My grandfather told me: In the 13th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court built a large-scale construction of the Royal Archives "Imperial History" to collect archives. The Royal History was directly under the jurisdiction of the Military Affairs Office in the Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, internal archives were handed over to the First Historical Archives of China for collection, and the Royal History was opened to the public.

In other words, although the words "Imperial History" sound mysterious, they are actually just archives established by the royal family.

Is there a warlock in the Emperor's Secretariat? Isn't that a bit bizarre?

Chen Sanmu nodded and said, "At the beginning, I was overjoyed to ask the emperor to be an official. Painters were not a decent profession in the Ming Dynasty. I dare not even think about being an official to glorify the ancestors! When I arrived at the emperor, I realized that there was a prison hidden in the emperor that I could not get out of the imperial court if I could enter!"

Chen Sanmu continued: "The Emperor Shizu is known as the 'Stone House and Golden Chamber', right?"

"I know!" My grandfather told me that when the Ming Dynasty built the Emperor Shin-Chief, in order to prevent fire and moisture, there was no wood in the Emperor Shin-Chief. The entire building was made of stones, and there were no beams installed in the interior. All files were stored in copper cabinets. The name of "Stone House and Golden Chamber" came from this.

Chen Sanmu asked back: "Then do you know that there is a secret pavilion made of wood in the Emperor Shijiao?"

When Chen Sanmu saw me, he shook his head and continued, "The place where I served was the Secret Pavilion of the Emperor Shin-seok. There was a large amount of fire-medicine and tung oil buried underground. There was a special person to guard the leads. The craftsmen responsible for building the Secret Room on the day of the completion of the Emperor Shin-seok were sentenced to death, and the bones were stored in the Secret Room. When you go deep into the four underground secret rooms, no one is allowed to enter without authorization except the Jinyiwei. Once you enter the Secret Pavilion, you will never leave for life!"

"After I was taken into the Secret Pavilion, I was responsible for guarding the first floor of the Secret Pavilion. At that time, although I could not leave the Secret Pavilion, I could still see the sunshine and talk to people. Until one day, someone took me away from the Emperor Shizu, I was brought here."

"The person who took me out of the Secret Pavilion took me some medicine in advance, which made me fall into a coma. When I woke up, he told me that I was still in the Secret Pavilion. However, because I performed well, the above decided to let me go up to the Secret Pavilion, that is, from the first floor of the Secret Pavilion to the second floor."

"But I know that I am no longer in the Secret Pavilion. As a painter, I am extremely sensitive to the surrounding environment. Most painters are not painting on paper, painting on walls or coffins, and they have to consider the influence of the climate. I once went to the second floor of the Secret Pavilion and had a certain understanding of the humidity and temperature there."

"Everything here is exactly the same as the second floor of the Secret Pavilion. Even the entrance is equipped with a gate leading to the first floor of the Pavilion. However, the temperature and humidity are completely different."

"When that person told me that when I was sent to the second floor pavilion, I knew that I could never go out again. They would not allow anyone to reveal the secrets of Emperor Shizu."

I said in a deep voice: "How many floors of pavilions are there in the Emperor Shizu?"

"Fourth floor!" Chen Sanmu said: "As far as I know, it is a four-story pavilion. One pavilion is divided into three layers. Therefore, the real secret pavilion should have already penetrated into the twelve underground floors."

It turns out that the so-called first-story pavilion does not mean the first floor, but the real attic. Four three-story lofts are added together and penetrate deep into the twelve floors underground.

What did the Emperor Shizi store here?

Chen Sanmu seemed unwilling to talk about Emperor Shizu more. If I didn't ask, he wouldn't go on.

I had no choice but to speak, "Is the legend of Thousand Fox Tomb true?"

The Emperor's History began during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and was later taken over by the Qing Military Affairs Office. I want to know whether the Qing Military Affairs Office took over the Emperor's History Secret Pavilion?

Chen Sanmu said: "The massacre of Qianhu is true, but I don't know who is the one who attacked Qianhu?"

"After I was sent here, I was idle for a long time, except eating or sleeping. It was not until one day when those people brought me thousands of fox blood that I was re-activated. A funeral map was drawn on the wall."

Chen Sanmu said this and added: "Huang Shizi, in order to prevent the internal warlocks from going crazy, we will add a special medicine to our food, and we will fall asleep after taking it. We don't know how long we will sleep. Without that medicine, I'm afraid I can't hold on any longer."

I turned to look at Hongxuan: "You don't know, who slaughtered Qianhu at the beginning?"

"I don't know!" Hongxuan shook her head and said, "We are not filmmakers in a sense. At least the five of us are not."

I understand what Hongxuan said.

She said that most of the women in red here are painters drawn by Chen Sanmu using secret techniques, and only five of them do not belong to the ranks of the majority.

Chen Sanmu explained: "They don't know either. The secret technique of painting shadows actually uses special dyes to shape ghosts with a body that is neither virtual nor real, so that they can have the strength to be close to low-level ghosts and gods. It's like a painting wall in a movie."

"In order to keep the secret, those people brought me a group of ghosts to me. The ghosts of these girls came from different periods and had different identities. The last time they were arrested by the warlock was in the thirteenth year of Jiajing. That is, the year when the Emperor Shizu had just started to build it. Those people banned them for a few years before they re-activated them. They knew not as much as I did."

I couldn't help but say to myself, "I'm so cautious!"

The more cautious an organization is, the more mysterious what they know, and the other party does not leave even a trace.

Chen Sanmu continued: "When they handed over Thousand Fox Blood to me, their original intention was to erase everyone's consciousness and turn them into red maids who only obeyed orders."

"But we have selfish thoughts. This place is too difficult. Even if we have secret medicines that can make people sleep, we can't face the years that we have to last. So, we did not erase the memories of those girls. Instead, we kept them. Hope they can give us some reasons to live."

"You?" I narrowed my eyes and said, "In addition to you, there is an umbrella maker in the Secret Pavilion? Are there anyone else?"

Chen Sanmu said: "We have three people, one painter, one umbrella maker, and one coffin maker. We don't know each other's names, so we can only call each other by their professions. This is also the iron rule of the Imperial History Secret Pavilion. We don't even have names!"

I stared at Chen Sanmu and said, "Chen Sanmu is not your real name either?"

"Of course not. Who would have given such an unlucky name as Sanmu?" Chen Sanmu raised his hands with shackles and said, "After I was brought with me, I became Chen Sanmu."
Chapter completed!