Li Tuo never expected that he came to Zheng Zheng's mansion on Nanheng Street to test the Zheng Zheng's background and help the court to maintain affairs, but unexpectedly heard about Zheng Zheng's struggle history.

This struggle history is not only thrilling, but also terrifying!

However, after Li Tuo came back to his senses from the ghost story, he gradually understood Zeng Guofan's subtext. Many words in the officialdom cannot be clearly stated that you have to carefully consider it.

Zeng Guofan said that the meaning is very simple, that is, the court should not use this fan to threaten me. Isn’t it just to charge me for corruption? I know that we literati love feathers, especially those of my age, cherish our reputation after death.

If I don’t bow my head today, you will have to pour sewage on me, right?

In order to suppress us, the Han officials with military power, Cixi is really doing everything she can! Didn’t she just want us not to make big fuss about the war?

But I, Zeng Guofan, told you today, don’t threaten me, I won’t take this trick!

Why do I give gifts to Mu Zhanga? I am not afraid of writing this principle in history books. I just want to be an official because I give gifts. Why do I want to be a high-ranking official?

It’s not that I, Zeng Guofan, is greedy for wealth, but that when I first entered the officialdom, I encountered a major change that had not been seen in China in three thousand years, that is, the Western barbarians invaded from the sea!

China was defeated in a mess and had no power to fight back. Hong Xiuquan even started to rebel with the help of a little Western religion!

These are all great disasters that collapse the sky. Who will make up for it? It turns out that Zeng Guofan and a group of Han officials have made up for it! Our purpose of being high officials is to make up for it!

Don’t forget that your country is protected by our Han officials and warlords. Without our efforts, even if you have not destroyed the country, you will have to rule it now!

Now I want to ask me to send gifts to the back door? Your grandma, go dream!

I threaten me with the lives of the Salona family of seventy? This is a moral kidnapping! I don’t eat this!

This is what Zeng Guofan said, but he didn't say it clearly. Isha was so stupid when he told the ghost story indirectly, and Li Tuo was a little confused.

Zeng Guofan pointed at the rented house, "Mr. Li, why do you think I still rent here? Why don't I buy a real estate in the capital? That's because I want to remind myself not to forget my roots!"

"I have been renting a house in Caishikou since Shujishi. I have been rising since the annual rent of 33 taels. The government is getting bigger and bigger, so the house will have to rise!"

"33 taels, 67 taels... Until the last second-grade top-up, the annual rent would cost 610 taels of silver. Now that the war has been fought, I have returned to Caishikou. I have rented all this house and will cost 1,060 taels of silver a year..."

"This land records my growth history and the beginning of my struggle... I can't live without it! You said the mansion rewarded by the court? Haha... Why do I want that thing? Do I still lack a house to live in?"

"Even if I, Zeng Guofan, traveled all over the world at this moment, wouldn't that country give me a place to sleep?"

Speaking of this, Zeng Guofan smiled, "Mr. Li... I don't know how the Empress Dowager of Salon's house was dealt with?"

Li Tuo blushed, "Ah...this..."

Isha was watching anxiously and said to him, "The Empress Dowager has already given the house with the elephant nose pit to Lord Li..."

"It's not a reward... Oh, don't talk nonsense... It's a rental... The Office of the Internal Affairs rented it to me..." Li Tuo quickly robbed the white man and explained.

Zeng Guofan nodded, "You are still a smart person! But it's a pity... No matter how smart you are, you are just Zhang Jing. If you are too young, you will show your intelligence. It's not a good thing!"

"For example, this house... I dare to refuse the reward from the court, but you, Li Tuo, dare not!"

"Okay, I'm tired... The old farmer will give me a gift!" At this point, Zeng Guofan was ready to go back to rest.

Li Tuo stood up and smiled awkwardly, "Thank you for your teachings... But this matter of the Salon's family... Do you really have nothing else to say?"

Zeng Guofan stopped and turned his head to look at Li Tuo, "Tell the Empress Dowager... I'll say thank you for the Empress Dowager's fan!" After that, he turned around and left.

The old farmer stretched out his hand and said, "Sir, please..."

Li Tuo, Yi Siha and his entourage left Zeng Mansion in shame. After he walked around Mishi Hutong, Yi Siha asked anxiously, "Sir Li... What's going on? How should we get on the job?"

Li Tuo had a bitter face, "We are too tender, too tender... I thought it would be possible to force the general with seventy lives, but the general even brought out the ghost..."

"Oh my God... The Grand Marshal is old. If he were ten years younger, who could have fought in the court? We all thought it was too simple..."

"Let's go... I can only say anything, but don't worry too much. Such a big man will not do anything so well... The coach will also think about it when he looks back!"

Li Tuo went back to the palace to serve, but Zeng Guofan in the inner house leaned on the soft couch like a few years old and closed his eyes to rest. The fan was placed on the coffee table.

After entering the house, the old farmer waved his hand and asked the girl who was pounding her legs to go out. He personally took the initiative to press the acupoints on Dashuai's legs. As expected, he was an internal expert. After a numbness, Dashuai Zeng's chest was not so stuffy.

"Leave?"

"Yes, I'm leaving!"

"Oh... It's such a pity that a good talent, Li Tuo, Li Tuo... is a good player in the officialdom!"

The old farmer rubbed the acupoints and whispered, "It's a pity that Cixi took it away..."

"It's no pity. We don't want to take any further steps. We should take it lightly if we grab any talent!"

The old farmer looked up and said, "Then are our people still acting?"

The Hunan Army is a major force. Many of the Hunan Army's direct descendants are preparing to submit a memorial to put pressure on the court, and even some newspapers in Jiangnan are about to start.

Zeng Guofan really wanted to take this opportunity to knock on the crowd and scare these stubborn things, but he really didn't expect that Cixi would act so quickly and act so ruthlessly!

"I originally thought that I would use the beacon incident to suppress the crowd... and let them give up some official positions to gain more power for our Han officials..."

"But I didn't expect... I didn't expect to force me with seventy lives! Damn... Damn..."

Zeng Guofan was so angry that he took a straight shot of the coffee table, and the fan jumped back and forth.

The old farmer said with a cruel look on his face, "Die if you die! Anyway, Salon A is also a man of people, so we don't feel sorry for death! Otherwise, we will act and let the newspapers in Jiangnan start publicity first..."

But unexpectedly, Zeng Guofan waved his hand and said, "Stop making trouble... Don't make trouble... After all, it's seventy lives! It's also the descendant of my master..."

"They are unkind, and we must not be unrighteous! I have killed too much in my life... I am dying, I really don't want to kill more!"

"Let's rest! Let's rest... By the way, didn't Hu Xueyan give me a handful of small jade Ruyi two years ago?"

"Find it out... and send it to Cixi... and say it was my gift for rebate... I thank her for the fan... Haha... Ruyi, just like her wish!"
Chapter completed!