Wanli Mystery: Daming Firearms

In the winter of the thirty-first year of Wanli, Shen Mo, a scribe at Dali Temple, discovered a flaw in a "closed" imperial case among the old papers. Why did the official ship "Tian Zi Hao", carrying 500,000 taels of silver and 20 boxes of firearms, turn into a ship of stones on the Tongzhou Canal? Why did the fifty-seven people who were escorted disappear from the world? Why does the handwriting of my brother's "drowning" ten years ago appear in the case file? Why is the last letter written by my father who "died" twenty years ago hidden in a coffin on a desert island? From the archives of Dali Temple to Fusi Prison in Beizhen, from Tongzhou Pier to the deserted island of the glacier, Shen Mo dragged his residual leg to survive in the gap between Jinyiwei and Dongchang. He discovered that this was not only corruption, but also capitalizing on the enemy; not only smuggling, but also regicide! Firearms were mixed with sulfur, dragon robes were made privately, Cao gangs, trading houses, ceremonial supervisors, harems... A huge net was slowly tightened. And he, a lame scribe, holds not only evidence to reverse the case, but also a spark that can ignite the entire Ming Dynasty.