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Those 100 people were honest farmers, and Xu Dahu and others were so scary that they held sharp blades, so they stopped making noise after listening to Xu Dahu's scolding.

Ma Cheng looked at these guys and sighed. Why do these people have no sense of family and country? Did they just want to have enough food and inherit the family line in their lives?

Ma Cheng has this question very easy to understand. Ma Cheng came from later generations and received perfect social education. His patriotism has penetrated into the hearts of ordinary people in later generations, but this was not the case in the Ming Dynasty. The concept of a country had not yet been formed in the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty considered itself a country, it was far from a modern country like that in later generations, and ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty did not have the national spirit of later generations.

Later history books divide before 1840 into ancient history and before 1949 into modern history. This division is not unreasonable. The formation and development of modern countries were only formed after the founding of New China.

The entire modern history is just a process of forming a sense of identity in the Chinese nation. Here is a saying, the War of Resistance Against Japan is a catalyst to accelerate the formation of this sense of identity.

The Ming and Qing dynasties did not form a sense of national identity and the concept of a modern country, so there were so many traitors at the end of the dynasty. This is also the main reason why the literati and ordinary people did not rise up to resist when the Qing Dynasty occupied most of China. As for why the Southern Ming Dynasty lasted for more than 40 years later, it was that the Qing Dynasty took a step and issued a headshammer order.

Because there is no concept of a country or nation, the Qing Dynasty occupied the world and the people had nothing to do with the people. Anyway, I will pay rent and grain when the Qing Dynasty came. It has nothing to do with the literati. There are only a few people in the Qing Dynasty. If you want to gain a foothold, we literati and doctors need to manage this country.

But the promulgation of the headshaving order is different. In the past, the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty and changed the emperor, but the headshaving order really touched the interests of the people and the literati, so I will naturally do it to the end with you.

The same was true when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed. When the Qing Dynasty implemented reforms to cut its braids, there were still some old people crying in the dark. After the Qing Dynasty, there was also a great scholar Wang Guowei who committed suicide in the Kunming Lake, Peking University to sacrifice his life for the Qing Dynasty. This was all due to the lack of correct national concepts.

Ma Cheng was just a third-rate college student, so he naturally didn't understand such profound truths. When he saw that these guys had no sense of family and country, he was about to open his mouth to scold these guys, but then he knew that someone was applauding behind him.

Ma Cheng turned around and saw that the person applauding was his uncle Yue Qijie. Yue Qijie smiled and said, "What the virtuous nephew said just now made me excited, it was really enlightening!"

Ma Cheng's old face turned red. He knew that Yue Qijie was making fun of him. Ma Cheng stepped forward and bowed and said, "My nephew is here!"

Yue Qijie shook his hand and said, "Don't be too polite, nephew, you said it right just now, but the partner was wrong!" Yue Qijie pointed to the hundred people opposite and said, "They don't recognize their words, what kind of family and country do you still expect them to have? Join the army and eat food, earn money and go home to buy more than ten acres of good land, and marrying a wife and having children is their ideal!"

Although Ma Cheng respects Yue Qijie very much, he does not agree with his words. He is all the same person. Why do you scholars look down on these mud legs?

"Uncle, these people are also people of the Ming Dynasty. My nephew believes that they can educate them, let them understand the feelings of family and country, and understand the righteousness of the world!"

Ma Cheng's words were firm and moved by Yue Qijie, but Yue Qijie did not believe that Ma Cheng could do this. There were many military masters in ancient China, including Sun Wu and Sun Bin, who were far away, even Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty did not say that they would educate all the soldiers as scholars, so that they knew shame and etiquette, so Yue Qijie naturally did not believe that Ma Cheng could do it.

"Okay, I will depend on how my nephew educates these farmers!" Yue Qijie turned around and left. Today, he knew in the yamen that the second-generation ancestor Ma Cheng had found a group of farmers at the door, saying that he wanted to train a new army, so Yue Qijie came out to take a look. Now he didn't see any Western scenery, so Yue Qijie naturally had to go back to work.

Seeing Yue Qijie leaving, Ma Cheng quickly stopped him and said, "Uncle, you are here. Can you do your nephew a favor?"

"Of course, what problems have you encountered?"

"Uncle, look at these hundred people in ragged clothes and hungry. Can you ask your uncle to help solve their food and accommodation problems, as well as their weapons and equipment problems?" Ma Cheng knew that Yue Qijie was a Huaibei military preparatory road and was in charge of the logistics supply of hundreds of thousands of troops in Huaibei. According to Ma Cheng's character, he naturally had to take advantage.

Yue Qijie shook his head with a wry smile: "Okay, I can still help with this, but the weapons and equipment are not good, so I can only give you a hundred sets of mandarin duck battle robes. As for where to live!" Yue Qijie looked at the side of the schoolyard, then pointed to several houses and said: "Did you see it? Those houses used to be military camps, but now the army has moved to Huai'an to garrison, so you can live there first!"

Ma Cheng looked at the rows of houses, which were hundreds of houses, and it was no problem to live in tens of thousands of people. Ma Cheng said happily: "Thank you uncle!"

After saying that, Yue Qijie looked around and whispered: "You are fine if you play with me, but be careful that someone is doing something bad on his back!"

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard Yue Qijie say this: "Uncle, my father is Governor of Fengyang. What else can I have to do if I get a hundred people to be my personal soldiers?"

"Your nephew was wrong. If you were an officer, of course it would be fine, but you are now white and have a dead soldier. If your behavior falls into the eyes of someone who has a grudge against your father, it would be bad!"

Ma Cheng was shocked when he heard Yue Qijie say this. After these days, Ma Cheng knew that in addition to the open guns, it is difficult to prevent hidden arrows, those politicians who eat and do not scatter behind you can also kill people. In any era, the army is a sensitive topic. You, Ma Cheng, is a second-generation ancestor. If you don’t do your second-generation ancestor’s duty, suddenly want to train a new army. What do you want to do? Are you and your father, Ma Shiying, have the intention of being an unjust?

Ma Cheng thought of this and asked quickly, "What good way does uncle have to avoid people's eyes and ears?"

"This is simple. Just attach these hundred people to your father's town flag. I will say a moment to Zhang Guozhu and ask him to give these hundred people a military registration, so that it will be fine!"

Ma Cheng felt relieved when he heard Yue Qijie say this, and quickly bowed to thank him, "thank you uncle!"

Yue Qijie gave a few more instructions, then turned back to the yamen. Ma Cheng couldn't help feeling angry when he saw Yue Qijie leaving. He immediately trained a new army and immediately formed combat power. He immediately fought the famous generals of the Qing Dynasty. Why did he run into walls everywhere?

Ma Cheng turned his head and looked at the hundred morale in front of him, with both military and poor military appearances, sighed and said, "Everyone take a break first!" Then Ma Cheng said to Gu Changwei, "Gu San, you go to the city to buy 200 steamed buns and make some porridge, so that these guys can have a full meal first!"

Gu Changwei was so unwilling to hear Ma Cheng say this. The 1,000 taels of silver the old lady gave Ma Cheng had to be used for the cost of the sugar factory. Before the sugar factory made a profit, the 100 taels of silver for the food and clothing of these 100 people had to be used for Gu Changwei's food and clothing. Although Ma Cheng said that he would give Gu Changwei dividends, Gu Changwei was still a little dissatisfied.

However, Gu Changwei didn't dare to say anything, so he had to go and prepare lunch dejectedly.

When the one hundred people heard that they were going to have to eat, their eyes turned green. They swept away the dying situation just now, and waited for Gu Changwei to come back without blinking. Ma Cheng sighed in his heart when he saw these guys like this. It seemed that he had been spitting out for a long time and was not as effective as a steamed bun.

It's the meal now, and Gu Changwei didn't have many steamed buns to buy. Soon Gu Changwei took a dozen people to drive a large cart and transported several baskets of steamed buns and several buckets of thin porridge.

The one hundred people were lying or sitting, and when they saw the food coming, they stood up and rushed to the car and wanted to grab it.

Xu Dahu was very experienced and had already stood in front of the cart with ten people and drove away the starving ghosts with a sheathed waist knife.

Ma Cheng was so angry that he cursed: "Don't you understand the station queuing? You can't eat if you don't have to stand queuing!"

Ma Cheng's order was completely executed under the beating of Xu Dahu and others. These hundred people have learned the first rule of the soldiers and the most important one. Follow the order!

Under the intimidation of Xu Dahu and others, the hundred people learned to queue up, and then took a large bowl of coarse porcelain from Gu Changwei, each with two steamed buns and a large bowl of porridge with salt water.

After receiving the things, these people squatted on the ground and started eating. Soon someone finished eating the steamed buns in their hands, stood up and came to the cart to get one, but Ma Cheng only asked to buy two hundred steamed buns, which had been divided just now.

This is not that Ma Cheng doesn't let them have enough food, but that these guys have been hungry for a long time. If they are asked to let go of their stomachs, they will easily be unable to get hungry and full.

The guys who finished eating first licked the big bowl with unsatisfactory feelings. Although they wanted to grab the steamed buns from others, after looking at Xu Dahu and others, they decided to endure it!

Seeing this situation, Ma Cheng jumped into the cart and said loudly: "It's not that Second Master doesn't give you enough food, but you've been hungry for a long time. If you eat too much, you're afraid that you will be able to die! Second Master here promises you that as long as you are honest and obedient, you can do whatever you ask for. Second Master promises you to have a full meal, three dry meals a day, and meat will be eaten every day!"

Ma Cheng's words were much better than the long-term discussion just now. He stood up and asked, "Mr. Jun, can you really have enough food? You have three dry meals a day?"

Ma Cheng nodded: "You may not know the identity of the Second Master. The Second Master is the legitimate son of the Governor of Fengyang. Do you think Second Master, can I lie to you?"
Chapter completed!