Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 364 Lin Lan's Teacher (3000 words)
"As of this morning, there have been more than a thousand conflicts in cities across the Eastern Continent that have harmed omnic citizens."

"The Tianxing Consortium and the Noah Dexin Consortium have invested in order forces to carry out armed suppression of the violent elements. The Goelia Consortium, Tian'ou Group and Tomahawk Military Industry have not issued any statements yet."

"The spokesperson of the Tianxing Consortium said that this is a process that must be experienced in the development of the new era. I hope that the citizens of Oran will act rationally and not continue to create violence against omnic citizens..."

"Kara!!!"

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of collisions, a middle-aged naval officer wearing glasses slammed the teacup in his hand onto the TV screen in the office, smashing the TV that was broadcasting the news to pieces.

The general of the Eastern Continent's Admiralty, Ji Chenlin, who is currently the highest authority in the Eastern Continent's Admiralty, clenched his fists, but still could not suppress the anger in his heart.

"Does the Candle Sea Merchant Association really want to destroy Oran?"

"Can't they see what the most important problem should be solved at the moment! Is Zhao Tianyi crazy!"

The white-haired middle-aged man in a white navy uniform scolded in a low voice with an angry face. After taking a deep breath for a long time, he got up from the sofa and walked slowly to the window in the office.

Outside the window in the morning, it was snowing heavily.

The room where he was located was at the top of a magnificent fortress building. Through the window, he could overlook the pier of the entire fortress area, as well as the naval commander and ship wife who were training by the sea.

This is the Red Leaf Fortress of the Eastern Continent Navy Department.

The quaint gray-toned walls and dense large-caliber coastal defense guns that have been repaired by generations of the Oran Navy constitute the main theme of this thousand-year-old fortress.

From the period of sailing ships to the period of ironclad ships, to the period of modern warships, until the period of building ships through mental Rubik's Cube.

Even though the times are constantly changing and countless wars and coups have been experienced, the Red Leaf Fortress still stands, and the Oran Navy Department still stands here.

As long as the Admiralty is still there, Oran is still there. This is the most basic education countless Oran people have received since childhood.

It is also because of this that even the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce, except for the Tomahawk military industry, is unwilling to openly tear itself apart with the Ministry of the Navy.

The regime can be changed, but the Admiralty will always be the foundation to protect Oran.

With his hands behind his back, Ji Chenlin looked solemnly at everything in the fortress outside the window.

As he who has only been in this position for only a month, he deeply understands that Oran is on the verge of destruction.

No one knows the horror of the Sirens better than he, who has personally participated in the fight against the Siren disaster.

At that time, he was just an ordinary soldier, and he saw with his own eyes on the battleship how the group of cold killing machines destroyed the main fleet that Oran was proud of.

The huge aircraft carrier battle group and battleship fleet were smashed to pieces in front of those dexterous humanoid killing machines without any power to fight back.

The huge fleet shining with a ghostly luster and the black carrier-based aircraft that looked like locusts entering the country woke him up countless nights.

He understood that this group of monsters who came from nowhere wanted to completely destroy Oran, and they had no way to resist.

But for some reason, the Sirens did not completely destroy Oran, but only blocked all the sea routes from Oran to the outside world, and harassed them regularly.

In addition, at the moment when they were about to destroy the country, they discovered a brand new energy vein on the seabed, through which they could extract a product called the Rubik's Cube of Mind, and build a girl who could fight against the sirens—the ship girl.

Under such circumstances, the Admiralty finally relied on the ship mother to rebuild many destroyed cities and resume the route with the Western Continent.

Although many people in the Admiralty thought that they had finally passed the most dangerous period, Ji Chenlin couldn't forget the fear that the siren brought to him at that time.

How could they rely on these girls to resist the cold killing intent that seemed to destroy everything?

Rather than finally finding a way to fight the Sirens, they are more like domestic animals raised by the Sirens.

Once the right moment comes, they will all be killed by the Sirens in an instant!
But no matter how you say it, the Sirens have rarely launched a large-scale attack since their Admiralty built the ship, which gave them the opportunity to gradually spread the Rubik's Cube and the ship to all port areas.

It was only when they looked back that Zhao Tianyi, the director of the Tianxing Consortium, actually overthrew the government of Oran during this period of time, and joined forces with the other four consortiums to form a brand-new regime—the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce.

If this is the case, it is actually not a big problem for the Ministry of the Navy.

After all, the Ministry of the Navy has never interfered in the politics of Oran since its inception, but has done its duty to protect Oran.

But the crux of the problem is that Zhao Tianyi publicly declared that he intends to give up the sea power, and only needs to do a good job of land defense and develop the inland economy.

And this guy has repeatedly used various channels to suppress their Admiralty, as if they are regarded as thorns in the side and thorns in the flesh.

Ji Chenlin didn't understand what was going on in the head of the director of the consortium. Is this a policy that Oran people can come up with?

Giving up sea power, how can mechas and coastal defense guns alone be the opponent of the Siren?

Giving up sea power is tantamount to giving up Oran's most powerful military power, giving up the most powerful weapon against rivals such as the Natlan Empire and the San Lothoron Pedagogy in the future!
So in this situation, the Oran Navy Ministry issued an order against the Oran authorities for the first time in thousands of years, and began to confront the Candle Sea Commercial Association in secret.

Originally, as a senior naval officer who had experienced many wars, he was transferred to Hongye Naval Academy to train a new generation of naval commanders.

But what he didn't expect was that the Tianxing Consortium would directly choose to attack the students in the academy.

What he didn't expect was that in the past few months alone, several senior officials of the Eastern Continent's Navy Department had suffered accidents of unknown reasons.

As a result, he was urgently transferred back to the fortress from Hongye Naval Academy by the old general, and was directly recommended by many old comrades to become the highest authority in charge of the overall situation of the Navy Department.

Ji Chenlin knew very well why the old general and his comrades chose him for this position.

Zhuhai Commercial will continue like this, and there will be a battle with their Navy Department. There has even been news from the Western Continent that the Tomahawk military industry will take the lead in preparing for them.

His old comrades no longer wanted to be ridden by short-sighted villains like the Zhuhai Chamber of Commerce.

The reason why the old general was anxious to retire was because he didn't want to bear the title of "the first person who led the Navy Department to break out the civil war with the Oran authorities".

The outbreak of the civil war with the Candlesea Chamber of Commerce will surely make their Oran Admiralty swing the butcher knife in their hands against their compatriots.

Because of this, he, Ji Chenlin, was selected.

He was able to sit in this position, because all the senior officials of the Ministry of the Navy hoped that he would be the one to launch a war against the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce.

When he received the letter in the academy, he originally thought about rejecting it directly.

Because he just wants to be a naval instructor who trains the younger generation with peace of mind, and he doesn't want to be the "No.1 in the history of Oran".

He understands that no matter who wins the civil war between the Admiralty and the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce, he cannot escape being criticized by countless people.

The Ministry of the Admiralty will forever protect the 1000-year heritage of the citizens of Oran, and it will surely be destroyed by him.

One can think of the students he witnessed being persecuted and assassinated in the college, and think of his old superiors being gradually driven to a dead end by the Zhuhai Chamber of Commerce...

After finishing arranging the last class of students he brought, Ji Chenlin finally returned to the Red Leaf Fortress and agreed to the appointment.

Since sooner or later a battle with the Zhuhai Chamber of Commerce will break out, even if he is scolded as a dictator and executioner later, he will admit it.

Of course, the news that he became the head of the Eastern Continent's Navy Department has not yet been made public, and all transfers of power are carried out in a low-key manner inside the Red Leaf Fortress.

Only when the civil war broke out would his identity be officially announced by the Eastern Continent Navy Department.

Originally according to his plan, the civil war between the Admiralty and the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce should break out in a year or two.

After all, this will be a war that will spread the flames of war to the whole of Oran. He needs enough time to plan and wait for the most favorable opportunity.

But he never imagined that the Zhuhai Chamber of Commerce would be so crazy, throwing away the lives of countless Oran people for profit!

What third-generation robots, what new-age developments?
This is clearly the fuse that pushes Oran into the abyss!

Putting so many robots on the job, is he going to let so many laid-off people starve to death? !

"war……"

Thinking of this, Ji Chenlin slowly raised his hand to open the window.

The cold winter wind brought a few snowflakes into his office, as cold as his mood at this time.

He turned around and looked at the TV set that he smashed with a glass teacup with a complicated expression.

Obviously he was only in his early forties, but at this moment, he felt as if he was ten years older.

Although he didn't want to admit it, the sudden operation of the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce brought him the best time to start a war.

Protecting the citizens of Oran is the principle that their Admiralty has always implemented.

Nowadays, a large number of Oran citizens have been kicked out of their jobs by the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce, and they may not be able to survive this winter, and they hate the policies of the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce.

At this time, as long as he ordered a war to protect those unemployed, countless Oran people would definitely join him to resist the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce.

His gaze shifted to the desk in his office, where there was a black landline telephone, which was an emergency single-line communication to all the senior officers of the Eastern Continent Navy Department.

As long as he dialed this number, he would be able to summon all the senior officials of the Eastern Continent Navy Department to the meeting room of the fort within half an hour and declare the war.

Ji Chenlin stared at the phone, and walked slowly.

(End of this chapter)