Ma Cheng left the imperial city after saying goodbye to his uncle and nephew at Xihuamen, Lu Siye stood at the gate of the palace and looked at Ma Cheng's back and asked in a low voice: "Uncle, why did you let me follow Ma Cheng such a second ancestor?" ”

Lu Jiude touched his smooth chin and smiled: "Boy, although Ma Cheng did a little bit of fire in today's matter, he is ruthless and decisive, and he will definitely not be ordinary in the future." Uncle is old, he doesn't have a few years to live, and the world in the future will be the world of your young people, and you will definitely not suffer if you follow him. ”

Lu Siye was originally the child of Lu Jiude's brother's family, and Lu Jiude inherited his incense after making a fortune. The eunuch's professional scenery is powerful when he is in power, and he is not as good as the old dog on the side of the road when he is frustrated. Lu Jiude is used to seeing ups and downs in the deep palace, Wei Zhongxian was so powerful back then, didn't he hang himself in the end? Therefore, Lu Jiude is ready to find a way out for his nephew Lu Siye, even if he has an unlucky day, at least there is a nephew who can give the old age to the end.

Lu Siye couldn't help but pout secretly when he heard his uncle say this, he really knew this Ma Cheng too well, this guy is now five people and six people like a person, and he will do everything when he is in Fengyang. It's nothing more than luck to enter the emperor's eyes, if he has such a sister, he must do better than Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng didn't know that Lu's uncle and nephew were judging him in the back, and being able to be promoted to admiral today made Ma Cheng full of confidence. Thinking that the twenty-four guards and 130,000 horses were about to arrive, Ma Cheng felt that he was not a problem with the Bayala elite soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Even if he left the imperial city after leaving Xi'an Gate from Xihua Gate, Ma Cheng's eleven personal soldiers were also released by Jinyi Wei at this time, and they were waiting for Ma Cheng at the door.

During this period of time, the brother-in-law Gu Zhong was very self-blaming in his heart, he didn't expect that he would let the adult bear such a heavy responsibility if he didn't control it for a while, Gu Zhong calculated in his heart that if the adult was really dismissed or imprisoned by the emperor, then Gu Zhong would have to apologize with death.

Gu Zhong saw Ma Cheng coming out of Xi'an Gate with a smile on his face, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Lord Zongzhen, what's going on with that matter?" ”

Ma Cheng saw Gu Zhong's anxious appearance and smiled: "Don't worry, kid, your family's life is very hard, so naturally there is nothing wrong!" In addition to these, there are also good things to announce, and Lord Ben will be renamed the military gate in the future! (The military gate is the name of the admiral in the Qing Dynasty, how the Ming Dynasty called it has not been found, let's use the Qing Dynasty to call it!) ）

The military gate is the honorific title of the admiral, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because of the frequent wars, the generals had to be rewarded for their meritorious service, so at the end of the Chongzhen period, the general soldiers were rotten on the street, and the generals with thousands of people could be called the general soldiers, and the generals with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers could also be called the general soldiers, so the general soldiers were really not a prominent official in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

However, the admiral is different, the Ming Dynasty admiral began in the Jiajing period, when in order to unify the defense of the capital, only to set up the chief military officer of the Beijing camp in Beijing, at that time this official position was held by honorable nobles. There was no law on this position, it was established with the war, and the position was revoked after the war, and it became a law in the Wanli period.

Gu Zhong and the other eleven people are all Ma Cheng's henchmen, and they are naturally happy to hear the adult's promotion, which means that they can be promoted, Gu Zhong and the others hurriedly knelt down on one knee to congratulate the adult on his promotion. Ma Cheng smiled and pulled Gu Zhong up: "It's good to say, Gu Zhong, you've done a good job these days, let's be a hundred households first!" ”

In Ma Chengding's new military system, 100 households are already equivalent to company commanders, and his subordinates are in charge of 120 people, Gu Zhong was only a big soldier before following Ma Cheng, and he didn't even have a military status. After following Ma Cheng, he became a small banner, and now he has been promoted two levels in a row to become a hundred households, Gu Zhong's face was flushed with excitement, and he knelt down and said: "Please rest assured, the subordinates are willing to die for the adults!" ”

The other ten people also knelt down to express their determination to Ma Cheng, and Ma Cheng said with a smile: "It's good to say, as long as you follow Lao Tzu loyally, it will be basic to eat and drink spicy food in the future, and it is not impossible to marry a few wives and have a lot of children!" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he mounted his horse and went home under the escort of his own soldiers. Today, Ma Cheng was promoted, and this kind of happy event naturally has to go home to show off, after all, no matter how you say that Ma Cheng is also a good product, it is higher than the grade of his own son Ma Shiying.

Ma Cheng was disgusted by his father Ma Shiying because he played hooligan and molested Miss Ruan Lizhen at Ruan Dacheng's house, and asked him not to go home and be angry with himself, so Ma Cheng has not been home for more than a month.

Ma Cheng rode to the door of the house, and the housekeepers who guarded the door saw Ma Cheng coming back and stepped forward one by one to flatter: "The second master is back, I haven't seen the little one for a few days, and I found that the second master is getting more and more handsome!" ”

Ma Cheng was already in a good mood, and when he heard the family members holding their stinky feet, they laughed and said, "Okay, the second master likes people who tell the truth!" You go to the housekeeper and receive one tael of silver each, and say that the second master will reward you! ”

The family members had silver collars, and they were all overjoyed: "Second master, but what is the happy event?" ”

"Of course, your second master has been promoted to Admiral by the emperor's grace!" Ma Cheng is really a villain, and he made a lot of nonsense with a group of family members at the door, and those family members are also the goods of the charming lord licking the chrysanthemum, what martial saint reincarnation and the words of the military god are alive are thrown out of the mouths of these guys like no money.

Of course, Ma Cheng didn't go home to listen to the good words of these family members, but wanted to show Lao Tzu Ma Shiying that he was not a second ancestor who could only play hooligans. Ma Cheng waved his hand to stop the housekeeper's fart, and then asked, "Is the master at home?" ”

"At home, today the old man is repairing Mu, and he is in the backyard!"

Ma Cheng nodded, handed over the horses to the family, and then walked into the gate of the Ma family with his head held high. And shouting in the courtyard to make everyone happy! ”

The family member got the order and galloped away, and Ma Cheng walked into the back house with square steps, and came to Ma Shiying and the old lady Gu's room.

It was the scorching heat of July, and the door of the old lady's house was open, and Ma Cheng stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted: "Dad! Mother! My son has come to say goodbye! "The picture is broadcast all over the world

Ma Cheng's old lady Gu is the best for Ma Cheng, although she was angry that Ma Cheng sent her sister out a while ago, but after all, she was her own son, and after the anger was gone, she couldn't help but complain about why Ma Shiying didn't let her son go home.

Now hearing that his son was outside the door, Gu Shixi said: "Master, my son is back!" Get out there and check it out! ”

Ma Shiying was reading in the house, and when she heard Gu Shi say this, she said angrily: "It has always been the son who visits Lao Tzu, so there is a reason for Lao Tzu to go out to greet his son?" ”

Gu Shi glared at Ma Shiying, regardless of this old thing, stood up and came to the door to greet his son Ma Cheng in person.

Seeing Ma Cheng walking into the house with a smile, Gu stepped forward to look at it for a while, and then said happily: "Yes, it's dark, and I'm thinner, but it's stronger!" ”

Gu Shi pulled his son into the back room, and then said to Ma Shiying: "Master, you won't come out to see when your son comes back?" ”

Ma Shiying glanced at Ma Cheng, snorted and didn't speak with a black face.

Ma Cheng knew that Ma Shiying was still angry, so he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute, and then said loudly: "Dad! Mother! Son has good news to report to everyone! ”

Ma Shiying asked in a deep voice, "What's the good news?" What other good news do you have? Did you take another concubine outside? ”

Gu Shi heard Ma Shiying say this and said angrily: "Master, why don't you like Cheng'er?" Why don't you read Cheng'er? ”

Ma Cheng stood up and took the hand of the old lady Gu and said: "Mother, what my father said is very right, my son used to make the second elder sad, but my son is also older, and I know that it is not easy for the second elder to raise my son, so my son has been training hard for a month. ”

The parents' love for their sons is blind, and their sons are not things, and they also think that their sons are the best in their hearts. When Gu heard that his son had been promoted, he was moved to tears. Although Ma Shiying didn't believe that the emperor could promote Ma Cheng so easily, after all, it was his son who was promising, so Ma Shiying's complexion was also a lot softer.

At this time, Ma Cheng's eldest brother Ma Luan walked in outside the door, and Gu stepped forward to take his eldest son's hand and said, "Luan'er, your second brother has been promoted, and now he is the commander, which is even greater than your grandfather's position!" "Ma Cheng's grandfather is the commander of the Guizhou Weidu, and his official position is the same level as the general soldier, but the official position of the family is hereditary, and the gold content is much greater than that of Ma Cheng's liuguan.

Ma Luan had already heard what the family had said when he came, and now he heard his mother say this, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "Dad, mother, now that the second brother has also come out, the second elder should rest assured!" ”

Gu Shi thought of Ma Cheng's inattention before, and couldn't help but shed tears of joy, Gu Shi said to Ma Shiying: "Master, now that Cheng'er is already a good product, should you tell your ancestors to know?" ”

Ma Shiying's face turned pale when he heard Gu Shi say this: "What's so great about him as a martial artist?" Let's wait for the marquis! ”

Gu Shi was very dissatisfied when he heard Ma Shiying say this, when the boss Ma Luan was in the middle of the move, Ma Shiying returned to the ancestral hall of his hometown in Guiyang to worship, why did Ma Cheng now become a first-class member and lose the other? In Gu's heart, the two sons are equally important, when the eldest could worship his ancestors, why couldn't the second son?

Ma Cheng saw that his parents were going to quarrel and hurriedly said on the side: "Mother, how can you go back to Guiyang now that the war is in chaos?" In addition, his son will be the generalissimo of soldiers and horses in the future, if he returns to his hometown to worship his ancestors every time he is promoted, won't he die of exhaustion? ”

Gu Shi nodded again and again when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "Cheng'er said well, said well!" My baby is going to be a generalissimo in the future! ”

After Ma Cheng's troubles at home, everyone knew the news of Ma Cheng's promotion, Ma Shiying's two concubines, Ma Luan's wife Zhang, and Ma Cheng's concubine Gu Xiying, all came to the backyard to congratulate Ma Cheng.

Seeing Gu Xiying coming, Gu pulled Ma Cheng and said with a smile: "Today is really a double happiness, Cheng'er, you are promoted, Xiying is pregnant, it is really the favor of the ancestors!" ”

Ma Cheng jumped up happily when he heard that Gu Xiying was pregnant, and hurriedly pulled Gu Xiying and asked, "Little sister, do you have it?" How many months? ”

Gu Xiying blushed and said, "Second master, the doctor that the old lady just found in the afternoon has been more than two months!" ”

Ma Cheng was overjoyed when he heard Gu Xiying say this, he was a very failure in the later life, and he didn't leave a queen for his parents after sending express delivery in Beijing for many years, but he didn't expect to have descendants in this era.