67 years in the federal calendar.

Stellar System Horton, in the corps commander's office, Lin Fan frowned slightly.

Since three months ago, the Human Federation and the Io Federation reached an agreement on the OEM of warships, and the Io Federation has been riveting to start production.

According to the feedback of the Io Federation, it doesn't even take three years, and these warships can be done in two years.

A task that took twenty years to complete, and now it can be done in two years, Lin Fan should be happy, but in fact, he is extremely troubled now.

Today, the First Fleet has five fleets, from the First Fleet (Guard Fleet) to the Fifth Fleet, the commanders are Lin Fan (concurrently), Chris Rod, Emma Campbell, Li Cangqiong, and Sophia Duncan.

However, in the next two years, the remaining seven fleets within the legion will also be gradually established, which is a gratifying thing.

But what happened to the commanders of these seven fleets?

If it were at the speed of the original ship construction and the establishment of the new fleet, Lin Fan would not need to worry, and there would be time to slowly tap potential commanders.

But now, this time has been compressed to 2 years, which makes Lin Fan have a headache.

If you are only ranked according to seniority, in the Starfleet headquarters, there are a lot of generals at the level of commodore and above, not to mention 7 fleets, even 70 fleets can arrange all the commanders for you.

But the problem is that Lin Fan can't do this, the bloody example of Quinn is still in front of him, and for the generals in the Starfleet headquarters, except for a few exceptions, Lin Fan really doesn't have a good impression at all.

One by one, they can speak well, but when they really command the fleet on the battlefield, many people are not even as effective as some command department students in the Interstellar Military Academy.

To put it bluntly, 80% of the generals in the Starfleet headquarters are cancers left over from the early days of the Federation.

These tumors can play with the warships replaced by the two major legions, and they can just mess with the stellar guard fleet, and they must not be allowed to harm the main fleet on the front line.

After thinking about it for a long time, the only way I can think of is to use the acting commander system to continue to push people with insufficient military ranks to the top, even if it is a lieutenant colonel or even a major.

In this way, a few school-level officers who are optimistic about him who are studying in the Xingchen Military Academy may be able to alleviate this problem.

However, although Lin Fan didn't mind the issue of military rank, he still had to find a way to gag everyone's mouth, otherwise there would be some chaos.

After all, it is really unprecedented for you to put a few people who are only majors and lieutenant colonels in the post of fleet commander, even if you borrow the temporary system of the previous two-level demotion appointment, it will definitely not be their turn.

For this reason, Lin Fan is ready to directly come to the selection of fleet commanders, as long as you are a colonel-level officer, you can participate, and finally select the strongest seven people to serve as the new acting commander of the seven fleets, but everyone understands this, it is only a nominal agent.

At the same time, in order to silence the mouths of those generals in the Starfleet headquarters, Lin Fan even allowed them to participate in the selection, as long as one of them can win in the end, they can also become the fleet commander.

On the one hand, it can shut them up, and on the other hand, what if there are really 1 or 2 buried talents in Starfleet headquarters? After all, Sophia first served at the headquarters, didn't she?

Since the decision was made, he immediately went to work, quickly wrote down the problems faced by the legion and his own solutions, and submitted them to Field Marshal Sanders.

To Lin Fan's surprise, only ten minutes later, he received a direct communication from Sanders.

Due to the popularity of genetically enhanced drugs, reading such a document of dozens of pages is only a few minutes for Sanders now.

With the communication connected, Sanders's figure was directly projected in front of Lin Fan.

"Lin Fan, you kid is going to do something again!"

As soon as Sanders came up, he looked at Lin Fan and scolded with a smile.

For Lin Fan, Sanders can be said to like it quite a lot, and even once had the idea of introducing Sophia to Lin Fan.

In his logic, there are two of these kids anyway, and it doesn't matter if there is one more, the most important thing is that he doesn't think that anyone else in the federation except Lin Fan can suppress his granddaughter with a problematic personality.

It wasn't until some time ago, after Sophia contacted him and asked for a transfer to the First Legion, that Sanders used several eyeliners in Sophia's fleet to learn what had happened.

Even not long after, he got the news again that Li Cangqiong had spent the night in Sophia's room.

As a result, the old marshal dismissed the matter of letting Sophia and Lin Fan make do, and began to pay attention to Li Cangqiong instead.

In fact, the whole thing is Sanders's blind worry, just like Sophia herself said, she likes strong men, but she doesn't like men who are strong enough to abuse themselves, after all, she is a pure S attribute, what is the matter of finding a man who can abuse herself casually?

Therefore, Li Cangqiong, who is strong in itself, but a little weaker than himself, and carries a full M attribute, immediately made Sophia fall in love, and now if she doesn't bully him one day, she will feel uncomfortable.

"Marshal Sanders, can't I do it, where are the military rank regulations, even if it is a system of temporary downgrading and appointment, it is completely insufficient! Where am I going to find 7 suitable fleet commanders in two years' time! ”

"Although there are a lot of people with enough rank, the question is what the situation of those people is, and I believe that the marshal should know it too!"

"And we are now in a critical period of the Federation, there is absolutely no room for moths at this time, and I don't deny that there may be hidden talents in the Starfleet headquarters, so I prepared this plan!"

"On the one hand, I want to let people who are really capable take the position without being restricted by rank, on the other hand, I also give those generals a chance, if you have real skills, then I also welcome you to join, but if you don't have real skills, then I'm sorry, the First Fleet is definitely not allowed to fill the numbers!"

"Hey, you kid, do you know that this will offend a lot of people?"

Sanders sighed, thinking that Lin Fan's proposal for a temporary system of second-level appointments had already caused an uproar, and in the end, he and President Lin acted together to suppress the opposition.

It hasn't been long yet, and now Lin Fan is going to go further, ready to directly push the lieutenant colonel or even the major to the top across the fifth or sixth levels, you can imagine how noisy those seniority factions will be.

"Marshal, it's time to clear the cancer, otherwise sooner or later, the entire Federation will be destroyed in their hands!"

"Yes, the strongest fortresses are often breached from within!"

Listening to Lin Fan's words, Sanders was stunned for a moment, and then sighed.

At this moment, he made up his mind that everything was for the future of the Federation!