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Those 100 people are all honest farmers, and Xu Dahu and others are scary with sharp blades in their hands, so after listening to Xu Dahu's scolding, none of them are making noise.

Ma Cheng looked at these guys and sighed, why don't these people have any feelings for their family and country? Is it true that they have spent their lives to feed and pass on their ancestors?

Ma Cheng has this question is very easy to understand, Ma Cheng came from later generations, received a perfect social education, and patriotic feelings in later generations have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the general public, but this is not the case in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty has not yet formed the concept of a state, although the Ming Dynasty considers itself a country, but it is far from the modern country of later generations, and the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty do not have the national spirit of later generations.

Later history books divided the period before 1840 into ancient history and before 1949 into modern history, and it was not unreasonable for this division to take shape, and the formation and development of a modern state took shape after the founding of New China.

The whole of modern history is only the process of forming a sense of identity for the Chinese nation, and here is a remark, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a catalyst for accelerating the formation of this sense of identity.

The Ming and Qing dynasties did not form a sense of national identity and did not form the concept of a modern state, so there were so many traitors at the end of the dynasty. This is also the main reason why when the Manchus occupied most of China, those scholars and ordinary people did not rise up to resist. As for why Nanming persisted for more than 40 years, that is, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took a bad move, that is, to issue a shaving order.

Because there is no concept of a country or a nation, the Manchu occupation of the world has nothing to do with the common people, anyway, when you come to the Manchus, I will pay rent and grain. It has nothing to do with scholars, there are only so many people in the Manchu Dynasty, and if you want to gain a foothold, you still need our scholars to manage the country.

But the promulgation of the shaving order is different, in the past, the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty and only changed the emperor, but the shaving order really moved the interests of the common people and scholars, so it will naturally follow you to the end.

The same was true when the Qing Dynasty fell, when the Qing Dynasty implemented the method of cutting braids, there were still some old and decrepit winter crying in the dark, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, there were also university scholars Wang Guowei committed suicide and martyred the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Kunming Lake in Peking University, which was caused by the lack of a correct concept of nation and state.

Ma Cheng is just a third-rate college student, so he naturally doesn't understand such an esoteric truth, he saw that these guys didn't have the slightest family and country feelings, and he was about to open his mouth to scold these guys, so he knew that someone behind him applauded.

Ma Cheng looked back and saw that the person who applauded was his uncle Yue Qijie, and Yue Qijie smiled and said: "What the virtuous nephew said just now made the old man's blood boil, it's really like an enlightenment!" ”

Ma Cheng's old face turned red, he knew that Yue Qijie was making fun of him, Ma Cheng stepped forward and bowed and said, "My nephew didn't know that my uncle was here!" ”

Yue Qijie shook his hand and said: "Don't be polite, nephew, what you just said is very right, but the object is wrong!" Yue Qijie pointed to the hundred people opposite and said: "They don't know a word, what kind of family and country feelings do you expect them to have?" It is their ideal to be a soldier to eat food, earn money and go home to buy more than a dozen acres of good land, marry a wife and have children! ”

Although Ma Cheng respects Yue Qijie very much, he doesn't agree with his kind of speech, they are all the same people, why do you scholars look down on these mud legs?

"Uncle, these people are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the virtuous nephew thinks that they can educate them, let them understand the feelings of the family and the country, and understand the righteousness of the world!"

Ma Cheng's words were categorical, and Yue Qijie was very moved when he heard it, but Yue Qijie didn't believe that Ma Cheng could do this. There were many military masters in ancient China, not to mention Sun Wu and Sun Bin who were far away, Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't say that he would educate all the soldiers to be scholars, so that they could know honesty and shame and understand etiquette, so Yue Qijie naturally didn't believe that Ma Cheng could do it.

"Well, the old man will see how the virtuous nephew educates these peasants!" Yue Qijie turned around and was about to leave after speaking, today he knew in the yamen that the second Zu Macheng at the door had found a group of peasants, saying that he wanted to train the new army, so Yue Qijie came out to take a look. Now I don't see any Western scenery, so Yue Qijie naturally wants to go back to work.

Ma Cheng saw that Yue Qijie was leaving, so he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Uncle, you just came, can you do your little nephew a favor?" ”

"Of course, what's the problem?"

"Uncle, look at these 100 people in rags and hungry skin, can you ask your uncle to help solve their food and housing problems, as well as weapons and equipment?" Ma Cheng knew that Yue Qijie was a soldier in Huaibei, and he was in charge of the logistics and supply of hundreds of thousands of troops in Huaibei, so according to Ma Cheng's character, he naturally wanted to take advantage of it.

Yue Qijie shook his head with a wry smile: "Okay, the old man can still help with this little help, but the weapons and equipment are not good, so I can only give you a hundred sets of mandarin duck robes." As for where to stay! Yue Qijie looked at the edge of the school field, then pointed to a few houses and said, "Have you seen it?" Those houses used to be military camps, but now the army has moved to Huai'an to garrison, so you can live there first! ”

Ma Cheng looked at the rows of houses, there were hundreds of them, and tens of thousands of people lived in them without a problem. Ma Cheng said happily: "Then thank you uncle!" ”

After speaking, Yue Qijie looked around and then said in a low voice: "It's okay for the virtuous nephew to play, but be careful of someone making it bad from the back!" ”

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard Yue Qijie say this: "Uncle, my father is the governor of Fengyang, what can I do with getting a hundred people to be my own soldiers?" ”

"The virtuous nephew is wrong, if you are an officer, of course there is no problem, but you are now white, but you are raising dead soldiers in captivity, if your behavior falls into the eyes of people who have enemies with your father, it will not be good!"

Ma Cheng was shocked when he heard Yue Qijie say this, after the experience of the past few days, Ma Cheng knew that in addition to the fact that it is easy to dodge with open guns and difficult to defend against hidden arrows, those politicians who eat people and don't pull can also kill people behind their backs. The army is a sensitive topic in any era, you Ma Cheng is a second ancestor, if you don't do your second ancestor's duty, and suddenly want to train a new army, what do you want to do? Do you and your father Ma Shiying have a heart of disobedience?

Thinking of this, Ma Cheng hurriedly bowed down and asked, "Then what is a good way for my uncle to avoid people's eyes?" ”

"This is simple, just attach these 100 people to your father's town mark, and after a while, the old man and Zhang Guozhu will say and ask him to hang a military registration for these 100 people, so that it will be fine!"

Ma Cheng was relieved when he heard Yue Qijie say this, and hurriedly bowed down and thanked: "Then thank you uncle!" ”

Yue Qijie gave a few more commands, and then turned around and went back to the yamen. Ma Cheng couldn't help but feel angry when he watched Yue Qijie leave, he immediately formed a new army after crossing the country, immediately formed combat effectiveness, and immediately beat those famous generals of the Manchu Dynasty, why did he hit walls everywhere?

Ma Cheng turned his head and looked at the soldiers in front of him who had a hundred morale and military appearance, sighed and said, "Everyone take a rest first!" Then Ma Cheng said to Gu Changwei: "Gu San, you go to the city to buy two hundred steamed buns, and you are making some gruel, so that these guys can eat first!" ”

Gu Changwei was full of reluctance when he heard Ma Cheng say this, the 1,000 taels of silver that the old lady gave to Ma Cheng should be used for the sugar factory, and before the sugar factory was not profitable, the food and clothing of these 100 people would be used by Gu Changwei's 100 taels of silver. Although Ma Cheng said that he would give Gu Changwei dividends, Gu Changwei was still a little dissatisfied in his heart.

However, Gu Changwei didn't dare to say anything, so he had to prepare lunch dejectedly.

When the hundred people heard that they were going to eat, their eyes were green, and they swept away the death just now, waiting for Gu Changwei to come back without blinking. Ma Cheng sighed in his heart when he saw these guys like this, it seems that he spent a long time foaming and saying that his mouth was dry, and it was not as good as a steamed bun.

Now it is the meal, and the number of steamed buns that Gu Changwei wants to buy is not very large, and soon Gu Changwei will take more than a dozen people to drive a big car to transport several baskets of steamed buns and several large buckets of gruel.

The 100 people were lying or sitting, but when they saw the food coming, they quickly stood up one by one, and rushed to the car to grab it.

Xu Dahu was very experienced, and he had already led ten people to stand in front of the cart and drove these hungry ghosts away with a sheathed waist knife.

Ma Cheng scolded angrily when he saw this: "Don't you understand the standing row? That is not allowed to eat if you don't stand in line! ”

Ma Cheng's order was thoroughly implemented under the knocking of Xu Dahu and others, and these hundred people can be regarded as the first and most important rule of a soldier, listen to the order!

Under the deterrence of Xu Dahu and others, these hundred people learned to line up, and then received a large porcelain bowl from Gu Changwei's hand, two steamed buns per person and a large bowl of gruel with salt water.

After receiving the things, the men squatted on the ground, and Siri snorted and began to eat. Soon someone finished eating the steamed buns in his hand, stood up and came to the cart to get a share, but Ma Cheng only let him buy 200 steamed buns, and they had already been divided just now.

It's not that Ma Cheng doesn't let them eat enough, but these guys have been hungry for a long time, and if they let go of their bellies to eat, it's easy to break their bellies without hunger.

The guys who finished eating first licked the big bowl unsatisfied, although they wanted to grab other people's steamed buns, but after looking at Xu Dahu and the others, they decided to endure it!

Seeing this situation, Ma Cheng jumped into the cart and said loudly: "It's not that the second master won't give you a full meal, it's just that you have been hungry for a long time, and if you eat too much, I'm afraid that you will die!" The second master is here to assure you, as long as you are honest and obedient, you will do whatever the second master asks you to do, and the second master guarantees that you will have a full meal, three dry meals a day, and meat to eat every day! ”

Ma Cheng's words were much stronger than the tirade just now, and a person stood up and asked, "Master Jun, can you really eat enough?" Still three dry meals a day? ”

Ma Cheng nodded: "You may not know the identity of the second master, the second master is the concubine of the governor of Fengyang, do you say that the second master can lie to you?" ”

These people were relieved to hear Ma Cheng say this, and some even knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank Ma Cheng repeatedly.