In the moon headquarters of Starfleet, marshal Sanders' office, Lin Fan and other four people are standing in front of Sanders with a serious face.

"Lieutenant General Lin fan, commander of the first fleet of the federal Starfleet, has performed excellently in the attack of the oaks Empire and has made many contributions. He is hereby awarded the rank of federal general!"

Sanders read out the order of conferring the title with emotion.

The 25-year-old general has also broken the record in the Federation. He can be said to be the youngest general in the history of the Federation.

In Sanders' eyes, Lin Fan's future achievements are bound to far surpass Liang Xingchen's.

With a new Shoulder Title, Sanders came to Lin Fan and changed it for him.

"Congratulations, Admiral Lin fan!"

"Thank you, marshal!"

"Don't thank me. It's your own strength. Keep working hard!"

"Yes

Then, Liang Xue, Emma and Chris were also given the title. After all, they were generals, so Sanders was still in charge of the title.

Among them, Chris became a lieutenant general, Liang Xue became a major general, and Emma finally stepped into the ranks of generals and became a brigadier general.

The brigadier general was also made a reserve General of the Federation, but Lin fan directly stepped this step at that time. Once he was a general, he was a major general.

But this is a special case. Emma still has to start her career from brigadier general.

Sanders looked at Lin Fan and nodded with satisfaction, then picked up another appointment from his desk.

"Due to the reform of the Starfleet establishment, a new corps level has been added. Now general Lin fan is appointed as the commander of the first corps of the federal Starfleet. He has 12 standard fleets, with a total of 240000 warships. His headquarters is set up in Horton!"

"At the same time, Horton will become an important military town. The Federation will not immigrate ordinary people here. Everything in the star system will be handled by general Lin fan, the commander of the first corps of Starfleet!"

"Finally, with regard to the formation of the Legion, the first and third fleets of the former Federation will be incorporated into the first Legion and become the first and second fleets under the command of the Legion. The guard fleet of the first fleet, as the commander of the Legion, is still under the command of general Lin fan. The commander of the second fleet is Chris Rhodes. The remaining ten fleets will be made up in ten years, and the commander of the second fleet will be three The election will be submitted by the first corps and approved by Starfleet headquarters. "

"That's the latest appointment. Any questions?"

"Report, no!"

"Very well, the third fleet is already in Horton. You will set out tomorrow and go to Horton to make peace with them. Then you can start the construction of the Legion."

"Yes, marshal!"

"Lin fan, wait a minute. I have something else to tell you!"

Just as Lin Fan was about to leave the office, Sanders spoke again.

Liang Xue and the three of them look at each other and then retreat. They understand that marshal Sanders has something important to tell Lin Fan alone!

"Lin fan, the task on your side is very heavy, no more than that on Liang Xingchen's side. The federation needs an external channel, understand?"

"Understand, marshal. Don't worry. Give me five years and I'll take the Kabat empire!"

Lin Fan naturally understood what Sanders meant. In the current federal territory, there are two roads to the outside world, one of which is blocked by the IO Federation, and the other is blocked by the Kabat empire.

If the Federation wants to continue to develop, it must open up one of the channels. Otherwise, even if it passes these two civilizations and lays down new territory by relying on curvature engine, it will increase the difficulty of ruling because it is not connected with its native land.

However, the IOF is absolutely not allowed to fight, which is the key link of increasing the population of mankind in the future. Isn't it stupid to fight.

Therefore, there is only Kabat Empire to choose from. For Lin fan, it is enough time to add five fleets in three years and destroy Kabat empire in two years.

"Well, before you're ready, the federal government will continue to trade with them. On the one hand, it will drain them of their final wealth, and on the other hand, it will reduce their reserve for you!"

"I understand!"

Ten minutes later, Lin Fan left Sanders' office, joined the other three, and set out to return to earth.

"Sorry, Chris! Originally, I wanted you to get together with your wife and daughter on earth, but now it seems that you can't do it. Tomorrow you're leaving for Horton! "

Returning to the shuttle ship on earth, Lin Fan said to Chris.

"If not, commander of the army, and Alice will be able to move to Horton as a member of the army!"

"That's fine, but you and Alice have gone to Horton. What about your daughter? After all, Horton is a military town. There are no schools! "

You know, Chris's daughter EVA is still young, so you can't take her to Horton. There's a military town, but there's no school for EVA to study.

"That's no problem. EVA has received the admission notice from the star military academy. She will be admitted in two months. After graduation, she will ask the commander to help her come to our army!"Chris said with some embarrassment. After all, it's definitely the back door.

It's not that Chris wants to take special care of his daughter, it's just that he wants more opportunities for the family to be together.

"Yes, I will! I'll say hello to President Li Fulai. Don't worry! "

"Thank you, commander!"

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more than 20 days later, Lin Fan arrived at Horton with the first fleet.

As previously mentioned, Horton was once the military and industrial center of the Oakes empire. It has one life planet and 42 resource stars. It also has three huge asteroid belts, each of which is tens of times the size of the asteroid belt of the solar system, and the resources are more abundant.

Oakes Empire has established a huge warship manufacturing base in Horton, which is composed of numerous warship production lines. Now these bases are being transformed by a large number of industrial robots. It is expected that the transformation will be completed in half a year. By then, it will become the most important military industrial base in the whole Federation.

In addition to the warship manufacturing base group, the Federation also established a huge space research city in Horton, which is located on the edge of the warship manufacturing base group. The main person in charge of the city is Bai Zixuan, an old acquaintance of Lin Fan and the chief scientist of the Federation.

Today's baizixuan is no longer the same as before, after using gene enhancer and brain development agent.

The whole person looks like he is in his 40s. Compared with the past, he not only has good physical fitness, but also has an increase in life expectancy of at least 200 years. It can be said that he is in high spirits. There is even a rumor that Bai Zixuan is in love with a female scientist after her second spring.

For this matter, Lin fan is absolutely supportive. After all, Bai Zixuan never married a wife or had no children in his life for scientific research. Now that he has this heart, it's a good thing!

In a word, Horton is now in an era of great construction. Every planet and every void is engaged in great construction.