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Chapter 1723 The Zheng Family
The Navy Lecture Hall, the school system here is five years, and the knowledge taught ranges from astronomy and geography to steam principles and naval operations. It has trained several batches of grassroots officers for the Ministry of the Navy.

As naval warfare has become more and more professional, the background of naval officers has also begun to change to a professional class, and the phenomenon of becoming an officer by virtue of being a pirate or sailor in the past has begun to decrease.It is an inevitable trend that many occupations are beginning to specialize.

Zheng Chenggong and his group of students held a formal graduation ceremony here, and were awarded the rank of second lieutenant of the Navy at the same time.

This time, the person who awarded them graduation certificates and military rank certificates was Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, and he was accompanied by the instructors who taught this group of students before the Navy Lecture Hall.

"You have shown outstanding combat skills and extraordinary courage in the naval battles in the Western Ocean, and you have successfully completed the special practice assessment of sailing around the world. From now on, you are the second lieutenant officers of the Navy Department. Although you are only officers at the grassroots level, you may I can't command a few people, but as long as you are loyal to your duties and keep making progress, maybe one day you will become a school officer or a general..."

Zheng Zhilong ordered the guards to award them the new military uniforms and epaulettes of the Ministry of the Navy, and at the same time delivered a speech as usual to encourage everyone.

The naval cadets who received the new uniforms below are full of enthusiasm, and they can't wait to go out to fight for the country immediately and make great achievements in battle.

On the periphery of the graduation ceremony, there are also their juniors watching. They are still studying in the naval lecture hall, watching their seniors become full-fledged naval officers with envy.

They will also follow in the footsteps of this group of predecessors and formally join the Admiralty.

After the ceremony of conferring military ranks, everyone dispersed and used the rare vacation time to go home and visit their relatives.

Zheng Chenggong brought Hannah to his father, and Hannah was a little afraid to look at this majestic big man.

After hesitating for a day, Hannah agreed to Zheng Chenggong's request, which also meant joining the current powerful Zheng family.

Regardless of the fact that the Knights of the Hospitaller owns the territory of Malta, Rhodes Island and other islands, her elder brother is the head of the group, but this head of the group was elected by the priests and knights below. There is no way to compare high school.

The Beiyang Fleet alone is capable of defeating the Knights Hospitaller.

Zheng Zhilong just nodded, and then took them to Tianjin Wei's house, while Zheng Chenggong's mother Tian Chuan was more enthusiastic than Zheng Zhilong's majesty, and arranged meals for them.

This is Hannah's first time participating in a Chinese-style family banquet, and this kind of family banquet has a special meaning-that is engagement.

The only fly in the ointment may be that Hannah is the only one on her side, while Zheng Chenggong's parents are all there.

Zheng Chenggong also has a younger brother with the same parents, but he lives in Dongying and is engaged in trade between the Central Plains and Dongying.In addition, there are several younger brothers who are half-brothers, who are temporarily unable to appear on the stage.

In order to show his loyalty to Chu Yun, Zheng Zhilong only allowed Zheng Chenggong to go the way of the navy alone.

The Zheng family was originally powerful in the southeast coast. In order to control the influence of the big family, Chu Yun invisibly gave Zheng Zhilong a lot of restrictions. Personally served as the commander of the fleet.

Zheng Zhilong became the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, which means that the ceiling of Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao is just the captain of a certain warship.

At the same time, among his several sons, only Zheng Chenggong was able to enter the Ministry of the Navy.

Zheng Zhilong still had high hopes for his son, after all, Zheng Chenggong's name was forcibly taken by Chu Yun, and Zheng Zhilong had no way to object.

"If you come to our Zheng family, you must follow our rules. You need to be filial to your parents and treat your eyebrows with respect. You are all officers of the Navy Department, and you don't need to have so many messy rules like those poor literati. The family harmony is fine. "

Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate, and he didn't bother to set many complicated rules, he just emphasized the stability of the family.

"You can apply for the Zhili Fleet. It is easier to arrange vacations in the same fleet. Otherwise, it will be troublesome to coordinate vacations between two different fleets, and you will have children as soon as possible..." Zheng Zhilong was also worried, wishing to have a vacation immediately. grandson.

It is very rare that both parties are officers, and Zheng Zhilong is not good at letting Hannah give up her appointment when she first became a full-fledged officer.

In fact, it is not something that Zheng Zhilong has the right to let an official officer retire. It must be agreed by the Military Personnel Department and the retired officer.

"I understand. I will apply to the Admiralty for transfer to the Zhili Fleet." Hannah also accepted this fact.

If Zheng Chenggong intends to develop here, then she can only stay here.

Zheng Zhilong finally nodded with satisfaction: "It was supposed to be a lively wedding ceremony and invite friends, but our military department has an order that all officers should keep a low profile at ordinary times. Maybe your wedding will be a little simple, and only It's normal for people from our family to participate and the few people I invited, please don't be surprised. The wedding will be held in the capital."

"No, no, you can do whatever you want." Hannah said quickly.

"Father, why are you in the capital? Tianjin Wei is not allowed?" Zheng Chenggong asked with some doubts.

"First of all, after the military lord comes back, the Admiralty will adjust its personnel and armaments, so I have to come. Secondly, I originally wanted you to go on a blind date with the daughters of those in the staff department after you came back, but you really failed. My hope." Zheng Zhilong snorted coldly.

If there is a marriage relationship with the staff department, then the influence of the Zheng family will be even greater in the future. Zheng Chenggong's choice has somewhat affected the relationship between Zheng Zhilong and the senior staff department.

There are also many departments in the military department, the largest are the Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of the Navy, as well as the Staff Department and the Logistics Department. Each department has some veterans.

Seeing that his father was still a little dissatisfied, Zheng Chenggong smiled embarrassingly.

Hannah looked at Zheng Chenggong, knowing that he was hiding something.

"Personnel adjustments... Is Dad going to be the Minister of the Navy?" Zheng Chenggong thought that Zheng Zhihu had told him that the current Secretary of the Navy is Nelson, who will retire soon, so there are only two people who are qualified to succeed him as the next Secretary of the Navy , one is Zheng Zhilong of the Beiyang Fleet, and the other is Deng Qianlong of the Nanyang Fleet.As for the commander of the Fourth Fleet, Sun Xu was still Deng Qianlong's former captain, and he was a little behind Deng Qianlong and Zheng Zhilong in seniority.

"I'm not very clear either." Zheng Zhilong shook his head.

(End of this chapter)