After spending ten years in exile and watching his father cough up blood and die, Yu Fuqing had only one obsession for the rest of his life - to pry open the three-locked cabinet at the Ministry of War.
Five taels of silver bought him an official position, and he lurked in the official's stall, but he accidentally uncovered He Shen's shocking conspiracy:
Overseas firearms were smuggled to Tongzhou by water, and ten thousand taels of silver were provided to the White Lotus Sect to cause rebellion. They secretly supported the Tianli Sect to infiltrate the palace, and even secretly hid the seal of the Ministry of War with the intention of using Qiu Xi to assassinate the emperor and establish a new king!
Heshen was nothing but a white glove used by Qianlong to amass wealth. A literary prison covered up the financial losses of millions of people, and all the grievances were locked in the forbidden cabinet.
With the Caobang as a shield and the orphan Tianli as a backup, he only relied on his ability to read thousands of volumes of Tang newspapers and collect secret evidence from all sources.
The powerful officials in the court, the gangsters, the eunuchs in the palace, and the royal family members all took turns to plot, and everyone wanted to snatch the top-secret files in his hands.
With no military power and no backing, a low-level scribe used words as his sword and secret documents as his shield, stirring up all the undercurrents of the Jiaqing Dynasty.
When Mulan's plot of rebellion in the paddock suddenly collapsed, and the powerful Heshen collapsed, he finally opened the cabinet that had been sealed for many years and paid off the blood debt of his family.
