"Hmm, I understand. Then everyone, please state your opinions," Zhong Chen said after listening to Benimaru, signaling for him to return to his seat, and then addressed everyone present.
As for why such an important topic as military reorganization was being livestreamed, Zhong Chen could only say that all schemes and tricks were useless in the face of absolute strength.
"Lord Chen, now that we have a Space Navy, the existence of the Navy seems somewhat redundant," Benimaru said with a serious expression, looking at Sengoku and Sakazuki after returning to his seat.
"Although I am a Fleet Admiral, I think the Supreme Commander is right. There are hardly any one piece left on the sea," Akainu said, propping his chin with both hands, also with a serious expression, after hearing Benimaru.
"Nice, is this your brother? Are you sure this isn't your father?" In Hakucho Castle, Lashara looked at the cute little chubby Nice across from her with an incredulous expression.
"He's my brother. I was revived by Chen Gege, which is why there's such a big age difference between us."
"So that's how it is."
"Mr. Zhong Chen is truly all-powerful," Aura said, also watching the livestream, looking at Zhong Chen's figure on the screen with an expression of admiration.
The others also nodded in agreement.
Just as the swordsman was about to say something, Benimaru on the screen spoke again: "Lord Chen, the scale of the Space Navy's fleet is constantly increasing, and personnel are becoming severely insufficient."
"I discussed it with the three Admirals, and we plan to integrate the Navy into the Space Navy. Ground defense will be entirely handled by the Army."
"What do you think?"
Zhong Chen listened to Benimaru and pondered seriously. Indeed, with the disappearance of one piece, the Navy did seem a bit redundant.
However, the Army only had ten legions and 150,000 soldiers. Was that enough to defend so many worlds?
"Benimaru, the Army only has 150,000 soldiers, but it's responsible for the defense of four worlds. Is that enough manpower?" Zhong Chen's four worlds here referred to the one piece world, the High School DxD world, the SukaSuka world, and the Akame ga Kill! world.
Zhong Chen had not sent troops to occupy the other worlds, including the Seikishi no Monogatari world.
He had only maintained permanent Dimensional Gates to facilitate continuous travel between the worlds.
"Regarding that, we discussed and decided to establish a World Garrison. Each world will have a local defense force of 200,000 soldiers," Benimaru explained directly, hearing Zhong Chen's doubt.
"The Army will then serve as the Imperial Central Army, permanently stationed in the capital."
"Okay, but what kind of unit will the Navy be after merging into the Space Navy?"
"The Navy will later serve as a Mobile Unit, accompanying the fleet to handle planet occupation and boarding operations."
"My Mobile Unit!" Hearing 'Mobile Unit,' Zhong Chen's mind immediately conjured the classic line from the protagonist Rico in the movie Starship Troopers.
"We grunts just die, you Air Force just fly!"
"And Fleet Admiral Sakazuki will serve as the Supreme Commander of the Mobile Unit."
"Hmm, that arrangement works," Zhong Chen said, nodding in satisfaction. Those around him, hearing about the military reorganization, couldn't help but start discussing.
"The military's reorganization this time is a huge change."
"Yes, I didn't expect the Navy to just disappear like that."
"What do you mean 'disappear'? They just went from swimming in the sea to flying in the sky."
"..."
Afterward, Zhong Chen, Benimaru, and others engaged in a deep discussion about the structure of the forces.
The Space Navy was renamed the Imperial Navy, and the former Navy was renamed the Imperial Mobile Unit.
The Army remained the Imperial Army, but a World Garrison was added under it.
At the same time, the rank of Grand Admiral was abolished and replaced with Admiral, and Fleet Admiral was separated as a distinct rank.
Previously, Fleet Admiral was a position, and the rank was also Grand Admiral. This time, it was separated.
General officers were divided into three ranks: Major General, Lieutenant General, and Admiral, and two ranks for Fleet Admiral: Fleet Admiral and Supreme Commander.
"Okay, for now, let's leave it at that. Regarding the expansion, the Navy will expand to one million personnel, divided into three fleets."
"These will be the Imperial First, Second, and Third Fleets."
"The Mobile Unit will expand to two million personnel, with three Front Armies. Each Front Army will have three Legions of 200,000 soldiers each, and the last Legion will be a directly subordinate unit."
"The Army will expand to two million, also with three Front Armies and one directly subordinate Legion."
"The World Garrison will have 200,000 personnel per world."
"Is there anything else to add?"
After Zhong Chen finished speaking, the military personnel all shook their heads, indicating no issues.
"Good, now I will announce the personnel appointments!"
Whoosh... Hearing Zhong Chen's words, all the military personnel stood up, looking at Zhong Chen with serious expressions.
"Supreme Commander of the Entire Military, Benimaru, with the rank of Supreme Commander."
"Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Navy, Sengoku, with the rank of Fleet Admiral."
"Chief of Staff of the Imperial Navy, Ms. He, Admiral."
"Commander of the First Fleet, Azazel, Admiral."
"Commander of the Second Fleet, Uriel, Admiral."
"Due to Grand Admiral Garp resigning from his duties to retire, the Commander of the Third Fleet will be taken over by Michael, granted the rank of Admiral."
"Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Mobile Unit, Sakazuki, with the rank of Fleet Admiral."
"Borsalino, Kuzan, and Issho will serve as Commanders of the First to Third Front Armies, respectively, granted the rank of Admiral."
"Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Army, Rengoku Kyoujurou, with the rank of Fleet Admiral."
"Heh heh, compared to you old-timers, Rengoku Kyoujurou is quite young!" Zhong Chen said, even teasing Rengoku Kyoujurou here.
"Gobuta, Kurut, Ultima..." Just as Zhong Chen was about to continue, Ultima quickly interrupted: "Wait a moment, Lord Chen, Veron has had enough experience, right? This young lady is busy to death just judging criminals every day now."
"I really don't have time to manage the Army anymore!"
PS: Old readers who have been following should remember how Zhong Chen tricked Ultima back then.
"Uh... it seems like he's had enough... right, Benimaru?" Benimaru looked at Zhong Chen, who was frantically winking at him, his face full of conflicted emotions, but in the end, reason triumphed over emotion.
"Veron is indeed qualified to be a Front Army Commander now."
"After all, Veron has been responsible for Ms. Ultima's work all along."
Hearing that Benimaru had said so, Zhong Chen, who had originally planned to trick Ultima for a while longer, could only say helplessly: "Then Gobuta, Kurut, and Veron will serve as Commanders of the First to Third Front Armies, respectively, granted the rank of Admiral."
"Gobuta's position as Legion Commander of the Imperial Guard will be taken over by Ranga, and the Imperial Guard will be expanded to 100,000 personnel."
"As for the Commander-in-Chief of the World Garrison, that will be..."