Since the Milvik School is to train junior officers who will endure hardships with low-level soldiers, the general premise of the accepted cadets must ensure physical fitness; After completing the uncomplicated identification process, the registrant who has received the number plate will first begin to undergo a comprehensive medical examination.

Before crossing over, in order to get the opportunity to study at the University of Hamburg, Fang Yan had undergone a comprehensive medical examination arranged by the German side; But compared to the current inspections for the selection of future officers, they are undoubtedly far less rigorous. In addition to the normal subjects, the physical examination also includes a variety of visual, auditory, and tactile reflexes tests; The slightest stupeness or hesitation will be judged unfit to serve as an officer. Anti-irritation tests, such as holding electrodes in the hand, are even more anti-human, and all applicants are electrorified by high-voltage alternating current, just to be able to hold on a little longer to increase their chances of passing the test. What is even more unacceptable is that he takes off his full body clothes and pants and stands in a brightly lit closed room, and is carefully examined by two active naval officers for any abnormalities on his body. When it was Fang Yan's turn, facing the envious eyes of the two officers looking at his lower body, Fang Yan had goosebumps all over his body; If he hadn't known that the German army in this period would never tolerate the existence of a public fetish in his ranks, he would have even put on his shirt and pants and run away in the strange eyes of the other party!

After nearly five days of physical examination, Rao is Fang Yan had already made up his mind to enter the navy, and he had never relaxed the exercise of his body, and he also felt a strong fear and exhaustion of relief. Of these crazy physical fitness tests, I am afraid that only the decathlon "blonde beast" Heydrich can pass all the way without pressure. In the end, Fang Yan, who was the youngest in biological age, still relied on the good talent of this body and his acquired tempering, and squeezed into the second list of 100 people with a score of 86th. The remaining more than 600 people can only pack up their burdens and leave, and this can also be seen how cruel the elimination is!

However, after undergoing the most rigorous physical examination, the time for Fang Yan to play has come. The next examination items are all literary things, and whether it is an indefinite quality assessment, or a temporary team to complete the project aimed at promoting teamwork, he has the soul of the future generations He has performed extremely well, and his comprehensive ranking has begun to soar on the basis of the results of the physical examination. As for the examination of dining and social etiquette, he has lived in the family of a giant in Brom for more than 5 years, and he is completely handy, not to mention that he is in line with the status of an officer, and even the performance of traditional nobles is nothing more than that. As for the final display of his talents, Fang Yan's rich knowledge accumulation of being a battleship designer made the invigilator's eyes widen on the spot; He casually talked about some of the key points that need to be paid attention to in the design and construction of warships, and directly let the officers who came to evaluate give full marks within a few minutes.

After two weeks of screening, the results of the 100 people who passed the physical fitness test were finally determined. Fang Yan rushed straight from the initial 86th to the 14th, almost firmly getting a place to become a military cadet. In the final interview, Fang Yan gave a smooth and clear answer to the officer's question why he wanted to join the army at a young age; He took advantage of the right-wing revenge wave that is currently prevalent in Germany, much to the latter's delight. On May 21, Fang Yan, who had been at the Milvik Military Academy for half a month, finally got his wish and was hand-presented with an admission letter with his face by the school's principal in an auditorium. For Fang Yan, a young man who stood out among the burly and rough young people, the retired former vice admiral principal gave him a particularly encouraging gift; Although the freshman team of only 18 people was really shabby, Fang Yan still received inspiration from his heart from the other party's full and powerful words.

To Fang Yan's surprise, the young man Otto, who took the initiative to greet him before, was actually among the admitted teams. Facing the gentle smile he threw at him, Fang Yan's attention to him in his heart suddenly rose several notches; This person was able to pass the entrance test with a 98% elimination rate at the level of graduating from middle school, just like his premeditated self, which is definitely not something that ordinary people can do. However, Fang Yan still hid his strange emotions very well, and reciprocated with the same words of celebration; Anyway, there are still 3 to 4 years of further study in the future, and I have the opportunity to gain insight into the family history and details of these dozen people around me.

After carefully putting this admission letter, which had condensed his years of hard work and sweat, into his bag, Fang Yan immediately embarked on the journey back to Hamburg with joy. At the beginning of the establishment of the Milvik Military Academy, because many of the people it recruited were likely to be graduates of major universities, the start time of its school was not immediately next to the graduation season of early summer, but was selected in mid-August in early autumn as a normal university. Regarding this situation, Fang Yan also slightly understood the core reason in his heart. You must know that after entering the school, military cadets will face a completely different life from the previous off-campus life: whether it is a year and a half of basic training, ship-based internship, and sailing with the ship, or then on-campus training, fleet service, it is an extremely heavy and tiring thing, and there are only a few holidays in between, which is by no means comparable to ordinary work. Therefore, before this absolutely painful life arrives, it is necessary to let these cadets enjoy a period of last comfort.

For Fang Yan, this holiday can be regarded as just what he wants. It was necessary for him to let Rudolph discover and join the Italians in the extraction of Libyan oil before he entered the closed "prison" of the military academy. After all, if the oil here is to become an important source of supply to the war machine of Germany and Italy in the future, it must achieve at least 6 million tons of output per year comparable to that of Romania, otherwise it will only be a drop in the bucket; It is almost impossible to establish such a large-scale oil extraction and refining base in just a few years, and it must be built from an early stage. If it takes more than 15 years to build, it will be enough to make Libya the second source of European oil after Romania.

As for joint mining with the Italians, there is no way to do it. Not to mention whether the Brom family's financial resources alone can establish such a large-scale oil base in Libya, a desert of the Gobi Desert; Even if it were able to do so, the Italian government, as the suzerainty of the region, would not sit idly by and watch foreign companies feast on their own turf. If Fang Yan wants to rely on his family's power to work alone in Libya, then it will only be a sure thing to be seized by the Italians after the industry is successful; The current weak and incompetent Weimar government has absolutely no external influence of the former Hohenzollern dynasty and the Third Reich established by the Führer, and is unable to provide protection for its own country's enterprises, and the end result can only be a wedding dress for others. Therefore, instead of being robbed by the Italians in the end, it is better to take the initiative to invite them to join the industry in the first place; This will not only allow the Italian government to further expand the size of Libya's oil base, but also get a good share of this huge pie.

Luckily, his family business has already been in contact with the top levels of the Italian government. In March, after mutual inspections, Rudolph's Brom-Foss and Ciano Sr.'s Ansaldo were shocked by what they had achieved. After some verbal negotiations and bargaining, the two sides reached an agreement in a very rare friendly atmosphere. Ansaldo shipyard used its own marine power system technology to exchange the design of the reverse underwater protrusion, the integration of the armor into the hull, the tilt of the main armor box, and the welding technology independently mastered by the shipyard's process department. To make up for Brom-Foss's indebtedness in this technology exchange, Ansaldo will pay 8% of the contract amount; As long as an order is received from the Italian Navy in the future, then a large amount of money will be credited to the account of the former.

This transaction is an ideal win-win outcome for both parties. They all got what they needed to make a difference in the years to come. In a way, Brom-Foss benefits even more: the 8 per cent additional royalty may not seem like a small amount, but it is already a significant figure in the specific technical environment of naval vessels. After careful calculation and quantification, Fang Yan's design method can achieve a 12% to 15% weight reduction while the ship's performance remains roughly unchanged; In other words, without these design concepts, the displacement of the warship built by Ansaldo would be about 15% higher than the optimal solution (because the denominator of the two calculations is different, if you don't understand it, please experience the ups and downs of the stock market on your own). Since the cost of the same type of warship is roughly proportional to the tonnage, these design techniques can save Ansal about 15% of the cost.

One of the important reasons why the Italians spit out so much of their share of income this time is the "Washington Treaty" signed in 1922: because the treaty strictly stipulates the upper limit of the tonnage of a single ship of various types of ships, this makes the traditional method of increasing combat effectiveness by increasing tonnage become impossible to implement at present, and can only work on weight reduction. And Fang Yan's design methods are something they can't refuse!

(I'm sorry for the late chapter today.)