Let's talk about the Ministry of Civil Affairs' large-scale elimination of civil servants. The Ministry of War was not idle either.
Ma Wensheng, the sixty-three-year-old Minister of War, acted vigorously and resolutely. In one breath, more than thirty mediocre generals were eliminated. .
These more than thirty mediocre generals received empty military pay and did not go to the Beijing camp or the regiment camp for many years. Some people don't even know how many soldiers and horses they have.
This group of Qiu Ba are not literati who use pens.
You remove their official position and make them lose their livelihood. They will fight you tooth and nail.
That evening, Ma Wensheng returned to the door of the mansion in an official sedan.
There was a commander in the Three Thousand Battalion named Guo Dagang. This man was born black, fat and short. He was nicknamed Guo Big Head in the military.
Guo Datou was laid off from his military post yesterday. Is this okay?
My ancestor fought against Master Hong Wu! Have a hard time with Lord Yongle Jing!
You, Ma Wensheng, don’t think you can lay off me, just lay me off?
He gathered two friends who were also laid off and full of resentment. Guarding Ma Wensheng's house with bows and arrows.
As soon as Ma Wen got off the sedan, the three of them immediately opened their bows and shot arrows!
"Whoosh whoosh!" Three arrows flew towards Ma Wensheng, and one of them flew past the old horse's scalp.
In fact, no matter how courageous these three people were, they would not dare to kill the Minister of War.
The arrows they used did not have iron arrowheads, they were just used to vent their anger.
Ma Wensheng didn’t know if there was an arrow on it!
Three young men without moral integrity came to attack my sixty-three-year-old man. Is this good? This is not good!
I, Ma Wensheng, conquered Shaanxi and Gansu, crossed Liaodong, and carried out surprise attacks on the grasslands. He is a civil servant who crawled out from among the dead.
Can such a small scene scare me?
I saw Ma Wensheng roaring angrily: "Stop!"
Then he held his head and ran towards the door of the mansion.
The sixty-three-year-old old man could move like a flying mouse.
Anyone who has actually fought in a war knows the truth on the battlefield: sometimes when faced with a shameless sneak attack, fight if you can beat it, and run if you can't beat it.
Guo Datou and the others fled back to the mansion in a panic when they saw Ma Wensheng. The three of them held their heads proudly like victorious generals.
Guo Datou kept scolding: "Ma Wensheng, you old fool! How dare you remove me from my position! How do you want me to live?"
"My ancestor was a serious Red Scarf Army! During the Jingnan period, he became a serious Yan Army!"
"What's wrong with me taking a few days off? My ancestor has already suffered what I deserve!"
Guo Dabu and the others were spitting foam and flying stars, scolding Ma Wensheng and shooting arrows into Ma Wensheng's house.
After a moment, the door of Ma Mansion creaked open!
The sixty-three-year-old old man Ma Wensheng, wearing heavy leaf armor and a swallow-winged helmet, carrying a bowl-mouth blunderbuss, strode out majesticly!
This armor was awarded by the late emperor when Ma Wensheng was guarding Shaanxi and Gansu.
That bowl-mouthed blunderbuss was called a blunderbuss. It was the size and thickness of a small cannon.
In addition to studying military strategies, Lao Ma also likes to make military inventions. He brought this bowl-mouth gun back to the house from the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War, and planned to improve it in his spare time.
The large-mouth blunderbuss from the Hongwu Dynasty weighed 63 kilograms, and the small bowl-mouth blunderbuss from the Chenghua Dynasty weighed 32 kilograms.
The old horse is also getting stronger and stronger, carrying a gun weighing more than thirty kilograms like a wooden stick.
How embarrassed the old horse was just now, now he is so majestic. Wearing heavy armor and holding a small cannon, who can compete with him?
Ma Wensheng roared at the three of them: "You straight lady, you dare to attack me, Ma Wensheng? Do you know what nickname the Jurchens gave me when I was ruling Liaodong? Horse Butcher!"
Ma Wensheng directly lit the fuse of the blunderbuss and pointed it at Guo Datou and the others.
No matter how ignorant Guo is about military affairs, he still knows that arrows cannot defeat cannons.
What's more, the old horse is wearing leaf heavy armor. Not to mention that their arrows don’t have iron arrowheads, even if they do, they can’t shoot through heavy armor!
Guo Datou and the three of them ran away.
"Boom!" The gun went off!
Ma Wensheng did not fill the bowl with powder, only gunpowder. What he fired was a blank shot.
Ma Wensheng thought: After destroying the jobs of these Qiu Ba, why don't they be allowed to vent their anger? Why really shoot them into bloody holes? Just drive him away.
However, Lao Ma took advantage and did not forget to behave well.
He shouted: "You just ran away? Are you a coward? How dare you show off your sword in front of Guan Gong?"
"When I was young, even a strong man from the Western Regions weighing more than 200 kilograms couldn't break a single finger of mine!"
Ma Wensheng did not take this minor incident seriously.
When the incident reached the palace, Emperor Hongzhi was furious when he learned about it and immediately summoned Zhu Ji.
On this day, the commander of Jin Yiwei was on duty.
Zhu Ji convened Jinyiwei deputy 1,000 households and above to discuss matters.
The usually solemn and repressive conductor on duty seemed a bit comical at this time.
Two young men of twelve or thirteen years old, wearing small unicorn suits, were sitting under Zhu Ji.
They are so short that their feet cannot touch the ground when sitting on a chair. The calves are drooping.
These two teenagers, one is Zhang Heling, the second brother of Queen Zhang, and the other is Zhang Yanling, the third brother of Queen Zhang.
Emperor Hongzhi doted on Empress Zhang so much that he appointed the two young boys as royal guards to direct the left and right affairs.
This was one of the few black spots in Emperor Hongzhi's life.
Everyone gathered. Zhu Ji said loudly: "The day before yesterday, a huge case occurred in the capital!"
"There was actually a dismissed military general who was assassinated with bows and arrows at the entrance to the residence of the Ministry of War, Mabudo!"
"Mabudo is battle-hardened and heroically fought off the assassin."
"When the emperor heard about this, Long Yan was furious! Such a horrific assassination happened at the emperor's feet. Is there any law of the king? Is there any law of the Ming Dynasty?"
Zhang Heling sucked a big stick of honey and said, "That's right."
Zhang Yanling echoed: "Yes, yes, yes."
Chang Feng, who was standing at the bottom, almost couldn't hold back his laughter.
Zhu Ji cleared his throat and added: "Ma Butang is eliminating people in the army. He will definitely offend a lot of people. Someone may assassinate him in the future."
"The Emperor has an order for us, the Jinyi Guards, to send people to personally protect Mabu Tang."
"Changfeng, I'll leave it to you to protect Mabu Tang. In addition, I'll leave it to you to find the assassin. Once he's caught, he'll be taken to prison for justice!"
Chang Feng cupped his hands and said, "I accept your orders."
In the evening, Chang Feng selected a hundred capable warriors from the inspection of thousands of households and stood in front of Ma Mansion wearing casual clothes.
When Ma Wensheng returned from a business trip, the official sedan stopped at the door of the house.
Ma Wensheng lifted the sedan curtain and saw more than a hundred strong men standing there, and subconsciously shrank his neck.
Straight bitch! Three assassins came back last time and I could barely handle them. More than a hundred people have come back, and I can't escape.
It doesn't matter, I just cover my head when they beat me up. My body is pretty strong. As long as the head is protected, no one will be killed.
Ma Wensheng had even thought of the posture in which he would be beaten.
At this moment, Chang Feng walked up to the sedan, cupped his hands and said, "I am under the command of Chang Feng, a Qianhu of Fusi, Beizhen. I have been ordered to lead Mabu Ze to protect Ma Bu Tang personally."
Ma Wensheng breathed a sigh of relief. This old guy also had a sense of humor: "Ahem. I thought you were here to beat up my laid-off officers and soldiers. I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat."
