When the ship arrived at Tianjin Wei Wharf, Grandpa Wei was mentally prepared to receive a warm welcome and praise.

He believed that with the emperor's special love for money, he would definitely send Da Jue to Tianjin to pick him up in person and give him enough face.

450,000 taels of huge funds, for the emperor's shriveled inner treasury, it is undoubtedly a relief in the snow.

Don't look at Father-in-law Wei's money and expenses of 100,000 taels or hundreds of thousands of taels in Jiangnan, as if the money is worthless. But 450,000 taels is really a lot of money for the emperor. In terms of state affairs, it is also a lot of money.

Xiong Tingbi wrote a few years ago that the imperial court set up an important town in Hedong and placed 10,000 soldiers, at a cost of only 350,000 taels. At this point, the Ministry of War also vetoed it because of excessive consumption, so that ten years later, there was a great change in the Liao Incident, and there was no elite army to rescue and suppress it.

Therefore, in public and private, the emperor has to display the red flag, and the colorful flags flutter to welcome the Duke of Wei to enter Beijing to offer silver.

However, when he walked down from the deck with great ambition, he was stunned to find that no one had come to pick him up Wei Gonggong.

Except for the coolies who loaded and unloaded and a few merchants on the wharf, there were no official people.

How so?

Gonggong Wei pondered that this was not right, you Wanli didn't give me face for good ministers, you always had to give face to Yinzi, right?

Could it be that the date is wrong?

Thinking that this was possible, Gonggong Wei comforted himself not to be anxious, and waited quietly, he had told Wanli in the secret revelation that he would land from Tianjin Wei, and it was normal for the palace to not be able to grasp the itinerary and have some errors.

Either today or unknown day, the one who should come will definitely come.

He Wanli didn't pose for the 450,000 taels this time, and he had to put down his body for the gold and silver mountains behind him.

Therefore, he ordered to go down to unload the silver, and at the same time let people contact the relevant departments of Tianjin Wei with their official seals, and let them vacate a place for Wei Gonggong and his attachés to rest.

Tianjin is where Jinyiwei's old nest is located, and Jinyiwei's command envoy Yamen is located here, so Gonggong Wei must say hello to Luo Sigong, the governor of Jinyiwei. He ordered Tian Gang, who accompanied him, to go to the Jinyi Guard Yamen to post on his behalf, and it didn't matter if he couldn't see it, that is, he would take a formality.

This is also a common practice in officialdom.

You posted, it's your duty, and everyone is fine.

If you come and don't post, then it's okay now, and maybe there will be something in the future.

As the concubine of Xi Li, Gonggong Wei definitely didn't have a good impression of Luo Sigong, who used Jinyiwei to help the Donglin Party coerce Xi Li in the palace removal case, and he didn't want to deal with it, but now he has people from Jinyiwei who are helping, so he can't say that he doesn't go to give a post to the leader.

Gonggong Wei can point to Tian Gang, the grassroots personnel of the Jinyi Guard, who will play a role in the future, if someone asks Luo Dadu to take it back, he will not be able to use Tian Gang and them to get involved in the Jinyi army.

So, the meaning of the face is easy to understand.

I didn't want Tian Gang to go but came back quickly, saying that Commander Luo was not in the Yamen, but rushed to Beijing overnight yesterday.

Gonggong Wei was stunned for a moment: The Governor of Jinyi Wei rushed to Jingshi overnight, this move is unusual.

Could it be that something big happened in Beijing?

After thinking about it, I didn't expect any big movements in the capital in the forty-first year of Wanli, so it was even more strange, so I asked Tian Gang to go to the Jinyi Wei Yamen to inquire, don't be afraid of spending money.

However, the money was spent, the friendship climbed, and Tian Gang still got nothing.

I only knew that Luo Dadu was in a hurry to leave, and he didn't even have some explanations.

Gonggong Wei was puzzled, and he wanted to go to Beijing as soon as possible to have a look and join in the fun, but with so much money here, he couldn't just leave.

It's not that he's afraid that the silver will be robbed, but he wants to pull the silver to Wanli in person to deepen the emperor's impression of him.

Throughout the ages, achievements have been made, and the leaders have not seen them with their own eyes, which is always inappropriate.

I waited anxiously for an afternoon, and in the evening, someone finally came to Jingli.

But it is not Da Jue, but Zheng Cheng, the head of the Jinzhong Mansion.

Zheng Cheng was also very anxious, seeing that Gonggong Wei only said that something big had happened in the palace, and the emperor and Gonggong Jin couldn't take care of Gonggong Wei's side, so he asked him to transport the silver to Beijing and put it into the inner treasury.

"What's going on in the palace?"

Father-in-law Wei was so sudden that he couldn't even take care of the silver, and it seemed that something was going on in the palace that was not small.

Zheng Cheng, as the head of the pen, knew the secrets in the palace, and also knew that Gonggong Wei was the person who Gonggong Jin fancied, so when he saw that there was no one else, he whispered to Gonggong Wei that there was a Jinyi guard in Beijing who rebelled.

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According to Zheng Cheng, there was a hundred households named Wang Yueqian, who took the opportunity to enter the palace at noon yesterday and secretly brought a fire gun weighing 14 catties into the palace. Then he hid in the woods under the palace wall, put the fire gun on the wooden handle, and then sneaked to the palace and put a gun in the direction of the Qianqing Palace.

The forbidden place in the palace, let go of the guns privately, that is a great event. The soldiers patrolling the city immediately arrested Wang Yueqian, and then immediately sent him to the Criminal Department for questioning.

The officials of the Criminal Department did not dare to slack off, and they planned to sentence Wang to death for the crime of "setting off guns in forbidden places" in a single pillar of incense, but Wang kept shouting that someone was plotting rebellion.

When the officials of the Criminal Department asked him who had rebelled, Wang replied that it was Liu Cheng, a confidant of Liu Cheng, a eunuch in the palace of Concubine Zheng Guifei.

This frightened the officials of the Criminal Department, and also frightened the faces of the thousands and hundreds of households of the Jinyi Guard, and the two eunuchs who deported the prisoners together changed their faces at that time.

No matter how afraid the officials of the Criminal Department were, if the prisoners said that there was a rebellion and indicated who the rebels were, they had to ask them to understand.

So, a squire and several Lang Zhong and the principal immediately interrogated.

The facts of the case were quickly understood.

Wang Yueqian said that he had an eldest sister who was ordered by Concubine Zheng to marry Jiang Lishan, a eunuch in the palace of the concubine. In order to repay the kindness of the concubine, Jiang Lishan actually made an alliance with Confucius and others, saying that he had a secret decree of the imperial concubine, and was ready to ask someone to cast a spell to poison the emperor and the crown prince, and then support King Fu as the emperor.

Wang said that a month ago, Confucius and others set up a banquet to invite the demon Wang Sanzhao to come to the house to discuss, Wang Sanzhao proposed to cut three paper figures, respectively write the queen mother, the emperor's holy name, and the crown prince's birthday, and then prepare the incense paper table case and a black porcelain soul shooting bottle in advance, and then in the back garden of the Confucian family by Wang Sanzhao personally recited the spell and burned the talisman, and then used forty-nine iron nails to nail in the eyes of the three paper people, and burned the paper people seven days later.

When an official of the Criminal Department asked when the time of the appointment was made, Wang Yueqian said that it was around the birthday of the Queen Mother.

After the trial, the criminal department hurriedly handed the confession into the palace, and the emperor, who was frightened by the sound of the gun, was furious when he saw it, and the concubine Niangniang was even more shocked and collapsed to the ground, and even said that she was wronged.

Now not only are the people in the palace panicking, but everyone outside the palace is in danger, and the Zheng family doesn't dare to take a step.

Gonggong Wei was also amazed when he heard it, what age is this, why do people always believe in this witchcraft.

If sorcery can rebel, it doesn't matter if there is a kind of sorcery or not.

Wang said?

My father-in-law was somewhat familiar with the name, and racked his brains to remember that he had seen this person.

When he went to Beijing back then, didn't Wang Yuqian rob people in the mountain temple with a foreign sixth stall in Dongchang, and the dead fat man stared at him before leaving, and scared his father-in-law into thinking that he was in trouble.

Later, I learned that there was a false alarm.

"This is someone who wants to put the concubine to death."

Gonggong Wei didn't believe Wang Yuqian, what did he do with this matter with the good brocade clothes and Wei Baihu, and he was not the stunned green gambler of Zhang Cha.

There must be a conspiracy in the matter, and the truth may not be as Wang Yueqian said.

"Prepare the horses!"

The father-in-law didn't say a word and asked the guards to go to the carriage and horse shop to rent horses, he already knew this matter, and if he didn't take the opportunity to show a thing or two, it was really not in line with his personality.