Since the other cruisers have been transformed into Des Moines-class heavy cruisers, Xu Zhonglin is always not good at favoring one over the other: "Diana should also be changed to a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser."

Rena dutifully: "Well, Admiral, we don't have that many resources. Diana's original hull was a Leipzig-class light cruiser, which was more resource-intensive. ”

"Didn't Elena get back the four 35,000-ton battleship cores? Sell two, what do you want to transform is not enough? ”

The previous two 55,000-ton battleship cores had been swapped from the Italian Admiralty. Originally, Xu Zhonglin could only exchange for three 35,000-ton battleship cores, and the total tonnage did not suffer, and there was one more. The result was surprisingly good, and it was Elena's sister who was in charge of logistics, the battleship Captain Naples, and she certainly did not treat her sister badly. For this exchange, we will argue with each other. She came up with an argument: the core of battleships over 50,000 tons is a strategic resource, vital to the Italian Navy, and policies should be put in place to encourage everyone to do so. Therefore, it is recommended to reward Colonel Xu Zhonglin, who has made outstanding contributions to the great revitalization of the Italian Navy, and set a benchmark.

Italian Admiral Arturo Moritti listened to her first half of the report and frequently bowed his head, a man from the Eastern Empire, who came to Italy thousands of miles to contribute to the prosperity of the Italian Navy, and regarded the cause of the Italian Navy as his own career, what kind of spirit is this? Must be rewarded!

But after listening to the second half, the old man almost had a cerebral hemorrhage, and according to Naples's proposal: reward Xu Zhonglin with the core of the battleship of 220,000 tons at a time, and promote him to rear admiral, setting a model so that everyone else can see the power of example.

Middle Eastern bigwigs Gafort and Julio Caesar were suddenly not calm.

it! Sisters, you hang like this, did your sister make it?

According to this compensation plan, the Italian Navy will have to go bankrupt in less than half a month.

In the end, after negotiation, Xu Zhonglin was given four 35,000-ton battleship cores, and his medal was promoted, and in the future, Xu was treated more closely than the marquis.

Everyone was quite satisfied with this result, and Marshal Moritty was satisfied because there was one more plan for a strong navy, and according to this compensation standard, the Italian navy would only get stronger and stronger. Gavour, Caesar and other Middle Eastern bigwigs are satisfied because they are people who have contributed too much, and the more the merrier. Naples was satisfied because he made the Admiralty feel that he had lost money to his sister. Don't underestimate this 'debt', this kind of favor is very heavy at the level of the entire country and the army.

Xu someone's satisfaction filled the thinking of the silly boy in the kindergarten, and two were replaced by four - earned!

Therefore, he felt that he was not very distressed about the extra things he had taken from the Italian Navy for nothing, and of course he had to sell them if he lacked resources.

"Can't!" Almost everyone spoke up to stop it.

Elena stood up angrily: "When I went to change the core, people looked at me like they were mentally retarded with a brain soaked in seawater and gnawed by a shark. The core of 35,000 tons can already constitute a force at the strategic level. How can it be easily exchanged for resources? If we want to use it in the future, we don't know how much it will cost to get it back, we can't do it! ”

Xu someone also came back to his senses, this is like the Qingming Riverside picture in the Palace Museum, how much do you say this thing is worth? Billion, five billion...... The art market always gives a price. But if someone really takes this thing out and sells it, it is estimated that it will end up with digging up their own ancestral grave and being sprayed out.

"Ahem...... The terrier is good. Let's keep it for now, what about the other cores? You can always take it out and sell a few, right? ”

Sissi hurriedly stopped Rena with her eyes: "Admiral, the hull standardization scheme we discussed last night has many flaws, why don't we all discuss it together."

"U21 type for submarines, destroyer class, light patrol Worcester, heavy patrol Des Moines, aircraft carriers and battleships are temporarily out of scale, there is no standard, is there any problem with this?"

Sissi was a little helpless: "Admiral, we all know that there are design drawings of the U21 submarine and the Wooster-class light cruiser in the Hell Pocket Watch, the U21 submarine is easy to say, it is easier to hide, but the drawings of the Worcester-class light cruiser are not easy to come up with!" And I think the Brooklyn-class light patrol is enough, there is no need to use the Worcester-class, that cost is too much. ”

Diana also helped Sissi: "Admiral, I think Sha is right, I'll use the hull of the Brooklyn-class light cruiser first." It's already great. Don't worry, I don't have any credit, I'm already happy to take an advanced hull for nothing, and I won't be unhappy. ”

Someone jumped up: "Can it be the same?!" The Brooklyn-level features are too monolithic. The 152 tube of the Worcester-class light cruiser is a high-level dual-purpose operation, and this one is on top of a Brooklyn-class artillery light patrol and an Oakland-class air defense light cruiser. Later, our light cruisers were multifunctional in artillery warfare, air defense, anti-submarine warfare. ”

The Worcester-class light cruisers were similar to the Des Moines-class heavy cruisers in that they were the last artillery light cruisers, and of course the most advanced. The six-seat twin-mounted 152-mm gun is capable of naval combat and air defense. This MK16 type 47 times diameter 152 water pipe, the maximum elevation angle reaches 78 degrees, the firing range is 24,000 kilometers, and the rate of fire can reach 24 rounds per minute, which is more ghostly than the MK12 127mm ghost animal cannon used by Barcelisa.

The disadvantage is that this thing surpasses all other heavy cruisers, including the Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, and has a full load displacement of nearly 19,000 tons, which is only a little smaller than the Des Moines-class heavy cruisers, and the cost is definitely not close to the people.

But the cost of construction can't scare a certain admiral. Just like a Chinese teacher, even if he is 1.85 meters tall, he can't replace the status of a physical education teacher in the mathematics world. Xu Zhonglin's dedication to the Worcester-class light cruisers could not be replaced by other light cruisers.

Teresa also stood up: "Admiral, you can't count it like that, now there is only one, as you planned, the size of our fleet may reach three thousand. Even today's American and Eastern empires can't afford to afford so many Worcester-class light patrols and Des Moines-class heavy cruisers! Do we still want aircraft carriers and battleships? ”

What the two shipwives said is very reasonable, but they have a good relationship with Diana, and it will be okay to reduce Diana's treatment. The other shipwives didn't treat their new companions badly, especially because she felt a little unhappy that she had escorted Anne once and had gotten the most advanced heavy cruiser hull. The merchant lady is more sleek and compromising: "It's better to define the Brooklyn class, the Oakland class and the Worcester class as the hull standardization scheme for light cruisers." In the future, the Admiral's shipwives will use Des Moines and Worcester, and others, such as the gopher's shipwives, will use Brooklyn and Oakland. ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone had no opinion.