C3509 Mysterious Neighbor

North of the Great Wall, population density has been drastically reduced, cold weather is not suitable for farming, forest and grassland coverage is higher.

This place was the territory of the Manchu and the Meng Family. As it was rather close to the mountain resort, the nobles of the Qing Dynasty would like to purchase a few manors here.

The land over a thousand years old was scattered with scattered villages. All the villagers here were high-class noble coating servants, a few were tenants.

Everyone was working for the Imperial palace. They lived here for generations, and each year, they would produce enough for themselves to eat and drink.

The capital was so expensive that even princes had to look for a way out. When the kingdom was founded, the rules were that the Eight Banners could not be traded in other professions, but it did not prohibit these people from setting up a manor.

Looking forward to the eight flags' iron stalks of crops and salaries to live on? Therefore, the manor was the most important financial supplement. Sometimes, the income from the manor was even more than sixty to seventy percent of the total income of the family.

The Manchu was very suitable for the cool weather north of the Great Wall. Many of the palace's families would come north to spend their summer vacation in the manors, and the long, hot summer in the beautiful manors wouldn't be as difficult to endure.

The Monk King was Seng Gelinqin. This was the famous Mongol palace that was highly regarded by Xian Feng, but his fate was not good. In the end, he died miserably at the hands of the Twisted Army.

Descendant after generation did not have his ability, his family business was only barely maintained, but the money he spent could not fall, slowly just like the Jia family in the Book of Stones, gradually declining.

If one did not have the money to spend it, he would only be able to sell his ancestral property and live the life. If he sold the horse loping camp's manor with six hundred thousand silver taels, it would be absurd to place such a price in the Beijing.

No one would be so stupid as to spend so much money to buy this villa. In fact, the fair price for it was only around five hundred thousand, but today, Li Tuo acted like a fool and insisted on buying it immediately.

The monk Wang Clan came knocking on his door when they saw him, but they were in such a hurry to do so? Then why didn't he ruthlessly make an extortion of 600,000 silver taels? Moreover, he threatened to sell it to someone else in four days.

However, he did not expect Li Tuo to not have enough money, so he pulled Yang Zhi to take over this business.

"Lord Yang, you know that I'm just Zhang Jing. Now that I'm rich, the Imperial Court will be suspicious … This villa will be bought in your name! "

"Me?" Yang Zhi was angered. "600,000, you want to buy a crappy villa? "You don't need to ask around. A manor like this outside the pass will end with a profit of thirty thousand silver taels a year!"

"I can only recoup the cost after 20 years! What kind of shitty business is this? "

"Twenty years is fine too, but after that, isn't it just making money every year?" Li Tuo was even playing around with him.

"You … Enough, don't keep me in suspense. You must have some other motive, quickly tell me! "

Li Tuo smiled slightly: "The horse loping village is not worth much, we also don't think that we can earn money by relying on him … "However, a little to the east of the horse loping camp is another huge manor …"

"three-way groove... The mountain is tall and dense, and the scenery is beautiful. Along the entire mountain ridge, the entire river is watered and the entire manor is more than three thousand years old.

"Who?" Yang Zhi asked with his eyes wide open.

"Fu Qing, the famous business of Beijing! Even Xiao Letian's first wife, Fu Hui, would occasionally come here for holidays! "

So it was him! Yang Zhi could not help but nod his head, "With San Ye's power, this manor must be beautiful … But what does that have to do with us? "

At this moment, Li Tuo stopped smiling and observed his surroundings vigilantly. He even opened the door and looked around, and after coming back, he whispered into Yang Zhi's ear.

"The following matter will scare you to death. You must listen carefully … I have always told you that even though we are not the most important people here, we are the very last ones to do anything! "

"In the end, we will be the ones to handle all the important matters in the world. As long as we can unite, there will be no secrets that we can't find!"

"Do you remember last year? Beijing has had a rare year of peace and quiet … "

Last year was in 1870. Xiao Letian was fighting in Europe with the Expeditionary forces and it was hard to tell who was stronger, so without this piece of sh * t stick, Asia would naturally be a lot less peaceful.

The imperial government's finances were gradually alleviated, Zuo Jigao who was at the top of Gan Shan had already suppressed the rebel army tightly, the Jiangnan economy started to recover, and the overseas trade had also become smoother and smoother.

It could be said that Tongzhi was in a good mood, with everything going smoothly. Hence, the imperial government was relieved, since there were not many military affairs to be dealt with everyday, and empress dowagers and the various princes and officials were also a little slack.

Especially Ci An, using the excuse that his body was unwell, he holed up in Jingshan and didn't come out. In the summer, he even went to the mountain resort himself!

The imperial court was too lazy to read any of the reports. The empress dowager had also made it clear that as long as it wasn't a major affair involving military affairs, the various departments would handle it. When would the emperor return home?

Ci Xi and the other princes, upon seeing that this was a good thing, the Empress Dowager of the East became sluggish and naturally returned back to their hands. They paid respects to the empress dowager and sent his expensive supplements, flattering his to rest and enjoy life.

Li Tuo sneered, "But no one would have thought that last summer, Ci An would suffer such an ugly thing!"

"I also have a friend in the Chengde. Last year, when spring began, Fu Qing bought all of the forests, lands, and villages in the three-way groove from Prince Guo and spent a total of 650,000. The procedure in the yamen was done by my friend!"

"This is nothing, following that, the Qing San Ye invested another hundred thousand to build a house in the three-way groove. Although it is not big, it is definitely luxurious … I thought this was one of his summers! "

"But what happened after that was rather interesting … The guards of the Qing San Ye family started to move out in large numbers. The generals of the Chengde's army had to register them, otherwise, if they were somehow armed, and did not know about the fight, what would happen? "

"Good boy, my friend was dumbfounded the moment he saw the list of flowers …" All of them are Maoists, and there are more than a thousand healthy horses outside of their mouths! "

"Qing San Ye has raised a total of five hundred guards in three-way groove … "Damn, what is he trying to do?"

"The mountain people and the three-way groove of the horse loping camp are neighbors who chop firewood, hunt wild animals, fish, and dig up herbs … They often come to visit on both sides, so guess what? "

"There's actually a Gatling heavy machine gun in the three-way groove … Fu Qing built many secret castles in the three-way groove, and even hid many heavy machine guns inside! "

"Ah?" Qing San Ye wants to rebel? " Yang Zhi exclaimed.

"What's the point of rebelling? That place full of wolves, is it worth fighting?" If you want me to see the Qing San Ye, you have to hide something, an absolute treasure! "

"From that day onwards, I began focusing on all matters related to the Qing San Ye, including the people outside the palace who were secretly inquiring about it …"

"Hehehe …" Li Tuo suddenly laughed lewdly: "Last summer, Empress Dowager of the East went to the mountain resort, and stayed there for three months … "Why is Imperial Physician Sun accompanying him?"

"My big brother, Imperial Physician Sun is a famous gynecologist. Can't you guess?"

With a clang, Yang Zhi sat down on the ground. The chair had fallen off and he looked at Li Tuo as if he had seen a ghost. "Could it be …"