There was no light pollution from later generations, and it was basically completely dark at night. Except for a few places in the city of Nan'anfu, there are lights, and the others are dark.

Prince Zhu Hai stood in the small courtyard, looking up at the stars in the sky, and listening to the boiling voices from the front yard. Although Nan'an Mansion is a war zone, and the government also has regulations to have a curfew after dark, these regulations can manage the Ma family's industry, and the local government also turns a blind eye to these.

"Young master, it's late, it's time to rest, we have to hurry tomorrow!"

Zhu Hai looked at Ma Da who was standing beside him and asked, "Brother Ma, you have been with the merchant gang before, does the Ma family have such an industry all over the country?" ”

"That's okay! The Ma family used to be quite beautiful, but it was only limited to Huguang, and the villain used to rely on the protection of several masters in the same year when he went to Henan and Shandong. A few years ago, it was developed in Guangdong Majia, and now every province in Guangdong has Majia's industry, and Nan'an Mansion is still small in scale. ”

Listening to Ma Da chattering about the glory of the Ma family, Zhu Hai's heart slowly sank.

Zhu Hai was deeply educated by Ma Mingyuan when he was a child, and Zhu Hai's fiancée was Ma Mingyuan's daughter-in-law, and this time Ma Mingyuan made a great effort to secure the position of the prince. As Zhu Hai grew older, he became more and more aware of the importance of the position of the crown prince to him, and the only person he could absolutely trust was Ma Mingyuan.

In the past, Zhu Hongsan cleaned up Ma Mingyuan many times, and the most ruthless one was to beat Ma Mingyuan to the end, at that time, Zhu Hai was very upset about Ma Mingyuan, and he went to Zhu Hongsan to argue for his uncle, of course, it had no effect, and in the end he was scolded by Zhu Hongsan.

But this time, when I came out, I saw a large number of gentry encroaching on the land and enslaving the homeless. And the Huguang faction led by Ma Mingyuan relied on Zhu Hongsan's favor to run amok in various places, taking the ban of the imperial court as a fart.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hai thought of what his father Zhu Hongsan said to himself, "Never believe these stinky old men, they are-stirring sticks!" In the past, Zhu Hai thought that his father was uneducated and hated reading people, but when he came out and saw this, Zhu Hai began to feel that what his father said still had some truth.

Martha looked at the young prince standing in the courtyard in a daze, stepped forward and said, "Young master, the weather is cold, let's go into the house and rest!" ”

Zhu Hai sighed and nodded, he has no power and no power now, it is too difficult to change these, it is better to be a successor who satisfies his father first, after all, it is useless to think about anything if he can't take over the throne.

Nan'an Mansion is only more than 100 miles away from Ganzhou Mansion, and Zhu Hai didn't have the heart to have fun after getting up the next day, so he rushed to Ganzhou immediately after preparing his horses.

The geographical location of Ganzhou is very important, Ganzhou is located in the upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, it takes five days to get to Nanchang by boat, and ten days to enter the Yangtze River. Then the camera can go west to conquer Huguang, or it can go east to cooperate with Li Zhi's Nanzhili Group to take Nanjing. Therefore, Ganzhou is the starting point of Zhu Hongsan's Northern Expedition grand strategy. Because of this, Ganzhou has completely become a large military camp, there are only 50,000 or 60,000 people in Ganzhou City, and the new army outside the city has a division of 18,000 people, plus the prisoners of labor, inspection and inspection department, and Manchu Qing, the original Qing army camp outside the city concentrated nearly 100,000 people.

Zhang Jiayu, as the highest civilian official of Zhu Hongsan's group in Jiangxi, naturally became the supreme commander of this army. In the past few months, Zhang Jiayu has been busy to death, the pacification of the local gentry, the resettlement of the displaced people, the training of recruits, and the relationship with Jin Shenghuan, etc., all of which need to be handled by him personally. Fortunately, after the panic in the early stage, they are now on the right track.

Zhang Jiayu received an order from the Military Aircraft Department three days ago that the prince wanted to come to him as a glorious soldier. Zhang Jiayu immediately felt that the military aircraft department had written the wrong order, the prince is the foundation of a country, so he can easily get out of the palace? If something happens, it will cause a serious political crisis. A secret order from His Majesty the Emperor then came, verifying the correctness of the military order of the Military Aircraft Department.

Looking at the emperor's secret order, Zhang Jiayu smiled bitterly, Your Majesty, you are really messing around! Now that Jin Shenghuan is about to do it anyway, Jiangxi is very likely to be in flames, and if he fights, he can take care of the prince. If the prince is injured a little, then Ma Mingyuan still doesn't hold a grudge against himself? Emperor, Emperor, you really gave yourself a hot potato.

Zhang Jiayu thought about it for a long time, and only placed the prince in his personal guard. As the supreme commander of the Jiangxi New Army, Zhang Jiayu had a company of new troops to protect his safety, but this company of new troops was only transferred to Zhang Jiayu's side during the battle, and he had to train with other new troops in peacetime.

On this day, Zhang Jiayu was handling official business in the prefect's yamen in Ganzhou City, and someone outside the door informed a young man named Ma Hai who asked to see him, and Zhang Jiayu knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had come down.

Zhu Hai entered the house, Zhang Jiayu got up and saluted, and asked, "Your Highness, the minister has been waiting for a long time!" "Zhu Hongsan appointed Zhang Jiayu as the left Yude of Zhan Shifu, so that Zhang Jiayu is Zhu Hai's teacher in the actual sense, so Zhang Jiayu does not have to give Zhu Hai a big gift.

Zhu Hai arched his hand and said: "Mr. Zhang, this time my father asked me to come to Ganzhou to join the army, and he didn't let me reveal my identity, and I wanted to join the army as a civilian, so please Mr. Zhang don't call me His Royal Highness, just call me Ma Hai!" ”

Zhang Jiayu nodded and said: "Okay, the old minister has already received a secret order from His Majesty the Emperor, and the place arranged for you has been prepared, just three regiments, one battalion and one company, and I will let someone take you there in a while!" ”

Seeing Zhu Hai nodding in agreement, Zhang Jiayu continued: "His Royal Highness the Prince, since you are here to join the army, you must abide by the military regulations, if I hear that you are lawless in the army, don't blame the ministers for being disrespectful!" ”

"This is natural, please discipline me strictly!"

Zhang Jiayu nodded, and asked people to take Zhu Hai and Ma Da and the five of them to the military camp outside the city.

The Third Regiment is a newly formed regiment of this large-scale expansion of the army, and all the soldiers are displaced people recruited in Guangdong, because they are going to be sent to Jiangxi to fight, so the new army is mainly Jiangxi people. The company commander of the first battalion and one company of the third regiment is called Zhang Fei, who used to be a farmer in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, and went to Guangdong as a homeless person. In this expansion, fighters like him with actual combat experience have been promoted to grassroots officers.

Today, Zhang Fei was standing in line with the soldiers on the playground, and the herald of the battalion commander came to look for him.

"Company Commander Zhang, the battalion commander asked you to go!"

"The battalion commander is looking for me? Do? Is my appointment down? ”

The herald shook his head, "Then I don't know, just let me come to you!" ”

Zhang Fei suppressed his excitement, handed over the task of standing in line to the deputy company commander, and came to the battalion headquarters with the herald.

Coming to the tent at the battalion headquarters, Zhang Fei shouted: "Report, a series of Zhang Fei arrived!" ”

"Come in!"

Looking at Zhang Fei who came in, the battalion commander Wang Dazhuang pointed to the five people standing on the side and said, "Lao Zhang, these five people are new, they are assigned to your company, you can lead them back!" ”

Zhang Fei originally thought that the battalion commander called himself a transfer, but he didn't expect it to be a matter of transfer.

"Battalion commander, do you agree with my business!"

"Don't fucking dream, I haven't left, you want to go! Who doesn't want to go to combat units? Your appointment has been dismissed! ”

Zhang Fei saw that the battalion commander was angry and didn't dare to speak, so he hurriedly led Zhu Hai and a few people out of the camp headquarters. Zhang Fei came out and looked at the five people, there were old and young, the young man in the middle looked very tall, but his face was full of childishness, it should be a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child, the four on the side are much older, and the oldest one is almost forty. Seeing these five people, Zhang Fei couldn't help but muttered in his heart, is there no one in Guangdong? How did you recruit people of this age into the new army?

But how old the recruits are is not something he can manage, he is only responsible for training. He looked at the five men and said, "What's your name?" What kind of training did you have in Guangdong? ”

Zhu Hai replied: "Sir, my name is Ma Hai, and they are called Ma Da, Ma Er, Ma San, and Ma Si!" ”

At this time, the poor people had no names at all, they were all called by the eldest and the second, and he Zhang Fei didn't have any good names before he became a soldier, Zhang Fei was still taken by himself after joining the army. Zhang Fei didn't take it to heart when he heard them say this, but seeing that the four old guys surrounded Ma Hai in the middle, the five of them should be from the same place, and it is not clear whether this Ma Hai is still the son of a rich family.

Zhang Fei is not surprised by this, scholars will not be soldiers, but many military households in Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty joined the army. Among them, there are some thousands of households and guarded sons, and it seems that this Mahai is similar. However, Zhang Fei didn't take it to heart, the new army is completely based on military exploits, that is, your father is the regiment commander and division commander, and you can't fight yourself, and you have no status in the new army. But if you don't take it to heart, you still need to beat it, or these garrison sons who don't know the height of the sky don't take themselves as company commanders to heart at all.

"Listen to you, Lao Tzu doesn't care what you do at home, it's the son of the division commander Ma Liang, and you have to listen to Lao Tzu when you come to me, don't blame the ruthlessness of military law if you don't obey!"

Martha is an old man, so he naturally knows that he must be honest when he arrives in a new place, so he hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, the villain promises to listen to the adult!" ”

"Don't call me an adult, that's the name of those bullshit military households, in the new army, you have to call the commander, you know?"

"Yes, sir!"

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Okay, you come with me, I'll take you to get the spare parts and military uniforms, and then take you back to the company!" ”

Zhu Hai looked around, although the number of new troops was not large, less than 20,000 people, but they accounted for most of the military camp, and the other small part was the residence of those Qing army prisoners. Now the new army is training on the playground in the barracks, and there are those who practice platoons and those who practice target shooting. Seeing the dusty playground, Zhu Hai sighed in his heart, I don't know how long I will stay in this place?