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Since he is really a relative, Tong Tuchang can't cover his nose, but he also asked from a distance: "It turns out that it's really a big brother!" Hurry up, please! The brother in the back is the one? ”

In order to plot against Li Chengdong, Tong Tuchang accidentally served as Tong Guonai's staff for a few days, and the two are still relatively familiar. Shushu.com was the fastest update, but after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, all the people of the Han Army Banner fell into bad luck, and they lost their previous martial arts, and some hooligans and ruffians came to the door one after another. Tong Guonai has suffered a lot, the destruction of the past few months has had too much impact on Tong Guonai, skinny as wood, not to mention the braids are gone, the head is less than an inch of hair, and there are lice after not washing his hair for a few months, and he scratches his dandruff with his hands. So Tong Tuchang didn't recognize him.

Tong Guonai hurriedly kowtowed and said, "My nephew Tong Guonai has seen my uncle!" "Back then, Tong Guonai was framed by Tong Tuchang and almost didn't have his head cut off by Li Chengdong, but now there is no way, Tong Tuchang is developed, and Tong Guonai can only kowtow.

Oh, it turned out to be the unlucky guy Tong Guonai, Tong Tuchang hurriedly said: "It turned out to be the eldest nephew, get up!" Someone! Serve tea! ”

At this time, a servant came up for the two of them to make fragrant tea, which was Fujian's big red robe. When Tong Tulai was developed, this kind of tea was basically available in the house, but now it can't be done, Tong Tulai is now running out of boiling water, where can I drink tea?

The two smelled the aroma of tea and quickly took the teacup and tasted it carefully. But when the tea entered the stomach, the already empty stomach was even more gurgling.

Tong Tuchang couldn't help but smile and asked, "The two of you haven't eaten yet!" Come and prepare the meal! ”

Although the Tong family is not as rich as the Ma family, it is also one of the most wealthy families in Huguang. The old man quickly put the banquet on the table after he had something to say, and the preparation was not very sufficient, but the mountain seafood was still available.

Soon the table was full of dishes, Tong Tulai, Tong Guonai's uncle and nephew had not eaten a full meal for half a year, and now they saw so many delicious things rushing up like a vicious dog puffing on, and no matter what etiquette, lying on the table was a big munch.

Tong Tuchang saw the honor of these two guys and didn't have the heart to eat, so he had to sit aside and wait for the two to finish eating.

Tong Tulai grabbed a pig's head and gnawed it, while Tong Guonai grabbed a roast chicken and chewed wildly, and for a time Tong's study became a pigsty for raising pigs, full of cheerful eating sounds.

The uncle and nephew ate for half an hour, ate five or six tenths of the food on the table, and only put the eating speed when there were some things in their stomachs, and Tong Tuchang had time to ask them for details at this time.

Tong Tuchang stood up and poured a glass of wine for the two of them and asked, "Big brother, nephew Guonai, what's wrong with you?" I remember that the new dynasty only punished the Manchurians, and did not have an order for the Han military flag! How did you get mixed up like this? ”

Tong Tulai now has food in his belly, and he doesn't eat like he did just now, and now he sighed and said when he heard Tong Tuchang ask: "Brother, this matter is really a child without a mother, it's a long story!" ”

Tong Tulai told him how he was unlucky half a year ago, after the Manchu nobles of the Three Banners of the Manchu Dynasty fled, Tong Tulai and these Han military banners were arrested and imprisoned by the officials of the Criminal Department, and tortured themselves every day, and their families spent all their family wealth in order to save themselves, and now they live in a ruined temple in the outer city. After Tong Tulai finished speaking, Tong Guonai said that he was even worse than Tong Tulai, and he spent all the money in his family in order to exonerate himself, and now he doesn't even have a broken temple to block the wind, and the family lives directly on the street.

Speaking of sadness, Tong Guonai cried bitterly: "Uncle, you don't know! Those servants of Shuntian Mansion are so fucking hateful, when they saw their little nephews, they couldn't wait to come up and lick their cheeks, but now that their nephews are in trouble, these bastards will come up to pick up the cheap. casually found a crime to arrest his nephew into Shuntian Mansion, and the nephew who was beaten by this board almost didn't survive! ”

Tong Guonai wiped a handful of tears and continued: "In the end, my family sold the house, and finally scraped together ten taels of silver to save my nephew!" But my nephew's wife, because she had no house to shelter from the wind and rain, froze to death last winter! Woo woo ”

Listening to the uncle and nephew complaining here, Tong Tuchang didn't have any waves in his heart, and at the same time he was a little happy in his heart. Back then, you completely ignored my house in Shenyang, opened the gate of Fushun City and took refuge in the Manchu Dynasty, do you know how many sins our uncle and nephew suffered? It's all retribution!

Tong Tuchang smiled and said, "Hey! Brother can't help it, you also know that my uncle and nephew have many enemies in the court, so I have to leave it alone in order not to leave people talked, so be it! Everyone has a relative, no matter how you say it, the surname is Tong, I will give each of you ten silver dollars, and after eating, please go back! ”

Ten silver dollars is already a lot, and if you save a little flower, it will be enough for the two of them to live as a family for a month. But today the two of them came to Tong Tuchang not for a meal, but to find a way out. If you don't sit and eat empty, don't talk about ten silver dollars, even a thousand silver dollars are not enough to spend!

Tong Guonai just thought that his mother was crying sadly, but he didn't think that Tong Tuchang didn't go to his heart at all, so he cried in vain! Tong Guonai stood up and said, "Uncle, and you are such a ruthless person? Back then, you framed your little nephew in Fujian and almost lost your life, but you came to Beijing to have no intention of revenge, have you forgotten? Are you not afraid of outsiders criticizing your little nephew like this now? ”

Tong Tuchang sneered when he heard Tong Guonai say this: "You didn't think so at the time, did you? Aren't you the one who wants my life? ”

Today, Tong Tulai's uncle and nephew came to ask for help, and now seeing Tong Tuchang and Tong Guonai, the more they talked, the more stiff they became, Tong Tulai hurriedly played a round and said: "Brother, Guonai is also a little anxious to see his fate!" Brother, you and I can't write two Tong characters in one stroke, you can't watch your brother's whole family starve to death like this, your eldest nephew Tong Guogang has typhoid fever, it's been half a month, and he's going to die if he doesn't see a doctor, brother, you can help my brother! ”

Tong Tuchang sighed when he heard Tong Tulai say this, although he and Tong Tulai were their own masters, but they were still good to Tong Tuchang, at least they didn't beat themselves out of the door, and now their uncles and nephews are in power, so it's better to give these two unlucky people a way to live.

"Big brother, you say, what do you want?"

Tong Tulai was overjoyed when he heard Tong Tuchang's relief, and hurriedly said: "Brother, don't help the poor, no matter how much money we give the two of us, we will always spend one day, and now we are all excluded in Beijing who are people of the Han Army, and there is no way to find a job, we want to ask my brother to arrange a position for us!" ”

Tong Tuchang knew that it was the emperor's order not to work for the Han military banner, and he couldn't disobey it, but he was going to Shaanxi, where the emperor might as well take these two people with him.

"Eldest brother, younger brother, I was appointed by the emperor as the political envoy of Shaanxi, but now the road in Shaanxi is impassable, and the army of the imperial court is exterminating the Jiang Yang Department in Shanxi, so my younger brother can only wait in Beijing. Why don't you two go to Shaanxi with me, how about being a staff member? ”

Tong Tulai and Tong Guonai looked at each other, and Tong Tulai said: "Brother, our family has too many people, and the roads in Shaanxi are not smooth, why don't you find a position for us in Beijing?" Although Tong Tulai said this, it was actually the two of them who didn't want to go to Shaanxi.

Shaanxi is now in a mess, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has escaped, but there is still a Qing army in Shaanxi, under the leadership of Huang Erxing, the governor of Shaanxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the head of the Manchu army stationed in Xi'an, the servant Lang Hahamu, the Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan, the Han and Qiang general Zhang Tianfu, and the guerrilla Sheng Jiading of Xing'an Town, entrenched around Xi'an. At the same time, there were peasant armies Wang Yongqiang and Gao Youcai who occupied Shenmu counties, in Gansu there were also anti-Qing forces of Hui Mi Layin and Ding Guodong, and in Hanzhong there was also the Manchu Sichuan governor Li Guoying, who returned from Sichuan, so now the whole of Shaanxi is a pot of paste, and it is impossible for anyone to go in and come out intact.

Tong Tulai also knew that his request was a bit excessive, he looked at Tong Tuchang's face and said: "Brother, you see that our Tong family is scarce, and there are only you and your uncle in the court to support you. ”

Tong Tuchang knew that these two people were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they didn't want to go to Shaanxi with him to die, but what Tong Tulai said just now really went to Tong Tuchang's heart.

Although Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang were the earliest people to follow Zhu Hongsan, they have always been excluded by the pure Chu Party, because the uncle and nephew were not from Huguang, but from Liaodong.

Therefore, Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang are in a strange position in the Chu Party, saying that it is not the Chu Party, they started the earliest with the emperor, and their main career is in Wuchang, Huguang. Let's say it's the Chu Party, this uncle and nephew can't integrate into the pure Huguang people headed by the Ma family.

Therefore, there are no officials under Tong Yangjia who are purely from Huguang, they are all literati doctors who later joined Zhu Hongsan's group but were excluded by the Chu Party. For example, Tong Yangjia's cheap father-in-law Gong Dacheng, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Yuan Pengnian, and the governor of Shandong, Lu Shiyuan, are not Chu parties. In addition to these, they are low-level officials who switched to Tong Yangjia because they were not powerful, so now there is no one available in their hands, which is the biggest problem Tong Yangjia faces.

And Tong Tulai, these Tong family members, because they were enemies before, can only rely on Tong Yangjia in the court, and at the same time, Tong Tulai and Tong Guonai have been provincial and ministerial-level senior officials, full of political experience, and they can become Tong Yangjia's help immediately after they come up. You must know that it takes a lot of time to train a qualified bureaucrat, starting from the low-level officials, you have to go through all kinds of open guns and hidden arrows, all kinds of swords and swords, and then you have the ability and luck at the same time, so that you can achieve the provincial and ministerial level.

Tong Tuchang listened to what Tong Tulai said well, and thought about it that he was just a political envoy, so he should go to his uncle for this kind of big thing!

"Big brother is right, so be it! After you two have eaten, freshen up, and come with me to meet your uncle, after all, you are now guilty, and only uncle has a way out for you! ”

Hearing that they went to see Tong Yangjia, Tong Tulai and Tong Guonai were overjoyed. At this time, the two of them had almost eaten, so they quickly stood up and followed the servant to take a bath, and then changed their clothes, and then followed Tong Tuchang out to the Xicheng Qi State Mansion.