After careful selection, on the pier outside the Shangyuan Gate in Nanjing, the fleet was officially listed. The plaque is written by Sun Ji himself, and the four gilded characters of "Pingbo Fleet" shine in the sun. Li Xin was very depressed about this very local name, but the name was drawn up by the scholars of the Political Affairs Hall, and they had already seized their real power, so they couldn't even fight for this face, right? Anyway, it's just a saying, just let them go at once, so as to save these old guys who have more than enough success and more than enough to lose, fooling around behind their backs and making stumbling blocks.

In the newly formed naval fleet, an important reason why the superintendent was able to limit the total number of troops was that it had the power to appoint and dismiss officers at all levels. Mi Yan, the supervising army, has the title of the right senator of the General Political Division, and he is a five-grade civil official, with a low grade, and he is also in line with the Ming Dynasty's principle of restricting low posts and heavy punches.

Therefore, starting from this day, the Navy's Preparatory Office put up a sign to supervise the army, and all officers who performed their duties had to report to the Preparatory Office.

He Bin was one of those who were ordered to report, and with a brand new photo, he stepped into the courtyard that was about to decide his fate. The Overseer is responsible for receiving officers, but also has the power to send back those he deems unsuitable. As long as you don't make a disgusting face, or an extremely stupid person, you should be able to follow the passage of lì! Although he didn't know how dignified he was, he was also very upright, and his Fujian official dialect was also correct and round. And in order to win the favor of local officials, he also specially learned the accent of Nanjing official dialect.

It's just that when he arrived at the yamen of the Navy Preparation Department, the chief officer sitting in the main hall spoke with one mouth, but He Bin was dumbfounded. This prison soldier is obviously not from Nanjing, and as for where the accent is, he is a little confused for a while.

"But you're here to report?"

Mi Yan spoke concisely, only raised his head and glanced at He Bin hurriedly, and then kept dealing with the official documents on the desk, the shelves of the Pingfan fleet had just been erected, and all of them were in the grass creation stage, and the official documents that needed to be processed were loosened like snowflakes in the past few days.

He Bin, who had been thinking crankily after Mi Yan's reminder, retracted his thoughts, reached out and took out a brand-new photo from his arms and handed it to Mi Yan for inspection.

"A native of Nan'an, Fujian, who previously worked for ......" department photo not only wrote the name of the appointed official, but also listed a resume. Mi Yan said this, and suddenly paused, which made He Bin's heart hang tightly, his appointment was unthinkable a day ago, and after being captured, except for talking to the Marquis of Zhenju once, he never received special preferential treatment. Until last night, I received a ministry photo from the governor Yamen Soap, and I still couldn't believe it.

He Bin saw Mi Yan's hesitation, for fear that he would dislike his previous identity, but he had no way to defend himself to show his heart. According to his experience, it is better to wait for fate, or rather, the verdict of the prison guard.

"Vice Admiral of the fleet, I heard that you personally tied Wallace to Toucheng?"

He Bin heard that the prison army did not open which pot to mention, and his head was already sweating, this traitor's reputation for seeking glory and notoriety, whether he liked it or not, had already spread among the Ming army. But he couldn't deny it, so he had to answer honestly: "It's under the mark!" ”

When he answered this sentence, his mouth was filled with bitterness, and his heart gradually sank. He could clearly see from the face of the prison soldier that the smile he had had gradually disappeared, had this already announced his fate?

Unexpectedly, the words of the overseer almost made him vomit a mouthful of blood.

"Good job! No matter what conflicts you had with General Hua in the past, now you are under the command of the Three Guards of the Hou Hou and are all serving the imperial court, don't be suspicious because of this! ”

He Bin raised his hand to wipe away the sweat that was almost dripping from his forehead, and said in his heart that this prison soldier looked young, but the city government was terrifying, and he was almost scared to death just now. On the other hand, he replied respectfully:

"Yes! Keep in mind the teachings of the supervising army, and we must be in the same boat with Hua and Hua's general soldiers! ”

Hua Zongbing naturally refers to Wallace.

However, Mi Yan obviously didn't intend to let He Bin leave, but continued to ask: "You have been with Zheng Zhilong and a pirate before?" ”

"Yes, I did follow Zheng Yiguan in the early years!"

He Bin pondered the words in his mouth, and didn't know what the prison army had for suddenly mentioning Zheng Yiguan, so he only asked and answered, and didn't dare to say more, for fear of making a mistake and offending him again.

"A few days ago, there was a lot of trouble, but unfortunately Fujian was also making a lot of trouble, Zheng Zhilong was too busy, otherwise you old brothers might be able to meet in Nanjing!"

Hearing Mi Yan say this, He Bin felt that he felt a little bit of taste, where is this doppelganger, it is clear that he is not moving, standing by and watching, and the prison army is hinting...... Thinking of this, his heart suddenly moved, and what the prison army hinted at might not be his own dissatisfaction, but the dissatisfaction of the Marquis of Zhenyu and even the governor against Zheng Zhilong.

He Bin no longer hesitated, he sighed first, and then replied in a slightly resentful tone: "Even the old brother, after Zheng Yiguan recruited An, he took the old brother of the Eighteen Zhi as a stepping stone for promotion, if he didn't vote for the Dutch at the beginning, I'm afraid that it would have turned into a bubble in the sea long ago!" ”

One sentence completely drew a clear relationship with Zheng Zhilong, there is only hatred between them, but there is no old!

At this time, He Bin felt that what he should say was almost done, so he didn't want to wait for Mi Yan to pick up people, and was about to take the initiative to resign. But suddenly there was a sound behind him, and someone pushed the door into the main hall. The fact that this person dared to enter the main hall without notice also shows that this person has a great relationship with the prison army.

Sure enough, it was a man wearing the uniform of the generals of the Three Guards Army who came in. I saw him come to Mi Yan in a big way and put the brand new photo on the table.

"Mr. Mi asked me to find it, and I came to report!"

"Li Shuangcai? How did you get here? ”

He Bin felt that he had found a trace of imperceptible unhappiness in Mi Yan's expression, but he always felt that it might be an illusion, because at this moment, Mi Yan's face was clearly rippling with the smile of seeing an old friend. No matter what, He Bin felt that he was no longer suitable to stay in the main hall, so he asked Mi Yan to resign. Who knew that Mi Yan asked him to wait for the next one, and there were still things to explain. He had no choice but to stand uncomfortably in the main hall again.

Maybe Mi Yan sensed He Bin's discomfort, so he asked the chair brought by the miscellaneous soldiers in the army to let him sit.

But I heard Li Shuangcai sigh.

"It's not for double pay and four levels in a row!"

It is not easy to recruit officer cadets in the navy, and the life and death of the ship on the sea are unknown, and they are like trees without roots on the sea. The veterans of the Three Guards were reluctant to come, and the situation of the new pawns was not much better. In desperation, Li Xin had no choice but to propose that all those who joined the navy, regardless of whether they were new or old, should be paid double salaries. New soldiers with official positions have been promoted by two levels in a row, and old soldiers with official positions have been promoted by four levels in a row. Under such heavy rewards, the problem of the navy's difficulty in recruiting people was solved.

Li Shuangcai joined the Three Guards Army when he was in Shandong and was classified as a veteran, so he joined the navy with the reward of being promoted four in a row. Li Shuangcai was not originally an official fan, but he has been stepping through this hurdle with ups and downs in the position of the general, and what makes him even more unacceptable is that some of the subordinates who followed him to join the Three Guards Army in Shandong, some have been promoted to the general manager of Qian, and they can only catch up after seeing them in accordance with military regulations.

Now after joining the navy, he has been promoted four levels in a row, and he has also jumped from the general of the seventh grade to the garrison of the fifth grade. At the beginning, Li Shuangcai was still a little disappointed when he left the pro-military camp, but when he held the big red photo of the battle line in his hand, all that was left in his heart was joy.

At this time, He Bin, who was sitting next to him, suddenly found that this officer named Li Shuangcai was not the leader of the two soldiers who captured the prisoners alive and took them himself? At the beginning, he was in a hurry and kowtowed to this person on the ground a few times, and he felt a little embarrassed for a while and lowered his head, hoping that he would not be recognized by the other party.

"Don't be too happy, the fourth level in a row is to pass the graduation exam of the Naval Academy, once you can't graduate, you still have to go back to be your boss!"

Mi Yan's words were very direct, and Li Shuangcai was a little dumbfounded at the time, "What? Still have exams? At the beginning, I didn't hear what the Marquis of Zhenyu said! Li Shuangcai saw Mi Yan with a teasing smile on his face, he was not stupid, he couldn't hear the sense of distance in Mi Yan's words? There was some dissatisfaction in his heart, Mi Yan turned out to be just a book office around the Marquis of Zhenyu, but now he has a nostril and an eye that grows to the top of the brain, how can he be willing to urinate Mi Yan's pot?

"I said that my surname is Mi, are you bullying me for not being literate, deliberately deceiving me, embarrassing me? At the beginning, the Marquis of Zhenyu personally allowed me to be promoted to the fourth level in a row, why did you have to take the exam when you came here? ”

Mi Yan's face turned cold, and he pulled a notice out of the pile of official documents and threw it in front of Li Shuangcai.

"The notice is clearly written in black and white, where did I lie to you, see for yourself!"

Immediately, he suddenly patted his head again, "Forget that you are illiterate!" Adjutant General He, you come and read it to him! ”

He Bin secretly shouted in his heart that he was unlucky, it was too late to hide, how could he be pushed to the forefront by this prison army again? But since the prison army has orders, how dare he disobey? So he lowered his head and came to the table, picked up the notice, and read it out word by word, and sure enough, the officers who could not pass the guò exam were still sent back to their original barracks to listen to it.

Li Shuangcai's face was already flushed, and he didn't know if he was anxious at the beginning and didn't listen to the explanation of the Marquis of Zheng, or the mean villain surnamed Mi in front of him deliberately set such embarrassing rules. If he couldn't pass the guò exam, although he still returned to his original post in the pro-military camp to keep it, he couldn't afford to lose this person. Originally, I took a photo to register and report here, but it became a point of no return if I didn't advance or retreat!

Annoyed and depressed, Li Shuangcai suddenly found that Vice General He, who read the proclamation, was very faceless and seemed to have seen it again, but he couldn't remember who his surname was for a while. It stands to reason that there is no person above the deputy general in the Three Guards Army who can't be named, how can this person ......

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in front of him, Li Shuangcai pointed at He Bin, his face had turned purple, and he lost his voice: "Why are you?" ”