After paying a visit to his old friend, Gao Wencai rushed to the naval base in Jupiter's orbit as fast as he could, where the First Fleet Command had completed the formation of the fleet and was waiting for him to take up the post as the commander of the task force.

It was about twelve Earth hours before Gawain arrived at the fleet, and all ten squadrons of warships had risen to the skies.

From a distance, the two hundred warships are majestic and imposing, but in fact, a quarter of the warships are some relatively old models, and many of them do not even have high-power laser weapons. There are at least two squadrons that do not have squadron-class capital ships, all of them are corvettes, so in terms of combat effectiveness, this huge fleet is really just large.

But Gao Wencai didn't care about this, at least in his opinion, these ships were much better than the warships he led when he quelled the rebellion.

Soon, Gao Wencai's private spaceship sailed into the orbital base according to the guidance of the patrol boat.

Senior General Gu Qiming and the senior officers of the fleet headquarters have been waiting here for a long time.

As soon as the door of the hangar to the main platform in the base hall opened, Gao Wencai walked out with a smile.

"Elder Gao, you're finally here." Gu Qiming hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"I met an old friend, I delayed a little time, don't you mind." Gao Wencai said with a smile. For Gu Qiming, who was ten years younger than him, Gao Wencai sometimes felt that he was lacking something, and the entire Imperial Navy seemed to be lacking something.

Gu Qiming naturally understood, and hurriedly helped Gao Wencai to the rest area, they arranged a banquet to see him off, and he wanted to practice it for Gao Wencai. Even the Imperial Executive Yuan and the Imperial Command have their own representatives, which is enough to see how deep Gao Wencai's influence is in the empire, and even the two highest ruling bodies of the empire have expressed their respect for Gao Wencai.

In the high-level banquet hall in the rest area, there are already many traditional wines and dishes on earth, and in front of the six round tables, there are already two senior officers of the First Fleet, and there are already two people sitting at the main table, one old and one young, the younger one is wearing a dark red oblique military dress, and on the shoulder rank, there is a golden sword with a finger length, which is the rank of the third-level marshal of the Imperial Command. The old man sitting next to him, with a white beard and a radiant complexion, was dressed in a black men's executive gown, sitting precariously.

As soon as Gao Wencai entered the door, he saw these two people, and immediately laughed at himself, he didn't expect that he could alarm the top of the empire.

"Elder Gao, this is the Administrator of the Imperial Executive Yuan, Jia Xiyi, Administrator Jia." Gu Qiming hurriedly introduced Gao Wencai.

Gao Wencai smiled gently at the other party, who was neither humble nor arrogant, and stretched out his hand to shake it with the other party.

"There's really Chief Lauja."

"Where is Elder Gao, the Supreme Archon personally told me that I must send Elder Gao well, and if Elder Gao has any requirements, I must comply with all of them."

"Hahaha, you're welcome, please take a seat!"

Seeing Jia Xiyi sitting down, Gu Qiming hurriedly introduced the young man next to him.

"Elder Gao, this is Marshal Jin Jian of the Imperial Command, Chief Xiuyi."

Gao Wencai looked at the young man, who was only about thirty years old, with curly hair and hooked nose, an angular face, and a sense of eagle and wolf in his eyes. After thinking about it, what people say is also from the headquarters, although he is old, but young people love face, so Gao Wencai took the initiative to stretch out his hand again and wanted to shake hands with the other party.

Xiu Yi glanced at Gao Wencai with slanted eyes, there was some disdain in his eyes, he staggered to his feet, and stretched out his hand a little reluctantly, symbolically shaking it in the air, and he didn't even touch Gao Wencai's hand.

The atmosphere was suddenly extremely embarrassing, and the officers around looked at each other, no one expected that this young man sent by the headquarters would be so rude. In fact, everyone's awe of Xiu Yi comes from the Command, not his military rank, Marshal Jin Jian, is an independent civilian military rank in the Command, and the gold content is not high, and it can be said that he can grasp a lot in the Command.

Gu Qiming didn't expect this to be the case, and he was a little at a loss for a while.

At this time, Gao Wencai slowly withdrew his rough hand, picked up the wine glass on the table, and took a sip of himself without care.

Jia Xiyi of the Executive Yuan sat in his seat and glanced at Xiu Yi beside him strangely, he didn't understand how the Command Department sent such a person, was it intentional or unintentional at this time? Could it be that there are people in the command who are dissatisfied with Gao Lao? All kinds of doubts and speculations came to his mind, and Jia Xiyi secretly decided that he must report the matter to the Supreme Archon when he returned.

"Elder Gao, come, I'll accompany you for a drink, don't say more, I just hope you can have a safe journey!" Jia Xiyi hurriedly lifted the wine glass and drank it all to relieve the embarrassing atmosphere.

"Humph! A 70-year-old man who doesn't teach honestly and pretends to be a big-tailed wolf. I also brought 200 warships in one go, and I was really afraid that my brain would not be enough. Xiu Yi sat there, eating the dishes on the table as if no one was around, and said with a strange yin and yang in his mouth.

Gu Qiming's face turned red instantly, and he almost wanted to attack. Gao Wencai gently pressed his clenched hand.

Jia Xiyi, who sat down just after drinking, was not used to Xiuyi, so he slapped directly on the table, and said with a gloomy face to Xiuyi: "Marshal Xiuyi, today is a practice banquet, and you are here on behalf of the command." I hope you can correct your attitude. ”

Seeing that Jia Xiyi was angry, Xiuyi's words stopped, and the people in the Executive Yuan still had to give face, so he put down the chopsticks in his hand, picked up the wine glass, and said to Gao Wencai: "Then I wish you to be as heroic as you were back then, and repel the Tuckers!" ”

Faced with such humiliation, Gao Wencai was stunned for a long time, as if remembering the past.

Everyone present knew Gao Wencai's deeds back then, so when Xiu Yi spoke, he was completely hurting Gao Wencai. The officers sitting below glared angrily at Xiuyi, if it weren't for this kid being from the command, he probably wouldn't have been able to get out alive today.

Gu Qiming saw that Gao Wencai was in a daze, and secretly said in his heart, don't really stimulate Gao Lao, if something goes wrong, it's okay. I wanted to reprimand Xiu Yi angrily, but he still had to eat under the command, and the logistics of the navy were in the hands of others. For a moment, the atmosphere dropped to freezing.

It should have been a lively practice, but now it is an embarrassing situation.

Gu Qiming now wanted to know very much about who in the headquarters had a secret grudge against Elder Gao.

"Hehehe...... The old man will fight for the safety of mankind! Gao Wen came back to his senses and said with a face like a flat lake.

Xiu Yi slammed the glass on the table, then left the table and walked towards the door of the banquet hall, shouting as he went, "The headquarters has prepared a flagship for you, take a look!" ”

As Xiuyi's words fell, everyone turned their heads to look out the window of the banquet hall, only to see a silver-white battleship slowly sailing towards the fleet from a distance.

Gu Qiming and the officers of the First Fleet were dumbfounded, this battleship, they recognized, its name was called the Royal Knight!

Gao Wencai looked at the familiar old guy and couldn't help but shed tears.

But after being surprised, Gu Qiming reacted, the Royal Knight was an old antique many years ago, with only a single nuclear-powered engine, eight main guns and live ammunition guns, and even a carrier-based aircraft and a quantum combat computer, how can this be a flagship? It's not even as good as the current squadron-class capital ship, isn't this clearly teasing people?

At this time, Gao Wen walked to Gu Qiming's side and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Elder Gao, I ......" Gu Qiming was so ashamed that he wanted to speak and stopped, so he could only sigh helplessly.

"It's okay, I saw it, it has a new engine, it's a little older, and it's worth the trip to be able to accompany me to the stars again." Gao Wencai patted Gu Qiming's solid back and comforted him not to blame himself.

Gu Qiming had nothing to say, so he could only nod silently.

"Alright, I'm leaving!"

"This ......"

Gao Wencai walked quickly outside, Gu Qiming looked at the untouched meal, and the anger in his heart towards Xiu Yi was even stronger.