Tong Jianye hesitated for a long time and finally said: "Brother, I can understand if you don't believe me. After all, there is no conclusive basis for such a big matter. Who dares to risk their wealth and life."
Huang Tengyuan looked at him and said: "What do you have to rely on? I have to give you an explanation."
Tong Jianye smiled bitterly, then suddenly lowered his head and said, "Brother, please touch the back of my head."
Huang Tengyuan was very surprised and didn't know what this guy was doing.
But since Tong Jianye had bowed his head, he had no choice but to stroke the back of his head with his right hand.
"Hey! It's so strange." Huang Tengyuan touched the flat back of his head. Suddenly, he thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed.
In the north of China, and even in the northern grasslands of the entire Eurasian continent, there has always been the custom of mutating the skull. That is, in early childhood, the skull is artificially deformed by taking advantage of the opportunity before the skull is formed.
The human skull is soft and malleable in childhood.
For example, many high-cranium skeletons have been excavated in archeology. The part above the forehead is ten to twenty centimeters higher than that of normal people, elongated backwards and upwards. They look like aliens or aliens. In fact, they are deformed skulls of normal people in their childhood.
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The reason for this custom is related to national habits, religion, as well as the elevation of the social status of nobles and the artificial creation of high-skull heads to distinguish nobles from nobles.
The grassland peoples in northern China, especially the Donghu and Siberian ethnic groups, because they have to sleep with their saddles on their backs, cannot have the back of their heads, so when they were young, they deliberately slept with their heads flat. The back of their heads is flat.
This custom still remained until the Republic of China and modern times. The Han people in the Northeast were also deeply affected. As long as the children who grew up were taken care of by their grandmothers or grandmothers, many of them had flat heads. So much so that now, older Northeasterners go to get haircuts.
, the barber will ask the customer if he is from the Northeast as soon as he touches his head.
Zhang Zuolin's soldiers defeated the Zhili clique and after taking control of the imperial capital, he became domineering. He didn't buy tickets when riding in a car and bought and sold goods by force. There was a saying at the time that the spoon on the back of the head is a passport and you don't need to buy a ticket when riding in a car. Later, Zhang Zuolin shot a few of them to show his honesty.
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Huang Tengyuan said in surprise: "You are from Jianzhou, your surname is Tong, your surname is Tong Jia."
Tongjia is a large clan of Jiannu, with thirty branches. The family is huge, the talents are prosperous, and there are successive generations of dukes in the Qing Dynasty.
"No talent, Tong Yangzheng (some history books record him as Tong Yangzhen, he is the same person) is my uncle." Tong Jianye said with his hand.
If talking about others, Huang Tengyuan didn't know much about Jiannu, so he might not know what was going on. But when it comes to Tong Yangzhenglai, it's impossible for him not to know. Because this unlucky guy was the stepping stone for Mao Wenlong's rise.
The ancestor of Tong Yangzheng was Dalhaqi, a Jurchen who defected to the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty (recorded as "Tong Dalhaha" in the Ming Dynasty, also known as "Tong Dalha"). His surname was Tong and he settled in Fushun.
Tong Yangzheng's early life is unknown. After Fushun was conquered by the Hou Jin Dynasty in the third year of Tianming (1618), under the influence of his cousin Tong Yangxing, he led his people to surrender to the Hou Jin Khan Nurhaci and belonged to the Han army (there was no Han military flag at that time, only "Han
"Jun", whether his family is Han or Manchu has always been controversial. The author prefers Manchu because Kangxi's biological mother was a concubine named Tong. According to Manchu tradition, it is unlikely to be Han.).
In the sixth year of Tianming (1621), Tong Yangzhen joined the Liaoyang expedition and was awarded the rank of third-class light chariot captain for his military merits. Xuan was ordered to station in Zhenjiang (today's Dandong, Liaoning) as a guerrilla.
In July of the same year, because the people in Shuangshan and other places united with the Ming Dynasty guerrilla Mao Wenlong to resist the Later Jin Dynasty, Tong Yangzhen sent troops to suppress it, leaving Zhenjiang empty.
On the night of the 19th, after learning this information, Mao Wenlong led 197 men to a surprise attack on Zhenjiang. With the help of internal agents in the city, he captured Tong Yangzhen and escorted him to the capital. This was known as the Great Victory of Zhenjiang in history.
After interrogating Tong Yangzhen, the Ming court convicted him of treason and executed him late on October 26th. Also executed were his son Fengnian, his nephew Hengnian (recorded as Songnian in the Ming Dynasty), etc.
It is said that it was first reported in Liaodong. He still had a son, Tong Shengnian, whose Manchu name was Tong Tulai, and his daughter was Kangxi's biological mother.
This incident is so famous, mainly because Mao Wenlong's rise is so legendary, and even his stepping stone became a household name in the Ming Dynasty.
Huang Tengyuan naturally knew about this. He didn't expect that Tong Jianye actually snuck in to build slaves. However, he must have killed the slaves who sneaked in and pretended to be horse bandits in Ji Town. It seems that there is nothing impossible about this matter.
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He sighed deeply in his heart, Ji Town was penetrated like a sieve, riddled with holes, it was really hard to describe.
Over in Shanxi, Datong and Xuanfu Town are not much better. They specialize in smuggling. The Nine Borders are already in trouble. They used to collude with Mongolia, and now they are colluding with slaves.
"Although my uncle was killed by Mao Wenlong's men, my cousin Tong Tulai was very much used by the Great Khan. He was granted the title of third-class light chariot captain. After the Great Khan reestablished the Zhenglan Banner, he served as Youmel Ezhen in the Zhenglan Banner.
(Deputy Flag Master).”
At this point, he looked at Huang Tengyuan and saw that he was listening intently, and continued: "My cousin secretly sent people to intervene in this turmoil under the instructions of the Great Khan. Brother, keep your heart in your stomach, as long as you
If you are willing to cooperate with me and pull the eight thousand rebel soldiers over, I will be the leader of the Gushan flag of the Han army. Brother, you will have no problem becoming a Jia La forehead. These are all promised by the Great Khan."
Huang Tengyuan asked in confusion: "Why does the Great Khan attach so much importance to these rebels in Jizhen?"
Tong Jianye refused to say any more, and just said: "This winter, you will understand. Please forgive me for not leaking the secret."
Huang Tengyuan lowered his head and thought about it. Tong Jianye didn't rush him and just drank by himself.
Huang Tengyuan raised his head and said: "How to cross the Liao River."
Hearing this, Tong Jianye was overjoyed, knowing that he had finally convinced Huang Tengyuan.
"There is a town by the river, and the garrison there is ours. When the time comes, the boat will be ready, and we will cross the river directly when we arrive. We will reach Shenyang in a few days after crossing the Liao River."
Huang Tengyuan nodded and turned to look at the three people sitting with him. His eyes were a little suspicious.
"Brother, don't worry. How could such a confidential matter be known to irrelevant people? These three are all my clansmen. Don't worry."
Huang Tengyuan cupped his hands and said, "How can I cooperate with you? What do you need me to do?"
Tong Jianye patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, as long as you collect all the defeated troops who are coming later, we will hold a banquet in Guancheng and invite the leaders of more than a dozen other groups to a banquet. These people, if
If anyone is willing to follow us, we can take it for our own use. If anyone is unwilling, we must deal with it, annex their soldiers, horses and families, and set off to Shenyang together."
