But even so, Hu Weidong is still deeply glad that he invited Shen Honglie, if it weren't for this old navy, how would he know what kind of talents are needed for various positions on different warships? Which positions have a low threshold and can be fast-tracked? Which positions must have the corresponding jishu and even rich experience?

It is precisely because of this that Hu Weidong was able to fill in more than half of the more than 5,000 positions on each ship in just three days (not so much, but in order to reserve more talents, Hu Weidong tried his best to stuff people in the navy), most of which did not have the exclusive requirements of the navy were filled by the veterans of the army who had been tested in the army, and those posts that were not much different from the civilian ships were selected among the sailors in Qingdao. Maintenance workers and other auxiliary units were selected from the workers of the Qingdao ship repair yard and shipyard, and the hundreds of senior jishu soldiers (officers) who were really unable to do it could only force the captured Japanese naval officers and men to do it with guns. However, on the premise of not fighting a war, it is almost a miracle that this fleet of more than 20 warships can actually drive decently, and even dissolve various basic formations and make all kinds of evasive actions to avoid lightning and bombs during the exercise.

However, Hu Weidong also knew that the current fleet was only in vain, and once the devils came, even if those Japanese prisoners did not make trouble, or even if they did not slack off, there would still be big problems, and the fact that nearly half of them could not speak Chinese was enough to cause great chaos in wartime. Therefore, Hu Weidong could only pin his hopes on the Kuomintang Navy and the Comintern, but fortunately, on the day he took Qingdao, he had already sent a telegram to report to the Central Committee. For the sake of secrecy, the government should not have been informed for the time being, but the volunteers of the Comintern must have already left, right? Not a lot of words

The news that the 15th Army had occupied Qingdao and captured 10 Japanese warships, including two large warships, made the Party Central Committee in Lanzhou boil at once, and the excited Taizu drank some wine to celebrate with everyone for the first time. However, it is no wonder that the West is knocking on China's door precisely by relying on strong ships and sharp guns. This is too stimulating for Chinese with strong national self-esteem like him, who dream that China has a powerful fleet to keep the enemy at sea. And the most confident "giant ship cannon" has naturally become their favorite

The head of the Central Committee was in a good mood, and even the slightly excessive demands in Hu Weidong's telegram were granted, although a considerable part of them had to pass the Lao Chiang pass. Strictly speaking. The only person that the central authorities can decide on relatively quickly is the commander of the "East China Navy," and Hu Weidong's suggestion is that in view of the need to seek help from the Soviet Union and the Comintern in the process of building the navy, the commander of the navy must be proficient in at least one of the two languages of Russian and English, so as to facilitate communication. If the Soviet Union or the Comintern were unwilling to help, the Navy would have to rely on the Japanese prisoners to help, in which case the naval commander would have to be proficient in Japanese. In addition to that, you just need to be smart and studious, and it is better if you are younger, because young people are more receptive to new things. As for the level of education (in this era, those who can be proficient in foreign languages cannot have a low level of education, so Hu Weidong did not particularly emphasize it.) It doesn't even matter if you have sailor experience, or even if you can water.

However, the reply of the Soviet Union and the Comintern disappointed the Red Party Central Committee, although Stalin was very interested in the performance of the Japanese "Kongo-class" battleships. However, he believed that with the current strength of the 15 th Army, it would be impossible to keep those warships, and if the Soviet Union was to send people out in a hurry now, by the time they rushed to China, it would be impossible for those warships to have been destroyed by the Japanese army, and the Soviet Union would have nothing to gain by then. On the contrary, if you offend the Japanese, you will become an international laughing stock, which is really unworthy. Taizu was very angry when he received the callback, and snorted coldly, "Couldn't we build our own navy without you Soviets?" ”。 …,

The Soviets refused to help, and Taizu's original first choice was naturally rejected, and he instead suggested that Ye Fei, the current commander of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, be appointed commander of the East China Navy. Second, the fourth detachment commanded by Ye Fei is the strongest and most effective unit in the New Fourth Army, and his sudden transfer is likely to affect the development of the New Fourth Army; The third is that Ye Fei is only half of Chinese ancestry, making him the commander of the navy seem unmanned in China

As soon as Taizu heard it, he knew that these reasons were false, and the old qualifications in the party were worried that the first line of the Red Third Front Army was too strong, and now in terms of the strength of the army, even if the 15th Army accounted for less than half of the Red Party, it was at least one-third, and this did not include the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, the troops stationed in Tibet, and the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, which also belonged to the first line of the Red Third Front Army; Except for the commander and political commissar of the Air Force, almost all the rest of the people came out of the 15th Army; Now even the nascent navy has to be handed over to the people of the Red Third Front, and those old qualifications are really difficult to accept

Fortunately, the factional struggle within the Red Party was far less fierce than within the Kuomintang after all, and Taizu supported Hu Weidong even more as always, and finally took advantage of the vacancy in the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army to divide some of the opposition Liliang, and finally decided the matter against public opinion. In order to untie the knots in the hearts of some old comrades, Taizu also pointed out three advantages of making Ye Fei the commander of the navy at the meeting, and everyone had to admit that Ye Fei was indeed an excellent candidate for the commander of the navy

Note 1: In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Taizu proposed to build a powerful ocean-going navy (at that time, the navy built ships mainly with cruisers and other large ships), but the Korean War broke out unexpectedly, for the needs of homeland security, the navy could only make sacrifices, give funds to the more important air force, and change the development route of small ships coastal defense, but the air force's need for funds was a bottomless pit, and China was too poor at that time, coupled with the huge consumption of strategic projects such as "two bombs and one satellite", As a result, it was not until China's industrial output jumped to the first place in the 21st century that the navy finally began to make great strides towards the goal of a blue-water navy (to be continued...... ……，