Chapter 813: Grand Fleet Meeting

In the Grand Fleet meeting room of the office area, since it's been several days after the New Year, the commanders who went to Donghuang to visit family also brought their fleet girls back here.

As the year begins, the Grand Fleet must convene a meeting to discuss this year's specific operational strategy.

"Commander, you finally remembered us; it's been ages since we had such a formal meeting—I thought you'd forgotten us all!" Wang Yueqin teased with a smile.

Qin Ge, seated in the chief position, gave a helpless smile and said, "You each have your own fleets, and as the Grand Fleet grows stronger, your fleet girls increase in number. I believe most of your time is spent accompanying your own fleet girls—who would waste their spare time on a man?"

"Cough, although what the Commander said is true, it's not appropriate to say it so bluntly..." Wu Hao beside them blinked his eyes and said.

"Hehe, what's wrong with that? Everyone here is a commander, and among our own we don't keep secrets. Now the Grand Fleet's tone has stabilized, there are fewer routine matters, so everyone can have more time to be with their own fleet girls—this kind of life should be the most comfortable, right?" Qin Ge laughed.

"So when I don't have anything important going on normally, I won't call everyone together, after all you all have your own lives."

"We don't have a life as rich and interesting as the Commander's, but speaking of which, your port area already has over five hundred fleet girls, and it looks like we need to expand outward—should we move to the outer harbor? Besides, we're not many in number, so we could leave the inner harbor entirely for your use." Li Chenming said with a smile.

Qin Ge rubbed his nose and said, "That wouldn't work; we never planned it like that before."

"Oh come on, Commander, just enjoy it secretly." Yun Zi laughed, "This is actually also a joint decision of ours, after all your fleet's strength keeps growing, now it's not inferior to any other faction, and besides, the port area still has many things we don't understand; if we stay here, it indeed affects your arrangements."

So regardless of whether we agree or refuse this time, we have decided to disperse our gathering place to the outer harbor area.

Li Chenming nodded and said, "Yun Zi is right—Guandao may not be big, but it's certainly not small either. We currently have four usable harbors on the island, and sending fleet girls out to patrol and rotate guard really takes up time, so I've decided to split our other personnel into three small teams, each responsible for defending one of Guandao's other three harbors."

With stable defense in place, we no longer need fleet girls to rotate shifts, saving a lot of time each day, and everyone gets a definite assignment; thus, no matter from which direction the enemy comes, we can detect and deploy defenses as quickly as possible to hold them off until reinforcements arrive.

Qin Ge nodded and said, "That's a good idea, but then wouldn't it be harder for us to work in the office later?"

"No." Li Chenming shook his head, "Don't you remember the visual communication technology previously researched in the port area?"

"I know; I've looked at that dossier before—has there been any breakthrough progress?" Qin Ge asked.

"Well, since this is a joint research effort by the Grand Fleet's fleet girls, detailed information usually goes through me to you, and this period's research has already seen new progress."

If we build a signal tower at the center of Guandao that can radiate outward in all directions, we can ensure smooth and stable visual communication within Guandao's range. Moreover, calculations show it can even cover the sea area within a fifty-kilometer radius outside Guandao, allowing us to timely learn about nearby sea conditions.

"From now on, meetings and notifications can be conducted entirely via visual communication, so even if we're far apart, we can still sit together virtually as we do now and hold joint meetings." Li Chenming replied.

"Hmm, that's not bad; it looks like our base will undergo a major overhaul." Qin Ge smiled, "In fact, I also plan to expand the port area—besides building more comfortable accommodations for the fleet girls, I'm preparing to establish a place similar to a Fleet Girl Academy."

"A Fleet Girl Academy?" At that moment, everyone was captivated by Qin Ge's words.

"Yes, the Fleet Girl Academy is a place dedicated to teaching fleet girls combat techniques, with a Grand Lecture Hall for tactics, a training field for skills and combat methods, and some areas concerning the proper use of fleet girl abilities—similar to a fleet girl version of the Commander Academy."

I will select some experienced fleet girls from my fleet to teach there, and you can also send your own fleet girls to study when they have free time.

After all, the sea is now relatively peaceful; many people, after finishing training, end up with nothing to do, so establishing a Party Building Academy would give them something to do and help them integrate better into the collective, fostering camaraderie in battle.

"This proposal is good; I fully support it." Chen Bo Jun said.

"Yeah, I also quite support it; my destroyers are really flighty, and every day just settling them takes a lot of my time. If we had such a Fleet Girl Academy to manage them and teach them some knowledge, that would be fantastic." Yun Zi laughed.

Others also expressed their support, and they were obviously very satisfied with Qin Ge's proposal.

"Originally I was still planning the academy's site, but now that you're preparing to disperse to three harbors, let's make use of the outer post—place the Fleet Girl Academy solely in the outer harbor, so the distance from each of the other three harbors to the outer harbor is roughly the same."

A distance of over ten kilometers is no trouble for you, who have cars. Moreover, the Fleet Girl Academy operates on a principle of freedom: it's fully open in peacetime, temporarily closed during wartime, and anyone can come to take lessons at any time, without a rigid curriculum.

"The most important thing is to give the fleet girls a place where they can study and have fun—that's our goal." Qin Ge said.

"No problem." Everyone nodded.

"Then the Fleet Girl Academy should be funded by our Grand Fleet; we can't keep having the Commander foot the bill, or else we'd look useless." Zhang Xiaoming laughed.

"Agreed, this is beneficial to all the fleet girls of our Grand Fleet; having the Grand Fleet fund it is completely justified, and after accumulating considerable income from the previous Siren Tide, building a Fleet Girl Academy is no problem." Li Chenming nodded.

"That's not right; although your fleet girls can come study here, the main personnel are still my fleet girls, so asking you to contribute funds smacks of profiteering." Qin Ge said helplessly.

"Hehe, Commander, you've got that wrong..."