Chapter 52 The three young masters join the army
Ma Cheng's attempt to deal with Ma Xi was not entirely venting his anger for his mother Gu. Most of the reasons were that he looked down on the intellectuals' pretended noble character.
Although Ma Cheng also graduated from university in later generations, he entered society early. In addition, Ma Cheng graduated from a third-rate undergraduate degree. In the era when doctoral students were everywhere and masters were not as good as dogs, undergraduates were only considered blind and not considered intellectuals. Ma Cheng suffered a lot after joining the work. Although he could not be said to have a distorted personality, he was very annoying to see those intellectuals pretending to be hypocritical.
After traveling to this chaotic era in the late Ming Dynasty, Ma Cheng found that except for himself, all other intellectuals in his family were not just intellectuals. Not to mention his father Ma Shiying and eldest brother Ma Luan, one Jinshi and one Juren. Even Ma Xi, whom the young mother raised, was a child. He was much better at learning than Ma Cheng in semi-illiterate.
Ma Cheng did not dare to despise Ma Shiying and Ma Luan, but even a little girl dared to challenge me, that wouldn't work. So Ma Cheng hated Ma Xi to the core, and his mother Gu's hated the house and Wu wanted to deal with Ma Xi, so Ma Cheng stood up to help Ma Xi. Of course, Ma Cheng's idea was not to help Ma Xi escape from Gu's clutches, but to bring Ma Xi, an intellectual, to the side and bully him.
Ma Cheng left the Governor's Office and returned to his military camp. From a distance, he saw Xu Dahu standing aside, lying alone on the ground in front of him.
When Xu Dahu saw Ma Cheng coming back, he let out a long sigh, and quickly ran to Ma Cheng to salute and said, "Sir, this Ma Xi is really not in charge!" When Ma Cheng heard Xu Dahu say this, he found that the person lying on the ground was his younger brother Ma Xi.
In the morning, Ma Cheng followed Ma Shiying to Lu Jiude for negotiations. The remaining soldiers continued to train under the leadership of Xu Dahu, a hundred households. Everyone else was easy to say. Unexpectedly, after seeing his arch-rival Ma Cheng left, Ma Xi did not obey Xu Dahu's command at all, and just did not participate in the training.
Ma Xi thought it very clearly, you, Xu Dahu, are you a hundred households, and you still want to care about yourself? So Ma Xi simply took Xu Dahu's orders as a warning to him.
Xu Dahu saw Ma Xi like this, but he really had no choice. Although Ma Cheng told him before leaving that he could corporal punishment for Ma Xi, Xu Dahu knew that Ma Xi was Ma Shiying's son. Although he was a concubine's son with a low status, this kind of identity was not something he could do with, just a small family.
There was no way Xu Dahu had to persuade Ma Xi with great sincerity, but who knew that Ma Xi would not listen to Xu Dahu at all, and finally lay on the ground and started playing with a rogue.
When Ma Cheng saw the strong man Xu Dahu, who was 1.8 meters tall, was sweating all over. Knowing that Xu Dahu had no choice but to treat his younger brother, Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Okay, I understand. Dahu, you go and take other people to train! Leave this guy to me!"
Xu Dahu breathed a long sigh when he heard Ma Cheng say this, bowed and went to the brigade to train.
When Ma Xi saw Ma Cheng coming back, he was afraid that Ma Cheng was whipping him, so he quickly sat up from the ground and asked vigilantly: "Ma Cheng, what are you going to do? If you dare to whip me again, I will go to my father to sue you!"
Ma Cheng looked at Ma Xi in a mess. The original plain white scholar's robe could no longer see the color. One of the pair of satin-faced cloth shoes had been lost, and one was left on Ma Xi's feet. Ma Cheng felt very relieved when he saw this originally hypocritical third brother who was tortured like this by himself.
Ma Cheng came to Ma Xi and squatted down and asked, "Third brother, why don't you go to training?"
"Ma Cheng, my father said I was asked to be a bookkeeper, why did I need me to train with those Qiu Bayi? I am a Tongsheng! Ma Cheng, you treat me so badly, I will go to my father to sue you later!"
Ma Xi originally thought that Ma Cheng would be angry after he said that, but unexpectedly, Ma Cheng's expression did not change at all. He still looked at him with a smile, which made Ma Xi feel very unsure.
Ma Cheng smiled for a while and said, "Okay, you want to go to your father's place to complain, go now!"
Ma Xi didn't expect Ma Cheng to say this, and after a long time he realized, Sisaiai asked, "What? You...you really let me go back?"
"Of course, you can ask your father when you go back. If your father says you are a book manager, then you can not participate in training in the future!"
When Ma Xi heard Ma Cheng say this, he quickly got up from the ground. He was about to run back and heard Ma Cheng say, "Wait, what if my father doesn't agree to you?"
Ma Xi sneered: "Hmph, if my father doesn't agree, then I will be your big soldier when I come back!"
"Okay, it's good to have you!" Ma Cheng waved his hand and asked Ma Xi to go back.
Ma Cheng had just finished his negotiations with Ma Shiying, and knew in his heart that Ma Shiying would never let Ma Si go back to study as simply. If Gu's anger was not allowed to disappear this time, he would not know when the attack would happen again in the future.
It was almost the same as Ma Cheng's estimate. After a while, Ma Xi walked back dejectedly. Seeing him like this, Ma Cheng knew that he had hit a nail in Ma Shiying's place. Ma Cheng walked up with a smile and asked, "Third brother, how about it? Did your father promise you to go back to study?"
Ma Xi shook his head expressionlessly. Ma Cheng was very happy to see him: "Haha, Ma Lao San, I know what you think! Do you think I, a useless second-generation ancestor, are nothing more than yours, why are they better than you everywhere? Right?"
Ma Xi glared at Ma Cheng's words and said, "Yes! Ma Cheng! That's what I think! You are a waste who can't study, why should you suppress me everywhere? Isn't it your legitimate child? Isn't it your legitimate child? Why? Why? Why is the origin so important?"
Ma Xi was instilled with the idea that you are a concubine's son and your identity is naturally lower than the legitimate son. If Ma Cheng succeeded like Ma Luan, then Ma Xi had no idea, but Ma Cheng couldn't do anything and would eat nothing left. On the other hand, Ma Xi had obtained the status of a child at a young age. Although he could not be said to be a child prodigy, he was much better than most people. Originally, Ma Xi thought that his efforts had exceeded the limitations of his identity, but he did not expect that the concubine's son was a concubine's son and he would be under the jurisdiction of his mother Gu's whole life. If he had not agreed to enter the military position yesterday, his path to the imperial examination would have been completely cut off.
Ma Xi was just a fifteen-year-old child. The weight of his identity had already put him to the limit. Now that the resentment in his heart was attracted by Ma Cheng, Ma Xi could no longer control his emotions and squatted on the ground and cried bitterly.
Seeing Ma Xi's high-level shell of a scholar on his face shattered by himself, Ma Cheng felt very happy. Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Haha, Ma Laosan, do you think I am a waste? But you know that this small army was completely made by me. I have to get up early every day to train with them, and the wind and rain will not stop thunder! After reading a few broken books, you made a bullshit and a bad identity as a child. You thought you could ride on my neck and shit and fart? Ma Laosan, I tell you, you are a waste, a waste who is not as good as me, the second generation ancestor!"
What Ma Xi cared about the most was the identity of this Tong Sheng. After hearing Ma Cheng insult the only thing he had obtained through his own efforts, Ma Xi could no longer control his anger. He stood up and his hands were spread apart and he was about to go forward and fight Ma Cheng desperately.
But Ma Xi was just a scholar, and it was Ma Cheng's opponent. Ma Cheng kicked Ma Xi with one kick, then swung the whip and whipped Ma Xi several times, making Ma Xi roll all over the ground. Seeing Ma Xi like this, Ma Cheng cursed: "Ma Lao San, today I tell you that your army is determined, and my father has agreed that you can only walk two ways. One is to climb back like a dog and continue to be your bullshit third master, and the other is to get up for me and continue training!"
Ma Xi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, then crawled up and stared at Ma Cheng with resentful eyes: "Okay, Ma Lao Er! Remember, today I swear in front of you! I am better than you, a useless second-generation ancestor, and even if I join the army, I am better than you!"
After saying that, Maxi joined the queue with firm steps and began to participate in training.
Ma Cheng smiled and didn't take it seriously when he saw Ma Xi like this. He waved his hand to Gu Changwei who was watching the fun on the side: "Gu San, get this guy Ma Xi a military uniform!"
After solving Ma Xi's case, Ma Cheng began to conduct formal training. Ma Cheng knew that the entire army would set out tomorrow to Huai'an to welcome King Feng Fu, and then cross the river to Nanjing to support King Fu ascend the throne. The next step is to develop in Nanjing.
There is not much time left for Ma Cheng now. In the next year, Ma Cheng must train 5,000 elite new troops. Less than this number will not play an absolute role in the war. You must know that no matter which force in China now, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and his five thousand people cannot make waves in front of hundreds of thousands of enemies.
And now the more than a hundred people in front of us are the grassroots officers of Ma Cheng in the future. Ma Cheng has the capital of 5,000 new troops, so Ma Cheng is very strict with these hundred people, and trains them completely according to the strength of the later army. In addition to the queue, even the internal affairs are trained in the later army, and the intensity of this training has exceeded the intensity of the Ma Shiying Bang.
During the training, Ma Cheng found that although Ma Xi was participating in the training for the first time, his understanding ability was much better than those farmers, and he could respond to Ma Cheng's various orders in a timely manner. At least he didn't have to be as hard as those farmers could not tell the difference.
Ma Cheng forced Ma Xi to join the army and originally wanted to deal with this third brother who was above the top, but now seeing Ma Xi's outstanding performance, Ma Cheng felt that he was recruiting some scholars? These stinky old ninths have much better understanding than farmers. Although stinky old ninths have all kinds of stinky problems, Ma Cheng knew a famous saying in later generations that the army is a melting pot. No matter what kind of scrap iron you are, you will definitely be trained into steel when you arrive at the military camp.
Chapter completed!