Zhang Bin set out on his return journey after inspecting the Malacca defense line, and the defense system of Nanyang had been established, so he could go back for the New Year with confidence.

According to Zheng Zhilong's request, he left behind fifty Weiyuan battleships, and with these battleships, he believed that the Dutch should not dare to act rashly.

Because if they want to break through the Malacca defense line, they must launch all their forces to fight, four or five hundred super battleships, that is not a joke, just the control personnel will cost more than 100,000, and the entire Netherlands has a population of only a million at this time, and the army of more than 100,000 is almost the sum of all their young and strong, if they are defeated, they will face the danger of losing their country, even if they win, they will have to pay a heavy price, at that time, they are likely to be weak in succession, and they will not even be able to recover Batavia, so that Even laying down the Malacca defence is pointless.

Zhang Bin not only left behind 50 Weiyuan battleships, but also left 10 Zhenyuan cruisers and 100 wheels, and asked Zheng Zhilong to set up sentinels in the waters near Batavia and Malacca to ensure the safety of the South Seas.

At the same time, he also left Zheng Zhihu to be responsible for garrisoning the Malacca fortress, leaving Zheng Zhibao to be responsible for garrisoning Batavia, and the entire Nanyang seemed to be handed over to the Zheng brothers to be responsible, this kind of trust, even Zheng Zhilong was moved.

In fact, this is not the case at all, he knows quite well that Zheng Chenggong is the future helmsman of the Zheng family, and the Zheng Zhilong brothers have to listen to Zheng Chenggong in the end, and Zheng Chenggong has been accepted by him as a protégé.

The problem of Nanyang was solved, but Zhang Bin did not relax because of this, on the way back, he sat on the deck of the flagship almost every day, facing the vast sea, thinking about the future.

Next year will be the sixth year of Chongzhen, according to the rules of Daming officialdom, local officials rotate every three years, and it is unlikely that he will stay in Fuguang.

Of course, he can also use the excuse of the Dutch to forcibly stay in Fuguang, but there is a considerable risk in doing so, because there are many Ming merchants in Batavia, and there are often Ming merchant ships passing by in Malacca, and the matter over there will not be hidden for a long time.

The generals and generals who fell because of this kind of thing are not one or two, sometimes it is indeed because they are proud of their merits and offend the majesty of the imperial power, but more often it is because the emperor needs them to bully the monarch, that is to say, they have already made great achievements, and the emperor wants to find an excuse to clean them up!

Zhang Bin didn't want to be cleaned up because of his high merits, he had already thought about it, and after finishing the last year of next year, he would return to Beijing to resume his life, and honestly accept the arrangement, whether it was Chongzhen's arrangement or Wen Tiren's arrangement, he would follow first.

There is a great risk in this way, because Chongzhen is very likely to unload the mill and kill the donkey, even if he doesn't want to, Wen Tiren will find a way to make him think, the unjust killing of loyal ministers and good generals started from Zhu Yuanzhang's time, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are not fuel-efficient lamps, they kill loyal ministers and good people in the future, and they don't even blink their eyes.

Especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Tianqi and Chongzhen, the two wonderful brothers, one is to let go of any eunuch to wantonly slaughter loyal ministers and good generals, and the other is to do it himself, arrest whoever kills whom!

When Chongzhen hanged himself, he should actually reflect on it, why did the ministers mistake him, the loyal ministers and good generals were all harmed by your brothers, and almost all of them were corrupt officials and corrupt officials, can they not mislead the country and the people?

What if Chongzhen mistakenly believed the slander or wanted to clean him up?

Zhang Bin pondered for a long time, and finally thought of a way that was not a way, that is, to increase the number of his personal guards as much as possible, so that all the elites of his subordinates followed him, so that Chongzhen couldn't kill himself if he wanted to!

At this time, there are a lot of troops in Dongfan, after Lu Xiangsheng moved more than 100,000 captured civilians to Dongfan last time, more than 20,000 soldiers were selected, and the number of soldiers in Dongfan has reached 80,000, plus 10,000 Qi's army and 60,000 sailors, his army has reached 150,000.

There are so many people and horses, it seems terrifying, if you can't follow you, it's actually fake, and even, as long as you die, this 150,000 army will soon be abolished, just like Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Sun Chuanting's Qin Army, as soon as the two of them die, the Tianxiong Army and the Qin Army will disappear.

Therefore, at least tens of thousands of elites must be selected from the 150,000 army and follow them in various capacities to ensure their safety!

However, after returning to Dongfan, Zhang Bin did not immediately start selecting the elite, because the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and it was the time for the family to reunite and share the joy of family.

In his previous life, he was very disgusted with uncontrolled overtime, there were many bosses, for the sake of interests, regardless of the feelings of employees, no matter what holidays they worked overtime, and even forced people to add to the twenty-ninth or even thirty days of the lunar month, and then continued to add on the third or even the second day of the first month!

This kind of approach, it seems to be really positive development, angry and strong, but in fact it is all nonsense, people are not machines, busy for a year, can't you rest for a few days, besides, people make money for life, and even a normal life is gone, so what's the point?

Zhang Bin is not this kind of "extremely vicious" boss, no matter what, after the Chinese New Year, he still tries to let people rest if he can rest, even if he can't rest for various reasons, he will send the reward in place and send it to people's satisfaction.

This festival is also a rare opportunity for him to reunite, although the Governor's Mansion is in Dongfan, but he has to run around at least half of the year, even if he returns to the Governor's Palace, he is also in strict accordance with the work and rest time stipulated by the imperial court, get up early every morning, and will not go back to the backyard to rest until the time of the unitary at night, and the time spent with his family is not very much.

The Chinese New Year is different, everyone is on holiday, he doesn't have to order every day, and there is no major event for him to worry about, he finally has time to accompany his family for a good reunion.

At this time, his eldest daughter Zhang Xiang and eldest son Zhang Yang were already able to walk on the ground, Qi Fanghua specially sewed a lot of pink uniforms for Xiao Zhang Xiang, dressed her like a little general, Hong Ronger sewed a lot of light cyan Confucian robes for Zhang Yang, dressed him up like a little scholar, as soon as the two sisters and brothers appeared, I don't know how much laughter they could bring, the family got together, chatted about family life, teased children, and was happy and happy.

After the New Year's Day, Zhang Bin ordered that all the regular legions under the Qi Family Army, Dongfan Jiuwei, Fujian Naval Division and other subordinates began to select elites and form a pro-guard legion!

The establishment of the Guards Corps is tentatively set at 800 squads with a total of nearly 10,000 people, of which every five squads have a small flag officer, every two small flags have a general flag officer, every five general flags have a general commander, and every two have a thousand generals, and these eight thousand generals have already been decided, that is, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and other eight personal entourage.

These eight people, he was going to be trained as a leading general, so he equipped them with more than 1,000 people at the beginning; And Zhang Cha, Zhao Ru and other cronies were trained as special combat personnel, so their subordinates have always been the elite of the elite, the soldiers of the special operations battalion.

However, this time, he also made adjustments to the officers and men of the special operations battalion, Xie Zhenggang, Zhang Cha, and Zhao Ru, all of whom were promoted by him to guerrilla generals, while the officers and men of the special operations battalion below them all went to participate in the selection of generals at all levels of the pro-guard regiment.

After receiving this news, the officers and men of the special operations battalion were very excited, and with their skills, there were a few ordinary soldiers who could beat them, such as Zhang Pan, who was just a small banner, and if he was put outside, he would probably not be able to beat him if he was put outside.

Of course, this is not Zhang Bin's intention to suppress them, the main special operations battalion has only so many people, and Zhang Cha has only ten teams under each of them, and the small flag is the limit, and Zhang Cha is only equivalent to the chief flag officer.

Zhang Bin also wants to take this opportunity to let the more capable people in the special operations battalion go to the pro-guard regiment to serve as generals at all levels, so that the entire pro-guard regiment is equivalent to an extension of the special warfare battalion, these special combat battalion soldiers have been with him for a few years, and there is absolutely no problem with loyalty.

It should be said that all the troops under the command of Governor Fuguang are the fairest in the entire Ming Dynasty in terms of the promotion of generals at all levels, as long as you have the ability and are not afraid of not being promoted, even if there is no chance, Zhang Bin will find a way to create opportunities for them to get promoted.

Of course, there is no absolute fairness in this world, Zhang Bin here, fairness is also relative, his fairness here is based on loyalty, only those who are loyal to him will be reused, otherwise, no matter how capable you are, it is useless!

For example, high-level generals are generally designated by Zhang Bin, these people have basically passed the test of history, their loyalty is absolutely no problem, and their ability is quite outstanding, Zhang Bin will not blindly pursue fairness and appoint those who have not passed the test of history to lead the troops to fight, if something goes wrong, the consequences are unimaginable.

For another example, when selecting grassroots generals at all levels, Zhang Bin generally creates opportunities for his cronies who have been with him for a long time and have relatively high loyalty, so that they can win.

The same is true for this competition, more than 100,000 ordinary soldiers may have outstanding masters, but masters cannot be born masters, they must go through a certain amount of training and consume certain resources in order to grow up slowly, if they don't have to eat dinner all day, they are hungry and skinny, their eyes are black when they are hungry, and they can become masters, it is a strange thing.

In Dongfan, all kinds of conditions are the best, good dress, good housing, good food, the training effect is naturally good, and the long time of training in Dongfan proves that the time with Zhang Bin is long, and the loyalty of people who have developed in this way is naturally higher than those who have just come to Dongfan for a few days.

This can be said to be fair, because if you want to climb up, you have to stand out from the same group of people who are treated equally; It can also be said to be unfair, because no matter how talented and capable the later people are, they have no training, and they have not even eaten a full meal, so it is basically impossible to compare with the people who came first.

It is in this way that Zhang Bin cultivates people who are loyal to his own army, and loyalty is particularly important to the people of the pro-guard regiment, so he asked the personal guards of the special combat battalion who had been with him for several years to participate in the selection of grassroots generals to ensure the loyalty of the pro-guard regiment.

Just after the end of the New Year, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, a large-scale selection of all regular armies throughout Fuguang began, and Zhang Bin did not have to worry about the selection of elite soldiers, and he was responsible for the generals of each guard post and each legion, and he was only responsible for the selection of generals at all levels of the final special operations battalion and the personal guard regiment.

After layers of screening and repeated competitions, by the beginning of February, more than 10,000 elites were finally selected from the 150,000 army and gathered in the avant-garde garrison of Dongfanzhong.

Of the more than 10,000 elites plus more than 1,000 people in the special operations battalion, there are more than 11,000 people in total, and less than 1,000 people can become squad leaders, and there are only more than 100 people in total who can become small flags, general flags, and generals, and the competition is also quite fierce.

The selection of grassroots generals was carried out in the avant-garde station of Dongfanzhong, and on the first day was the primary election, more than 10,000 people were scattered in nine large school fields, and at the same time, about 2,000 people were selected for the final competition.

On this day, Zhang Bin did not sit in a certain school field, but took Xie Zhenggang, Li Dingguo and others to inspect the school field one by one, and stayed in each school field for about half an hour, showing his face, so that these elites who are about to become his personal guards can see what he looks like, after all, he can't always run around with more than 10,000 people, most of the time, these people are still scattered around him to protect secretly, if these people don't even know what he looks like, it will be a bit funny.

After the first day of selection, it was the final competition, and on the second day, all the people who passed the primary selection gathered in the middle of the large school field in the middle of the avant-garde station in Dongfanzhong, Zhang Bin specially asked people to set up a high platform in front of the school field, and he sat in the center of the high platform, on the left was Xie Zhenggang, Zhang Cha, Zhao Ru and other special combat battalion generals, and on the right were Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and other generals of the personal guard regiment.

Sixteen fierce generals wore chain mail and red cloaks, and stood neatly on both sides of him, which was called a majestic one.

However, there was also a teenage child standing in front of the left side of his handsome chair, dressed in a Confucian costume, looking like a little scholar, which felt very weird.

This kid is naturally Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Bin brought him here to let him see what the master is like and how tragic the moves to fight on the battlefield are.

As Zhang Bin expected, the special operations battalion and the personal guard regiment, from the small flag officer to the general, were all the elites of the original special operations battalion, and almost all the elites of the special operations battalion were promoted to the level of squad leaders.

Seeing this result, Zhang Bin said to Zheng Chenggong, who was eager to try: "Success, do you feel particularly familiar with these selected generals?" ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "Yes, yes, these seem to be the original guards of the Governor's Palace." ”

Zhang Bin then smiled again: "Then do you think this competition is fair?" ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded heavily and said, "It's fair, it's all based on real skills." ”

Zhang Bin said with a smile: "Think about it again, if other people are like the guards of the Governor's Palace, they dress well and live well all day, in addition to being on duty, they are training, no matter any food, even meat, they are full, can they beat these guards?" ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while, and then guessed: "I think there should still be some people who can beat them." ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said, "Yes, but the special operations battalion and the personal guard regiment are very important to me, and I don't want anyone to beat them." ”

When Zheng Chenggong heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned and said, "Teacher, what do you mean?" ”

Zhang Bin smirked: "I mean, fairness is not absolute, sometimes, you can make things look fair, but the outcome is up to you." ”