When he learned that the gunpowder craftsman Wang Lin could take his son, the other twenty-nine craftsmen began to clamor. A craftsman in his forties shouted: "Master, let us take our family with us too!" Several other craftsmen with family also shouted.

When Ma Shun saw that the situation was a little uncontrollable, she wanted to wave the whip in her hand to whip these ignorant guys, but Ma Cheng stopped him.

Ma Cheng looked at the selected craftsmen. The average age was about forty years old, a few were younger, and some were thirty years old. According to the thinking of later generations, it was indeed a bit cruel to separate them from their families. Thinking of this, Ma Cheng said, "Okay, you can all bring your family!"

Ma Cheng's words were a mess. More than 100 refugees came out, and they all said that they were the family members of those craftsmen. No one was a fool, and staying in the refugee camp would only starve to death. It would be better to follow this master to be a slave, and at least he could have a few meals.

Ma Cheng was stunned when he saw so many people. He originally thought that these craftsmen had escaped from the famine and their family should have died almost, but he didn't know that there were so many people.

Although Ma Shun is young, he is sophisticated. He knows that most of these refugees are not the families of craftsmen, and he just wants to take this opportunity to escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

Ma Shun walked up to Ma Cheng and said, "Second Master, these refugees are very lazy. People are bitter insects and cannot beat them. Let the villain's whip teach them how to be obedient!"

After Ma Shun said that, he picked up the whip and wanted to drive away the people who claimed to be the family of the craftsmen. Ma Cheng thought about it and stopped Ma Shun. After all, there were only more than 100 people. Seeing that these people were mainly women, even if they could not work, they could wash clothes. Thinking of this, Ma Cheng said, "Okay, Ma Shun, bring them all!"

Most of the more than 100 people who came out were women. They had no way to survive in the private camp. They could only wait to starve to death except for relying on their bodies to exchange for some food. Naturally, they all were very happy to escape from the sea of ​​suffering today.

The craftsmen were also very happy. Most of their families were already dead on the way to flee. Now women are taking the initiative to come to their house to be their wives, of course they are reluctant to ask for them. No matter how they look, they all caught a woman and said that they were their wives.

Ma Cheng looked at it but had no choice but to instruct Ma Shun to sign the death contract.

If it were peacetime, no one would have signed such a slave-like death contract, but now it is different. Staying in the refugee camp is really waiting for death, so when I heard Ma Cheng ask them to sign a death contract, they all had no comments.

Ma Shun took thirty contracts and asked these craftsmen to sign the contract based on family units. When he saw the gunpowder craftsman Wang Lin, Wang Lin's family had only one son and became four. In addition to the father and son, there were two more women, one mother-in-law and one daughter-in-law.

Ma Shun saw this and said sarcastically: "I said Wang Lin, you are so lucky. I didn't expect that you could get such a young wife when you escape to Fengyang!"

Wang Lin, the wife who came to the door, seemed to be only twenty years old, and Wang Lin was over forty, so he was naturally blessed. Wang Lin didn't dare to say anything. He looked up at Ma Cheng, and when he saw that the master had nothing to say, he felt relieved to bring his new wife and son to the door together.

There were more than a hundred wives from the craftsmen, and some of the refugees had the idea of ​​the one hundred young people. A young woman shouted: "Zhang San, did you forget I am your wife?"

Others also shouted when they heard such women shouting. For a moment, a big market for recognizing relatives became a big market for recognizing relatives. Ma Cheng could make those craftsmen find wives temporarily, because the family is a stabilizer for these craftsmen to produce with peace of mind. However, the army is different. What Ma Cheng wants is a soldier who can work hard for him. If they all get married, who would still want to be a sword at one step?

Seeing that the matter was about to happen, Ma Cheng said to Xu Dahu: "Dahu, you guys watch with a knife. If anyone dares to move, they will kill you immediately!"

Xu Dahu took the order and pulled out his waist knife and stood in front of the hundred people. Xu Dahu was already tall and big, and holding a steel knife in his hand was very scary, scaring those women who were about to move back.

At this time, one of the hundred people selected stood up and said, "This master, but the villain really has family in it. Can you..."

Before he could finish his words, Ma Cheng interrupted him and said, "Let me talk about it later. When you return to the city, your family, the second master, will solve it. Now, don't blame the ruthless military law if you move!"

Those 100 people were honest farmers. When Ma Cheng said such murderous words, they were so scared that they didn't dare to move. They stood there honestly.

At this time, Ma Shun had signed the dead contract, and then Ma Cheng took out the silver and distributed five cents to each family. The silver had to be taken out three cents to the private enterprises in the hands of those craftsmen. This was the rule, and Ma Cheng looked around and didn't want to care.

Kongmu had earned dozens of taels of silver in the morning and was naturally happy and said to Ma Cheng: "This yamen, when you need manpower in the future, you can come to find villains, and you will definitely be a strong laborer!"

Ma Cheng hated such slave traders the most, so he ignored him and turned around and left the private camp with more than 200 newly recruited people.

This time, I really touched Ma Cheng with the tragic fate of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. In the past, I saw the lives of people in troubled times like grass in the chaotic world. Although I was shocked, I was not touched because they were all numbers on paper. But now I really saw what happened in the end of the dynasty.

Among the refugees, the corpses who died in front of them, the young women who sold their bodies for one bite of food, and the parents who were forced to eat to avoid starving to death, Ma Cheng felt very heavy in his heart when he thought of them.

Did God let himself travel over here just to see this miserable situation? Ma Cheng secretly swore that he would end this troubled times as soon as possible, and at least allow these refugees to live with dignity.

Ma Cheng brought more than 200 people to Fengyang City from Changchun Gate. When the craftsmen in the city were handed over to Ma Shun. The address of the sugar factory had been selected and was in Xicheng. Now there are empty houses everywhere in Fengyang City, so the factory is easy to find. As for how the sugar factory is produced, it is not Ma Cheng's management. People like the Ma family have these things, so they can be left to professionals to handle. Ma Cheng is only responsible for pointing out at critical moments and using his extra six hundred years of experience to help those craftsmen avoid detours.

The hundred people carefully selected by Ma Cheng is the key, and it is the guarantee for Ma Cheng to settle down in the end of this dynasty. Ma Cheng took these people back to the Governor's Office, of course, not back to his own small courtyard, but to the large campus at the gate of the Governor's Office.

Because the Governor's Office is a military institution, there is a huge square in front of the gate, which is of course used for the leaders to review the troops. However, the troops in the two Huai Rivers are now in the hands of the four towns in Jiangbei. Ma Shiying directly governed less than 10,000 troops, and they are stationed in the counties around Fengyang, so the large campus at the gate is completely idle.

Ma Cheng brought these hundred people to a corner of the university field, and then got off the horse and came to the front of these people.

Ma Cheng looked at the hundred people in front of him, and then said affectionately: "Everyone knows why I chose you? What are you going to do when you choose?"

Among these hundred people, Xu Dahu and twelve others, none of them could read, so naturally they didn't understand what the second master chose them for, so no one spoke.

Ma Cheng saw that there was a little dismay, which was different from what he thought. At this time, someone should have stood up and shouted loudly: "Serve the people!"

Ma Cheng had no choice but to continue saying: "Everyone saw what the Ming Dynasty had become. Some of you are from Henan, some are from Shandong, and a few Beizhili people. You all saw everything the bandits did to their hometown. Don't you want to take revenge? Don't you want to do anything for the Ming Dynasty?"

After Ma Cheng waited for a long time, he didn't hear anyone standing up and expressing his passionate statement. Fortunately, it's spring now. If it was autumn accompanied by a gust of autumn wind, it would be so miserable. Seeing that no one was talking, Ma Cheng pointed to a person in front of him and asked, "What's your name?"

The man saw Ma Cheng asking himself, and quickly knelt down on his knees and said, "Go back to Master, the villain is called Ding Liu."

Ma Cheng nodded and asked, "Okay, Ding Liu, what do you think you want to do when you become an official?"

Ding Liu thought for a while and said, "When a villain wants to become an official, he will marry a big butt woman and then give birth to a bunch of little cubs!"

Ding Liu's answer made Ma Cheng so angry. I'll train you to get married and have children if you become an official? But Ma Cheng has no choice. No one is allowed to say that these guys don't recognize words. According to the great men of later generations, they are simple small peasant consciousness.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to follow what Ding Liu said: "Yes, this brother is right. I didn't pick you out to be a laborer, but to join the army and fight, and use the swords and guns in your hands to win a Duke and Marquis for a long time!"

Ma Cheng thought that these guys could inspire him to scream, but he knew that Ma Cheng had just said that they would join the army, and more than half of the hundred people knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "Master, please give us up and let us go!"

"We must know that we would rather starve to death than come to the army!"

"Uncle, we don't want your money to settle down, let us go!"

When Ma Cheng heard these guys say this, he was stunned. Why did he think something wrong with him? According to the mobilization of the TV show that he was not an official, his soldiers immediately screamed and searched the guys and started to do it. Why is the fact different from what he thinks?

Xu Dahu patiently listened to Ma Cheng's words, and then saw these guys yelling to go back one by one, Xu Dahu pulled out his waist and cursed: "You gangs of miscellaneous people, do you know that you have signed a death contract with my second master? Now even if the second master kills you, your government will not care. Now the only thing you have to do is to follow the second master's instructions. If you don't obey, the steel blade in your hand will be killed or buried!"
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