Ma Cheng glared at Wu Jiazhou. Fortunately, this guy knew the importance of it. If he wanted to talk nonsense, Ma Cheng would not mind using the right to make decisions on the spot to kill the remnant of Donglin.

When Ma Cheng saw Wu Jiazhou sitting on the chair, he said, "Everyone heard it clearly just now. Your Majesty has handed over all the military and political affairs in the city to our governor. In order to resist the northern enemy outside the city, we hope that you will not be bothered and fight against the Qing Dynasty together!"

This sentence is not Ma Cheng's cliché. He really hopes that no matter what camp the subordinates are, they will work together to deal with the Qing Dynasty. After all, no matter how their own people fight, it is their own business. If the Qing Dynasty fights in, the country will be destroyed.

Now Ma Cheng's subordinates belong to three factions. The prefect Wu Jiazhou and Lishui County Magistrate Xu Zhan belong to the Donglin Party, and Lu Siye of the Military Information Department belongs to the Lu Jiude faction. Only Wang Xian can count Ma Cheng's direct line. Not enough, these people know that Ma Cheng has the emperor's imperial edict. No matter what he thinks, after hearing Ma Cheng's statement, they all expressed that they would abide by the military orders of the Marquis of Guiyang and live up to His Majesty's high hopes.

"Okay, since everyone has no objection, the governor announced that the surplus grain collection system will be implemented in the city from today. Each household will leave half a month of rations, and all the others will be handed over to guard the city!"

Ma Cheng's words were like a bomb, and everyone in the house immediately began to whisper. Although the Ming Dynasty was a feudal dynasty, it was a society ruled by law. Although it was different from the ruled by law in later generations, the family property of each person and each household was still protected by law. Especially those literati and officials who had good fortune and reputation, they did not even pay taxes, let alone food.

Wu Jiazhou was the most official among the people in the house. He heard Ma Cheng say this and asked quickly: "Marty, this is not in accordance with the law! The state stipulates that scholars are exempt from labor service, and collecting surplus grain will definitely arouse civil unrest!"

Ma Cheng glared at the eyes and said, "Yang Shen said back then that the country has raised scholars for 150 years, and died of righteousness by virtue of integrity. Today! The Ming Dynasty has raised these scholars for more than 270 years. Now the country is in a dilemma. Can't it be possible to let them make some contributions to the country?"

Ma Cheng said these words were a bit unreasonable. Yang Shen didn't mean that back then, but now Ma Cheng holds the imperial edict, and Wu Family Zhou doesn't want to be troubled at this time, so he stopped talking after hearing Ma Cheng's words.

Ma Cheng had to implement this surplus grain collection system. Now the city has been cut off from contact with the outside world and the supply of grain has also been cut off. In order to continue defending the city, he can only concentrate the whole city's strength.

Speaking of this, we need to talk about the term war mobilization rate. In history, there are often records of the dynasty that dynasty raised millions of troops and attacked a certain regime. In fact, the records in history books are not correct.

The most cruel and bloody war with humans is World War II. The countries with the highest mobilization rate in World War II were Germany and the former Soviet Union. Germany controlled more than 70 million German national population during World War II, and a total of 17 million people were mobilized during the war. Correspondingly, the former Soviet Union, with a population of 180 million, only mobilized 30 million, and the mobilization rate was only more than 16%.

Although the mobilized soldiers were less than half of the population, the German army had even experienced exhaustion in the end, that is, the men who reached the age of recruitment and met the requirements for joining the army had already consumed them, and they could only continuously relax the age and conditions of recruitment. Therefore, a large number of fourteen-year-old baby soldiers participated in the war.

War is a major event that determines the life and death of a country. Germany mastered the most advanced military service system at that time, but could only achieve it.

By the 24% mobilization rate, it was already a dry pond. Therefore, the millions of troops recorded in Chinese history are not reliable.

This is not a problem with how many men are all over the country. The key is that the troops need to eat and drink water. In ancient times, the transportation capacity of roads was limited and the water supply capacity was poor. There were too many people in a place, so there was not enough food to be transported, there was not enough firewood to burn, there was not enough water to drink, and there was no place to pull shit. In the end, either hungry or epidemics were prevalent.

But how did the millions of troops in history come from? It is mainly because the number of people who transported water and grain in ancient times was huge in ancient times. In many cases, the millions of troops in ancient times counted these non-combatants. For example, the 1.13 million troops of Emperor Yang of Sui could account for two-thirds of the number of people alone.

Now Ma Cheng has a population of one million in Nanjing. Even if Ma Cheng has mastered the German military service system, he can mobilize at most 240,000 people, which is still under the premise of destroying the social structure. Now Ma Cheng has a total of 25,000 new troops, nearly 100,000 guards and 80,000 civilians. In addition, the newly recruited 20,000 new troops, the power in Ma Cheng's hands is close to its limit.

The ancient Chinese social system was used to ensure the mobilization rate of World War II. Now the logistics support department under Ma Cheng is already operating. Ma Cheng's army is either a strong man, but a soldier is a knife. Ma Cheng's new army is well-equipped and well-trained, so this new army naturally needs a large amount of logistics supply.

According to Wang Xian's report, the military's food and grass were only enough for two months to eat, and the other materials for defending the city were about to be used up. At this time, we cannot be like before, but instead change the social system and concentrate all the forces of the entire Nanjing on the military, so as to ensure the victory of the defending the city.

Ma Cheng looked at the people in the room and said in a deep voice: "The important task of defending the city is on everyone. If the city is broken, you, my family and I will be massacred by the Northern Capitol. The land of China will reappear from the fishy smell of three hundred years ago, so I ask you all!"

After Ma Cheng said that, he stood up and bowed deeply to everyone. When everyone saw Ma Cheng performing this gift, they quickly stood up and avoided them. At the same time, they all said that they would like to rest assured to ensure that the task was completed.

"Okay, since this is the case, I will issue an order! As the governor of Guo, the prefect of Wu, he must be responsible for the overall work! Xu, with the yamen runners from Lishui County, and the yamen runners from Shangyuan and Jiangning counties, were responsible for collecting surplus grain for civilians in the city!"

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he looked at Lu Siye and then continued: "Deputy General Lu, you were originally responsible for the security work in the city, so you will give the collection of surplus grains from the homes of nobles and civil and military officials in the city!"

After Ma Cheng said that, he took out a letter of appointment from his arms: "This time Deputy General Lu worked hard to defend the city, and this governor has reported to His Majesty that Deputy General Lu was promoted to Admiral Yingtian!"

Ma Cheng's promotion was a way for Ma Cheng to play. The Military Information Department was an official in the Admiral's Office, and the highest official title was the Deputy General. Now that Lu Siye was promoted to the Admiral, the leader of the Military Information Department was no longer suitable for him to continue.

Lu Siye was overjoyed when he heard Ma Cheng say this. Although he knew that the Military Information Department was very important, it was more important than his promotion? Although he left the Military Information Department, the Military Information Department was formed by Lu Siye after all, and some of the important figures were Lu Siye's confidants. Even if Lu Siye left the Military Information Department, the intelligence would not be cut off.

Lu Siye stood up and bowed to answer the order. Of course, the job Ma Cheng gave him was not a good job, and in the city

All the nobles are very domineering, and it is not easy to collect food from them. This is also a problem that Ma Cheng had posed for Lu Jiude. Leave the hard bones to your nephew to eat. If you can't finish it, don't blame me for being cruel.

Wang Xian's job has not changed yet, but he has added a task of investigating official granaries in various parts of the city. Although Wang Xian was a scholar, he is now a military position. Now he has asked a military officer to investigate various granaries in the Ministry of War, which is considered to be a reuse of Wang Xian.

After Ma Cheng finished giving orders, everyone bowed to the orders. Except for the frowning Wu Jiazhou, everyone else was quite satisfied. Xu Zhan had the lightest life and bullied some ordinary people. Lu Siye's life was the hardest, but it was not difficult to have his uncle Lu Jiude help. Wang Xian went to check the granary. Now the Minister of War and the Minister of Revenue are both Ma Shiying's people, so it was not difficult for Wang Xian to have that side.

But Wu Jiazhou, who is in charge of the head office, was not very happy. He had to be in charge of the three routes, and if he didn't complete the tasks all the way, he would have to be counted on him. This job is not easy to do.

Ma Cheng didn't care about this. After saying that, he took the tea to see off guests, these people started working under the leadership of Wu Jiazhou. For a moment, the city of Nanjing was in chaos and chaos.

After all the officials in the room went out, Gu Yong came in and whispered: "Mr. Jung Sect, the second son-in-law has arrived, just wait outside the door!"

After Ma Cheng came back just now, he immediately asked someone to find Zhang Erpei who was wandering around the city. Now the Military Information Department has arrived and needs his own people to fill it.

"Okay, let him in!"

Zhang Erpei has been very unhappy in the past six months. The Ma family's children are the most doomed. The eldest son Ma Luan has now become the deputy chief censor of the third rank. Needless to say, the second son Ma Cheng, and the second son Ma Cheng, he is a great minister of the court. Although the third son Ma Xi is not a legitimate, he has also become the general with heavy troops and is still in the title of admiral. Not to mention the eldest sister Ma Hongning, he has become the empress dowager of the current dynasty.

The one who has the least status now is Zhang Erpei and his wife. Originally, Zhang Erpei was selected by his subordinates as the eighth-rank county magistrate. According to later history records, Zhang Erpei was quickly promoted to the prefect in Jiangxi. However, he knew that Ma Cheng's time travel caused a butterfly effect, so Zhang Erpei did not go to Jiangxi, but stayed in Nanjing. Naturally, there was no official position, and he was still a county magistrate with an empty title from the eighth-rank county magistrate.

Although Zhang Erpei also went to find Ma Shiying and wanted to ask his father-in-law Taishan to help him, Ma Shiying himself was too busy to deal with Zuo Liangyu in April and the Qing Dynasty in May. Now he has to defend the city, so he has no time to control a son-in-law. In this way, Zhang Erpei has been wandering in Nanjing for the past few months.

Today, Zhang Erpei was very happy to receive the news from Ma Cheng at home. He quickly found his eighth-rank green official robe, cleaned up and followed his personal soldiers to the prefect's office to meet Ma Cheng.

After Zhang Erpei entered the house, he saw Ma Cheng sitting there in a big red python robe. He quickly stepped forward and knelt down on his knees and shouted: "Zhang Erpei, the governor of Xinjian County of Jiangxi Province, has seen the Marquis of Guiyang!"

Seeing Zhang Erpei like this, Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Second brother-in-law, get up quickly, there is no one in the house, so don't see you or me!"

Seeing Ma Cheng's tone calm, Zhang Erpei knew that there must be something good today, so he quickly sat down on the chair next to him and asked, "Sir, do you know what's wrong with finding a minister?"
Chapter completed!