After the inspection, the military attache guarding the palace gate really did not feel embarrassed, on the contrary, he said very politely: "The lord is the Minister of War, according to the rules is in charge of the horse, and he will ask someone to lead the horse over, enter from here, go all the way, cross the Qinglong Bridge, and dismount near the Jingmen, the military affairs department is repaired there, and the master comes by coincidence, and it has just been completed!" ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for you."

As soon as Ma Shiying opened his mouth, the Chinese army understood, took out a piece of silver in his arms, and handed it to the military attaché.

"Don't dare, don't dare."

The military attache saluted and said with a smile: "The price under the mark has increased five times compared to before, the crown prince has something to say, no matter how small the matter of garrisoning the palace is a big thing, the emperor's safety is more important than anything else." Therefore, once it is found that he has received a reward from an adult outside, he is either careless in the investigation, or he is on duty by mistake...... It's all beheaded! Excuse me, adult, you can't take your head out to play with the mark, right? ”

In fact, the military discipline of the Ming army is very much beheaded, and it is enough to cut off the head when talking at night, or the walking posture is wrong, and when the general is unhappy, he can also kill the head.

At present, the words of this military attaché, of course, are afraid of cutting off their heads, but it shows more that this imperial city forbidden army is very well trained, and it is a group with military discipline and a sense of honor.

It's just that the reason is very good, the words are a little unpleasant, Ma Shiying snorted coldly and was silent, and when his subordinates checked the guard, the military attache called the military attache to check it, and then led the horse over, and the military attache of the guard office bowed to him again, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, this is really offended." ”

"Well, I can't control you, but I'll tell you that after finding out your name, I'll talk to your boss."

Although Ma Shiying's strength is small, he is not embarrassed by an ordinary military attaché, he just can't understand, what is going on with this guard office and the minister of the guard?

He is the Minister of Military Affairs in charge of military affairs, and he can't manage the little guard military attaché, how can he assist the emperor in handling military affairs in Nanjing?

At that moment, he got on the horse and went first, leaving the Chinese army to inquire about the news, and rode to the palace without a few steps, the Chinese army rushed over, panting and said: "This guy is also down, and he has not hidden anything, what is it called Huang Guoqing, the left association of the Gongsheng Town, the right standard of the Huangzi Guard, and Huang Guoqing...... My lord, I've written it all down. ”

"Huh?" Ma Shiyingqi said: "What kind of official name system is this? ”

"I inquired. This is a new system formulated by the prince, with 14 people per shed, three sheds as a row, three rows as a team, and four teams as a battalion...... This guy surnamed Huang doesn't have so many subordinates for the time being, but he just put up the shelf first, in addition to the regular soldiers, there are also three hundred and twenty auxiliary soldiers, which is said to be a long-term match, regardless of the marching camp, they are all matched! If this is brought with all, this battalion officer will probably be close to a general! ”

Such a battalion, roughly calculated, is 1,832 people!

Ma Shiying's eyebrows furrowed into a Sichuan character and asked, "Is there still a standard and a cooperation on this battalion?" In this way, what kind of arch holy town is this, and how many people are made up? ”

"Lord Hui, one standard and three battalions, is 5,496 people. Then, one association and two standards, by the way, under each association, there are cavalry battalions and engineer battalions, baggage battalions and artillery battalions directly under each association! However, Secretary Huang just said that the guard battalion will not make up for these battalions...... My lord, if you make up for it......"

This Chinese army has no ink on his chest, and of course he can't do arithmetic, and he didn't calculate it for a long time.

Ma Shiying shook his head and smiled, and said, "It's about 11,000 people, but if you have to deduct a lot of long-term auxiliaries, just like that, it's also very strong." ”

He was very disappreciative in his heart, training and expanding the army is not a nod to count soldiers!

If it were Raff, he would be able to raise an army of 100,000 in a few days! This is the ability of about any thief.

These thieves are often tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, but in fact, what they can fight is a few elites, 100,000 thieves, and those who can really fight may be 5,000.

Now what is the crown prince called, but here is a big fanfare to expand the army, he doesn't understand, where can so many soldiers be available at once?

There are at least 30,000 people in this guard office, and if there are no more than 5,000 veterans with them, they may not be able to pull them into the battlefield within three years.

If you recruit a large group of useless waste, then the money is unjustly spent!

Invisibly, he has already entered the role of the Prime Minister of War!

At least, what I saw along the way, as well as the passage into the city, did not make Ma Shiying feel anything, but here at the palace gate, I saw the construction of the court house and the results of the adjustment of the guards of the forbidden army.

In any case, it is much better to be able to make a career than to be a minister after the death of the country, and then be depressed!

"Isn't it Ma Yao grass ahead?"

Just as Ma Shiying was pondering and riding forward, someone beside him laughed loudly: "Hurry, hurry, I can be regarded as waiting for you!" ”

With such an old friend's tone, Ma Shiying didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned his head to look, but who else could it be if it wasn't Qian Qianyi?

For this Donglin boss who has been successful in reading, Ma Shiying doesn't look down on him from the bottom of his heart.

usually talks about his heart and surname, and reports to the king when he dies. In his opinion, the Donglin Party is not so unbearable, and I am afraid that it is almost the same. Besides, even if he repays the king for his death, he doubts whether Qian Qianyi is capable of doing it?

For these Donglin Party members, Ta Ma Shiying knows too well!

The Restoration Society advocated that the aftermath of Pu's death was very bleak, and Donglin and the Restoration Society were in a relationship with Zhou Yanru at that time, and there were some secret schemes and transactions going on, especially Qian Qianyi, who was at a critical moment of seeking revenge.

And Ma Shiying only received an indirect small favor from Zhang Pu, and the result was that he presided over Zhang Pu's funeral alone, and he was busy for a whole month!

Qian Qianyi praised himself afterwards and praised Ma Shiying for his heroism. But in any case, Ma Shiying can't respect this personable and very gentlemanly leader of Jiangnan Shilin!

In fact, he thinks that these people are more than enough to cause chaos, and if it weren't for him, how could half of Jiangnan be so uneventful? Do you expect the respected Shi Kefa?

That's a big joke!

With this kind of confidence, Ma Shiying restrained the horse, nodded to Qian Qianyi very reservedly, and did not plan to dismount.

Seeing him like this, Qian Qianyi only took the horse, but the smile on his face was much more eager...... He looked at Ma Shiying and said with a smile: "Looking forward to the coming of my brother, like the hope of a great drought!" ”

"Mu Zhai, you are too polite!"

"No, no!" Qian Qianyi said with a smile: "Minister of War, you are the chief, according to the rules of the Military Affairs Department, you can be independent, and when the whole class comes in, you will speak as a plenipotentiary representative." In the past few days, you, the prime minister, are not there, and you can only be topped by your younger brother, but you know that your younger brother and the military are not very good at it, and the emperor is anxious to know the news about Huguang and Yanjing...... Alas, it's good that you're here, it's the best! ”

It seems that Qian Qianyi has really had a headache these days, the five military ministers, Ma Shiying is worthy of the foreman in terms of qualifications and ability, especially in actual government affairs and military affairs, Ma Shiying, a minister who has been in charge of the local government for a long time, has a deeper perception and insight into the bureau, of course, when it is played correctly, it will be able to come up with a lot of specific methods.

However, Ma Shiying was not there, Qian Qianyi had no choice but to go up, behind him were Wang Jiayan and Lu Zhenfei, both of whom were good at military affairs and government affairs, but Qian Qianyi was in the way, so he could only speak first, thinking that with Chongzhen's eager temper, his impression of Qian Qianyi was not very good, and the newly appointed Minister of Military Affairs must have suffered a lot of white eyes.

In this way, Ma Shiying smiled dumbly, thought about it, and said: "Brother has never served in the center, Brother Mu Zhai, you are too humble!" ”

"Don't be humble." Qian Qianyi didn't plan to continue this topic, because he looked at the sky, and then saw that the Qinglong Bridge was not far ahead, so he smiled at Ma Shiying: "After crossing the bridge, not far ahead, it is the Military Affairs Office." The holy drive will arrive in a while, and we will ride past disrespectfully, dismount and walk like this? ”

This place is already the forbidden palace deep, even if Nanjing is decaying, the original royal pattern is still there, Shicai from the side of the three major halls of Fengxian's body canopy, at this time it has reached the junction of the outer court and the inner court, the ministers have always done things, the cabinet has been regarded as in-depth prohibition, but there is no military affairs office so close to the inside, for a while, Ma Shiying was also a little panicked.

"It's so close to the inner court, isn't it?"

Qian Qianyi didn't say anything about checking people's hearts, and immediately smiled: "First, the Military Affairs Department assists the emperor in handling military affairs, and there is nothing more important than this in all government affairs in the world!" Therefore, when approaching the inner court, ordinary people can't approach at all to keep secrets. Second, every day, I will see the king at more than two o'clock, and it will be closer to the emperor, and it will be convenient for the emperor to summon him. Moreover, after meeting together in the morning, the military affairs department had to read the battle report and make arrangements, and the emperor would have to summon him at any time if he had any advisers...... So it's completely different from ordinary ministers...... After a long time, my brother understood everything! ”

Although he was on duty for a few days earlier, Qian Qianyi was already very familiar with the entire process, Ma Shiying was very unconvinced, but there was no way, he kept his face at the moment, according to Qian Qianyi's instructions, dismounted and walked, and all the servants were abandoned and waited outside towards Dong'anmen, only he and Qian Qianyi, with a few people's closest companions, walked forward peacefully.

The two of them were already the latest, and through the window, they could see that the military affairs office was brightly lit, and they didn't know how many people were running around, and they could hear the sound of talking from afar!

"Is there a serious report on Pingxibo's side? Or is it only 'news' and 'heard'? The emperor said that the prince asked, where did he put his face? ”

"Zuo Ping's thief is asking for salary again? He still wants to transfer to Nanjing? Tell him not to trespass! ”

"Be polite!"

"Who is the governor of Yunnan? Has the court sent an edict? Also, the edict to the Duke of Qianguo should be issued by the cabinet. On the Yunnan-Sichuan road, you can't arbitrarily dispatch the cronies of the Duke of Qianguo, you must send a powerful and steady general, and you can't delay! ”

"The edict ordered Zheng Zhilong to dispatch the sailors to the north, hurry up and copy it, and no further delays and delays are allowed!"

I don't know who it is, one voice is urgent and powerful, the other is calm and confident, just listening to the voice, I know that it is not a mediocre person!

(To be continued)