The six ministries in Nanjing have become elderly care units since Zhu Di moved the capital, but the Ministry of War still has some real power. In order to fight against the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast, since the Jiajing period, the garrison troops of coastal provinces such as Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong were assigned to the Nanjing Ministry of War for management.

Although the number of troops in these provinces cannot be compared with the Nine Borders, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops. In addition, Nanjing has now become the de facto capital, and more than 400,000 troops in Jiangbei are also assigned to the Nanjing Ministry of War. Naturally, all civil servants of the Ministry of War are very proud.

Chang Fang is a clerk in the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War, and there is no grade at all. If he had served the doctor Li, he might have been able to become a ninth rank before retirement.

Although the position of the clerk sounds good, it is just like the clerks in later generations. It is called service. In fact, nothing can be done. They can only be responsible for sending and receiving documents and uploading and issuing simple tasks. But you have to know where the clerks are divided into. Can the clerks in the Ministry of War be the same as the clerks in the county magistrate? Chang Fang is used to seeing generals in the generals in the Ministry of War, and even when he comes to the Ministry of War, he has to nod and bow. But today this young man made Chang Fang unable to know what his identity was.

If you look at the official uniform, the young man in front of you is a general, but there are 17 or 18 years old generals in the country? But he is not like a nobleman. Chang Fang knows that although the nobleman is superb, he cannot release real military generals. Another thing is his attitude. The young man in front of you is very arrogant. Although your general is the second-rank, as big as the Minister of War, it will be troublesome if you really come to the Ministry of War to show off. Not to mention the Wuxuansi, who is in charge of your promotion, even the most miserable official department can deal with you. When you send troops, you will give you a wrong map, so that you will be one or two days later than expected, which is enough for you to lose your head.

When Chang Fang saw this guy coming to him carelessly, he asked for his surname to meet the doctor of the Arsenal. This was the first time Chang Fang saw such a general who didn't understand the rules, and she laughed angry for a moment.

When Ma Cheng saw the book at the door, he laughed and thought there was something wrong with the clothes he was wearing. After all, this was his first time wearing the Ming Dynasty official uniform. But Ma Cheng looked up and down and looked at it, and the official uniform was right, and his hat was not crooked. So why did this official laugh at it?

Chang Fang smiled and cursed: "You Qiu Ba is the general of the miscellaneous number from that place. Do you know where this place is? This is the Ministry of War! It is not your doghouse and military camp. You dare to come here to play wildly. Don't you get out of here!"

Ma Cheng ran to Nancheng twice today and was a little angry at first, but now he was scolded by such a bullshit thing and could no longer control his anger. He stepped forward and slapped him and gave this eye-opening thing a while.

Ma Cheng has been training with the army in the past half month and has very good physical fitness. This slap has swollen Chang Fang's face.

Chang Fang has been in the Ministry of War for more than ten years. How many admirals and generals have seen before? This is the first time that he has been beaten and was stunned for a moment.

Chang Fang was stunned for a long time and cursed: "You Qiu Ba is so arrogant. Do you know that this is here? Come and drive this guy who doesn't know the ignorance of the noble and inferior person out!"

There were model soldiers on guard in the Second Hall of the Ministry of War. After hearing what Chang Fang said, the four of them were going to attack Ma Cheng. There was such a big noise outside, and there was also a person from Wuxuansi. It was the head of Liang who accompanied Ma Cheng to Shenji Camp in the morning.

Commander Liang originally wanted to come out to watch the fun, but he didn't expect that the second generation ancestor Ma Cheng, the second generation ancestor, was causing trouble. Commander Liang knew that Ma Cheng's old man was the new chief assistant and minister of the Ministry of War, and it would be a big problem to offend him.

Commander Liang quickly stepped forward to stop the model soldiers and cursed: "Do you guys know who this is? This is General Ma Cheng and Ma of Yuanfu's second son!"

Yuan Fu was a respectful title for the chief minister. When the model soldiers were frightened, they knelt down and kowtowed to ask for forgiveness.

When Ma Cheng saw the head of Liang come out, he asked with a smile: "Mr. Liang, your Ministry of War is so powerful. It seems that I want to go back and talk to my father. It's time to rectify it!"

Ma Cheng was pulling the big flag here, but it worked very well. Chang Fang was so scared that he sat on the ground when he heard Ma Cheng say this.

At this time, Li Kun, the doctor of the Arsenal Division, had also come out. When Chief Liang saw Li Kun, he quickly bowed and bowed: "Mr. Li, this is the second son of Yuanfu. He was just taken by His Majesty as the general of the Shenji Camp. In the morning, the officials took him to the Shenji Camp!"

When Li Kun heard that he was Ma Shiying's second son, he quickly bowed and said, "It turns out that the second young master is here. The second young master has a lot. Don't be as knowledgeable as such a low-level official. Please come in and come in!" Li Kun was not bad to Chang Fang and was willing to plead for him.

Ma Cheng is here to do business today. In addition, although Ma Shiying is the Minister of War, the county magistrate is not as good as the county magistrate. It is not easy to deal with if these guys from the Ministry of War secretly make traps for you, so Ma Cheng didn't want to be as knowledgeable as this little official and followed Li Kun into the Arsenal Department.

The office of the Arsenal Department is very simple, with only three rooms inside and outside, which is very inconsistent with the status of the Arsenal Department. As a doctor, Li Kun has a small room in the innermost part of the office. The two rooms outside are the office spaces where the other two members of the Arsenal Department are the six supervisors.

After coming to the inner room and sitting down, Li Kun asked with a smile, "I wonder if there is anything wrong with the second young master coming?" Li Kun did not mention Ma Cheng's position, because a general was not in Li Kun's eyes, and he valued Ma Cheng's identity.

Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Mr. Li, that's right. Mo Jiang went to Shenji Camp in the morning. When he saw Wu Bei's weak, he felt sorry for him, so he wanted to reorganize Shenji Camp. After getting his father's consent, Mo Jiang had already recruited 5,000 soldiers to supplement the vacancies. Today I will report to Lord Li!"

According to Minglu, the local generals had no right to recruit soldiers without authorization, but Ma Cheng had obtained Ma Shiying's verbal consent, so Li Kun naturally did not want to cause trouble for him in this regard.

Li Kun smiled and said, "Although the second young master did something a bit unruly, since Yuan Fu has agreed, this company is not a problem at all!"

Ma Cheng smiled when he heard Li Kun agreeing and said, "Okay, Lord Li is really happy! There is another thing that needs Lord Li's help. Now the soldiers have been recruited, but there is a shortage of barracks and food. Even the generals saw that the Divine Machine Camp had no muskets. If they wanted some equipment and weapons, I wonder if Lord Li could allocate them?"

"It's easy to say. There are several barracks on the side of the university's field that can be allocated to the Shenji Camp. The officials at the food and weapons will also arrange people to handle it. Don't worry, the second young master!" Li Kun said this and his heart was bleeding. Ordinary generals wanted food and grass to give gifts to Li Kun, but the same sentence was still said, Ma Cheng's identity was special, and Li Kun had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree.

Seeing that Li Kun agreed to his two conditions without hesitation, Ma Cheng continued: "Can you allocate all the craftsmen from the Weapon Bureau to the General?"

When Li Kun heard Ma Cheng say this, he cursed in his heart: You are so arrogant! Do you know how much money I have lost to do these two things for you? I still want craftsmen now?

Li Kun said in embarrassment: "Second Young Master, it's not that the subordinates don't give you the subordinates, but this weapon bureau is under the management of the Ministry of Works. The subordinates have a small position and can't order the Ministry of Works!"

Li Kun originally thought that after he said this second young master, he would go to the Ministry of Works, but then he knew that Ma Cheng said, "Then I don't care. My father is your Minister of War. I don't know who the Minister of Works is, so your Ministry of War must solve this problem for me!"

Li Kun saw Ma Cheng being so scoundrel that he was scoundrel, but what can you do? There was no way Li Kun had to say, "Second Young Master, the official can't make the decision in this matter, why don't you go to ask Mr. Ding?" Li Kun meant to push Ma Cheng to Mr. Ding, and that would have nothing to do with him.

Ma Cheng thought about it and it was right. It was probably not possible for a small doctor to do this: "Okay, then please ask Lord Li to take me to see Mr. Ding!"

Li Kun had no choice but to stand up and take Ma Cheng to find the Minister Ding Qirui.

When he came to the minister's office, Li Kun pleaded with the problem and asked Ding Qirui to see what to do. Li Kun thought Ding Qirui could push Ma Cheng back, but then he knew Ding Qirui said, "Nephew, this is easy to say. I and Chen Shangshu of the Ministry of Works are pretty good. This matter is covered by me!"

Li Kun didn't expect that Ding Qirui, who was famous and difficult to talk to, agreed so simply, and he didn't understand. In fact, this matter was very simple. Ding Qirui had been working as the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing for several years. Now that the new emperor was first established, he naturally wanted to move forward and rise again. In this way, Ma Shiying needed to speak, so he would not offend Ma Shiying's son Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng said happily when he saw Ding Qirui saying this, "Then I will thank my uncle!" Ma Cheng's affairs were over in the Ministry of War, so he stood up and said goodbye and left.

When Li Kun saw Ma Cheng leave, he whispered to Ding Qirui: "Mr. Ding, this Ma Cheng still needs food and grass weapons. What should the officials do?"

Ding Qirui glared at Li Kun and said, "Li Kun, don't you understand this? Now that the new emperor is now established, Ma Cheng has been promoted from a thousand households to generals. With the help of Yuanfu, this is not something you and I can offend, so there is absolutely no need to have any work. He will give whatever he wants, and he will give it to good ones!"

Li Kun nodded when he heard Ding Qirui say this, and then went down to send people to allocate food and weapons for Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng rode his horse out of the War Department and returned to the outside of the Nancheng. In addition to Shenji Camp, there were also seventh battalions troops in the Grand Colonel. However, Nanjing has been in peace for a long time, and there was no soldier except a few old soldiers guarding the gate.

Ma Cheng found a camp with many barracks and stepped forward to hand over the official documents of the Ministry of War to the guardian army, so that the camp would become the new garrison of Shenji Camp.

Ma Cheng stood in the middle of the camp and looked around. There were many barracks, but most of them were damaged after being disrepaired. The roofs of many houses were not inhabited at all. Fortunately, Ma Cheng does not have many soldiers under his command now, and he can basically live there.
Chapter completed!