Qingyuan No.·Conference Room
At this moment, all the high-ranking officials of the Qingyuan No. were gathered here.
Among them was Rona from the Mech Combat Department.
Qi Bing from the Starship Fighter Pilot Department.
Rona directly put her legs up on the table, a cigarette dangling from her mouth.
“Rona, put your feet down quickly. If Captain Sun He sees it later, it's impolite!" Qi Bing said with a frown beside her.
“Inappropriate? What's inappropriate about that.” Rona exhaled a puff of smoke, smiling lightly, “I saw the video from the hangar.
I admit that this captain is indeed capable, I can accept him as our captain.
But I, Rona, like strong people, so if he wants me to be convinced, he still has a long way to go.”
Qi Bing was about to say a few more words of persuasion.
The door to the conference room was pushed open.
A man in a black military uniform appeared in front of everyone.
Just like what happened on the bridge, these female officers were also stunned.
Too handsome!
That look, that style, that aura!
Rona silently put her feet down and even threw the cigarette in her mouth into the trash can.
She even poked Qi Bing next to her and whispered, “Qi Bing, Qi Bing. I remember you have gum, give me one, quickly give me one.”
Qi Bing rolled her eyes, pulling out a piece of gum from her pocket for Rona while teasing her, “What? Now you know how to care about your image?”
Rona chewed on the gum, then sniffed her mouth repeatedly to see if there was any smoke left.
Her eyes looked shyly at the man who was taking his seat in the main seat.
“I... I feel... I'm in love.”
Qi Bing unceremoniously gave her the middle finger, this woman is simply a gold digger.
But it must be said that when this male captain put on this uniform, his aura was completely different.
After Sun He sat down, he looked around the conference room.
“Ahem... Stand up!” Deputy Captain Tang Yuan glared at these people.
At this time, these female soldiers who were still sitting realized that they had been sitting the whole time, which was extremely disrespectful.
Mainly because they were stunned by the male captain’s looks, they didn't react.
Everyone hurriedly stood up now.
“Captain.”
Sun He raised his hand, motioning for everyone to sit down.
“Don't be nervous, actually I'm not going to say much today, after all, I don't know much about Qingyuan No. yet.
But I have noticed some problems with Qingyuan No., and I'm here today to specifically talk about them.”
Sun He tapped his fingers on the table, “When I arrived at Qingyuan No., I received the news that due to financial problems, the entire fleet had only this one light carrier left.”
Tang Yuan next to her showed a hint of embarrassment.
“I took some time to look through Qingyuan Fleet’s financial statements, and I found that since the Qingyuan Fleet was established eighty years ago, except for the first thirty years when it was profitable, the subsequent fifty years have been losing money year after year.
Especially in the last five years, the income and expenditure have become so unbalanced that the expenditure is ten times the income!
And why is this happening?
The main reason is that the starship personnel are overloaded. For example, a light carrier like Qingyuan No. only needs 300 people to operate, at most it will have no more than 500 people.
But now there are actually 3,000 people. Isn't this an overspending?!”
Hearing Sun He mention the issue of overstaffing.
All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the entire conference room became awkward, those who had been so fond of this captain before, now had complex expressions.
“So does Captain mean... Layoffs?” A female officer couldn't help but ask.
Deputy Captain Tang Yuan had already clenched her fist, she was actually aware of the problems of the Qingyuan Fleet, she didn't expect Sun He to directly bring this up as soon as he took office.
“That... There's a reason for the 3,000 people..." Secretary Officer Qiao Rongrong interjected as she noticed the awkward atmosphere.
“I know the reason, of course. The casualty rate of other fleets is between 60% and 80%, while the Qingyuan Fleet is only 30%, this is because every captain has valued the lives of the crew very much.
And other fleets, if a starship is destroyed, the survivors of that starship will be abandoned and lose their jobs.
The Qingyuan Fleet, on the other hand, places these people on other starships, which over time has led to this last starship carrying a total of 3,000 people!” Sun He said solemnly.
“So what does Captain mean?” Deputy Captain Tang Yuan couldn't help but speak up, her beautiful eyes fixed on Sun He.
She had already made up her mind, if Captain Sun He proposed layoffs, even if she had to kneel down and beg, she would make Captain Sun He withdraw this order.
“My meaning is, we need to expand the fleet. Once we have new starships, we can assign these female soldiers to other starships.
Only in this way can our fleet continue to grow and develop a virtuous cycle.” Sun He's words stunned everyone.
They didn't expect Sun He to say this.
Not layoffs, but fleet expansion.
“But expanding the fleet requires a lot of capital, like the cheapest light interstellar frigates and light interstellar destroyers, each needs at least 100,000 to 300,000 units of crystal ore as funding.
This is just the lowest price for landing, like other cruisers or battleships, each one costs millions.” Secretary Officer Qiao Rongrong said worriedly.
Getting a starship is not an easy thing, otherwise why didn't the Qingyuan Fleet start messing around earlier?
It's just that this thing is too expensive, they're already struggling to support people, how could they have the money to buy starships?
“Buying it is indeed expensive. But if we build it ourselves, the cost is only one-third.” Sun He smiled.
“Build it ourselves? Let alone factories and machinery, blueprints are a problem. Even the most basic T1 level starship blueprints are the top secret of every force.” Deputy Captain Tang Yuan said helplessly.
“I have the blueprints.” Sun He said confidently. He has the system, although he doesn't have any starship manufacturing blueprints now, it doesn't mean he won't have them in the future.
All the female officers looked at Captain Sun He in astonishment.
He said he has blueprints for building starships!
He's not joking, is he?
The price of starship blueprints can even be ten times the value of a starship itself!
The release of every new starship manufacturing blueprint requires hundreds of thousands of top engineers and scientists to spend hundreds of years designing it.
This new college graduate has the ability?
“You may not believe what I'm saying right now, but you saw the video in the hangar. Since I have the ability to build planes, I have the ability to build starships.
Just wait and see, but there's one problem that needs to be solved, and that's the factory for building starships.” Sun He rubbed his chin.
Beep beep beep
At this time, Secretary Officer Qiao Rongrong's communicator rang.
“Sorry…” Qiao Rongrong quickly apologized, she glanced at the content sent on the communicator, her expression suddenly turned bad.
“Rongrong, what happened?” Tang Yuan noticed this detail.
Qiao Rongrong looked at Tang Yuan and Sun He who was looking over.
“The bridge sent a message, just now Grizzly Lord transferred the payment, but... but... only less than one-third of the payment, that is 30,000 crystal ore, plus three industrial ships seized from Serra Star…”
Hearing Qiao Rongrong's words, the female soldiers in the conference room exploded in an instant.
“What! These bastards are reneging on their promise!
“They said 300,000 crystal ore, we fought in the front, completed the interception mission, these bastards just gave us this little!”
Deputy Captain Tang Yuan slammed her fist on the table: “Silence!”
The conference room fell silent.
Qiao Rongrong mumbled beside her in anger and helplessness: “They... They're shameless... But after all, they're Grizzly Lord, we... We…”
“Trying to cheat me here?” Captain Sun He's eyes were cold.