Ma Cheng glared at Wu Jiazhou, fortunately, this guy knew the severity, if he wanted to talk nonsense again, Ma Cheng didn't mind using the right to make a decision on the fly to kill this Donglin remnant.

Ma Cheng saw Wu Jiazhou sitting down on the chair, and then said: "Everyone heard clearly just now, Your Majesty has handed over all the important military and political affairs in the city to the governor, in order to resist the northern captives outside the city, the governor hopes that you will ignore the past suspicions and fight the Qing Dynasty together!" ”

This sentence is not Ma Cheng's cliché, he really hopes that his subordinates, no matter what camp they are, will work together to deal with the Manchus, after all, how their own people fight is also their own business, and if the Manchus come in, the country will be destroyed.

Now Ma Cheng's subordinates belong to three factions, the prefect Wu Jiazhou and Lishui County Ling Xu Zhan belong to the Donglin Party, Lu Siye of the Military Intelligence Department belongs to the Lu Jiude line, and only Wang Xian can be counted as Ma Cheng's descendant. Not enough, these people all know that Ma Cheng has the emperor's holy decree in his hand, no matter what he thinks in his heart, after listening to Ma Cheng, they all said that they must abide by the military orders of the Marquis of Guiyang and live up to the high expectations of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Okay, since everyone has no objections, the governor announced that from today onwards, the surplus grain collection system will be implemented in the city, and each family will leave half a month's ration, and all the others will be handed over to defend the city!"

Ma Cheng's words were like bombs, and everyone in the room immediately began to whisper. Although the Ming Dynasty was a feudal dynasty, it was a society ruled by law, and although it was different from the rule of law society in later generations, the family property of each person and family was still protected by law. Especially those scholars and doctors who have meritorious names and protect their bodies, they don't even pay taxes, let alone any food.

Wu Jiazhou had the largest official position among all the people in the house, and when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he hurriedly asked: "Master Hou, this is not in accordance with the etiquette law!" The state stipulates that scholars are exempt from forced labor, and this collection of surplus grain will definitely provoke a civil uprising! ”

Ma Cheng glared and said: "Yang Shen said back then that the country has been raising soldiers for one hundred and fifty years, and the righteousness of the war is today!" The Ming Dynasty has raised these scholars for more than 270 years, and now that the country is in trouble, can't they make some contributions to the country? ”

Ma Cheng said these words a little strongly, Yang Shen didn't mean this back then, but now Ma Cheng has the holy decree in his hand, and Wu Jiazhou doesn't want to touch his head at this time, so he won't speak anymore after listening to Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng's implementation of this surplus grain collection system is also a last resort, now the city has been cut off from the outside, the supply of food has also been cut off, in order to continue to defend the city, can only concentrate the strength of the whole city.

Speaking of this, we have to talk about the term war mobilization rate, and it is recorded in history at every turn that the dynasty raised a million troops to crusade against a certain regime, but in fact, the record in the history books is not correct.

The most brutal and bloody war ever fought was World War II, in which the countries with the highest mobilization rates were Germany and the former Soviet Union. Germany controlled more than 70 million people during World War II and mobilized 17 million people during the war. The former Soviet Union, with a population of 180 million, mobilized only 30 million, a little more than 16 percent.

Although less than half of the population was mobilized, the German army even had a situation of depletion in the end, that is, the men who had reached the age of conscription and met the requirements of the army had been exhausted, and they could only continue to relax the age and conditions of conscription, so a large number of 14-year-old child soldiers participated in the war.

War is a major event that determines the life and death of a country, and Germany can only achieve it when it has mastered the most advanced military service system at that time

By the time the mobilization rate reaches 24 percent, this is already a dry fish. Therefore, the million-strong army recorded in Chinese history is not reliable.

This is not a question of how many men there are in the country, the key is that the troops have to eat and drink, and the transportation capacity of ancient roads is limited, and the ability to supply water for epidemic prevention is also poor.

But how did the million-strong army in history come about, mainly because the number of people who transported water and grain corresponding to the logistics of ancient operations was huge, and many times the million-strong army of the ancients counted these non-combatants, such as the 1.13 million army of Emperor Yang of Sui, and the logistics supply alone can account for two-thirds of the number.

Now there are a total of 1 million people in Nanjing in Ma Cheng's hands, and even if Ma Cheng has a military service system that surpasses that of Germany, he can mobilize 240,000 people at most, which is still under the premise of destroying the social structure. Now Ma Cheng has a total of 25,000 new troops, nearly 100,000 guards, 80,000 people, plus 20,000 newly recruited new troops, and the strength in Ma Cheng's hands is close to the limit.

Using the ancient Chinese social system to ensure the mobilization rate of World War II, the logistics support department under Ma Cheng is now overloaded. Ma Cheng's army is not a strong man, and a soldier is a soldier who pulls a person to give a knife. Ma Cheng's new army is well-equipped and well-trained, and this kind of new army naturally needs a large amount of logistical supplies.

According to Wang Xian's report, the grain and grass in the army were only enough to eat for two months, and other materials for defending the city were about to run out. At this time, it is no longer possible to do the same as before, but to change the social system and concentrate all the forces of the whole of Nanjing on the military, so as to ensure the victory of the defense of the city.

Ma Cheng looked at the people in the room, and said in a deep voice: "The responsibility of defending the city is on your shoulders, if the city is broken, you, me and our family will be slaughtered by the northern captives, and the land of China will reappear three hundred years ago, so this governor pleases you!" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he stood up and bowed deeply to everyone, and everyone saw Ma Cheng making this big gift and quickly stood up and avoided it, and at the same time said that please rest assured that Hou Ye will ensure that the task is completed.

"Well, in that case, the Governor has issued an order! Wu Zhifu, as the attached Guo prefect, is responsible for the overall work! Xu Zhixian took the officials of Lishui County, and the officials of Shangyuan and Jiangning counties to be responsible for the collection of surplus grain for the civilians in the city! ”

Ma Cheng looked at Lu Siye after speaking, and then continued: "Vice General Lu, you were originally in charge of security in the city, so the surplus grain collection from the homes of the nobles and civil and military officials in the city will be handed over to you!" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he took out a letter of appointment from his arms: "This time, Vice General Lu has worked hard to defend the city, and this governor has already made His Majesty known, and Vice General Lu will be promoted to Admiral Yingtian!" ”

Promoting Lu Siye is a means for Ma Cheng to play, the Military Intelligence Department belongs to the subordinate officers of the Admiral's Yamen, and the highest official rank is the deputy chief soldier, and now Lu Siye has been promoted to be the Admiral, so naturally the leader of the Military Intelligence Department is no longer suitable for him to continue.

Lu Siye was overjoyed when he heard Ma Cheng say this, although he knew that the Military Intelligence Department was very important, but was it more important than his own promotion? Although he left the Military Intelligence Department, the Military Intelligence Department was established by Lu Siye after all, and some of these important figures were Lu Siye's henchmen, even if Lu Siye left the Military Intelligence Department, the intelligence would not be cut off.

Lu Siye stood up and bowed down to take the order, of course, the job Ma Cheng gave him was not a good job, in the city

Those nobles are all very domineering, and it is not easy to collect food from them. This is also a problem that Ma Cheng gave to Lu Jiude, and the hard bones will be handed over to your nephew to gnaw, if it can't be done, then don't complain about Bendu's ruthlessness.

Wang Xian's work has not changed, but he has added another task to check the official granaries in the city. Although Wang Xian was born in Xiucai, he is now a military officer, and now he asks a military attache to check the various granaries of the military department, which can be regarded as a reuse of Wang Xian.

After Ma Cheng finished his order, everyone bowed down to receive the order, except for Wu Jiazhou, who had a sad face, everyone else was quite satisfied. Xu Zhan's work is the lightest, bullying some ordinary people. Lu Siye's work was the most difficult, but it was not difficult to have his uncle Lu Jiude to help. Wang Xian went to check the granary, and now the secretary of the military department and the secretary of the household department are Ma Shiying's people, so Wang Xian's side is not difficult.

But Wu Jiazhou, who is in charge of the general manager, is not very happy, he has to be in charge of the three roads, and if he does not complete the task all the way, it will be counted on his head, this job is not easy to do.

Ma Cheng didn't care about these, after finishing the tea at the back end, these people started to work under the leadership of Wu Jiazhou, and for a while, the chickens and dogs in Nanjing City jumped and became a mess.

After all the officials in the house went out, Gu Yong, who was outside the door, came in and whispered: "Lord Junmen, the second aunt has already come, just wait outside the door!" ”

After Ma Cheng came back just now, he immediately asked people to find Zhang Erpei, who was wandering around the city, and now that the Military Intelligence Department has arrived at the position, he needs his own people to fill it.

"Okay, let him in!"

Zhang Erpei has been very unhappy for more than half a year, and several children of the Ma family are the most finished in his mix, and the eldest Ma Luan has now become the deputy capital of the third grade. Needless to say, the second Ma Cheng, from the dragon shougong plus the Nanjing guard, a proper court minister. Although the third Ma Xi is not a descendant, he has also become a general soldier with heavy troops, and he still has the rank of commander. Not to mention the eldest sister Ma Hongning, she became the queen mother of the dynasty.

Now the most disadvantaged is Zhang Erpei and his wife, originally Zhang Erpei was selected by the ministry to become from Bapin County, according to later historical records Zhang Erpei was quickly promoted to the prefect in Jiangxi, but that knew that Ma Cheng crossed caused a butterfly effect, Zhang Erpei did not go to Jiangxi, but stayed in Nanjing. In this way, he naturally has no official position, and he is still a county with the title of Bapinkong.

Although Zhang Erpei also went to Ma Shiying and wanted to ask his father-in-law Lao Taishan to help, but Ma Shiying himself was too busy, he had to deal with Zuo Liangyu in April, and he had to deal with the Manchu Qing in May.

Today, Zhang Erpei was very happy to receive the news of Ma Cheng at home, and quickly found his eight-grade green official robe, packed up and followed his soldiers to the prefect's yamen to see Ma Cheng.

After Zhang Erpei entered the house, he saw Ma Cheng sitting there in a big red python robe, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on his knees and shouted: "Xiaguan Jiangxi Xinjian County Cheng Zhang Erpei, I have seen the Marquis of Guiyang!" ”

Seeing Zhang Erpei like this, Ma Cheng smiled and said: "Second brother-in-law, get up quickly, there is no one in the house, you and I don't want to see outside!" ”

Seeing Ma Cheng's gentle tone, Zhang Erpei knew that something good must be something good today, so he quickly sat down on the chair next to him and asked, "My lord, I don't know what is the matter with finding the next official?" ”

Ma Cheng smiled mysteriously, and then said: "Yes, there is a good thing today, there is a shortage of positive three products here, I don't know if the second brother-in-law wants to do it?" ”