Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

Chapter 1097: The First Negotiation with Iron Blood (Part 1)

Early in the morning, Yang Sikang and his ship girls arrived at the edge of the Scapa Flow anchorage.

Although from the royal family's perspective they didn't even want to arrange this little space for Iron Blood, due to practical needs in various aspects, Iron Blood had to stay here for a while after all, so the royal family gave them this place to temporarily station.

But Tiexue is not a peaceful person, so in addition to the souvenirs he brought today, Yang Sikang also brought a lot of surveillance equipment.

They were all Iron-Blooded things that were taken away by his ship girls.

When Yang Sikang came here, the ship girls took their things and went to meet the ship girls on the Iron Blood side, and he was only accompanied by two maids, Tianlangxiang and Sheffield.

Originally, Edinburgh strongly requested to come along, but Yang Sikang stopped her.

And when he came here, Prince Eugen only brought Z2 with him.

"You are really diligent. You got up so early?"

"I'm used to it. I've gotten enough sleep in the hospital before. Besides, aren't you guys pretty hardworking? You've been hiding equipment everywhere since early in the morning."

"It's a pity that all our hard work has been demolished."

Z2 said suddenly, Yang Sikang smiled and shrugged:

"After all, we are on royal territory, and I am their guest. Moreover, from an objective point of view, preventing you from preparing a backup plan in Scapa Flow is also beneficial to me."

"You are really direct." Prince Eugen said with a smile.

"Being more direct is good for both you and me, and that's just my personality."

Yang Sikang said with a smile, and Sheffield had already taken out all the things he wanted to take out and placed them neatly on the table.

"This smell is really interesting."

Prince Eugen's attention shifted to a basket that Sheffield took out. The faint fragrance wafting from it made her immediately understand what was inside.

"Although Scapa Flow is very close to the Iron Blood, it is definitely different when fighting outside than at home. Haha, and for me personally, I do miss it a little. It's a rare opportunity to have this."

Yang Sikang opened the lid of the basket, which was filled with various kinds of bread, still slightly warm.

After taking it away, the second layer of grids was neatly arranged with more than a dozen different meat slices, and the third layer was divided into several areas, which contained special butter, yellow mustard sauce, ham and raw pork mince seasoned with salt and black pepper.

The fourth and bottommost floor is filled with all kinds of sausages, ranging from common sausages to specialties only available in certain areas of Tiexue. There are more than a dozen types.

"I'm a little curious about how you found these things. As far as I know, you probably didn't send anyone to Iron Blood to purchase them, and they can't make such excellent quality. As for the Royal, I don't think these can be sold near Scapa Flow."

"Of course I did it myself."

Yang Sikang said with a smile, reached out to take a loaf of bread, skillfully picked up the knife and cut it horizontally from the side, then cut the bread into two after cutting three sides.

His movements were very skillful. He changed the knife, but first reached for the place in the whole box that seemed quite out of place to the Donghuang people: the minced pork.

These are all real raw meat, but if you want to prepare it like this and eat it raw, the quality and freshness of the meat itself are extremely important.

The simpler the cooking method, the higher the requirements for the ingredients themselves. Only high-quality and fresh enough meat can be guaranteed to be free of odor and parasites even when it is raw.

Then it needs to be made into very fine minced meat at the appropriate temperature and seasoned before it can be eaten.

Yang Sikang spread a 5 mm thick layer of minced pork on the bread, placed two slices of white onion on top, and topped it with a slice of cross-cut pickle, and it was done.

He handed the bread forward. Prince Eugen looked at him, took it with a smile, and then passed it to Z2.

"You are really skilled at this. Have you eaten this before?"

"Of course I have, and I quite like it. I am the type of person who doesn't care about anything else as long as it tastes good and is safe. Raw meat bread is not unacceptable to me."

As he spoke, he began to make the second one, with the same skillful and brisk movements.

"But the pork mince I make is leaner in terms of fat-to-lean ratio, with less fat. If it doesn't suit your preference, then I can't do anything about it. After all, I don't plan to prepare more servings."

As they were talking, the second one had been assembled. Yang Sikang handed it over again. Prince Eugen didn't hesitate to take it and took a bite.

"It's delicious. Your seasoning is just right."

"hehe, thanks for your complement."

Yang Sikang continued to do it while saying:

"Eugen, you guys put so many things in Scapa Flow, you don't just plan to monitor, right? Are you planning to fight the royal family just in case, or are you planning to take the initiative?"

"What are you talking about? I don't understand."

Prince Eugen was obviously playing dumb, and Yang Sikang said slowly:

"You all know about the Sakura Empire. I don't think I can hide my thoughts from you. After all, I didn't intend to hide it from the beginning. However, the level of cooperation and sincerity of Iron Blood really surprised me.

Although from a personal point of view I have always been very confident in Sangvis Iron Blood, I did not expect it to come to this.

After much thought, I don't think this is something I can accomplish with my little reputation alone, especially you, Eugen."

"I?"

Prince Eugen looked at Yang Sikang with interest, and Yang Sikang took a bite of the raw meat bread in his hand, put the sausages into the water and put them on the baking tray to boil and fry respectively, and then said:

"I know very well how far the Iron Bloods and Sakura Empire are apart. When you personally led the team to Sakura Empire, although we didn't meet in person, I could sense your sincerity. This is even more true for the subsequent cooperation. I know very well that those cooperation contents should not be easily promoted under normal circumstances, but you not only agreed to all of them, but also promoted them all very steadily.

Haha, no matter how confident I am, I don’t think that I can give you that much confidence when I’ve never even met you.

Of course, I can probably guess the reason, but even so, I should thank you for supporting my plan to this extent."

When Yang Sikang said this, Sheffield came forward very considerately, took out a storage device and placed it next to Prince Eugen.

"This is?"

"A thank you gift. This is an optimization and upgrade plan for the twin-mounted 128mm SKC41 dual-purpose high-altitude and low-altitude guns. Although it is not tailor-made, this universal plan should be more meaningful to you."

Yang Sikang said as he looked at Z2 next to him and said with a smile:

"Of course, if Miss Georg Thiele (Z2's name) has no objection, I have a transformation plan for your big sister here, but that will have to wait until I return to White Eagle, and you send the person to me for transformation."

"No, that's not necessary."

Z2 rejected Yang Sikang’s subsequent suggestion of transformation without hesitation.