After Fang Lang left Lilith's house, Lilith's parents conducted a detailed interrogation of Lilith's relationship with Fang Lang. When Lilith said that tonight was the first time they met in a month since Fang Lang was discharged from the hospital, Lilith's mother directly stated that she had taken a fancy to this young man and demanded that Lilith must catch this son-in-law, which made Lilith so embarrassed that she wished she could find a hole to crawl into.
Although Lilith had a good impression of Fang Lang, and their relationship got a step closer yesterday, Lilith still felt that the two of them should get to know each other a little better before seeing if they were suitable for further development.
Finally, Lilith's father made a summary speech on behalf of the head of the family: "We should not get involved. Lilith and Fang Lang should decide their personal relationship. If they can get together, I also hope it is because of love. Don't let the fact that I work for him affect your judgment of your own feelings, do you understand? Lilith!"
"I understand, Dad! You still love me the most."
Just like this, a beautiful misunderstanding made Lilith's family know Fang Lang, and because of her family's misunderstanding, Fang Lang's position in Lilith's mind quietly changed.
The next morning, when Fang Lang arrived at the office building, Lilith's father, Umaru Coburn, was already waiting downstairs. Fang Lang walked up to him naturally, shook hands with him, and then opened the door to enter the office building.
This was Fang Lang's first time in this office building. It was a four-story building in the Baroque style. The materials used in the entire building were very exquisite. Although Fang Lang didn't know what kind of stone it was made of, he could tell it was definitely not cheap. The inside and outside of the house were all intricately carved sculptures, and the decorations were very gorgeous.
This made Fang Lang feel that his 40,000 US dollars was well spent. If it weren't for the war, Fang Lang believed that such a building covering nearly 1,000 square meters would not be able to be sold. This building would definitely be worth over 100 million in the 21st century.
But at this time, this kind of building can be seen everywhere in Italy, but few people are interested in it. Fortunately, the building has obviously been taken care of by someone, and it is very tidy. Even the desks and chairs are all complete, which are obviously left over from the past, which saves Fang Lang a lot of trouble.
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Because we made an appointment with the mayor of Naples yesterday, all the recommended people will come here for an interview at 9 o'clock this morning. So the task of Fang Lang and Mr. Coburn this morning is to interview all the personnel. Set up the framework of the Italian branch of Global Trade Co., Ltd. within today, and recruit enough captains and sailors for their fleet.
Soon, people started coming for interviews. Fang Lang only interviewed the company's financial staff, and Mr. Coburn interviewed the rest. Fang Lang also interviewed management personnel such as the captain and the first mate of the fleet. As for the other sailors, Fang Lang left it to the captain and the first mate to recruit on their own. So the recruitment work was barely completed in one morning.
When the basic structure of personnel was completed, Fang Lang first asked Mr. Coburn to arrange two special people to guard the naval warehouse and prepare to receive the goods smuggled by the crew. Fang Lang explained the main business of Global Trade Company to Mr. Coburn in detail. He also asked him to arrange special people to collect high-value commodities that are in short supply in the market, and regularly inform himself and the New York head office of the market prices of the commodities by telegram, so that the company can adjust the transported commodities.
Fang Lang knew the importance of information very early on, so he planned to arrange professional telegraph rooms in several of his companies and fleets to facilitate the timely communication and transmission of information. In the future, every delivery order sent by Italy would be notified to the New York headquarters by telegram, and every shipment sent by the New York headquarters would be notified to the Italian branch by telegram, forming a closed loop to prevent the company's people from embezzling money when Fang Lang was away.
After finally finishing the company's affairs that day, Fang Lang had to report back to the military camp because Colonel Attilio Parisi of the Brazilian Expeditionary Navy had sent a military order requiring him to report to the Brazilian Navy Headquarters before nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
The commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force is only a major general, so the highest commander of the navy is Colonel Attilio Parisi. If Fang Lang wants to have a good life in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, he must handle his relationship with the highest commander well.
Therefore, Fang Lang did not dare to compromise on the naval captain's order and reported to the colonel's office on time at nine o'clock the next morning.
"Report! Fang Lang, a second lieutenant of the expeditionary force, has been ordered to come here to report!" Fang Lang's military salute has always been very standard, which is mainly due to his military training experience in college in his previous life.
"Come in!" The voice coming from the office was very majestic. When Fang Lang pushed the door open and entered, he found two Brazilian officers sitting in the office. A middle-aged colonel with a thin body, fair skin and a hooked nose was sitting at the desk, looking at him majestically, and sitting on the sofa in the reception area next to him was a big-bellied lieutenant colonel with brown-red skin and obvious Brazilian features, looking at Fang Lang with a smile on his face.
Fang Lang entered the office and only glanced at the office environment. He walked to the colonel's desk without looking away, stood at attention and saluted, "Report! Colonel, Lieutenant Fang Lang is here to report in."
"At ease!" Colonel Attilio Parisi looked up and down at the second lieutenant in front of him. He was tall and straight, about 1.8 meters tall, with black hair and black eyes, and a distinctly Asian face.
"Second Lieutenant Fang Lang, I have read your resume. The Army has given a very high evaluation of your performance on the battlefield. I welcome a brave warrior like you to join our Navy."
"Thank you, sir! I am also very honored to join your army and serve the country!"
"I heard from Brigadier General Jackson that you have passed the US military's assessment and are capable of driving ocean-going ships. So I asked you to come here today in the hope that you can seize the time to get familiar with your colleagues in the navy. We will immediately take over the transport ship from the US military and start the transportation work as soon as possible." The colonel did not exchange pleasantries with Lieutenant Fang Lang, but went straight to the point and asked him to start work as soon as possible.
"Yes! Sir!"
"This is Lieutenant Colonel Graham from the logistics department of the expeditionary force headquarters. From now on, your ship will be mainly responsible for docking with the lieutenant colonel and transporting the remains of our fallen soldiers and the spoils back to Brazil. Is this clear?" Colonel Attilio Parisi said, pointing to the smiling lieutenant colonel on the sofa.
"Report to the commander, our ship will be responsible for transporting the remains of our fallen soldiers and spoils of war back to Brazil. The order is clear!" Fang Lang repeated the order loudly, then turned to Lieutenant Colonel Graham, stood at attention and saluted, "Hello, commander!"
Lieutenant Colonel Graham's work style was obviously much more casual. He raised his hand casually and said to the other party, "Hello, I don't know how long it will take you to build your team. The supplies and remains of the fallen soldiers we need to ship back to Brazil will arrive in Naples tomorrow. I hope we can set sail as soon as possible."
"Report to the commander, this time will take at least a week, because I need to meet my crew first to get familiar with them, and then go to the US military to receive our ship. After we are familiar with the ship, we can set off." Fang Lang didn't want to set off so soon! The Italian company still needed him to participate in the construction, and Lilith still needed him to capture the little girl.
Of course, what Fang Lang said was true. He didn't know the ability level of the crew members assigned to him. It would be troublesome if they were all rookies with no sailing experience!
Fortunately, the lieutenant colonel just frowned deeply and didn't say anything more.
Soon Fang Lang left Colonel Attilio Parisi's office and, led by his adjutant, came to a military camp. In front of a barracks, a team of more than 50 people was waiting for the arrival of the new commander in the cold wind.
After the adjutant read out the headquarters' appointment of Fang Lang in front of the team, he handed the team over to Fang Lang. Looking at the team of about fifty people in front of him, Fang Lang was excited. Finally, his buddy was also a leader.
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