Since Ma Shiying decided to support King Fu, Yang Wencong and Yue Qijie had nothing to say, Ma Shiying arranged for the two of them to go out and start preparing separately.

After the two left, only the father and son were left in the house, Ma Shiying looked at Ma Cheng, who was still rubbing his legs, sighed and said: "Luan'er, Cheng'er, there are no outsiders in the house now, you all sit down!" ”

Ma Cheng didn't know what Ma Shiying had to say when he left him, Ma Cheng had molested Ma Shiying's concubine Aunt Zheng a few days ago, so Ma Cheng thought that Ma Shiying was going to clean up and ask for guilt.

Ma Luan sat under Ma Shiying, and Ma Cheng sat down next to Ma Luan, waiting for Ma Shiying's lecture.

Ma Shiying looked at the two sons and sighed and said, "Cheng'er, you are eighteen years old this year, do you want to go on like this in the future?" To be a gentleman for the rest of your life? ”

Ma Cheng heard that Ma Shiying was not talking about the concubine Aunt Zheng, and his heart relaxed: "Dad, you also know what level your son is, your son wants to sleep when he reads books, and his son is really not reading material!" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, Ma Luan arched his hand on the side and said: "Dad, this is all my son's fault, you used to be an official in Shanxi, and your son didn't discipline his younger brother well at home, please punish your father!" In the future, my son will urge his younger brothers to study hard and not disgrace the family style of my Ma family! ”

Ma Cheng really doesn't want to study, he has experienced the college entrance examination in his previous life, is he going to experience it again in this life?

"Big brother, it's good for you to urge the third brother, younger brother, I'm really not a reading material!"

Ma Shiying sighed when he saw that Ma Cheng's mud was not on the wall, and he couldn't help this son: "Cheng'er, do you want to arrange for your father to go to Guozijian to study?" How about arranging for you to participate in the election of officials in a few years! ”

Ma Shiying has decided to support King Fu, according to his expectations, he can at least enter the cabinet, and a vice premier of the State Council can get a low-level official position for his son, and this little energy is still there.

How do you know that Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, and quickly shook his head and said: "Dad, my son doesn't want to be an official, my son wants to lead the troops and become a general!" Now the world is in turmoil, the northern Manchu Qing invaded the Central Plains, and his son wants to learn from Wei Qinghuo to get sick, chase the Huns in Mobei, and seal the wolf Juxu! ”

Ma Shiying smiled bitterly when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he himself was the general who led the troops, and fighting with the Manchu Qing Dynasty was as simple as Ma Cheng said, if it was really that simple, it couldn't be occupied by others.

But Ma Cheng didn't think so, he had just crossed over, and he didn't know the tragedy of the ancient war, so he looked at the problem too simply.

"Dad, there is an eldest brother in the family who is an official, but the foreign court also needs the help of our family! Just like this time, if one of the four general soldiers is a son, the father can't be held hostage by this gang of Qiu Ba at all! ”

Ma Shiying felt right when he heard Ma Cheng say this, his family is full of civil officials, both good and bad, if his son is a general, he will get greater benefits.

Ma Shiying thought for a while and said: "Cheng'er, when you didn't come just now, your uncle told your father about the past ten days, and I heard that you recruited a hundred soldiers to start training?" ”

Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this and quickly replied: "Yes, Dad! Now there are too many ruffians in the army, and these guys usually rob their families and give up a top trick, but they don't use it when they really fight, so the son has to train the new army by himself! ”

It was the first time for Ma Shiying to see such a focused look on Ma Cheng's face, and as a father, he naturally hoped that his son would do something big.

"Okay, since you think so, then the father will satisfy you, and you will be a thousand households for the father's town standard!"

Hearing that Ma Shiying finally agreed to be a soldier, Ma Cheng stood up happily and bowed with his hands into fists and said, "Please rest assured father, my son will never embarrass you!" ”

Ma Shiying saw the elated Ma Cheng, sighed and said: "Cheng'er, you can call it that way at home, but it's different in the army, if you make any mistakes, your father must punish you severely, you can think about it!" ”

"Please, father, no! Please rest assured that you will obey the military order! ”

"Okay, you go out and find Zhang Guozhu, my father has already told him that I have accepted a military position for you!"

Ma Cheng happily went out when he heard his father say this, and went to report to Zhang Guozhu.

Ma Luan saw his younger brother go out and asked, "Dad, did you really let your younger brother join the army?" Then in the future, the descendants of the younger brother will not be able to take the imperial examination! ”

Ma Shiying was silent when she heard Ma Luan say this, and only said after a long time: "Hey, this incident let my father know that it is not possible to have a reliable army, and now the country is in chaos, and it is likely to be like the Southern Song Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty for hundreds of years in the future, and our Ma family can't hang ourselves on the tree of the imperial examination, so Luan'er, you are an official in the central government, and your younger brother is in charge of the army in the local area, so as to ensure that our Ma family is safe and sound!" ”

Ma Luan thought for a while and asked in a low voice, "Father, do you want to learn from the Xie family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty?" ”

At that time, Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the prime minister in the court, and his nephew Xie Xuan and younger brother Xie Shi were in charge of the army in the local area.

Ma Shiying said in a low voice: "Don't talk about this matter to outsiders, only you and my father and son can know!" In a moment, you can send a letter to your uncle, asking him to send 500 soldiers over and put them under your brother's command!" ”

Ma Luan also knew that the matter was important, and nodded again and again to indicate that he knew.

Ma Cheng didn't know that he had become Ma Shiying's pawn at this time, and was happily looking for Zhang Guozhu.

Ma Cheng came to the second hall of the governor's yamen and found the Chinese officer Zhang Guozhu, Ma Cheng stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "Zhang Biaozhen, mark the military order of the general constitution to report for duty!" ”

Zhang Guozhu had already received a letter from the Governor's Yamen Pedestrian Division, but Zhang Guozhu was very optimistic about Ma Cheng, thinking that this second ancestor was just a whim, and it would not be long before he would retreat.

Zhang Guozhu looked at Ma Cheng and said with a smile: "Second young master, the last general congratulates you on becoming a thousand households!" ”

Zhang Guozhu's official position is the deputy chief soldier, according to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, it is seven or eight levels higher than Ma Cheng's thousand households, but now he has come to congratulate Ma Cheng, it is really a sycophant.

Ma Cheng smiled and said: "Don't say that, Lord Zhang, the last general will be Lord Zhang's subordinate in the future, if you have any orders, you can just give orders directly!" ”

Although Ma Cheng said so, Zhang Guozhu can take it seriously, this kind of second-generation official is just gilded, no matter what happens in the Ming Dynasty and later generations.

"Lord Zhang, now the last general is also a general in the army, I don't know if there are any armor and weapons to be distributed?" Ma Cheng came to Zhang Guozhu to ask for weapons, after all, his 100 people only had uniforms, not even simple armor.

"Of course there is, please follow me!" Zhang Guozhu led Ma Cheng out of the governor's yamen and came to the warehouse on the side, where the weapons and equipment of the governor's town standard were stored.

The weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty were very complicated, and each place had its own military situation, and there was no unified style of armor. In the north, because of the cold climate, soldiers are often issued with cotton armor. But in the south, it was different, where soldiers were mostly armed with fish scale armor.

It is said that the fish scale armor is actually not fundamentally different from the cotton armor, that is, because of the cold weather in the north, a layer of cotton armor is added to the outside of the fish scale armor. The inside of this fish scale armor is clothed, and the outside is cowhide, and the armor leaves are mounted on the cowhide with rivets, but ordinary soldiers only have half-body armor, and only those middle-level officers have full-body armor.

Ma Cheng is now a thousand households, and according to the regulations, he can wear full-body armor, but in order to pat him on the back, Zhang Guozhu specially prepared Shanwen armor for him that can only be worn by the general army.

Shanwen armor is the pinnacle of the history of armor, the whole body of Shanwen armor is composed of 200 pieces of Mitsubishi armor with a convex middle, this armor is folded layer by layer, can effectively protect against the attack of bows and arrows, knives and guns and other weapons, and the protection ability is far stronger than the European kind of plate armor like cans.

Shanwen armor with super defensive power is a general soldier-level equipment in the Ming army, and even Zhang Guozhu only has ten sets in his hands.

Ma Cheng had only seen the restoration of this kind of mountain armor in later generations, and now he liked it very much when he saw the real thing, and said happily: "Lord Zhang, this armor is for me?" ”

"This is nature, Ma Qianhu is the son of the Governor, and naturally needs the best armor protection!" After Zhang Guozhu finished speaking, he called a few Kuding who were in charge of the warehouse and asked them to help Ma Qianhu put on this armor.

Shan Wen armor looks very handsome, but the weight of the full set of armor is seventy or eighty pounds, Ma Cheng can wear such heavy armor without learning and skills, and when he finishes wearing it, Ma Cheng is pressed by the armor and can't move at all.

Ma Cheng couldn't help but cry and asked with a sad face: "Lord Zhang, don't you have a lighter armor?" ”

Zhang Guozhu couldn't help it when he saw Ma Cheng like this, who told you that Ma Cheng didn't exercise, he couldn't carry such a pair of armor. Zhang Guozhu asked Kudin to take out all the armor and let Ma Cheng choose.

Ma Cheng looked at the Shanwen armor that was too heavy to wear, and tried the fish scale armor worn by ordinary soldiers, and the whole set of fish scale armor was more than forty catties, and he couldn't wear it. There was also the chain mail worn by the cavalry that was easy to move, so I finally tried cotton armor. If the iron clamp in the cotton armor is removed, the weight of the cotton armor is reduced to more than 20 catties, which makes Ma Cheng fit to wear it.

The serious cotton nail is not just a layer of cotton jacket, but a few catties of cotton wool into the mold, soaked in water and repeatedly molded, and then sewn into a thin sheet with a thread mesh, which is not swollen in the sun as a qualified standard. When making nails, several pieces of molded cotton are cut and superimposed, and components such as legs, skirts, armpit protectors and other components are sewn respectively to form a collar full armor. If you add iron sheets to the cotton armor, it is a cotton-iron composite armor, and if you don't add an iron sheet, it is a pure cotton armor.

Although the protective ability of pure cotton armor is not as good as that of adding iron sheets, pure cotton armor has strong protection power in protective firearms and bows and arrows. If they are compared to the body armor equipped by the modern army, the pure cotton armor is equivalent to the Kevlar outer skin part of the body armor, and the cotton-iron composite armor is equivalent to the Kevlar outer skin with ceramic inserts.

Ma Cheng wore a cotton armor of more than 20 catties and looked at it, it was not bad, there was no way to wear this one, although the Shanwen armor was beautiful, but it was useless to wear it.