The next day, as soon as Xu Zhonglin woke up in the morning, a shipwreck came to inform him that he was going to have a meeting.

When Xu Zhonglin walked into the conference room, the conference room was already full of people, and Colonel Costa took Xu Zhonglin's hand enthusiastically as if nothing happened yesterday: "Come, Lieutenant Colonel Xu Zhonglin, let me introduce you." ”

The establishment of Haomait Suke is still very complete, with a total of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, two majors, and more than 20 lieutenants. Among them, many of the lieutenants are Xu Zhonglin's classmates or seniors of the last two terms.

There are also a lot of ship mothers, there are actually more than a hundred, but Xu Zhonglin was stunned when he saw it again, except for the ship girls brought by each admiral himself, most of the rest are destroyers, and there are only ten cruisers.

After the meeting began, Costa said solemnly: "Today, we welcome an excellent Admiral, His Excellency Xu Zhonglin. Although I am a colonel, I should share the military affairs with Lieutenant Colonel Xu Zhonglin. So now I plan to divide all our military ships into two, and so are the officers, and divide them into two fleets, of which the first fleet is under my command, and the second fleet is under the command of Lieutenant Commander Xu Zhonglin. Please feel free to choose. ”

The officer sitting at the bottom, where did he not understand what Colonel Costa meant? This kind of officialdom has always been listened to in reverse, so they suddenly exchanged ears.

Costa saw that he had finished expressing his meaning, and relieved himself: "Ahem...... Okay, that's all for today, you all go back and discuss, start signing up tomorrow, and when you finish choosing, I will redivide the two fleets according to the situation. That's all for today. ”

Out of the conference room, Xu Zhonglin could feel that most of the people were looking at him with scrutiny, and almost everyone politely greeted him and left in a hurry. It's as if someone goes to the toilet and doesn't wash their hands.

Only one of the girls who fell behind stopped him: "Hey! Lieutenant Colonel, remember me? ”

Xu Zhonglin turned his head to see that the girl had long black hair, which looked a little plump, and the corners of her mouth turned up when she smiled, he held the other party's hand and gave a kiss: "Miss Lisa Gradini, it's a pleasure to see you here, I have to say a faux pas, you look much more heroic in a military uniform than a late dress, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you at the first time." ”

Lisa Gradini, a young lady whom Xu Zhonglin had met at the banquet hosted for him by Catherine de' Medici, was just a greeting at that time, and he was not very impressed, but his memory was good.

"You are really a gentleman, call me Lisa, now you are my superior, I want to hold a reception banquet for you in the evening, I hope you will enjoy it."

Lisa was only a captain now, and it was not strange to greet him, but it was strange to invite him to dinner, and unless the relationship was very close, ladies would not normally give such banquets to men, and there must be a reason for that. So Xu Zhonglin happily agreed: "Thank you for your hospitality, I will definitely attend on time." ”

After Xu Zhonglin went back, there was news from Sissi's side, but this time it was good news: "Admiral, Lily sent the five shipwives back to Livorno, Caprera confirmed it, and the military department also replied, from next year, you can choose half of the total tonnage of the five shipwives from the Naval Academy as your personal shipwive, that is, more than 20,000 tons." ”

"Wow, that's the best news in the last few days." Someone is also very happy, he knows this kind of thing, and there were many admirals in the previous naval joint exchange meeting in Corsica who went to choose the ship's mother. As for the total tonnage by half, it is also worth it.

Most of the admirals will hand over the ship girls they summoned to the academy for training, so that the quality of the ship girls is higher, but this costs a lot, not only to be responsible for the expenses of the ship girls during the study period, but also to pay a tuition.

Another situation is that Xu Zhonglin is like this, and the captured or summoned shipwives are also handed over to the Naval Academy for training, but they do not bear the cost, so that they can select and hand in half of the tonnage as a reward every year.

Of course, this half refers to the type of ship he handed in, for example, Xu Zhonglin handed in all the cruisers this time, so when he chooses in the future, he can only choose cruisers, destroyers, but not battleships, and the ships he chooses cannot exceed the maximum tonnage of the single body he handed in.

There are a lot of restrictions, but it's fair, after all, the military quality of the ship determines the strength of the fleet, which will save the admirals many years.

In the evening, Xu Zhonglin took Sissi and the others to Lisa Gherardini's residence. The captain's treatment was far worse than that of the school officer, and Lisa's residence was only a small house with a single courtyard, with two floors, about 400 square meters, but the decoration was not bad.

To Xu Zhonglin's surprise, the Camicia Neila and Avière he had seen before were both Miss Lisa's shipwives, and not only that, but this miss also had three cruiser wives, namely Helena, Ohama and Brooklyn. These three Xu Zhonglin know each other, and they are all quite good artillery light patrols.

"You must wonder why an Italian admiral would have three American wives, right?"

"Well, I'm sorry, I'm curious." When someone saw that his heart was broken, he simply admitted it generously.

"My family was originally a very famous family of Fei Lengcui, but my father died in battle, and the whole army was wiped out, and the family declined. My father, who was the child of his best friend, was an American. My fiancé was more than a decade older than me, but he died in battle when I was still a minor, and there was no one in his family, and Helena and the others came to me according to my fiancé's wishes, which also made me a commander, not afraid of your jokes, at that time our family was already very poor, and I had to do some needlework to support the family. ”

It is indeed not easy for a young lady from a down-and-out aristocratic family to get her fiancé's inheritance and then become self-reliant.

"You're such a strong man."

Lisa shook her head, "You're in a similar situation to me, much better than me." I invite you to come this time to remind you that there are traps in the morning that Colonel Costa said this morning, and you should be aware of them. ”

"Oh?"

"Recently we are withdrawing our troops from the west, the Tunisian side is very unpeaceful, Austria-Hungary often sends fleets to harass, small-scale friction has happened many times in recent days, and our side has transferred many people to the Red Sea, so it is relatively weak. I'm guessing Colonel Costa must have wanted you to take on the toughest task to split the fleet. ”

Xu Zhonglin told Lisa about Costa's attempt.

Lisa was furious: "How can this be! Sir, don't agree, if this kind of thing leaks out, you will definitely go to court-martial. ”

"Thank you for the reminder."

"Why don't you tell him about your relationship with the Medici? Although Colonel Costa came from an aristocratic family, he could not compare to the Medici family at all. ”

Xu Zhonglin smiled: "Some people always have to pay the price for doing evil things, don't they?" Besides, it's a challenge, and I want to try it. ”