Summer turned to autumn, and the time soon came to the end of August, and the temperature in Nanjing began to slowly turn cold after the scorching heat of July, but Ma Cheng's new army training was indeed hot.

After the incident of entering the palace a month ago, Ma Cheng completely offended Nanjing Xungui Group, but Ma Cheng was standing behind Ma Shiying, the first assistant. Now Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, the traitorous duo, have begun to strike at the East and East Forestry Party in the DPRK and the United States, and have now forced the Donglin Party to a dead end.

With Ma Shiying's support, Ma Cheng's new army training is progressing smoothly, and 20,000 people have been recruited in the four battalions, and at the same time, Ma Cheng's core Shenji battalion has also been expanded to 5,000 people. Ma Cheng's confidence is a huge amount of military investment, in August a month, the Ministry of War for Ma Cheng's new army to invest 100,000 taels of silver, to create a new type of flintlock pistol, 300 short guns, and countless other armor cold weapons.

But in this way, Ma Cheng is still a little dissatisfied, because now there is a musket, but the artillery has no clue, all of Ma Cheng's knowledge is theory, and it is no problem to guide at a high level, but it is not good to really involve specific construction. Ma Cheng knows how to set up the machine tool, how to configure the quenching fluid, how to pour the artillery, and how to operate the lost wax method? So now Ma Cheng urgently needs a person who understands production to help him.

Now it has been almost two months since An Zhennan went to Jiangxi to pick up Song Yingxing, and he should be back soon, so Ma Cheng is really living like a year now, and I hope that this great scientist of the Ming Dynasty will help him as soon as possible.

Ten days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, on August 25, Ma Cheng was watching the recruit parade in the army, when a Yu Hou came back to report that An Zhennan had returned with Song Yingxing's family and was currently waiting outside the camp.

Ma Cheng was overjoyed when he heard the news, and hurriedly handed over the affairs of the exercise to the deputy general Zhang Guozhu, and rushed to the gate of the camp with his own soldiers to welcome Song Yingxing's arrival.

Arrived at the gate of the camp, Ma Cheng dismounted and walked, because Ma Cheng promised Chen Zilong that he wanted to worship Song Yingxing as his teacher, and the apprentice saw that the teacher of course could not ride a high-headed horse, if it were not for the rugged land in the camp, Ma Cheng really wanted to learn a Cao Cao and come out to greet him.

When he came to the gate of the camp, Ma Cheng asked the soldiers guarding the gate to open the gate, and then pretended to be moved, and rushed out and shouted, "Where is the teacher?" Where are the teachers? What about Bento's teacher? ”

Ma Cheng did it very similarly, but what was placed in front of Ma Cheng was indeed different. I saw a group of soldiers standing at the gate of the camp, led by Ma Cheng's personal captain, and the current superintendent guerrilla An Zhennan. However, there was no figure of Song Yingxing's family behind An Zhennan, only seven or eight prisoner cars followed.

When An Zhennan saw Ma Cheng come out, he hurriedly led his soldiers to kneel down on one knee and said, "The last general is fortunate not to be dishonored and brought back to Song Yingxing's family!" ”

Ma Cheng was very surprised when he didn't see Song Yingxing, and hurriedly asked, "Lao An, where is Bendu's teacher?" ”

An Zhennan was very embarrassed to hear Ma Cheng say this, so he had to whisper: "Lord Junmen, the last general took someone to see Song Yingxing, but this old guy refused to come, and the last general had no choice but to make his own decisions and put Song Yingxing's family in a prison car and arrest them in Nandu!" ”

It turned out that An Zhennan got Ma Cheng's order and took people to Fengxin, Jiangxi to invite Song Yingxing. Because An Zhennan had the writing of the military department, it was easy to find Song Yingxing's hometown from the local government, Song Guan Village outside Fengxin County.

Although the Song family has failed in this life, their ancestors are very awesome. Song Yingxing's great-grandfather served as the secretary of the three ministries, and later became a scholar from the position of a product, which was a real official family at that time. However, in the generation of Song Yingxing's grandfather, because he died early, he was only mixed up in the imperial examination. In the generation of Song Yingxing's father, Song Guolin, because his father died early and no one taught him, he has been a talent for more than 40 years, and he has never been admitted to the lifting of people in his life.

Although Song Guolin did not study well, he was in good health, and pursued the family rejuvenation strategy of "casting nets in many ways and focusing on training", and gave birth to four big fat boys in one go. Song Yingxing is the third in line, and he is the smartest among the brothers. Although he was not punished by family planning to bankrupt his family, the dolls in the family went to school in groups, and the annual tuition and miscellaneous fees alone could not stand it. Song Guolin's meager income can't even reach the minimum wage standard of Daming. But fortunately, Song Yingxing's second uncle is the principal of the village-run primary school, so the four Song brothers are all graduates of the village-run primary school.

The teachers of the village-run primary school are limited, and Song Yingxing and his eldest brother Song Yingsheng spent more than 20 years only to get the exam, but this is also a big shot in the poor and remote Songguan Village.

In the 43rd year of Wanli, among the more than 10,000 candidates in the province, Song Yingxing ranked third, Song Yingsheng ranked sixth, and the entire Fengxin County was almost wiped out, only the two brothers were promoted. When the county commander sent someone to take them home with a high-headed horse, Song Yingxing was only twenty-eight years old that year, and he said to his eldest brother in high spirits: In the coming year, we will fight again in the capital!

But the reality is cruel, how can you, a graduate of a rural high school, compete with Beijing No. 4 Middle School? So it's very simple, the two brothers in the second year's Beijing will test both failed the list. Reading nests

Song Yingxing and the eldest brother carried the roll and stood quietly in front of the Yongding Gate in Beijing, neither of them spoke, Song Yingxing gritted his teeth and swore that after three years, Lao Tzu will come back.

This time, the two brothers learned well, and we can also enter the cram school of famous teachers, so they contacted a few unsuccessful students and went to the White Deer Cave Academy in Jiujiang to register for the repeat class. The head teacher is the well-known educator Shu Yuejing, and the enrollment slogan is: All the famous and famous ministers are out of his door.

Song Yingxing studied hard for three years, and the result of the second time he participated in the examination was still in the name of Sun Shan. The brothers came to Yongding Gate again, stood in the place where they swore and said: In three years, Lao Tzu will come back.

Knowing that Beijing didn't believe in tears, the Song brothers participated in six examinations for three years and three years, all of which failed. Song Yingxing has also changed from a single young man to a father of two babies, you can study hungry, but your wife and children can't skip meals, there is no way Song Yingxing can only bow to this ruthless society, in Chongzhen for eight years, at the age of forty-eight, Song Yingxing found a serious job, and became a non-mainstream director of the education bureau in the county.

Chongzhen's eighth year was the time of the great chaos in the world, and there was a lack of capable officials in the whole country, Song Yingxing was promoted to the director of the Tingzhou Mansion in Fujian because of his outstanding achievements and excellent rankings, that is, the director of the Tingzhou Prefecture Judicial Bureau.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Song Yingxing was promoted to the governor of Bozhou, Fengyang Prefecture, which was already a middle-level official of Zhengwupin, and he was a senior official when he was promoted. However, Song Yingxing saw through this corrupt officialdom in the sea for more than ten years, and in addition to the fact that the governor of Fengyang at that time was Ma Shiying, Song Yingxing had a lot of disdain for people like Ma Shiying, so he resigned and went home for health reasons after less than a year in Zhizhou.

Now Ma Shiying's son Ma Cheng found Song Yingxing and asked him to go out of the mountain to help, Song Yingxing immediately refused without hesitation after listening to An Zhennan. Although An Zhennan was holding Chen Zilong's letter, Song Yingxing didn't even read it, although you Chen Zilong is very famous, one of the three sons of Yunjian, but Song Yingxing is almost sixty years old this year, and he doesn't want to develop in officialdom, so naturally he doesn't have to give Chen Zilong face.

An Zhennan is a Yi person, originally he was not fluent in Chinese, but now seeing that Song Yingxing looked dead, he came up angrily and commanded his subordinates to arrest all seven or eight members of Song Yingxing's family.

Ma Cheng listened to An Zhennan's detailed story, and scolded angrily: "Lao An, you are really a waste, did Lao Tzu let you arrest someone?" He doesn't agree that you won't think of other means? ”

An Zhennan was also angry when he heard Ma Cheng scolding him, this matter was too difficult to do, and it was no problem for An Zhennan to kill people and set fires, but it was really difficult for him to be a lobbyist.

Ma Cheng saw An Zhennan's red-headed face and knew that it was indeed a little difficult for him, Ma Cheng slowed down and said: "Okay, since you are invited back, forget it, the long journey is hard, you take someone to rest!" This time the new army has been expanded, you have become a guerrilla, and after a while you went to change your official uniform. ”

An Zhennan was still wearing the clothes of a hundred households, and when he heard that he had been promoted again, and he was promoted five or six levels in a row, all the unhappiness disappeared in an instant, and he immediately knelt down to thank Ma Cheng for his kindness.

Ma Cheng was in the mood to take care of An Zhennan now, so he hurriedly came to the prisoner car and asked, "Is this the teacher Lord Song?" ”

Inside the first prison car was a thin old man, dressed in a gray cloth shirt and a gray beard hanging down from his chest, who was recuperating in the prison car with his eyes closed. Ma Cheng couldn't believe it when he saw Song Yingxing like this, where is this Wupin Zhizhou, he is obviously an old farmer who farms.

Ma Cheng saw that this old guy didn't pay attention to him, and asked again, "But Master Song?" ”

The old guy in the prisoner car opened his eyes full of feces at this time, looked at Ma Cheng, and said, "You are Ma Shiying's second son?" Don't you dare to be your teacher! ”

Ma Cheng heard the old guy say this and knew that this was Song Yingxing, so he quickly knelt down on his knees and said, "The teacher is up, student Ma Cheng meets the teacher!" Although the teacher has only been an official in Bozhou for one year, the people of Bozhou have praised the teacher's name and praised the teacher as Hai Rui's second! The apprentice has been in Fengyang for many years, and he has also heard the teacher's name, but at that time, he was young and did not know the etiquette, so he could not go to Bozhou to meet the teacher! Now that the apprentice is a first-class admiral and has an identity, he naturally wants to invite the teacher's whole family to come over to take care of his life! ”

Ma Cheng did not lose his sales in later generations, and this clever mouth can bring the dead to life. In fact, Song Yingxing has been an official in Bozhou for a year, and it is impossible for him to have any political achievements. But everyone loves to listen to good words, although Song Yingxing knew that this kid was talking nonsense, but he also nodded with satisfaction.

Seeing Song Yingxing's face change, Ma Cheng immediately said on the pole: "Teacher, you know that the apprentice's subordinates are all soldiers, and they don't know how to treat the teacher slowly, the apprentice is really scared, but the apprentice has already arranged a place for the teacher in the city, please go into the city to rest!" ”