Taranto in winter is very warm, the sea breeze is very warm on the face, the sky is dripping with light rain, as fine as a cow's hair, falling on the ground and even the ground will be steamed dry, some of the heavenly street light rain is moist like a crispy feeling. The owner of Xu Zhonglin's body is from Jiangnan, and it seems to be very pleasant to encounter this kind of weather.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere in the port was very busy, although some Christmas ribbons and lanterns were arranged on the streets, but everywhere there were groups of admirals surrounded by ship wives coming and going, some of whom had obviously just come down from the front line, some in wheelchairs, some in bandages, and the air was filled with a hint of gunpowder smoke from the Middle East front, which ruined the atmosphere.

The first plenary meeting of the Guardian's Mansion was a bit anticlimactic, and there were many topics that were not discussed, such as the construction of the distant and large islands of Nicobar, the positioning of the two admirals, Lily and the Gopher, and how to quickly expand their strength. At present, Xu Zhonglin is in trouble on the Italian side, and Lily has been playing soy sauce all the way before the French Navy, and the situation has improved recently through the relationship of Miss Carla Jacotai, but it is still far from enough. At present, the combined strength of the two of them is not enough to support a single town guard, and they need to find a way to continue to expand the size of the fleet. But no one was in the mood to talk about it, so he simply walked to the beach alone for a walk.

The situation of the town guard mansion The little fat man Zheng Maitreya has already sent a topographic sketch, Xu Zhonglin has roughly delineated the scope of development according to the sketch, and it has been sent to his father, so it is not a big problem. But the expansion of the fleet is indeed a hard flaw.

Why did it take at least ten years for the admirals from other academies to get their own town guard mansions, and even the first five years after becoming admirals didn't even think about this problem? Take Lily Barosh, Cato and Zheng Maitreya as examples, the three second generations of admirals can have their own town guards in minutes as long as they want, but now they still have about ten ship girls playing soy sauce. Through this meeting, Xu Zhonglin probably knew.

The ship's mother is no different from human beings at the spiritual level, and it takes a time to be familiar with each other, trust each other, and even depend on each other for life and death. Scaling too quickly can lead to a lot of problems. Take a class of 60 students in the school, just assigned to a class, everyone is actually very unfamiliar, the chat is probably from Causeway Bay, we brothers have who, we are all civilized people who do serious business, you are from Tsim Sha Tsui, the countryside chicken, relying on the meat and skin trading to make a living,...... After three or four years of getting along day and night, you will have a rough idea of the street where each classmate's home address is located, but after a year or so of graduation, you will gradually forget, and after five or six years, you will forget the name for a small time.

Xu Zhonglin's ship girls have an advantage, most of them know each other. Take the cruiser and battleship ship girl who currently have the right to speak, Sissi and Teresa can have a little friendship with the goddess of wisdom and the soul girl through Caprela-sensei. And they have a good relationship with the two new German shipwives, who are originally the largest on the mountain, and they can also convince the public. But they are just cruiser mothers, and they are not as strong as battleships. Now with the addition of Elena and Margaret, the mermaid, the muses and the Roman moon god Phoebe, these are all Italian ship girls, and they are inherently close. The power has overtaken the German-Austrian alliance. Rena, Elizabeth and Anne's British-Spanish faction has a slightly weaker voice, but if they unite with Lily's subordinates, the British shipwreck is the strongest. Barcelisa belongs to Greece, Greece is currently holding French thighs, and she can be classified as Franco-Russian, alone and without any sense of existence.

Don't underestimate these origin issues, take the past Christmas as an example, although the goddess of wisdom and the soul goddess shared the gifts of the Christmas tree with Xu Zhonglin, they will still arrange a separate one in their small living room, and the statues of the Virgin, the Holy Child, the cow, the horse, and the sheep need to be placed under the tree. Rena, on the other hand, usually eats a plate of grapes in one swoop at midnight on Christmas Eve, which will bring good luck for the coming year. Anne needs to eat fruit tarts and make Christmas crackers made of streamers and candy to celebrate. They would go to church together for a dispersal, and Barcelissa would not be able to kill her.

These inconspicuous details of life reflect the differences in culture, customs and concepts, and often if they are not handled well, they are big problems. It takes time to heal these things.

Xu Zhonglin was thinking about it, a windbreaker was draped over him, it was Louise, who looked like a fairy, and the ship lady with a very demure face stood behind him with an umbrella: "Although the rain is not heavy, you will still get sick if you get drenched too much." ”

"Thank you, uh......"

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt the deep concern coming from Louise's heart, a little strange and very kind, just like when he had just signed a contract with Sissi: "I'm sorry, you guys are in a hurry to make a contract, and you're not used to it. ”

"Ha, we're a little unaccustomed to it, it feels like a sudden transition from a captive to a duchess, it's a legendary experience."

"Oh? How did Sissi and Teresa persuade you to agree? Xu Zhonglin has always been curious about this matter.

Louise shrugged playfully, "What else?" Austria-Hungary is not my home country with Freya after all, and we are not very popular here. At the beginning, Germany had a cooperation agreement with Austria-Hungary, and in order to improve its strength in the Mediterranean, it gave our ships to Austria-Hungary, and we could only accept it, but we were not willing. Sissi told me that it was impossible to let us go back, and that you were very nice and had a great future, so I came here...... Well, how to say? Hugging your thighs, right? ”

"Haha, that's right. But I'm not a thigh. ”

"I'm sure you will be sooner or later. In case you don't know, Freya and I almost died. When Prince Eugen asked us to launch a lightning charge, we were actually unhappy, but the military order was difficult to disobey. I had to bite the bullet, and my former admiral, seeing that there was nothing to do, abandoned me and Freya, and retreated with his own secretary ship, as was the case with Diana. This feeling of abandonment is terrible. So we actually want to find our own admiral, who won't abandon us. Teresa's experience touched us, so we agreed, it was a bit abrupt, and it's normal for you to be a little unaccustomed to it, in fact, we're adapting to it. Your experience is shocking, that pocket watch is a creation of God, maybe Sissi is right, you really could be a savior. This is also the reason why everyone is a little impetuous, Elena asked me to tell you that she was a little too eager just now, please understand. Everyone fully understands what the consequences of the fight will be, so rest assured, it will not be in the future. ”

This is really Elena's style, a dead duck has a hard mouth, and even if she apologizes, she has to ask someone to help intercede.

After the contract, Louise, Elena and other seven new ship girls naturally shared his secrets with Sissi, and every ship girl who saw the hell pocket watch for the first time was shocked, Elena stared at the drawings of the Montana-class battleship many times, almost drooled, and said to herself into a fantasy, to the effect that the old lady is finally going to turn over, Cavour, Caesar, Veneto...... You little are just waiting to be beaten by the old lady.

Now every ship girl is full of confidence in the future.