Emperor Ming Dynasty

In the last years of Wanli, Liaodong fought against Yunyajing. What others saw were the Hou Jin cavalry, but what the Gu family saw were food prices, salt, gunpowder and weapons orders. Tiangongmen is known as the "Ming Dynasty Emperor's Business", and the ancestral motto reads "The country will benefit from the use of tools, and the prosperity of business will lead to the prosperity of the people". But Gu Zhengqing discovered in a gun with explosive barrels and a book of Nancang's losses: What the Gu family sold to the border troops may not be weapons that can kill the enemy; what the Gu family offered to the court may not be loyalty that can serve the country. Gu Weiye changed his name four times in his life, from Gu Weizheng to Gu Weilu, and then to Gu Weiye. He relied on marrying into the Lu family, made a fortune on Ye Sumiang's secret border trade, and relied on the anonymous bank accounts of civil servants, inner court, clan and cabinet ministers to turn Tiangongmen into a machine that swallowed up both gold and people. The legitimate son Gu Chengen is timid and incompetent, the daughter Gu Chengyou is ambitious, and the illegitimate son Ye Jingnian just wants to find a path that can change his destiny. Gu Zhengqing could have been donated an official position to clear old scores for the family; but he wanted to find out the names of those people who were written as "loss". When Western firearms and testing methods entered the capital, the Gu family publicly denounced them as barbaric techniques, but privately plundered them at low prices. There was a loud bang in Wang Gongchang, which exploded not only the gunpowder magazine, but also the Ming Dynasty's most taboo account. This is a story of an imperial businessman taking advantage of a national crisis to reach heaven, and then being counterattacked by the national crisis. It is also a group of people trying to prove in troubled times: human life cannot just be written as loss.