After Ed's voice fell, there was some silence in the conference room.

It's not that Ed's proposal is too outrageous, if you really want to talk about military merits, only Liang Xingchen is stronger than Lin Fan in the entire federation now.

But the key is that he's too young, he's just turned 20 years old, and he's a lieutenant general?

Liang Xingchen was promoted fast enough, and he only became a lieutenant general at the age of 35.

For a while, all the staff didn't dare to vote casually, everyone looked at each other, I looked at you, you looked at me, and they couldn't make up their minds!

"It seems that everyone has concerns, if you have any concerns, you might as well say it and discuss it together?"

Ed looked around the staff and knew very well what they were thinking, it was nothing more than a matter of seniority.

"Vice President Ed, the key is that Lin Fan is too young, he is just 20 years old, and Vice Admiral is still leading a fleet alone, will it be too fast?"

"Yes, Liang Xingchen, the youngest lieutenant general in the history of the Federation, was also promoted at the age of 35!"

"That's right, young people should still polish their minds for a few more years!"

A group of staff, you and I keep talking one sentence at a time, in short, the problem is two words, age!

Is age an issue? If it is a peacetime era, it is indeed a problem, because in peacetime, soldiers have no way to obtain military merits, and they can only rely on seniority, which is understandable.

But is it a time of peace? It's a war year for the survival of the Union, okay, what to look at during the war years? Look at the ability, look at the military industry, age counts as a ball!

"Your concern is nothing more than age, I want to ask you, in the current situation of the survival of the Federation, do you want a 20-year-old commander who has the ability to defeat the Oaks Empire? Or do you want a 50-year-old commander who doesn't have the ability to defeat the Oaks Empire? ”

"This..."

Everyone in the conference room was silent.

yes, what time is it? Is it time to talk about age, seniority?

"And, where do you think the artificial gravity system came from? Where did the curvature engine technology come from? Where did the Energy Shield technology come from? Where did nuclear fusion technology come from? ”

"Lin Fan is not only a record of achievements, but also other contributions, even if it is not an exaggeration to give a general, but now you want to use his age as an excuse, and you are not even willing to give a lieutenant general? Do you really want the battleship of the Oaks Empire to stop in the earth's orbit, and you know that you regret it? ”

Ed said with hatred on his face, Lin Zhen didn't say a word the whole time, after all, it was his own son, it would be bad if he came out and said it himself, now Ed is here, that's the best!

"Vice President Ed, you're right, I agree to this proposal!"

"Indeed, nothing is more important now than defeating the Oaks Empire, as long as it can win, even if it is to retire a ten-year-old child, I will agree!"

"Me too!"

"Huh... Swish.. Hmm..."

Soon, all the staff members in the conference room raised their right hands and voted unanimously.

"Okay, since it was unanimously passed, then promote Lin Fan's military rank to lieutenant general, and at the same time appoint him as the acting commander of the First Fleet, until he becomes a general and becomes a regular!"

Seeing that all the staff had no objections, Lin Zhen stood up and announced.

As for why he is the acting commander, this is actually very simple, in the federal system, the vice admiral is only the commander of a fleet, and the commander of the fleet is the admiral.

And Lin Fan is now a major general, and he can't be directly promoted to admiral, so in order to make Lin Fan become the commander of the First Fleet with the rank of vice admiral, there is only one compromise method, that is, the acting commander.

Three days later.

Lin Fan was notified by Jiang Hai early in the morning to report to Liang Xingchen's office!

"Knock.. Boom.. Boom..."

"Come in!"

"Report to the commander, Lin Fan was ordered to report to duty!"

"Well, I called you here today to announce an order!"

Liang Xingchen said with a smile as he stood up! and slowly walked in front of Lin Fan.

"Human Federation, Task Force 101 of the Fourth Fleet, Commander Rear Admiral Lin Fan. After taking over the 101st Task Force, he made many military exploits and played a decisive role in the Second Asteroid War. ”

After Liang Xingchen finished reading, he picked up the lieutenant general's shoulder title from the table, and immediately replaced it for Lin Fan.

"Congratulations!"

"Thank you, Commander!"

"No thanks, there is still an order here, Lin Fan obeys the order!"

"Yes, Commander!"

"In view of Vice Admiral Lin Fan's outstanding command skills and great combat exploits, Lin Fan is hereby appointed as the acting commander of the First Fleet of the Federation! I hope to make persistent efforts to restore my human mountains and rivers as soon as possible! ”

At this moment, Lin Fan was a little shocked, in his expectation, it should be to get the position of commander of a detachment and command 1,000 warships.

As a result, what did Liang Xingchen say just now? Himself appointed commander of the First Fleet of the Federation?

Although it is a proxy, but that is also the commander of the First Fleet, a whole 20,000 warships, okay!

Regarding the First Fleet, Lin Fan knows that a few years ago, the Fourth Fleet was finally restored to the establishment of 20,000 warships after five years, and then the newly built warships were prepared for the reorganization of the First Fleet, and now there are 5,000 warships.

And now that the Federation has used industrial robots in large quantities, the production efficiency has increased many times, and tens of thousands of warships can be built every year.

In other words, in addition to replenishing the losses of the Fourth Fleet this time, it only takes one and a half years to replenish the establishment of the First Fleet.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the mission: to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, and to be rewarded with the development of potion manufacturing technology in the brain domain."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the mission: become the commander of a detachment of more than 1,000 ships, and be rewarded with a detailed explanation of level 1-6 civilization."

"Ding, due to the host's over-completion of the task: get the hidden reward level 7 civilization details."

"Ding, the ultimate assessment task (Phase 1) of the novice period is now released: drive the Oakes Empire out of the solar system, and the task time limit is three years! (There is no reward for this task, the host needs to complete all the final assessment of the three-stage novice period before he can get the reward, and the reward is the system upgrade to the official version!) ）”

There was a system sound in his ears, two more missions were completed, and one of them was overcompleted, plus the previous 3000 downfall missions in the 016 area of the asteroid belt, the three missions issued by the system have all been completed.

It's just that what makes Lin Fan a little puzzled is the new task that the system has just issued.

It's not that there is a problem with the content of the new task, but the ultimate assessment task in the novice period that the system says!

Could it be that this system has been in place for ten years or is it a novice? And it's still a beta version? Do you have to complete all three phases of missions before you can upgrade to the full version?

In short, now Lin Fan is complaining infinitely in his mind.

After ten years of playing, I realized that you turned out to be a fake!