When gangsters fight fiercely on the streets, they actually fight for momentum. They want to scare you from the bottom of their hearts, and then bully you forever.
In the late Qing Dynasty, even those who were gangsters had rules. They would light cigarettes by pinching briquettes with bare hands, stabbing three or six holes in their thighs, cutting off their own flesh and serving it to you... There were as many self-mutilation routines as there were.
I won’t beat you, and I won’t scold you either. I will mutilate myself in front of you. It depends on whether you are afraid or not. As long as you are afraid, you will not be able to escape the fate of paying protection money.
First, they will use their power to scare you, then they will use their white-handed officials to coerce you, and then they will get to know some scoundrels or low-level gangsters who will sue you and throw shit at your door in the middle of the night.
After using this series of routines, if you don't give in, you will use the last resort, which is to take action!
These idle bannermen of the Eight Banners who eat hard-core crops have learned nothing but quackery in the past two hundred years.
How to be a scoundrel! 36 tips for being a scoundrel! It looks like they have read these guides a lot!
Ma Ming's hand was tightly gripping the handle of the command knife, and he was so angry that his whole body began to tremble. These soldiers under his command were all trained by himself, and there was an inexplicable psychological connection between them.
Ma Ming could already feel that his soldiers could no longer suppress their anger!
But Ma Ming still couldn't take action, because he grew up in the stinking pond of the capital, and he knew that behind any appearance, there were countless lines leading to the mastermind behind the scenes.
Are these scoundrels making trouble on the spur of the moment, or is there someone behind them? Thinking about the competition between Xishan soldiers along the way, the answer is readily apparent.
The commander of the second division, Bai Min, also urged his horse to come over, "Old horse! These bastards are here to cause trouble. They want to give our new Yulin Army a showdown! Let's do it!"
"We haven't relinquished command to Long Live Lord yet. The army is still in a state of war readiness. These people are attacking the army to rebel!"
Ma Ming raised his hand to stop him, "Wait until I come back. This matter is not simple. I have to ask it myself!"
After speaking, Ma Ming urged his horse to run forward, almost knocking off two Eight Banners scoundrels along the way.
Ma Ming wanted to find Prince Chun Yixuan, who was also on errands as the Admiral of the Nine Gates and the Infantry Commander's Yamen. Since the seventh prince's errand was to maintain security in the capital, he was not always with the emperor.
Now the little emperor is almost at the front door, but he is still in the middle of the team coordinating the overall situation.
Ma Ming ran over after a while and looked at Prince Chun who was sitting on a chair by the roadside listening to his subordinates' report. He got off his horse and gave a military salute. Ma Ming was not polite at all, "Your Majesty! Is there anyone who is responsible for the security of the capital?" Tube?"
"Ouch! How brave you are! Who are you? How dare you not kneel before the prince? How dare you question the prince!" Naturally, someone from the prince's palace rushed out to stand up for the prince.
Yixuan was not familiar with Ma Ming and his group of officers. He had always only known their names but not their people. He raised his head and glanced, "Why are you so unruly? Is this how the New Army is taught?"
When the subordinate officers around him heard what the prince had said, they immediately became energetic and said, "You are so brave. Even if you are a military official, you will still be beaten a thousand times if you don't kneel down in obeisance!"
"Name? Which flag? Who is the flag owner? What is your current position?"
"Say... pick it up carefully!"
In the past five years, Ma Ming has been used to being outspoken. Even Emperor Tongzhi does not have these bad habits. When everyone is together, they just pay a military salute and then eat bread at the same table with the emperor.
The rules of the Forty-nine Cities of the Capital were too far away from him, so far away that he had already forgotten them!
"I'm... I'm Ma Ming, the current commander of the First Division of the Yulin New Army..."
"Oh! You are Ma Ming! Haha, I often hear your name in telegrams. Today I saw you in person!"
"No matter which banner you belong to, Lao Li'er can't forget it! As the prince of the Aixinjueluo family, shouldn't I be worthy of you... kneeling down?"
Ma Ming's face suddenly turned purple, and he was speechless. "I...I...His Majesty's military order, the new Yulin Army...will not kneel!"
"Haha... I know, aren't you just following Xiao Letian's trick? Kneeling back and forth in the military is a waste of time!" Yixuan looked at Ma Ming like a cat playing with a mouse.
"But it's not a war now, is it? In such a peaceful Sijiu City, there's still no time for you to kowtow? Come on, I won't make it difficult for you. You haven't forgotten it, right?"
Yixuan thinks that he is already very generous. He is a dignified prince of the Xinjieluo family and the emperor's uncle. He doesn't care about your subordinates. He won't kneel down if he doesn't. But beating a thousand people is an old etiquette. Why don't you do that? You have to do it!
The group of flatterers around them quickly flattered them, "Your Majesty is so generous. You are the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha. You can tolerate such rebellious and disrespectful slaves..."
"Well, how else can we say that our prince is the most kind-hearted in the court? These years of balancing the conflicts in the court, if it weren't for our prince's forbearance, there is no telling what the outcome would be like!"
"Ma Ming, you also came from Sijiu City. Don't you have any gratitude at all? After four or five years of absence, have you become a hard-hearted person?"
Ma Mingzi blushed and said, "Your Majesty, the military orders are overwhelming! The new army of Yulin escorts His Majesty back to Luan. As long as there is no order to disband in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the new army will always be in a state of war readiness!"
"Do you think it's peaceful now? But according to the new army's military regulations, it is currently a state of war... So please forgive me for being rude. If I don't kneel down, I won't fight a thousand people!"
"You are so brave!" No matter how good-tempered Yixuan is, he is still a prince who grew up in the power center of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The rules of superiority and inferiority are the moral dogma and untouchable iron law in his heart.
"Bold slave, are you going to rebel... Wait, what did you say? What is a state of combat readiness, and what is a state of war? What do you mean..."
Yixuan will never understand the rules of the new army. The Yulin New Army, which originated from the Chinese military system, naturally understands what professional terms such as first-level combat readiness and second-level combat readiness are.
The military has long since become an extremely scientific team. Prussians and Chinese alike have begun to boldly carry out military reforms, and the General Staff is just one of them.
Another point is to provide various training plans for the troops!
The troops are given various states according to the situation, and each state has a corresponding plan, which greatly reduces the difficulty of commanding the army.
You must know that not everyone is quick-witted. Those who can turn defeat into victory on the spot are rare military geniuses!
Most commanders still follow the rules. If this is the case, make more preparations in advance to reduce risks and increase the chance of victory.
The task of the Yulin New Army at this moment is to escort Emperor Tongzhi back to Beijing. The mountains and rivers are connected along the way for tens of thousands of kilometers. All kinds of emergencies will happen. Maybe it is a shipwreck, maybe it is pirates, maybe the Hunan Army rebels, maybe the Chinese rebel!
There are many dangers, so the current status of the Yulin New Army is level one combat readiness!
In this state, live ammunition is distributed to the entire army, everyone's vacation is terminated, and the right to fire is transferred to the battalion-level commander.
In other words, as long as in this state of combat readiness, any provocation in a series of plans is encountered, not to mention Ma Ming, even the battalion commander has the right to fire the first shot.
Protecting the emperor is the highest authority task at all times!
