Back in Livorno, nothing has changed here, except that there is an Oriental middle-aged man in the crowd that greets him at the pier. The middle-aged man looked a little rich, and he was looking at the crowd expectantly with his feet on his feet.

When Xu Zhonglin saw the middle-aged man, his body shook unconsciously, and he walked over reflexively: "Uh...... How did you get here? ”

The middle-aged man is Xu Zhonglin's father, Xu Jingzu. Daddy Xu is also a powerful person, in fact, in this era, those who can run shipping basically have their own relationships. Xu Zhonglin's family was originally a well-known local silk family, and when Xu's father was young, he followed Mr. Xu to run the family's business. By chance, a powerful maritime merchant engaged in shipping was attacked by the deep sea, suffered heavy losses, and owed the Xu family the final payment. Father Xu had the courage to open up, persuaded Mr. Xu, posted most of the Xu family's family business, and took the opportunity to buy one of the maritime merchant's transport ships.

Since then, Daddy Xu has started intercontinental sea trade. In this world, this kind of transoceanic trade is basically a head-to-head trip to the sea with your head tied to your belt. Father Xu was not frightened by the endless news of death, but instead taught himself navigation knowledge and set off with the escort fleet.

Today, the Xu family has more than three maritime trade cargo ships of more than 10,000 tons.

Father Xu didn't answer his son, but grabbed his son's arm carefully, and stared at the Admiral Medal on Xu Zhonglin's neck with excitement: "Okay! Good! , grew taller again, and really became a commander. ”

Xu Zhonglin understood, took off the Admiral's Medal, and put it in his father's hand. Father Xu held it in both hands, his fingers trembled and stroked gently, with tears in his eyes: "Lin'er is so good!" Our Xu family is finally up. ”

The docks were full of chatter, and they returned to Rena's quarters. Xu Zhonglin introduced everyone to his father, including Lily. At first glance, when he heard that his son already had seven ship mothers under him, and there was also a deputy admiral, Father Xu was completely stunned as if he didn't know him.

After Father Xu was shocked, he took out a resource card from his pocket: "You take this, I inquired, and they all said that the Admiral was the most difficult at the beginning, and you kept the flowers." ”

After taking a look, it was actually enough resources to transform the hulls of three Des Moines-class ships. Xu Zhonglin recalled it and found that this should be most of the family's assets, and then looked at Father Xu's breezy appearance, he couldn't help but be a little moved, who can understand the love of parents in the world for their children?

"Dad, this is most of our family's wealth."

Father Xu seemed to be a little unaccustomed, but he still introduced the situation to him: "I didn't think about it, anyway, you have become a commander, and our family will take care of it." In the past, those shops were not much use, so it was better to concentrate on sea trade in the future, which was more profitable than that. ”

Maritime trade is profitable, but it also comes with huge risks. Today's shops are not the era of e-commerce in later generations, and the shops in every prosperous area are making money every day. This dad is really willing to give up for his son.

Xu Zhonglin shook his head: "Dad, you take it back, I can't ask for these, I'm not short of money." ”

Now Daddy Xu is in a hurry: "How can there be no shortage?" You can rest assured, now I have a good relationship in the sea trade, and I can follow the big fleet every time, which is very safe. ”

Regarding sea trade, Xu Zhonglin just knew about it and wanted to hear it: "Dad, you can tell me about the problem of sea trade in detail, in detail." ”

"I'm not familiar with the northern route on the American side. In Europe, the South Ocean Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet are mainly organized, and the road is quite fast, and it will be there in about two months. The Nanyang Fleet organized fleets in Sanya and Kaohsiung, and it was safe to follow them all the way, but the escort cost was a bit high. The Indian Ocean Fleet organized a fleet on the Malacca side, and the escort fee was cheaper, but there was no escort when passing through the South China Sea, which was quite dangerous. Don't worry, I'll follow the Nanyang Fleet, and nothing will happen. ”

It seems that Dad still knows the severity, and the little fat paper Zheng Maitreya has been making his own money, and he can't bear it.

"Oh, it's organized by the Li family and the Zheng family? Why is the Zheng family so expensive? ”

Father Xu didn't seem to care: "Yes, when the Zheng family crosses the strait, they also have to make some arrangements for the Li family." But after a few years, when you finish your service, we won't have to pay so much money. There is an old man in the fleet, his son is a commander, and there are only three shipwives under him, and they also escort together. He can take nine boats for free at a time. I've known him for six or seven years, and I've been getting wider and wider over the years, and I've heard that for a while, his son will have two more shipwives, and then he can bring twelve boats for free, and run two times a year, how much money do you make, you have seven shipwives now, and then I can find Lao Li and Lao Gao, charge them half the price, and let them hang the boat in our name, they will definitely be happy, so that we can ...... for a trip to escort the escort fee alone."

As soon as the old man talked about business, he chattered endlessly, but Xu Zhonglin also understood the situation. It seems that his father's expectation for him is to follow him to trade after the service. Thinking about it, the old man probably can't imagine how many big things he has done in the past year. Naturally, I don't know much about his strength. Now he has aircraft carriers, battlecruisers, all that is missing is the accumulation of time. If he can get a battleship out of Yidu, whether he will fight against the deep sea after he retires, or become a high-level mercenary to help other countries fight, as long as he ensures that he does not lose too much, it will still develop very quickly.

"Dad, you're wrong, now our family should think about the matter of the town guard."

As a result, Father Xu's eyes widened, and he took out the style of Lao Tzu teaching his son: "Why are you so confused? The town guard mansion is also what you can think of? Do you know how powerful that is? You've just graduated, so let's work hard for decades, and it's not too late to talk about it by then. "Daddy's body is still very deterrent.

Sissi was afraid that her admiral would lose face, she also saw the problem, and hurriedly explained to the old man: "Master, what our admiral said is right, you may not know, we have five heavy cruisers, an aircraft carrier, and a destroyer, all of which are the best, with a total tonnage of 120,000 tons." It must be better than the son of Lao Jia you said. Lily also has a battle cruiser on Lily's side, three 10,000-ton air defense cruisers, and it is expected that in three years, we will have at least fifteen ships, with a total tonnage of at least 210,000 tons. ”

Father Xu's eyes widened, and he looked incredulous: "Battle cruiser...... Two hundred and twenty-one tons? He repeated it, as if he still didn't believe it, and looked at his son to confirm.

Xu Zhonglin knew that he wanted to enhance his father's confidence at this time, so he took out a jade pendant and a flag: "Dad, look, do you recognize these two things?" ”

After taking it over and taking a closer look, Daddy Xu was about to have a heart attack: "This is the token of the Li family and the flag of the Zheng family!" Where did you get this?!"