Chapter 17 You Want to Downsize 【2/5】 (Ch 17)

Qingyuan No. Meeting Room

At this moment, senior executives from all departments of the Qingyuan are gathered here.

Among them is Rona from the mecha combat department.

Qi Bing from the interstellar fighter pilot department.

Rona simply put her legs on the table with a cigarette in her mouth.

“Rona, put your feet down quickly. It would be impolite if Captain Sun He saw it!” Qi Bing said with a frown.

“Inappropriate? What’s inappropriate about this?” Rona blew out a smoke ring and chuckled, “I saw the video in the hangar.

I admit that this captain is indeed capable, and I can accept him as our captain.

But I, Rona, like strong people, so if he wants to convince me, it’s too early.”

Qi Bing wanted to persuade him a little more.

The door to the conference room was pushed open.

A man in black military uniform appeared in front of everyone.

Just like what happened on the bridge, these female officers were also stunned.

So cool!

That look, that style, that temperament!

Rona silently put down her feet and threw the cigarette in her mouth into the trash can.

She even poked Qi Bing next to her and whispered, “Qi Bing, Qi Bing. I remember you have chewing gum. Give me one, give me one quickly.”

Qi Bing rolled his eyes, took out a piece of gum from his pocket and gave it to Luo Na, and teased: “What? Now you also know how to care about your image?”

Rona chewed the gum and then sniffed her mouth repeatedly to see if there was any smell of cigarette smoke.

She looked at the man sitting on the main seat with somewhat shy eyes.

“I…I feel…I’m in love.”

Qi Bing directly and rudely gave her a middle finger. This guy was just attracted by her beauty.

However, I have to say that when this male captain put on this uniform, his aura was completely different.

After Sun He sat down, he looked around the conference room.

“Ahem… stand up!” Deputy Captain Tang Yuan glared at the group of people from the side.

At this time, the female soldiers who were still sitting realized that they had been sitting the whole time, which was extremely rude.

The main reason was that I was stunned by the male captain’s appearance and couldn’t react.

Everyone stood up hurriedly at this moment.

“Hello, Captain.”

Sun He raised his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down.

“Don’t be nervous, everyone. Actually, I didn’t say much in today’s meeting. After all, I don’t know much about the Qingyuan yet.

But I still found some problems with the Qingyuan, and I will focus on them today.”

Sun He drummed his fingers on the table. “When I arrived at the Qingyuan, I got the news that the Qingyuan fleet was running out of funds and only had this one light aircraft carrier left in the entire fleet.”

Tang Yuan on the side showed an embarrassed expression.

“I took some time to look up the financial statements of the Qingyuan Fleet. I found that the Qingyuan Fleet has been in operation for a total of eighty years. Except for the first thirty years when it was profitable, it has suffered losses every year for the next fifty years.

Especially in the past five years, the income and expenditure have been so unbalanced that the expenditure is ten times the income!

Why does this happen?

The main reason is that the starship is overloaded with personnel. For example, a light aircraft carrier starship like the Qingyuan only requires 300 people to operate, and at most it is equipped with no more than 500 people.

But now there are 3,000 people. Isn’t this an overspending? “

I heard Sun He mentioned the problem of overstaffing.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the entire conference room became strange. Everyone who had originally had a good impression of the captain now had complicated expressions.

“Captain, do you mean layoffs?” a female officer couldn’t help but ask.

Deputy Captain Tang Yuan standing by had clenched her fists. She was actually well aware of the problems existing in the Qing Yuan Fleet. She did not expect that Sun He would directly bring up this issue as soon as he came on stage.

“Well… there is actually a reason for these 3,000 people…” Secretary Qiao Rongrong interrupted hastily when she saw that the atmosphere was not right.

“Of course I know the reason. The death rate of other fleets is between 60% and 80%, but the Qingyuan Fleet is only 30%. This is because every captain attaches great importance to the lives of his crew members.

And if a starship of other fleets is destroyed, the survivors of that starship will be abandoned and lose their jobs.

The Qingyuan Fleet placed these people on other starships. Over time, this has led to a total of 3,000 people on board the last starship!” Sun He said solemnly.

“Then what do you mean, Captain?” Deputy Captain Tang Yuan couldn’t help but speak, her beautiful eyes staring at Sun He.

She had already made up her mind that if Captain Sun He proposed to lay off employees, she would make Captain Sun He withdraw the order even if she had to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy.

“I mean, we have to expand the fleet. As long as we have new starships, we can assign these female soldiers to other starships.

Only in this way can our fleet continue to grow and achieve a virtuous cycle. “Sun He’s words stunned everyone.

I never expected that what Sun He wanted to say was this.

Not layoffs, but fleet expansion.

“But expanding the fleet requires a lot of capital. For example, the cheapest light interstellar frigates and light interstellar destroyers require at least 100,000 to 300,000 units of crystal ore as funding.

This is just the lowest-end price. Other cruisers or battleships can’t be bought for a million each!” Secretary Qiao Rongrong said worriedly.

Building a starship is not an easy task, otherwise why didn’t their Qingyuan Fleet start doing it long ago?

This thing is really too expensive. It is hard enough for them to support the people, so how can they have money to buy a starship?

“If you buy it, it is indeed very expensive. But if you make it yourself, the cost will be less than one-third.” Sun He raised the corner of his mouth.

“Build it ourselves? Let’s not talk about the factory machinery. The blueprints are a problem. Even if the starship blueprints are the most basic t1 level, they are top secret for every force.” Deputy Captain Tang Yuan said helplessly.

“I have the blueprints.” Sun He said confidently. He had the system. Although there were no starship manufacturing blueprints now, it did not mean that there would not be any in the future.

All the female officers looked at Captain Sun He in surprise.

He said he had the blueprints for building a starship!

He’s not kidding.

The price of a starship blueprint could even be ten times the value of a starship itself!

The design of each new starship requires hundreds of top engineers and scientists to spend hundreds of years.

How can a newly graduated science and engineering student like him have such ability?

“You may not believe me now, but you have seen the video of the hangar. If I can build a plane, then I can build a starship.

You just have to wait, but there is one problem that still needs to be solved, and that is the factory that manufactures the starship.” Sun He rubbed his chin.

Beep, beep

At this moment, secretary Qiao Rongrong’s communicator rang.

“Sorry…” Qiao Rongrong apologized hurriedly. She took a look at the content sent on the communicator and her expression suddenly became not so good.

“Rongrong, what happened?” Tang Yuan noticed this detail.

Qiao Rongrong looked at Tang Yuan and Sun He who was looking at her.

“The bridge has received news that Lord Grizzly has just transferred the reward, but… but… it is only less than one-third of the reward, which is 30,000 crystal ore, and three industrial ships seized from Sera…”

When the female soldiers in the conference room heard Qiao Rongrong’s words, they exploded in an instant.

“What! These bastards are actually refusing to pay their debts!

“We were promised 300,000 crystal ore. We fought hard in the front and completed the interception mission, but these bastards only gave us this little!”

Deputy Captain Tang Yuan slammed his fist on the table: “Everyone, be quiet.”

The conference room fell silent.

Qiao Rongrong on the side muttered angrily and helplessly: “They… they are very shameful… but they are the Grizzly Lords after all, we… we…”

“Are you pretending to be a deadbeat here?” Captain Sun He’s eyes were extremely cold.