Chapter 222: Cold Treatment

After the wedding with Dai Yun, he had a good talk with Tan Weiying until Tan Xiaopei's extremely stern secret letter arrived, and Tan Weiying packed up and set off for Danyang. He didn't dare to have much contact with Tan Weiying, even when the conversation lasted not very long, Tan Weiying's mournful look and the thin mist in his eyes almost shook him, making him almost determined to take the lead in this matter completely. He has always regarded Tan Weiying as a little sister worthy of pampering, and from one pampering to another, especially the object of pampering is such a beautiful and moving girl, it is really simple.

Fraternity is the passport of the fraternity; Fraternity is the epitaph of the fraternity. In the end, Ye Tao could only laugh at himself like this, blaming everything on this era that allowed fraternity.

On the surface, at least, things fell silent for a while. Everything will have to wait for Tan Weiying to return to Danyang and be confined, and when Tan Xiaopei finally decides what to do here, there will be no possibility of further changes. At least on the surface, everyone is taking this matter coldly.

And among the very few people who knew about it, the most surprised was Dai Qiuyan. In those days, Dai Qiuyan accompanied Tan Weiying almost every day. She didn't resent Tan Wei because she coveted her husband, or thought Tan Wei was hypocritical or anything. Dai Qiuyan, who lives in purity, seems to be able to easily feel the purity of others, and she seems to be able to feel the simple and stubborn feelings of Tan Weiying. Sometimes, Dai Qiuyan was a little annoyed by her clumsiness, and she couldn't think of anything that could be used to comfort Tan Weiying. However, no one seems to be able to come up with such a statement these days – the difficulty is quite high.

And when Tan Weiying left in the latest carriage, Dai Qiuyan spent several days in her studio. Here, she has just created a new version of the family portrait. Dai Yun in armor appeared on the picture, his hand on the back of the chair, and his heroic smile made the whole picture more lively and vivid, which greatly diluted the atmosphere of the whole picture that was too similar to everyone's personality and too cold and quiet. The new version of the family portrait is now hanging in the lobby on the ground floor of the small building where they live. After a while, when the new building is more comfortable, it should be moved to the living room on the second floor of the new building. This small building, which has no public activity space, is really uncomfortable to live in. …… Are you going to add someone again? Dai Qiuyan subconsciously prepared the canvas and asked herself this after opening the paint box. Although there is no answer to this question yet. But Dai Qiuyan still started making new family portraits. The first thing she did was talk about Wei Ying...... Except for this one of her best friends, for the time being, all the others on the screen are just faint outlines. On the screen, Tan Weiying is pure and sincere, but there is a touch of tenacity and stubbornness in her expression. Tan Weiying is her best friend, and she can draw her almost with her eyes closed......

Ye Tao only suddenly remembered and asked how much the whole wedding cost after seeing the wedding scene with Dai Yun. Ye Laogeng set off to rush back to Yicheng the day after the wedding, and there were too many things. The list of expenses had to be asked by Qian Shun, the fourth senior brother who was also involved in the preparation. On Dai's side, because there are too many projects to spend money on, Dai Shikui, Dai Shiheng, Dai Shining and Dai Shizong, the head of Dai Yun, thought about it for a long time and couldn't come up with an approximate number. In the end, the two sides had to work together and let PricewaterhouseCoopers intervene. Conduct an audit of the entire wedding project...... This may be the first time in history that a wedding has been audited.

is different from when she married Tan Weixin, there are standards for the princess to get married, from the specifications of the ceremony to the dowry of the concubine, the princess's dowry, etc., there are very strict standards, and Ye Laogeng wants to spend more money. And when he married Dai Qiuyan. Even Dai Qiuyan's father, Dai Yuege, was not interested in big operations, the ceremony was very simple, and the invited guests were limited to those who had the most connections. When it came to marrying Dai Yun, it was the most comfortable time for Ye Laogeng to spend money. Ye Laogeng himself is not very particular about pomp, and now he is the father of the economic envoy, but he usually goes to work in the workshop every day and manages various affairs, large and small. At most, it is considering that he is now in a different position, and he has a lot of technologies that have a significant impact on the country. For safety reasons, I took a carriage everywhere I went, and there were only four guards with me. But in his enviable son, Ye Laogeng has always felt that there is no opportunity to express himself and show off, but now he finally found an opportunity. And the Dai family has always attached great importance to and paid attention to Dai Yun, and they are even more unwilling to be contemptuous. Coupled with Dai Yun's deep influence in the entire Yunzhou, Yunzhou tribe and even the northern tribe, Dai Yundi's wedding is naturally of a high standard. Yip and Dai combined. Throw down the money at the wedding. In the end, it added up to 1,592,711 taels...... And in the face of this terrifying number, everyone actually thinks: it should be so.

What can be done with 1.5 million taels? For now. It can arm three and a half battalions, including a heavy infantry battalion, and can allow the Road and Bridge Division to pave ordinary roads as little as 300 li and as much as 500 li, and can demolish and rebuild a quarter of Ningyuan City...... But is this just the way it should be? However, these money are all private property, even if Ye Tao wants to throw it to the Jingluo Mansion, according to the regulations of the imperial court. And Ye Tao could only smile bitterly. You must know that the start-up funds for the special battalion that he was anxious to set up had already been vacated by the Jingluo Prefecture after an unknown amount of maneuvering, and the basic budget of 150,000 taels was vacated. It is not until the special battalion personnel are implemented that they will start to consider the cost of horses, weapons, armor and those bits and pieces of special equipment, and the trial production cost of the equipment is likely to be hung up in the Yip's workshop for a long time......

After marrying Dai Yun and living in the villa for about half a month, Ye Tao and Dai Yun left the villa together and came to the edge of a deserted mountain forest about two days away from Ningyuan in the northwest of Ningyuan. Due to the vast and sparsely populated area of Yunzhou, there are quite a lot of locations that have not been well developed, and the existence of such an area is not unusual. The reason why I like this place is because in this small area, there are also gravel river beaches, small tidal wetlands, dwarf forests, forests, grasslands, hills, cliffs and cliffs and other diverse terrains, and it seems that samples of various geological landforms that may appear in Yunzhou and the surrounding areas can be found here, which is very suitable for terrain-related training. This area was originally mentioned by General Xu when he was a strategic envoy, and he mentioned that he needed to train soldiers to adapt to the terrain, and he needed to find a more distinctive place before it was mentioned. Since General Xu Lao was an envoy during the transitional period, the pressure to rectify the defense was far greater than the pressure to train elite soldiers and strong generals, and this area was not really put to use. But now, at the beginning of the establishment of the special battalion, Ye Tao used this place to select soldiers for the special battalion.

The special battalion is not used for hand-to-hand bloody battles with the enemy, but for unconventional military tasks such as raids, sabotage, harassment behind enemy lines, sabotage of supply lines, assassination, espionage, etc. After Ye Tao, Dai Yun, Dai Mi, and Zhou Rui agreed on the combat functions of the special battalion, it is still unknown where the soldiers of the special battalion will come from, how they will train in the future, and how to determine the equipment of the special battalion. The soldiers of the special battalion are mainly composed of two parts, one is the martial arts people who are willing to serve in Dongping and Yunzhou, and the other is the elite in the army. Due to the short preparation time, the number of martial arts people is still quite small, and there are hundreds of friends who rushed to help Guan Huan, Liu Yong, Gu Xi, Zhou Rui and others in the face of Guan Huan, Liu Yong, Gu Xi, Zhou Rui and others, but these people really don't need to be assessed from their martial arts level and experience in walking the rivers and lakes, or in other words, they are assessed together with the elite soldiers in the army, at least in terms of the assessment items that have been formulated so far, it is really unfair to the officers and soldiers in the army.

Anywhere, it is very annoying to select elites from the army to form a new army. No officer wants to see the combat effectiveness of his troops decline because of the loss of some backbones, even if they know that these backbones must not be retained by themselves. In particular, the special battalion needs not only soldiers who can fight and kill, but also sergeants who can use their brains, have strong learning ability, have a certain command ability and adaptability, and preferably have some other specialties. Sergeants who meet such requirements are the core figures of small groups in the army, and many of them are already non-commissioned officers or officers themselves. Once these people enter the special battalion in batches, it will take longer for some units to regain their original structure and combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, on the one hand, everyone had in-depth communication on this matter at the previous military meeting, and the officers at the battalion level expressed their full support for this matter after understanding the advantages of forming a special battalion, and in Yunzhou, at least for now, everyone has resolutely implemented the orders issued by Dai Yun, so that this time the matter of requiring all units to recommend elite sergeants to participate in the selection can be implemented without obstacles. This trust in Dai Yun is not only due to the influence of the Dai family in Yunzhou on his own one-third of an acre, but also because Dai Yun has already proved that he is a good commander and a good commander worthy of everyone's unconditional trust with victories again and again.

There are more than 1,400 people recommended by various departments to participate in this selection, and this time only about 500 people will be selected for the special battalion, a little more than one-third. Like the various arms in Yunzhou, which are now extremely rich and specialized, this special battalion needs the same time to integrate and explore. Given the complexity of the tasks that the special battalion will have to undertake in the future, such a time may take longer than that of any other unit.