Ma Shiying shed tears when she heard Ma Cheng say this: "Cheng'er, are there any parents in the world who don't love their children! Do you think that you are not sad when you see you being beaten like this?"

Ma Cheng saw Ma Shiying's true feelings, but Ma Cheng couldn't control his anger. Today's incident made Ma Cheng too difficult to accept: "You have a son, do those dead villagers have no sons? I saw your soldiers beheading a mother and then trampling her son to death! What should they do? Who will be pitiful?"

Ma Shiying sighed when she heard Ma Cheng say this: "Hey! The world is unkind and treats all things as straw dogs! This is a great battle, and you, my father and son are not better than those villagers!"

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard Ma Shiying say this. He remembered Ma Shiying's fate. Ma Shiying was captured and would rather die than surrender and was skinned by Duoduo. This way of death is much more tragic than the villagers today. At the same time, Ma Shiying was not at ease after his death. After a large number of Donglin Party surrendered, they put the destruction of the Southern Ming country on Ma Shiying's head. What eunuch party ruined the country, and powerful ministers were in power, etc., seemed to be Ma Shiying's responsibility.

Seeing that Ma Shiying's expression was also very quiet, Ma Cheng asked: "Dad, did your son cause trouble for you? Son looks very proud of that Lu Jiude!"

Ma Cheng didn't know why Lu Jiude was proud, but he could also guess that he must have caused trouble for his father.

Ma Shiying smiled bitterly and said, "Haha, nothing is wrong, it's just that Lu Jiude has gotten some shortcomings. As long as my Cheng'er is fine!"

When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, he was indeed a little moved.

Ma Cheng was about to speak, but Ma Shiying had already stood up and walked to the door, then turned around and said, "Cheng'er, you are no longer tolerant of the soldiers in the army this time. When you come back from Huai'an this time, I will get you a free servant of the Genshin Imperial Guards. You can spend more time with your mother at home!"

Ma Cheng knew what was going on after hearing Ma Shiying say this. It turned out that his troubles have become unable to gain a foothold in the army today, and he has entered the military post and can no longer be able to take the imperial examinations. So Ma Shiying said this and it turned out that he was pitiful to him.

Ma Cheng figured it out and was about to refute it, but Ma Shiying had already left the tent and walked away. Ma Cheng cursed hatefully in his heart: Damn, I won’t be with that bastard Zhang Guozhu. If I don’t join the army, I will train my new army by myself!

Gu Changwei, who was outside the account, dared to walk into the tent when he saw the master leaving. Seeing that Ma Cheng had not eaten yet, Gu Changwei advised: "Second Master, take a bite! It has been hot twice!"

Ma Cheng looked at the food and there was a chicken tonight. Ma Cheng stepped forward without hesitation and tore off a chicken leg and chewed it. While eating, he scolded: "Gu Changwei, do you think I can practice the new army by myself? Without Zhang Guozhu, can you only eat a pig with hair?"

Gu Changwei knew in his heart that the second young master was a bullshit and had accomplished nothing, but he didn't dare to say it out loud, so he had to say compliment: "The second master is naturally a first-class hero!"

Ma Cheng nodded and asked, "How is the rescued villager?"

"Second Master, the villain has bandaged his wound. If he can survive tonight, it will be fine! However, his arm was cut off at the same elbow, and even if he was saved, he would be a useless person!" There was no antibiotic in the Ming Dynasty, and the most feared thing was wound infection. If the wound did not get inflamed tonight, it would be fine. However, Gu Changwei didn't know why Ma Cheng wanted to save such a person. The whole family was killed and the person had become a useless person. It would be better to die together.

"Okay, wait until that person wakes up and gives him a few taels of silver and let him escape!" Ma Cheng thought after he said that there was still some pure land in the world? In another year, the Qing army headed south, and the entire southern China would be scorched earth.

The next morning, the army continued to move forward, but this time Ma Cheng was not following the Central Army Central Camp, but followed the large group of people, and all the generals deliberately stayed away from this guy.

Ma Cheng didn't care about those, and led his hundred men to the brigade to advance. Without the supply of food, he took people to the supplies camp to get it. The only one who managed the supplies camp was a garrison. He knew that the second generation ancestor was not tolerated by his colleagues, but Zhang Zhenbiao of the Central Army did not order Ma Cheng's troops to be fired, so Ma Cheng still belonged to the Central Army's Central Army. The garrison was in a dilemma and had to find Yang Wen's inspection office and asked what should he do?

Yang Wencong was in charge of the central army logistics and heard the garrison joke: "Does the general manager order Ma Qianhu to be exempted from military post?"

The guard shook his head and said, "No?"

"Then it's over. You just give it to me according to the rules. Why do you care about so much?"

Then the guard suddenly realized after hearing what Yang Wencong said. He was the governor’s son, so he was nothing! Anyway, Lord Yang, the Secretary of the Central Committee, had already said that he would just do it himself.

Seeing the garrison leaving, Yang Wencong smiled bitterly and shook his head. He knew about Ma Cheng. If Yang Wencong had been young for twenty years, he would have praised Ma Cheng's actions. However, Yang Wencong had been in the officialdom for more than twenty years. The edges and corners of those years had long been worn out, and now they are only smooth. However, Yang Wencong still likes this wife and nephew very much, so he secretly helped him.

After the garrison returned, the supply was provided to Ma Cheng according to the Ming army's standards, but when Ma Cheng was not satisfied, he had to provide a large fat pig every day in addition to asking for fine grains. After hearing Ma Cheng's request, the garrison was so angry that he didn't scold me. Ordinary model soldiers only had one pound of brown rice every day, but each of you 100 people would need two pounds of refined rice every day, and you also had to eat meat every day. Is this a soldier or a raising an old man?

Although the guard was unwilling to do so, what should Yang Zhongshu have already agreed? He had no choice but to try his best to meet Ma Cheng's request. Anyway, it is not far from Huai'an, even if he has been raising pigs these days.

The injury on Ma Cheng's butt was nothing big, and he could get up after two days of lying down. At this time, Ma Cheng's rescue of the villager had also woken up. The villager knew that he was rescued by Ma Cheng, so he insisted on coming over to kneel down to thank Ma Cheng.

The villager followed Gu Changwei to Ma Cheng's tent and saw Ma Cheng kneeling on his knees and saying that he was benefactor.

Ma Cheng saw that the man was about forty years old, of medium figure, with a national face, a short beard, and his clothes had been put on Mingjun's titular clothes.

Ma Cheng sighed and said, "Get up, Second Master, I am alone and I can only save you at that time! Fortunately, you are not in danger now. Second Master will give you ten taels of silver later and run south to the death!"

Then he knew that the man didn't want to leave at all, and he heard Ma Cheng say this quickly: "Second Master, my family has all died in Wangguan Town, and there are no relatives in my hometown to join me. Can I stay in the military camp and serve the Second Master?"

When Ma Cheng heard that this guy didn't want to leave, he wanted to stay in the army. What he wanted was a soldier who could fight. What did you do if you were a disabled person?

"I'm a military camp, and your left arm has been lost, so it's really inconvenient to stay in the army!"

"Second Master, I am literate and still have a scholar's fame. You can be a literati for the Second Master. Please keep it in!"

Unexpectedly, he was still a scholar. You should know that there were very few scholars in the Ming Dynasty, let alone a scholar. Ma Cheng estimated that this guy must be a big shot in Wangguan Town.

"It turns out that he is still a Master Maocai. I don't know what your surname is?"

The man packed up his clothes, then bowed and said, "Wang Xian, whose courtesy name is Deming, was a scholar of Fengyang Mansion in the tenth year of Chongzhen!"

There was originally a library in Ma Cheng's army, which was his third brother Ma Xi. However, Ma Cheng didn't want Ma Xi to be so leisurely, so he directly regarded Ma Xi as an ordinary soldier. However, there was a library in the army, and people needed to do their daily writing and painting. In the future, Ma Cheng himself would be busy with his own affairs.

Thinking of Ma Cheng, he nodded: "Okay, then the second master will hire Wang Xiucai as a clerk. Is it good to have a monthly salary of five cents?"

Wang Xian shook his head when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "Second Master, I don't have any money, just guarantee three meals a day!"

This is good, and it’s useless to work if you don’t have money. Ma Cheng was very satisfied and said to Gu Changwei who was standing aside: “Gu San, in the future, Wang Xiucai will be your own management. You can give all the accounts and purchases to Wang Xiucai!”

Gu Changwei was very happy to hear Ma Cheng say this. In the past half month, Gu Changwei's life was taken. He was illiterate and could not make him feel bad about daily accounting. But the second master Ma Cheng was very sensitive to the accounts and checked the accounts every five days. Now that he finally handed over the bad accounts, Gu Changwei was naturally happy.

Gu Changwei agreed to lead Wang Xian out. Ma Cheng didn't care much about taking such a difficult scholar. Now that the army has arrived outside Huai'an City, Ma Shiying and others are going to see King Fu Zhu Yousong.

Ma Cheng knew that he was excluded by those generals in the army, but it was nothing. If Ma Cheng had the patience to wait until March next year, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng launched the Shun case, then Ma Shiying would be considered a real power-oriented government and the country would be easily able to get Ma Cheng a powerful general.

But Ma Cheng knew history. When everything was over in March next year, only by grasping power could he train the new army as quickly as possible and resist the attack of the Qing Dynasty in Yangzhou. The fastest way to grasp power now is to make friends with King Fu Zhu Yousong, but he was a small thousand-household family and could not even meet Zhu Yousong. How could he make friends?

When Ma Cheng thought of this, he scratched his head very much. How could he meet the foolish king Zhu Yousong?

But what Ma Cheng didn't know was that the opportunity came at will. Just when Ma Cheng was having a headache, a small eunuch came out of the door and rushed to the military camp at the Fufan Villa on the banks of West Lake outside Huai'an City.

When he arrived at the gate of the military camp, the little eunuch showed King Fu's seal and wanted to meet the left-behind central officer Zhang Guozhu.

Zhang Guozhu didn't know what King Fu sent the little eunuch to see him, but King Fu was tomorrow's emperor. Zhang Guozhu did not dare to neglect his slightest and hurried out to greet him.

When Zhang Guozhu saw the young eunuch and asked about his intention, he realized that he was not here to meet him, but King Fu wanted to meet Ma Cheng, a thousand-house Ma of the Central Army.
Chapter completed!