Chapter Ninety-Seven: Return to Danyang

In the long-lasting controversy that many people wanted to put Ye Tao to death, and at the same time, many people wanted to completely erase Ye Tao's guilt, except for carefully protecting everything that Ye Tao had poured his heart and soul into Danyang, and sending people to carefully protect Ye Tao who was tossing some messy things in Baishi City to pass the boring time, she didn't say anything about her thoughts to anyone. However, after struggling for a long time in his heart, after Tan Xiaopei finally made up his mind, the result was not bad.

Tan Weixin didn't care about Ye Tao's disposal, what she didn't care about was any situation with Ye Tao after the disposal. Noble or poor, in Tan Weixin's eyes, Ye Tao is such a person, he is a warrior who dares to face the ancient dragon with a giant sword, a hero who can't make him hesitate with an axe and fire, and she herself is the princess who was saved. This is the identity of multi-fit.

What's more, in addition to her, there are too many people who pay attention to Ye Tao. Qi Zhentao personally came to Danyang, on behalf of the entire Seven Seas Trading Company, and met with many ministers of the DPRK and China, expressing his will to protect Ye Tao. And the Kyushu trading company led by Tan Weixin did not have any clear instructions from Tan Weixin, and many members gave Qi Zhentao a lot of help, either explicitly or covertly. Some officials who were not familiar with Qi Zhentao before, and the deacons of the big clans all became Qi Zhentao's guests. Maybe it's because Ye Tao is not an official of the imperial court, and he also made it clear that he doesn't want to be an official, and the humble and insipid Ye Tao has a good impression in the minds of most people. Among the major families in the capital, there are many who invited Ye Tao to design courtyards and gardens, and they even patted their chests and agreed to Ye Tao's affairs.

Many of the children of the family in the Blood Qi Army played a greater role. Although everyone is grounded, this practically non-binding order does not stop these people from building momentum in tandem with each other. The friendship formed on the battlefield is ambiguous, and in Ye Tao's case, even some families that do not have a harmonious relationship with each other, as long as there are children who are studying and testing in the Blood Qi Army, they will persuade their families to cooperate for the same goal.

The ministers of the DPRK and China, including Situ Huang Xuping, were all speaking for Ye Tao. Zhuo Mang even proposed in the form of a letter, hoping that Ye Tao could be vigorously cultivated by the entire court of Dongping, especially the military, and hoped that Ye Tao could truly become a future assistant who could understand military and political affairs.

In this case, the decision made by Tan Xiaopei seemed a little incredible to everyone. In the end, the disposition of Ye Tao was: the pension of all the fallen soldiers of the Blood Qi Army was borne by Ye Tao, which was implemented in accordance with three times the pension standard of the Dongping Military Department, and the payment was paid in advance by the Dongping Imperial Court, and the Ye family repaid this payment with 20% of the shares of the industrial land under his name; The two armies consulted the government. Move the two armies to check the secretary of the government; Recall Ye Tao back to Danyang, continue to supervise the construction of Danyang New District and Tiecheng, before the completion of the construction of the two places, there will be a team of inner court guards responsible for monitoring Ye Tao's behavior, after the completion of the two places, according to the completion of the merit and demerit, before that, the guilt of unauthorized use of the army is put aside; Ye Tao served as the speaker of the Ministry of Works. The rank of general of the leading division, serving as the chief of the military department, serving together with officials of the same rank, is not included in the evaluation of officials, and has no money.

None of them can be seen as a so-called punishment for Ye Tao. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be praising Ye Tao and rewarding Ye Tao in some way. After the state held 20% of the shares of the Ye family, the Ye family's thriving manufacturing industry had a national background, and the interests of the clan and merchants were protected. In this era when technology was in the hands of families and merchants, the Dongping royal family could master the most advanced series of manufacturing technologies through the Ye family. And Ye Tao's creativity determines that Ye will have more and more abundant technical reserves and technological development. In the future, no matter who wants to deal with Ye Tao, they have to consider this layer of relationship: Ye Tao and the Dongping royal family are already one with unified interests. And accepting Yip's equity in the name of a compensatory pension actually serves as an assessment of the overall value of Yip's, and this value. In such a way of calculation, it is quite impressive.

The two armies were not a formal body of the Dongping Imperial Court, but a joint meeting to coordinate various issues. Speaking of which, it is meaningless for Tan Xiaopei to intervene in the personnel arrangements of the two armies in the inspection palace, but in doing so, it implies that he wants to raise the level of the inspection palace of the two armies and make it an official institution of the Dongping imperial court.

Summoned Ye Tao back to supervise the construction of Tiecheng and Danyang New District. It is indeed because the construction of these places is indispensable to Ye Tao. Especially the Danyang Bell Tower, if there is no Ye Tao. Maybe the work after that can't be carried out, and it can only become the greatest "unfinished building" of this era. The so-called shelving of criminal responsibility to see the after-effects is nothing more than a kind of shirk, and in the past official dispositions, whenever such words appear, most of the matter is settled.

And what everyone can't understand the most is the double appointment of Ye Tao's Ministry of Works and Military Department. The rank of military division general is nothing, it just allows Ye Tao, who has no formal military position, to have an identity reference, and when dealing with generals in the army, he can determine the relationship between the superiors and subordinates of the two sides. But the position of the speaker of the two ministries has too many implicit meanings. Most people, even officials in the court, only regarded it as the court's favor for Ye Tao, and in this form officially affirmed Ye Tao's merits and gave Ye Tao an identity. But the people who really know Ye Tao and the key ones will smile. Ye Tao is very afraid of being an official, when Tan Xiaopei agreed that he could not take up any official position, his relieved tone obviously made Tan Xiaopei remember it vividly, and now, Ye Tao has no room for bargaining, so let's work for the imperial court obediently. In this appointment, there is some talk about Xiaopei's mischievous thoughts. Because, even without these two appointments, in fact, Ye Tao will still be involved in related things, without any doubt.

When such a disposal plan made Ye Tao pack up and embark on the road back to Danyang, many people were still curious about another thing: how will the matter between Ye Tao and Tan Weixin go?

Although Tan Xiaopei didn't see Ye Tao many times, his impression of him was quite good. The entire Dongping royal family has a very high evaluation of Ye Tao, the prince Tan Weiming and the prince Tan Weiran often soak together with Ye Tao, discussing all kinds of strange things, embroidering the princess Tan Weiying, and has taken it for granted to extort all kinds of small gifts and fun little things from Ye Tao. Not to mention, the strange tacit understanding between Ye Tao and Tan Weixin. As far as a special family like the Dongping royal family is concerned, since everyone has no obstacles to accepting Ye Tao as one of them, then a talented and unambitious person like Ye Tao is ideal in every aspect. But Tan Xiaopei always felt a little unwilling, since Ye Tao appeared until now, he seemed a little insignificant to Ye Tao. Ye Tao, who doesn't care about power, can ignore his sincerity and refuse to be an official, as a lord of the country, he is really faceless. Although Tan Weixin didn't say anything, she had a posture that she had made a lifelong agreement with Ye Tao, which made his father even more depressed. He decided to test Ye Tao again, this is probably one of the few initiatives that his father, this lord can grasp on this issue.

Ye Tao and Guan Yinhang set off back to Danyang together. They stayed in White Rock City until the renovation of the Cloud Kiln was completed. I haven't had time to test the current situation of the cloud kiln. After handing over the test to a few masters and greeting his family, Guan Yinhang became one of Ye Tao's attachés with the funds to open a store in Danyang and a large number of goods. When they returned to Danyang, it was only two days before the assembly date of the Blood Qi Army.

In the few days when Ye Tao and Guan Yinhang were on the road. Before the Blood Qi Army assembled, Tan Xiaopei finally announced the disposal plan of the two armies and the Blood Qi Army. In this plan, the important role played by the Blood Qi Army in the battle against Xiling was officially affirmed, and it also expressed that the Dongping Imperial Court wanted to refer to the model of the Blood Qi Army. The will to build an elite army with huge sums of money. The inspection office of the two armies was upgraded to become the official department of the Dongping Imperial Court and became a subordinate institution of the Governor's Office of the Forbidden Army. The two armies were renamed the Fierce Blood Battalion and the Fire Qi Battalion, collectively known as the Blood Qi Army, and each of the two battalions had a formal establishment of 10,000 people, and in addition to the two battalions, the two armies could also organize a guard of 500 people, a scout cavalry of 500 people, and a baggage army of 1,500 people. In the time of operation, this unit will effectively guarantee the logistics and reconnaissance of the Blood Qi Army. Maintain orders from within the Blood Qi Army, and when conducting drills, these people will be professional organizers, and competition managers. Since the current shortage of the Blood Qi Army is not small, the short part will be transferred from the forbidden army and the Danyang City Guard Army within a month to enter the Blood Qi Army. From now on, the source of officers in the Blood Qi Army will maintain the ratio of 30% of the forbidden army, 30% of the city guards and garrisons in various places, and 40% of the selection of the Yizhan Lou Marching Chess Competition. In the Blood Qi Army. If you are unable to complete the training and assessment of the existing 60 subjects in two years, you will be discouraged. And if you complete it, you can take another year of training and assessment. After completing three years of training, you can choose to stay in the Blood Qi Army or go to the Forbidden Army or other troops, or you can choose to leave the army and continue to be the son of a rich family. The most critical change is that in the future, all the expenses of the Blood Qi Army will no longer directly accept donations from families and wealthy households, but will be turned over through the Inner Mansion and the Forbidden Army Governor's Mansion, so as to avoid the donors being taken care of in the Blood Qi Army.

Through such a change, the Blood Qi Army and the two armies will truly become representatives of an elite army that integrates combat and training. There is only one criterion for the military expenditure of the Blood Qi Army, and that is whether it is needed. As long as it is really needed, whether it is equipment procurement, organization of drills, etc., all can be approved without restrictions, and no online is set. The model of the Blood Qi Army will inevitably not be popular, but there is no doubt that the Blood Qi Army will become a loyal and strong army. And many of the internal regulations of the Blood Qi Army, which have passed the actual combat test, have now been recognized by the Dongping military. For example, the small details of not having to salute senior officers passing by the barracks unless ordered by the commander during rest, and the internal affairs system of setting up military tribunals within the Blood Qi Army to judge soldiers who violate discipline and law instead of being handled at will by the direct commander, will become a rule in the Dongping Army.

On the day Ye Tao returned to Danyang, the Blood Qi Army spontaneously gathered to meet his general. Everyone wears a variety of casual clothes, usually in black or dark brown tones. Among the two hundred representatives of the Blood Qi Army, there are officers who are now famous, as well as non-commissioned officers and soldiers at all levels. Some of them, with the help of family forces, may be able to enter the bureaucratic system of Dongping in a short period of time and become officials of no low rank, however, that kind of risk-free path is not as exciting, so exciting, and so fascinating to make meritorious deeds on the battlefield where everything may happen in a special army like the Blood Qi Army, among comrades-in-arms, superiors and subordinates who can be completely trusted. Moreover, it now seems that the Blood Qi Army may be a faster route for those who are interested in developing in the army.

"The first section of the Blood Qi Army requests to be listed." Lu Dan bowed his body and said to Ye Tao in the carriage.

"Agree to be listed." Ye Tao, who originally wanted to return to Danyang in a low-key manner and not attract too much attention as much as possible, did not feel any unhappiness because these lovely subordinates broke his expectations, and there was a strong feeling of emotion lingering in his heart. He got out of the carriage, jumped on his horse, and rode to the front of the line. In the middle of the team, the tall flag with the word "Ye" was held high, and as the whole team flew, it followed until it came to the door of Ye's residence, Zhengyuan.

"Thank you," Ye Tao clenched his right hand into a fist in his heart, and signaled to everyone with the chest stroking ceremony that is common in the Blood Qi Army, and then, he put down his hand and said happily to everyone: "Tomorrow I will go to the camp and invite everyone to drink." ”

Everyone laughed and cheered. Chi Lei, Zeng Zining and a few others followed Ye Tao into Zhengyuan, and the others dispersed.

In Zhengyuan, Ye Tao's father Ye Laogeng and his senior brothers were not at all surprised him, but Qi Zhentao sat on the side very stylishly, which somewhat flattered him.

"You're really good enough to poke a basket." Qi Zhentao put down the teacup in his hand and scolded with a smile.

Ye Tao bowed deeply to Qi Zhentao and said, "Old Man Qi, thank you very much." Actually, I didn't expect to be so messy. I'm sorry for everyone. ”

Qi Zhentao waved his hand and said, "What's this?" Speaking of which, you can return to Danyang so safely and soundly, it doesn't matter what others say, it's because of yourself. Anyone else, probably dead there. ”

Qi Zhentao patted Ye Tao on the shoulder and said, "Come, I'll have a few words with you." I'm leaving Danyang today, and there are too many things waiting for me in Yicheng. Besides, there's someone waiting for you in the back. ”