In recent years, Yang Zhi has studied the art of escape in order to prevent the CIA's assassination. All his houses have authentic tunnels, secret doors, walls... They tame pigeons, hunting dogs and countless guards.

These means of escaping can sometimes cover him up for some secret talks, such as his close comrade-in-arms, Zhang Jing, Li Tuo, the Military Affairs Office, and the fellow countryman recommended by Li Hongzao, the Grand Secretary.

Zhang Jing was an insignificant minor official in the Qing Dynasty. He was nominally from the fifth rank, not the end of the official rank. However, in the capital where there are many high-ranking officials, he has never been an official from the fifth rank. In the eyes of the court and the people, these people are actually just minor officials.

They sit in offices in various departments every day, copying and writing registration files, and can order them as long as they are officials.

Even in the yamen, they received some coal, pens, ink and paper, ran errands, and received money from the Ministry of Revenue, and sent letters from each department... they had to do these miscellaneous tasks!

The official is very young and he works as a helping person, but he is still hiding in this class!

Li Tuo showed his tricks in front of Yang Zhi, which made the precarious Yang Zhi break the mystery and enlighten him. He has been doing well in the Qing court over the years, thanks to Li Tuo, the think tank.

Entering the wall from the secret door of the back garden, Yang Zhi came to the "neighbor's" house. The so-called neighbor was actually the house he bought and rented it out.

This so-called neighbor's home is where Yang Zhi and Li Tuo often meet secretly.

There is a unique cave in the wing room. There are takeaway orders from Hongxing Building on the Eight Immortals table, all of which are specialties for chefs.

Chicken shark fin, abalone with a pot, sea cucumber with scallions, steamed duck with wine, vinegar and pepper fish... and two specialty dumplings, the dumplings in Hongxinglou, the late Qing Dynasty are unique!

When Yang Zhi pushed the door open, Li Tuo had already started eating. The more you ate the dumpling wine, the more beautiful it became, which made Yang Zhi's appetite grow!

"Brother, you don't wait for me, you're starting to eat now?"

"Nonsense, you don't know the food in the Military Affairs Office. The big cakes and fried dough sticks are warm and can't be pulled even if you take a bite. The pickles mixed with can't even be left with sesame oil... I'll think about hitting your autumn wind at noon!"

Yang Zhi didn't swallow the sea cucumber with chopsticks and put a sip of strong wine. "Ah! The serious Xifeng old wine... In the first few years of war in Ganzhou, this wine became less and less, and the aged ten years are even more rare!"

"I said, are you as for crying poor? Every year, I will give you a bonus of at least 400,000 or 500,000 yuan. Your family has its own business... Can you eat something good?"

Li Tuo put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth, "You don't understand this. Now the court is better off showing off less! I am a Zhangjing poster, and order takeout in restaurants every day? Is this unintentional and suspicious?"

"How is it, I guess right what I said before!"

Yang Zhi nodded, "Brother, you are simply a god. How did you know that the Queen Mother of Cialis will swallow the silver of Master Long live?"

It turned out that Yang Zhi had already rescued and got news from Li Tuo that before the Emperor of Long Live came to Beijing, Cixi would definitely extort a sum of money from him and let him prepare early.

"Actually, I prepared nine million for Master Wansui to take charge of the ruling power. I only reported seven million for you. I didn't expect that I really passed..."

"My Lord Yang! Is it easy for you to be the Queen Mother of Cixi? She is so easy for her to admit defeat? Long live the rule. Will her mother let go of her rights?"

"You forgot what I said to you before... The five forces in the world are now strangled together, and she has to fight to survive!"

The five forces in the world were analyzed by Li Tuo to Yang Zhi back then.

The first stock is the Eight Banners system, including the royal family, the second stock is the Han Confucian scholars, that is, the Qingliu scholars and the huge landlord class they represent.

The third force is the businessman in the world, and the fourth force is the increasingly powerful foreign devils!

The fifth force is the emergence of Han warlords, including Xiao Letian, who is the most successful member of the Han warlords.

Yang Zhi turned his wine glass and said, "The balance has been broken long ago. The general trend of the world is about to be reshuffled... But no matter how much the cards are, we will not be missing a bowl of rice!"

"Haha...what are we? We are invisible, but there are omnipresent bureaucrats! The bureaucratic class...we exist among these five forces, and no one can leave us, and we cannot live without them!"

"No matter who comes to power, no matter how the game is washed... in the end, they have to rely on the help of thousands of minor officials in the world!"

"The country has been reshuffled, and the dynasty has changed... I have seen those who kill officials, but I have never seen those who kill officials!"

"Because we are the hands that truly implement policies. Without our court, how can we control all the people in the world? How can we get out of the Forbidden City?"

"Brother...you don't have to surrender to anyone, because no one can rely on it... Only when you integrate into us can our group be endless!"

Li Tuo represents the bureaucratic class in China for thousands of years, and what is more appropriate is the official among the officials!

These people are the right and right hands of officials, the executors of all policies, and the group of people who have come into contact with the people of the country. Any official needs officials to assist in the work.

This has resulted in the number of officials far exceeding that of officials. This huge group has accumulated a lot of experience in survival in the long history!

They are proficient in black or gray methods such as making fake accounts, accepting bribes, slapping lawsuits, eating black money, etc.

They can connect and weave an invisible large network to help each other and convey messages to each other.

Yang Zhi, a traitor of the Chinese race, was able to establish a network of personal connections in Jiangnan, thanks to the matchmaking of this huge number of bureaucrats.

These officials wandering in the gray area are forces that no force can ignore.

Even if the eunuch in the palace wants to bring the money back to his hometown to buy houses and fields and help the family with peace of mind, he cannot leave the palace and do it himself!

In the final analysis, we still have to find the officials outside, and the officials outside still have to find these officials to do it themselves!

The manager of the prince's family is in a lawsuit with others. How do you want to cheat your opponent? You have to secretly find the masters and constables in the yamen.

The officials from the border returned to Beijing to report their duties, and sent all kinds of ice, charcoal and bribes, and they were not allowed to share the benefits layer by layer through these people's hands!

These are countless pairs of eyes, ears, and mouths! There is nothing they don’t know about big and small things in the court and the country. Today, Li Tuo came to see Yang Zhi and brought him some very important pieces of information.

"Brother, from now on, don't live in Xishan. It's too close to Yi's nest and too sensitive..."

"The day before yesterday...Master Zeng had a complete quarrel with the Empress Dowager in Yangxin Palace. The Hunan cavalry went north... This is to beat the Japanese Six!"

"The news came from Fujian that Long Sui Ye made a shameless person because of more than one million taels of silver. The Japanese took six jobs in the Ministry of Revenue, and all the money on the surface was taken away..."

"Long live the army back, will you settle the score? So, from now on, don't live in the West Mountain. If the emperor mistakenly thinks you are the Sixth Prince's faction, you can wait for the bad luck!"

"Just live in the capital honestly until the Lord Long Live comes back..."
Chapter completed!