Chapter 162: The Power of Design

"Alas, don't do that!" Ye Tao hurriedly stood up, Dai Yun seemed to him to be a good friend, a strange woman who always made him feel the modern atmosphere. And Dai Yun has indeed become a living legend of this era. Sometimes, he even felt that Dai Yun was more like a traverser than himself, her positive and enterprising spirit, her understanding of military affairs, her ability to ignore things that must be ignored on the battlefield, her ability to make decisions calmly, and even her unique temperament that integrates the spirit of affinity and equality...... But Dai Yun is not after all. She's just a peculiar being of this era. To be able to have such a friend and to be able to see such a character is really rare for Ye Tao.

"It's a bit big, it's hard for me to decide for myself, so I'll go back and ask the uncle and convene a meeting of elders. However, I'm sure everyone will agree. There are many things that need your good fortune in these matters. I still need to think about it a little more. Dai Yun said.

"Don't be so polite, we're friends. People who have lived and died together on the battlefield are not interesting to mind so much. If you weren't a girl, you would have had a brotherly hug now. Ye Tao joked.

Unexpectedly, Dai Yun really gave Ye Tao a "brotherly" hug, which was full of passion and strength, and had nothing to do with the lingering ties between men and women. Although he was a little surprised, Ye Tao still hugged Dai Yun generously, patted each other's backs hard, and laughed.

This scene made the attendants of the two people on the side, Feng Hao, who was leisurely drinking tea on the side, so shocked that his jaw was about to drop. This, after all, is not the norm in this era.

Ye Tao has always done what he says. The words he said to Dai Yun made his workload suddenly increase several times. Every morning, he has to deal with the affairs of the road and bridge division. Every afternoon, he regularly trains the "trainees" and explains various theories and techniques. And every evening, in addition to preparing the next day's handouts. He also often discussed with Feng Kai how to write the manuscript of the book that discussed reunification and the gains and losses of successive generations from the perspective of "big history", and also wrote letters about his various ideas about venture capital and accounting firms, and communicated with all parties. Feng Wei was mainly responsible for the actual writing of the manuscript and the sorting out of historical materials, so he did not have much time to help Ye Tao do the basic work of transcribing letters, so Ye Tao had to set up a small secretary team in a hurry to deal with this errand. This secretarial team has to deal with a lot of new terms every day, because they have no basic understanding of the ideas in Ye Tao's head, they are always in a state of cautious skepticism about any of their work results, and because the levels involved are getting higher and higher. The degree of confidentiality is getting higher and higher, and everyone is trembling, until more than a month later, with the arrival of Dai Qiuyan, Sophie Marceau, Qian Shun and others, Liu Qing and others also dealt with the affairs of Danyang, and after the secretary group was further expanded, the busy work was alleviated.

After talking with General Xu Jingtian a few times, Ye Tao found out. General Xu is not unaware of the various problems that will arise in Yunzhou, but he does not have any talent in this area. If he wants to quickly and chaotically establish a wartime economic system, he will be able to draw up a long-term economic plan in an orderly manner, and it will cost him his old life. But since Ye Tao has his own ideas, General Xu said very happily. As long as he can do it within the scope of his power now, Ye Tao can mention it. With the cooperation of General Xu and the full support of the Dai family, things are developing for the better.

Thanks to the full support of the Dai family. The guards sent by Ye Tao to investigate the situation were much richer than expected. Not only the glimpsive impression, but also the details that could attract the attention of these sergeants from Dongping, the Dai family even circulated to various places, and copied all kinds of relevant documents accumulated over the years in various places and sent them over. The amount of local trade over the years, the trade structure, the various minerals and productions that have existed, the famous merchants and well-known products in the past, and so on. And those strange ore samples and animal and plant specimens made Ye Tao have to set up a special department under the Road and Bridge Division to deal with them.

The proposal to set up a ** accounting and auditing institution similar to Deloitte was naturally fully supported by Her Royal Highness the Princess. Due to the spoof spirit, Ye Tao pretended to find a few tribal wise people. After learning about the various languages spoken in the grassland, he chose a phrase meaning "protector of property" from the most widely circulated Karni language, which can be roughly recorded as "Pur Hoyonti", and then Ye Tao artistically translated this homonym into four well-known Chinese characters "PricewaterhouseCoopers". When Tan Weixin, who was far away in Danyang, knew that Ye Tao had gone around in such a big circle to plagiarize the name, it made sense, she lay on the soft chair and laughed for half an hour. And to be able to laugh for so long without hanging up. It is enough to prove that her body is indeed improving.

Venture capital issues. The funds involved are huge and the levels are relatively wide. After negotiating back and forth many times, in the end, Li Mian's representative Tan Weixin came to Yunzhou, and after face-to-face talks with several powerful figures of the Dai family and the patriarchs of several Yunzhou tribes, it was determined that the capital contribution ratio of 7.5 million taels of silver in the inner government, 12 million taels of silver in the Dai family, and 10 million taels in the Yunzhou tribe was determined. When this figure was known to the ministers of the DPRK and China, everyone gasped in unison. Nearly 30 million taels of silver is a super large sum, and this money is completely in the hands of an organization called "Yunzhou Development Foundation". The imperial court had no room for any choice in how the money was used. What is even more shocking is that the money has not been delayed in the slightest. On the day when the Yunzhou Development Fund was opened in Ningyuan City, the mighty horse convoy of the Yunzhou tribe transported a large pile of gold, silver and jewelry under the escort of 5,000 warriors. Due to lack of preparation, the Yunzhou Development Fund did not even have a large enough vault to hold these things, and a large amount of gold and jewelry was piled up in the open air, guarded by a sufficient number of people. The representatives of the Yunzhou tribe didn't care, they said with a big grin: "It's okay, anyway, gold jewelry or something, it won't be bad if it's windy and rainy." ”

The representative of the Dai family was much more civilized, and he was not prepared to ship things in place at once, or to keep all the funds in one place. In addition to a car full of silver ingots neatly stacked, there were also two 500,000 taels of payment vouchers issued by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

The inner government sent the money to the Danyang office of the Yunzhou Development Fund, which opened in Danyang on the same day, although the inner government was not high-profile, but the castle-like building became the topic of the whole Danyang in a short time.

There is no better time to increase the impression of Yunzhou in everyone's minds. And this will also be the premiere of the first professional design team in this time and space that Ye Tao has spent a lot of effort to build.

What is design? Even in the era when Ye Tao came from, there were people who wondered about the definition of design. And the puzzled crowd even included Ye Tao himself. Design can make simple things complex or vice versa, and making complex things simple is where the real test of the designer's skills lies. Design can make the technology or process concise and smooth, and even produce a feeling beyond the technology itself, which involves the problem of repackaging the technology. Design can make ordinary life full of beauty, and that is what many modern designers are pursuing. And design is a powerful tool that can convey ideas and ideas, and countless designers have tried in this field and gone far...... And the design team formed by Ye Tao, after receiving a short period of high-density concept and skill indoctrination, it is impossible to complete these things that Ye Tao's design masters can accomplish, publicizing Yunzhou, introducing Yunzhou, and promoting Yunzhou are just the first projects they are carrying out step by step under Ye Tao's guidance. Luckily for them, there wasn't a design team that could get their hands dirty with such a grand project as promoting a region.

The design team members are all from Yip's Workshop, and they have repeatedly tasted the benefits of establishing a unified visual identity, such as IKEA Furniture, Yizhan Building, and the same is true of Blood Qijun and FedEx, which have many friendships and business dealings, and even now Seven Seas Trading Company, Kyushu Trading Company, etc., are learning from Yip's Workshop's visual identity identity scheme. The core logo they designed for Yunzhou is extremely simple, that is, a simple city gate placed on a cloud. This is a simple logo that a child of a few years old can draw after a few times. But as this logo appears in a variety of locations and on a variety of media, the power of this simple logo is magnified countless times over.

The most striking thing is the huge banner erected north of Dongjiaji on the main thoroughfare from Dongping to Yunzhou: "Welcome to Yunzhou". To say that this banner is also an engineering innovation in this era. The second-generation I-shaped cast iron frame spanning the entire length of the road is painted with the first generation of anti-rust paint of this era, and all joints are carefully treated with anti-rust treatment. Even more rare than these things is the banner with bright colors. The banner is made of wooden planks, the two ends are the logo of Yunzhou, and the five big characters in the middle are the mighty and powerful "Founder Big Standard Song Traditional Style". Wood is no better than cast iron, and the erosion of wind and rain is very strong. But Ye Tao did not use the archway-style building, but used this kind of framework, so he naturally had his grasp. After the planks were painted, the front and back sides were sprayed with a foot pump. The sprayed gum is the secretion of some kind of fish, and after drying, it is almost only soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol. After spraying glue, no matter how heavy the rain is, the rainwater cannot stop on the surface of the board, which naturally avoids the problem of rainwater erosion. The installation of the wooden board is fixed by rivets, and then the rivet holes are filled with waterproof pigments and glue spraying materials. When the whole glossy and bright banner was installed, I don't know how much exclamation it caused.