From Pirates to the Strongest Death God in Soul Society

Chapter 203 Select the new generation of naval elites and form a new admiral faction!

Marine Headquarters, Malinfando.

Bane was currently sitting in his general's office.

The cloak of justice on his shoulders was also replaced, and the tassels on both sides became more luxurious, which were the unique shoulder straps of a general.

The spacious and luxurious office made him very satisfied.

"Congratulations, young master." Ian stood in front of Bane's desk and congratulated him with a smile.

"Hahahaha." Bane laughed happily and said, "After all this hard work, I finally got my wish and became an admiral of the navy."

At this point, his first goal in the Navy has been achieved.

As for the position of Admiral of the Navy, he had never considered it. That was not within his goal at all. Next, the goal of the second stage was to expand his influence in the Navy as much as possible, and start recruiting talents from the Navy to form a mature team.

Today, the power change at the highest level of the navy has just ended, but for the middle and senior levels of the navy, it has just begun.

If Sakaski becomes the admiral of the navy, his original team will be completely disbanded. From the moment he takes over as admiral, he will no longer have any possibility of leading the hawkish navy. From now on, although he can still retain his tough and iron-blooded personal style, he must be fair within the navy.

In other words, as a marshal, he cannot have any obvious labels, such as hawkish leader.

This is something that no major faction of the navy can accept.

It is also not conducive to Sakaski's control of the entire navy.

Similarly, Kuzan's departure also means that the dovish navy has lost its leader.

The only relatively calm group was the neutrals who had never made any demands, namely those under Borsalino.

Now that Bane and Yixiao have taken office as generals, naturally, they also need to form their own team just like Sakaski and Kuzan did.

"Ian, what kind of signal do you think we need to send to the outside world?" Bane asked, touching his chin.

Before Ian could speak, Bane said, "We have already communicated with Yixiao. He is ready to inherit Kuzan's political legacy and will reorganize the dove faction."

"That is indeed in line with Mr. Yixiao's philosophy." Ian said with emotion.

After sighing, Ain said with some embarrassment: "But this will be more troublesome for us. Do you plan to intervene with the Hawks?"

"No." Bane shook his head immediately.

On the surface, Sakaski will no longer serve as the leader of the Hawk Faction, but in fact, he became the marshal, and his dominance over the original Hawk Faction has reached its peak. Those original hawkish naval members who supported Sakaski in competing for the position of marshal, didn’t they need some feedback after Sakaski became the marshal?

This is as it should be, and it is also the last thing Sakaski can do as a former hawkish leader. After doing this, he can no longer be biased.

But no matter what, in essence, Sakaski's foundation is still in the hawkish faction, and he has great prestige among the hawkish navy, and Bane is unlikely to shake it in the short term.

"Then my suggestion is that you need to give more consideration to the new generation of navy." Ian said after pondering for a while.

"You mean, naval generals like Smoker and Tina?" Bane asked after a little thought.

In terms of character and stance, Smoker and Tina can both be considered "doves", but in reality, they are not qualified at all. Before the Battle of Marineford broke out, Smoker and Tina were both just colonels in the navy.

Although they all learned from Zefa and had very good connections in the navy, in terms of status, they were not qualified to choose any faction. At most, they could only express their attitude.

The so-called doves and hawks are only senior generals at least at the rank of major general or above who can call themselves that.

They are the core members of the faction.

For example, Ghost Spider is a representative core member of the Hawk Faction and a die-hard fan of Sakaski.

Huoshaoshan is an obvious dove-wing naval member, while Vice Admiral Stolobeli and other lieutenant generals are the backbone of the neutral faction.

Others such as naval colonels, brigadier generals, etc. are not qualified.

"Yes, they were promoted from the colonel level recently. Although I think both of them have dovish tendencies, they are just tendencies and are not completely labeled as factions. This is an opportunity we can strive for, especially Smoker. According to the current situation, as long as there are no accidents on the G-5 side, he will soon be promoted to lieutenant general. This is also something promoted by this headquarters. I think, if you personally approve his promotion, plus the good relationship between you and him in the past, he should not refuse to get closer to you. I think the same is true for Tina." Ian analyzed.

This is the benefit of being a navy admiral. When Bane was a vice admiral, he was not qualified to form a so-called team. After all, at that time, he was not an absolute senior figure in the navy and did not have such a status.

At that time, no matter how good Smoker's relationship with him was, the two of them could only be friends, or ordinary superiors and subordinates, but now, it was different.

Bane is now qualified to 'label' the rest!
Ian's starting point is obviously good. When Yixiao is willing to accept the dovish navy, and Bane does not want to take over the hawks and be controlled by Sakaski, then forming a new faction is undoubtedly the most appropriate.

The members of the new faction are mainly the new generation of the navy. They are young, which means that their ideas are not yet deeply rooted to the point where they cannot be reformed. In the process of gradually following Bane, they will inevitably be subtly influenced by Bane's personal style.

"Bring me the promotion list of the Navy Headquarters after the Battle of Marineford, and we'll pick some suitable candidates." After thinking for a while, Bane immediately gave the order.

In the general's office, all these personnel information were obviously backed up. Soon, Ian found a stack of relevant information from the file cabinet and placed it in front of Bane.

Bane flipped through the information page by page, calling out names from time to time and asking Ian to write them down.

"Major General Chaser Maynard performed outstandingly during the Battle of Marineford. He continued to fight despite being seriously injured." Bane murmured as he looked at the information in his hand.

He had an impression of this guy. His strength was not bad, but not particularly strong either. In the original story, he was defeated by Bartolomeo.

However, it is undeniable that he has an overwhelming advantage over ordinary pirates with less than 100 million berries. He once killed a pirate with a bounty of 68 million berries in a very short period of time with great ease.

The department's information on him is quite detailed. It was through this information that Bane learned that Maynard had joined the navy not long ago, only four years ago. Before joining the navy, he served as a member of the escort team of a merchant ship. Later, due to a pirate attack, the fleet was looted. After surviving, he resolutely joined the navy. Without any special care, he learned the Six Styles in the way of an ordinary navy. It took him a year and a half to learn Haki, and he still has no devil fruit ability.

As far as I can remember, in about a year, he will be promoted to lieutenant general, which means this guy is capable and worth training.

Thinking of this, Bane said, "Remember this, Major General Maynard."

Then, Ben continued to flip through the documents. After a while, he stopped again and looked at the document in his hand and said, "Major General Dorr?"

Dor is a very beautiful female sailor, but that is not the point. The point is that the headquarters has specially marked her with the mark of "key training" on this information. Such marks will only appear on sailors who are valued by the headquarters and have excellent talents and potential.

For example, Tina and Smoker were marked as "key training" in the data file in Bane's hand, which could only be read by admirals and above.

After the Battle of Marineford, Dor was quickly promoted to major general of the Navy Headquarters. He is currently on standby at the headquarters and is about to participate in the construction of the G-14 Naval Base.

G-14 is one of several new naval bases in the New World that were approved at the previous meeting.

At the same time, if Bane remembered correctly, after the construction of this naval base was completed, Dor would be immediately promoted to vice admiral of the Navy Headquarters and become the base commander of G-14. This treatment was at the same level as Smoker.

Compared to Smoker, she is more flexible because she does not have the power of a devil fruit.

"Good, another good seedling has been found. Record it, Major General Dor." Bane grinned and ordered.

Although Ai En immediately recorded Major General Duoer's words, he still couldn't help but say, "Master, you have such a bright smile on your face. Could it be that you are attracted by her beauty again?"

This made Ben's face darken, and he said angrily, "Ain, how can you say that to me? Am I that kind of person? I am just happy to have discovered a talented subordinate."

"But the information about Major General Maynard didn't make you so happy." Ian complained.

"Well, how can it be the same? Among so many naval generals, Dor is labeled as a key training one. This means that even in the naval headquarters with brilliant generals, she is a far more outstanding talent than her peers, do you understand?" Bane said righteously.

Seeing that Bane was about to get angry, Ian smiled and stopped teasing him.

After looking around for a long time, Bane finally decided on the first batch of names.

There are five people in it: Smoker, Tina, T. Penn, Maynard, and Dor.

There are not many of them, but they are all elites. However, this is only the first batch. If there are more suitable ones in the future, Bane will continue to recruit them.

At the same time, in Bane's opinion, these people are people who will soon be qualified and meritorious enough to be promoted to lieutenant generals, and can fill the backbone positions very quickly. After that, using them as nodes and continuing to extend downward, the prototype of a new faction can be achieved.

After that, navy officers like Tashigi, who are currently at the school-level, will also be able to join Bane's faction.

In fact, in the information just now, Brigadier General Peacock, the granddaughter of Chief of Staff Ahe, was also marked as "key training", and Bane had met her once, and it seemed that the little girl respected him very much.

But after some consideration, Bane decided to postpone this guy for the time being. On the one hand, it was because of this guy's special identity. On the other hand, Bane vaguely remembered that this guy's eyes always wanted to whip him a few times?
(End of this chapter)