Qin Tailai Dongchang is not here to be majestic, nor is he here to see the "kowtow worm". He wanted to know some secrets that outsiders didn't know, and wanted to look up the confidential files of the East Factory. Originally, the state has its own laws, and each department performs its own duties and has its own scope of functions. The Ministry of Officials manages the archives of officials throughout the country, the Ministry of Rites manages the files of the merits and fames of all scholars in the world, the Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of the household registration and real estate information of all people in the country, and the Ministry of War archives the information of previous officers and soldiers. If you want to look up the information, you have to go to these places to find it. But things are not so simple, as early as the early days of Qin Shi Huang's establishment of the feudal empire, the emperor personally backed up a document. The Qin palace kept a copy of the most complete information, which was only available for Qin Shi Huang to watch alone. Later, the continuous leakage of information from various dynasties has become a tool for mutual restraint and control.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang began to attach importance to secrecy. Although he has repeatedly stated that he does not personally have a private database, all information is only stored within his own department. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang had already left a back hand at the beginning. When building the database, Zhu Yuanzhang had already arranged for his cronies to enter. These people indicate that they are building a database of information, but in fact they are secretly making a copy. These people kept the copied materials in the secret database of Jinyiwei. At the same time, in each information database, cronies are placed, and every time the information is updated, the same information will be brought back to Jinyiwei. The secret repository of the Brocade Guards became the most intimate and complete archive of the royal family.

Later, after the establishment of the East Factory, the East Factory gradually took over some of the private tasks of Jinyiwei. After all, Jinyiwei was not formed by the emperor's closest people, and compared to Dongchang, the emperor trusted Dongchang, which was served as the governor by a trusted eunuch. To this end, the East Factory established its own information database, and copied the secret materials of Jinyiwei, which was called the "secret library" in the management data room of the East Factory, and the confidential files were called "secret files". Even if it is a person from the East Factory, you can't just look at the "secret file". Every time the people of Dongchang want to handle any case, they are qualified to check the relevant information, and after reading it, they must not only return it in its entirety but also not be allowed to leak it. There is a family rule in Dongchang, those who dare to tell secrets that should not be said must accept the punishment of "cutting out their tongues". The so-called "tongue cutting" is to hook the victim's tongue with a red-hot iron hook, and then quickly cut off the tongue and apply hemostatic medicine. Not only will the tortured person not die, but will lose the ability to speak forever. This is a rather cruel punishment, and the deterrent effect is also quite severe.

When Qin Tai said that he was going to the "secret vault", Fanzi hesitated for a while, but still brought Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao to the door of the "secret vault". As for whether Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao can go in, it is not up to this Dongchang fan to decide. Not only can't Fanzi enter the "secret vault" here, but even his boss's boss can't go in. The "secret vault" is equipped with organs and a team of iron-faced and selfless elite soldiers, which not only protect the security of the "secret files" in the "secret vault", but also prevent anyone from peeking at the materials. This group of people almost did not recognize their relatives and only obeyed the orders of the current top leader of Dongchang. Some people even suspect that even if the emperor wants to see these files, if he does not have the consent of the governor of Dongchang, he may not be able to see the "secret files" smoothly.

Qin Tai not only has a gold waist plate of Dongchang on behalf of Feng Bao, but also a personal seal of Feng Bao. This was handed over to Qin Tai by Feng Bao, saying that this engraved seal had a record, and if he entered some secret institutions, he could take it out to prove his identity. This is the best pass, and it can definitely pass through the territory controlled by Feng Bao unimpeded. Qin Tai handed over the waist card and seal to the officer guarding the "secret vault", and after the officer repeatedly approved it, he let Qin Tai in.

When Zhan Xiaoxiao was about to follow up, the officer stopped Zhan Xiaoxiao. The officer's meaning was that Qin Tai was only allowed to enter the "secret vault" alone, and he could not bring Zhan Xiaoxiao into it together. But Zhan Xiaoxiao was worried that it was not safe inside, so he had to follow Qin Tai in. The two of them almost got up in the doorway.

Qin Tai pretended to mysteriously pull the officer aside and said, "Don't be so impulsive. Do you know who this person is? He is a close associate of Feng Bao and Feng Gonggong. Not only to keep me safe, but also to monitor my every move. Otherwise, I won't be able to get these tokens, and Gonggong Feng won't be at ease to let me go in and check the information myself. We are all men, and there is no need to offend these people who are neither male nor female. Besides, these people are very stingy, if he makes a complaint to Gong Feng, your future will be even more difficult. You don't want to be sent to the border to eat sand, do you? Okay, let's be patient. If we can go in, the two of us will go in together. If it really doesn't work, you find an excuse to come out, and the two of us will go back together. I'm not going to embarrass you. ”

The officer hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement with difficulty. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao walked into the "secret vault" together, and the officer pulled around on some strange decorations before stopping for a long time. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao both knew that this was the officer reminding the people inside that someone was coming and was in the customs office. Only in this way will it be safe to enter, otherwise anyone who enters will be locked up in the organ, or even die inside. Soon after, a secret door came out, and a person came out of it, and he took Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao in. The officers continued to close the door, guarding the only entrance and exit to the "secret vault".

Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao entered the mysterious "secret vault" smoothly and found rows of wooden shelves, on which some wooden boxes were placed in different categories. It is believed that the materials are placed in wooden boxes, and someone regularly organizes and maintains them. There are some numbers engraved on the wooden box, although Qin Tai doesn't understand it, but Qin Tai knows that these numbers represent certain information and are used to distinguish categories of information.

Qin Taihe Zhan Xiaoxiao is the only group of people who do not belong to the East Factory, but can freely view the information. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao searched for information separately and gradually understood the characteristics of the layout here. The information here looks a bit messy, but it is actually distributed according to the thirteen provinces of "seven in the south and six in the north". The so-called "heavenly stems" refer to the information of officials and officers and soldiers, and the "earthly branches" refer to the information of the squires and meritorious people in various places, as well as the information of the common people. Each family is placed in the order of the "Hundred Family Names", which contains the year of birth and death of the family members and personal occupation information. On some of the official information, there are also some special annotations indicating which faction the official belongs to and which leader and minister he belongs to.

But what Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao are looking for today is not these, and they want to know about the royal family and some eunuchs. But this is the East Factory that monitors hundreds of officials and ordinary people, and there is not much information about meritorious deeds and relatives of the emperor. Even the information of the eunuchs and palace maids who entered the palace was deleted from the general files, and no relevant information could be found at all. Although Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao didn't say anything, they were a little disappointed in their hearts.

Because they didn't find the relevant information, Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao immediately left this "secret vault". Before leaving, it was customary to search the body to prevent outsiders like Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao from taking away important information. Qin Tai was very relieved to be examined, and the other party was just surprised that Qin Tai had so many waist cards on him. However, Zhan Xiaoxiao refused to search her body, and she would never allow other men other than Qin Tai to touch her body. Regarding her fierce reaction, everyone thought that Zhan Xiaoxiao felt inferior because of her physical defects, and they were even more afraid of Zhan Xiaoxiao, a fake eunuch. Ordinary eunuchs don't dare to let people know their identity, and they don't dare to openly prevent others from searching themselves, so they will only learn to endure it silently. Only eunuchs with status and status would dare to be so unscrupulous as to prevent others from touching their bodies. To a certain extent, eunuchs have more status than ordinary normal men, so everyone dare not go against the meaning of Zhanxiao. Pretend to take a few casual pats, and it will be regarded as a body search. This made Qin Tai regret it for a while, he had known that if he had such a word, he would not have to be touched by a group of men like this.

After leaving the East Factory, Qin Tai took Zhan Xiaoxiao and rushed directly to the palace. There is no royal information in Dongchang, and there will definitely be royal information in the palace that Qin Tai wants to know. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao don't have to worry about not being able to enter the palace, with Feng Bao's waist card, it is not difficult to enter and exit the palace gate. No wonder Meng Chong can unscrupulously bring women outside the palace into the palace, it seems that the guard of the palace gate has become an ornament and does not play any role.

After coming to the gate of the palace, Qin Tai asked Zhan Xiaoxiao to hold the eunuch waist card given by Feng Bao, and he held the bronze Dongchang waist card, and the two of them entered the so-called most heavily guarded palace one after the other. Not only did they not stop them, but they did not even have the most basic body searches. Zhan Xiaoxiao looked like a eunuch, and it was normal to be free from body searches and interrogation. But Qin Tai didn't look like a eunuch or a palace guard, wasn't he afraid of being an assassin? Aren't you afraid that Qin Tai is a man in the harem? Aren't you afraid that this man will make the belly of a big concubine or a palace maid? Aren't you afraid that someone will give Emperor Longqing a "green hat"? Aren't you afraid that someone will poison the concubine or the prince? Aren't you afraid that someone will poison the emperor's food?

Qin Tai couldn't help but worry about Emperor Longqing's family, and couldn't help but worry about the Ming Dynasty. What if someone infiltrates the palace, secretly kills a guard, infiltrates the ranks of the ministers, and murders a certain minister? In this case, even the minister has no guarantee, who dares to come to the court? Qin Tai secretly decided that he must tell everyone about this phenomenon afterwards, and asked everyone to strengthen the guards and strengthen the quality of the soldiers. If these soldiers go to guard the frontier like this, the Ming Dynasty will have nothing to defend and the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.