Chapter 440: Inauguration Ceremony (1)

Since the civil and military forces of the Dongping Manchu Dynasty were holding back their strength and wanted to show off, Tan Xiaopei glanced at the deposit silver in the inner mansion, and felt that there was so much money in his hand, and the speed of using money could not catch up with the speed of making money, so he generously amortized the cost of the inauguration ceremony of Gangdor.

First of all, the heavyweight team of the Ministry of Rites was stationed in Gondor, and preparations began with great fanfare. Ye Tao later learned that this team had always been in charge of various large-scale sacrifices, ceremonies, and the like, led by a squire, with the participation of several foreign officials and many small officials with complex grades. Due to the fact that for a period of time, Danyang has been carrying out various important ceremonies, this team has been relatively fixed, and now, there are already some professional public relations companies, and there are detailed tables to list the details of all aspects, and use Gantt charts to standardize the advancement of each process.

However, it is relatively simple to transfer the money from the inner government. Although the Dongping Central Bank is still under preparation, it has always been a part of the banking business of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in the past, and a bill of 1.5 million silver dollars issued by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and jointly endorsed by the Inner Government, Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, and Seven Seas Chamber of Commerce was sent to Ye Tao, and after Ye Tao sent a telegram, Yunzhou Bank had just moved into the head office of Gondor, and immediately issued a payment voucher of 1.5 million silver dollars for the team of the Ministry of Rites to organize the ceremony. The team of the Ministry of Rites only needs to pay with this kind of thing, and the person who gets the payment voucher can withdraw the payment at any branch of Yunzhou Bank at any time, or transfer it to a certain account.

Gondor now has two guard battalions and two garrison battalions, plus some of the guards of Ye Tao, Dai Yun, Tan Weixin, Tan Weiying and others who have migrated over, the total strength is only more than 14,000 people. Although there are now less than 100,000 residents in Gondor, and the ratio of military and civilian is outrageous in this way, when Tan Xiaopei learned the news, he still shook his head and instructed Ye Tao to ensure that Gondor's garrison must always have at least 50,000 or so garrisons within two months. This requirement cannot be said to be abnormal, the position of Gondor is too important, and in terms of urban defense alone, due to the large number of ballistas and other technical weapons, the demand for various types of troops is very large. The garrison of about 50,000 troops is completely commensurate with the status of a city like Gondor. And around Gondor, after all, there are key locations such as Ningyuan, Thunder Cliff, Tianling Fort, Ye's Workshop, etc., plus Yejiabao, which is also close at hand, the entire Gangduo and the surrounding areas should be equipped with 100,000 troops at all levels.

In fact, how could the Jingluo Mansion not know the emptiness of Gondor's defenses? However, Yunzhou was already in the process of expanding the army, and Yunzhou's relatively high army building standards made it necessary for training and equipment production to take a relatively long period. Fortunately, now that the northern grasslands have been submissed, and the areas bordering the sand bandits have also been stabilized, it is unlikely that there will be any major combat operations in the north, and the tribes on the Benwolf Plains and the northern grassland tribes will all transfer three battalions of about 10,000 elite cavalry troops, and at the same time transfer tribal warriors, each of which will train two battalions of infantry troops, and officially enter the army building sequence of the Northern Xinjiang Jingluo Prefecture. This part of the army has already set off for Gondor, and after the inauguration ceremony of Gondor, it will enter the formal training process, and there will be troops in the Jingluo Mansion that can be transferred to Gondor.

However, because the Invalids Farm and Ranch System occupied a large population, but there were only two main battle battalions, those who always had comrades-in-arms, superiors and subordinates in the army The heads of the farms and ranches were active up and down, and finally persuaded Ye Tao to give the Invalids Farm System the establishment of three battalions. Because the Invalids Camp has always had a relatively good production plan, it has been rich all these years. The establishment of the Invalides Battalion is all regarded as volunteers, and they do not need to pay military salaries and supply expenses through the strategic government, and they do not need to pay the war wounded pension through the strategic government, but they have the right to share the spoils of war and combat service rewards when fighting abroad. However, the Jinglufu did not have to worry about the problem that the troops of the Invalids Battalion would not be able to lose their tails, because this part of the troops was no worse than those of the main battle battalions in northern Xinjiang in terms of their sense of honor, obedience, training level, and mastery of equipment, and their equipment was under the guidance of the Jinglufu and their command was completely subordinate to the Jinglufu. This kind of cheap and easy-to-use troops, which embodies the belligerent and warlike spirit of the entire Yunzhou, is perfectly suitable for Gondor to defend this gorgeous and important city.

In order to participate in the parade at the inauguration ceremony, the Invalides Battalion system sent the original two battalions to Gondor, and the newly formed three battalions took over the original duties. When the newly formed troops have completed their training, one of the three battalions will be selected to supplement Gondor. In fact, there is no official unified organization for the Invalides Farm and Ranch System, but the people in charge of those farms and ranches have spontaneously created a coordinated governance organization, the Invalides Association. Under the coordination of this agency, it took only 12 days for the Invalides to obtain permission to establish three more battalions and send the three battalions out to change their guards. This efficiency made the people in the command staggered, although they had long known that those rich veterans had weapons and armor as their collections and necessities at home, and had always carried out high standards of training for all ages in different age groups, but they did not expect that the veterans of the Invalids Farm Ranch would be so warlike.

In the future, both Tieyun Cavalry and Jingyun Cavalry will maintain two battalions of strength in Gondor, four battalions of light infantry, two battalions of heavy infantry, two battalions of heavy equipment, three battalions of baggage, and six battalions of standing garrison battalions. With the addition of the three battalions after the Invalides Battalion, there were twenty-four battalions, a regular army of about seventy-five thousand men. In the future, the tribe of Benwolf Yuan will put 5,000 tribal cavalry and 3,000 infantry in Gangdor, equipped with their own equipment, and trained under the guidance of the command. The northern tribes drew 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry. And these are all outside the army building sequence. Coupled with the troops now distributed in Ningyuan, Thunder Cliff, Yejiabao, and Ye's Workshop, how can they all have a military strength of more than 100,000 people, and they are all strong soldiers. In Tianling Castle, the combat power of the Dai family's first battalion of clan soldiers should not be underestimated. Although these are all things in the vision plan, such a plan is still very satisfactory to the top management of Dongping, including Tan Xiaopei, which is known as the crown of the north, and this is the prestige that Gondor should have.

In order to welcome the arrival of the ceremony, Ye Tao, as the envoy of the Northern Frontier, had to come to Gangduo early and live in the Ye Mansion, which had already been completed. Soon after, Lu Dan and Tan Weiran came to Gangduo from Zhenzhou and the northern grasslands respectively, and the troops under their command will also have one battalion each to participate in the parade.

Although the crowds of people who came to participate in the ceremony were endless, the carefully planned transportation system of Gondor was far from feeling the pressure, and the battalions of troops directly entered the city in marching columns, sighing at the grandeur and beauty as they stepped into the spacious, tidy, well-equipped barracks. Since the army did not have to register in the city defenses, although there were many of them, the traffic pressure caused was only less. On the contrary, representatives from all over the country, deacons, elders, patriarchs of various families, representatives of various chambers of commerce, and people from all walks of life who are deeply interested in Yunzhou, because of their own pomp and circumstance, spent a lot of time on the registration of entering the city. However, because the Northern Xinjiang Economic Strategy Government has always been experienced in handling such cumbersome business, the reception work is in an orderly manner. And the arrival of so many people also added a bit of vitality to the originally slightly deserted Gondor.

Jiang Yan, who had been staying in Gondor, carefully studying the operation mechanism of a city like Gondor, waited for Zheng Zhe. This time, Zheng Zhe left an impression in the hearts of those big people in Chunnan, he had no decision-making power in the transaction of the airship, but the follow-up arrangements of those people brought by Jiang Yan were all implemented by him, and the inspection, delivery and immediate start of the research of the airship were also very timely, and these works were really beautiful. As Chunnan's envoy to Dongping, he was naturally qualified to be invited to watch the ceremony at Gondor. He traveled lightly, took two attendants directly from Danyang to the Thunder Cliff, and then took the carriage arranged by the Jingluo Mansion all the way to Gondor, and what he saw along the way shocked this young man very much.

"Mr. Jiang, this ...... What I saw along the way was really emotional. I don't know when Chunnan will be able to have such a city and such a bearing. Seeing Jiang Yan, Zheng Zhe couldn't help but discuss with Jiang Yan. And Jiang Yan, who knew the most about Gondor, smiled faintly and said, "Ye Tao, this guy is really incredible. I lived here for a while, except for being a little deserted, everywhere is better than Yuhang, better than Danyang. If you look at the electric light in my house, I thought it was a rare commodity that only the rich could afford, but I didn't expect that here, there are street lights on several main roads at night. It is said that within a few years electric lighting will be widespread throughout Gondor. And it turned out that there was news that there was an electric light, but the poor officials in Chunnan actually said that it was witchcraft...... Sit in the well and watch the sky. ”

Jiang Yan sighed and said: "There will be a heavy rainstorm in the next few days, and when the rainstorm passes and the clouds and fog disperse, it will be the official inauguration ceremony." Let's take a look at what such a big city would look like without water accumulation. Ye Tao wants to hide the city, and Tan Xiaopei wants to show off, which now seems to make sense. The city...... I don't know if the many so-called master gardeners and architects can dream of it......"