Chapter 216: Befriending

The people who are paying attention to this wedding are not only Sun Xiaofan, but there are more than one group or two groups of people who want to take action, but none of these people know, in fact, whether it is Ye Tao, Dai Yun or Tan Weixin at this moment, too many guests and entourages from all parties, all kinds of businessmen and tourists who meet him, all kinds of people from all over the world, etc., make the small city of Ningyuan too complicated and unpredictable. It's one thing to maintain the highest level of vigilance for a short period of time at the time of the wedding, but it's quite another thing to maintain it all the time. So, under the joint advice of Ye Tao's chief guard Guan Huan, Tan Weixin's chief guard Liu Yong, Dai Yun's chief butler Dai Shizong, and Tan Weiying's chief guard Jin Ze, who was slightly insignificant, the most important people now were in a mountain villa less than half an hour away from Ning. Outside the villa, a battalion of the Frostwolf Army that had just completed its refitting was stationed, plus a few escorts, for a total of nearly 5,000 escorts. And the search circle opened by the frost wolf battalion ensures that it is almost impossible for idle people to approach the villa, which can be regarded as very safe. Not to mention the Assassins who wanted to speculate, even if they were attacked by a large army, relying on these well-equipped and well-trained 5,000 men, I am afraid that they would be able to hold out until at least reinforcements arrived.

In fact, the people who stayed in Ningyuan City to prepare for the wedding were those elders. Among them, the highest status is Chi Xianping, Dai Shikui, Ye Laogeng and others. And on this day, it was Chi Lei who was inexplicably involved in the assassination at a certain dinner. The assassin was a steppe tribe-born escort who had been running to the northern tribe's side of the merchant, and due to the chaos of the scene at the time, there was no accurate decision on whether the target was Chi Xianping, Chi Lei or Golan. Chi Xianping is the military boss of Dongping, Chi Lei played a great role in the original strangulation war against the northern tribes, and Golan is the chief of the steppe tribe and has now completely fallen to Yunzhou and Dongping, no matter how you look at it, these three people have enough reason to be jealous to take extreme actions. But after the assassination, the manhunt can only be regarded as a habitual reaction. These people really didn't take this very unprofessional assassination seriously.

The maintenance of law and order in Ningyuan City was fully entrusted to Dai Shiheng, the former head of the Dai family, to be responsible for the use of small resources, and in the countless preparations for this wedding ceremony, this was actually the easiest one to follow.

Compared with Ning Yuan's security maintenance, the preparation of the entire wedding made everyone rack their brains. In terms of original status, Dai Yun's identity may be slightly inferior to Tan Weixin, but it is not far behind, and in the territory of Yunzhou, Dai Yun's appeal is quite amazing. It is not an exaggeration to say that Dai Yun is a princess. However, the procedure of the wedding cannot be operated according to the princess level, or even the procedure of marrying a daughter of a large family. Because although Dai Yun has a lofty status and great influence, no matter what kind of organization this strange family will be in the future, Dai Yun is married to Ye Tao as an identity between a wife and a concubine at the moment, and this ambiguity of identity has been deliberately done by everyone. Naturally, this wedding without precedent must also carry out this ambiguity of identity to the end. Since there is no precedent to follow. Everyone had to use their imagination boldly, and finally adopted a procedure that combined the ceremony of the marriage of the daughter of the tribe with the traditional wedding form, and carried out the sloppy eye to the end, and there was no word in the whole ceremony to describe whether Dai Yun's identity was a wife or a concubine. All the words that need to be spoken by the master of ceremonies during the whole ceremony are decided after repeated discussions. In the preparation of this wedding, on the contrary, the two parties Ye Tao and Dai Yun have been deprived of the right to speak and are treated as puppets who can be at everyone's mercy. Ye Tao naturally saved trouble. Anyway, the end result is to welcome a very distinctive beauty into the house, and as for anything that happens in between, it doesn't seem to be too important. And since Dai Yun figured out all the things about marrying Ye Taodi, she has never worried about rituals and other issues, she has seen the grassland and snowfield, seen the battlefield of the conquest and the Beiming ice floe that many people can only sketch in their imagination, she has enough open-mindedness for many things.

And hiding in the villa, for Ye Tao and Dai Yun. These two people, who don't seem to attach much importance to avoidance before marriage, have become excellent opportunities for communication. Maybe the two of them are a little clumsy, maybe the biggest intersection between the two is in the military aspect, and the topic of discussion can always slide to the issue of building the army in Yunzhou and further rectifying the defense of Yunzhou, due to a series of actions against Xiling, the security of the west side of Yunzhou has been ensured, and now what makes Dai Yun most dissatisfied is that the defense on the east side of Yunzhou, which faces Northern Liao, is extremely weak, even after the army in Yunzhou is fully trained.

The establishment of 50 battalions in Yunzhou is indeed a very wise and effective means. It is also affordable in Yunzhou. Fifty battalions with a total strength of no more than 150,000 troops seem to be difficult to ensure the stability of the entire territory of Yunzhou. Even if these fifty battalions are all well-equipped and well-trained troops, they are all professional soldiers. If the battle really starts, there will inevitably be enough auxiliary troops to fill the space on the battlefield. to slow down enemy progress, or even just as a number to confuse enemies...... Finally, under Dai Yun's direct statement, Ye Tao brought Tan Weixin to discuss a supplementary training and equipment replacement plan for retired soldiers and invalids farm and ranch personnel in phases and batches after the completion of the training of 50 battalions and according to Yunzhou's economic strength, ensuring that when needed, Yunzhou can quickly expand its military strength through the emergency conscription system, and also ensure that at least the soldiers recruited from the third level and the second level have considerable combat effectiveness, at least not too far behind the troops at the level of the garrison battalion.

Perhaps this kind of topic is really not suitable for the current atmosphere, Ye Tao frowned and hoped that the situation would change. And things have really changed. The change in the situation came from the fact that Ye Tao's eldest brother Guan Haishan had returned from Dubai. The lighthouse that the Samir family wants to build is already considered a structural cap according to him, and only the decoration project is not difficult, after the end of this big project that Guan Haishan has been familiar with, he even helped the Samir family to build a harbor defense building system in Dubai Harbour, the Samir family decided to dump a large amount of earth and stone outside the original port area directly piled up a long causeway with both defense and wave protection functions moved him, but in addition to giving some engineering suggestions, He didn't really want to get involved in the project. In his view, the project has nothing to do with architecture or engineering, but depends on how determined the Samir family is and whether the money is enough to burn, which is more of a project management problem than engineering technology. In this case, Guan Haishan simply took a merchant ship back to Dongping.

After staying in Yicheng for a few days, Guan Haishan rushed to Yunzhou with his wife and children, just to be able to catch up with Ye Tao's wedding. For some reason, he couldn't show his face, and Guan Haishan hid in the villa.

"You guys are very good, Master and a few of you have taken up the number in front of the technician certificate...... Is it so troublesome to leave me a good number with a little accommodation? When facing Ye Tao, Guan Haishan sighed again and again and said with resentment.

Ye Tao was amused: "Senior brother, you are not a person who cares about these things?" Why bother? Besides, the technician certificate may be a guarantee of monthly salary for many people, and for those who are sent by other families for training, it is also a certificate to the owner, but is it useful for us brothers and sisters? Who would dare to say that we are not qualified? …… Moreover, senior brother, what I left you behind is the carpentry certificate, and you haven't touched those jobs for many years. I left you a number and then missed, how faceless is that? ”

Ye Tao's ridicule made Guan Haishan extremely dissatisfied, and he snorted heavily: "Nonsense. Maybe I'm not as powerful as Dazhu, but I was out of school when you weren't born, and this trick is not blown. When I was in Danyang, I was rushing for the second child's exam, and I passed the technician, which is the number...... I can't help but complain. ”

Ye Tao asked with interest, "What's the number?" ”

"Two hundred and five...... Guan Haishan sighed: "It's really a very two number." ”

"Hahahaha......" Ye Tao laughed and said, "It's nothing." I didn't find out before, senior brother, that you have taboos in this regard. ”

"Isn't this still a mess with those Hu people for so long?" Guan Haishan shook his head and said, "There are so many things that those people are afraid of, and they don't work well on the construction site. On the construction site in Dubai, I have to worship the great god three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, and I am annoyed to death. If it weren't for the fact that there were so many stonemasons and carvers there, and that the gang worked really hard, and the Samir family had to meet the deadline and didn't care much about human life, they might not have been able to finish it so quickly. ”

Ye Tao sighed: "You should know that the Samir family is preparing to establish a country, right?" ”

Guan Haishan nodded and said, "That's nature. Alas, don't mention them...... By the way, on my return trip, the ship docked in Yuhang for two days, where I met a few very interesting people, as if Chunnan was going to build a set of bell towers by himself, and he was not going to let us blackmail them. The few people I know don't know much, but it's enough to scare me. I don't know if the Chunnan people are crazy or stupid, their bell tower plan. I estimated the budget, and if what those two friends said was true, I am afraid that the cost of Yuhang's bell tower would be more than twice that of the Seven Seas Tower. ”

"Oh?" Ye Tao's eyes flashed, showing strong interest.