Qin Tai was thinking about the problem while waiting for the old eunuch. The old eunuchs were really able to bear it, and they were actually waiting for Qin Tai to take the initiative to find them. But they couldn't wait for Qin Tai's invitation to them, and they each had their own worries and concerns in their hearts, and finally an old eunuch couldn't help it, and he came to Qin Tai secretly.

Qin Tai ordered Xiao Lingzi to guard outside, and there were only two people in the room, the old eunuch and Qin Tai.

But that's it, the old eunuch still didn't tell the truth right away. This made Qin Tai a little incomprehensible.

The old eunuch deliberately said some polite words, and he looked around as he spoke.

Qin Tai's eyes shrank suddenly, and he also saw some clues. There are mechanisms in this room, and someone is watching them.

Fortunately, Xiao Lingzi talked to himself for a short time just now, and he used the local dialect of his hometown mixed with some code words, and ordinary outsiders could hardly hear any flaws. Unexpectedly, they deliberately brought themselves to this room with surveillance.

The old eunuch is a human spirit, and he has his way. He deliberately walked to the desk to the side, and said polite words while rubbing ink with water. Qin Tai understood what he meant, and they communicated in writing. Although it is a bit troublesome, the people who will never be watched know what they are talking about.

The old eunuch and Qin Tai sat down facing each other, although they chatted about some irrelevant customs and some anecdotes, in fact, they chatted more lively.

The old eunuch's surname is Yue, and his name is Yue Tianyang. Fifty-seven years old this year, he has been in Qianqiu Pavilion for nearly 30 years, and he is an old resident here. Yue Tianyang's level is not high, but he knows a lot of things. It turned out that Yue Tianyang was an orphan, and his adoptive father saw the child outside his family's iron shop, so he named him Tianyang according to his surname. This Yue Tianyang may be the only eunuch who has not entered the imperial palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Yue Tianyang was not castrated, he was a heavenly eunuch, that is, a born yin and yang person. When he was fourteen years old, his adoptive father, the blacksmith, died, and Yue Tianyang, who didn't know that he was a heavenly eunuch, was recruited as a son-in-law. When the family knew that Yue Tianyang was a heavenly eunuch who could not give birth, they took off him and hung him on the city gate. Yue Tianyang endured everyone's torture and teasing, he endured the double pain of mind and body, and insisted on leaving this hometown that had brought him warmth and humiliation.

Yue Tianyang came to Nanjing and worked as a blacksmith in a weapons making bureau in Nanjing. Unexpectedly, his identity was discovered by other colleagues, and he was not humiliated by them, but was taken away by a person who was neither male nor female. Later, he learned that in the imperial palace in Nanjing, there were many people like him, and everyone called them eunuchs.

Yue Tianyang lived in the old palace in Nanjing for three years, and learned a lot of etiquette in it. But because he was not a normally recruited eunuch, not only could he not go to the Forbidden City Palace in Beijing, but he could not be sent out to work as a eunuch. Originally, Yue Tianyang was supposed to leave the old palace and find a way to survive by himself, but an opportunity fell from the sky. The old palace received an order that the imperial palace in the Forbidden City should build a batch of Dan furnaces for the use of Emperor Jiajing and the imperial Taoist priests. Yue Tianyang was a blacksmith and a eunuch blacksmith, so he was retained.

When casting the alchemy furnace, Yue Tianyang met an old eunuch, and the old eunuch saw that Yue Tianyang was pitiful, so he tried to help Yue Tianyang. At that time, there were always some eunuchs who disappeared inexplicably, some escaped by themselves, some were robbed and killed, and some were killed because they knew too much. These people are dead, but the positions and places are still empty. Through his relationship, the old eunuch bought a vacancy for Yue Tianyang that was about the same age as him. Yue Tianyang became a real eunuch, an upright eunuch who could take a fortune.

The old eunuch died without waiting for the success of the Dan furnace refining, and when he was dying, he asked Yue Tianyang to carefully remember the information of the fake identity. It's best to find an opportunity to switch the name and avoid the aftermath forever. After Yue Tianyang sent the old eunuch to the end as his son, he memorized the eunuch information he bought. It turned out that this eunuch was a lover, because his beloved woman was recruited as a show girl in the palace, and in order to see the lover of his dreams, he did not hesitate to enter the palace from the palace. His lover didn't know that there was such a man in the world who was infatuated with him, and he didn't know that the eunuch who had been by his side for a long time and tried his best to protect and take care of himself was a man she had seen in a hurry in her hometown. This man who is infatuated with himself, in order to protect himself, not only entered the palace, but also did things that no one else was willing to do, the purpose was to please the big eunuchs who had the power in their hands. Finally, the girl knows about this infatuated lover and decides to repay this infatuated lover. This eunuch found an opportunity to leave the palace, and the emperor had a holy decree to go down to Nanjing, and no one wanted to take this errand without oil and water, so the eunuch asked the eunuchs for this job. The infatuated eunuch first secretly hid the girl in a bucket of swill and took her out of the palace. Then he left the palace in the open. They did not go to Nanjing, threw away the holy decree in their hands, and the two of them hid in the unknown deep mountains and old forests, forever and forever separated from the outside world.

Yue Tianyang used this identity to spend another three years in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and by chance, he re-registered. Yue Tianyang can finally use his own name to receive the money in a dignified manner. Yue Tianyang's years in the old palace of Nanjing were his happiest years, wandering around the city of Nanjing during the day and drinking and chatting with some like-minded eunuchs at night. Time really flies, until an order is given. Yue Tianyang was promoted to a town guard eunuch for no reason, and served as the town guard envoy of the port in Quanzhou, Fujian. This position with a lot of oil and water is a position that many people dream of, but Yue Tianyang really doesn't want to go. First, he is not a eunuch who can operate, and second, he knows only a dozen words in total, but the real eunuch knows a lot of words, so isn't this exposing himself? Third, to be this kind of eunuch, not only must you be corrupt, but you must also be filial to your superiors. Yue Tianyang has never been corrupt, and he will not gain power, how can he have a way to make money and honor his superiors.

Yue Tianyang, who had no way out, rolled his eyes and came up with a way that was not a solution, he pretended to be drunk and injured a eunuch who had a backstage and usually did not dare to offend. After such a fight, Yue Tianyang didn't have to be a town guard eunuch, and he couldn't stay in the old palace, so he was sent here to Qianqiu Pavilion to retire and wait for death.

Yue Tianyang has been here for so many years, and he knows a lot of unknown things. Not only is his qualifications getting older and older here, but he is also secretly practicing his literacy, hoping to make up for this defect, at least not so that people can see his flaws.

Yue Tianyang told Qin Tai that in fact, most of the eunuchs here, except for some eunuchs who really came to support the elderly, had tasks. Just like him, the year after he came here, an inconspicuous old eunuch gave him a task. It turns out that this Qianqiu Pavilion is not only a eunuch's nest for the elderly, but also a secret office. Not only are there some felons imprisoned here, but there are also many secrets that outsiders can't know.

First of all, there is a mineral deposit not far from here, and why Tang He bought this land in the first place was for this mineral deposit. For the sake of a mineral deposit, being able to turn his face with the emperor's eldest brother shows that this mineral deposit is very attractive. That's right, it's a rare gold deposit, which means that it can dig up minerals that contain gold.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang confiscated Tang He's family property, and did not know that this was a gold deposit, and it was not until the time of Emperor Yingzong that the matter here was reported to the imperial court. It just so happened that not many people knew about this clue, and Emperor Yingzong ordered all those who knew about it to be killed, and this mineral deposit became his personal property. He ordered the eunuchs to set up a retirement home here, but in fact, some useless eunuchs came here to dig for gold. Because there are not many people and there are no advanced mining tools, there are not many mineral deposits here that have been excavated. This became part of the ** wealth, and also became the source of private transactions of some eunuchs.

According to Yue Tianyang, this is not only a secret prison and a mining site, but also the largest contact point of the inner factory in Jiangnan. The inner factory is a relatively secret organization, and it is not as blatant as Jinyiwei and does whatever it wants. It is not as notorious as Dongchang, which is hated by the people. But their people absolutely frightened all the eunuchs. The inner factory does not have its own formal member establishment, and they are all hidden among some ordinary eunuchs, and they are usually inconspicuous eunuchs. But they were responsible for supervising and guarding the eunuchs, and they were directly under the control of each of the eunuchs. All eunuchs who were corrupt and perverted the law, deceived the emperor, betrayed the eunuchs with palm seals, colluded with the vassal kings of various places, and privately contacted officials, were arrested and dealt with by them. If Jinyiwei and Dongchang are spies, the people in the inner factory are spies among spies.

Yue Tianyang didn't know that he was also the eunuch who had escaped, and he was also a person from the inner factory. After he did not successfully serve as the eunuch of Quanzhou Town, he came here to Qianqiu Pavilion because of the idea of the eunuch of the palm seal at that time. This palm seal eunuch was not relied on by Emperor Jiajing, so he arranged for a few of his own people who were not usually used to go to a few key places. I hope they can find some evidence of the illegal acts of the Dongchang and local town guards and eunuchs, and pull Lu Fang, the governor of the Dongchang who was about to force him down, into the water. Unexpectedly, this palm print eunuch underestimated Lu Fang's ability, and also underestimated Emperor Jiajing's vigilance against himself. The palm seal eunuch didn't wait for Lu Fang's criminal evidence, and was ousted from the throne of the palm seal eunuch by Lu Fang and Emperor Jiajing. Yue Tianyang's identity was not even known, he became an ordinary old eunuch in Qianqiu Pavilion who was waiting for death.