After hearing what my baby grandson said, Wu Jianzhang, who spent 500,000 yuan to buy the current fourth-rank official position, was a little moved. However, after a little calculation, Wu Jianzhang said in embarrassment: "It sounds a bit reasonable, but grandpa's current belt is gone, so he is not qualified to directly submit a note? Besides, even if I wrote this note as a criminal, who will I hand it to? Who dares to hand it over to the court for me?"

"Grandpa, you can hand the memorial to Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, and ask him to submit it to the court." Wu Chaoyue pointed out again: "Today, in order to drive the warships into the Huangpu River, foreigners fired artillery at Wusongkou. The defenders of Wusongkou will definitely not dare to conceal such a big deal. They will definitely report to Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, who is in charge of Liangjiang's military. Lu Jianying dares not start a war with foreigners, and he will not dare to continue to expand the matter. He will definitely be in a dilemma. Grandpa, if you hand over this memorial to him, it is equivalent to giving him an excuse to shirk responsibility. In order not to take the blame, he will definitely send your memorial to the capital to report the evil thoughts that his husband has in mind."

Speaking of this, Wu Chaoyue also showed a little sneering and said, "At that time, maybe Lu Jianying will say more good things for you, grandpa. Because grandpa, you are Su Song Taibing Dao and his subordinate. If you take the blame, he will have to be blamed. He will be blamed on Weng Xincun, the Beijing official. Only then can Lu Jianying stay out of the matter and not worry about being implicated and being blamed by the court. In this way, grandpa, your hope of reinstatement will be greater."

After hearing what the baby grandson said, Wu Jianzhang felt more moved, but he was still a little worried, and said, "Your idea is good, but he is both an imperial envoy and a minister of the Ministry of Works. He is much older than me. If I do this, I will offend him..."

"Grandpa, do you think that if you let him go, Weng Xincun will let you go?" Wu Chaoyue interrupted the comprador grandfather and said quickly: "Foreigners bombard Wusongkou and threaten to declare war, the court will definitely find someone to take the blame as a scapegoat. If you don't quickly push Weng Xincun to the court as a scapegoat, Weng Xincun will definitely find a way to let you take this big blame! Now we can only take the initiative first, take advantage of his Weng Xincun's courage to hand over those diplomatic notes to the court. There is no chance to attack us, and take the lead in putting the shit basin on his head! Otherwise, when he recovers and finds a way to push all the responsibilities to us, we are really dead!"

After listening to Wu Chaoyue's analysis and remembering Yuan Zuxu's lesson, Wu Jianzhang finally made up his mind and immediately wrote a memorial as a criminal, pushing all the responsibility of foreign warships entering the Huangpu River and bombarding Wusongkou to Weng Xincun's head. He insisted that Weng Xincun abused his power to prevent foreigners from preaching and doing business and unreasonably preventing foreigners from entering the city. He asked the Governor of Liangjiang Lu Jianying to submit it to the Qing court on his behalf. At the same time, Wu Jianzhang adopted Wu Chaoyue's suggestion. In addition to explaining the whole story in detail, he also directly reported that the consuls of Western countries had submitted diplomatic notes to Weng Xincun, so that Lu Jianying and the Qing court knew that Weng Xincun had received foreign notes and did not give Weng Xincun the opportunity to conceal those notes.

Originally, Wu Jianzhang wanted to write the matter of his plan to be loyal to his duties and continue to impose tariffs on the Qing court in the memorial, but Wu Chaoyue stopped him and said, "Grandpa, this matter cannot be urgent. Because we cannot be sure whether foreigners will pay taxes obediently, and we cannot say that we cannot do it, so that Lu Jianying and the court will be happy. And if this matter is written in the memorial that impeached Weng, then even if you raise the tariffs on the court, the court and Governor Lu will only think that you do this is just a punishment for the merits. You will not be grateful to you, nor will you pay too much attention to your merits."

"So, grandpa, don't mention this matter for now." Wu Chaoyue added with a smile: "Let the court and Lu Jianying be afraid first. After we have confirmed that foreigners are really obedient to pay taxes, grandpa, please write a memorial to your loyalty to your duties and ask for rewards to the court and Lu Jianying, so that the court and Lu Jianying can be overjoyed and satisfied with you and like you more."

"It makes sense." Wu Jianzhang applauded and said happily: "It's still my grandson who is smart. If this matter is written in the memorial written by Weng, it will make the court and Governor Lu feel that I am just a merit and guilty and will not care much. If the foreigners refuse to pay the tax obediently, the matter will definitely be worse. Only by confirming this matter and reporting it alone will the court and Governor Lu be overjoyed, happier and more satisfied!"

After calling, Wu Jianzhang praised, "I didn't expect that you little bastard knows the officialdom more than my grandfather. Who did you learn this trick from? Why didn't grandfather find out that you have these abilities before?"

Wu Chaoyue smiled and didn't say anything, but replied in his heart: "There are still things to learn? In my previous unit, I could see what stealing, cheating, and robbing responsibilities and earning credit. I don't need to learn, I can see it."

By the way, we will also take a look at the situation of Weng Xincun and his son. Just as Wu Chaoyue expected, Weng Xincun did not report to the Qing court on the day of the incident that foreigners rescued the Wu family's grandchildren. For nothing else, it was because the consular ministers of Western countries forced him to send him diplomatic notes.

Weng Xincun now neither dared to submit these notes to the court nor deduct them. He submitted these notes as required by foreigners. Xianfeng was furious and sent people to investigate thoroughly. Even if Weng Xincun was not beheaded and searched, his home would be at least he would be dismissed from office!

If these notes are deducted, the foreigners will definitely cause trouble if they cannot receive the reply. If something happens, Xianfeng will send someone to investigate the root cause. Weng Xincun will definitely die without a place to die!

He was in a dilemma, so after being helped back to his residence, Weng Xincun kept lying on the bed without eating or drinking, and kept complaining, "It's trouble, trouble, this time it's trouble. If the Western barbarians really declare war on my Qing Dynasty because of this, then I'll cause a big disaster for the court! It's trouble, it's really trouble. Why did such trouble happen to me?"

No one listened to him, and Weng Xincun always moaned. It was still after it was dark that Weng Tonghe, who helped Yuan Zuxu arrange the city defense, came back from the city to serve Weng Xincun. Weng Xincun finally stopped moaning and struggled to sit up and asked his son, "Does foreigners attack the city?"

"No." Weng Tonghe shook his head and replied truthfully: "But the foreign gun ships did not leave either. They stopped on the river next to the concession and sent troops to defend the way into the concession. Also, in the afternoon, I received the news that in order to enter the Huangpu River, the foreign gun ships fired cannons at Wusongkou in order to enter the Huangpu River, forcing the Wusongkou defenders to make way."

"Is the cannon fired at Wusongkou?" Weng Xin was shocked, and then lay back on the bed and lamented: "It's over, I can't hide it this time! Wusongkou will definitely report the matter to Lu Jianying, and Lu Jianying will definitely send someone to ask about the reason, and it can't hide it anyway."

"Father, this is not a solution." Weng Tonghe also knew the situation was serious and said, "Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandchildren, Tongyi, is responsible for traitoring the country, but in the diplomatic notes of the Western barbarians, they claimed that their grandparents and grandchildren were innocent and demanded that the court admit that their grandparents and grandchildren were innocent, and they also declared war on our Qing Dynasty for this matter. If the court could not withstand the pressure of foreigners, then Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandchildren would be at large. You will be determined to take the blame for improper handling of things and unjustly accusing innocent people. This matter is very important, and we must find a way to deal with this situation quickly."

"What else can I do?" Weng Xincun lamented and said weakly: "Do you have to report to the court for your father that Wu Jianzhang's grandchildren are innocent? You have to ask the court to send someone to negotiate with foreigners? If you do this for your father, will you take the blame even more? Do you die more miserably?"

"Of course, you can't do this." Weng Tonghe shook his head, then lowered his voice and said, "But, you must not report the matter of Shanghai to the court truthfully. You can only confirm the charge of Wu Jianzhang's selling off the country and Tongyi, so that the court and the emperor think that foreigners attacked Wusongkou because Wu Jianzhang's selling off the country and believed that Wu Jianzhang's grandchildren led foreigners into the Huangpu River, and then handed over the diplomatic notes of foreigners to the court. The court and the emperor will only hate Wu Jianzhang's grandchildren and will not blame you."

"First let Wu Jianzhang confirm the charge of Tongyi's treason, and then submit the diplomatic notes of foreigners to the court?" Weng Xincun repeated the key points of his son's suggestion, and asked in confusion: "Is this useful?"

"It's absolutely useful." Weng Tonghe said confidently: "Father, you can think about it. As long as the court and the emperor determine that Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandchildren have stolen the country, then when they hear the news that foreigners attack Wu Songkou, and the foreigners snatch Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandchildren have stolen the grandparents and grandchildren, and finally see a diplomatic note from foreigners asking the court to admit that the Wu family's grandparents and grandchildren have been guilty of being innocent. Can the court and the emperor decide that all this is caused by Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandchildren have stolen the country and seeking honor? How can you still make you provoke the foreigners the charge?"

After thinking about it, Weng Xincun found that his son's suggestion was indeed feasible - as long as Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandsons were charged with Tongyi's stolen country first, then with preconceptions, the court and Xianfeng would definitely think that foreigners attacked Wusongkou and threatened to declare war were all caused by Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandsons' stolen country, and would not blame him any more. So after nodding, Weng Xincun also lowered his voice and asked, "What should I do in detail?"

"Please write a memorial immediately, claiming that you found that Wu Jianzhang's grandparents and grandchildren had colluded with foreigners in Shanghai, and secretly instigated foreigners to force the Qing court to give in to foreigners with strong ships and cannons, and even had the intention to present Shanghai to foreigners." Weng Tonghe's voice was very sinister, saying: "Anyway, just say it ruthlessly, and then use 600 miles to send it to the capital to submit it to the Military Affairs Office. Then, no matter what the court received, it would only determine that it was the collusion between the grandparents and grandchildren of the Wu family and the foreigners!"

Weng Xincun stopped talking, and after thinking for a while, Weng Xincun stood up and walked straight to the desk to write a note. Weng Tonghe quickly reminded: "Father, this note cannot be sent directly to the Military Affairs Office. It must be given to the Tongzheng Department first and then transferred to the Military Affairs Office. The more officials in the Beijing know that this matter is better. There are some rumors in the capital who are idle and have nothing to do. When they hear such important news, they will naturally help us."

Weng Xincun nodded again and said casually: "Don't be idle either. Write a letter to your brother for writing to contact some censors in the capital to impeach Wu Jianzhang, and tell him directly that the more people impeach Wu Jianzhang, the better."
Chapter completed!