"What the hell is weird?"

Xu Rui squinted his eyes and asked.

Gonggong Cao thought for a while and said: "Here's the thing, Dongchang has always been the core force of the celebrant eunuch, although our family was born as a celebrant eunuch, but over the years, because of his disagreement with Hu Miao, he has been excluded from the circle.

When I came back this time, our family understood that if we wanted to sit firmly in the position of the celebrant supervisor, we must first control the East Factory in our own hands, coupled with the obsession in our hearts, so we are particularly concerned about the affairs of the East Factory.

In general, Hu Miao also attaches great importance to the East Factory, and the dossier rules and regulations are in order, and even the old files from twenty or thirty years ago are clear, and no problems were found when he checked at the beginning.

However, once when checking the files, my people found a problem, the files of the East Factory are divided into two files, the outer files are placed on the table for most people to see, and the cases recorded are more and more complete.

The internal archives only record sensitive events, and those truths that cannot be brought to the table for various reasons cannot even be presented to the Holy One.

It's strange that many of the contents of the records of the inner file seem to be fine if viewed separately, but the same event is full of errors and omissions when compared with the outer file.

For example, in the 16th year of Hongwei, there was a fraud case in the scientific examination, and the school administration of Jiangnan Province openly sold the township examination questions, and made a lot of money of 300,000 taels in just two months.

When the saint learned of this, he was immediately furious, and in addition to the two Xuezheng involved in the case, a Ying official in Jiangnan Province was also severely punished.

Originally, there was not much inside information about this matter, and it had been sealed and concluded, and it was originally only recorded in the outer file, but not only did a complete record appear in the inner file, but also mistakenly recorded the time as the seventeenth year of Hongwei.

There are so many such records, and a large number of these invalid or erroneous records can be co-located at random. ”

Xu Rui frowned when he heard this: "Although Hu Miao is dead, but the Dongchang factory and the other eunuchs are still there, haven't you asked anyone else about this matter?" ”

Cao Gong said fairly: "Of course I asked, and the answer I got was that the internal file was actually under the jurisdiction of Hu Miao himself, and more than a year ago, Hu Miao led people to carry out a large-scale revision of the internal file, and all the eunuchs who revised the internal file, including Hu Miao, are no longer alive." ”

"What?"

Xu Rui was slightly stunned: "You mean they're all dead?" ”

Gonggong Cao nodded: "Some people are sick, some people have violated the rules of the palace, and some people are sent abroad to build the army, and they just suffered defeat, a total of nine people, all of whom have died." ”

Xu Rui's face became solemn: "Do you have any mistakes and omissions in the internal file here?" ”

Gonggong Cao seemed to have known that Xu Rui would ask such a question, so he took out a yellow cloth package from under the table, opened it, and saw that it was a volume of files.

Xu Rui picked up the file and looked at it carefully for a moment, then opened the file, found the marked errors and omissions, and studied them carefully.

After a while, Xu Rui put down the file, and his brows became tighter and tighter.

"What did you find?"

Gonggong Cao asked.

Xu Rui shook his head: "There are some doubts about the details, but there are no useful things." ”

As he spoke, Xu Rui picked up a piece of paper and said: "Seventeen years after Hongwei, Galaxy Group has made an improvement to the paper, and the paper used in the internal file is the improved new paper.

In other words, it's not just these internal files that have problems, but all the internal files are newly compiled by Hongwei after 17 years, which corresponds to what you said before, Hu Miao once led people to reorganize the internal files.

But the crux of the matter is that Hu Miao, as the palm print of the celebrant and the second master of the inner court, has a lot of things on his body, why does he pay so much attention to the internal file, and even personally lead someone to modify the internal file? ”

Gonggong Cao nodded: "This is also very strange to me, it seems that Hu Miao is deliberately hiding something, that thing must be very important, which will make him kill all those who know." ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "I think Hu Miao doesn't want to hide something, on the contrary, he seems to want to convey some information through the internal file." ”

"Passing on a message?"

Gonggong Cao frowned and looked at Xu Rui suspiciously.

Xu Rui pointed to the wrong and missing internal file and said: "You see, take Hongwei's sixteen-year scientific research fraud case as an example, although this small matter itself does not say anything wrong, but it will be very eye-catching when it appears in the internal file, which can make people see strange at a glance."

And I don't know if Gonggong Cao has noticed it, the few mistakes and omissions you just picked out are the same as the scientific research fraud case of Hongwei's sixteen years, there is no hidden secret, and the time is very clear. ”

"What's wrong with that?"

Gonggong Cao didn't seem to understand what Xu Rui meant, and asked puzzledly.

Xu Rui continued: "Then let's look at another coincidence. ”

"Coincidence?"

Gonggong Cao was stunned.

Xu Rui nodded and said: "It's probably a coincidence, Gonggong Cao, you see, these errors and omissions in the internal files in front of you are all time, for example, Hongwei's sixteen-year fraud case was mistakenly recorded as Hongwei's seventeenth year."

The Chongzhou fire that occurred in March of the 18th year of Hongwei was mistakenly recorded as June of the 18th year of Hongwei, and the lantern bandits in the first month of the 19th year of Hongwei were recorded as April of the 19th year of Hongwei. ”

Gonggong Cao was slightly surprised: "In this way, it seems that all the mistakes and omissions are time, what does this mean?" ”

Xu Rui said: "Father-in-law, have you forgotten that the internal files of the East Factory are sorted according to time?" ”

As soon as these words came out, it was like waking up a person in a dream.

Gonggong Cao suddenly said: "Our family understands, these wrong and missing cases are actually not the original internal files, the original internal files have been drawn out and replaced with these mediocre cases."

And these mediocre cases are also arranged here according to the original internal time, so we will find these strange contents! ”

Saying that, Gonggong Cao was puzzled again: "But Hu Miao directly pulled out the inner file and didn't leave any traces, why do you have to do this extra thing, and add these things that can be seen at a glance is wrong?" ”

Xu Rui smiled: "That's why I said that Hu Miao didn't want to hide anything, but to pass on some news to the outside world." ”

"How so?"

Gonggong Cao asked.

Xu Rui said: "It's very simple, you also said that if you don't look carefully at the internal file, there should be no problem, but once you look carefully, you will see at a glance that something is wrong, isn't the content that Hu Miao took great pains to add just to let his successor see that it is wrong?" ”

Gonggong Cao was shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't stop nodding.

Xu Rui said again: "Also, why did Hu Miao use such an obscure way to mark the time of the internal file that he took away?" ”

Gonggong Cao shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Xu Rui smiled: "Doesn't my father-in-law think that these wrong and missing internal files are very similar to catalogs?" ”

"Catalog?"

Gonggong Cao seemed to have thought of something, and his face changed slightly: "You mean that as long as you find out all the wrong and missing times, you can find out what are the internal files that have been extracted?" ”

Xu Rui nodded: "The internal file that has been taken away will never be an isolated event, it is very likely to be a certain event, or a continuous record of several things, and the time of error and omission is the time node of these events."

February of the 17th year of Hongwei, June of the 18th year of Hongwei, and April of the 19th year of Hongwei, these times are likely to be the time when an unknown inside story appears! ”

"I see!"

Gonggong Cao suddenly arrived.

Xu Rui shook his head and sighed: "It's just a pity, I still can't see from the internal file in front of me what the content Hu Miao wants to convey to the outside world, and who is the person who receives the content." ”

Gonggong Cao was stunned when he heard this, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to Xu Rui: "You wait first, I'll show you something." ”

As he spoke, Gonggong Cao opened the drawer behind the table, took out a brocade box from it, and then opened the brocade box and took out a scroll of calligraphy and paintings.

Gonggong Cao opened the calligraphy and painting, and it turned out to be an ordinary landscape painting, but he pointed to the small characters of the inscription in the lower right corner of the painting and said, "You come to see these things, it seems a little strange." ”

Xu Rui looked at those small words according to his words, a look of doubt first appeared on his face, and then, as if he suddenly thought of something, his face changed instantly.

"Where did this painting come from?"

Xu Rui grabbed Gonggong Cao's wrist and asked eagerly.