Ma Jiyuan and Zhu Jiang's ancestors and grandsons were cold in the house for more than ten minutes, and finally Zhu Jiang broke the silence.

"Lord Governor, the commander of the last general asked the last man to get weapons, please send a document to the governor!"

Ma Jiyuan then remembered that Zhu Jiang was still a middle-level officer in the army, Ma Jiyuan took out the document from his cuff, handed it to Zhu Jiang, and then asked: "King Qin, how is it in the army?" Can training be hard? ”

"Lord Hui, although the training in the army is hard, the military robe treats Zhu Jiang like a brother, and Zhu Jiang is very happy!"

Ma Jiyuan sighed and continued: "King Qin, although you don't like to listen to my words, I also want to say that after the battle of Yangzhou, you will write to Your Majesty, return to Nanjing, and wait until you get married, and then go to the fief to become a vassal!" ”

The rules of the prince of the Ming Dynasty were that as long as he got married, he would have to become a vassal, and then spend his life under the supervision of the magistrate, and he had to ask for leave from the magistrate when he went out of the city, not to mention the mountains and rivers!

Zhu Jiang was dissatisfied when he heard his grandfather say this, and said with a red face: "Grandpa, why did you let me go to the domain?" Am I worse than the crown prince? ”

Ma Jiyuan saw that Zhu Jiang was not satisfied, and sighed and said: "You are the eldest son, you are not the eldest son!" ”

The matter of the eldest has always been a pain in Zhu Jiang's heart, when he was young, he was educated by Mr. to be respectful to the prince, and when he grew up, he saw that the prince wanted to practice the courtesy of a monarch and a minister. It's all one brother, why do you have to do this? And if the prince is much stronger than him Zhu Jiang, he will be convinced, but the prince's personality is cowardly in his opinion, how can this convince Zhu Jiang?

"Chief! Chief! Is the eldest son so important? Isn't my grandfather also the eldest son? Why haven't you been in the cabinet yet? ”

Zhu Jiang's words can be regarded as rushing Ma Jiyuan's lungs, Ma Jiyuan is deeply educated in the Confucian tradition, and attaches great importance to the kind of Qi family governing the country, but as the eldest son of the Ma family, he was suppressed by the second Ma Mingyuan, and he was unable to enter the cabinet for a long time. Now that he has been stabbed by his grandson, Ma Jiyuan is naturally furious in his heart!

Ma Jiyuan stood up and shouted angrily: "What did you say? That's the old man letting Ma Mingyuan! Don't worry about the rest, after the battle of Yangzhou this time, you will go home and get married honestly! ”

"I don't, I'm an adult now, I'm going to go out of my own way, why can he Zhu Hai be the prince? Is it because I was born half a year earlier? ”

"Child, you don't understand, the prince is the eldest prince, the throne has been set early, and there are countless ministers who support the prince from top to bottom, how can you fight!"

"He has the support of Wenchen, I have military generals, and now several generals in the army have expressed their attitude to support me, including my uncle and second uncle who also support me, so my grandfather will leave it alone!"

Ma Jiyuan now has two sons left, one is Ma Shaoguang, who is the prefect of Qiongzhou, and the other is Ma Rufeng, who is the deputy division commander. When Ma Jiyuan heard that his son had gone to King Qin behind his back, he was completely speechless for a while.

Seeing Ma Jiyuan stunned there, Zhu Jiang didn't say anything, and went out with the paperwork in his hand. After a long time, Ma Jiyuan's staff Fang Fengnian entered the house and said, "My lord, King Qin is gone!" ”

Ma Jiyuan looked at his own year and said, "Shutian, you have heard it, what should I do?" ”

Fang Fengnian is a native of Sui'an, Zhejiang, with the word Shutian and the number Shiluan. In the second year of the Ming Xizong Tianqi examination, he won the fourth place in the Jinshi examination held in the imperial court, and was immediately elected as the official position of Shujishi. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, when he presided over the local township examination in Huguang area and asked the candidates about current affairs, he made a policy with the phrase "giant beetle", which offended the minions of Wei Zhongxian, a traitor in the court, so he was framed and returned home. After Zhu Hongsan occupied Zhejiang, Ma Jiyuan was selected as the governor of Liangjiang, and felt that he had no right-hand man around him to help, so he invited his old classmate Fang Fengnian to serve as his chief staff.

Fang Fengnian heard it outside the house just now, and now he heard Ma Jiyuan ask and said, "Brother Boyu, the child has his own ideas when he is older, let him go on, maybe it's a way out!" ”

Ma Jiyuan turned his face and asked, "Brother Shutian, do you think the same as Brother Yudi?" Want to support the King of Qin? ”

Brother Yu is Ma Jiyuan's other character of Zhang Guowei in the same year, and now he is the governor of Jiangsu and is not around.

"Brother Boyu, do you want to be suppressed by Ma Er for the rest of your life?"

Hearing Fang Fengnian mention his younger brother Ma Mingyuan, Ma Jiyuan was furious: "How can the old man swallow this breath, but Zhu Jiang, this kid is not the prince's opponent at all, in case... ”

"Boyu, how do you know if you don't have an opponent if you don't give it a try, at least the prince has not yet expressed the support of military generals, now that the king of Qin and the crown prince are young, let's talk about it in another ten years!"

Ma Jiyuan can only think about it, and now the top priority is to expand the power of his own side, and he can say whatever he has the power in his hands.

Zhu Hai walked out of the temporary governor's yamen and came to the dock with the paperwork for taking weapons, and the soldiers of his battalion were already standing here waiting, and when they saw that their battalion commander was coming, they hurriedly greeted him.

"Sir, got the paperwork?"

Seeing his robe-like face, Zhu Jiang's mood was much better, and he was still much more comfortable in the army than at home, at least there was not so much deception.

Zhu Jiang scolded with a smile: "His grandmother's, the paperwork is here, let me go!" ”

Zhu Jiang came to the warehouse on the edge of the wharf, handed over the documents to the ambassador guarding the warehouse, and prepared to pick up the goods.

The ambassador was five short and looked like a fine tank, looked at Zhu Jiang and then looked at the documents and said, "It's all right, but you won't be able to pick up the goods until two days!" ”

Zhu Jiang was stunned, his grandfather said just now that he had weapons, why did he come back in a few days?

"No, why do you want to come back tomorrow as I told me about the five thousand sets of armor that I just shipped from Nanjing?"

The ambassador meant to ask for bribes from Zhu Jiang, but how could Zhu Jiang know these ways. The ambassador saw that Zhu Jiang didn't understand the rules, and said with a cold face: "What's wrong with what the Governor said?" No goods are no goods, if you have a temper, you can go to the governor to make trouble! ”

The elder of the company on the side, Yu Shi, knew why when he saw the ambassador like this, he grabbed Zhu Jiang and said: "Sir, this is the rule of the warehouse, ask us to pay the silver!" Or it's for us to eat insects and rats! ”

As a prince, this is the first time Zhu Jiang has encountered this kind of bad rule, and he was holding back the fire in the distance of Ma Ji just now, and now he has a seizure. Zhu Jiang stepped forward and slapped the ambassador left and right four times, and before he was angry, he called ten soldiers, tied up the warehouse ambassador and the five Kudings, and gave each of them thirty lashes. This kind of soldier only obeys the orders of the commander, and the ambassador is repeatedly told to forgive, and when he is tied up, he is beaten fat, and the ambassador who beats him faints to death. The whips in the army are all made of raw cowhide, and Zhu Jiangzhi lay down for ten days after receiving three whips, and those people with these thirty whips have no good meat on their backs.

Zhu Jiang was relieved to see the ambassador being beaten all over the ground, and asked his soldiers to open the warehouse to get things.

Now that there is no one in charge of the warehouse, these soldiers have picked up the good ones and snatched the ten artillery pieces that had just been transported from the warehouse.

The armor that Zhu Hongsan equipped for his army was not a cast iron product to deal with the northern rebels, but a fine product made of stainless steel. Most of Zhu Jiang's subordinates were new annexes who captured the Qing army, and only cotton armor could be used on the Qing army's side.

One of the soldiers picked up a pair of stainless steel armor and asked, "Sir, is this armor for us?" ”

Seeing Zhu Jiang nodding with a smile, the soldier continued: "My mother! I'm afraid this kind of armor is not for guerrilla generals, this armor can buy a hundred taels of silver in the north! ”

This kind of armor produced in Guangdong is not the ancient Chinese kind of piercing armor, that is, one by one iron leaves strung together, but similar to the ancient Roman kind of slatted armor. The upper body part is made of five half-foot-wide and one-meter-long rolled steel plates, each of which is screwed to a piece of cowhide, and the five steel plates form the main part of this slatted armor, as well as shoulder pads and battle skirts, which are also made of rolled steel plates. Because there is no need to make iron leaves one by one, many processes are simplified, and because they are all made of steel, it is much stronger than the armor made by hand in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of slatted armor looks very good, in fact, the cost is not much, the iron ore is mined by prisoners, the iron-making furnace is Zhu Hongsan's industry, and because of the use of primitive steam engines, these rolled steel plates are made in batches, and the cost of a pair of armor is less than twenty taels of silver, which is much less than a musket.

A soldier took out a pair of armor to wipe off the maintenance oil, and immediately put it on, which looked very good. If a traveler sees this armor at this time, they must think that the ancient Roman legions have crossed over, and this set of armor is made by Zhu Hongsan in imitation of the ancient Roman armor style. However, the weapon was not equipped with a short sword like that of ancient Rome, but with a horizontal sword, which seemed a little incompatible.

After counting, there were 6,000 pairs of armor, countless knives and guns, 10 army artillery, and supporting gunpowder and ammunition. Zhu Jiang didn't care about those, and loaded it into the car with a wave of his hand. The cart is also a cart in the warehouse, there are hundreds of them, all of which have been taken away by Zhu Jiang with a spoonful of stew.

It took a long time for the warehouse ambassador to wake up, and when he saw the empty warehouse, he wanted to cry without tears, so he had to go to his superior, Zhang Juchang, to cry.

Zhang Juchang saw that this was okay, this is not a robbery, and directly found Jiang Pengju, who was supervising the work at the dock. Jiang Peng raised these things and scolded: "Lao Tzu doesn't know, Lao Tzu's soldiers are all working on the dock, Master Zhang, you bother General Ben to be careful that General Ben's leather whip doesn't have long eyes!" ”

Zhang Juchang saw that Jiang Pengju was unreasonable, so he had to go to Ma Jiyuan to comment, Ma Jiyuan was old and sophisticated, and he knew what was going on when he heard it. Not to mention that these people have the documents of the governor's yamen, but there are no documents, and now at this critical moment of war, do you dare to go to the barracks to arrest people? So Zhang Juchang was scolded by Ma Jiyuan again.

Out of the gate, the more Zhang Juchang thought about it, the more angry he became, and beat the ambassador ten more sticks to get angry, this unlucky warehouse ambassador was an old injury and a new injury, and he lay down for two months before getting up.