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Overview Dao Tong was an official.
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History of Ming, Chapter 140 Volume 140 Biographies 28: Wei Guan, Tao Houzhong, Liu Shihuan, Wang Zongxian, Lu Wensui, Wang Guan, Dao Tong, Lu Xi, Qing Wensheng · 20 passages
道同
Dao Tong
道同，河間人。
Dao Tong came from Hejian.
同執法嚴，非理者一切抗弗從，民賴以少安。
Tong enforced the law strictly and refused every unreasonable demand, and the people found some relief in his firmness.
未幾，永嘉侯朱亮祖至，數以威福撼同，同不為動。
Before long the Marquis of Yongjia, Zhu Liangzu, arrived and repeatedly tried to intimidate Tong with his power; Tong would not yield.
同械其魁通衢。
Tong had their ringleader shackled in the public square.
亮祖置酒召同，從容言之。
Liangzu invited Tong to a feast and spoke to him in a friendly tone.
同厲聲曰：「公大臣，奈何受小人役使！」
Tong replied sharply, "You are a great minister of state. How can you let yourself be used by petty men?"
他日，亮祖破械脫之，借他事笞同。
On another occasion Liangzu broke the man's shackles and set him free, then had Tong flogged on a pretext.
同復按治，亮祖又奪之去。
Tong investigated and punished them again, and Liangzu again intervened to free them.
同積不平，條其事奏之。
Tong's resentment mounted, and he memorialized the throne with a detailed account.
未至，亮祖先劾同訕傲無禮狀。
Before the memorial arrived, Liangzu had already impeached Tong for insolence and disrespect.
帝不知其由，遂使使誅同。
Unaware of the background, the Emperor sent an envoy to execute Tong.
會同奏亦至。
Tong's memorial arrived the same day.
帝悟，以為同職甚卑，而敢斥言大臣不法事，其人骨鯁可用。
The Emperor understood and thought that although Tong held a humble post, he had dared to denounce a great minister's crimes—a man of such integrity could be useful.
兩使者同日抵番禺，後使者甫到，則同已死矣。
Both envoys reached Panyu on the same day, but the second arrived only to find that Tong was already dead.
縣民悼惜之，或刻木為主祀於家，卜之輒驗，遂傳同為神雲。
The people mourned him deeply. Some carved wooden images of him for household worship; divination through them always proved accurate, and the story spread that Tong had become a god.
當同未死時，布政使徐本雅重同。
Before Tong's death, administrative commissioner Xu Ben held him in high regard.
同方笞一醫未竟，而本急欲得醫，遣卒語同釋之。
Tong was in the middle of flogging a physician when Ben, who urgently needed the man, sent a soldier to order his release.
同岸然曰：「徐公乃亦效永嘉侯耶？」
Tong replied coldly, "Lord Xu, are you imitating the Marquis of Yongjia now?"
自是上官益嚴憚，然同竟用此取禍。
From then on his superiors feared him all the more, yet it was this very stubbornness that brought about his downfall.