C1163 Yang Zhis happy life (1/2)
On the western side of the capital, a pair of fast horses were galloping from west to east. There was a yellow patch of land with a thin layer of winter snow still left on it.
The two of them had serious expressions as they ran towards the direction of the capital. Just now, the Xishan Camp had received an urgent message from the imperial government requesting him to rush to the Forbidden City.
On both sides of the road were continuous fields and villages, behind a tiger-skin wall in the south, there was a pile of snow on the Ten Thousand Life Mountain. Back in the day, British and French combined forces had burned the Pure Holiness Garden down to its last generation, but it still looked like it was half in ruins. The older one's empire had been busy fighting all these years, so not to mention there being no money to rebuild it, even the Yuan Ming Yuan of the Garden of Ten Thousand Flowers was in ruins.
Yang Zhi had previously turned the ruins of Yuan Ming Yuan and Qingyi Garden around, but now, this place was being guarded by Eight Flags Soldier Ding. A few years ago, the local citizens had destroyed quite a few of the buildings here.
If the first time that the British and French combined forces looted was to cut open a wound on his healthy skin, then afterwards, the long 'treasure hunt' period of the citizens of Qing Province was the further erosion of the wound by the bacterial virus. The damage they caused was not even inferior to the deadly slash of the allied army.
Yang Zhi tilted his head and looked at the endless ruins of the palace on the Ten Thousand Life Mountain as well as the hundred year old trees that had been planted here from all over the country. Thinking back to the beautiful scenery of the Kunming Lake, although it was dilapidated, it still could not hide the beauty of the past.
Let alone the Yuan Ming Yuan in the northeast, even the ruins alone were enough to shock Yang Zhi. He could not imagine what kind of paradise he would have in the mortal world when the Yuan Ming Yuan was still intact.
He thought about the spectacular view of the Imperial Palace, then turned his head to think about what had happened in the past few days. He could roughly guess what happened from the urgent message from the Forbidden City today, it should most likely be a letter from Hong Kong.
Yang Zhi's new life began from the moment he met Li Tuo. After receiving the praise of Ci Xi and the others when he was at Yangxin Palace, Yang Zhi's luck suddenly exploded.
Because Yang Zhi had exposed Xiao Letian's true identity, the imperial government's understanding of Xiao Letian had deepened. As a result, no one doubted Yang Zhi's loyalty anymore.
On the fourth day, Ci Xi had even bestowed two beautiful palace maids to him, causing Yang Zhi to be extremely beautiful. This brat had only had this taste for his entire life.
Not only did the royal family treasure Yang Zhi highly, even his new friend Li Tuo also brought him unexpected rewards.
When the grey official that represented Li Tuo officially merged with Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi suddenly felt that the world in front of him had become clear all of a sudden.
Before he even returned to the Xishan Camp to work, there were already some printing plant servants carrying gifts that he did not notice before coming to congratulate Yang Zhi on accepting two new little stars as his noble title.
Furthermore, the gift he gave was no less than forty-four taels of silver. Logically speaking, this number should not appear on the gift slip, but rather, it was an unlucky number.
However, Yang Zhi knew that this was an agreement between him and Li Tuo. As long as he found out the amount of the gift money that was forty-four liang, it would mean that the person was a subordinate that Yang Zhi could trust.
Under Li Tuo's guidance, Yang Zhi never would have thought that his own Xishan Camp and the internal money printing factory would actually have so many minor official s that were under his care.