Chapter 443 Inauguration Ceremony (4)

Dongping Battle Flag, . After quickly clearing the ground, twelve iron cannons were drawn from the small doors on either side of the straight and towering staircase of the Doge's Palace. Facing the square, they are lined up. The barrel of the cannon has been sandblasted and blue-baked, which is considered a top-notch metal finish in this year. Sandblasting, baking blue, frosting, wire drawing, and becoming the four major metal surface treatment processes of Ye's Workshop, it is not unreasonable, each technology, I don't know how many craftsmen have condensed how much time and how much painstaking efforts, and I don't know how much money has been spent on Ye's Workshop, Ye's Workshop is Ye Tao's private property, but it maintains the system and scale of the Dongping Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is no longer a place that ordinary people can understand. If it is said that under the efforts of Ye Tao and officials at all levels in Yunzhou, the city of Yunzhou, represented by Gangdor, has entered modernization, then in the Ye's Workshop Research Institute, there are at least seven research institutes of optics, electricity, alchemy, flight, firearms, power machinery, and textiles, and the results are very close to modernization. If it weren't for Gondor's inauguration ceremony, Ye Tao wouldn't have prepared to let these iron cannons appear. This is no longer a bulky front-loading gun, but a light rear-loading gun with a fairly technical content, using brass-shelled shells. Although the so-called "thunder shells" with surprising sound are used as salutes without any lethality, and even the rifling and muzzle smoke are suppressed to a minimum, but once those copper-shelled shells are replaced, these rifled light guns are super sharp weapons for battlefield support, which are more powerful than the combination of ballistas and fire oil shells, and the gunners of direct-fire artillery must be able to meet the standard, and the training is even simpler than that of ballista gunners. However, Ye Tao was going to wait for the artillery to report to Tan Xiaopei and them after the ceremony, for the time being, let everyone think that this thing was just a salute.

After the flag-raising and gun salute was fired, the parade officially began. The invited guests were naturally arranged on the balcony of the Governor's Palace according to their importance, and if there were children of each family on the balcony whose status was not so standard. Ip Manxuan and Ip Manji didn't have this treatment originally, but this time Tan Weiming came with his son, the son and daughter of Tan Weiran's family came together, Golan's grandchildren, Lu Dan's eldest son, and a total of six children from Chi Lei Chiyun's brothers came...... Many of these people are members of Yunzhou Kindergarten, and they can be regarded as reuniting with Ip Man Xuan and Ip Man after a long absence. Ye Tao originally arranged these people on the balcony on the second floor of the headquarters building of the Messenger Bureau opposite the Governor's Palace, but it was changed by Tan Xiaopei. Tan Xiaopei swapped the positions of the representatives of various families with these children. These children, who can watch the parade on the subjective ceremonial platform, are from extraordinary backgrounds, and naturally know that they must abide by the rules on such occasions. They are all wearing simple and solemn Dongping Kindergarten and Mengxue's uniform uniforms, all with small faces with excitement, but they all sit up straight, and they are all quiet, even if they say something to each other, they are all as quiet as possible, a group of children who are usually noisy and make everyone have a headache, but the performance at this moment makes the adults can't help but applaud secretly. And Tan Xiaopei's arrangement, the meaning is also very clear, compared with the representatives of the family, it is obvious that these children are more important to the future of Dongping.

There were only a few representatives of the family who were originally qualified to go to the main stage, they were all extremely close families to the Tanjia and the Ye family, and everyone just laughed and laughed, and no one would have any complaints. And for many others, the best place to see the ceremony is not the central avenue where crowds begin to gather on both sides and the buildings along the way are booked, but around a small square on one side of the central avenue. The small square is the preparation area for the entire military parade, and each participating unit will first assemble in the preparation area, trim and then set off in turn. This is the best place to observe for those spies from Xiling, Northern Liao, and Chunnan who have ulterior motives, as well as representatives of other forces who want to find out the strength of Yunzhou.

And among these people, the highest status is none other than Gao Senqi. As the young leader of the Northern Liaoxi Route Army, he has not been to Yunzhou in recent years. After the loss of the Northern Liao division in the Battle of Beining Pass, the imperial court's control over the local warlords weakened more and more, and the Gao family had basically turned the Western Route Army into their own private army, and the territory of the entire Western Route Army had been under the quasi-wartime economic system for many years, reorganizing the army and fighting, silently preparing for the inevitable major war with Dongping and Yunzhou in the future. However, Gao Senqi has always been able to enjoy the treatment of a friend in Yunzhou, because, as a powerful part of Dongping, Yunzhou advocates force, respects heroes, and they respect every opponent, especially those who dare not rely on intrigue and intrigue and dare to meet them in arms, and they advocate pure art of war...... In this kind of dialogue between pure soldiers and soldiers, Gao Senqi is indeed a good opponent that is very recognized by the generals of Yunzhou. This time, Gao Senqi came very early for the inauguration ceremony of Gondor, and Ye Tao even took him to visit important facilities such as city defense, underground facilities, transportation, communication management, production and warehousing in his busy schedule, which took two full days. Ye Tao is indeed showing off, but he is also secretly declaring to this friend who has experienced something together in Chunnan: Let's stop fighting, it's not interesting. Ye Tao didn't seem to be afraid that Gao Senqi would know about these things and such an important thing as city defense, because he knew very well that although the Western Route Army was very strong now, it would definitely not be a threat to Gondor. In fact, no one now feels that they have the power to threaten Gondor. Even during the rainstorm season when airship reconnaissance is completely blinded......

The Takamori flag is on the edge of the preparation area of the small square, and undoubtedly occupies the best view. It was the sixth floor of Gondor's most exclusive restaurant operated by Nanami Trading Company, and it was located by the window. 6th Floor...... The thought of this height makes people shudder a little. In Northern Liao, even if it is a tower-style building, the highest is only nine floors, and the space on each floor is very limited. But now, reinforced concrete, advanced frame structure and design concepts, as well as incredible decoration means and ideas, and well-designed lighting system, make the whole restaurant a place where everyone can enjoy themselves. While drinking the faint red wine, which Ye Tao became "Chardonnay", Gao Senqi overlooked the entire small square. The troops of these twelve battalions had already gathered in the square, and on the surrounding roads, eight more battalions were waiting to enter the field to form a group.

"This brother, do you mind if I take a seat here? The view of this place is really nice. Suddenly, a clear voice sounded beside him. Gao Senqi's guard's hand was already on the hilt of the knife, but Gao Senqi inadvertently waved his hand, and the guard immediately wrapped his hands around and stepped aside.

Gao Senqi saw that the person who came was a scholar wearing a dark green robe, although the person looked very plain, but this kind of deep-dyed double-layer cotton and linen mixed fabric was not something ordinary people could afford to wear, and the mutton fat jade pendant hanging from the scholar's waist was not ordinary. If you still doubt the importance of this scholar, you can glance not far away, although a middle-aged man in his forties did not look at this side, but his attention was all around this scholar. Gao Senqi felt that if his guards drew their swords, he was afraid that the first to strike would be this middle-aged man who didn't seem to attract much attention.

"Sit down, I'm bored by myself." Gao Moriqi generously pointed to the seat opposite him.

"Where is Brother Tai from? Listening to your accent, it doesn't seem to be a native of Yunzhou. The scholar asked.

"Does Yunzhou have a local accent? You're not a local either, are you? If you want to know who I am, just ask, what's so bad? Gao Senqi snorted, disapproving of this temptation.

"Hehe, that's very good. The contemptible Jiang Yan came from Yuhang. Jiang Yan arched his hand and said.

Gao Mori was taken aback. He never thought that Jiang Yan, the first adviser in Chunnan, would sit in front of him like this. Don't look at Jiang Yan's lack of position, his words and deeds have a far-reaching impact on many things in Chunnan than those scholars, squires, scholars, generals, etc. In the eyes of the lord of Chunnan, Jiang Yan's ideas are largely more reliable than his two sons who are making trouble.

"Disrespectful and disrespectful, long admiration and long admiration. In the lower Gaosen banner, the Flying Tiger Army of the North Liaoning West Route Army was commanded. Gao Senqi replied proudly. And this answer was obviously much beyond Jiang Yan's expectations. Jiang Yan could also see that this guy sitting by the window with a guard was not an ordinary person, but he didn't expect it to be someone from Beiliao, and he didn't expect that Gao Senqi would dare to find out his identity here.

"It turned out to be General Gao. I really didn't expect it. Why, General Gao has taken a good position, I asked the boss a few times, I'm afraid you have already booked this position, right? Jiang Yan said calmly.

"No, this is the position that Ye Tao helped me prepare. He was hoping to scare me, and maybe we wouldn't have to fight. Gao Senqi said. It's not that easy to scare me, but you can see something new here, and it's ...... It's not too much. ”

"The general knows a lot about the armies of Yunzhou?" Jiang Yan asked.

"If you already knew that there would be a battle with Yunzhou, could you not know?" Gao Senqi only understands the armies of Yunzhou. There are quite a few spies of the Western Route Army in Yunzhou, and the Yunzhou military is highly disciplined and has proper secrecy measures, so it is difficult for spies to infiltrate the army, but there are many opportunities to observe from the side. The equipment and combat power of each battalion in Yunzhou have more or less bottom. In addition to the heavy equipment battalion and the airship team, which are limited to technical conditions that cannot be imitated, the Western Route Army has simulated all branches of the army in Yunzhou to find out the strengths and weaknesses of each branch, so as to facilitate the decision-making of officers in future operations. In fact, Gao Senqi has long understood that fighting against Yunzhou and Dongping, Northern Liao really has no chance of winning. But he also realized that they had to fight strong in order to leave a deep position in the hearts of the people of Dongping and Yunzhou, and the vast number of people in Northern Liao would be taken seriously and treated well...... This may be the last thing that these generals can do for the people of Yunzhou. It is precisely because of this realization that the Western Route Army has accumulated tremendous strength in a sad and gloomy atmosphere over the years. At this time, Gao Senqi said with a smile: "After all, the views of Wenchen and the military generals are different, since you are also interested, let me explain it to you." ”