Fengyang is one hundred and fifty kilometers away from Huai'an in a straight line, and if you take the Ningluo Expressway in the future, you can reach it in less than two hours. But now it is the Ming Dynasty, although Fengyang is located in the Chinese mainland, which has been well developed as early as 5,000 years ago, but there is still a large primeval forest twenty miles away from Fengyang City.

On April 13, the 17th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and Lu Jiude, the governor of Fengyang, stayed behind and supervised the army of Fengyang, and the two gathered 20,000 troops to set off from Fengyang, preparing to go to Huai'an to welcome Zhu Yousong, the king of Fengfu.

Fengyang Mansion is located along the Huai River, water transportation is very convenient, Ma Shiying, Lu Jiude and other senior officials of course have to sit in relatively comfortable boats, although Ma Cheng is a thousand households, but in front of the star-studded Fengyang Governor is not bullshit, there is no way to have to take his own small armed force of 100 people to follow the large army by land.

This is the first time Ma Cheng has gone far in this era, and he was very happy at first, looking around full of curiosity. But after a long time, Ma Cheng slowly lost interest, and Fengyang was just plagued by rogues a few years ago, and there were broken walls and ruins everywhere, so he slowly lost his sense of curiosity.

When Ma Cheng was bored, an officer from the front team rode up to Ma Cheng and asked, "Dare to ask if this adult is Ma Qianhu?" ”

Ma Cheng looked at the officer in front of him, dressed in a garrison uniform, in his forties, as short and fat as a tank, but looking at him with a smile on his face.

The people are guards, five or six levels older than Ma Cheng's thousand households, Ma Cheng hurriedly asked: "My lord, I don't know what is the matter with finding the end?" ”

The garrison laughed: "Haha, Ma Qianhu is outside, and the last general will be Luo Bingran, the garrison of the middle camp under the general standard!" ”

When Ma Cheng heard it, he realized that this dead fat man was his direct boss.

Ma Shiying's pacesetters are divided into three battalions on the left, middle and right, with a total of 1,300 pacesetters and 200 cavalrymen. The three battalions were led by three garrisons. Ma Cheng belongs to the middle camp, and this Luo Bingran is the chief officer of the middle camp.

In fact, according to the rules of normal officialdom, Ma Cheng has to visit the chief after entering the military and becoming a thousand households, of course, it is the Luo Bingran in front of him, and then he has to send filial piety, that is, he has to pay a bribe.

But Ma Cheng is completely new to officialdom, and he doesn't know these unspoken rules of officialdom at all, plus Ma Cheng's Lao Tzu is the governor, where can he hang you a little guard?

Luo Bingran did not come to visit the new Ma Qianhu after receiving the official letter from the pedestrian department, Luo Bingran was very angry at first, but after learning about Ma Cheng's identity from Shangguan Zhang Guozhu, his anger immediately turned into joy.

Luo Bingran was originally a thousand households of Fengyang Yingwuwei, and when he fought with Lu Jiude, he took Yue Qijie's way, so after Ma Shiying became the governor, this Luo Bingran became a garrison under the governor's mark.

The garrison is already a middle-level officer, and he is probably equivalent to a deputy division commander compared to later generations, but Luo Bingran is not satisfied, he still wants to be a deputy general and a general soldier.

Luo Bingran's ambitions are great, but the leaders are not blind, the general soldiers and deputy generals are different from the garrison, and the general soldiers and deputy generals are qualified enough to lead an armed force to fight independently. You Luo Bingran is not bullshit, you only became a garrison by drilling the camp, and that leader is not at ease to hand over thousands of troops to you as a waste commander, so Luo Bingran's dream of being a general soldier has never been realized.

After learning that the Governor's sister-in-law came to serve as a thousand households under him, Luo Bingran felt that this was an opportunity, if he was happy to serve this Second Young Master Ma, then he would leave a good impression in the Governor's heart, and when the time came, he would be given a lot of filial piety, and he was likely to be promoted to a deputy general, even if it was a battalion deputy general.

Therefore, Luo Bingran created a precedent for Ming officialdom, and the Shangguan took the initiative to meet his subordinates, and at the same time called himself the last general.

Ma Cheng didn't know the crooks in the officialdom, and when he saw the dead fat man in front of him with a smile on his face, he hurriedly asked, "Lord Luo, what are your orders?" ”

Luo Bingran laughed: "Hey! Ma Ergongzi is serious, the last general is just a garrison, and he can't afford to be an adult in front of the second son, and the second son can call the last general's name! ”

Luo Bingran was still a little embarrassed to mess with Ma Cheng like this, but it was difficult for people to be gracious, so Ma Cheng had no choice but to say: "Since this is the case, then it is okay to call Lord Luo the eldest brother?" ”

Luo Bingran was overjoyed when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he became the eldest brother of Ma Ergongzi, is that the godson of the governor? Luo Bingran didn't realize that he was forty-eight years old, and Ma Shiying was only fifty-six years old, where could there be such a big godson?

"Good! Good! Since the last general has become the eldest brother of the second son, then he should call the general system uncle in the future, otherwise, the second son will recommend the last general to worship the general system as a godfather? ”

When Ma Cheng heard Luo Bingran say this, he felt disgusted in his heart, he really didn't expect people to be so shameless. However, as the saying goes, if you don't hit a smiling person, you are the official yourself, and you lick your face and slap yourself, if you refuse again, you are really embarrassed.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to say: "Brother Luo, this is not for the younger brother to call the shots, but the younger brother can tell his father on his behalf, and it doesn't matter if he can become the younger brother or not!" ”

"Well said, well said! Then I'll leave this matter to my brother! After Luo Bingran finished speaking, he took out a silver ticket from his arms, put it in Ma Cheng's hand, and then rode away (there was no fully circulating silver ticket in the Ming Dynasty, only the certificate issued by the major ticket numbers, some like the deposit certificates of later generations, and the officially negotiable silver ticket was not invented by the Shanxi ticket number until the Qing Dynasty.

Ma Cheng was surprised when he opened the silver ticket, good guy! This Luo Bingran made a generous move, and this silver ticket said that the full amount was 1,000 taels, and the ticket was redeemed! One thousand taels is not a small amount, Ma Cheng's mother Gu only invested one thousand taels of silver in the sugar factory, and according to the purchasing power, this thousand taels is equivalent to one million soft sister coins in later generations.

Ma Cheng received so much money for the first time in his previous life or in this life, and it took him a long time to react, and he asked Gu Changwei beside him: "Third brother, what is the origin of this Luo Bingran, why did he give a thousand taels of silver as soon as he made a move?" ”

Gu Changwei looked at Luo Bingran's back and spat: "Phew! My lord, you don't know, this Luo Bingran is known as Luo Papi, and he is the most shameless of the three garrisons of the Chinese army! Other garrisons collect benefits from time to time, this Luo Bingran even has to embezzle the soldiers' food expenses, if this guy hadn't taken the path of the Yue Adult, he would have been fired home by the General Lord! ”

Gu Changwei was born as a soldier, and his fame was cut out by Lao Tzu and himself, so he naturally looked down on the opportunistic Luo Bingran.

Although Gu Changwei hated this guy, Ma Cheng liked it a lot, after all, he sent him a thousand taels of silver. Ma Cheng has physical training for his small armed forces of one hundred people, not to mention letting them eat enough every day, and providing a certain amount of animal protein, Gu Xiying's one hundred taels of dowry has been spent in the past ten days, and now Ma Cheng is naturally very happy to have a new entry.

Ma Cheng handed the silver ticket to Gu Changwei, and then said, "No matter what else, it's a good thing to have the silver in hand anyway!" Today, the brothers are working hard to get on the road, and every five people add a chicken at night! ”

Ma Cheng's last sentence was said to his soldiers, and these guys cheered loudly when they heard that there was chicken eating at night, which made the surrounding brother troops look sideways.

When Ma Cheng's subordinates cheered, a knight wearing a yellow uniform and riding a horse ran over in front of him, shouting something as he ran.

When he came to Ma Cheng's side, Ma Cheng heard what this guy called: "The third battalion of the Chinese army listens to the order!" Chinese officer Zhang Zhen marked an order and ordered all the sergeants of the third battalion of the army to go and exterminate the rogues at a distance of five miles! The knight shouted as he rode backwards.

Going to war? Ma Cheng remembers that the current rogues are not all in the north? Could it be that there is a small stream of rogue here?

Just when Ma Cheng was suspicious, another horse came in front, and the knight above shouted: "Where is the Qianhu Ma Cheng in the middle camp?" ”

Ma Cheng heard that he hurriedly urged him to step forward and said, "I am Ma Cheng!" ”

The knight glanced at Ma Cheng and said, "Lord Luo, the garrison of the middle camp, has an order, and orders Ma Qianhu to go to the front to listen to the order!" ”

Ma Cheng was shocked when he heard this, it seemed that he was really going to fight, and his hundred soldiers had just been trained, and he didn't know how many would survive.

Although Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son, he has a big military order in the army, and Ma Cheng has no choice but to ride to the front of the team.

The middle battalion of the Chinese army originally had 500 soldiers, in addition to the 300 most elite Guizhou soldiers brought by Ma Shiying from Guizhou, there were also 200 cavalry. But now after adding Ma Cheng's 100 people, the entire middle battalion is 600 people, which is the largest number of the three battalions of the Chinese army.

When Ma Cheng arrived on horseback, the other two thousand households had already arrived, and the Chinese army had two thousand households per battalion, and Ma Cheng's thousand households were forcibly added, so there were three thousand households in the middle camp.

One of the other two thousand households is a small middle-aged man, with a long body and horizontal flesh like a water tank. The other Qianhu was a young man, probably in his twenties, and he was very capable.

When the two thousand households saw Ma Cheng coming, they all bowed their hands and said, "Ma Qianhu, meet for the first time!" "These two guys both know that Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son, so they don't dare to pretend to be anything, and they are very respectful.

However, the dead fat man Luo Bingran did not come up to lick the chrysanthemum, but pretended to be majestic and said: "The three thousand households have arrived, the official is short to make a story, just now I visited the Malay newspaper, there is a large stream of rogues five miles away, and Zhang Zhen has an order!" Order me to go out and destroy those gangsters! Everyone is a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and now the time has come to be loyal to the country! Xu Qianhu, you lead 300 Qianbing soldiers in front, Zhang Qianhu, you lead 200 cavalry under the command of Zhang Zhenbiao of the Chinese army! ”

After Luo Bingran finished speaking, he said to Ma Cheng: "Ma Qianhu, you take your hundred soldiers to protect this official!" Let's go down and prepare! ”