After Elrond left Lilith's house, Lilith's parents launched a meticulous interrogation of Lilith's experience with Elrond, and when Lilith stated that tonight was the first time the two had seen each other for a month after Elrond was discharged from the hospital, Lilith's mother directly stated that this young man was the one he had his eye on, and demanded that Lilith had to hold this son-in-law in her hands, which made Lilith so embarrassed that she could not wait to find a crack in the ground.
Although Lilith has a crush on Elrond, and the two were a step closer than they were yesterday, Lilith still feels that the two should get to know each other a little better before they can see if it's a good fit to go any further.
Finally Lilith's father sort of made a concluding statement on behalf of the head of the family, "Let's stay out of it, it's better to let Lilith and Elrond make up their own minds about their personal feelings, and if they get together, I hope it's because of love. Don't ever let the fact that I'm working for him cloud your judgment of your own feelings, you know? Lilith!"
"I understand dad! You still love me the most."
It's a beautiful misunderstanding that allows Lilith's family to get to know Elrond, and because of the family's misunderstanding Elrond's status in Lilith's mind quietly changes.
Early the next morning, when Elrond arrived under the company's office building, Lilith's father, Umaru Coburn, had already waited downstairs.Elrond very naturally went up to him, shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries with him, then opened the door and entered the office building.
This office building Elrond also came in for the first time, this is a baroque architectural style four-story house, the materials used throughout the building are very elaborate, although Elrond does not know what material the stone is made of, but it can be seen that it is definitely not cheap. The inside and outside of the house were all finely carved sculptures, and the decoration was very gorgeous.
This made Elrond feel that his $40,000 was well worth it. If it wasn't for the fact that it was a time of war, Elrond believed that there was no way that such a building covering nearly a thousand square meters would be able to be sold. This building would be worth over a hundred million dollars in the twenty-first century.
But now at this time of the year, such buildings were everywhere in Italy, but rarely visited. The good thing was that someone had obviously taken care of the building, it was tidied up very neatly, even the desks and chairs were all complete, obviously left over from the original, which saved Elrond a lot of work.
Because of an appointment with Mr. Mayor of Naples yesterday, all the recommended people will be asked to come over here for interviews at nine o'clock this morning. It was the task of Mr. Elrond and Mr. Coburn to interview all the men this morning. Within the day the shelves of the Italian branch of the Universal Trading Company Ltd. will be erected and enough captains and sailors will be recruited for their fleet.
Soon one after another began to have personnel to come over for interviews, Elrond only interviewed the company's financial personnel, the other personnel were interviewed by Mr. Coburn. The captain of the fleet, the first mate and other management personnel were also interviewed by Elrond, as for the other sailors, Elrond handed over to the captain of the first mate to recruit their own. So the recruitment work was completed in a morning's time.
When the basic structure of the personnel was completed, Elrond first asked Mr. Coburn to arrange for two special men to guard the warehouse at the naval depot and prepare to receive the cargoes that the crews entrained.Elrond explained in detail for Mr. Coburn the main business of the Universal Trading Company now, and asked him to arrange for special men to go to the market to collect the market price that can create high value, so as to facilitate the company to adjust the market price by telegraph regularly. Mr. Coburn was asked to arrange for special men to go to the market to collect commodities that were in short supply and could create a high value, and to regularly inform himself and the New York head office of the market price of the commodities by telegraph, so that the company could make adjustments to the commodities being transported.
Elrond knew the importance of information early on, so he was prepared to arrange professional telegraph rooms in several of his companies and fleets to facilitate timely communication and transmission of information, and in the future, every bill of lading dispatched from the Italian side would need to be telegraphed to notify the New York headquarters, and every shipment dispatched from the New York headquarters would need to be telegraphed to notify the Italian branch, forming a closed loop. Avoiding Elrond's absence, the company's people to enrich themselves.
Finally on this day after taking care of the company's business, Elrond had to report back to the barracks because of a military order from Colonel Attilio Parisi of the Brazilian Expeditionary Naval Forces, requesting him to report to the, Brazilian Naval Command, by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
The commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force also only holds the rank of Rear Admiral, so the Navy's top commander is Colonel Attilio Parisi, and Elrond will have to manage his relationship with his top officer if he wants to have a good life in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force.
So Elrond, not daring to discount the orders of the Commodore, arrived at nine o'clock sharp the next morning to report to Mr. Colonel's office.
"Report! Ensign Elrond of the Expeditionary Navy, reporting as ordered!" Elrond's military salute had always been very standardized, mostly thanks to his military training experience in his previous life at the university.
"Come in!" The voice coming from the office was very majestic. When Elrond pushed the door and entered, he found two Brazilian officers sitting in the office, a middle-aged colonel with a slim body, fair skin and hawkish nose was sitting in front of the desk and was looking at him with a majestic face, while next to him on the sofa in the parlor area was a pot-bellied lieutenant colonel officer with brownish-red skin and obvious Brazilian features, who was looking at Elrond with a smile on his face.
Entering the office Elrond simply scanned the office environment before making his way to the Colonel's desk without looking away, standing at attention and saluting, "Report! Mr. Colonel, Ensign Elrond has been ordered to report."
"At ease!" Colonel Attilio Parisi looked up and down at the second lieutenant officer in front of him, upright and five-foot-eight, with dark hair and eyes and a distinctly Asian face.
"Ensign Elrond, I've read your resume, and the Army has given you very high marks for your performance on the battlefield. I would welcome a valiant warrior such as yourself into the ranks of our Navy."
"Thank you sir! I am also very honored to be able to serve my country under the command of the Chief!"
"I heard from Commodore Jackson that you have already passed the examination of the American army and have the ability to pilot ocean-going vessels, so the reason why I asked you to come here today is that I hope, you can take the time to familiarize yourself with your colleagues in the navy, and we need to receive the transport ship from the hands of the American army right away, and start the transportation work as soon as possible." Mr. Colonel did not make polite conversation with Elrond, an ensign, but cut straight to the chase and demanded that the work begin as soon as possible.
"Yes! Sir!"
"This is Lt. Colonel Graham of the Expeditionary Command's Logistics Department, and from now on your ship will be primarily responsible for docking with the Lieutenant Colonel and transporting the remains of my fallen soldiers, and the spoils of war back to Brazil. Is that clear and understood!" Colonel Attilio Parisi said as he pointed at the smiling Lieutenant Colonel officer on the couch.
"Report Sir, my ship will be responsible for transporting the remains of my fallen soldiers and their trophies back to Brazil, orders are clear and understood!" Elrond repeated the order loudly before turning to Lt. Commander Graham and saluting at attention, "Good day sir!"
Lt. Colonel Graham's work style was obviously much more diffident, and after casually raising his hand, he addressed Elrond directly, "Hello, I was wondering how long it would take you to set up your team, the supplies we need to get back to Brazil along with the remains of our fallen soldiers will be arriving in Naples tomorrow, and I'd like to be able to get a jump on the sailing."
"Reporting sir, this will take more than a week at the earliest, as I need to meet and familiarize myself with my crew first, then go to the U.S. Army to receive our ship and familiarize ourselves with it before we can depart." Elrond didn't want to leave that soon! The Italian company still needed him to be involved in building it, and Little Miss Lilith still needed him to raid it.
Of course, what Elrond said was true, and now he didn't know what level of competence the crew assigned to his command had. He didn't want to end up with a bunch of rookies with no sailing experience!
Well, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel just frowned deeply and didn't say anything more about it.
Soon Elrond left Colonel Attilio Parisi's office and was led by his adjutant to a barracks. In front of one of the barracks there was already a group of about fifty men waiting in the cold for the new officer to arrive.
After the adjutant read the command's appointment for Elrond in front of the team, he turned the team over to Elrond.Looking at the team in front of him, which numbered around fifty, Elrond was in an excited mood, finally, buddy is also the one who leads the troops.