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Chapter 4 The future is slim

Ma Shiying was from Guiyang, but the ancestor of the Ma family was not the ground cannon in Guiyang. Ma Cheng, the ancestor of the Ma family, was a true man in Huainan Yi. In the chaotic times of the Yuan Dynasty, Ma Cheng was similar to ordinary people. Everyone in the family starved to death. Ma Cheng had no choice but to surrender to his fellow villager, Zhu Chongba, yes! It was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Ma Cheng followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight against the north and south and made countless contributions. Finally, he followed Fu Youde to Yunnan and Guizhou. Ma Cheng stayed in Guiyang and took root and became the commander of Guizhou Guards.

This Ma Cheng was the direct ancestor of Ma Shiying. Of course, at the beginning, the Ma family was just a military household. Although it was a senior military household, it was not very different in essence. It had no status in the officialdom where civil officials were the main ones.

The Ma family's real incest group started with Ma Shiying's grandfather Ma Yunlong. Old Ma Tau knew that the society is different now. Although soldiers don't have to worry about food and clothing, they have no political status at all. Ma Yunlong has hereditary commander Tongzhi as his backer from his fifth-rank official position. When he saw an ordinary county magistrate, he would kneel down and kowtow.

So Ma Yunlong made up his mind to let his sons study poetry and books hard and strive to enter the upper-class ruling group.

Ma Yunlong had six sons in total. His eldest son Ma Shunqing was not good at studying and inherited Ma Yunlong's hereditary title at home. The other five sons had a fortune. Among these five sons, Ma Shiying's old son Ma Mingqing was the most powerful. He became the prefect of Jinning as an official. The prefect of the Ming Dynasty was different from the prefect of the Qing Dynasty. The prefect of the Ming Dynasty was a fourth-rank rank, one level higher than the prefect of the prefect. He was already a high-ranking official of the fourth-rank rank.

Since Ma Yunlong, the Ma family has officially left military status and became a scholar group. The second generation has produced three Juren, and the third generation has become even more amazing. Two Jinshis were produced, namely Ma Shiying and Ma Shisheng. Three Juren and two Jinshis were found. At this time, the Ma family had become a prominent family in Guiyang City.

Ma Cheng sighed in his heart when he heard Gu San tell the history of the Ma family that the growth of that family was not easily obtained. Ma Shiying's ability to achieve today is inseparable from the efforts of the ancestors of the Ma family in history. Only after the generation of Ma Shiying's generation can he cultivate Jinshi.

"Okay, Gu San, let me tell you, is my grandfather's family a descendant?" Ma Cheng had just traveled to this era and was eager to understand the strength of his family. After all, the late Ming Dynasty was a chaotic world, and it was not realistic to make a name for himself. The safest way was to rely on the power of the family.

Gu San heard Ma Cheng's question and quickly said, "Second Master, how is the villain of the Gu family naturally understand? The villain has been a personal soldier of the Gu family for all generations. My father blocked an arrow for Mr. Gu back then!"

Ma Cheng is not ordinary in his mother's family. Ma Cheng, the ancestor of the Ma family, can only be called an anti-Japanese cadre. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, you will be given the identity of a commander of the provincial military region. However, Gu Cheng, the ancestor of the Gu family, was a Long March cadre who started with Zhu Yuanzhang because Gu Cheng was Zhu Yuanzhang's personal soldier back then.

Gu Cheng joined Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising team very early. After Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he served as the General of the Southern Expedition, followed Fu Youde to Yunnan and Guizhou, and stationed in Guizhou for more than ten years. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Gu Cheng became the left governor and participated in the Jingnan Campaign. After Zhu Di succeeded in Jingnan, he was granted Gu as the Marquis of Zhenyuan.

By the Chongzhen period, the Zhenyuan Marquis had been passed down for nine generations. The contemporary Zhenyuan Marquis was Ma Cheng's grandfather Gu Zhaoji. However, a few months ago, Beijing reported that the ninth Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Zhaoji died in Deshengmen in Beijing. Ma Cheng's uncle Gu Congxin's ancestor was the concubine's son of the first Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Cheng. He did not follow Gu Cheng back to Nanjing, but stayed in Guizhou to take root. In addition to Gu Congxin's family, Guizhou also has several Gu families. Anshun Gu and Guiyang Gu families are both descendants of Gu Cheng back then.

Because of the friendship between the Ma family and the Gu family, and since Ma Shiying's grandfather generation, the Ma family has broken away from military origin and became a scholarly family, so the Gu family has their own needs. The Ma family needs the status of the Gu family as a noble, and the Gu family also needs the energy in the Ma family's officialdom. Therefore, the two families have started marriage since Ma Shiying's grandfather generation. Ma Shiying's aunt married Gu Zhaoxing, the previous generation of Guizhou Gu and Gu Congxin's old man, so Ma Shiying and Gu are cousins.

When Ma Cheng heard Gu San say this, he quickly looked down at his body. Fortunately, there was no defect. It seemed that marriage to a close relative would not have much impact on him.

As for Gu San, it was simple. His ancestors served as personal soldiers for the Gu family during the Zhengtong period. In the generation of Gu San's father, they blocked the arrows for Gu Zhaoxing in the An family rebellion in the Shuixi, Guizhou. Therefore, Gu San was given a position as a hereditary hundred households.

At this time, Gu San had already left the original intention of telling the story of the Gu family's history of becoming a fortune, and had completely become a self-proclaimer. He said how he was so capable of fighting with the Yi people by himself, and then he said how he followed Gu Congxin to fight with those Yi people.

Ma Cheng originally wanted to ask Gu San if he could train soldiers, but he didn't expect that this guy would say something useful for a long time. Ma Cheng cursed: "Okay, Gu San, I'll ask you if you can train soldiers?"

Gu San opened his goldfish eyes and thought for a long time and said, "Second Master, I don't know how to do it! My father didn't teach me back then. When I was fifteen years old, my father only gave me a steel knife, and then I became the eldest master's personal soldier."

When Ma Cheng heard this, he sighed. He originally wanted to plan for future development, but he had no idea when he thought about it. Looking at the big words written on rice paper, steel, gunpowder, and training, Ma Cheng sighed and rubbed his forehead with his hands.

Gu San was illiterate, but even if he knew how to read, he couldn't understand the simplified Chinese characters written by Ma Cheng. However, just now Ma Cheng asked him about training troops, and Gu San thought that the second master wanted to train troops himself to deal with Lu Zhenshou's nephew Lu Siye.

Gu San has been taking care of Ma Cheng for several years, so he naturally has feelings for this young man. Now he sees the second master’s headache and quickly says, “Don’t worry, second master, did that Lu Siye rely on his nephew to be Lu Jiude’s nephew? When the master comes back, the young man will find a hundred personal soldiers to ensure that Lu Siye’s subordinates will be beaten! The master’s five hundred guards are not simple. The elites who have all rolled out of the dead back then were still comrades in the past, and I remember when the young man was fighting with the eldest young master…”

Ma Cheng had a headache, but now he heard Gu San brag about how brave he was back then. Ma Cheng was really not patient enough and cursed: "Gu San, I have a headache, get out of here!"

Seeing Ma Cheng getting angry, Gu San didn't dare to blow any more, so he had to leave in shame. Ma Cheng had a headache and had no choice but to lie on the bed and look at the beam in a daze.

Ma Cheng looked at the carved piping bed and thought to himself: If you travel through time, you should bring a system, a computer, or a warehouse, the worst thing is a doctor of metallurgical machinery, with all kinds of gold fingers and gold thighs. If you want to hug it, you should hug it. It’s good to travel through time, but I’m a good person, but I’m a eunuch party, and I’m not much different from the streets. As for the knowledge I learned in my previous life, the computer major was useless in this era without electricity. After graduation, I forgot all the professional knowledge I learned. Needless to say, there is no golden finger or something, even a golden hair.

Of course, Ma Cheng didn't have nothing. At least he liked to read novels. Later novels in the late Ming Dynasty were useless. Although it was useless to read them, Ma Cheng still knew the basic context of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Ma Cheng remembered that Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming seemed to have been emperor for only one year, and then Emperor Yongli came to power. In the end, this unlucky emperor was killed by Wu Sangui.

Thinking of this, Ma Cheng thought that he would have no way out, so he would surrender to the Qing Dynasty. He had no moral burden on surrendering to Ma Cheng. He wanted to be a male prostitute in order to make a living. If it weren't for his appearance, it would be a good profession.

But Ma Cheng thought of the cheap, Ma Shiying's fate was lost and the surrender was lost. You should know that Ma Shiying was finally skinned by Duoduo. Although Ma Shiying was more unyielding, the surrender factions of the Donglin Party behind it also played a role in fueling the fire.

Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son. I'm skinned and can't help but heal? Thinking of this, Ma Cheng couldn't help but give up on surrender. Ma Cheng thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what to do. He had no choice but to have the idea of ​​one day. If it really didn't work, he would get a boat to Japan.
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