Since Ma Cheng traveled through time, he has longed for the local customs of ancient people, especially the developed brothel culture in the Ming Dynasty. Ma Cheng really wanted to experience it. But today, Ma Cheng's mood suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley when he saw Fengyang's ghost appearance. The whole Fengyang became a garbage dump. What brothel could he have?

"Gu San, why is this bird in the capital like this?" Ma Cheng asked with his finger at the ruins in the distance.

Gu San thought to himself when he heard Ma Cheng say this: This is already good. When the master first came to Fengyang, the city was full of dead bodies! It has been almost done in the past few years.

"Second Master, there is nothing I can do about this. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Fengyang was burned by fire. Most of the tens of thousands of people in the city died, and the rest were entangled by bandits. It would be great to be able to recover to this in the past seven or eight years!"

Ma Cheng couldn't ask: "What fun places are there in the city?"

I really asked the right person about eating, drinking, betting, and gambling. Gu San quickly said, "Second Master, this is the north of the city, and it is all the official offices and the royal palaces. It was naturally the focus of bandits' robbers back then. The south of the city can be much better, why don't we go to the south of the city!"

Ma Cheng nodded when he heard Gu San say this: "Okay, let's go to the south of the city. I will have a good understanding of the style of the fallen women in the Ming Dynasty today!"

Gu San didn't know what a miserable woman was, but seeing that Ma Cheng was going to the south of the city, he quickly said, "Second Master, please wait, the villain will borrow a few personal soldiers to protect us!"

Ma Cheng thought it was right. He was the second generation of the governor's legitimate son, so how could he lose his show when he went out? He waved his hand and asked Gu San to go to the Governor's yamen to call someone.

Gu San walked back into the Governor's Office from the side door when he came out. Zhang Guozhu at the door saw why this guy was back? He was about to open his mouth to curse, but he knew that Gu San said first: "Mr. Zhang, I am here to borrow personal soldiers to escort him!"

Because Ma Shiying was a relative of Guizhou Gu Congxin, he borrowed 300 Guizhou soldiers from Gu Congxin after Ma Shiying took office. These Guizhou soldiers were different from the local military households in China. These people were elite soldiers who fought in Yunnan, Guizhou and local ethnic minorities all year round. However, Ma Shiying went to Pukou a few days ago and took away 200 people, but now there are only 100 people left in the entire Governor's Office.

Of course, in addition to the one hundred men, the Governor's Office, there are 500 model soldiers guarding it, but these model soldiers are all local Fengyang military households, and their combat effectiveness is naturally not comparable to Guizhou soldiers.

When Zhang Guozhu heard that Gu San wanted to borrow his personal soldiers, he glared at him and wanted to curse. Then he knew that Gu San said directly: "Don't be angry, you have seen the second young master going out to relax. Yesterday, the second young master was beaten and injured. The old lady said, "The second young master went out to get enough staff to help the servants. The servants in the mansion have strong personal soldiers in the yamen. For the safety of the second young master, please help me!"

Zhang Guozhu lost his temper when he heard Gu San say this. Although he was not afraid of Ma Cheng, it would be hard to explain if Ma Cheng had something wrong again. Zhang Guozhu had no choice but to shout to an officer at the door: "Xu Dahu, come here!"

A strong man in his twenties heard Zhang Guozhu's voice and ran over, bowing and shouting, "Mr. Qianhu, the last thing is coming!"

"Xu Dahu, please bring ten people with you and follow Gu San to protect the second young master. If the second young master has something to do, you will ask, do you know?"

It is certainly better to take people out for a stroll than stand guard at the door. Xu Dahu happily agreed and took ten people to go out of the Governor's Office with Gu San.

Gu San asked for a war horse from the signing room at the door, led it to Ma Cheng and said, "Second Master, I'm done, please get on the horse!"

Ma Cheng looked at the eleven people who followed him. The leader was a strong man who was nearly 1.8 meters tall, big and thick, and he looked like a knife. In ancient China, due to dietary problems, his height was generally not high, and the male man was generally about 1.6 meters tall. This strong man was two heads taller than the others, and he should be an elite in the army.

Ma Cheng looked at Xu Dahu and asked, "Are you also my uncle's personal soldier?"

Xu Dahu knew that the little face in front of him was the son of the governor, so he quickly bowed and said, "When the second prince, the general is not a model for the commander, the general is the chief of Guizhou Guard. Because of his military achievements, he was assigned to the governor and now he serves as the governor to the governor and is now the governor to the governor's position!

The military positions in the Ming Dynasty were different from other dynasties. The soldiers who defended the country were divided into military and military forces. The military was the military command system established by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time. From small to large, the positions were divided into small flags, general flags, hundreds of households, thousands of households, guard commanders, and the commanders, and the commanders were all higher. These official positions were hereditary, that is, what official positions you were, your sons and grandsons were all the official positions you were.

The system set by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time still played some role in the early stage, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was no major war, so the garrison was abolished, and the officers gradually became landlords, and the soldiers who were supposed to be in the army became tenants of the landlords.

During the Jiajing period, because they had to fight with Japanese pirates on the southeast coast, and the local garrison troops were not yet available, the recruitment system appeared. The recruitment system was different from the garrison system. When soldiers received money and food for a day, the combat effectiveness was still guaranteed. In order to distinguish between the garrison system and the recruitment system, the court separated the soldiers, and the army referred to the soldiers of the garrison, and the soldiers referred to the recruitment.

The recruiting officers are different from those in the garrison. From childhood to adulthood, they are divided into positions such as chief, captain, sentry officer, chief general, guerrilla general, deputy general, general and other positions. As the name suggests, the leader leads ten soldiers, the captain leads dozens of soldiers, and the general leads thousands to tens of thousands, which is similar to the commander of later generations. The general is the greatest official position that a military man can hold, and the governor and governor who go up are not capable of being a military man. (The governor was in charge of military affairs and civil affairs in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. I don’t need to explain this!)

Xu Dahu used to recruit soldiers, but when he came to Fengyang, he became a military household, so his current position is Xiaoqi, which is equivalent to the squad leader of the army in later generations. Although the descendants of Xu Dahu who became a military household had to serve as military families for generations, military households and military households were different. The military households directly under the Governor were comparable to other ordinary military households, so Xu Dahu still liked his current identity very much.

Ma Cheng liked Xu Dahu very much, nodded and said, "Okay, you eleven of you protect me, and you will be rewarded when you come back later!"

Gu Sanyi's face turned green when he heard that he had to reward the money, but the master had already promised him what he could do, and he had no choice but to lead the way with the horse in front.

Fengyang was the Zhongdu of the Ming Dynasty and was built according to the national capital. However, Fengyang has so many people, where the poor mountains and rivers are out of troubled people. Zhu Yuanzhang moved tens of thousands of wealthy households from Jiangnan, but the economic foundation here in Fengyang could not support so many wealthy households. Therefore, in the decades after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, most of these wealthy households moved back to Jiangnan.

However, Fengyang is the capital of the country after all. At its peak, there were 70,000 to 80,000 people in the entire Fengyang City, which is also considered a large mansion in Jiangbei. However, after Fengyang was burned by Li Zicheng in the eighth year of Chongzhen, it has not developed in the past eight or nine years. The streets are still dilapidated, and most of the houses on both sides of the street are empty, and there are no people at all.

It was only after entering the south of the city that it became popular. Because it was located in a commercial area, it still had some prosperity. There were seven or eight shops on both sides of the street, with 7 or eight things on the street. Turning around the street is Fengyang’s Drum Tower, the only building that was preserved in the war to later generations, and it is also the highest place in Fengyang City at present.

Gulou is a commercial district in Fengyang City. Most of the population in Fengyang is concentrated here. The crowds along the streets around Gulou are pretty good. When Ma Cheng saw this, he felt that the city was a little vibrant.

The social system in the Ming Dynasty was very strict, and all classes were completely parallel to each other. Ma Cheng rode a tall horse, followed by more than a dozen military men. At first glance, they were either rich or noble. So the pedestrians on the street saw Ma Cheng avoiding them, and some timid even knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

This is Ma Cheng's first time to come into contact with ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. When he saw these ordinary people with disheveled faces, Ma Cheng felt completely deceived by later TV series. The extras in later TV series were all greasy and slick, and they could not truly restore the working people in ancient China.

Ma Cheng looked at the thin civilians on the street, wearing a torn cotton jacket with patches, his head and face were covered with dust, and his eyes were open with a pair of unsightly eyes. Perhaps they would not resist even if they cut off their heads with one knife.

Ma Cheng later saw old photos of Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty. The ordinary citizens of Beijing there looked like these Fengyang citizens. At that time, Ma Cheng thought that it was the Qing Dynasty that ruled China and turned the Chinese people into this way. Now it seems that this is not the case.

Ma Cheng remembers that the history books said that after the Qing Dynasty occupied Beijing, it exempted the "three major salaries" collected by the Ming Dynasty government, and immediately received the welcome of ordinary local farmers. From Hebei to Shandong, a large area of ​​land, tens of millions of people surrendered to the Qing Dynasty unconditionally. In the past, Ma Cheng didn't understand why these people surrendered to foreign tribes so unscrupulously? Now Ma Cheng understands that compared with the Qing Dynasty, the Zhu family and Ming Dynasty were not a good thing.

Now that I have truly seen the situation among the people of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Cheng felt that he had a long way to go. Why did the Southern Ming occupy Jiangnan, which has a population and economy several times stronger than the north? Why did he surrender without even fighting a decent battle? Seeing these ordinary people, Ma Cheng felt a little understanding!

Ma Cheng rode his horse while thinking about his thoughts, but suddenly the horse stopped. Gu San said on the side: "Second Master, right in front of him is the largest restaurant in Fengyang City, Huaiyang Tower!"

After hearing Gu San say this, Ma Cheng looked up and saw that there was a three-story building not far away. There was a wooden sign hanging in front of the door, with three words Huaiyang Tower written on it.

There were very few buildings in the Ming Dynasty, because the society in the Ming Dynasty was very strict, and no one dared to build a building if it was not the nobles and civil servants. If this Huaiyang Tower could build a three-story building in Zhongdu City, the power behind it must be quite large.
Chapter completed!