Throwing the pot back, Xu Zhonglin leaned on the sofa to rest: "Let's say some good news." ”

"Yes!" Rena stood up straight and opened the folder she was carrying: "I just received information that Turkey and Austria-Hungary occupied several islands belonging to Greece on the Mediterranean coast last night, which was obviously premeditated. The British Mediterranean Fleet had already intervened to stop it, and France protested. ”

These two little brothers in Germany are really hungry. However, the strategic choice is very clever, and in the context of the promotion of the national strategy, this kind of small action should be the maximum that Britain and France can endure.

"Oh? Are the French just protesting? ”

"Yes, word has come from Lily's side, she is following the fleet towards Laayoune, and according to her report, there are also British ships and marines in the fleet. Britain and France should have reached an agreement to jointly advance south from Morocco along the west coast of Africa, so this time Turkey and Austria-Hungary pinched the timing very accurately. ”

"! It's really annoying, the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea is obviously a cake given to Turkey by Germany, so that Austria-Hungary can draw more navy from the Black Sea to the Tunisian side, I hope the British will give a little force, we have suffered, and they will suffer next. Ask Fifth Sister Qiao, is there any news from her? ”

Qiao Wujie said that most of the forces of the Gibraltar fleet must obey the unified command of Britain and France, and they will intercept the deep sea coming from the direction of the Atlantic. But in a few days there will be a detachment stationed at Annaba, west of Tunisia, so Austria-Hungary should not be able to draw much strength, and she added that this information is worth ten new recipes, and you should send it to her. ”

"In other words, the enemies we have to deal with are still those of Gabez!"

"For the time being, yes!"

That's really good news.

"Anything else?"

"Djerba's tax revenue has come up this month, and according to the custom, you, as the supreme governor, can withhold a part of it as private wealth, and you can also apply to the Ministry of Finance for construction and maintenance funds within the scope of this tax."

This is an 'unspoken rule', but when Xu Zhonglin took the financial statements and read them, he realized why the Ministry of Finance was so generous. The extra speed intercepted was not enough for Sissi, and they fired a salvo for a minute. For a poor country like Hamat Suk, a long stream of water is also a considerable income.

"Distribute it according to the rank, every admiral has it, and this will be the norm in the future." Someone knows that he can't stay here for too long, so he will naturally use it as a favor, and if his successor doesn't do this, then the favorability of the Admirals who are benefiting today will naturally increase a lot.

"All the taxes have been withheld, apply for it, build some entertainment facilities on the sandbar north of the port, now there are a lot of big soldiers here, there is no entertainment and it is easy to make trouble, and recruit a group of people from the locals to establish a public security agency, which is called chengguan, to assist in the management of public security."

Xu Zhonglin now regards Haomait Suke as a testing ground, and now it is a place where everything is in ruins, just convenient for painting on blank paper, and he wants to try all kinds of ideas to prepare for the future establishment of his own town guard mansion.

……

Someone was busy farming, but she didn't expect Rena to report coldly: "Admiral, Lieutenant Colonel Lisa's destroyer was sunk by a mine!" ”

Lisa was patrolling with people, and the routes patrolling were all on the waterway, so Xu Zhonglin's first reaction was that someone was doing something! Sure enough, after looking at the charts, the location of the destroyer's mine was in the middle of the Bay of Gabes.

It's a bit of a madness! Mines are inexpensive, but they're powerful. It is a cost-effective weapon. Turkey is the most used in the world, laying minefields along almost the entire coast. The same is true in other countries, not to mention the various town guards. It is the weapon with the highest cost-effectiveness ratio.

But this thing should not be littered, it should be caused to harm one's own people if you are not careful, and merchant ships and light ships will not be able to block the blow of this thing at all, even if a large ship is seriously injured. Therefore, everyone uses it with great restraint and is generally used as a defensive weapon.

"What are the types of mines?" Xu Zhonglin determined the location, and he wanted to know the type of mine, if it was a floating mine, it was possible that it floated here with the waves, and if it was an anchor mine, it must be a ghost made by Austria-Hungary.

"It's a sunken magnetic mine, Lisa said that two minefields have been found nearby, and it is judged that the Austro-Hungarian submarine threw it. Lisa asked for additional minesweepers. ”

it! Come on, hurt each other! Xu Zhonglin immediately decided to retaliate: "No! The minesweepers are going to pass, but not minesweeping, but minelaying! Let Lisa investigate the location of the minefield of the other side, and then we will also lay mines, preferably block the other side in Gabes, let Milagria send planes to assist in the minefield, and let Annedo send fighters to protect the minelayers. ”

In this world, minelayers and minesweepers are basically one, using a destroyer core. The Italian minelayer is a small fast warship with a direct deck, with a displacement ranging from 2,000 tons to 4,000 tons.

There is a gear-driven conveyor chain on the through deck, and there are two minelaying tracks that run through the deck, and the minelaying efficiency is very high.

In order to prevent the other party's dog from jumping over the wall in a hurry, Xu Zhonglin personally took most of the shipwrecks in the port to the sea to escort the minelaying ships. News also kept coming.

"Lisa found the other party's seaplane."

"Let Anne shoot down."

Anne said that the fleet in the other port was also being dispatched.

"Wait for the other side to leave the port, all the seaplanes of the battleship and Milaglia will go to the other side's port to throw mines, and Anne's bombers and attack planes will stand by in formation."

In fact, Xu Zhonglin is not afraid of hurting each other at all, the other party is more afraid of the mine blockade than him, and he is very sure that Gabes does not have an aircraft carrier, so he naturally wants to bully the other party with air supremacy.

Anne is carrying out daily tasks under the escort of the goddess of wisdom and the goddess of resurrection, and the admiral has been busy lately, and has not gone to sea much, and the routine patrols are carried out by the ship's own judgment and execution. Anne goes out to sea every day, patrolling and training her ability to handle the aircraft. Anne has also improved a lot, and can already skillfully distract herself from multiple uses, and just now shot down a seaplane while playing cards.

The Admiral treats her very well, knowing that she is a little introverted, and deliberately cares that the other sisters must play with her, so at this moment she is playing poker with the Goddess of Wisdom, the Soul Girl, the Goddess of Eloquence and the Goddess of Epic, fighting the landlord, whoever loses not only has to stick a note, but also clean the room next to it.

Anne drew a good hand, and the goddess of eloquence threw the card: "Don't play!" The Admiral's side has a mission to get Anne ready for bombing. ”

The epic goddess is gone: "Hey! Sister, you're foolish, I just drew a good card, and there are two bombs. ”

Anne was also anxious: "Me too, I also have a bomb." ”

The three little quarreled, and the soul girl next to him hurriedly stopped: "Okay, it's good to throw the real bomb on the enemy's head in a while, hurry up and prepare." After speaking, the soul girl couldn't help but glance at the goddess of wisdom next to her, Anne has changed a lot these days, and now she is much more cheerful, if it was before, she would definitely put down the cards silently and go to work, but now she has learned to quarrel, this change is a good phenomenon.