Since Lt. Col. Graham indicated that there was plenty of time to allow everyone to take their turns, Elrond certainly wouldn't have an issue with that, and turned his head to hear Col. Tichy say, "São Paulo is less than five hundred kilometers from Rio, but it would be too much of a waste of time to drive, so here's the deal! I'll have the adjutant book you a flight for this afternoon, and when the time comes, I'll also say hello to Captain Abubakari Blackwell of the garrison in São Paulo and have them arrange for a jeep to pick you up at the airport to make it easier for you to travel around the house."
Colonel Tichy, obviously a local snake with connections to all the surrounding garrisons, finished and without waiting for Elrond to answer, spoke directly to the adjutant outside the office and gave his orders.
When Colonel Tichy finished giving his orders, Elrond was busy getting up and thanking him, "Mr. Colonel, thank you so much! This will make it much easier for me at home, and don't worry, Sirs, I'll be there early and back early, and there will be absolutely no delays in my travels."
In his mind, he has no roots in the country this Tichy colonel is considered the head of the ground in Rio, it seems that in the future their own development in Brazil or very much in need of Colonel Tichy's help, later to send some American specialties over to make friends with a little.
"Well then, you remember to return to the team on time, wait and take down Mr. Colonel's phone number, if you encounter any difficulties or need help in São Paulo, call at the first time, we are all our own people, there shouldn't be anything we can't handle in Brazil yet." Colonel Graham once again opened his mouth to make a promise.
"That's right, later I will leave my phone number to you, there are things first time to contact me, I heard that you have a lot of Japanese descendants over there, although now they are still relatively obedient, but I heard that they have set up a what is the nature of the underworld organization in their midst, and privately there are also some small actions, the police are not necessarily able to suppress them, if you meet something that can't be solved, call me, and I'll contact the garrison directly and help you flatten them." Colonel Tichy also spoke up at the right time.
Elrond did not expect that this first meeting of Colonel Tichy would be so nice to talk to, which made him a little less adaptable, it seems that Lieutenant Colonel Graham had something to say to him, or else he is a small lieutenant, worthy of a colonel to be folded like this. Do not think that a colonel is just a middle-ranking officer, Brazil is not as populous as the motherland, the number of military personnel is also large, at this time the Brazilian eight million five hundred and eleven million square kilometers of land area of only forty-five million people, is a real sparsely populated land.
Such a population base under the number of Brazilian troops is even more conceivable, at this time the Brazilian navy, army and air force together is not enough to 100,000 people, which should also be excluded from some of the national guard responsible for the domestic local security, and the armed police force. The actual regular army was less than 80,000 people, and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force was 25,000 people selected from this 80,000 people. This is why the commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, General Moraes, had the rank of Major General. Of course by the twenty-first century Brazil's population had increased to 2.1 billion and the number of troops had increased to about 280,000 men.
Within this so-called own people of theirs, Graham's status should be higher than Tiki's, because Elrond hadn't yet been integrated into this so-called own team of theirs, so he didn't know the specifics very well, and could only just listen to whatever the officer said.
Elrond would also definitely not join any Brazilian party because, according to Elrond's later memories, Brazil had a very volatile domestic political situation during the Cold War, influenced by Soviet-American hostilities. Even later, the army even imposed a twenty-one year long military dictatorship on Brazil.
In fact, when Elrond first awakened in this era was thinking of taking his family and fleeing this chaotic country. But Elrond remembered that there were only a few tens of thousands of Chinese in Brazil in the later era, while there were more than a million and a half of people of Japanese descent. And in the original body's memory, the Chinese were oppressed by the Japanese in Brazil, as well as his father's old-fashioned and antiquated character, and would never be willing to leave the family farm.
He felt that this might be the mission given to him by the times, and he had to take the chestnuts out of the fire to expand the number of Chinese in Brazil and their survival environment in the chaotic environment. Brazil is a country of immigrants, there is not much racial discrimination, and there is no Chinese Exclusion Act, but it is the fifth largest country in terms of area, and the world's seventh largest economy in the twenty-first century, since he has come to this time, he has the obligation to expand the influence of the Chinese in Brazil.
Of course these are all Elrond's thoughts in his heart, surely he will not say it to anyone, for the olive branch extended by Colonel Tichy Elrond has no reason to refuse. Hurriedly got up and saluted the two with a grateful face, "Thank you sir for your selfless help, my subordinates will definitely repay the two officers properly."
The two were also very happy to see Elrond's statement and said no more.Elrond excused himself and left, returning to his transport ship, the Gilas.
At this point on the Gilas, the ship's cargo had been prioritized for transport. elrond ordered first mate de la Torre to assemble the crew.
Soon the crew lined up neatly on the extra shifts, Elrond took out the roster and took a roll call and then spoke, "Brethren, thank you for your outstanding performance on this voyage, which allowed us to complete this mission smoothly. Here is a good news for all of you, we have just received an order from the Admiralty that we will be transporting the replacements back to the European front in ten days, so next we will be arranging for you to be on leave in two shifts, with each of you getting four days' leave."
Hearing Elrond's good news, the soldiers below cheered, and only after everyone's emotions slowly settled down did Elrond continue to speak, ''So next, I'm going to fulfill my promise, and what I'm holding in my hand is a tally sheet of everyone's performance on the ship over this period of time, which you should all know because I've collected each of your comments on the the performance of the others. There are three parts to each of your evaluation scores, first, the most important one is definitely my score, second, the score of your officers on your performance, and lastly, the score of your comrades around you on your performance. The higher the score the higher the stipend, so next I'm going to start handing out our first stipends, so please come forward one by one to receive your stipend if your name is read."
Next Elrond began announcing each person's job criteria and scores, one by one, according to the list. Like First Mate De La Torre the base post allowance was one hundred dollars, because of his outstanding work performance and the generally high scores he received from everyone, he scored a whopping one hundred and twenty points, so his allowance was one hundred and twenty dollars.
Soon each member of the crew received their own stipend, everyone was smiling and comparing the amount of stipend in their hands, of course, there would be some poorer crew members who got very little stipend, and they were a little bit angry. Elrond saw this and said without moving his head: "I know that some of you get more stipend, and some of you get less, so here is what I would like to explain. . First of all, we all see that the officer's basic post allowance is higher, then I hope that all of you will study more when you are working, and perform seriously at work, and strive to improve your position, General Napoleon once said that a soldier who doesn't want to be a general, is not a good soldier. I hope, then, that all of you, in the future, will be able to become generals, and of course, if someone among you becomes a general, don't forget to pay me an allowance!"
The soldiers laughed and the atmosphere was cordial.
"Secondly, there are very few brothers among you who are not performing well in their work, so there are many brothers who have given low scores to those who are not performing well, so I hope that the brothers who have received low scores will not think about who gave the low scores to you, but will look for the reasons in themselves, whether they are not doing well in something, whether it is for attitudinal reasons or for technical reasons, and find the reasons When you find out the reason, you should turn it around and don't wait until you are eliminated by everyone. Other brothers, this part of the backward brothers, do not give up, do not scold, to timely lend a hand to help him improve. Only when each of us is strong will our collective be strong and become invincible."
The brethren at the bottom broke out into applause that lasted forever.
Elrond pressed his hand and said, "I have one last thing to ask of you, the men on leave, to help me find crews on your side, crews that need to dare to run ocean transports, you all saw the transports that came back to Brazil with us, and it was the owner of this company, who entrusted me with this matter when we left Italy. He promised me a ten-dollar referral fee for helping to find a qualified crew, and the basic wage for the crew was fifty dollars a month, with additional allowances for missions in dangerous areas in wartime. As you know, fifty dollars a month is a high salary in Brazil, so I'm hoping that if you have a friend, you'll help introduce him. And this ten dollar referral fee, I kinda don't see the point in that, so whoever refers me this ten dollars goes to him. That's what I'm going to say today, and I'm going to hand it over to the first mate next."
Looking down at the glowing expressions of the fighters below, Elrond, with a wave of his hand, relinquished his position to First Mate de la Torre to arrange for the ship's upkeep and maintenance, sanitation and cleaning, and vacation scheduling.
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