C3571 Further south of Caishikou (2/2)
After exiting the Inner Right Gate, in a short span of thirty minutes, the Yangxin Palace's meeting with Li Tuo was drenched in sweat. Guard Isha had been waiting here the entire time, listening to the mockery and ridicule from her colleagues in the day class.
Isha was extremely embarrassed. Although he was a direct descendant of the Eight Banners, but she had never learned the kind of shamelessness that a silkpants should have when she was young in Chengde.
They could only allow these people to gossip and gossip. These people were just laughing at Isha, a dignified Manchu, for getting rid of a sin using the protection of a Chinese person, it was truly embarrassing for their ancestors!
Isha's face was flushed red, but she did not know what to say in rebuttal. Just at this time, Li Tuo hurriedly walked out from inside, and those few chattering guards immediately stood up and did not say a word, and remained silent.
These people were all useless people. They knew that Zhang Jing could take care of the family, and when the time came, the empress dowager could meet them alone for half an hour. What did this mean?
He dared to challenge the powerless Isha, but no one dared to challenge the popular Chinese Officer even half a fart!
”Gone!” Isha... What's with the blush... Stop bullshitting and hurry up, we still have things to do! ”
How could Li Tuo care about the buzzing of a bunch of flies? There were countless of these things in the government to deal with these people, the only way to deal with these people was to do better than them, and to live on forever!
As they walked, Li Tuo lectured Isha, ”If you want to survive in the imperial court, you have to turn your heart into steel! What if the dog calls you? Call him back? ”
”In the face of a barking dog, all you have to do is do nothing and live a good life as an official... ”In the future, you will always be a meat eater and they will always be dog eaters …”
”Better than the enemy, the only way to defeat the enemy … Rather than risking your life to perish together with me! ”
The group of people turned onto West Chang An Street after lunch and galloped south from the Xidan Tavern straight towards Xuanwu Gate. They left Xuanwu Gate and entered South City straight towards Caishikou.
When they reached Caishikou, they did not stop and continued to head south straight towards Nanheng Street. Ceng Guofan's house in the capital city was right here, a total of sixty houses on Nanheng Street were all rented out by Great Marshal Zeng.
Ceng Guofan had never bought a mansion in the capital before, and he did not want to rent a mansion bestowed by the imperial government.
And all of them were rented in the Caishikou!
The further they went towards the south of Caishikou, the more depressed they felt. This place was one that even Isha did not want to live in, because if they continued south of South Horizon Street, it would only be farmland.
”Why does the marshal live in such a crappy place? That shouldn't be the case …” Isha nagged on the way.
The Beijing back then was completely different from the world city in the twenty-first century. In fact, forget about Tongzhi, even if you look up a map of the initial years of the Republic of China, a large part of the southern part of the Caishikou was covered with fields.
At that time, Taoran Pavilion Park was just like two big puddles. One was called Taoran Pavilion, while the other was called Black Dragon Pond, which was used to irrigate the surrounding vegetable plots.
The dignified founder of the million Xiang Army, Ceng Guofan, was stationed at a place like Nanheng Street, which was surrounded by vegetables. The houses there were all four-sided courtyard houses with a distinctive grade style, all of which were slightly decorated by ordinary houses.
Upon reaching the main entrance, the gatekeeper senile stroke heard that it was an official sent by the palace, it was something bestowed by the Empress Dowager Xi, he did not dare delay and hurried into the hall to receive him, just as he sat down for a while, he heard Ceng Guofan's voice.
”What will the empress dowager do? ”Give me the incense stick and receive the edict …”
”No need, no need …” Li Tuo hurriedly stood up and said to the marshal, ”Marshal, you don't need to receive the orders. The empress dowager just sent something to the marshal …” ”It's not a decree, there's no need to go through so much trouble …”
After saying that, Li Tuo took out the fan set from his bosom and handed it over.