Chapter 35: Forming a team
At the end of the meeting, it was early in the morning when I returned to the hotel. Because he was so tired, Bai Zhizhan didn't wash, didn't take off his clothes, and fell asleep when he got into bed.
I slept until the next evening.
Because no one came to open it for a long time, the door was locked from the inside, so Gui Boyong asked the waiter to open the door with a spare key, went in and dragged Bai Zhizhan from the bed.
"It's already settled on the command side."
When Gui Boyong said this, Bai Zhizhan was brushing his teeth.
"According to the principal's wishes, engage in war games, and the two sides take turns to be Party A."
"Do you want to play a rival role, when will it start?"
"Just for a few days." Waiting for Bai Zhizhan to come out of the bathroom, Gui Boyong continued: "We still have a lot of preliminary work to do on our side, so the Southern Fleet will come first. At the meaning of Commander He, you go and prepare for the second round of deduction, and you don't need to participate in the first round of deduction. ”
Bai Zhizhan didn't say much, only nodded, indicating that he understood what was going on.
"If you want something, you make a list, and I'll get it for you."
"People."
Gui Boyong was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Give me a list, I'll figure it out." ”
"Do you want it now?"
"There's no hurry, it'll be tomorrow."
Seeing that Bai Zhizhan was about to change his clothes, Gui Boyong turned around.
Although they were all men, the self-proclaimed elegant navy had always valued privacy, and its officers were educated in etiquette.
"Who was that guy sitting across from you yesterday?"
"The brigadier general next to Admiral Liu Changhe? The second ancestor of the Liu family, Liu Xiangbin, Liu Xiangdong's cousin, but the two are completely incomparable. ”
"No wonder."
"Actually, the Liu family is only one of his second ancestors, and the others are not bad."
Bai Zhizhan didn't answer, knowing that Gui Boyong just wanted to open up a little bit, don't be stunned with a second ancestor, and didn't mean anything else.
"Okay?" Without waiting for Bai Zhizhan to answer, Gui Boyong had already turned around. "I said hello to the restaurant and asked the chef to stir up a few side dishes, and we waited for a couple of drinks. I was too busy yesterday and didn't have time to arrange it, so I'll make up for it for the time being, and I'll pick you up when I'm done. ”
"Lao Gui, you're too outward."
"You and me, what are you polite?"
Gui Boyong said so, Bai Zhizhan is not easy to shirk, after all, he is already hungry, and he must go down to dinner, there is no need to be polite.
The key is that Gui Boyong must want to take the opportunity of eating to ask Bai Zhizhan about something.
Those little ninety-nine in his heart, Bai Zhizhan had already guessed it.
If he just came over to ask Bai Zhizhan to get up and eat, why did Gui Boyong go to the hotel in person, just call He Pengfei, who also lives in a hotel.
When the two of them came to the restaurant, several delicate stir-fried dishes had already been served, as well as a bottle of two-pot head.
This is a specialty of the imperial capital.
In fact, Gui Boyong is just not at ease.
At yesterday's meeting, Bai Zhizhan slapped the Cheng Conservative faction a few times, but he did not put forward specific views, let alone say why.
With Gui Boyong's delicate character, if you can rest assured to sleep, it would be a strange thing!
It's just that the restaurant in the hotel is obviously not a good place to talk about things.
In less than half an hour, when it was completely dark, the occupants came to the dining room one after another, and most of them were officers of the Southern Fleet.
Gui Boyong didn't delay much, and left before it was overcrowded.
Bai Zhizhan didn't stay, and when he started eating, he was always thinking about one thing, whether to take this opportunity to pull a few difficult brothers and sisters.
After eating, Bai Zhizhan also made a decision.
It's going to have to be pulled, and it's going to have to be pulled well.
Along the way, whether it was serving in the 21st Fleet Headquarters, going to the Puzhou Naval Shipyard as a supervisor, and coming to the Imperial Capital Naval Headquarters, Bai Zhizhan's most intuitive feeling was that in the Imperial Navy, if there was no helper, he would be eaten alive sooner or later.
As the saying goes, a fence has three piles, and a hero has three gangs.
Not to mention the still immature Bai Zhizhan, even Zhu Shijian, because he did not have the power support of the family, it was difficult for him to be comfortable in the naval command.
Bai Zhizhan didn't think about setting up his own door, but he didn't want to be someone else's chopping board.
If you want to talk about helping, it is naturally the five difficult brothers who have been working together in the college for five years, that is, the iron buddies who have bunks in the same dormitory.
Early the next morning, Bai Zhizhan called He Pengfei to the naval headquarters to hand over the personnel list.
For the sake of insurance, Bai Zhizhan also sent six telegrams under He Pengfei's reminder to inform the parties concerned of the relevant transfers in advance.
The sixth telegram was sent to the Puzhou Naval Shipyard and was addressed to Colonel Liu Xiangdong.
It's just that Bai Zhizhan is not inviting Liu Xiangdong, even if according to Gui Boyong, Liu Xiangdong and the second ancestor named Liu Xiangbin are not all the way, but after all, he is also surnamed Liu.
Bai Zhizhan asked Liu Xiangdong to help deliver the message.
The invitation was to the hereditary earl whose head was in the water.
Bai Zhizhan is self-aware, very aware of his own ability, and even more aware of the ability of those sworn friends. Don't look at the excellent students who were admitted to the Naval Academy on the basis of their strength, each of them is very good, but none of them are scholars, let alone engineers.
There is no problem in planning combat operations and directing operations, but it is obviously difficult for them to design warships.
There is no doubt that this is Zhao Yu's specialty.
Even if it is not yet time to design a battleship, in the wargame, it is definitely necessary to determine the performance of various weapons in advance.
For warships that have not yet been built, it must be the engineers who have the final say.
Of course, Bai Zhizhan also has his own little abacus.
Don't forget, Zhao Yu is a descendant of Zhao Chengxun, one of the Eight Great Pillars, and his great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all famous scientists and engineers.
Also, he inherited the noble title of count.
For the civilian officers of Bai Zhizhan, this hereditary earl, even if he was a psychopath, was an unattainable mountain.
Now, of course, it's the backer.
When the time comes, if you really want to make trouble, you can pull Zhao Yu to shut up those guys in the Southern Fleet, and you don't need to let the He family get involved.
It's just that the problem also comes.
The hotel of the Navy Headquarters was already overcrowded, and all the rooms were full, and even if Gui Boyong came forward, the manager could not change the vacant rooms.
Fortunately, there is He Pengfei, a know-it-all.
More like a panacea, to be precise.
Don't forget, He Pengfei is a native of the imperial capital, but he went to Puzhou with his parents when he was a child, lived there for a few years, and worked in Puzhou as an adult, and rarely returned to the imperial capital.
His home in the imperial capital has been empty.
Strictly speaking, it is actually a villa with complete facilities, but the area is not too large.
Not to mention a few people, even if it is a few dozen people, there is no problem at all.
Through this incident, Bai Zhizhan realized that He Pengfei was not a side branch of the He family, but after the inheritance, in terms of blood relationship, he was still above He Yongxing. Because he is a younger generation, coupled with the early death of his parents, He Pengfei's status in the He family is not very high, and he does not have much ambition.
In his own words, he is not the kind of person who can become a big talent, and he just needs to be happy in this life.
Everyone has their own ambitions, and there is nothing to say.