"Lin Yi, do you still remember when someone was knocked out yesterday?"

At the Agricultural College of Guanshishan Academy, Ma Zhou and Di Renjie came to investigate the potato theft in person.

This case, if it is a small case, it may be considered a very small case; but if it is a big case, it is a very big case.

The most important thing is that Li Kuan is very concerned, so Ma Zhou and Di Renjie naturally attach great importance to it.

Didn’t see a big case or a big accident? Do the top leaders have to go to the scene to express their importance?

Ma Zhou came here to express his importance, and Di Renjie was trying the specific case.

"Dilangjun, I was knocked out for about 30 minutes yesterday. I am now doing potato planting experiments in the greenhouse. I have to record the temperature inside every twenty minutes. You can find a record book in my temporary room, and the most recent time should be recorded at 9:00."

Although Lin Yi was knocked out and was a little confused, it was nothing serious.

It seems that the people who steal things are afraid of making the case too big, and a group of people will come to investigate the case.

The murder case will be solved, this is not a slogan that will only exist in later generations.

At this time, the Chang'an County Police Office and the Wannian County Police Office were handling the case according to this requirement.

"Do you have a record book in your room?"

Di Renjie's expression changed unconsciously, but he continued to ask.

"Yes, I have!"

Lin Yi nodded and answered.

"There are various records of this experiment, and some of my own speculations are inside; in addition, the experimental plan for this experiment is also inside."

"Apart from that, is there anything else in your room?"

Di Renjie keenly noticed some problems and continued to ask questions.

"There are also some agricultural books and papers borrowed from the library. In addition to this time, there should be some gold and silver coins, whale oil candles, lighters and snacks, and nothing else is left. After all, there is just a temporary rest place and there will be no storage for too many things."

"Have you lost your valuables?"

"No! The most expensive thing on me is the Hamedi pocket watch, but I just touched it and was still in my arms. In addition, several gold coins are also fine! Di Langjun, these thieves must have not come to steal money, otherwise it would be impossible not to let these things go."

Di Renjie naturally knew Lin Yi's judgment.

These people obviously went for potatoes.

He had just visited Lin Yi's residence and found that not only Lin Yi's valuables were there, but also the gold, silver coins and lighters in the room were there.

However, the experimental records, medical books and papers mentioned by Lin Yi disappeared.

"Dilangjun, this is the first time such a serious theft case has occurred since the establishment of Guanshishan Academy. You must help us find the thieves and punish them severely."

Liu Jie couldn't help but interrupt.

Li Kuan just distributed potatoes to Guanshishan Academy Agricultural College, but eventually a major theft case was found.

To a certain extent, this is also a blow to Liu Jie, the person in charge of Guanshishan Academy.

At this moment, he hated these thieves to the core.

"Huaiying, how about it? Do you have any eyebrows?"

Ma Zhou's level of case-based judgment is relatively average, but managing the General Police Department does not necessarily require a very high level of case-based judgment; more are suitable. What he needs to consider is the establishment of local police stations, the development of the police force and other issues.

If the specific case is required to be followed by the Director of the General Administration, the police station will have so many people, which is a failure.

"Director Ma, he has basically a person of suspicion."

"Um?"

Di Renjie's answer was a little surprised.

He just asked a routine question just now and did not expect to get a positive answer.

But judging from Di Renjie's meaning, it seems that he has really got an idea in his mind.

"No matter what case it is, there must be a motive for the crime. Judging from the on-site investigation and inquiries just now, these thieves did not go for gold, silver and treasures, but for potatoes stored in the Agricultural College."

"We all know this. Except for the missing potatoes, the gold and silver coins are all fine."

"No, Director Ma, not only lost potatoes, but also related documents such as farm books, papers and experimental plans."

"What does this mean?"

"Ordinary thieves are not interested in agricultural books. Those who are very interested in potatoes and are also very interested in agricultural books are the most likely the vassal states around the Tang Dynasty. People from various countries such as Goguryeo in the south, Goguryeo in the north, Silla, Baekje, Wa, Tubo, Nanzhao, Linyi are all doubtful."

Di Renjie expressed his suspicion.

"Now, except for Guanshishan Academy, there are potatoes in the Chu Palace and the Summer Palace. If you want to be interested in potatoes, in fact, the nobles and wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City are very interested in potatoes. Why are your doubts targeted in these foreign countries?"

If you don’t understand, ask. Ma Zhou didn’t pretend to understand because he was the Director of the General Administration, just because he didn’t understand.

"It's very simple! Because if a noble family wants agricultural books, they don't need to steal them at all! It's not difficult for their children to enter Guanshishan Academy. It's not difficult to borrow and even copy these agricultural books in the library. There is no need to steal them!

As for wealthy businessmen, it's the same. Any business that has no brains will not easily risk offending the Chu King's Mansion and come to Guanshishan Academy to steal things.

My master traveled thousands of miles to arrange people to go to America to find potatoes. In the future, the nobles and nobles in the Tang Dynasty will be promoted and popularized. Although noble families really want to own potatoes, they are not so urgent about owning potatoes.

But the vassal states of foreign countries are different. It can be imagined that with my master's character, people in foreign countries would not be allowed to obtain a large amount of potatoes before the Tang Dynasty promoted potato cultivation on a large scale; he did not even want people in foreign countries to obtain any potatoes. Of course, it would be difficult to do this."

After Di Renjie explained this, Ma Zhou immediately understood it.

According to the information he learned, the first batch of potatoes will only be planted in the experimental fields of Guanshishan Academy Agricultural College, as well as in the fields under the name of the King of Chu Mansion, and will not be sold to the public.

Even after the bumper harvest this fall, these potatoes will not be sold to the public, but will be directly assigned to relevant personnel through targeted promotion and planting.

That is to say, if anyone wants to buy potatoes from the market, at least wait until next fall.

This took two years to waste.

The most important thing is that in the fall next year, whether you can buy and sell potatoes freely on the market is actually still a question.

"Your Majesty is the Khan of Heaven. Chang'an City is now a scene of all nations coming to pay tribute. Many envoys from foreign countries have lived in the city for a long time. It is a bit difficult for us to lock in our targets."

Although there are objects of doubt, there are a lot of objects. It is also very difficult to find the real target in Ma Zhou's opinion.

You can't catch all these envoys in one go, right?

At that time, wouldn’t the Censorate impeach the General Police Department to heaven?

The Ministry of Rites will not allow the police station to do this.

"In fact, it's not that complicated. For example, those vassal states that live on nomadism can be basically excluded; those countries in Southeast Asia and other places that do not have to worry about food can be basically excluded first. The biggest suspicion is nothing more than the countries such as Tubo, Silla, Baekje and Japan."

"What you said makes sense, but why is Goguryeo also excluded from the north and south?"

"Because their envoy does not have the courage to arrange someone to come to watch Shishan Academy to steal things!"

Today, in the north and south Goguryeo, we won’t talk about conflicts with each other from time to time. They are also under the provocations of Silla and Baekje.

But now they are the weakest existence on the peninsula and dare not take the risk of offending the Tang Dynasty to steal potatoes.

If you steal the potatoes back, it is impossible to hide them in the warehouse and not take them out to plant them.

But as long as you start planting, it will be difficult to hide the influence of the Tang Dynasty in the north and south Goguryeo.

Because many of the ministers in the court in Goguryeo, North and South were directly held by the Tang people.

To be honest, these two countries are now actually puppet countries of the Tang Dynasty, and various policies are basically promoted according to the Tang Dynasty's ideas.

Otherwise, they would not have bought the best weapons from the Tang Dynasty.

"Well, if we only investigate these four countries, the difficulty will be reduced a lot; however, these people stole potatoes and should not be stored directly in the embassy's residence, right? Let's not say that we are not suitable to search the residences of these envoys directly. Even if we search, we probably won't find any evidence."

Putting his heart in mind, Ma Zhou felt that if he planned a theft case, then these potatoes would either have been transported out of Chang'an City overnight, or they would have been hidden in an inconspicuous place and would not have placed them in his residence at all.

"Director Ma, this case must have been carried out under the arrangement of the envoys. As long as we invite all the envoys from these countries to the police station, and then send people to invite the officials responsible for managing the money around these envoys to the police station for inquiries, we will probably have some insights."

"Huaiying, although we don't take these vassal states seriously, the police station must not punish these envoys. Otherwise, even His Highness the King of Chu would not mind, the people from the Ministry of Rites and the Censorate would make a fuss, and even His Majesty would not want to see such a scene."

The punishment of foreign envoys is not just a simple case, but a political event.

As the Director of the Police Department, Ma Zhou still has this awareness.

He didn't expect that the potato was just lost, and now he caused other trouble for His Royal Highness the King of Chu.

"Don't worry, I'm just drinking, eating, and asking questions with these envoys. There will never be any executions or confessions. We can even place the meeting place in Ainosu in the Yang's Tea Building, drinking wine while asking."

Di Renjie naturally knew what Ma Zhou was worried about.

He has no rude style and is now solving the case.

"Can you lock in specific targets this way?"

Ma Zhou was a little confused about Di Renjie's idea.

Those who can be sent to Chang'an as envoys by various foreign countries must be all outstanding people in their own country. It would be inappropriate if Di Renjie asked a few simple questions and revealed the filling.

It is impossible to make a case so smooth.

"How do you know if you don't give it a try?"

Di Renjie's answer made Ma Zhou not very satisfied.

But considering that he was Li Kuan's disciple and Ma Zhou had no better plan now, he pinched his nose and agreed.
To be continued...