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Chapter 346

It is said that heroes come out of troubled times, but this is not comprehensive. Traitors came out even more in troubled times, especially during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were a lot of big traitors, both literary and military, such as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, Zu Dashou, Kong Youde , Geng Zhongming, Hong Chengchou, Sun Zhixie, etc. These famous and notorious big traitors are in groups, and as for those medium-sized traitors, small traitors, and nameless traitors, there are even more so innumerable.

The so-called traitors here certainly do not include those Li people who had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty for their livelihood, because whether they were the subjects of the Ming Dynasty or under the rule of the Tartars, they were ultimately just the ruled class, living in the At the bottom of the society, at least they will not commit crimes, betray their ancestors, and harm others by selling their bodies and souls, so the word "rape" cannot be mentioned.

That is to say, they will not harm society and will not be hated by the world.

The traitors here, see the wind to make the rudder, follow the wind to reveal their farts, as Han people, they betray their ancestors, surrender to the Tartars, slavishly coquettish, willing to be inferior, betray their masters for glory, and help the Tartars massacre and enslave the Han people in order to please their masters. It was more harmful to the society at that time, so it will leave a thousand years of infamy.

Of course, historical materialism and the concept of development cannot be used to look at traitors here, otherwise these traitors are all great heroes who followed the trend of the times to promote historical development and made great contributions to the Sinochem nation, and there would be no such thing as traitors.

When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people observe it, there will be no disciples.Historical novels are derived from history, and they must be based on the social outlook at that time, rather than super-social outlook.

Gossip less.Tong Yangjia is one of such big traitors. When mentioning Tong Yangjia, those who are familiar with the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties will naturally think of another big traitor, that is Li Chengdong. It's a nest of snakes and rats.

The Tong family in Liaodong was originally a wealthy businessman in the late Ming Dynasty, and they often did business with Hou Jin. Tong Yangxing was Tong Yangjia's elder brother, who was imprisoned for trading with the Kingdom of Jin. It was the beginning of their Tong family becoming traitors. After that, the Tong family belonged to the Kingdom of Jin and belonged to Zhenglan Banner.

Historically, after the Tong family surrendered to the Tartars, Tong Yangjia was loyal to the Tartars.Because Tong's family was very rich, and because it was in troubled times, it was impossible to do business without martial arts and bodyguards, not to mention doing business with barbarians. Therefore, Tong Yangjia's father was willing to spend money on his son. old silver.

Tong Yangjia is smart and eager to learn, so since he was a child, he studied literature during the day and practiced martial arts at night. When he was a teenager, he followed his uncles to do business in darts and dealt with Tartars.

But as the saying goes, there is no business without profiteers. In the process of doing business with the Tartars, the Tong family made money by selling not only general commodities, but also ironware from the Central Plains, gunpowder technology, border information, and state secrets. ,etc.

The Tatars are ambitious, so they like to do business with such businessmen. They enjoy doing business with them, and they deliberately let them make huge profits, while the Tartars earn even more. They get iron and gunpowder technology to strengthen their troops, and they get information from the Ming Dynasty. You can harass the border of Ming Dynasty, from plundering livestock and food, to plundering Han people as slaves, to trampling the Central Plains, until they have a big appetite to conquer Han people. In the process of doing business, these profiteers have actually acted as traitors to a certain extent. If there were no Liao merchants, Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants, Zhejiang merchants, etc. in the late Ming Dynasty, these illegal and treacherous merchants would hinder them, and the Bianye Yi people could only wish to take control of the Central Plains!
Therefore, from this aspect, Daming was first cut in the hands of merchants.This is by no means alarmist talk, but historical facts.If it is counted as the deeds of these traitors, the crimes that have been exhausted, the great Ming Dynasty was cut into the hands of the Han people.

It is precisely because of this that Tong Yangjia became a traitor in the process of doing business.If the family has money, money leads to the gods, collusion between government and businessmen is inevitable, this means money and power, and more importantly, martial arts all over the body, which is even more powerful.

Therefore, the power of the Tong family was able to dominate at that time, so that when Tong Yangxing was imprisoned, the Tong family dared to confront the imperial court, rob the prison, and lure the Tartars to capture Fushun. With this strength, it is conceivable that there is a private army in Tong's mansion, which is almost as small as the warlords of the separatist side.

After the Tong family surrendered to the Tartars, Tong Yangjia made many military exploits for the Tartars, and his official position rose all the way. In history, he followed Duoduo to the south, and together with Li Chengdong, he helped the Tartars massacre Han compatriots. Yangzhou Ten Days, Jiading Three Massacres, they are all great executioners .

As a result, Tong Yangjia was later promoted to the governor of the Qing army and a big official in Xinjiang. As for later, he and Li Chengdong fell out and were executed by Li Chengdong's design. Fire and.

It can be seen from this that Tong Yangjia is not an ordinary traitor, but a heinous traitor. Of course, he must have the qualifications to be such a traitor.That is to say, without considerable ability, one cannot be such a big traitor at all.

Now he follows Duduo, Prince of Yu, from the battlefield of Tongguan, and sends his troops south to attack Daming. His military exploits are pardoned, and he becomes Duduo's capable general and right-hand man. Leave it to him and Man Dahai to take care of him. This is Man Dahai's lieutenant general, with great power in his hands.

Now Tong Yangjia's eyes turned to his heart. Hearing that Zhu Yousong planned to disintegrate their army's morale and persuade them to surrender, he had an idea to stop Man Dahai, "Master Belle, this is a trick of the false emperor."

Man Dahai said with emotion: "Of course Ben Beile knows that this is a treacherous scheme of the false emperor. He lures us to surrender and disrupts our army's morale. How can Ben Beile be fooled? Isn't this going to confiscate all the arrows and destroy them, slaughter the Han dogs, and cut off their thoughts? Then fight to the death with the false emperor."

Man Dahai's implication, do you still need Tong Yangjia to say, if Ben Baylor can't see such an obvious thing, what kind of soldiers are you in charge of!

"But Lord Belle, you have been fooled by doing so."

"Oh, how do you say that?" Man Dahai stared at Tong Yangjia unconvinced with eyes like buns.

"Master Baylor, please," Tong Yangjia clasped his fists, and said eloquently, "The false emperor just wants Lord Baylor to destroy arrows and kill people, because when he does this, he has already begun to doubt people, and doubts will inevitably lead to turmoil. Floating, the soldiers are alienated from morality, everyone is in danger, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. Fighting depends entirely on the morale of the generals, and if they work hard, they will decline again and again, and they will be exhausted. Without morale, what can we do to regain Huaiqing and break out of the encirclement?"

Hearing Tong Yangjia's words, Man Dahai took a deep breath, "The general's words are reasonable, but Ben Bayle was reckless, so what about the general's opinion?"

"Lord Belle, according to my humble opinion, why don't we just follow the plan?"

"Oh, whatever the plan is, let's talk about it quickly." Man Dahai couldn't wait, even Kong Youde, Dong Ying, Zhuo Luo, Gu Shan Ezhen Ashan, Mongolian King Guan Da Mosu and others also wanted to rush Know Tong Yangjia's strategy.

"The puppet emperor has always hated the Qing Dynasty. The conquest and killing along the way will not allow the captives to surrender. All of them will be killed. Now they come to persuade them to surrender. It is obviously to disintegrate our army. We can deliberately create a scene of mutiny among the generals and pick a group of soldiers. A group of elites surrendered. This place is very close to Luoyang. They sneaked into Luoyang City and took the opportunity to kill the false emperor Zhu Yousong, and then cooperated with the inside and outside to go to Luoyang. Then there is no need to retreat, or even if the false emperor cannot be killed, the inside and outside can go to Luoyang. If we retreat westward to Shanzhou, we will no longer attack Huaiqing by force."

"The general is saying that Huaiqing will not attack?"

"No, as for Huaiqing's ability to pretend to be false and false, this is false but real, and real is false, and the false emperor will undoubtedly be fooled."

Tong Yangjia was like a Zhuge in the world, shaking his head and shaking his head, and he was spitting out his words. After he finished speaking, Man Dahai, Kong Youde and others clapped their hands and praised the trick.

(End of this chapter)