Chapter 439 Opportunity

After watching the extremely secret demonstration of the airship made by Chunnan, the king of Chunnan, got a thin stack of documents from Danyang. In addition to the documents, Zheng Zhe also attached his views on the research and development of airships in Dongping, as well as the observation report of the model airship used for routes that he and his subordinates summarized in just two days. Zheng Zhe was not proficient in drawing drawings, but he still attached the observation maps as detailed as possible. From the details of the appearance, people who have a certain research on airships can see some clues.

Jiang Yan naturally saw this document at the same time. The Lord Chunnan looked at him with his eyes, obviously asking for his opinion. Jiang Yan sighed and said, "Your Majesty, even in order to consolidate the Western Front, the two million taels of silver will be issued."

Just one sentence made the Lord of Chunnan sigh and nod.

They also knew that Dongping took out these things and was willing to sell them to Chunnan because the birth of the two new airships that were drawn by Jiang Yan's spies made the appearance diagrams, which made the value of those old airships lower and lower. They also knew that even if these things were so low, Dongping, who had mastered the airship technology, was qualified to offer such a sky-high price. Chunnan could only further study and update things based on the basis of this batch of airships. The intelligence of the craftsmen alone did create airships, but that kind of thing could not be compared with Dongping's airships that were actually put into use by the first generation of Dongping. However, the creation of the airships himself gave Chunnan a little confidence after all, and he naturally agreed that this was a considerable contribution, thanks to the son who was trying to destroy his elder brother.

"You go to Danyang once. Ye Tao has always been considerate and not conservative, but he is a kind person. The money for buying airships and training pilots is allocated from the internal coins. You can see if you can get something else from Ye Tao. It is best to get that signal. Although I am different from Tan Xiaopei, I am not the king of the army. After watching it for so many years, I know so much. This thing is useful. You bring a group of people over and take the airship directly to Chen Xujing to set up the camp. The Danan Pass is really a bit uneasy."

Jiang Yan nodded and replied: "Weichen must do the job well."

The Lord of Chunnan was very helpless. Starting last year, before the Danan Pass, which had been silent for a long time, the Xiling army began to move again. Perhaps it was because he had been accustomed to the city and the lands of Dongping in recent years. Several passes that were originally bordered by Dongping fell into the hands of Dongping, and the remedial measures were more and more skillful. Facing the second pass at Xushan Pass, facing Zijing Pass, the construction of the defensive camps of the feldstone Pass was completed, and three huge camps that were far away from Danan Pass were also built and quickly formed. Chen Xujing asked several times to add some troops from the rear, so that he could fight several battles in front of Danan Pass, destroy Xiling's defensive posture, and maintain the attack and pressure on Xiling, but they were overthrown by the ministers in the court. What made the Lord of Chunnan most depressed was that both sons opposed this.

What they did, they were thinking of recalling Chen Xujing, an old general who did not belong to either side, to remove the army and return to the field, and then to replace the people on their own. This internal struggle was so great that it could ignore the interests of the country, which made the Lord Chunnan more and more disappointed. The Lord Chunnan was indeed preparing to recall Chen Xujing as they wished, but he wanted Chen Xujing to take charge of all the military power of the capital Yuhang, and then to let his younger brother Chang Hongquan take charge of the defense of Danan Pass. Although Chang Hongquan had always had a good relationship with Dongping and Ye Tao and the others, if Chunnan fought with Dongping in the future, he would probably not have any good face, but he could count on him for Xiling. Chang Hongquan, the Juxian King, was indeed a prince of Taiping, but he was not incapable of ability. Now it seems that this prince who has always been very low-key but very smart is much more reliable than the two princes.

After Jiang Yan came to Danyang again, after talking to Ye Tao for several more conversations, he had to leave the airship crew to train in Tiecheng and do some other things himself. Of course, it was very complicated to get the training of airship crew, but he didn't expect it to be so complicated. Although the airships sold to Chunnan are not advanced, and most of them are a little old, they are all well maintained and have no problems at all. At least Dongping did not cut corners in pilot training. Even many courses were allowed to train those Chunnan's trial pilots onto the updated model airship, or even the Xuexiao airship. The entire enhanced course took two and a half months to complete, and Dongping would send it later.

Several instructors went to Chunnan to continue to guide the training of the airship troops for about half a year. Jiang Yan also knew that these airship instructors may be the most professional personnel sent by Dongping in military cooperation with Chunnan, and it may also be the last major military cooperation between the two sides. Now the Chunnan military is still far behind Dongping, but he doesn't know where the arrogance comes from, and he is becoming more and more impatient with the guidance of Dongping's officer regiment. The Dongping's officer regiment naturally does not have the habit of making people cold butts cold, and they take the initiative to leave the troops that are impatient. Now, the officer regiment is mainly in Yuhang, where they are training at the intensity of their time in Dongping, while eating, drinking and having fun with high subsidies for overseas subsidies.

Jiang Yan went to see the training of the officers' regiment more than once, and every time he sighed that except for a few troops, he didn't know what qualifications most troops had to show off in front of these people. Dongping did not send enough officers, but the ones sent were all young officers with solid foundations and promising futures in the army in the future.

After several flights from Danyang to Thunder Cliff, Jiang Yan finally decided to stay until the inauguration ceremony of Gondor before returning to Yuhang. After expressing this to Ye Tao, he immediately became a distinguished guest of Gondor's inauguration ceremony with Zheng Zhe. In the eyes of most people, Gondor had actually been completed long ago. There are more than 50,000 people living in Gondor, many of whom were craftsmen and civilians involved in the construction of the city, and their families. Many officials in Yunzhou have also moved to Gondor and began to move the entire northern political center to Gondor. Departments such as the Communications Bureau have fully started to operate with Gondor as the core. After all, all software and hardware facilities are much better.

But Ye Tao didn't think so. His explanation to Jiang Yan was: "The surrounding greening vegetation and sketch landscape have not been restored. The outside of the city wall is full of sand and soil, which is ugly. Such a city can be considered completed?" This explanation makes people laugh and cry, but Ye Tao insists on waiting for at least most of the greening projects to hold a ceremony before completing, which gives Tan Xiaopei and others the opportunity to break Ye Tao's idea of ​​simply ceremonial down. This is the first time Ye Tao was attacked by civil and military officials in the court for this matter. In the past, at most someone wanted to impeach him. Ye Tao wanted to be simple in this regard, and everyone seemed to be unable to forgive. The construction of Gondor's city was almost 27 million taels.

Most of the silver is distributed through early land auctions, pre-sales and many other means, and does not put too much burden on the national finances. Due to the sufficient planning, various regulations on private construction of houses and gardens, the full interaction between public facilities and private environments, and all aspects of consideration, Gondor has become the most advanced and practical city in this time and space. Because of the gorgeous appearance design of Gondor, it is probably the most beautiful city in this time and space. Due to the terrible density, the advanced level is outrageously arranged with stairs and mature airship technology and tactics, Gondor is probably the most unbreakable city in this time and space.

Jiang Yan lived in Gondor for a few days. He lived in a courtyard built by a big merchant in Chunnan who bought the land. Because the merchant had limited financial resources, the courtyard was not too luxurious. What Jiang Yan admired was not these courtyards, but the feeling that this city gave people. If you walk out of the small courtyard, there must be public green space within a quarter of an hour, and there must be a public service station in each block. The service station is mainly provided for employees who maintain complete public facilities to rest. Whether it is cleaning the block, cleaning the sewer, and maintaining the street trees, there are dedicated people, and residents pay public management fees monthly to share these fees. Since Gondor is now sparsely populated, this part of the expenses will be mainly paid in advance by the Northern Xinjiang Jingliufu, but in the future, this part of the business should not be self-sufficient. Although it has to be paid, you can see a clean and intact city after paying a small part of it. Jiang Yan is not satisfied at all.

The city has divided twelve internal districts, each district has a branch of Li Yamen, and the people can complete various registration matters and taxation in one stop, and even complete the reporting of various civil and criminal cases. Each district has a dedicated person responsible for helping those illiterate and ignorant people dealing with various things. They are very patient and can basically treat those who come to do business equally. Jiang Yan went to pay the public service fee in person, originally to experience the governance of Yunzhou, but he queued for a while. Although an officer living nearby recognized Jiang Yan, he accompanied him, and neither of them was taken special care of.

The attitude of Yunzhou's tax collectors was particularly difficult for Jiang Yan to understand. The people's attitude of actively paying taxes was really surprising. Jiang Yan later learned that in Yunzhou, any tax type or increase the tax collection ratio must be approved at all levels and must go through hearings with the participation of the people. The people in Yunzhou are indeed rich now, but the tax ratio is really not low. Basically, it reaches 15% of the family income, and each family is slightly different. However, these taxes are used very transparently in various aspects of Yunzhou. The Northern Xinjiang Jingliufu actually publishes governance expenses every six months, and there is no such transparency in the world. The people feel that their taxes are used in places where they should be used, and they feel that they can benefit from it, so they naturally take the initiative to pay taxes.

Jiang Yan couldn't imagine what kind of city this is and what kind of system this is. What he saw was only the parts that ordinary people could see. And he couldn't help but sigh, and hoped that he could live in such a city. Jiang Yan could understand why Ye Tao was attacked by everyone, which was normal. Even Jiang Yan was as indifferent as Jiang Yan, probably wanted to take this opportunity to show off and declare to the whole world: "Come and see, this is something you can't do."
Chapter completed!