We went to the second annex of the palace, the Royal Officials' Department, located at one o'clock.

The Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Officials are not the same ministry. There are countless ministries in the Ming Dynasty, but only a dozen ministries are powerful ministries, and the others are inconsequential "cecal departments". The Ministry of Officials belongs to the latter, and the Ministry of Officials belongs to the former. The bureaucracy can only castrate the people, and the ministry can depose any of the millions of officials at will! The head of the official department is a five-grade sesame official, with the rank of county magistrate; The minister of the ministry is a second-rank official, higher than the provincial governor, and belongs to the core of the inner court, the level of the prime minister.

Two hundred and fifty of us are waiting in the royal office.

That feeling of unreality reappeared.

We are a strange bunch of people, a bunch of newcomers, a bunch of future eunuchs.

Are we noble or lowly? We have surpassed billions of commoners, leaping into the nobles and even the imperial courtiers, but we have no will of our own.

Are we enviable, or are we pitiful? We are flattered to our faces and insulted behind our backs.

Are we active free people, or are we passive echo worms? We pursue our own ends, but we become incomplete people.

Are we the end of history, or are we the passers-by of history? History is unknown. We may be naturally generated, necessary, and will exist forever tens of thousands of years ago, or we may be artificially generated, passive, and will eventually disappear.

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The palace eunuchs brought us a lot of food and medicine.

I think of the situation of the dog's leftover house cramming. Duck stuffing is to stuff the duck into a big fat man, then remove its fatty liver, and then roast it into a roast duck. The royal family raised us to be healthy and healthy, and ate sterilization drugs and hemostats in advance, and then cut off things to be their loyal minions.

I feel very bad, like a dull cloudy day, even if it rains or hail!

No one asks how others feel, so we just talk about family life in a fool's way.

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But the more I don't want to, the more I can't help but think about it. We started a random topic, chatted and ran to that side, and then there was a dead silence.

Finally, one guy said, "Actually, there is medical skills that can make men reborn." ”

People looked at him.

The man wears thick glasses and has long, drooping hair. It can't be said that he is a dwarf - because the Ming Dynasty stipulates that "for the health of the subjects of the world, adults under 1.6 meters are considered dwarfs and must be executed" - and this person happens to be 1.6 meters.

A man next to him said, "Witchcraft." ”

"Four-Eyed" said, "It's not witchcraft, it's medicine!" It is science, the science of antiquity. ”

One person said: "Hey brother, you are also a lifter, and you are not afraid of others laughing to death when you say it." Are you stupid to read your brain? Scientology is a secret cult! ”

Someone else said, "It is better to believe in you than to believe that I can fly to the moon." ”

Four-eyed: "You can really fly." Many years ago, humans have been to the moon in airplanes, and some say that the sun has also been. ”

Some people say: "Wu Gang chases Chang'e or praises his father chasing the sun?" Ha ha! ”

Four-eyed: "It's not Wu Gang and Kuafu, it's an airplane." ”

Someone said: "Can an airplane fly to the moon and the sun?" Do you know the principle of an airplane? There is not even air, how can you fly? ”

Four Eyes: "New plane, new principle!" Bring your own air, like a monkey ...... the sky"

Someone said, "Impossible! How much air are you going to carry! ”

Four Eyes: "You don't care how much air you carry, at least it's possible." ”

Someone else said, "Haha, you say 'maybe', or maybe tomorrow the apocalypse comes, and God will spit or fart and destroy humanity, because the Royal Teachings say so." Ha ha! ”

Four-eyed: "Many diseases can be cured with medicine, but the royal Ming statute prohibits the use of civilians, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, gonorrhoea, syphilis and other diseases that are considered 'mortal'." ”

Someone else said, "That's just a disease, you're missing something." Your leg is broken, you can be cured with gold sore medicine, but your leg is gone, what medicine do you use to cure it? ”

Four-eyed: "Have you ever heard of a kidney transplant?" There were prisoners and even civilians who had their kidneys gouged out and then transplanted to the royal or noble clans to save their lives. If a kidney can be transplanted, why can't that thing be transplanted? ”

Someone said, "You spread rumors!" The court has already said that this is a fake. ”

Someone said, "It seems to be true, I've heard of it." ”

Someone said, "It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes." The man also secretly turned his head to look around, and then said, "Brothers, don't talk nonsense, don't spread the word about our brothers talking in private." ”

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"I don't really know if that thing can be transplanted, but there's a kind of medicine that's harder than it, and it does. ”

Everyone's curiosity was hung up, and everyone surrounded him.

Four eyes: "My hometown is the Jiangnan Dashi clan, I heard from the villagers that their 'Holy Doctor' there can make people who can't have children have children!" A man and a woman can't have children, but they can combine a man's sperm with a woman's eggs and put them in another woman's womb, and the other woman will give birth to a child after she is pregnant in October! ”

Someone said, "Holy Doctor? It's nice to say, isn't it the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect! Demon Cult! No, it's a cult! ”

Someone said, "No way." ”

Others asked curiously, "Whose child was born?" ”

Four-eyed said disdainfully: "Of course it's the two people in front of you." The woman who was pregnant for ten months was just a skin, and she was directly executed after giving birth. ”

Some people sighed "alas", and many more still said "I don't believe it".

Four-eyed said anxiously: "I am the first scholar in the world, the Zhao clan of Zhao County. A young master in our family can't give birth, and his wife can't give birth either, so the head of the family secretly found the royal family's imperial doctor. The imperial doctor took the young master's sperm and the young milk's eggs, and somehow put everything into the bodies of other women. And...... And guess what? ”

He mysteriously sells a pass.

Everyone said, "Say it." ”

The anxious people began to scold him: "What the hell is wrong, say it quickly!" ”

Four-eyed: "Of course the woman is pregnant." And more than one woman is pregnant, and every woman is pregnant with more than one child, all twins, triplets, and quadruplets! The babies all look exactly the same! ”

Everyone said:

"Cut! The cowhide is blown up! ”

"If you only say that a woman is pregnant with a child, you may really deceive me, but you say that many women are pregnant, and each woman is pregnant with a few, you are a fool to me!"

"Bored liar, let's have fun while playing!"

His face turned white and he said, "I didn't lie to you!" And I also heard that in the past, the imperial doctor treated the royal family for infertility, and he didn't even need sperm and eggs, and he could give birth to a child by dripping blood directly from his finger! ”

Everyone shouted: "Dead liars go fools!" ”

Four-Eyes muttered, "Really, I saw it with my own eyes." I never lie! ”

Everyone dispersed in a hurry, no longer paying attention to him.

A few old eunuchs next to him said: "A crab is not as good as a crab!" I don't know who came up with the question this time, here comes this group of nonsense madmen! What they are talking about, completely incomprehensible! ”

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I stepped forward, patted Si'er on the shoulder, and said to him, "Okay, don't say it, let's talk about it here." ”

I led him around the corner and away from the crowd.

Him: "Don't you believe it either?" ”

Me: "First, I believe." Second, it's too dangerous for you to do so. Fortunately, no one else believes you and takes you for a fool. If someone informes, whether what you say is true or not, you will be dead, and even your master will not be able to save you. These are all cults! You know? The Demon Cult is a lie, and the Cult is a real game! ”

He lowered his head and thought quietly for a moment.

He looked up and said, "Thank you, brother, I see." My name is Zhao Pumin, a member of the Zhao clan of Zhao County, the first scholar in the world. ”

Me: "My name is Dongfang Ju, a scholar from the Dongfang family in Liangzhou." ”

Zhao Pumin: "I am the nineteenth in total, that is, the tenth in the literary examination. What about you? ”

Me: "Better than me." I was thirty-one, and I was sixteenth in the literary exam. ”

Him: "No, I'm not as good as you. This rank was bought by the head of my family with money, and he gave tens of thousands of gold yuan to Director Kong of the Examination Department......"

I thought to myself, "Is this man stupid?" ”

I said, "Okay, don't say it, it's impossible." No one dares to spend money to buy a ranking in the exam. ”

Him: "It's true, I saw ...... with my own eyes"

I interrupted him: "Where are you from?" ”

He: "My hometown is Xiangyang, Jiangnan, and my name used to be Liu Pumin. Oh yes, Xiangyang Liu has heard of it, right? ”

Me: "Isn't it Xiangyang Cui's?" ”

Him: "That's the governor's house...... Our family is not that big. ”

Me: "Oh. ”

He: "Someone in our family went out to practice medicine and treated someone dead in Handan, so my father gave me to the Zhao family of Zhao County...... My family has a lot of money, but the Zhao family doesn't want it......"

Me: "Handan? Such a coincidence. My name is Zhao Da Niu - I'm talking about my former name Zhao Da Niu, and now I'm called Dongfang Ju. I am a native of Luobei in the Central Plains, a diner of the Oriental family in Longnan. We're kind of fellows! ”

Zhao Pumin: "Yes, it's next to the Yellow River." ”

Me: "I also have a friend named Dongfang Qi in Dongfang's family, formerly known as Zhao Chengqi, who is also from Handan, Hebei Province......"

Him: "What a coincidence! Zhao Chengqi is right, Xinwu is a person! We've met a few times in Handan. ”

Me: "Really? Are you friends? ”

Him: "Not really. At that time in Handan, the Dongfang family wanted him, and the Zhao family also wanted him, but in the end, the conditions given by the Dongfang family were good, so he went to the Dongfang family. I met him a few times, not a friend, but only a few times. ”

We chatted for a while, and then we got down to business.

Me: "I take your word for it." Although I have not heard these things from you before, I have read other books, and what I have said to you can corroborate each other. ”

Zhao Pumin: "What book?" What is written on it? ”

I glanced around, no one was next to us, and no one was paying attention to us.

I whispered, "Historiography says that in the War of the Apocalypse countless years ago, there were many countries at that time, unlike only one of us. There is a country that has created countless armies with a drop of blood from a man's ear, and all of them giants several meters high. Another country has built a superbomb. Two emperors fought, neither of them won, but the world perished, only tens of thousands of people remained, and all previous civilizations were almost gone. ”

He looked at me in amazement.

I continued: "I would have been skeptical, but when I heard you say that you made man out of blood, I guess it's true, they still left a little technology, or reinvented it. ”

Him: "Historiography? Have you read the forbidden book in that forbidden book? ”

Me: "That forbidden book has been banned for many years, it has lost a lot of chapters, and it is so hard to understand what exists, you can almost read it as a divination book." But if you look closely, you can still find the truth. ”

Him: "I've just heard some of the things in it, but I didn't expect anyone to actually have that book." Can I take a look? ”

I thought about it. It's not that I'm afraid of him telling the truth, but this person is not sure of his mouth, and he has no city government, and something will happen sooner or later.

Me: "I've only read a small part of it once in a while, and the book is gone." Well, I lost it. ”

He sighed, "Ah! So envious. The Zhao family also has a lot of banned books, but they are all ordinary banned books, which is not interesting at all! ”

He told me the "secrets" of his home.

I thought to myself: this mentally handicapped guy won't live more than a year.