Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 797 Investigation
The formation of Suzhou Mazi is directly related to the evolution of counting chips and counting numbers in ancient China.It is completely evolved from counting chips - counting symbols.

By the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou Code became a complete and unified code, and was used as a code by the business community. It was widely used in the folk until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and was also used in the government.

These can be seen from the various old official and private account books that we see today. The accounts are all recorded in Suzhou code symbols. In addition, this number was also used on the collar badges of the early Beiyang Army.

Around the 13th to 14th centuries, Arabic numerals were introduced into China, and they were called foreign codes by the Chinese. At the same time, some records about the early spread of Arabic numerals to the east were left in China.

However, because Huaxia used a vertical account book at that time, it was more convenient to write with commercial codes, so Arabic numerals were not promoted and applied in China at that time.

At the beginning of the last century, due to the continuous invasion of foreign capital, especially Western capital, China's old-style banks, such as bank banks and money houses, gradually shrank.

With the rise of a large number of new banks, the old bookkeeping methods have been replaced by new bookkeeping methods. Because commerce and finance have an inseparable source, it has spread rapidly throughout the commercial and financial fields.

As a result, Arabic numerals gradually began to be popularized and used in China, and then gradually replaced the commercial code as the only symbol for mathematical records in the entire country of China.

Suzhou codes are mostly used in all business activities such as commerce, handicrafts, pawnshops, and finance in the old days, as well as digital records, contract signing, and accounting processing in daily life.

However, because this kind of writing has gradually withdrawn from the field of circulation, some criminal organizations, especially those in East and Southeast Asia, like to use this kind of writing to convey some secret information.

"It should be just some numbers here." Because all the scholars present were scholars of Chinese history, they quickly figured out what these Suzhou codes represented by some means.

It is a pity that there is no more effective information other than inferring that this criminal organization is likely to be related to the Chinese, because these things are just numbers, and it is difficult for non-organization members to figure out what is behind these numbers.

"If I'm not mistaken, these things should be a group of two to four numbers, corresponding to the page number and text on a certain book." Liang En said looking at the numbers.

"However, if we don't know where the other party's corresponding book is, it is basically impossible to see any valuable clues from these numbers."

This is actually the most difficult password to crack, especially if you don't have enough samples at hand, even breaking it by force becomes an impossible thing.

The next job was not what Liang En and the others had to do, so they left after having a light meal, but before leaving, Liang En and the policemen left contact information with each other.

The reason for the communication between the two parties is also very simple, because after learning about the case just now, he found that the place where the other party was found was very close to the place Liang En and the others planned to transfer.

This obviously made Liang En feel a little nervous, because although the Huaxia people have shipped those things away, there is a high probability that they have not left the port. Once the police start a large-scale investigation, we will have some troubles.

So after leaving the police station.Liang En and Joan of Arc went to the freight yard together, planning to go to some places to check for any clues.

"Do you think this place is suspicious?" Looking at the cargo yard on the navigation map, Joan asked curiously. "If I remember correctly, this kind of temporary cargo yard is used randomly. How can you be sure that those things will be transported here?"

"The reason for this can be known only by analyzing it. Since there is no problem with the delivery kitchen and the receiver of the goods, then the problem must be the middle transportation part."

"The inner ghost should be divided into two batches. One batch is responsible for shipping these things in Huaxia, while the other batch is here, responsible for receiving those things."

"In this case, there must be a choice for the receiving location. It is necessary to find a place that is sufficiently hidden but convenient for car transportation. This freight yard is the only one among the 17 known freight yards that meets this requirement."

"Then what the manpower placed by the other party has to do is to move the containers containing their things to this temporary storage yard as much as possible, right?" Joan of Arc came to her senses after being touched by Liang En.

"If this is the case, the other party will definitely make some marks around or leave some clues. We should be able to roughly figure out the problem here just by taking a look."

Soon, the car came to the outside of the temporary storage yard. This was a yard that didn't look much different from an ordinary yard, and there was an ordinary-looking road beside it.

Considering that the city is a tourist city, the places where these goods are stacked are some distance away from the urban area, and even need to bypass a hill.

But also because of this reason, those places look pretty good from a hidden point of view, far away from normal supervision, especially conducive to doing some illegal activities.

However, less than 50m away from the freight yard, there is a village that seems to be in decline. Even at night, there are only three or five lights shining on the street through the windows.

After arriving here, Liang En and the others did not go straight to the freight yard where the goods were parked, but turned the car into the surrounding village, then went through the village and found a hidden place in the woods to park the car. .

"Let's go to the village first." After getting off the car, Liang En said to Joan who ran to him. "It's best to pay attention to concealment when passing by, and try to avoid being discovered by people in the village."

Considering the distance between the village and the cargo yard, Liang En had every reason to suspect that those who smuggled cultural relics had monitoring points or even strongholds in that village, so he naturally decided to go to this small town to take a look.

This small town looks the same as the small towns around the Mediterranean Sea, but if you look carefully, you can see that it used to have glory, but I don’t know why it was completely abandoned.

"This place used to be a place for rich people to travel." Liang En said after looking at a few rooms. "At least architecturally, it's all Victorian and old, but unfortunately it's abandoned now."

Judging from the style and decoration of these abandoned rooms, it should have been some luxurious rooms, but the town was gradually abandoned after entering the 20th century.

This is probably related to infrastructure construction, because it is too far away from the main part of the urban area and is blocked by mountains.Therefore, these small towns did not have electricity and running water in the early days, and the backwardness of infrastructure directly led to the abandonment of the towns.

"This place is suitable for shooting horror movies." Walking on the street of the small town, Joan of Arc subconsciously whispered, looking vigilantly at the lights of the houses not far away.

"Yes, and this place is also prone to filth." Liang En said after looking at the desolate town under the lights of the freight yard, "Okay, let's go around, there is a camera in front."

(End of this chapter)