Edo Traveler

If such a major incident has occurred that may affect diplomacy, of course Chuemon needs to be dealt with immediately. As soon as Russia negotiated with the shogunate on the northern territories, its envoys were attacked, which would definitely have a certain negative impact on the shogunate internationally.

　　 Can this be tolerated?

　　 Don’t you know the name of our Edogawa Chuemon? That is the "Wisdom Edogawa" that is famous all over the world, a first-class judge. There are 800 cases that have been broken in the hands of Chuemon.

　　 Needless to say, Tadaemon himself took command of the case, supervised the case, and mobilized a handful of people who used to practice in Edo-Minami. With our little friends, who are also veterans in handling cases, the long-time local Zhuliu is the deputy second to quickly investigate and handle the case.

　　 Several cases of attacks on foreigners have been notified in the residence area before. According to the provisions of the treaty, foreigners cannot enter the mainland of Japan for non-official or diplomatic purposes. Usually, at most, he leaves the Yokohama Residential Area for a few kilometers to take a trip on the outskirts and so on. Even so, barbarians attacked foreigners with knives, or set fire to foreign buildings.

　　 So this time Putinya negotiated with the shogunate to forcibly cut the 28 islands of the Kuril Islands and was attacked by barbarians.

　　 At least Chuyoumon didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this matter in his heart. The barbarians who attacked foreigners everywhere were usually ronin, and there was no owner. You ask them to directly take weapons to attack the armies of foreign powers or heavily guarded warships. They dare not.

　　 can attack foreigners who are alone, and kill someone who is an old or weak woman and child. Their skills are gone. At the end of the shogunate in history, a large number of barbarians threw explosives at foreign embassies. Of course, shooting secretly was also daily. Almost all foreign envoys stationed in Japan at that time had experienced attacks by barbarians.

　　The only thing that made Chuyemon feel suspicious was that the gangster fired two shots in total, and he was still able to hit Putinya with one shot. This was too lucky.

　　 In addition, it is not uncommon for Chuemon Gate to destroy barbarian residents in the Yokohama settlement area. You would be surprised if no one has attacked Yokohama.

　　 With a capable case-handling team, Tademon rushed to Yokohama. MacDonald and Harris are both here, the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, this Putinya was injured by the barbarians, and they are also worried.

　　 The British military police stationed in Yokohama quickly took Chuemon and Sukeruku to observe the scene. It is a pity that because there is no awareness of protecting the scene, the ground left by the Russian embassy is mixed with a lot of footprints of others, and no valid evidence can be obtained.

The person involved, Putinya, is still in a semi-comatose state. A British doctor has already performed an operation on him and removed the bullet. As long as he recuperates, pays attention to cleanliness, and survives the possible inflammation of the wound, there will be basically no seriousness. Problem.

　　 Putinya couldn't get a valid testimony, and Chuemon could only seek other evidence. The military police confessed that they arrived at the scene about fifteen minutes after hearing the gunfire. The prisoners seemed to know their patrol time and deliberately avoided the military police patrolling the Russian embassy section.

　　 For fifteen minutes, if a person runs desperately, I am afraid that he will not run out for three kilometers, riding a horse to chase, and he may not be able to catch up. The British military police only confirmed one thing. Witnesses nearby, as well as personnel from the Russian embassy itself, all confessed to seeing a case committed by a lone traveler.

　　 Of course, it is not ruled out that there are accomplices in the surroundings, or there are any responders outside the city. But at the scene, it should be alone.

　　 Because of the fire in the Russian embassy at that time, Molotov cocktails were thrown in both rooms. The personnel in the embassy were fighting the fire, and it was completely impossible to see in which direction the prisoner ran. Witnesses on the left and right said they ran to the west and some said they ran to the south. It was completely unclear where they went.

　　 is an invalid testimony again...

　　Nair asked the doctor to take the bullet over, and after a little glance, it was confirmed that it was a pistol bullet, not a larger caliber rifle bullet. This is a clue, but it is not a clue. Since foreigners came to Yokohama, a large number of weapons have flowed into Japan.

　　 All the domains bought weapons from foreigners, and the Satsuma domain alone bought thousands of guns. Hagihan was similar. He bought 2,400 Minie rifles and several small cannons at once.

　　 Long guns flowed into Japan, and short gun pistols naturally too. In addition, foreigners don’t look at customers when they sell guns, they only look at gold. When the gold is in place, all weapons are willing to sell, and there is no ban on weapons sales. The great powers are eager for the shogunate to buy weapons from them in order to boost their own military industry.

　　 The barbarians have a pistol, which is really not unusual. Bao Qi, where did this Ronin rob a businessman, made a sum of money, and bought a pistol. Ronin fights, only to win, it is very utilitarian, not completely obsessed with only using knives.

　　 Seven steps away, the gun is fast. Within seven steps, the gun was accurate and fast.

　　 Wait, is it a pistol? The attacker was downstairs and could still hit Putinya who was upstairs, so the shooting distance would not be long. Chuemon, who had a clue in his mind, went downstairs immediately.

　　 The room of Putinya that was attacked, and the two rooms downstairs that were set on fire. There were two places that had been trampled on. There was no way to find footprints, but there was still one room that was not trampled on.

　　 ordered people to find a large amount of rice paper, and Chungemon asked to depict all the several pairs of footprints collected at the scene. Then I invited all the British patrol officers who had investigated, as well as the staff of the Russian embassy, ​​to draw a copy of their footprints for comparison.

　　 The work on both sides is going on at the same time, and Zhu Roku, who is the supervisor on the side, suddenly discovered a problem, which is not easy to say. All the footprints collected on site were leather shoes or military boots, and there were no straw shoe prints.

　　 is very important!

　　 Ordinary Japanese people are usually barefoot or wear straw sandals, so the sole must be the kind of sandal-like staggered sandals, or simply a big foot. In Japan, it can not be said that there is no one wearing leather shoes at all, but they are really very few.

　　 Most people should be straw sandals, but there is no sandals on downstairs. When Sukeru said this, Chuemon was slightly startled. Isn't it Putinya who was attacked by the Japanese?

　　 Or Putinya is playing a bitter trick here, hitting herself, and fabricating a story to delay the negotiations between Japan and Russia?

　　 Thinking carefully, it is really possible.