At first light the next day, Elrond received orders from the Brazilian Navy Ministry to bring the entire crew at 9:00 a.m. and proceed to the dock for the ship award ceremony.
Elrond didn't dare to slow down, and after organizing himself, he marched in a neat line to the dock to form up. The dock was already decorated by Navy men, with ribbons and the name of the ship, "Gilas", spray-painted on the head of the bed.
Brazilian Navy naming rules Elrond do not understand, but can see that the name of the ship is named in the form of a person's name, and in the future he is the captain of this Gilas ship. The mood is also vaguely excited, after all, this is the first time in two lifetimes to become an official captain, although the ship's tonnage is less than a fraction of the size of the container freighter that worked in his previous life, but how it is also an official captain, is not it?
Elrond's group lined up neatly alongside the ship and waited for the initiation ceremony to begin, all of them surveying the position they were about to fight in front of them with their own eyes, and everyone's heart was in a different place.
Soon the time came to nine o'clock in the morning, a few naval officers led by Colonel Attilio Parisi came down to the ship at the pier, everyone did not expect that a simple ceremony of commissioning a transport ship Colonel Parisi came in person.
A Navy Lieutenant Commander took a step in front of the line of Elrond and the others and ordered loudly, "Elrond out of the line!"
Elrond also stepped out in accordance with the memorized etiquette of the U.S. Army instructor training and came to the Lieutenant Commander, only to hear the Lieutenant Commander say, "In accordance with Brazilian Naval Expeditionary Forces Command Order One Hundred and One, hereby Ensign Elrond of the Navy, with valor and courage, and with skillful ship-handling, successfully passes the examination, and is appointed to the position of Captain of the Brazilian Naval Expeditionary Forces Fleet Guiras. He is also promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. By order of the Commander of the Brazilian Naval Expeditionary Fleet."
Elrond couldn't help but stare, what the hell, he just went from Staff Sergeant to Ensign, and he didn't get any credit for it! How did he become a lieutenant. I'm only twenty years old! Wouldn't it be a good idea to become a lieutenant at such a young age. Is the Brazilian army rank so good? I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly stood at attention and saluted to receive the order.
Eyes looked to Colonel Attilio Parisi, who was not far away, only to see Mr. Colonel, with a smile on his lips and a brow jumping up, nodding his head gently, evidently telling Elrond that it was his own doing.Elrond's mind dawned on him, and he couldn't help but agree with the Brazilian officers on the nobility of their character in taking the money and doing the job.
Looking at Mr. Lieutenant Colonel in the replacement of his shoulder patch above from the original one flower, into two, the heart suddenly realized, presumably he said to the colonel to compensate for their own stepped on a flower, sent out of the local specialties, so that the colonel thought it was to buy a flower. The heart can not help but to Mr. Colonel's brain hole, deep admiration, ashamed of themselves up.
Soon Mr. Colonel began to lecture again, fortunately it was wartime and everything was kept simple, the ceremony didn't last more than half an hour in total before it was over. If it had been a normal day, I don't think Elrond would have finished without a cramp in his leg and stomach.
Once the ceremony was over, the freighter Gilas was officially owned by Elrond, and after arranging for the crew to come aboard in order, he gathered all of them back on deck to begin his first lecture aboard the ship.
After waiting for the soldiers to line up neatly and salute each other, Elrond slowly spoke, ''Brothers, from now on, we are going to live on this ship, and truly become brothers sitting in the same boat. Today, I will only say one thing, that is, from now on, in my ship, I will not allow the occurrence of lower ranked soldiers offering bribes and gifts to their superiors, once discovered, both sides will be sent to the court martial. There is absolutely no mercy to be shown. Of course, I also understand the difficulties of life for all of you, so from now on, I will give you a certain amount of allowance every month based on your performance, and the results of your work. This allowance is in addition to the military pay, and the amount of the allowance will vary according to your position and rank, with a minimum of twenty dollars per month and a maximum of one hundred dollars per month. Of course this is only when your performance meets my requirements that I will give you the allowance. Please don't spread the word about me giving you an allowance, after all, other troops don't have this kind of allowance. When the time comes, my superiors will directly turn over my income, and everyone will have no allowances to take. And there are only three things I ask of everyone, the first is obedience, the second is obedience, and the third is still fucking obedience, understand?"
When the warriors heard that there was such a good thing, they couldn't have been happier and chanted in unison, "Understood!"
This time the voice didn't even have to be repeated for Elrond's eardrums to hurt.
The fighters were talking after Elrond announced the dismissal.
"Brother, do you think the Captain is telling the truth!"
"Are you saying that no gifts are allowed? It's not easy to say, is there any place in our Brazilian army where we don't have to give gifts nowadays? If Mr. Captain himself doesn't accept gifts, it's inevitable that the other officers won't!"
"Anyway, the captain has said no more deliveries, so I won't; doesn't it smell good to spend your own army pay yourself? If the officers have a problem with it tell him to go to the captain."
"That's right, if I see an officer accepting a gift, I'm going to go to the captain and report them and see if the captain will actually court-martial them."
"I have a feeling that the Captain is serious, let's observe and see, if we can really keep from giving it away, then we'll be in good shape for the rest of our lives."
"Don't worry! I've heard that the captain's backstage is the Americans, and this ship is what Mr. Captain asked for directly from the Americans! General Morais approached the Americans many times without being able to relent, and in the end the Americans only agreed to allocate this transport ship to us because of Mr. Captain's face."
"Wow! Dude, you're so well-informed, are you serious?"
"Che, who are you looking down on! I'll tell you my information is absolutely reliable, but the source of the information can't be told to you."
"That would be great, with the Americans backing us up, the captain will definitely be able to do what he says, at least on our ship he'll have the final say. Then we'll have a good life in the future, and we'll get allowances for good behavior! Then wouldn't we be treated the same as American soldiers."
"Right! Other officers look for their subordinates to collect money, but Mr. Captain not only doesn't look for us to collect money, but also gives us allowances, such a good officer is unheard of."
"You guys shouldn't go around publicizing such a good thing! When the time comes, the brethren of the other ships will try to squeeze over to our ship, and it will be troublesome to squeeze us out of our own place."
"If you can't publicize it, don't publicize it, but with such a good officer, I'm stuck with him, and I'll go wherever he tells me to go, in absolute obedience."
"Didn't the chief say! All that is required of us is obedience, obedience, and more obedience. I'm afraid we'll have a hard time in the future."
"It's not good, you can not! Just apply for a transfer, if you dare to disobey Mr. Captain's orders, I'll take care of you first without Mr. Captain's action!"
"That's right, we're just going to firmly support Mr. Captain's leadership from now on, and if anyone dares to make a bad move, I'll take a black shot at him."
The crowd murmured, generally in a good way. But Elrond wouldn't mind the crowd's comments, even if they weren't convinced, they had to carry out what they were told, because this wasn't any other place, this was the army, and obeying orders was a vocation.
Even if someone dared to disobey his orders, Elrond had plenty of means to clean him up. In fact, that's why the Brazilian army doesn't have a political commissar, Brazilians haven't studied the history of Elrond's homeland, if any modern person knows that Elrond privately pays the soldiers' allowances, they can sue the higher authorities, and they can directly make Elrond eat a gun.
This behavior belongs to buy the heart of the army, when the bottom of the soldiers in the end is to listen to the country or listen to Elrond's, when Yuan Daitou in Tianjin, small station practice can be used in this trick, all know only Yuan Daitou do not know the Manchu court, and finally let Yuan Daitou sat on the head of the chair.
Brazil's history is so short, there's no history, and people don't really understand what's going on here. Elrond, who started it all, knows it all, but he won't say anything!
Elrond was leading the management of the ship, according to the ship's manual to familiarize with the ship's various places, because many places are in Italian, everyone does not understand what it means, Elrond can only is to apply to the superior for an interpreter, will be the ship's various functions of the location of the switches labeled with the Portuguese language, to avoid the ship's damage due to the wrong operation.
The next major task for everyone was to familiarize themselves with the various equipment, and functional areas of this ship, eating and living on board every day.