From the fusion of Tongbei Quan to the Longevity Martial Saint

Each member of the Salt Patrol Guard was highly skilled in martial arts, specializing in suppressing bandits and ensuring the smooth operation of the salt trade routes.

Simply put, the Salt Patrol Guard is an offensive player.

When it comes to investigating crime scenes and apprehending murderers, the Six Doors are more professional.

Gu Changyuan wanted to recruit coroners from the Six Doors and some investigators skilled at finding clues from the smallest details, which was normal in some past cases.

At this moment, a look of embarrassment flashed across Wei Wu's face, and he quickly cupped his hands and said:

"Lord Gu, you may not know this, but all the coroners from the Six Doors have been temporarily requisitioned for another case."

"That case has already been registered with the Ministry of Justice, and the Six Doors are now conducting a joint investigation."

"Many constables and yamen runners from the Six Doors have been conscripted there; otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to recruit so many elite disciples from martial arts schools and boxing academies to be responsible for maintaining order and guarding the perimeter."

"As for the Five Cities Garrison, they don't have any good fighters either."

"Those people are not even as good as this young man."

Wei Wu was also a shrewd and worldly man. When he saw that Fang Qing was only a teenager and was wearing the uniform of the Salt Patrol Reserve Battalion, he took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Fang Qing.

However, when Wei Wu saw Fang Qing, he concluded that these corpses were not Liu Tai's grandsons at all, based only on a few words in a dossier and an examination of the corpses at the scene.

Such keen insight surpasses even the best of the men in the Five Cities Garrison.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changyuan's eyes narrowed immediately.

While they were raiding the Liu family, a salt merchant family, the coroners and everyone else from the Six Doors were directly implicated in another case.

Gu Changyuan didn't believe that no one was pulling any strings behind the scenes.

However, at this time, the evidence of collusion between the salt merchant Liu family and the salt bandits must be found as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the pressure on Salt Inspector Lin would increase dramatically.

At that moment, Gu Changyuan snorted coldly, knowing that it was obviously impossible to find outside help to solve the case.

Seeing the expression on Gu Changyuan's face, Wei Wu could only scratch his head awkwardly.

How could someone like him, a mere logistics manager in the local government, dare to get involved in these top-level political struggles?

He could only bow apologetically and stand aside.

Wei Wu was merely a clerical worker in the Six Doors, in charge of logistics.

To be honest, he couldn't really get involved in the investigation and case-solving.

Gu Changyuan turned to look at Fang Qing apologetically:

"Brother Fang, you've already made a fool of yourself on your first mission."

However, judging from the current situation, we can't count on the Ministry of Justice or the Ministry of War; we'll have to rely on ourselves.

But the next moment, Gu Changyuan felt overwhelmed again.

Gu Changyuan was very good at eliminating the salt bandits and ensuring the smooth flow of both land and water transport, so that the official salt transport ships would not encounter any problems.

But having Gu Changyuan examine these corpses and find out which of the servants was Liu Tai's grandson, so as to pry out the necessary evidence from them, felt to Gu Changyuan no different from having him do embroidery.

"These servants are clearly assassins trained by the Liu family in advance."

"But among those menial servants outside, even if some of the direct descendants of the Liu family are mixed in, let's not even talk about whether we can find them. Even if we do find them, they will definitely deny it to the death in order to save their lives."

Ding Mingcheng's brows furrowed as he spoke.

"If these people don't admit it, it will be even more difficult for us to get evidence from them."

The next moment, Ding Mingcheng gritted his teeth:

"We can only use the tiger bench and pepper spray, see if we can pry a crack out of them."

However, Ding Mingcheng knew that even if torture was used to extract confessions, it would probably take more than a few days to get these people to talk and obtain real evidence.

There were hundreds of servants kneeling on the ground outside.

If we interrogate these people one by one, it might take half a month to pass quickly.

It's estimated that some people in the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War in the capital have already started to impeach Lord Lin, the Salt Inspector, and his fellow Salt Inspectors.

This can only be described as a last resort, a desperate measure.

For some reason, both Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng instinctively turned to look in Fang Qing's direction.

At this moment, they saw Fang Qing staring at the dossier in his hand, constantly searching for some information.

The next moment, Fang Qing's eyes lit up, and he pointed to a spot in the file, lingering there for a long time.

As Fang Qing put down the file, he calmly spoke:

"I do have some ideas that might get these people to confess to their collusion with the salt bandits."

Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng were stunned upon hearing this.

Even Wei Wu, who was standing at a distance, subconsciously raised his head.

They all thought they had misheard.

Fang Qing just mentioned some methods.

In this situation, even the top anti-smuggling investigators from the Six Doors would be doing very well if they had just one solution.

Fang Qing seems to be saying there's more than one way?!

And what does it mean to get these members of the Liu family to voluntarily provide evidence of their collusion with the salt bandits?

The file states that all of Liu's direct descendants seem to be shrewd and intelligent; surely they wouldn't be so foolish as to push themselves into the abyss of crime?

However, at this point, they had no choice but to trust Fang Qing.

Fang Qing got up and walked over to the stewards and servants kneeling in the corner.

"According to the case file, I need to select all the people who match the age and characteristics of the direct descendants of the Liu family."

Ding Mingcheng immediately and efficiently made the arrangements.

Soon, from among the hundreds of servants, they selected more than thirty people whose age and height matched the characteristics of the direct descendants of the Liu family that they had collected in the dossier earlier.

They picked them all out, without missing a single one.

Looking at these thirty-odd people, Ding Mingcheng was quite perplexed, as it was highly likely that some of them were the hidden grandsons of the Liu family.

He simply couldn't understand how Fang Qing was going to find the only two or three suspects among these thirty-odd people.

Fang Qing then turned to Ding Mingcheng and said:

"Brother Ding, could you get me a bag of rice? It has to be the kind that's very dry from the sun."

Although Ding Mingcheng didn't know why Fang Qing brought the rice over, he immediately arranged for someone to do so.

A short while later, a bag of dried rice was brought over.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Qing stood directly in front of the remaining servants and said:

"I know there must be members of the Liu family hiding among you thirty-odd servants."

"This person must be disguised, that's why you can't tell."

"However, I want to make it clear beforehand that I will be questioning you one by one. As long as you are genuine servants of the Liu family and have not done anything wrong, we will ensure your innocence and release you without charge soon."

"If I find out that one of you is actually a grandson of the Liu family in disguise, then our Salt Patrol Guard will execute you on the spot."

After saying this, Fang Qing grabbed a handful of rice and stuffed it into the mouth of the nearest servant.

"Chew hard! Chew ten times, then spit the rice out."

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