As the time entered the spring of 1924, Fang Yan's middle school career also ushered in its end.

From mid-April, Germany's baccalaureate exams have begun; A total of 15 subjects will be implemented on a single day, and the entire examination process will continue until the end of the month. However, candidates only need to complete 4~5 of these subjects, and there are no compulsory subjects; This makes it easy for everyone to give full play to their own strengths, and present a colorful and grand scene under the framework of teaching students according to their aptitude.

Although German secondary school education focuses on cultivating students' thinking and action ability, rather than the teaching of science and engineering science that Fang Yan, who was already able to be a battleship designer at this time, is best at teaching, but with the soul of a hundred battles in this two lifetimes, Fang Yan still easily completed these questions aimed at examining the quality of students' thinking in half a month. And perhaps it was the scenes at the graduation party that were similar to those in his previous life that touched a soft place in his heart, and Fang Yan, who had always been like a rock, shed the first tear in more than ten years. At this time, he realized that he had always been an ordinary person, but he had always had a hard shell that bound his emotions heavily before, which made him think that he was a transcendent existence that was different from others.

Ten days later, Fang Yan's exam results and graduation comments were also delivered by a postman to his rented house in Berlin. When he opened the letter, what he saw was not beyond his expectations: the best grades on the paper, and the praise of the teacher, which was the best reward for his four and a half years of secondary school career. With this achievement, Fang Yan has successfully obtained the stepping stone to enter the Milvik Naval Academy, although he is only 16 years old this year, but the latter can no longer turn him away from the door of registration.

After writing a letter to his little girlfriend Silvia that he would leave Berlin and return to Hamburg, Fang Yan simply packed his bags and left the rental apartment where he had lived for several years with emotion. In the early autumn of 1919, it was a boy with a childish face on his face; And today, the one who walked out of the door was already a handsome and upright young man. Even the contours of his face have changed a lot under the careful sculpting of the great master of time; At this moment, the whole person looks like a brilliant jade spar, and wherever he goes, he will become a trend that will attract everyone's attention.

Since Rudolph was busy negotiating loans with investors from the United States during this time, Fang Yan did not think about bothering him; After resting at home for two days, he boarded the train to Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, at the northern tip of Germany, with the documents he needed to verify his identity. As for the registration, it had already been completed months earlier, and all files, including the application, had been handed over to Milwick early enough time to allow the school enough time to verify the information.

What made Fang Yan feel comfortable was that the narrow geographical environment of Europe saved him from the pain of long-distance fatigue like the Celestial Empire; In less than four hours, Fang Yan, who got off the suburban bus, was guided by the map in his hand and followed the road to a hill near the coast of the North Sea. From a distance, a red, four-story Gothic building appeared in his eyes, and it was his destination.

In 1910, in response to the growing demand for junior officers in the expanding High Seas Fleet, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered the establishment of a school in Flensburg for junior naval officers, and the Milvik School was born. Together with the Kiel Naval Academy, which was established in the early years, it constituted the cradle of naval talent training in the last years of the German Empire. Dönitz, the famous "Wolf King", graduated from this school, which he also made his Führer's official residence after Hitler's suicide, and also became a prisoner of the Allies here.

Although the Kiel Naval Academy is far superior to the Milwijk School, which was established in 1910, in terms of scale, heritage, and technical strength, the Allies forced the closure of this high-level academy that trained a large number of outstanding generals after the war, so Milwick has become the only officer training base of the German Navy at present. However, Mürwick is no longer the toddler school it once was: the vast majority of the talent from the Kiel Naval Academy, and almost all of the 40,000 books in its collection, were transferred here after the war, making Mürwick the place of Kiel as the German Navy's premier talent training center.

Because of this, there are naturally many people who want to sharpen their heads and drill into it every year. Even after the outbreak of the Karp coup d'état, which was intended to overthrow the Weimar government, and the navy, which also started the November Revolution of 1918, became indifferent to the left and right forces in the country, Milvik still attracted a large number of young Germans to try his luck in the post-war depression and difficult economic environment with the golden sign of the military academy. However, now is definitely not a good time to get into.

Because the Treaty of Versailles limited the number of officers in the German Navy to an extremely strict 1,500 officers, and they had to serve for 25 years before they could be discharged, the German Navy was limited to the number of officers who could retire each year, and only a small number of new officers could be awarded. Excluding the normal promotion of outstanding naval non-commissioned officers to officers, the number of places left for Milvik to recruit cadets was less than one-tenth of what it was before the war. For the past three years, the school has only admitted about 20 students each year, and they can form a class, and the bleak scene of their withering people also reflects the situation of the whole of Germany under the frenzied pressure of the "Treaty of Versailles".

However, Fang Yan had to enter the navy at the moment. The biological age of his body was too young, and if he did not take all measures to increase his seniority in the army, it would be difficult to exert enough influence on the German Navy in the future. Intervening in the military as an amateur was almost impossible to achieve, and even Hitler, who later took the supreme power, could only change the decisions of the army, and was equally helpless against the navy, which still maintained its partisan and political purity. If Britain was not defeated by changing its navy, Germany would never have a chance of victory in the face of the direct involvement of the United States in the war in Europe; The new ship design that Fang Yan threw out before only strengthened the external shell on which it depended, and if it really wanted to avoid repeating the tragedy of the High Seas Fleet, which had become a puppet, it was still necessary to reshape its soul through the people in it!

Birds chirp and the trees are verdant. Perched on top of a hill near the sea, the Milwick School is more like a castle than a school with its majestic main building, which occupies a vast and imposing area. However, as it approached noon, this picture-like beauty was ruined by the countless crowds of people on the campus square. Today is the start time of the entrance exams announced by the Milwick School, and applicants who have previously submitted applications must arrive at the school at noon today, otherwise they will not be waiting. Now the hour has not yet come, and the square is already full of people; Fang Yan swept it roughly, and there were seven or eight hundred, to say the least.

Looking at this scene, which was even more exaggerated than the national examination public recruitment of the Celestial Dynasty in the later generations, Fang Yan couldn't help but secretly stumble. You must know that the registration fee for the Milvik Military Academy is definitely not cheap, and the money for 5 new estate marks is enough for an ordinary family to save money for almost a week. The reason for this high threshold fee is the complexity of the screening process that has to be carried out after registration: the cost of a comprehensive and detailed medical examination is high, not to mention the tests that will be carried out afterwards. The duration of the entire medical examination and entrance exam will last two weeks. Of course, the vast majority of applicants had to pack their bags and return disgracefully, and even though there were many young talents who could be cultivated, the restrictions imposed on the German navy by the Allies left them with no choice.

"Hey, are you here to apply for the Navy officer exam too?" Just as he was thinking about it, a young voice suddenly sounded in Fang Yan's ears, and then he was patted on the shoulder. He turned his head suddenly, and saw a young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old standing beside him, looking at him with a slightly surprised gaze. Fang Yan looked intently, and saw that the person in front of him was a point taller than himself, who was nearly 6 feet (183cm) tall; There are some tiny pimples on his slightly green face, but it looks like a sunny and warm feeling.

To a certain extent, Fang Yan found that this person's appearance and temperament were somewhat similar to his self before the crossing, and the vigilance in his heart immediately dissipated a lot; He paused, then smiled a friendly and gentle smile and said, "Exactly." My name is Jonas and I'm from Hamburg. You've probably just finished your secondary school graduation exams, right? ”

The young man nodded, and the surprise on his face was replaced by a smile: "I'm Otto from Bavaria, and I've just graduated from the secondary school in the town of Kravel. I just saw that your age seems to be extremely young, and you don't look like someone who has come to compete for military cadets, so I asked you rudely. I didn't expect you to finish your secondary school at such a young age. Hopefully we can meet again in this school. ”

Fang Yan had a smile on his face, and he also reciprocated with words of blessing; As he greeted the young man, Otto, a thought that had never occurred before crossed his mind. Previously, he relied on the benefits of the family wealth he had after the crossing, and successfully realized his will in many aspects; However, after entering the army, it was no longer possible for him to rely on his cheap daddy Rudolph to do something for him. In this case, it is necessary to gather a group of young people of the same age around you as a support for your future actions: and the next few years will be the opportunity to implement this plan yourself.

(Thanks to the book friend smuggler, forever F4U, and the 219 project for the tip~~~)