Taranto, as the base camp of the Italian Navy, has a complete infrastructure. As a newly promoted and powerful admiral, Xu Zhonglin has not left any footprints of his own in this port with a long history. So he can only rent some facilities.

It was a very spacious hall, the decoration of the hall was very quaint, the walls around it were carved with reliefs and frescoes, there were no electric lights, only a candle chandelier hanging from the top of the ceiling, and in the middle there was a large round table, which was covered with red cloth, and was also full of candlesticks.

Xu Zhonglin craned his neck, pointed to the chandelier and asked, "This is silverware, right?" The pattern looks complicated and looks good. ”

Sissi introduced him: "Are you talking about lamps or murals?" The candlesticks, chandeliers, and tables are a set of Mediterranean styles, and this pattern is relatively simple. The house was apparently later converted into a round table hall, and the reliefs and frescoes were in the Roman style, which did not quite match this set. If you like, we can design our own round table hall in this style in the future. ”

In terms of art appreciation, someone belongs to the sand turtle among the turtles - the same as the silly turtle, and they don't understand anything. But it doesn't matter, your own shipwn just understands. This is the same as the young master of the coal boss's family who doesn't know red wine, and finds a girlfriend who knows three foreign languages, and still runs a red wine business.

"You still have to like it. We don't have such a custom as round tables in the East, so I'll leave it to you. However, if you want to build a big one, it is said that the large round table room next door has 3,000 seats, really? ”

Marguerite answered his question: "Yes, that's the largest round table in Italy. Regular meetings are usually held only once a year, and bills are called up for votes in emergencies. Before this Middle East strategy, there was a vote there, that is, that meeting, and the North African faction and the Middle East faction reached a compromise, and the North African faction also came up with a specific reward plan through that meeting. ”

"Well, we're going to build one like this in the future. Rena made a note of it, put it aside for the time being, and reserved a place on the blueprint of our town guard mansion. ”

The Round Table is a very formal form of meeting in the Western tradition, which has been popular since King Arthur, where the monarch and his subordinates sit at a table to decide on national affairs, and everyone can speak freely. This form represents equality and openness.

There are dozens of such conference halls in Taranto, large and small, but not everyone is eligible to apply, and Xu Zhonglin has just reached the qualification after contracting the two capital ships Margaret and Elena. This kind of round table hall is available in every town guard's house, but the scale is not as big as you want, and the village committee will not give people a strong sense of awe like the Forbidden City, but will only make others feel ridiculous.

Just like Xu Zhonglin in his previous life, the office building of a county environmental protection bureau was 'copycated' to the White House. This kind of thing can only be described in a sentence of mud and mud in the Gobi. The White House, Buckingham Palace, Versailles, the Kremlin, and the Forbidden City are known as the world's five largest palaces. Each of the five hooligans has one in their families, which is by no means a simple calculation according to scale, and the additional political significance is relatively heavy. If you want to be compared with the 'sea mile' in a county environmental protection bureau, why don't you fly into the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun? Copycat a White House will mean nothing other than ridicule.

Xu Zhonglin did not arrogantly want to build a round table conference hall with a capacity of 3,000 people in his town guard mansion immediately, but planned the location. This shows his ambitions. For the newcomers Louise, Freya, and Diana, it means to show their aspirations: Look, my brother is not just a mountain carving on a small hill, but a 'double-flower red stick' who has the ambition to surpass a naval power like Italy, and sooner or later he will be the leading big brother, and it is very promising to follow me.

The newly promoted Admiral and his twenty-five shipwives sat together in a circle.

Rena stood beside him in a formal military uniform: "The first round table meeting of the Great and Small Nicobar Islands Town Guards begins now. ”

"Our small family is now on a large scale, with submarines, destroyers, cruisers, battleships, aircraft carriers, everything. The first meeting was also relatively simple, mainly for the distribution of the spoils of this operation, Rena sat down and said. ”

"We didn't get much benefit this time, the two main battleship cores were used up by Margaret and Elena, and the rest were exchanged for some resources, of which the six K5 train gunners used a small part. The main budgets at the moment are: the upgrade of the Annie hull to the hull of the USS Victory, the conversion of the USS Mermaid hull to the U21 submarine program, the standardization of the hulls of Venus and Isabella, and finally the hull upgrade goals of the three cruiser mothers are to be determined. ”

The stall is big, and it can't be as casual as before, although the ship's mother and the admiral are in a coexisting relationship, one is prosperous, one is lost, but specific to each ship's mother, there will always be a comparison, everyone eats in a pot, your hull is an Iowa-class battleship, my hull is a Dingyuan-class ironclad ship, basically can't play happily together. As a commander, you must have a bowl of water, and everything in a harmonious society must be harmonious. This is actually to open a harem, even if the emperor likes a certain girl, he always canonizes it with several others, so as to show that the rain and dew are evenly wet.

The standardized transformation of the Venus and Isabella hulls that Rena mentioned was something that Xu Zhonglin had just made the night before at Sissi's suggestion. The destroyers after the town of Nicobar Island were all new destroyers with the hull of the Mogador-class destroyer designed by Xu Zhonglin through the hell pocket watch, plus the American destroyer subsystem and oxygen torpedoes. Because Barcelisa was the first to be converted into this type of destroyer, it was named the Barcelisa-class destroyer in his town guard's mansion.

And the same is true of Isabella's, the design of the Des Moines-class heavy cruiser is perfect, even the hell pocket watch has changed very little, and the name has not changed. It was designated as a standard heavy cruiser for the town of Nicobar and the Lesser and Lesser Nicobar Islands.

Annie's hull upgrade plan has been on her mind for a long time, and the Mermaid submarine requires very few resources, so there is nothing to discuss about these issues ahead.

All that's left is the hull plan of the three new cruiser mothers.

"You're okay with the front, right? Let's talk about the three cruisers of Louise. ”

Louise preemptively said, "Freya and I are both Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers. There's no need to remodel it for the time being. "Her Royal Highness the princess is very discerning, as a newcomer, she is not too embarrassed to occupy resources.

Xu Zhonglin frowned, it was inevitable that seniority in his group would begin to be ranked, which was not a good phenomenon: "No!" The hull standard of our town guard has just been set, and the heavy patrol can only be the Des Moines class, and the change of the Admiral Hippel class to the Des Moines class does not cost a lot of resources, so don't worry. ”

Before Louise could tell, Teresa hurriedly chimed in: "Yes, with Louise, Freya, and Isabella, we have exactly eight Des Moines-class heavy cruisers." This makes it possible to form two small breakout fleets, or to form a medium-sized heavy patrol formation. It is more appropriate to change it. ”

The girl who has a skin-to-skin kiss is witty, and the heart is even better.

Others agreed.

The seniors agreed, and the two German shipwresses didn't have an opinion, who wouldn't want to be stronger?

It's just that the next Diana is more troublesome.