened in the past two days. Later, he had to organize his police officers to clean the inside and outside of the police station courtyard first, lest the inspection commissioner come to visit and get confused again.

I'm going to find fault with something like "the police officer's appearance is not in good shape". It just so happens that the people from the inspection department next door are relatively free, and they will have to be called over later to help with the work.

Huang Tongyang finished planning today's affairs, but before he had time to have breakfast, something came to his door. His subordinate Zheng Gao, who had just completed the handover with the night shift staff, came in and reported: "Director, someone reported that something happened on the dock!"

"It's not like there was a murder case. Just panic. Wait for me to have breakfast before going over." Huang Tongyang said angrily. For reporting the case so early, it was probably a conflict between the cargo owner and the laborers loading and unloading the cargo. Every month

There are many cases where laborers accidentally broke fragile goods and were sent here by the owners to claim compensation. Especially when the weather is bad in the morning and night, this kind of thing can easily happen. And the police station usually also

We can only mediate in the middle. After all, the wages of those workers are too low, and they will definitely not be able to afford full compensation.

"Director... someone really died this time!" Zheng Gao quickly added.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Upon hearing this, Huang Tongyang immediately gave up his plan to have breakfast: "What's going on? Where is the person who reported the crime?"

"In the inspection department next door, there is a maritime businessman from the Ming Dynasty. I have brought him here and I am waiting in the yard outside..."

"Then stop talking nonsense, walk around, go out and take a look!" Huang Tongyang didn't wait for Zheng Gao to finish speaking, and immediately ordered: "Send people to the scene quickly, don't move things, and protect them first!"

"I've asked the Inspection Department to send someone over first." Zheng Gao was quite shrewd in doing things. When he heard the news, he came over to report the news and asked the Inspection Department to send out the police first to deal with it.

Huang Tongyang saw this maritime merchant when he walked out of the yard. His face was quite calm, and he was followed by two servants.

"This is our Director Huang, please tell me again what you saw today." Zheng Gao ordered the merchant.

"Liao Zhen, a small citizen, I have met Mr. Huang!" The maritime merchant responded with his hands in hand and bowed.

"No need to be polite, let's get down to business!" Huang Tongyang didn't have time to show off his official airs, so he waved his hand to Liao Zhen and said directly.

Liao Zhen straightened up and told Huang Tongyang what happened this morning. Because he had to rush north to Haikou Port today, he went to the pier early in the morning to supervise the loading. But on the pier, he suddenly saw a gap between the ship's side and the shore.

There seemed to be something floating on the water. It was not yet bright at that time, so Liao Zhen asked someone to light a torch and hold it up close to see, but there was a man floating face down on the water.

Liao Zhen was shocked, so he sent someone to report to the staff on the dock, and asked his men who were familiar with the water to quickly go into the sea to rescue the person. However, after the drowning man was fished out, he found that he had no heartbeat and breathing, and was probably dead.

It had been several hours. Since a life was lost, the staff on the dock did not dare to neglect, so they asked Liao Zhen and others to report to the official immediately. However, Liao Zhen was not very familiar with the official organization of Victory Port.

He went straight in with the house number of the prosecutor's office. Little did he know that there was no way they could handle such a big matter. After reporting it, they quickly notified the police station next door about the matter.

After hearing this, Huang Tongyang turned to Zheng Gao and asked, "Have you notified your superiors to send a gangster there?"

Zheng Gao responded: "I've already sent someone to notify me, but Wu Zuo probably didn't go to work so early. Maybe he hasn't made it there yet."

"Let's go and take a look first." Huang Tongyang did not delay and immediately took Zheng Gao, Liao Zhen and others to the scene of the incident.

The incident occurred at Pier 3 of Victory Port, which is just at the southern end of Landscape Avenue. The ships docked were mainly small and medium-sized merchant ships and cargo ships. Because there is no special isolation between the port area and Landscape Avenue, the ships docked here

Most of the ships are owned by merchants who have a close relationship with Haihan, and the crew members can freely enter and leave the commercial area of ​​Landscape Avenue.

Huang Tongyang asked casually: "Boss Liao seems to be coming to Sanya for the first time, right? I wonder if he does business on his own or is he affiliated with a certain firm?"

Liao Zhen responded: "The villain is the shopkeeper of the Leizhou Branch of Qiong Lianfa. It is my first time to come to Sanya. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing."

Huang Tongyang nodded slightly, thinking that he was one of his own. No wonder he was allowed to dock at Pier 3 for the first time. However, only a small number of employees under "Qiong Lianfa" were registered as Hainanese.

Judging from the fact that Liao Zhen was not familiar with the Haihan organization, he was probably not a naturalized citizen.

Several people from the inspection department who arrived early had used some temporarily found bamboo poles to circle a two-foot-square area on the shore of the pier to isolate irrelevant people. The drowned body was placed there.

The ground was covered with a straw mat.

It is not uncommon for people to drown at Victory Port Pier. Similar things happen almost every month. This is not because the safety work of the terminal is not in place, but because this place is too close to the business district, and there will inevitably be drunk people at night.

Guys wander here to enjoy the sea breeze, and one of them accidentally falls into the water and cannot get out. As a result, there will always be ten or eight unlucky people who drown here in a year.

Originally, there was no need for Huang Tongyang to come forward personally for such a small matter. He only had to wait for the corpse to be examined and a report to be issued. However, he happened to be at the dock today to arrange the work of accepting new immigrants, so he stopped by to take a look at the situation.

Zheng Gao leaned down and uncovered the straw mat covering the body, revealing the face of the man. Huang Tongyang looked at it and said with slight surprise: "This...is a Fan?"

The corpse had not been soaked in the sea for too long, and his face could still be seen clearly. With his deep eyes and high nose, he was indeed a Westerner. Look at his thick curly beard, and his hands were shining.

Looking at the rings and clothes on his body, Huang Tongyang had already roughly judged his identity: "He is a Persian businessman."

Zheng Gao got closer to the body, raised his head and said to Huang Tongyang: "Director, this man still smells of alcohol. He looks like another unlucky drunk!"

Huang Tongyang also agreed. He nodded and said, "I probably drank too much in a nearby restaurant yesterday. When I got to the beach, I felt like vomiting when the sea breeze blew. As a result, I lost my footing and fell into the sea and couldn't get out."

"Are we still waiting for Wu Zuo to come to do the autopsy?" Zheng Gao covered himself with a straw mat and stood up to ask for instructions.

"Examination, what we saw was just the appearance of drowning, we still have to see it before we can judge it." Although Huang Tongyang felt that his speculation should be the truth, he did not make an arbitrary conclusion. The murder case must have an autopsy conclusion by the corpse.

The case of accidental death should be closed, otherwise if you hand in the report like this, you will most likely be reprimanded by your superiors. Besides, letting him see his physical characteristics will also make it easier to post a notice afterwards so that people who know him can identify the body.

"Zheng Gao, go to a few nearby hotels that can accommodate Persians and ask if there is such a person." Huang Tongyang deliberately wanted to test his men's observation skills: "You just remembered the height, face, and clothing characteristics.

Bar?"

"This man is about six feet tall, with curly black hair and a big beard. However, he looks older, so it's hard to tell his age. He wears a black silk robe, brown calfskin boots, and wears a ring set with gems on the middle finger of his right hand and the index finger of his left hand.

." Zheng Gao was quite attentive and described it immediately.

Huang Tongyang nodded approvingly and said: "Yes, then go and find out the news. If there is anyone who knows him, bring him over to identify his body."
Chapter completed!