Sixteen heads in exchange for absolute obedience, although everyone may not be convinced, but no one dares to rush Ma Cheng's lung tube at this juncture.

Ma Cheng inspected and saw that the commanders and commanders were convinced, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, that's all for today's gathering, let's go back." Remember that in the future, every three days will be drilled every five days, and the governor will have to be sampled from time to time, if you are caught by the governor, then don't complain about the governor for not saving face! ”

More than a dozen senior generals in the lobby hurriedly bowed down and said in unison: "Please rest assured, Lord Junmen, the last general will do what the Lord said when he goes back!" ”

Ma Cheng looked at these guys very respectfully, but he didn't know what to think in his heart, but Ma Cheng didn't take it to heart, these guys have been lazy for hundreds of years, where can they learn well in a while? Ma Cheng's hope is that the four battalions of soldiers under his command are Ma Cheng's capital.

Ma Cheng saw these senior generals coming out one by one, and said to Zhang Guozhu who was walking behind: "Zhang Guozhu, the four of you wait a minute!" ”

Although Ma Cheng hates this Zhang Guozhu very much, after all, this guy is now his confidant, and he still needs to count on them to do some things.

Zhang Guozhu and the other four heard Ma Cheng tell him to stop quickly, came back and asked, "May I ask what else the Lord Junmen has to order?" ”

Ma Cheng looked at the four officers who Ma Shiying stuffed in, Zhang Guozhu and Luo Bingran needless to say, they are both high-ranking officers. That Ma Bao is Ma Shiying's flag officer, and he is also the identity of a general. The lowest status among these four people is Ma Xi, this guy was an ordinary soldier yesterday, and today he has become a general soldier, so Ma Cheng is the most worried about Ma Xi.

"A few people, there are no outsiders here, you are all the henchmen and generals of my Ma family, so I don't have any clichés. You know what my dad meant by letting you come this time, right? ”

Zhang Guozhu, Luo Bingran, and Ma Bao are all old fritters, so they naturally know what Ma Shiying means by letting him come, it is nothing more than helping the Ma family master an army.

Zhang Guozhu clenched his fists and said: "Please rest assured, the last general will definitely train a reliable team for the adults in a short time!" Luo Bingran and Ma Bao also expressed their determination when they heard Zhang Guozhu say this.

However, Ma Cheng was not too satisfied with their answer, what they said was only the first point, in addition to loyalty, Ma Cheng also needed a team with combat effectiveness, why not make so much effort to support these four guys?

"Zhang Guozhu is right, but there is another point, that is, in addition to being reliable, it must also have combat effectiveness! Each of you is in charge of a battalion of 5,000 men, and you must train according to the requirements of the family! ”

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, land annexation intensified, and the Ming Dynasty guard system gradually collapsed, resulting in insufficient military strength, especially the flight of soldiers from the northern border, which made the problem increasingly serious. In the frequent wars in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it is common to see border generals leading their families to fight, and the families have gradually become the backbone of the army and play an extremely important role.

After the collapse of the guard system, Emperor Jiajing began to implement the recruitment system, the implementation of the professionalization of sergeants, like the world-famous Qi family army and Yu family army is the recruitment system, the recruitment system made the Ming Dynasty in the middle of the military strength has been briefly restored, but the Ming Dynasty's entire official system of serious corruption, so that the recruitment system only experienced a short rise and then declined rapidly, civil and military officials unswervingly to corruption as the leading, most of the military salary and military expenses were divided by corrupt officials, the most basic living security of the lower soldiers did not have, not to mention the combat power!

But a country generally has the military strength to get its hands on, so it gave birth to another military system of the Ming Dynasty: the family system, in fact, the family system is not unique to the Ming Dynasty, the military generals of all dynasties have the existence of the family, generally owned by senior officers, but the most is the family of hundreds of people, will not be used as the mainstream force of the war, but the Ming Dynasty is different, the soldiers at the bottom have no combat power at all, and all the wars in the late Ming Dynasty are basically fought by the family.

Regardless of the size of the official position, the officers of the Ming Dynasty have a family, a few people, more than a few thousand, become the main force of the war, if you want to get more military merits, you have to have more families, the Ming Dynasty Wanli period Liaodong famous general Li Chengliang has nearly 10,000 family troops, and all are elite cavalry, it is with this elite cavalry unit, Li Chengliang won a hundred battles in Liaodong, and the Li family also became the leader of Liaodong.

After the death of Li Chengliang's son Li Rusong, these families were divided by several generals in Liaodong, among which Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui and others were all from Li Chengliang's subordinates, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry also became one of the only elites who could carry the Eight Banners of Manchuria head-on.

Zhang Guozhu and the others are all old military households, so they naturally know the family system, but now Ma Cheng wants to train 20,000 family members, which is really sensational. Back then, Li Chengliang occupied a large area of land in eastern Liaodong, and he could afford to raise less than 10,000 families, and now you Ma Cheng is just a commander, even if you are the first assistant, but it is a fool's dream to raise 20,000 families.

Although Zhang Guozhu is under the control of Ma Cheng, he is Ma Shiying's cronies after all, so he is not very afraid of Ma Cheng among the four, and now when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he hurriedly asked: "Lord Junmen, is it the meaning of Yuanfu to train 20,000 families?" ”

Ma Cheng frowned when he heard Zhang Guozhu ask, "What? Do you have to listen to my father's commands? "Romance

Zhang Guozhu listened to Ma Cheng's tone was wrong, and hurriedly explained: "Lord Junmen, the last general will be under the command of Lord Junmen, so naturally listen to the orders of Lord Junmen!" But 20,000 families are not a small amount, and there is no money... "Zhang Guozhu's meaning is obvious, there is no money to train a fart soldier!

"Don't worry about military salaries, this governor will solve it, you just need to select people for training! In addition, the Governor wants to implement a new style of military training in the army, and send you a hundred veterans from each battalion, and the training will be handed over to them! ”

Zhang Guozhu and the others didn't pay much attention to what Ma Cheng said, but they didn't know that these four hundred people were Ma Cheng's means to control the four battalions. The loyalty of Zhang Guozhu and others is naturally fine, but their loyalty is Ma Shiying's. Now the Ma family is still a whole, and there is no problem, but no one can guarantee what will happen in the future, there are countless examples of fathers and sons and brothers killing each other for rights in history, so Ma Cheng must make preparations first.

These 400 people were recruited in Fengyang back then, these people have lived with Ma Cheng for many months, and their feelings are naturally not comparable to people like Zhang Guozhu, plus Ma Cheng gives them a brainwashing lesson for an hour every day, so these 400 people are completely loyal to Ma Cheng.

As for the weapons and equipment are simpler, there is a warehouse of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, Ma Cheng asked, the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War has to send hundreds of sets of weapons and armor to the warehouse every month, and a large number of weapons and equipment have been accumulated in the past hundred years.

Zhang Guozhu and the others saw that Ma Cheng had made up his mind, and looked at each other and had no choice but to bow down and take orders, anyway, Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son, as long as you Ma Cheng can get military salaries and weapons and equipment, I don't care how many troops you train.

Ma Cheng watched Zhang Guozhu and the four of them go out, and sighed in his heart that there was not much time left for him, it was now the end of July, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was about to go south in ten months, but he still had no clue here, and he was full of a sense of failure when he thought of this Ma Cheng.

At this time, the soldiers outside the door reported: "Lord Junmen, General Lu Siye asks to see!" ”

Ma Cheng only remembered that there was Lu Siye when he heard what the pro-soldiers said, and hurriedly asked the pro-soldiers to invite this real second generation of eunuchs in.

Lu Siye had been in the Shenji Camp for two days, and Ma Cheng asked him to report the next day, but he forgot about Ma Cheng the next day. Finally, Ma Cheng gathered the generals today, and Lu Siye came over with Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu from the Shenji Battalion.

But Lu Siye's position is too low, there are more than ten commanders and commanders in the lobby, and there are a lot of deputy generals in the garrison, and he is really not enough to see as a general, and now he finally waited until Ma Cheng was free, so Lu Siye hurriedly asked to see him.

Lu Siye is the governor of Jinyi Weidu, and it stands to reason that he is of the same grade as Ma Cheng, both of whom are from the first grade, but Lu Siye did not wear the uniform of the military attache from the first rank today, but according to his actual position, he wore the official uniform of the general from the third grade.

Lu Siye's mind was very small, and he was afraid that it would be bad for the chief to wear small shoes for him on the first day of work. But Ma Cheng is busy now, and he can take care of such details.

Seeing Lu Siye coming in, Ma Cheng smiled and said: "Old Lu, this governor has been too busy these days, and I forgot about you, don't pick on it!" ”

Lu Siye said with a smile: "Lord Junmen has a lot of opportunities, and the last general has nothing to wait for!" ”

"Haha, Lao Lu, I don't know what position you want?" To be honest, Ma Cheng really didn't think about how to arrange this Lu Siye, this guy's uncle is Lu Jiude, and his uncle is not happy if he can't arrange it, but Ma Cheng is not at ease when he is asked to go to the grassroots army.

Lu Siye was also afraid to let himself go to the grassroots army when he heard Ma Cheng's question, after all, Lu Siye didn't want to be a big soldier yet, and he was tired to death every day.

"Lord Junmen, the last general can't lead the troops, but he still knows some words, is it good to serve as the flag officer of the military gate?"

Flag officers are an important position second only to middle officers, and some are equivalent to military judges in later generations, who are in charge of the royal flag and are responsible for the inspection and inspection of the whole army.

Ma Cheng didn't expect that this Lu Siye would not be seen, and he wanted the second most important official position when he came up. However, after being reminded by Lu Siye, Ma Cheng found that he still lacked one of the most important departments, that is, the intelligence department.

The Ming army also had a department to manage military intelligence, that is, Jinyiwei, who made significant contributions in all foreign wars, such as the southeast Wakou rebellion in the Jiajing period, the three major expeditions in the Wanli period, and so on. Ma Cheng, as a traverser, naturally knows what role intelligence plays in the battle, but the military intelligence of the Ming Dynasty is under the management of Jinyiwei, although Ma Cheng hangs the identity of a Jinyiwei, but it has nothing to do with the genuine Jinyiwei, and now the army has become a scale, and the formation of a military intelligence agency is on the agenda.