Qin Tai figured out what was on his mind, and his whole person was much more relaxed. He continued to think about the problem, but he was no longer thinking about the small thing, but about the problem in front of him. Even if Xiao Lingzi could get in smoothly and find evidence, how could they get in? These old eunuchs who have been beautiful in the past will not look down on themselves as a six-grade petty official at all. I guess if I go like this, I won't even be able to get through the gate. Not only will he not be able to enter, but he and his subordinates will be scolded by the eunuchs and suffer a lot of anger.

Qin Tai tried to recall all the books he had read, hoping to find some way to cope.

"That's right." Qin Tai thought of an excellent plan, and with this clever plan, he would definitely be able to enter the Qianqiu Pavilion.

Qin Tai, who thought of a way, hurriedly called Li Li. He whispered a few words to Li Li, and Li Li looked at Qin Tai with wide eyes. Qin Tai nodded calmly, and Li Li also nodded solemnly and left.

Soon Li Li came back, holding a roll of things in his hand, clutching it in his hand like a treasure.

When the day was about to dawn, a sharp sound sounded in the Senaki Pavilion, and at the same time, a red star appeared in the sky. You may not know what it is, but as a soldier, you know that it is not a star, but a signal from a red flare. Xiao Lingzi really found something in the Qianqiu Pavilion, this is the time for Qin Tai and them to act.

Qin Tai put on his official uniform and ordered all the soldiers to put on their own equipment. Everyone is open and honest to enter the Qianqiu Pavilion.

When the group came to the Qianqiu Pavilion, the guards at the gate had already come out to guard the gate.

One of the captains of the guard said, "Daring, this is the forbidden place. Who dares to trespass? ”

Qin Tai said loudly: "This official is Qin Tai of the Criminal Department of the Criminal Department. Come here to handle the case. Get out of the way. ”

The captain smiled and said sarcastically, "Criminal Department? Referral Division? Qin Tai? What a big official. I'm going to be scared to death by you. But fortunately, Lao Tzu is bold enough. You little official, it's okay to scare some officials in the DPRK and China, but you can't scare us. Get out of the acquaintance point, otherwise Lao Tzu will tell you to have no return. ”

The captain was arrogant, and his guards began to laugh.

Qin Tai said solemnly: "It seems that you are not a rabble. Are you a forbidden army? ”

The captain said arrogantly: "Knowing that Lao Tzu is a forbidden army, you still dare to come to die?" Get out of here, you don't know if you're alive or dead. ”

The forbidden army was a royal guard, and although it was nominally under the command of the military department, in reality it only obeyed the orders of the emperor and the eunuchs who held the seal of the celebrant beside the emperor. Even if it's the secretary of the military department, or the head of the cabinet, they can not listen to it.

Qin Tai said to the captain with a righteous face: "The forbidden army is also the army of the Ming Dynasty and the army of the imperial court. You must also obey the laws of the Ming Dynasty and obey the orders of the emperor. This official is ordered by the emperor to go south to handle the case, and all the officials must cooperate with each other, and must not be lazy. Do you dare to disobey the emperor's orders? ”

It's a big hat, and the captain doesn't dare to take it down like this. Disobeying the edict is of course a capital crime, and Qin Tai can immediately kill the captain. If it were a human being, who would dare to disobey the edict openly.

Just when the captain didn't dare to stop Qin Tai, an old eunuch wearing a three-grade eunuch official uniform came out.

The grade of the eunuch in the Ming Dynasty is the same as the grade of the officials in the court. Whether it is an official in the court or a eunuch in the **, the difference between the third and fourth grades is quite large. All officials of the third rank are the masters who can enter and exit the prime minister, the officials of the fourth rank are considered middle-level cadres, and only those who are in the third rank are considered high-level cadres. Therefore, only officials with more than three ranks, including those with three grades, can wear red official uniforms. Eunuchs are even more so, only eunuchs with three grades can guard the eunuchs in the local town and be the head of a yamen in the palace. In the future, it is possible to become a eunuch with a pen. The celebrant is like the cabinet of the court, only by becoming the eunuch of the celebrant can he become the eunuch of the palm seal and the ancestor of the entire palace in the future. Being able to become a palm seal eunuch is the ultimate goal of all eunuchs.

This old eunuch looks to be in his sixties, and he should be a eunuch who has already died of old age. He said in the voice of a male duck peculiar to eunuchs: "Oh, it's so powerful, it's so majestic." Take the emperor's old man's edict to press us? Do you know how many emperor's edicts and verbal edicts I have handled? Dare to scare me? Besides, this edict was not given to us, so why should we listen to you? Go out, dare the little six-rank official order me? Looking for death? ”

If the captain just now had an arrogant attitude, this old eunuch was lawless.

Qin Tai glanced at the old eunuch coldly, and said slowly, "May I ask what is the name of this father-in-law?" ”

The old eunuch's face became more and more ugly, and he said almost frantically: "How did you become an official?" Don't you know that you can't call us father-in-law? Call us Mr. or Adult. ”

It turns out that the people who are eunuchs are the most taboo for everyone to be afraid of their identities in person. Even the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were reluctant to mention this unpleasant incident. So almost all the officials follow this rule.

Qin Tai did this on purpose, and he just used this reason to attack. He said with a cold face: "This official is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and the teacher of this official is the current emperor." The official only calls the emperor the gentleman of the official. Who are you to call you that? As for adults, where are you a eunuch? Where is a normal person? ”

His words not only made the old eunuch unable to get off the stage, but even the soldiers who came with him were dumbfounded. Is Qin Tai crazy? His words simply offended all the eunuchs. How will you gain a foothold in Daming in the future? How to be an official in the court?

The old eunuch was directly speechless by Qin Tai's words. Of course, he didn't dare to put himself on the same level as the emperor, and he didn't dare to force Qin Tai to call him sir. And Qin Tai didn't call him "adult", which is also well-founded. Eunuchs have always been just servants of the emperor, no matter how much face they have, they can't force outsiders, especially officials who call them "adults". This is the "great etiquette" of all dynasties and dynasties, and it falls within the scope of the three outlines and five constants. But the current officials have long forgotten this rule, and everyone is scrambling to call them eunuch godfathers, even if they can't climb relatives, they will take the initiative to call them Mr. or adult. It's been a long time. Even their eunuchs themselves forgot about this "great etiquette".

Qin Tai said: "This official is here on the order of the emperor. It is to ask the emperor on behalf of him. Say, your name. ”

The old eunuch swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and said to the majestic Qin Tai, "Slave Cao Da." ”

Qin Taiyi frowned, this Cao Da was one of the eunuchs he knew. Cao Da is an old man in the palace, and according to him, he is the descendant of Cao Jixiang, the biggest eunuch beside Emperor Yingzong. Of course, it's just a godson collected by a godfather, passed down from generation to generation. Cao Da was a godson of Lü Fang, the palm seal eunuch beside Emperor Jiajing, and one of the several godsons that Lü Fang received in his early years. Now the famous celebrant and eunuch Bingbi, Chen Hong, Huang Jin, etc., are all Cao Da's little disciples. Because Cao Da did not go to study when he was a child, he could not become a eunuch of the celebrant eunuch. So when Cao Da was a little promising, Lu Fang arranged for him to enter the noodle vinegar bureau as the manager. Don't underestimate the noodle and vinegar bureau, a small yamen that manages noodles and vinegar for the emperor, the oil and water here are too big. Because the noodle and vinegar bureau is also in charge of the emperor's tribute wine, this is a particularly oily place. There are too many dusty good wines in it, and no one cares about it piled up there anyway, so it's better to spend some money instead. Although Lu Fang's ******** is majestic, there are many places to spend money. When he needed some cash, he ordered Cao Da to secretly buy some tribute wine for the big restaurants in the capital. After coming and going, Cao Da also became bold and dared to sell wine privately. In this way, there are fewer and fewer tribute wines in the noodle cluster bureau, and it just so happens that Emperor Jiajing wants to check the inventory of the big inner on a whim. Lu Fang hurriedly informed Cao Da, Cao Da was dumbfounded, less than one-tenth of the tribute wine in the treasury was left, and many of them were inferior wines mixed with water. If he really checks like this, he, the head of the Noodles and Vinegar Bureau, will definitely be finished. He told the truth to his godfather Lu Fang, because it involved Lu Fang, and Lu Fang had to agree to excuse him. Cao Da and Lu Fang devised a plan, and Cao Da pretended to be jealous of a eunuch for a "match". "Counter-eating" is unique to the imperial palace, which means that a palace maid can be a fake husband and wife with a eunuch, and call each other "counterpart food". It is a big sin to be jealous in the palace, and it is an unforgivable crime to do things in the palace. Therefore, Cao Da was dismissed as the head of the Noodle and Vinegar Bureau, and retained his grade to go to Yuxi Palace on an errand. escaped the investigation, and Cao Da also worked as an errand runner outside Yuxi Palace for more than a year. Just when Cao Da wanted to return to the Noodle Vinegar Bureau, the current head of the Noodle Vinegar Bureau committed suicide. Because the head of the Flour and Vinegar Bureau is dead, it is necessary to check the accounts of the Flour and Vinegar Bureau. Cao Da's matter was also revealed, and in order to protect Cao Da, Lu Fang asked Cao Da to bear all the charges alone. Lu Fang protected Cao Da's life and let him leave the capital to retire. In the end, Cao Da was beaten with a stick for fifty years and kicked out of the palace. Lu Fang pretended to pass on the holy decree and retained Cao Da's position as a three-grade eunuch to retire, and Cao Da came to this Qianqiu Pavilion to retire.

Qin Tai happened to be looking through the old files in the Criminal Department when he saw a case. A prisoner who resold fake wine confessed that a eunuch had sold him some tribute wine, and he used it to exchange it for water and sell it to the restaurant as tribute wine. Because he was afraid that the people in the restaurant would smell the wrong wine, he added a drug to it, causing the people who came to the restaurant to die after drinking this kind of wine. Later, it was found out that the eunuch who sold tribute wine was Cao Da, and when he was about to arrest him for interrogation, Lu Fang, the head of the inner court, said that Cao Da had received a punishment, and the case was closed.