The children of the Tan family returned to Jiangshan Fort and seemed to have become another person. Ye Tao finally learned this. He came to Jiangshan Fort five days before the wedding, received etiquette training, understood the entire wedding ceremony, and then... the wedding was here. On the day of the wedding, he was drunk by Tan Weiming and Tan Weiran and many of the Tan family’s old ministers of the Shanshan Fort and threw them into the wedding room. The smell of wine made Tan Weixin, who liked purity, dared not touch him. Sophie and Tan Weixin’s two maids Sisi and Qiaoer came to clean him.

In the following days, except for the entire Jiangshan Fort being pulled by Lao Zhongtou, he was dragged around by Tan Weiming and Tan Weiran, hunting in the surrounding forests, or going to the farm at the foot of the mountain to meet the old people of Tan's family.

Such days are not much different from those busy days in Danyang. Perhaps it is just that Ye Tao and Tan Weixin have those secret and small conversations, which are no longer in the afternoons when they start to become hot, in rooms with just the right light, wind and temperature, but in those nights, in the bedrooms of the two.

Ye Tao hardly contributed during the complex preparations of the wedding, but he made their wedding room very comfortable. The water bed made of double calfskin has an excellent touch, and lying on it can make people fall asleep quickly without any pressure. The newlywed couple tacitly made a decision not to mention whether they were in the room. They had long understood that if there was no major medical breakthrough in this time and space, and relying on Shengjisan and other medicinal materials to slowly recuperate, there would be no possibility for a few years. At night, they would lie together.

Ye Tao likes to hug Tan Weixin from behind, and Tan Weixin also likes to pillow on Ye Tao's arm and crouch in Ye Tao's arms. They all like this posture, starting from the time and space, but at that time, this posture happened after passionate love. Now it has become the way they are closest to each other. Although Tan Weixin will not arouse Ye Tao's desire to cause trouble for herself, Ye Tao will not touch her to inspire Tan Weixin's emotions. This dullness can make the two more realize the other's cherishment of themselves.

Tan Weixin has been dealing with those gifts these days. The family members have not prepared any valuable gifts for her, because the people in the Tan family are like this. As long as they have them, they will definitely have one of hers. As long as it is what she needs, her father and younger brothers and sisters will definitely try their best to get it for her. On the contrary, gifts from others have caused her headaches. Jewelry and other things have always been disliked by her, and only a few people have chosen such things. For example, the representatives of the Yunzhou tribe sent about half a ton of gold jewelry. When this gift was delivered, it really made many people gasp. But the people in the Tan family are already very accustomed to it. They also gave it like this when the prince got married, and the same was true when Tan Weiran got married. When Tan Family mentioned the Yunzhou tribe, they always unconsciously guessed how much gold jewelry they had hoarded.

Most of the gifts were calligraphy and calligraphy from famous artists, or rare medicinal materials, and special varieties of tea. Mr. Qi sent twenty-four kinds of incense in total, totaling 120 kilograms of incense. This was quite amazing. When the delivery was made, the two people carried a sip of inconspicuous box, but the value of the 120 kilograms of incense in it was much more valuable than the heavy gold. Mr. Qi was understandable. In-depth cooperation with Ye Tao and Ye's workshop can be said to be the most important and wise decision he has made in recent years. The Tissot clock is now the most precious gift all over the world. After the Samir family deliberately reduced profit sales, the watch industry in Frank and Zurich was almost completely liquidated. And those sailing clocks with extremely high precision and

Nautical supplies have made Qihai Trading Company and the Samir family have advantages that others do not have in sailing, not to mention crossbows, harsh oil, Mars bombs, etc., which made Qihai Trading Company invincible in Southeast Asia. Not only did they not take pirates seriously, they could pounce on them without hesitation when encountering private fleets in some countries. Qihai Trading Company has a gift from Ye Tao. If the Tissot clock is used as a wedding gift for Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, it would be a joke. After thinking about it, Mr. Qi gave this gift. Not only did he not think it was a heavy gift, but he also felt it was lighter. He was completely unworthy of Ye Tao's current status, especially the iron friendship between them, one of the old and one of the young...

Other special gifts come from Samir and Mohammed. As an important member of the Qihai Trading Company over the years, Mohammed has been in contact with other Hu merchants in the Samir family, and he is very good at everything. He gave five pairs of peacocks, one of which was a very precious white peacock. Since sea transportation is prone to problems, a pair of peacock feathers were seriously damaged. So Muhammed suggested that this pair of peacocks with bad quality be roasted and eaten - to make it the most popular gold foil roasted peacock at the grand banquet of the Frank Kingdom...

The Samir family, represented by Assad, sent something that must have been very fond of Ye Tao: craftsmen and books. Among them were watchmakers who were forced to go bankrupt. There were also hostile families they captured, various architects, decorators, fine painters, various common and uncommon handicraftsmen in the country, and even several Egyptian monks who made mummies... There were more than 300 people in the family, from nineteen countries and regions, and spoke at least seven different languages...

He also brought in various books, drawings and other things that these people had been detained by the Samir family for many years and didn't know how to deal with it. However, this gift did make Ye Tao's eyes lit up, and he praised the Samir family as indeed good friends. In order to deserve Ye Tao's praise, Assad generously expressed that he would send a few translators to obey Ye Tao's orders until the language problems of these people no longer became problems.

Compared to the various precious medicinal herbs that were filled with several rooms that could never be eaten, Tan Weixin was more willing to deal with these troublesome gifts. She lit a furnace of incense and summoned servants to the scent of the clear mind, and ordered all kinds of things, from arranging food and accommodation for the craftsmen who had just landed in Yichenggang and their families to find someone to feed the peacocks, and even racking their brains to recalling what the peacocks had eaten was a very pleasant experience. As for roasting peacocks, it would be left to the boring nobles who were so much money that they had no place to use.

A few days after Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's wedding, Tan Xiaopei, Zhuo Xiu, Tan Weiming, Tan Weiran and Tan Weishi all went back to Danyang. As for another member of Tan Weizai, Tan Weizai, he did not come at all. Tan Weizai, who has the royal blood of Chunnan, is noble, but because he has been under the care of his mother, Concubine Lian, Chang Ling, and Tan Weixin, who is very disliked by Tan Weixin's brothers and sisters... So, whether it was Tan Xiaopei or Tan Weixin, after completely politely invited Concubine Lian, Chang Ling, was rejected, he had no other thoughts at all.

Ye Laogeng was not waiting for the mountain fort for too long. Although the noble family in the family was very respectful to Ye Laogeng, not only did they not care about Ye Laogeng's carpenter background, but they often came and went with him like ordinary people. Tan Xiaopei enthusiastically asked Ye Laogeng to go back to Danyang because of heavy state affairs. However, although Ye Laogeng had no state affairs to work, there was a very complicated management work of the Ye family workshop. The arrival of a large number of smelting and military craftsmen, a large number of personnel resettlement, factory construction, equipment installation, raw materials organization, and even the most troublesome solution to the problem of language communication... Ye Laogeng had a headache when he thought of these things. And he

At first I realized that the craft was not as good as Guandi Qianshun. Although that guy was just as good at craftsmanship, he really had a good idea in management. But Qianshun is now doing well in Yunzhou. Guan Haishan left with Assad after the wedding. Now he must be on a boat to Dubai. Suo Yong was in charge of the Ye Family Workshop in Danyang, while Zhao Dazhu, who was extremely skilled but less stubborn in management, was supervising the supervision at the Ye Family Workshop headquarters in Yicheng... This is really a disaster. In addition, Ye Laogeng rushed back to Yicheng and had another thing to do. That is to arrange a much lower-key wedding with Dai Yuege: the wedding of Ye Tao and Dai Qiuyan.

Ye Tao, who was left in Jiangshan Fort, naturally had a lot of research work to do, perhaps too much. He soon found that it was completely impossible to figure out the structure of Jiangshan Fort. Even if he was familiar with Jiangshan Fort, he could not figure out the complex secret passages and the location of the so-called treasure cave. Even in the entire Jiangshan Fort system, there were many buildings without even decent drawings.

Under such circumstances, Ye Tao finally decided not to save money for the inner government. He decided to completely demolish all the "dangerous houses" in the Jiangshan Fort system. In addition to the Tan clan ancestral hall on the top of the mountain, the cemetery and the villa on the mountain, the entire Jiangshan Fort Fortress system was basically rebuilt.

In Ye Tao's preliminary design drawing, the main fort and slightly narrow gate of the mountain fort will be removed, and replaced by a huge suspension bridge and a majestic stone tower on both sides of the suspension bridge. Along the gate, to both sides, an arc-shaped city wall is formed on the hillside, and there are independent stones to build a defense tower every other section. After this circle of city walls and defense towers, the defense core of the mountain fortress fortress is about 300 steps behind the original main fort. The new main fort will be established. The new main fort will be one floor higher than the original main fort, and the top two floors are open-air stairs, which are used to arrange long-range projection weapons.

The catapult will be the main equipment at present. However, Ye Tao left the remaining allowance in the design. If the conditions allow, the cannon can be used to quickly change the mountain fort. The command post of the mountain fort will be set up in the main fort. However, there will be two observation and message towers on both sides of the main fort to quickly communicate with the defense forces on the city wall. Behind the main fort, there is a single towering watchtower with an eagle station at the top. In the space between the main fort and the city wall, there are still many spaces for setting up many military-related buildings, such as ordnance stations, and some warehouses can also be built to store defense materials.

Because of this adjustment of the defense of the mountain fort actually reduces the total defense area of ​​the mountain fort and shrinks the limited force into the main defense circle. The mountain fort must also provide a large amount of space for non-combatants entering and evading within the defense circle, and also need sufficient storage space to store food, drinking water and various other things. Ye Tao moved his mind to the mountain, made full use of several caves that had been dug, and then digged some caves to solve this problem.

What changes are even more important is the part outside the defense circle, which will be used as a living area during the non-war period. From the height of the city wall from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, two communities are placed on the front of the castle, two communities on both sides, and a community is also arranged in the back mountain. Each community has independent courtyards, single-family villas and collective dormitories and other different types of buildings, surrounding a small watchtower. There is a bell for alarming the top of the watchtower. There is also a cellar for hiding underneath. If possible, Ye Tao even wants each community to have a separate defense system. In this way, it can be used as a supplement to the defense of the main castle. These additional communities can be used as residences for the Tan family's retainers and families, as well as barracks. As for the training of Tan clan soldiers, it has always been carried out in the back mountain, where there are quite complete barracks and other conditions, so there is no need to worry about Ye Tao.

Since it is necessary to rebuild, it might as well be more thorough. Ye Tao decided to separate the water supply and sewage discharge. Water supply requires power. In this regard, Ye Tao did not rely entirely on the steam engine technology of the Ye's workshop, but instead focused on the very mature Dutch windmill. Those beautiful big guys are good at doing that. Ye Tao even added a sand filter for the central water supply system. Naturally, the deep wells everywhere were fully utilized, and installing a set of press-bar water lifters for all deep wells will greatly improve work efficiency. As for the construction of sewage discharge pipelines, toilets and other things, it is naturally beneficial to the environmental sanitation of the entire Jiangshan Fort, and once it is time to war, keeping it clean is actually very beneficial to long-term persistence. After all, if there are urinary residues around, no one will have much morale.

Ye Tao spent two days with the help of Lao Zhongtou to build two versions of Jiangshan Fort. Lao Zhongtou was so quick and bold that Ye Tao had a scalp tingling. If Ye Tao's plan was passed, the entire project would probably not be able to end in two or three years. After all, the construction requirements of the fortress were different from those civil buildings. Ye Tao and Dai's Construction Industry have built so many things over the years, but the Iron City was just completed and put into use at the beginning of the year. This is the difference. Cement and bricks can be made. But stone can only be transported from the appropriate place of origin.

Processing. However, after a few days of struggle, Lao Zhongtou decided to support Ye Tao's plan. On the one hand, Ye Tao's plan was not only very thoughtful and reliable, but also fully considered the need for fortress maintenance and the installation of updated remote projection weapons in the future. Lao Zhongtou knew that he was so old. When he died, it was not easy to find someone who could do the same thing as himself and repair it. It would be better to solve the problem once and for all. Of course, there was another reason. That is, Ye Tao's plan was really majestic and beautiful.

Could it be not beautiful? The new main castle almost copied the entire Helmet Castle. It was only expanded several times, giving room to install large projection weapons.

Ye Tao no longer has to take care of everything in architecture. Even if there are only simple design drawings, he can gather a team of qualified architects and engineers to perfect the entire design for him. Consider how to build and how to build is the most scientific and reasonable. As for the decoration style, lighting arrangement, furniture and other supplies inside the building, Ye's Workshop has the most complete team to provide a comprehensive solution. Ye Tao is extremely proud to be able to do this in this time and space.

The letter sent to Yicheng and asked Ye's Workshop and Dai's Construction Team to send an architect engineer team to the mountain fort was quickly replied. In recent years, Dai Yuege has been raised by one influential and famous architectural projects in history. He has no interest in general construction projects. Even if he earns a lot of money, he is not interested in money at all. After all, he is not short of money at all. However, Dai Yuege is unable to seek such a major project that brings closer to Tan's family. With Tan Xiaopei's personality and the usual style of the Hetan family, he will definitely come to worship the mountain fort for ancestors after becoming emperor in the future. For a builder, it is probably the peak that can be reached.

With Dai Yuege's reply, there was also a urging from Qi Zhentao. Even Tan Weixin was very interested in the things mentioned in Qi Zhentao's letter.

This time, the merchant ships who came to Yicheng not only brought craftsmen, steel ingots and other materials of considerable quantity, but also brought a large number of strange things collected by the Qihai Trading Company and the Samir family in the South China Sea. Some of them have been found for use, such as spices, and some of them have no use or even name. Considering that many aspects of experiments and attempts are required, there are even a large number of each type of thing. Those ores have been tried by craftsmen, and the identification and classification of those plants is a bigger problem. Qi Zhentao asked Ye Tao if he wanted to take a look at it...
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