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Since he was really a relative, Tong Tuchang could not cover his nose, but he also asked far away: "So he is really a big brother! Come up quickly! The brother behind him is that?"

In order to instigate Li Chengdong, Tong Tuchang accidentally served Tong Guonai as an aide for several days, and the two were still familiar with each other. However, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, all the Han army flags were in trouble. Without the previous power, some hooligans and gangsters came to the door one after another. Tong Guonai suffered a lot. The destruction of these months had too much impact on Tong Guonai. He was as thin as a hair, and his hair was gone. He had less than an inch on his head. He had lice on his head without washing his hair for several months. He scratched his hands and dandruff. He looked like he was the Fujian governor of the year? So Tong Tuchang didn't recognize him.

Tong Guonai quickly kowtowed and said, "My nephew Tong Guonai has met his uncle!" Tong Guonai was framed by Tong Tuchang and almost got chopped off his head by Li Chengdong, but now there is nothing to do. Tong Tuchang is developed, so Tong Guonai can only kowtow and bow.

Oh, it turned out to be the unlucky guy Tong Guonai. Tong Tuchang hurriedly said, "It turns out to be my eldest nephew, get up quickly! Come on! Come on, tea!"

At this time, a servant brought the two of them to fragrant tea, which was Dahongpao, Fujian. When Tong Tulai was developed, this kind of tea was basically a regular place in the mansion, but now it is not possible. Tong Tulai has no boiling water now, so can I drink tea?

When the two of them smelled the aroma of tea, they quickly took the tea cup and tasted it carefully. However, when the tea water entered their stomachs, their already empty stomachs were even more rumbling.

Tong Tuchang held back his smile and asked, "You two have not 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 top wealthy families among the upstarts in Huguang. The master quickly put the banquet on his face when he had something to say. The preparation was not enough, but he still had delicacies and seafood.

Soon the table of dishes was put on. Tong Tulai and Tong Guonai's uncle and nephew had not had a full meal for half a year. Now, seeing so many delicious foods rushed up like vicious dogs, no matter what etiquette, they lay on the table and chewed.

When Tong Tuchang saw that these two guys had no intention of eating, he had to sit aside and wait for them to finish their meal.

Tong Tulai grabbed a pig's head and chewed it, while Tong Guonai grabbed a roast chicken and chewed it wildly. For a moment, Tong's study became a pigpen for raising pigs, full of joyful eating sounds.

The uncle and nephew ate for half an hour, ate five or six out of ten food on the table, and then put some food in their stomachs to fill the pace of eating. Tong Tuchang had time to ask them for details.

Tong Tuchang stood up and poured a glass of wine for the two of them and asked, "Brother, nephew of Guonai, what's wrong with you? I remember that the new dynasty just punished the Manchus and did not have any orders to the Han military flag! How did you get like this?"

Tong Tulai now has food in his stomach, so he doesn't eat like he did just now. Now he heard Tong Tuchang ask and sigh and said, "Brother, this matter is really a child without a mother, it's a long story!"

Tong Tulai said about his unlucky affairs half a year ago. After the Manchu nobles of Shangsan Banners of the Qing Dynasty escaped, Tong Tulai and other Han military banners were arrested and imprisoned by the yamen runners of the Ministry of Justice, torture themselves every day. His family spent all their wealth in order to save him, and now they live in a dilapidated temple in the outer city. After Tong Tulai said that Tong Guonai said that he was even worse than Tong Tulai. He spent all his money in his family to avoid punishment. Now he has no even a dilapidated temple to block the wind. The family lives directly on the street.

When he said sad, Tong Guonai cried bitterly: "Uncle, you don't know! Those yamen runners in Shuntian Mansion are so fucking hateful. When he saw his nephew, he wanted to come up to lick his butt. Now that his nephew is in trouble, these bastards come up to get the bargain. He just found a charge to arrest his nephew into Shuntian Mansion. The nephew beaten up almost survived!"

After saying that, Tong Guonai wiped his tears and continued, "In the end, my family sold the house and finally managed to raise ten taels of silver to rescue my nephew! But my nephew's mother froze to death last winter because she had no house to shelter from the wind and rain! Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo

When Tong Tuchang heard his uncle and nephew complaining here, he felt no trouble in his heart, and he was also a little happy. Back then, you completely ignored my home in Shenyang and opened the gate of Fushun City and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Do you know how much sin our uncle and nephew suffered? This is all retribution!

Tong Tuchang smiled and said, "Hey! Brothers have no choice. You know that my uncle and nephew have many enemies in the court. In order not to leave a secret, they have to let go. Let's do this! Everyone has a relative, no matter how you say that their surname is Tong, I will get each of you ten silver dollars, and after dinner, you will invite you two back!"

Ten silver dollars are already a lot, and if you save some flowers, it will be enough for the two of them to live in a month. But today they came to Tong Tuchang not for a meal, but to find a way out. Otherwise, they would not be able to eat the whole country or talk about ten silver dollars, even a thousand silver dollars would not be enough for them!

Tong Guonai just thought of my mother crying sadly, but she didn't expect that Tong Tuchang didn't take it to heart at all. She cried in vain! Tong Guonai stood up and said, "Uncle, there is also someone as heartless as you? You almost lost your life when you framed your nephew in Fujian. When you came to Beijing, you didn't have the intention to take revenge. Have you forgotten? Are you not afraid of criticism from outsiders now when you treat your nephew like this?"

Tong Tuchang heard Tong Guonai say this and sneered: "You didn't think so at that time, right? Isn't it you who want my life?"

Today, Tong Tulai's uncle and nephew came to ask for help. Now seeing Tong Tuchang and Tong Guonai getting more and more irritable, Tong Tulai quickly smoothed out and said, "Brother, Guonai was also a little anxious when he saw his own fate! Brother, you and I can't write two Tong characters in one stroke. You can't watch your brother's family starve to death, right? Your eldest nephew Tong Guogang has typhoid fever, and it's been half a month since he's going to die without seeing a doctor. Brother, please help your brother!"

Tong Tuchang sighed when he heard Tong Tulai say this. Although he and Tong Tulai were their own masters back then, they were still good to Tong Tuchang. At least they didn't beat him out. Now that his uncle and nephew are in power, it's better to give these two unlucky guys a way out.

"Brother, tell me, what do you want?"

Tong Tulai was overjoyed when he heard Tong Tuchang sighing and quickly said, "Brother, help the emergency but not the poor. No matter how much money you give us, you will spend all your money for a day. Now, we are rejected by people from the Han military flag in Beijing. There is no way to find a job. We want to ask our brother to arrange a position for us!"

Tong Tuchang knew that not giving work to the Han military flag was the emperor's order, and he could not violate it. However, he wanted to go to Shaanxi, where the emperor was far better than taking these two people.

"Brother, I was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi by the emperor, but now the roads in Shaanxi are not open, and the imperial army is destroying Jiang Rang tribe in Shanxi, so my younger brother can only wait in the capital. Why don't you two go to Shaanxi with me? How about being an aide?"

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. Is it better for my brother to find a position for us in Beijing?" Although Tong Tulai said this, it was actually because they didn't want to go to Shaanxi.

Shaanxi is now in a group. Although the Qing Dynasty ran away, there is also a Qing army in Shaanxi. Under the leadership of the Manchu Shaanxi Governor Huang Erxing, the Manchu army leader, the Ministry of Personnel, Hahamu, the head of Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan, the Han Qiang general Zhang Tianfu, and the guerrilla Sheng Jiading in Xing'an Town, there are also peasant soldiers Wang Yongqiang, Gao Youcai and others who occupied Shenmu counties. In Gansu, there are Huimin Milayin and Ding Guodong's anti-Qing armed forces, and in Hanzhong, there are also the troops of 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 too much. He looked at Tong Tuchang's face and continued, "Brother, look at the fact that our Tong family is rare. There are only two uncles in the court. You and your uncle are the only ones who are supporting you. The brothers who fight tigers will go into battle and father-son soldiers. You see, we also want to make some contributions to you and uncle!"

Tong Tuchang knew that these two people were afraid of death and did not want to go to Shaanxi with him to die, but what Tong Tulai said just now really came to Tong Tuchang's heart.

Although Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang were the earliest people to follow Zhu Hongsan, they were always 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. They said that they were not the Chu Party, who started their own business with the emperor, and their main success was in Wuchang, Huguang. They said that they were the Chu Party, who were not yet able to integrate into the pure Huguang people led by the Ma family.

Therefore, there is no official under Tong Yangjia 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, Fujian and Zhejiang Governor Yuan Pengnian, Shandong Governor Lu Shiyuan and others are not Chu party. Apart from these, they are low-level officials who turned to Tong Yangjia because they are unable to do anything, so there is no one available at their hands now. This is the biggest problem that Tong Yangjia faces.

Tong Tulai and the Tong family members were enemies before, so they could only rely on Tong Yangjia in the court. At the same time, Tong Tulai and Tong Guonai had served as provincial and ministerial officials with great political experience. They would immediately become Tong Yangjia's help after coming up. You should know that it takes a lot of time to cultivate a qualified bureaucrat. Starting from the lower-level officials, you have to go through various open and hidden guns, various swords and shadows. Even if you have the ability, you must also have luck to be able to reach the provincial and ministerial level.

Tong Tuchang heard Tong Tulai say it well, but after thinking about it, he was just a governor, so he should go to his uncle to decide on such a big thing!

"Brother said it well, let's do it! You two will wash up after eating and go to see your uncle with me. After all, you are now guilty, and only the uncle has a way out for you!"
Chapter completed!