The question from the Ministry of Revenue did not end, but was only handed over to other people for interrogation. Li Jie only asked Du Zheng and other major figures, and other officials did not need him to interrogate in person, because he had other things to deal with personally.

In the morgue of Dali Temple, Li Jie was personally checking two corpses in the room, one of which was Xu Zhou, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue who committed suicide, and the other was Wu Bo, the censor of the Censorate of the Censorate.

Li Jie first checked Wu Bo's body, because Wu Bo had just died, the traces on his body were very fresh and it was easier to find clues. Of course, the most important thing is that his cause of death was very clear, that was, he was shot to death with a crossbow arrow.

Li Jie pulled open the white cloth covering the body, and saw that Wu Bo below had a blue complexion and a hideous expression. After all, he was killed and was not at ease when he died.

At Wu Bo's chest, several wounds turned outward and looked very cunning. The fatal wounds in the right chest, that is, the heart, should have been directed by a crossbow arrow, which led to Wu Bo's tragic death.

"The prince consort, the crossbow arrows used by the assassin are well-made, but they are very different from the military standards. They should be privately made by the people, and there are poisons on the arrows. Obviously, the other party is determined to kill the Censor Wu." Huang Hua, who was next to him, introduced in a low voice.

The Ming Dynasty had extremely strict management of weapons, especially things like crossbows and armor, which were strictly prohibited from being held by the people. However, the Ming Dynasty has only been established for more than 30 years. The war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty also left many weapons hidden by the people, and some people even privately set up some banned weapons, such as crossbows, and there was no way to investigate them.

Li Jie stepped forward and carefully checked the wound, then looked at the coroner's autopsy records, but found nothing valuable. Although the assassination against Wu Bo was a bit hasty, it was carefully prepared. Unless the assassin was caught, there would be no useful clues at all.

Then Li Jie turned around and came to another corpse. The corpse was Xu Zhou, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue who committed suicide. Li Jie pulled down the white cloth and hanged it to death. His expression was generally very terrifying, especially Xu Zhou had been dead for a long time. If it weren't for investigation, he would have been buried long ago. Although he had undergone some anti-corrosion treatment, he was still a little corroded.

Xu Zhou committed suicide, and all the scars were on his neck. A obvious mark was already black, and there were no other scars. Li Jie even checked the deceased's fingernails, which were also very clean.

"Mr. I have doubts about Xu Zhou's death before, so I specially sent several experienced coroners to conduct autopsy multiple times. Finally, it was confirmed that the marks on his neck were indeed suicide, not strangled. In addition, his fingernails were also very clean and there were no scratches on his neck, which means that he did not struggle to resist when he died. All of this was in line with the characteristics of suicide." Huang Hua also saw Li Jie's suspicion, so he explained from the side.

"Suicide can also be disguised." Li Jie was not willing to accept it. He carefully examined Xu Zhou's body again, especially the top of the head and nostrils of the body, but in the end he still found nothing.

"Your son-in-law, do you suspect that Xu Zhou was knocked out and then pretended to be the illusion of suicide?" Huang Hua asked again at this time.

"It's not necessarily a knock-on, but other methods can be used. As long as people temporarily lose the ability to resist, they can be arranged as the illusion of suicide." Li Jie replied in a deep voice. Xu Zhou's death has been a bit long and has been examined by multiple coroners, so there are almost no valuable clues on the body, but Li Jie's intuition tells him that Xu Zhou's death is not as simple as suicide.

"That's true. I remember a case that someone had drunk the deceased and then hanged himself. If the murderer had not been arrested for other things later and confessed his previous crime, I'm afraid the case would have become a headless case." Huang Hua nodded again after hearing this.

"Where is Xu Zhou's family?" Li Jie asked again. There were no too many clues on Xu Zhou's body, and now he can only find clues from his family.

"After Xu Zhou committed suicide, he immediately became the biggest suspect in the Taicang theft case, so his family was arrested and now he is in the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple." Huang Hua replied.

"Bring them here, I want to interrogate them in person!" Li Jie took a breath and said that he had almost done nothing else when he went to the city today, and he used it to interrogate these people related to the case.

Huang Hua immediately agreed and then took Xu Zhou's family out of the Heavenly Prison. Li Jie did not let the people from Dali Temple intervene, but personally led people to interrogate them one by one, especially Xu Zhou's every move before his death, the time and place of the last time when he saw Xu Zhou, etc., and asked them all clearly.

Xu Zhou had many family members. Although they were imprisoned in Dali Temple, they were relatives of the queen after all, so they did not suffer much in prison. Of course, they were quite frightened and all seemed to be in a daze. It was not until Li Jie revealed his identity and said that he wanted to find out the case that the people of the Xu family cheered up and told them all about what they knew.

Among these Xu family members, two people attracted Li Jie's attention. One was Xu Zhou's eldest son Xu Qian, who was the queen's cousin, but he failed to study, so he kept following Xu Zhou to serve his father. Usually, Xu Zhou would talk to Xu Qian about any worries.

According to Xu Qian, although Xu Zhou nominally took charge of Taicang, he was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue for too short and his foundation in the officialdom was relatively shallow. Therefore, after Xu Zhou was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue, most of the power in his hands was actually under emptied, especially Taicang was self-organized, and even Xu Zhou was difficult to intervene. For this reason, Xu Zhou complained a lot in front of Xu Qian.

In addition, Xu Qian also said that just a few days before Xu Zhou passed away, he became very excited. He went out early and came back late every day, as if he was planning something. Xu Qian was also very curious at the time and asked his father specifically for this, but Xu Zhou didn't seem to want too many people to know about it, so he didn't tell him the reason.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Xu Qian insisted that his father Xu Zhou would never commit suicide. After all, Xu Zhou was very excited in those days, and it seemed that there was something big happy. How could Xu Zhou in this state commit suicide easily?

Compared with Xu Qian's confession, another person's confession is more useful. This person's name is Xu Fu. He used to be Xu Zhou's servant, but now he is the steward of the Xu family. Xu Zhou also trusts him more. He usually takes care of Xu Zhou's diet and daily life, and his confession has made Li Jie even more discover.
Chapter completed!