Chapter 23 Section 5

When Cong Ming came to the duty room of the Criminal Investigation Department, he saw Ye Qianshan, Wang Changan, and Huang Sha walking in from the outside. The faces of the three were ugly, like eggplants beaten by frost. Wang Changan looked up and saw Cong Ming and said:  "Hey, Cong Ming is back! Well, it's better to study, I will find a chance to study next year too! Solving cases is really a hell of a sea of ​​suffering!" Ye Qianshan said: "Anyone who doesn't know how to study is good, go to study, whoever solves the case!"  "Hey, there is no contradiction between studying and solving cases. After Cong Ming finishes his studies, he will definitely be better than us!" Huang Sha pressed his liver with his hands and grinned. 

"What's wrong with me, I just want to go to the case and no one will let me go to the school I'm not good at! Hey, do you have any clues to Lin Tiange's case?" He deliberately changed the subject.  "Clues? There are too many, there are piles of reports and reports every day, and I can't find them!" Wang Changan gave Cong Ming a cigarette, and Cong Ming stopped with his hand, and he remembered that Cong Ming didn't smoke. He lit it himself, leaned back on the bed, exhaled and said, "It's not a big deal to be around all day long!" "According to the logic, you can apply four measures in a case, but not one measure. One-sided judgment is definitely not comprehensive. There is no mistake in the decision-making of the leadership. It is necessary to investigate everything, just to avoid omissions. But, alas!" Huang Sha took a handful of medicine indiscriminately and continued Wang Changan's words. 

"This logic is the logic of incompetent leaders. Blind fortune-tellers are blocked at many ends. A wise commander should find out the particularity in the generality. That particular aspect is the direction of the investigation. If the direction is right, the case will have hope, just like A person is turning around at the crossroads, and the criminal is running eastward. If you don’t chase after him, you still can’t tell the direction. You can only turn more and more dizzy!” Cong Ming secretly admired Wang Changan’s skill opinion.He calmly said in an aggressive way: "Put you in the leadership position, you may be even more dizzy!" "Me? ', the 'gray' people did it!" 

"Who did you say did it?" "Who is it? The pink one!" Wang Changan threw out such a sentence and stopped talking.Cong Ming wanted to ask him why he made such a judgment, but he knew that Wang Changan would not tell him anything more.  In the past few days, Cong Ming used the excuse of going to see them, and frequently approached Ye Qianshan, Xia Xiaoqi, and Qin Yizhen, hoping to find out more about the case from them, but it seemed that as long as the case was involved, everyone would remain silent and change. Be strict, he can feel that they have done a good job of keeping secrets from the outside world.During those few days, what he heard the most were the accusations and complaints from the big guys to the decision-makers. It seemed that everyone was full of complaints. From these accusations, opinions, and complaints, he vaguely felt that there must be serious flaws somewhere , Where is the defect?No one knows, no one knows.Everyone seems to be in a daze.During more than a week of traveling, he only learned a little bit from Xia Xiaoqi. For example, when Song Changzhong woke up, he mentioned that the suspect was about 1.70 meters tall, wearing a peaked cap, and was about 25 years old; Xia Xiaoqi said in a low voice, "I never believe it was provided by Song Changzhong. Song Changzhong is now in a vegetable state! I think he was beaten into a vegetable state from the beginning!"

"You mean there were witnesses at the first scene?" "It must have been an eyewitness, but even we don't know who the eyewitnesses were!"   Cong Ming is very content with knowing so much for himself.  Witnesses to this first scene are invaluable.To study criminal investigation theory, from the perspective of evidence theory, the evidence is divided into original evidence and transmitted evidence.There are direct evidence and indirect evidence. Direct evidence is generally manifested as witness evidence, while indirect evidence is manifested as physical evidence. Physical evidence must form a chain of evidence. Only after forming a chain can you prove a criminal fact.However, as long as one person sees a person committing a crime, direct evidence can completely prove him, so personal evidence is more convincing than physical evidence.Those who want to engage in the case will definitely try their best to find witnesses. Although he still doesn't know who the witness is, he will know sooner or later. 

He had personally witnessed one failure after another in the He Zhanxun case. When he went to Public Security University, he paid attention to the study of "Criminal Investigation" from the very beginning. After reading and comparing the "Criminal Investigation" compiled by the School of Political Science and Law and the "Criminal Investigation" of Shenyang Criminal Police College, he thinks that "Criminal Investigation" of the Criminal Police College is the best.A large number of cases are interspersed there, and it uses cases to demonstrate those theories, while the other editions are very thin, with a large amount of criminal technology mixed in, and relatively little content in terms of criminal investigation strategies. 

Through studying, he has accumulated a large number of cases in his mind, which gave him the feeling that to solve a very complicated case, the scene is the most important.The things obtained at the scene are the most reliable, and other subjective inferences are untenable. Now he thinks it is necessary to go to the three scenes to conduct investigative experiments. He needs to know how long it takes the criminal to complete a case. Each case, how long does each case take? Although time has passed, if you go to the three sites by yourself, you may find something of great value.  The sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve seems to be louder than in previous years.People have a deep fear of 1988, the Year of the Dragon.Because in 1976, the last Year of the Dragon, a major earthquake in Tangshan not far from the ancient city killed 240,000 people. Zhou, Zhu, and Mao died one after another. 

Cong Ming, wrapped in a shabby military overcoat, rode a bicycle between the three scenes on New Year's Eve amidst the sound of rumbling firecrackers. In fact, the scenes he thought were extremely inaccurate.No one told him the exact location of the scene, he just made a rough estimate, and he found that although Song Changzhong and Sun Guiqing's scene hardly had any pedestrians, Lin Tiange's scene was a residential area, and there were quite a lot of people coming and going at that time.  He spent about half a month squatting around the three scenes, and finally he wanted to use the rest of the time to touch the bottom of the decision-making leaders of the Public Security Bureau and see how they grasped the case. 

He heard that the Public Security Bureau had a new director, so he wondered how he could get close to the new director.That day, when he wandered to the Criminal Investigation Department, he happened to run into his fellow countryman, Rong Changzheng, Chief of the Political Section of the Criminal Investigation Department, and he said, "Hey, Chief Rong, did you call a chief called Xie Fanzhi?" Rong Changzheng raised his head from the pile of materials and saw that it was Cong Ming from his hometown. He smiled and said, "It's not Xie Fanzhi, it's Xie Zhifan!" "Where did he come from?"

"We are from the same hometown!" Rong Changzheng looked proud that he regarded the director as a fellow from the same hometown.  He thought to himself: Well, this time there are materials for rhetoric.  On the same day, he inquired that Director Xie was on duty at night, so he went there at night.  In the general duty room on the second floor of the Municipal Bureau, Xie Zhifan was playing poker with a group of people.Cong Ming stood behind Xie Zhifan and kept talking. After playing for a while, Director Xie got up and was about to leave. Cong Ming followed. When he reached the corridor, he said, "Director Xie, are you no longer playing?" Xie Zhifan turned around. He glanced at Cong Ming and asked, "Where are you from?"

"I'm from the police academy! Now I'm studying at the Public Security University!" Cong Ming saw Director Xie stop and asked him: "You are from the police academy, what's your name?" Cong Ming knew that Xie Zhifan didn't know much about the situation when he first arrived at the Public Security Bureau, so Xie Zhifan pretended to be sympathetic to his subordinates and pretended to have a serious chat with him.He took the opportunity to pretend to ask:  "Director Xie heard that your hometown is Bailingzhuang?" "Yes!" "My hometown is also in Bailingzhuang!" "Oh? Which village are you from?" Director Xie asked with interest in this fellow villager.Cong Ming told Director Xie that he was from Shangcun. Director Xie was amused by this, and took the initiative to climb up with Cong Ming: "Well, we are only 20 miles away! I am from Fengcun." "Our two families are very likely to have relatives, because your village is my grandmother's hometown, and the relatives in this village have broken bones and tendons. I'll go home and ask, we are likely to be related!" Cong Ming later inquired with the elders in his hometown, and he reconciled that the director was really related. In terms of seniority, he called Xie Zhifan his cousin!  Cong Ming knew that he couldn't ask the director directly about the case, but he refused to give up this rare opportunity, so he asked strategically:  "Director Xie, I heard that you used to be the commander of Division 712?" He knew that Xie Zhifan was a deputy, but he didn't dare to say the word "deputy".  Xie Zhifan corrected and said, "It's vice!" Cong Ming went on to say: "You were ordered at the critical moment, and you caught up with a very rare vicious case in the history of the ancient city as soon as you arrived!" Xie Zhifan likes to hear the words "responsible in danger", and when he heard Cong Ming's proposal, he shook his head and said, "Oh, it's stranded, it's stranded! It's a headache, and I don't understand business!" Xie Zhifan told his fellow countrymen what he meant .  "Director Xie, it doesn't matter, you don't know business, we have people who know business here, mobilize the masses!" "The masses have been mobilized, and a reward has been added. This, this, this has no effect!" Cong Ming felt that this was the first time he knew each other, and with the "material" basis, he would not have to worry about the embarrassment when looking for him next time.At least Xie Zhifan knew that he was from his hometown.