Chapter 74: Running

The number of people attending Ye Tao's "group learning" lectures has been soaring, so that when the fourth lecture was held, the lecture location had to be changed to the explanation hall of Yi Zhan Building. Only this place can accommodate up to 500 listeners. In addition to the trainee officers, supervisors and adjutants, the active officers in Dongping, there are also some outstanding children of various families, some managers and even officials of major businesses, and some local officials in Danyang. The content of each lecture will be recorded by a special person and then presented to the emperor. Although the question-related questions claimed by the king Tan Xiaopei has not come for a long time, this practical attention is more clear than the nominal questions that Tan Xiaopei attaches more importance to Ye Tao now.

Dongping does not have formal and large-scale military academies, and military knowledge has always been passed down from generation to generation by those generals. Now, the Huoqi Army and the Fierce Blood Army led by the inspection office have taken on part of the military science responsibilities. When this institution, which combines teaching and practice, but is full of joy and incredible, has become more and more mature in everyone's attention, Tan Xiaopei finally issued a secret order, requiring the selection of the Second Marine Chess Open and the subsequent intern officers to be strongly participated by the Ministry of War and the Imperial Army Governor's Office.

Under the personal attention of the king, the two armies, which maintained extremely high training quality and teaching quality, received strong support in the construction of the military. The 3,000 men of the Fierce Blood Army were all composed of cavalry, including two thousand light cavalry, and one thousand archers. This structure emphasized and insisted by Dai Yun was finally recognized. In fact, Dai Yun's goal was that these 3,000 people were elites who could change their equipment and horses between light cavalry, heavy cavalry and archers by changing their equipment and horses, and could be used as scouts, raids, or conduct large-scale battles according to combat needs. In the ubiquitous internal competition, some of Dai Yun's ideas have actually been implemented by some people.

The Fire Qi Army is more specialized. Half of the three thousand men are heavy infantry that cost a lot of money, and the other is a thousand long archers and five hundred catapults. The Fire Qi Army is completely abandoned by the light infantry army, which may be the most luxurious unit of equipment in this era, but due to the complete equipment of war horses and pack horses, they attach great importance to physical fitness and marching training. In fact, the full marching speed of the Fire Qi Army is no worse than that of the Imperial Army's infantry troops.

In the autumn, when the two armies consulted the government climax of popularizing basic military knowledge, all kinds of courses and training began to develop in the direction of specialization, they organized all local intern officers to conduct a topographic surveying competition. More than 200 trainee officers were divided into twenty groups to go to various places. Under the leadership of professional sergeants, the existing military maps were corrected and the existing descriptive maps were converted into more accurate contour maps as much as possible.

In fact, after half a year of inculcating various knowledge, the Fire Qi Army and the Fierce Blood Army have become the elite troops of the professional officer team with the richest and most detailed theoretical basis in this era. The Ministry of War is seriously considering recalling the troops from the officers who had long retired from the two armies, and summoning young children who were unable to join the army for various reasons but are still young and still have room for development into the army to satisfy their dreams.

This may be the power of systematic learning. The two armies who were regarded as a thing as a thing, made their debut in more than half a year. Everyone really didn't expect it. In particular, the two armies always maintained a strong morale and a strong competitive atmosphere, allowing both armies to continue to grow at an extremely fast speed. Although this kind of competition cannot be popularized into the entire Dongping army, because behind this competition is an extremely complex system, requiring a military officer and non-commissioned officer with a considerable cultural foundation, requiring continuous, good, and professional training and education, and an attractive incentive system. However, it is no problem to learn from the success of the Fire Qi Army and the Fierce Blood Army and promote it.

Unlike the two armies' review mansions that were presented to everyone in a grand manner, the salon-style lectures in Princess Zhaohua's mansion were held quietly were much lower-key, and not many people even knew about it. However, if you want to speak meaning, it is no less than the establishment of an alternative military academy for Dongping.

The lectures in the Princess' Mansion were also once every ten days, and only about twenty people participated. Among them were Prince Tan Weiming of Dongping, Lin Chengze, Minister of Revenue, and the talks between several wealthy families and wealthy businessmen in Dongping. Tan Weixin did not even dare to open Pandora's box, but she only talked about the superficiality of modern economics and finance, and carried out several simulation operations of the ticket number, which made everyone understand. It turned out that the money in their hands was such a terrifying power.

Then, the bill number jointly operated by the inner government and large merchants and formed a special team to supervise by the Ministry of Revenue was established. The initial business was nothing more than membership-based off-site settlement, exchange and credit with strict control and extremely limited quota.

When the snow started to fall this year, he had moved out of the garden given by Tan Weixin. He moved into the "Zheng Garden" that was carefully designed, which is more practical and beautiful in any aspect. It has become the name of Danyang and even the entire Dongping Tiezhengzheng. No one doubts the power of Ye family, who is fighting gold every day, and the Ye family now have an increasing influence in the officialdom and shopping malls. However, Ye Tao was a little depressed.

IKEA and Tissot watch shops have always been in a state of insufficient production capacity. As for IKEA, Yicheng still maintains high-end mid-end and low-end markets at least, but in Danyang, IKEA has become synonymous with high-end home furnishings. Mirror paint and gold-drawing and silver-drawing technology products are the most popular. Although these technologies are still so mysterious to other woodworking workshops, within Ye’s workshops, due to too many opportunities to practice, even those Ye’s workshops have recruited after entering Danyang.

The local apprentices recruited have mastered it. Although Tissot Watch Company finally has a clock with an anchor escapement mechanism, a clockwork powered by a needle-tooth escapement mechanism, it seems that the entire market's requirements for clocks are becoming more and more gorgeous, not more and more accurate... When IKEA and Tissot Watch Company do not develop new products, but emphasize production capacity and product quality, Ye Tao does not have to care about these two businesses at all.

When Yi Zhan Tower was being paid attention to by the Dongping military and was regarded as a similar "patriotic education base" and "reserve officer training base", Ye Tao had no choice but to let the matter of Yi Zhan Tower go.

Every few days, there will be letters from Yicheng to explain the progress of the bell tower in Yicheng Port District. When the new year comes, the bell tower has exceeded 160 feet in height, and continues to climb upward at a speed that makes Ye Tao stunned. This building uses cast iron frame, lighter and more durable bricks, and cement. It is not only the first-class in design but also the difficulty of construction, but also the first-class in cooperation and engineering management in all aspects. Under the stimulation of the Yicheng Bell Tower, the Danyang Bell Tower also began to organize the foundation, prepare materials and other preparations in advance.

Along with Zhengyuan, the current hot Danyang New City District is. Walking out of the front door of Zhengyuan and standing on the street near the river, you can see the carriages carrying various building materials on the other side, and the workers and gardeners passing by. Behind the two alleys, there is a huge site reserved for the bell tower. Without civilized construction regulations, almost one-third of the construction sites of the city are not filled with dust and people. In this era without strong lighting, it is possible to leave a quiet night for everyone. Ye Tao does not have to be surprised by such a scene, which is what he had expected.

However, he sighed at his embarrassing identity. Is he an architect, designer, businessman, civil servant, or military general now? He was a little confused. All those who were in and out of the princess's mansion were rich and powerful. He had already come to Zhengyuan every two or three days to play with him. The princess Tan Weishi, who asked him for gifts, had already spread throughout Danyang and even spread farther, and was a sign of his favor. Not to mention, the princess and the little prince had a lot of contact with him. It was not easy for those rich merchants and wealthy families in Dongping to meet Ye Tao once.

However, Ye Tao was a little dissatisfied. What is he now? He did follow his dreams, wanting to make himself live better with the people around him, and strive to make this time and space feel familiar and kind... For this goal, he has already paid a lot. What he paid is not to make himself closer to power, nor is it.

Sometimes, Ye Tao even began to feel that his life was too boring. But he was helpless. He understood that his busyness was not because of anyone, but because of himself, and Tan Weixin, who came from the same time and space as him. The harder they worked, the deeper they would be entangled in the vortex of this era. Everything they did and wanted to do required greater and greater power as the basis, which would make them busier and busier.
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