It will still take a few days to return to Beihai from Xuzhou, and even if Liu Zheng is not in a hurry, it will not be much faster.

After all, the soldiers and horses still have to rest, and along the way, Liu Zheng and Chen Deng, Zhang Zhao and others talked all the way, but the relationship has been promoted a lot.

Of course, Zhang Min, a taciturn person, has not had a fart for a long time, but Liu Zheng can't find an excuse to chat with him, even if he is chatting, most of the time Liu Zheng is talking to him.

However, Liu Zheng became more interested in people like Zhang Min.

Assassin.

It's always been a daunting profession.

In the history of the Three Kingdoms, such characters are indispensable, and there are many bright moments in their existence, because sometimes, many brave people will die at the hands of such unknown assassins.

For example, the famous Zhang Fei, Sun Ce, and Fei Yuan all died at the hands of assassins.

Even Cao Cao, who had been an assassin, went to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but failed, disgraced the profession of assassin.

Of course, if you want to say that the most powerful assassin in the Three Kingdoms period should be a man named Han Long.

Northern Xianbei Shan Yu Bi Neng is the most powerful male lord of the northern nomads for decades, and has conquered and unified dozens of tribes, large and small, just when Ke Bi Neng is about to dominate Xianbei and dominate the grassland.

At that time, Cao Wei, the rise of the absolute northern grassland peoples, was too threatening to them, and tried every means to prevent the unification of the northern grasslands, and finally Youzhou assassin Wang Xiong, found an assassin Han Long, sneaked into the grassland alone, assassinated Kebineng, and actually succeeded in the assassination, directly relying on his own strength, disintegrating the entire Xianbei and splitting the Xianbei clan. Gradually, in the turmoil of the next few decades, it could not pose a threat to the Central Plains.

And an assassin like Han Long, assassinating Xianbei Shan Yu is no less difficult than Jing Ke's assassination of Qin.

Of course, it is not easy for Liu Zheng's Zhang Min to assassinate Chen Wang Liu Chong, but compared with an assassin like Han Long, it is still a little inferior, but this does not prevent Liu Zheng from attaching importance to Zhang Min.

Throughout history, there are many famous generals and celebrities who died in assassination, such as Huang Xie, the Chunshenjun of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Just like encountering a strong man like Lu Bu, in case Liu Zheng can't be defeated on the frontal battlefield, he can use the assassin's night attack to kill Lu Bu, so that Lu Bu's command will inevitably be in chaos, and it is logical to defeat the enemy army, so sometimes the existence of assassins is still very necessary.

So on the way to Qingzhou, Liu Zheng found Zhang Min privately and asked Zhang Min if he intended to form a shadow army.

Such shadow troops do not lie in the number of people, but in the fine. It only takes a small number of people with strong martial arts skills to perform some shady things.

This kind of person, similar to the Jinyi guard during the Ming Dynasty, specializes in tasks such as reconnaissance, patrolling, interrogation, and assassination.

It's just that Liu Zheng will change the authority of this kind of Jinyiwei a lot.

On the one hand, he is responsible for a series of work such as assassination and investigation, and on the other hand, he is responsible for the safety of Liu Zheng and the main generals under Liu Zheng, which is equivalent to full-time bodyguards.

Although Liu Zheng had been doing these things before, it was just that this aspect of the matter was roughly divided, and most of them were controlled by Yuan Zhou, Yuan Zhou was just a literati after all, he was not good at martial arts, and he was not proficient in reconnaissance and assassination, at best, he could dispatch personnel.

If there is someone who is better at these things to do these things, it will definitely do this thing better.

Liu Zheng just wanted Zhang Min to take over this matter, and at the same time cooperate with the more than 2,000 personal soldiers under Dian Wei to form the first batch of Jinyi Guards.

These personal soldiers around Liu Zheng are the thousands of households of Jinyiwei, and those fine works scattered throughout the land of China are the most basic members of Jinyiwei's subordinates, and Liu Zheng wants to integrate these to form a network, which is led by Liu Zheng himself from the bottom up.

Then, the responsibilities of Jinyiwei were divided into three parts, the first of which was detailed, and the main task was to investigate and reconnoiter intelligence. This part has always been in charge of Yuan Zhou.

The second assassination was the responsibility of the newly recruited Zhang Min, mainly to carry out Liu Zheng's arrest and assassination tasks.

The third guard is in charge of Dian Wei, on the one hand, to train the skills of these brocade guards, and on the other hand, to ensure the safety of Liu Zheng and special personnel.

As soon as Liu Zheng told Dian Wei and Zhang Min about this idea, he immediately got their approval, and Zhang Min naturally became Liu Zheng's henchman, and he would complete these things for Liu Zheng, but Jinyiwei is still just a prototype, and it will take some time to slowly train and compose.

Liu Zheng asked Zhang Min to find Yuan Zhou and take over the assassination and arrest from Yuan Zhou's hands, so that on the one hand, he could relieve some of the burden on the busy Yuan Zhou, and at the same time let Yuan Zhou devote himself to other work.

At the same time, Liu Zheng personally appointed Yuan Zhou as the commander of Jinyiwei, and Zhang Min and Dian Wei were both Jinyiwei's envoys.

On the way back to Qingzhou from Xuzhou, passing by Langya County, Liu Zheng originally wanted to go to Yangdu County to visit the children of the Zhuge family.

However, thinking that they should have just finished holding the funeral at this time and were in grief, it was inconvenient to disturb, so they ordered the soldiers stationed in Langya to take more care of the Zhuge family, and then returned to Beihai.

A few days later, Liu Zheng returned to Beihai, and Lu Bu, Gao Shun and others stationed in Beihai came out to greet Liu Zheng, and reported to Liu Zheng some of Liu Bei's situation when he retreated to Linzi City these days.

After Liu Bei's men and horses fled to Linzi, Zang Ba's soldiers and horses pursued the past the next day, but although Liu Bei said that he frequently lost in the first battle of Beihai, the background was still there, and the loss of his own soldiers and horses was not large, plus there were still some remnants of Tao Qian's soldiers and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses who fled and returned to Liu Bei's account, resulting in Liu Bei not only did not lose his combat effectiveness, but had more troops than when he was alone.

With enough soldiers and horses, Liu Bei did not completely lose the ability to resist, and after returning to Linzi, he was able to defend it by relying on the strong walls of Linzi City, and he did not feel afraid.

In addition, Liu Bei already has a few good strategists, Jian Yong, who met Liu Bei at a young age, and Sun Shao, Sun Gan and others recruited in Qingzhou are quite good internal affairs personnel, and they can also defend Qingzhou.