Chapter 214: Snake Eyes

The brief confrontation between Sun Jin and Ye Tao finally brought Yunzhou a fairly cost-effective business: 50,000 military horses in two years, including 30,000 third-class horses, 20,000 second-class horses, and first-class horses. After the design is finalized, Chunnan guarantees that the order quantity of Ye's workshop is not less than 10,000 sets.

In fact, the so-called order quantity of not less than 10,000 sets of this condition is dispensable, Ye Tao has to consider the possibility of Chunnan to produce his own armor to reduce costs, but after seeing the cavalry armor of the Blood Qi Army, and seeing the quality and craftsmanship of the new light cavalry armor of the tribal cavalry around Ye Tao, Sun Jin already has a lot in his heart: Chunnan can't make the same quality in five years, even if he reluctantly makes it himself, I'm afraid the price is higher than buying it from Dongping.

In addition, there was a secret agreement that Yunzhou would send a small number of cavalry officers to train an elite cavalry force of about 5,000 in the fiefdom of King Juxian. This clause will be enforced after Ye Tao obtains the consent of the head of the country, Tan Xiaopei. And the sudden emergence of such an opportunity that allowed Dongping to directly intervene in the military construction of Chunnan was because Chang Hongquan, the king of Juxian, was now more and more aware of the crisis. And in the final analysis, it is because the sons and grandsons of the lord of Chunnan are too wasteful, but the grandson of Juxian Wang Chang Hongquan has been clever since he was a child, so that the prince of Chunnan has already had a crisis of whether he will be usurped in the future...... Chang Hongquan is not such an ambitious person, but in terms of self-preservation, he will not sit still, in the long run, if his son and grandson have that heart in the future, or if the situation in Chunnan is so corrupt that he has to usurp the throne, it is very beneficial to have a strong army in his hand.

These things were discussed in less than a day. He also led Sun Jin and Chang Huaiyin to visit the Gray Goose Winery. They embarked on the road to Ningyuan together.

Ningyuan City is full of auspicious and festive pictures. If you can look down from above, you will even feel that the whole city is red.

Gathered in Ningyuan City, waiting for Ye Tao and Dai Yundi's wedding, people came from all directions. Especially the Blood Qi Army, except for the minimum number of rotating officers left in Danyang, almost the entire officer corps of the Blood Qi Army came, those who had graduated from the Blood Qi Army and were now in the forbidden army or the city defense army in various places. Or people who have left military positions, as long as they can spare time, almost all of them come. Lu Dan, who couldn't get out because he was appointed as the governor of Yicheng, also asked his wife Huang Wan to come on his behalf. Taiwei Chi Xianping came to watch the ceremony and give gifts on behalf of the court and the lord of the country, and his son Chi Yun came on behalf of the forbidden army...... The military figures present at the scene were jaw-dropping in their rank, seniority, and potential.

And the old man Qi Zhentao was able to come, but Ye Tao was very surprised. Old Man Qi is very busy now. There are so many things to do in the land of Nanami Trading House. And once back and forth to Ningyuan, the time it takes to think about it makes me feel very scary. When Ye Tao cautiously asked Old Man Qi if there was anything he needed to help solve, he was pulled down by Old Man Qi for a while, saying that he looked down on their friendship for many years. Facing a bold person like Old Man Qi, Ye Tao's mood easily improved.

There are also many friends, subordinates, and collaborators who have also come to Yunzhou in person. Even those who could not come to the land for various reasons sent messengers and gifts. Among them, the most noteworthy is the crown prince Tan Weiming, because Tan Weiran is already in Yunzhou. He had no choice but to work obediently in Danyang, so he had to send a messenger to give gifts aggrieved.

If you want to say that the ceremony is grand, maybe this wedding is not as good as Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's wedding. But in terms of liveliness, it is not inferior to the wedding held in Jiangshan Fort. Maybe it's because the weather is indeed a little cold, and everyone is trying to make noise in order to warm up, and it is becoming more and more lively. A few days before the wedding, when almost all the guests arrived at the place, the population of the entire Ningyuan City was actually nearly thirty percent more than usual. Fewer than 2,000 people are actually qualified to attend the wedding reception. But I can't stand the deployment, guards, relatives and friends who come to join in the fun, etc., etc., which are brought by people with very high status and status. It is also thanks to the Dai and Ye families who had the foresight to charter all the hostels in the city, plus many guests had some local industries in Ningyuan, and invited close friends to live in their own courtyards, so that the entire huge resettlement work could be carried out. In any case, for Ye Tao and Dai Yun, two people who are very influential in Dongping and even in the entire Middle-earth Continent, and have far-reaching significance and symbolic meanings, Ningyuan, a small border city, is really a little powerless.

In order to prepare for such a wedding, a large number of ordinary workers and people are naturally indispensable. There are also all kinds of merchants who provide all kinds of needed goods. And at the moment. Among the many businessmen in Ningyuan, there was one who behaved a little abnormally. This Dongping businessman named Xia Bin made a lot of money in the preparation of the wedding banquet this time. He tinkered with a considerable amount of top-quality Chunnan silk and trafficked it to Yunzhou, and as a result, the entire batch of goods was accepted by the Dai family, and he invested in the decoration of the entire wedding banquet site regardless of work. It's bustling, but it's not tacky at all...... The design team established by the Dai family and Ye Tao in Yunzhou cooperated tacitly and decorated the entire wedding banquet scene very decently. For the businessman Xia Bin, although the top silk is used to tie silk flowers, make exquisite ornaments, cut into tablecloths and napkins seems to be very luxurious, but Xia Bin's results this time are worth two or three times back and forth to Yunzhou, not to mention for the time being, and the Dai family has formed a business line, which will be even more beneficial to the future business.

However, at this moment, Xia Bin bowed slightly respectfully and even a little fearfully, his head was covered with cold sweat, and he trembled in the face of a smiling young man. The young man placed himself comfortably on the Taishi chair, leaning sideways, holding a cup of fine green tea in his hand, and he said to Xia Bin in a very indifferent tone, "Where is your seat for the wedding banquet?" ”

Chabin's waist bent lower, and he said cautiously: "It's the forty-second seat in the outfield." The people at the table should also be businessmen, and they are not important roles. ”

The young man shook his head and sighed: "That's what it looks like, no matter how heavy Ye Tao is, no matter how business-oriented he is, he must first consider the family and civil and military officials on this occasion." And you are not a great character after all, if it weren't for the color and texture of the materials prepared this time, I am afraid that you would be sent out of Ning Yuan to move positions for others now, not to mention that you can have a seat in the outfield. Forty-two outfield seats...... Hehe, it's not going to be easy now. ”

This young man is none other than Sun Xiaofan, the leader of the younger generation of Daoming Sect who escaped from Danyang after the failure of the skyscraper explosion case. The original layout in Danyang was not successful, but exposed a series of layouts of Daoming Sect and Eagle Hall in Danyang, and even finally prompted Tan Xiaopei to make up his mind to clean up the dark lines of Daoming Sect beside Concubine Lian Changling, which is also one of the highest-level dark lines laid by Daoming Sect so far, and its damage is so great that the high-level Daoming Sect leaders quarrel over how to deal with Sun Xiaofan. Although Sun Xiaofan was a disciple of the current Daoming Sect Master, he did deeply damage the interests of the Daoming Sect.

However, after all, the Daoming Sect is not a religious organization with a strict organizational system, and the damage suffered by the Eagle Hall, an entity affiliated with the Daoming Sect, does not seem to be on the table. On the one hand, it was the sect master's spoiling of Sun Xiaofan, and on the other hand, it was the long-term tacit understanding and exchange of interests between a few high-level leaders of the Daoming Sect.

When Sun Xiaofan began to want to master some power to serve the Daoming Sect again after half a year, he found that the Eagle Hall, which had always been submissive, did not want to accept him as one of them at all. Due to the important role of the Eagle Hall to the Daoming Sect now, and Sun Xiaofan's previous bad deeds, even the Sect Master and the elders of the Daoming Sect expressed their full understanding that the Eagle Hall did not want to accept such a person who they were unable to restrain themselves.

On the one hand, in order to allow Sun Xiaofan's ability to be good at conspiracy and planning to be fully played, and on the other hand, in order to establish a strong and combat-effective group affiliated to the Daoming Sect that can contain the Eagle Hall, Sun Xiaofan was ordered to form the "Snake Eyes". Sun Xiaofan's starting point is very low, he does not have the martial arts people that Yingtang has always collected from all sides, but he has a much smaller number, but his martial arts and experience in the rivers and lakes are quite strong, and some of the guards who have been hidden behind the important figures of the Daoming Sect have become his first batch of subordinates. And he also has an advantage that the Eagle Hall can't match, that is, he can try to recruit those disciples from all over the place at will. Although Sun Xiaofan was not the kind of cultivator Yushi who was good at recruiting disciples, as long as he had the ability to obtain the list and information of those who could be used from these people, it was enough. From Ming's side, after all, he grew up in the core of the Daoming Sect, which is a religious organization, and if he really wants to recruit anyone, he can naturally be extremely incendiary and persuasive. And for those who are not very willing to join his organization, but always have all kinds of weaknesses, he naturally has many opportunities to try coercion, deterrence, inducement, and so on...... Unlike the Eagle Hall, the Eagle Hall's main responsibility is to collect intelligence and defend the organizational system of the Daoming Sect, while the "Snake Eyes" have focused on assassination and sabotage from the beginning, and targeted espionage on commercial and technical intelligence is only secondary. And this kind of task tendency does make Sun Xiaofan feel like a fish in water.

And when "Snake Eyes" had a few footholds in Xiling, Chunnan and even Dongping, and began to have some people who could be used, he came to Yunzhou again at the right time. After not knowing much about Ye Tao, Tan Weixin and Dai Yun for a while, Sun Xiaofan was extremely surprised to find that on the increasingly instructive assassination list of Daoming Sect Eagle Hall, these three people were all ranked in the top twenty...... What a fun family it must be.