Fengyang is 150 kilometers straight from Huai'an. If you take the Ningluo Expressway in later generations, you can get there in less than two hours. But now it is the Ming Dynasty. Although Fengyang is located in the inland China, it has been well developed as early as five thousand years ago, but it is still a large area of ​​primeval forest twenty miles away from Fengyang City.

On April 13, the 17th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and Lu Jiude, the army supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the Fengyang army, gathered 20,000 troops to set off from Fengyang, preparing to go to Huai'an to welcome King Fengfu Zhu Yousong.

Fengyang Prefecture is located along the Huai River and is very convenient for water transportation. Of course, senior officials such as Ma Shiying and Lu Jiude have to take relatively comfortable boats. Although Ma Cheng is a thousand households, he is bullshit in front of the Fengyang Governor who is gathering in a large number of stars. He has no choice but to take his small armed forces of one hundred people to follow the large army on land.

This was the first time Ma Cheng went far in this era. He was very happy at the beginning and looked around and was full of curiosity. However, over time, Ma Cheng slowly lost interest. In addition, Fengyang was just a few years ago and was damaged by bandits. There were broken walls everywhere, so slowly he lost his curiosity.

Just when Ma Cheng was bored, an officer in front of Ma Cheng rode a horse and asked, "Do you dare to ask if this adult is Ma Qianhu?"

Ma Cheng looked at the officer in front of him, wearing a garrison uniform, in his forties, and was as short, thick and fat as a ground tank, but his face was full of smiles.

He was a garrison, and he was above Ma Cheng's thousand households in the fifth and sixth level. Ma Cheng quickly bowed and asked, "Sir, I wonder what's going on in search of the last one?"

The garrison laughed: "Haha, Ma Qianhu is out, the last one is Luo Bingran, the central camp garrison under the general system! "

When Ma Cheng heard this, he realized that this fat man was his direct boss.

Ma Shiying's model soldiers were divided into three battalions on the left, middle and right, with a total of 1,300 model soldiers and 200 cavalrymen. The main general was Zhang Guozhu with the rank of deputy general, and there were two generals below. The three battalions under the bid were led by three guards. Ma Cheng belonged to the central camp, and Luo Bingran was the chief officer of the central camp.

In fact, according to normal official rules, after Ma Cheng entered the military position and became a thousand households, he had to visit his superiors. Of course, Luo Bingran in front of him, and then he had to give him filial piety, that is, to pay bribes.

But Ma Cheng is a completely new official in the officialdom and has no idea about these hidden rules of the officialdom. In addition, Ma Cheng's son is the governor, where can he hold a small guard?

After receiving the official documents from the pedestrian company, Luo Bingran waited for the new Ma Qianhu to come to visit him. At first, Luo Bingran was very angry, but after learning about Ma Cheng's identity from Shangguan Zhang Guozhu, his anger immediately turned into joy.

Luo Bingran was originally a Qianhu of the Yingwu Guard of Fengyang. He took the opportunity of Yue Qijie when he was fighting with Lu Jiude. Therefore, after Ma Shiying came to be the governor, Luo Bingran became a garrison under the governor's bid.

The garrison is already considered an intermediate officer, and compared with later generations, he is probably equivalent to the deputy division commander, but Luo Bingran is not satisfied. He also wants to be the deputy general and general.

Luo Bingran has great ambitions, but the leader is not blind. The general and deputy general are different from the garrison. The general and deputy general are qualified to lead an armed force to fight independently. You, Luo Bingran, are bullshit. You rely on the camp to become the garrison. That leader is not at ease to hand over thousands of troops to you as a waste commander, so Luo Bingran's dream of general has never been realized.

After learning that the Governor's legitimate son came to his subordinates to be a thousand households, Luo Bingran felt that this was an opportunity. If he was happy to serve this second young master, he would leave a good impression in the Governor's heart. At that time, he would give him a lot of filial piety and would be promoted to deputy general, even if he was a deputy general in the camp.

Therefore, Luo Bingran created a precedent in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. Shangguan took the initiative to visit his subordinates and also called himself the last general.

Ma Cheng didn't know the twists and turns in the officialdom. Seeing the fat man in front of him smiling, he quickly bowed and asked, "Mr. Luo, what are the instructions?"

Luo Bingran laughed: "Hey! Mr. Ma is so serious. The general is just a guard. He can't afford to be the word "master" in front of the second son. The second son can just call the general the name of the general!"

Luo Bingran was a little embarrassed when he got this trick, but he couldn't help but feel kindness. Ma Cheng had to say, "Since that's the case, would you please call Lord Luo as the eldest brother?"

Luo Bingran was overjoyed when he heard Ma Cheng say this. He became the eldest brother of Mr. Ma. Is that the godson of the governor? Luo Bingran didn't realize that he was already forty-eight, Ma Shiying was only fifty-six years old. Can he have such a big godson there?

"Okay! OK! Since the Mo General has become the eldest brother of the second young master, he should call the General Secretary the uncle in the future. Otherwise, the second young master will recommend the Mo General Secretary to the Godfather for the General Secretary?"

When Ma Cheng heard Luo Bingran say this, he felt disgusted. He really didn't expect that people would be so shameless. However, as the saying goes, "If you don't hit people with smiles, they are yourselves, and they lick your face and flatter you. If you refuse again, you will be embarrassed.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to say, "Brother Luo, this is not something I can decide, but I can report to my father on my behalf. As for whether I can become a younger brother, I will ignore it!"

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say! Then I'll ask me for this matter!" After Luo Bingran said that, he took out a silver note from his arms and put it in Ma Cheng's hand, and then rode a horse away (there were no fully circulated silver notes in the Ming Dynasty, only the certificates issued by major bills were issued, some of which were like deposit certificates in later generations. The formally circulated silver notes were invented by Shanxi bills in the Qing Dynasty. For the sake of convenience in this book, don't be demanding).

Ma Cheng opened the silver note and was shocked when he saw it. What a guy! Luo Bingran made a fortune. The silver note said that the amount was 1,000 taels, and the ticket was paid when it was paid! One thousand taels is not a small amount. Ma Cheng started a sugar factory and his mother Gu invested 1,000 taels of silver. According to the purchasing power, this thousand taels were equivalent to one million soft sister coins in later generations.

It was the first time Ma Cheng received so much money in his previous life or this life. It took him a long time to react and asked Gu Changwei beside him: "Third brother, what is Luo Bingran's origin? Why did he give 1,000 taels of silver at one's action?"

Gu Changwei looked at Luo Bingran's back and spat: "Bah! Sir, you don't know. Luo Bingran is known as Luo Bapi, the most shameless among the three garrisons in the Central Army! The other garrisons will collect benefits for a while. Luo Bingran even had to embezzle the food expenses of the soldiers. If this guy hadn't gone to Master Yue's path, he would have been promoted to the general manager's home!"

Gu Changwei was born as a personal soldier, and his fame was cut by me and myself, so he naturally looked down on Luo Bingran, who was opportunistic.

Although Gu Changwei hates this guy, Ma Cheng likes it very much. After all, he has sent him a thousand taels of silver. In order for his 100-man armed forces to have physical training, Ma Cheng not only lets them have enough food every day, but also provides a certain amount of animal protein. In the past ten days, Gu Xiying's 100 taels of betrothal gift has been spent. Now Ma Cheng is very happy to have a new investment.

Ma Cheng handed the silver notes to Gu Changwei, and then said: "No matter what, it's a good thing to get the silver anyway! It's very hard for the brothers to travel today, and add a chicken for every five people tonight!"

Ma Cheng said the next sentence to his soldiers. When these guys heard that there were chickens to eat at night, they cheered loudly, which made the brothers around him look at each other.

Just as Ma Cheng's subordinates cheered, a knight wearing a yellow suit and riding a horse ran over, shouting something while running.

When he arrived beside Ma Cheng, Ma Cheng heard what the guy called: "The Third Battalion of the Central Army obeyed the order! The Central Army officer Zhang Zhenbiao had an order and ordered all the soldiers of the Third Battalion of the Central Army to wipe out the bandits from five miles away!" The knight shouted and ran backwards.

Is going to fight? Ma Cheng remember that the bandits are all in the north now? Are there small bandits here?

Just as Ma Cheng was suspicious, another horse came in front of him, and the knight above shouted: "Where is Ma Cheng, a thousand households in the central camp?"

When Ma Cheng heard this, he quickly urged him to come forward and said, "I am Ma Cheng!"

The knight glanced at Ma Cheng and said, "Mr. Luo, the garrison in the central camp, has an order, and ordered Ma Qianhu to go to the front to obey the order!"

Ma Cheng was shocked when he heard this. It seemed that he was going to fight. His 100 soldiers had just been trained and I wonder how many of them could survive.

Although Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son, he has great military orders in the army, so Ma Cheng has no choice but to ride a horse to the front of the team.

There were originally 500 soldiers in the Central Army Central Camp, and in addition to the 300 most elite Guizhou soldiers brought by Ma Shiying from Guizhou, there were 200 cavalry. But now, with Ma Cheng's 100 men, the entire Central Camp is 600, which is the largest number of battalions in the Third Battalions of the Central Army.

When Ma Cheng arrived on horseback, the other two thousand households had arrived. There were two thousand households in each battalion of the Central Army. Ma Cheng's thousand households were added, so there were three thousand households in the Central Army.

The other two Qianhu were a small middle-aged man with a body full of flesh like a water tank. The other Qianhu was a young man, about 20 years old, and very capable.

When the two Qianhu saw Ma Cheng coming, they bowed and said, "Ma Qianhu, the first time we met!" Both of these guys knew that Ma Cheng was Ma Shiying's son, so they didn't dare to pretend to be a thug. They were very respectful.

But the fat man Luo Bingran did not come up to lick the anus, but pretended to be majestic and said, "The three thousand households have arrived. The official story is short. I just found out that there were a large number of bandits five miles away. Zhang Zhenbiao had an order! I ordered us to fight to wipe out the bandits! Everyone is the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Now it is time to be loyal to the country! Xu Qianhu, you lead 300 Guizhou soldiers in front, Zhang Qianhu, you lead 200 cavalry to be commanded by Zhang Zhenbiao in the central army!"
Chapter completed!