Ma Cheng looked at Lu Siye, who was full of hope, and said: "Old Lu, you see that the three positions in the Chinese army are full, and people are doing a good job, they can't let people go home for you, right?" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, there were three subordinate officers under the commander, which was equivalent to the chief of staff, the flag officer who was equivalent to the military judge, and the grain supervisor who was in charge of logistics and grain. The current Chinese officer is Zhu Tong, the flag officer is a guy named Song Zhong, and the grain supervisor is currently vacant and has not yet been selected.

However, Ma Cheng did not want to hand over the important position of grain supervisor to Lu Siye, and the food and grass were the first to march and fight, so this position must be handed over to someone he trusted.

Lu Siye couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "My lord, if you don't work, you can be a general soldier in the camp." ”

The battalion officer is also an important official position, which is dedicated to receiving new soldiers to prepare for the change of the battalion soldiers, which is similar to the new regiment commanders in later generations. The training of new recruit Ma Cheng has been handed over to his henchmen, where can Lu Siye's waste be touched?

"Old Lu, you have a noble status, and you are still a confidant of the governor, where can you be a small battalion commander? You see, this is good, the Governor wants to set up an agency in addition to the three subordinate officers, the Military Intelligence Department, which will be directly under the control of the Governor, and this agency will be in your charge! ”

The army of the Ming Dynasty did not have a department called the Department of Military Intelligence, and the military intelligence was in charge of the Jinyi Guard, and the scouts composed of veterans such as Yu Hou and Patrol were in charge during the war. At this time, the entire Ming Dynasty did not have a reasonable and professional yamen to manage military intelligence, which was basically managed by several institutions.

Lu Siye's eyes lit up when he heard Ma Cheng say this, although this military intelligence department didn't know what the specific work was, but it could be understood literally, and it was a high-powered department at first glance.

"Since the adults trust the last general, then the last general will be fortunate not to be dishonored!" Lu Siye is also very satisfied with this position, after all, he doesn't have to go to the grassroots army to mix with those big-headed soldiers, and he doesn't have the identity of Lu Ye.

Ma Cheng was happy to see Lu Siye nodding in agreement, and quickly took out a booklet from his arms, and Ma Cheng handed the booklet to Lu Siye: "Old Lu, this is the guide compiled by this governor, and you form a military intelligence department according to this." ”

This is an intelligence guide written by Ma Cheng in his free time, anyway, Ma Cheng retold the episodes in the spy war TV series in later generations, as for what Lu Siye can do, Ma Cheng doesn't care.

Lu Siye took the booklet and flipped through it, the booklet was written in a broken font, probably written by Ma Cheng himself. Although Lu Siye has no fame, his uncle Lu Jiude's family is rich, and Lu Siye has also studied with his master in the family for a few years. Seeing Ma Cheng's child-like font, Lu Siye was dissatisfied and smiled in his heart.

But when Lu Siye turned the page and read a few pages, he was very surprised, which recorded in detail how to hide, how to write a code book, how to contact the connector, how to use various means to obtain information, and so on. Lu Siye's uncle Lu Jiude was a eunuch and had worked in the East Factory for a while, so Lu Siye also knew a little about the business of the East Factory.

However, the methods of Dongchang and Jinyiwei have become child's play compared with those recorded in the pamphlet, and the use of Analects to convey news is much better than Jinyiwei. Lu Siye hurriedly put down the pamphlet and asked, "My lord, did you write this pamphlet?" That's so clever! ”

Ma Cheng nodded unashamedly and said, "It's nothing, it's all some small paths!" If you don't have enough manpower, you can go to Gu Changwei to ask for it, and you have to go to your uncle and ask him to send some experienced people in Jinyiwei to help, after all, these things are all conjectures of the Governor, and the specific implementation still needs Jinyiwei's skilled hands to do. ”

Regarding the establishment of the Military Intelligence Department, Ma Cheng did not want this department to be limited to military intelligence, but wanted to make this department a power department like Jinyiwei.

More than a month ago, Ma Cheng saw off Zuo Maodi at the dock, and originally wanted to win over Zuo Maodi to serve him. But thinking that Zuo Maodi's oil and salt are not advanced, and he doesn't have a good impression of himself as a second generation of eunuchs, naturally Ma Cheng can't use Zuo Maodi.

Although Nanming made frequent faint moves in the early stage, it cannot be said that there is no chance of turning the tables at all, and in Nanming's total of 39 years, there are also three opportunities to turn around.

The first was a head-shaving order issued by the Manchus after the occupation of Nanjing. In fact, the head-shaving order was implemented for some time after the Manchu occupation of Beijing, but it was only when the people in the northern provinces revolted one after another that the Manchus were forced to stop. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Nanjing, Dolgon thought that the general trend of the world had been achieved, and despite the opposition of the Han ministers in the court, he began to implement the shaving order harshly throughout the country.

If it weren't for the fact that the various regimes of the Southern Ming Dynasty were competing for power and profit with each other at that time, it was likely that there would be a chance to drive the Manchus back to the north of the Yangtze River and regain Nanjing. Xiaotao Chinese

The second chance is Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan anyway, these two guys were originally subordinates of the four towns of Jiangbei, and they were bullied by Manchu officials in addition to the Manchu Qing's head-shaving order, so that the two of them rose up against the Qing. However, at that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already become a climate, and the Nanming regime did not give these two strong support at that time, so this time it failed anyway.

The third time was Li Dingguo's two famous kings, this time in addition to Li Dingguo killing the two Manchu princes in Hunan, he also contacted Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan to capture the coast of Fujian and Guangdong. However, at that time, Zheng Chenggong did not cooperate with Li Dingguo's Huguang campaign because of the problem of supporting Lu and Gui, but sent him to attack Nanjing, the Manchu Qing's nest in the south. And Zheng Chenggong also suffered a big loss outside Nanjing, and the most elite 30,000 iron men under him were also lost outside Nanjing, so Nanming had no chance to turn around.

Ma Cheng came from later generations, and later generations analyzed the gains and losses of Nanming's several opportunities on the Internet very thoroughly, and Ma Cheng, as a traverser, naturally couldn't let go of these three opportunities. However, the overall strength of the Manchu Qing was stronger than that of the Southern Ming, and if we wanted to make good use of these opportunities, we had to plant seeds within the Manchu Qing and use party struggle to consume the strength of the Manchus.

What makes Ma Cheng happy is that not only the government of the Nanming Dynasty is rotten, but the government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not much worse, if the two sides are compared, it is probably worse on the Manchu side. In addition to the strength of the Manchu factions, the Manchu court also completely inherited the party struggle in Beijing officialdom. This kind of party struggle did not end with the hanging of Emperor Chongzhen, but the party struggle of the Han Chen, coupled with the political struggle within the Manchus, made the Manchu court more flowers and flowers than the Southern Ming dynasty.

Ma Cheng knew this very well, and naturally wanted to stir and stir in the pot of in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. That's why Ma Cheng wanted to win over Zuo Maodi and let him be this-stirring stick. But I didn't expect Zuo Maodi to ignore Ma Cheng at all, and the belly rhetoric that Ma Cheng had prepared was useless.

There is no way Ma Cheng returned home and thought about it, since these officials of the Ming Dynasty can't use them now, why not set up a separate intelligence agency by themselves? Therefore, the Department of Military Intelligence, which was notorious in later generations, was formed in Ma Cheng's mind. Of course, now that the Military Intelligence Department has just been formed, its power is not as great as that of later generations, and the first task of the formation is to send spies to the north and collect the manpower of the original Jinyi Guard in the north.

Ma Cheng, the chief officer of the Military Intelligence Department, chose Lu Siye, not really to win over his uncle Lu Jiude, but Ma Cheng fell in love with Lu Siye's eunuch background. Lu Jiude was born in the East Factory, as the saying goes, the factory and the guard are not separated, with Lu Jiude's help, Lu Siye can quickly reorganize the old department of the North Jinyi Wei and the East Factory.

As for the issue of loyalty, now is not the time for Ma Cheng to think about it, now Ma Cheng is mainly to survive, and when he survives the first wave of attacks of the Manchu Qing Dynasty next year, he is considering Lu Siye's loyalty at that time. Of course, if Ma Cheng can resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he will immediately become the first person in the late Ming Dynasty to make military achievements, and then Lu Siye will naturally have no problem if he is willing to take refuge, even if Lu Siye wants to be loyal to Zhu Ming, Ma Cheng will not be stingy with a gun.

Lu Siye still didn't know how Ma Cheng was going to deal with him, and he was still immersed in the joy of mastering the Military Intelligence Department, Lu Siye stood up and arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Junmen, the last general will go back to his uncle to borrow someone now, and he must not delay the big thing of the lord!" ”

Ma Cheng smiled and asked Lu Siye to go out, and Ma Cheng was going to meet Wang Xian next.

Wang Xian helped a lot after following Ma Cheng, there was no literati under Ma Cheng in the early stage, Wang Xian became Ma Cheng's big butler, from conscription to logistics management, Wang Xian handled it single-handedly, and now Ma Cheng has become a commander, so he naturally has merit to be rewarded.

Wang Xian walked into the lobby with an empty sleeve, bowed down and asked, "Lord Junmen, I don't know what else to call the little officials?" "Wang Xian is now the secretary of the Shenji Battalion, and he has no grade and only receives a salary.

Ma Cheng saw Wang Xian come in and said with a smile: "Mr. Wang is here, now the governor is in charge of the entire school field, and there is still a lack of a grain supervisor under his subordinates, I don't know if Mr. Wang is willing?" ”

The logistics department is the most important and fattest department in any era, the Ming Dynasty grain supervisor is one of the three subordinate officials, and the grain supervisor of the Admiral Yamen hangs the rank of general, which is already a high-ranking official of the three products.

Wang Xian said expressionlessly after hearing Ma Cheng's words: "My subordinates have already said when I followed the adults that the lives of my subordinates are the adults!" ”

Ma Cheng knew that the tragic death of Wang Xian's family had a great impact on him, Ma Cheng sighed and said: "In this case, Mr. Wang will go to office, and the logistics and grass of this governor will be entrusted to you!" ”

Wang Xian nodded and was about to go out, but Ma Cheng continued: "Mr. Wang, this governor knows that you have a grudge against Zhang Guozhu, but now is not the time, so Mr. Wang... "Wang Xian's family died under Zhang Guozhu's order, and naturally Zhang Guozhu and Zhang Guozhu never died. Ma Cheng was afraid that Wang Xian would delay military affairs for personal vendetta, so he wanted to beat it.

Wang Xian was shocked when he heard Ma Cheng talk about his family, turned around and bowed down and said: "My subordinates know, my subordinates know the seriousness of the matter, please rest assured!" ”

Seeing Wang Xian say this, Ma Cheng waved his hand and let Wang Xian go out.

After all the arrangements are completed, the next step is to start the large-scale military training plan, and now there are still four months before next year, and these four months must be trained into a good look, if not, Ma Cheng will have to prepare the ship to run away.