Chapter 179: Precise

The growth of Seven Seas Trading Company, although on paper, the profits were not so significant compared to the huge investment. But Seven Seas Trading Company has already gained a firm foothold in Nanyang after all. And after Qi Zhentao attended Ye Tao's wedding, he was also summoned by Tan Xiaopei. After Ye Tao came to Yicheng, Qi Zhentao relayed the content of the summons to Ye Tao. It turned out that Tan Xiaopei hoped that Nanami Trading Company could further expand the size of the convoy, and in the future, when Dongping and Chunnan went to war, it would be ideal if they could give Chunnan a stab from the long coastline of Chunnan. Although Qi Zhentao said that he would give his full support, he may not live to that day when he is old, and he hopes that Dongping's strategy can be consistent, otherwise Seven Seas Trading Company will develop, but if someone is labeled as an intention to stand on his own, it will be bad.

And Qi Zhentao even mentioned another possibility, that is, to open up a province in Nanyang. Of course, this will require a significant number of people to move. Although Dongping is ahead of the other countries in terms of sailors, it does not mean that Dongping is a maritime country, it can only show that Dongping is willing to spend money on sailors and knows how to spend money correctly. According to the climate, Dongping generally belongs to the temperate climate, and if you really want to migrate, the problem of water and soil adaptation will be more serious. Moreover, the continuous development of Dongping and the relatively clear government and economic system in China have made the lives of most Dongping people very passable, and there is a lack of internal requirements for migration. Of course, just as a suggestion, Qi Zhentao's idea is still very insightful. And from the beginning of this meeting between Tan Xiaopei and Qi Zhentao, Nanyang has been officially adopted as part of Dongping's unified war layout. And this kind of thing makes Ye Tao even more headache, because this means that a steady stream of technical problems will arise with the development of Seven Seas Trading Company in Nanyang......

In order to prevent his newlywed honeymoon from turning into a work trip and a business trip, Ye Tao resolutely refused the arrangement to go to Crescent Island. Officially named Yasui by the Ministry of War, it was developed by the Seven Seas Trading Company's Crescent Island Shipyard**, and is known as the new type of warship of the Tiger Tooth Ship in the records of the Seven Seas Trading Company and the Ye Workshop. The attraction to Ye Tao is not so great that he can go desperately to see it. What's more, the Huya ship is about to come to Yicheng Port to make an appearance. When the time comes, he will naturally have the opportunity to board the ship and visit the place. Moreover, after reading the drawings, you can know that the Huya ship is indeed a very powerful warship, especially suitable for long-range bombardment warfare methods combining ballistas, divine arm bows and fierce fire oil. According to Ye Tao's estimate, if the structure is strengthened, the problem of replacing artillery in the future will not be very big...... Naturally, such a thing as artillery also needs him to come up with it.

Now this time. It is really unrealistic to ask him to leave his family, especially the two wives who have entered the Ye family one after another, to see that kind of cold big guy. It was impossible for him to take his family to Crescent Island.

Although Tan Weixin's body is now greatly improved, when she arrives at sea, she doesn't know what will happen when she is bumpy for a day. Dai Qiuyan, on the other hand, is used to seeing the sea view and has enough immunity to seafood.

What made Ye Tao feel more at ease was. Although he must not have the experience to deal with such family relationships, Tan Weixin, Dai Qiuyan, and Sophie get along very well. Maybe it's because in the last few years, there's been plenty of time to figure out where they stand. Or maybe it's because they all cherish the opportunity and feeling of being with Ye Tao. After helping to sort those tropical crops, Ye Tao stayed at home completely. They stayed in the spring warm house and lived a very comfortable life. I don't think much about going out, and I don't think much about receiving guests.

They were together almost all the time during the day, lying in the quiet room of the spring warm house, blowing the less tough wind, and chatting about all kinds of topics. Dai Qiuyan set up an easel and drew an extremely large family portrait on the side. In the middle of the picture, Ye Tao is naturally sitting on a Taishi chair, with a faint look on his face. But with an extremely confident smile. Tan Weixin sat beside Ye Taodi, her expression was joyful, but the smile was lighter and more reserved, it was a typical Tan Weixin smile, not noticeable, but not to be ignored. Dai Qiuyan placed herself behind Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, her hand resting on the back of Ye Tao's chair, while she leaned forward herself. Put his head next to Ye Tao's head. A very attached look. Sophie, on the other hand, stood beside Dai Qiuyandi, hanging her head slightly. put all his attention on Ye Taodi. Perhaps the color of this painting is very unpleasant, Ye Tao is wearing a blue-gray coarse cloth gown, Tan Weixin is wearing a moon-white long dress, Dai Qiuyan is wearing a light pink dress, and Sophie is wearing a more Franconian long dress, the kind of conservative style, which makes Sophie look a little like a tutor-type character...... These costumes are too ordinary, and they are the ones they usually like to wear the most comfortable clothes. However, the composition of this "temporary" family portrait and the posture and demeanor of each person in the painting fit too well with the relationship between the two of them.

Dai Qiuyan completed the entire composition in her own mind, and then sketched out the rough composition on paper with a pencil, and then colored it little by little with extremely detailed brushstrokes. After seeing this painting, whether it was Ye Tao, Tan Weixin or Sophie, they all liked this painting and were looking forward to its completion as soon as possible. It would be the best decoration for their family's abode.

Dai Qiuyan is actually a little unable to adapt to the change of her identity. From an innocent girl to a young woman, it's not just about labor pains. She didn't know why Ye Tao asked her to change the title of "Brother Ye", and she didn't understand why Ye Tao would say it, it would make him feel evil. In Ye Tao's half-drunk muttering, words like "cultivation" occasionally popped up also made her wonder. However, she could appreciate Ye Tao's cherishing of her...... In a more straightforward way than ever before.

Dai Qiuyan is the kind of person who shows likes and dislikes very directly, after Tan Weixin and Ye Tao's marriage was confirmed, she was worried about whether her "Brother Ye" didn't like her. But when nothing changed, she calmly accepted the fact. Tan Weixin is an amazing person, this is the opinion that her best friend Tan Weixin keeps instilling in her, naturally, she also thinks that when dealing with so many things, she will never have the ability to talk about Weixin. And Tan Weixin has never taken the princess's shelf in front of her. It was and still is. Even Sophie is treated as an egalitarian.

When after the two weddings, when Tan Weixin, Dai Qiuyan and Sophie got together for the first time "accidentally" to negotiate how to get along in the future, Tan Weixin proposed that the three of them take turns and postpone it when they met Ye Tao's absence, Dai Qiuyan certainly had no opinion, and Sophie was even more surprised.

Dai Qiuyan is the young grandmother that the Ye family has long recognized, and no matter what Tan Weixin's identity is, she will not waver.

And Sophie has always only thought of herself as Ye Tao's maid. There is a maid in the young master's room. That's a normal thing. Although Ye Tao didn't treat her like that, she didn't have any idea of changing the status quo. However, Tan Weixin put Sophie in a relatively equal position, and she even persuaded Sophie to start using maids herself, which Ye Tao was unable to do. Ye Tao has long felt that Sophie's focus on the drawings and in Ye Tao's studio is much more important and meaningful than her handling of housekeeping for Ye Tao, but as a beautiful one. She also cherishes her beautiful young woman very much, and she has a lot of things to do on her own. Sophie fully understands that Ye Tao has a lot of projects that he is conceiving, imagining, and pre-researching, and will slowly release them for a long time in the future. The work of sorting, copying, and classifying these technical accumulation projects is quite arduous, and it cannot be faked by others. As for being a member of the rotation. is treated the same as Tan Weixin and Dai Qiuyan, and Sophie has no reason to refuse.

Do what is most beneficial to Ye Tao, this is their tacit understanding, and with this tacit understanding. It's not hard for them to get along with each other at all. Among them, she took turns to be a model for Dai Qiuyan, so that Dai Qiuyan could complete the "family photo" as soon as possible.

Dai Qiuyan, who has put a lot of effort into this painting, is also making rapid progress. She had already made a portrait of Tan Weixin, and she had already studied Tan Weixin's face shape and facial features, except for adding a healthy ruddy to Tan Weixin's face in the painting, she did not do any modification. And Sophie, it is not once or twice that Dai Qiuyan has been a model, and the three-dimensional face and posture have always been Dai Qiuyan's favorite subjects. Even if you don't follow the model, Dai Qiuyan can draw it. And there is no obstacle to painting herself, except that she feels a little shy when she paints the young woman's hairstyle. On the contrary, it was Ye Tao, she found that no matter how hard she tried, she could only draw a rough outline, but she couldn't remember the details of Ye Tao's face. She didn't doubt that if she was in the crowd, she would be able to distinguish Ye Tao. Usually, it seems that Ye Tao has never been regarded as any other person or any other person as Ye Tao's experience. Thereupon. She was nervous about this strange situation. When she cautiously asked Ye Tao to stay in front of the easel as a model the whole time when she painted the part of his land, and was embarrassed to say the problems she encountered, Tan Weixin half-jokingly and half-sincerely complimented that she and Ye Tao had reached the highest state of acquaintance, acquaintance, stay, and forgetfulness, which made her blush for a long time.

"I just found out, when the light came from this side, Brother Ye was still very handsome." Dai Qiuyan looked at Ye Tao's face carefully and couldn't help but say.

"You don't have to doubt that, I'm handsome anytime and anywhere." Ye Tao's eyebrows raised, and he said very shamelessly.

This kind of joke didn't happen so naturally before. Dai Qiuyan likes this relaxed feeling. But what made her even happier was that for Ye Tao's words, Tan Weixin and Sophie immediately began to find all kinds of ugly things about Ye Tao to attack. Ye Tao was not angry, his eloquence was already very good, and after dozens of extremely high-quality debates in Danyang for two consecutive months, it was greatly improved. He actually refuted some of the more nonsensical, perhaps he didn't remember after being drunk, and asked Tan Weixin and Sophie to "provide evidence" one by one for those things that seemed to be his fool, otherwise they would be "punished".

Tan Weixin simply raised her eyebrows, rolled her eyes and left Ye Tao speechless, while Sophie really began to "give evidence...... Now Ziye Taoke had no choice but to beg for mercy. Dai Qiuyan couldn't smile so badly that she couldn't continue to paint, she had to hold her stomach and laugh for a while before she calmed down and continued to draw a few strokes.

"No more drawing, no more drawing...... I couldn't stand the laughter. Finally, Dai Qiuyan threw away the pen in her hand, ran to the sofa, hugged a pillow, and concentrated on chatting and telling jokes.

At this time, Zhao Dazhu came. There was something in the workshop that Ye Tao needed to decide. Ye Tao left with apologetic eyes, or rather, Ye Tao couldn't stand this funny scene and ran away.

Zhao Dazhu came to ask Ye Tao a more serious question, that is, which project the first batch of Uzi steel ingots were allocated to. Due to the very good quality of the Uzi steel, and the somewhat insufficient quantity of the first batch, several workshops asked for priority distribution of materials. The first to bear the brunt is the Sword and Armor Workshop, they have already received orders from the Blood Qi Army, although the calculation period is still extremely generous, but they hope to fully grasp the characteristics of the material, and then optimize the process, it will take time. The second is the heavy equipment workshop, in fact, most of the production capacity of the heavy equipment workshop is in Danyang, but the Yicheng headquarters is still responsible for the supply of weapons such as the Seven Seas Trading Company and the Samir family's ballista, and now the sailors are also squeezed into this queue, and in terms of heavy ordnance, Ye's workshop has always used the toughest materials to make those parts that are easy to wear and deform, such as the crossbar used to fix the torsion spring on the ballista. And Zhao Dazhu himself also wants to use that batch of Uzi steel, he wants to use this batch of Uzi steel to comprehensively upgrade the various tools used in the workshop...... He felt that his idea was beneficial to the entire workshop, but because this idea did not directly produce benefits, and it was still a question of how much productivity could be improved, he did not have the ability to come up with a plan with reference value, so he had to start arguing in the workshop and came to Ye Tao to get the idea.

"Unless there is any great breakthrough in the heavy equipment workshop, we will make every effort to supply the workshop tool upgrades." Ye Tao decided immediately. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and this is not a matter of hesitation. "I don't even remember anything in the Heavy Equipment Workshop that needed such good materials. Why are you still taking their requests into account? ”

"In fact...... There really is. Zhao Dazhu scratched his head, and then he found that he couldn't explain the problem clearly. If you come to the workshop and look at it, you can see that the drawings you threw away a long time ago, and they have actually made them now. ”