“Oh, don't be like that!" Ye Tao quickly stood up and pulled Dai Yun up. In his eyes, Dai Yun was a good friend, a wonderful woman who always made him feel a modern vibe. And Dai Yun had indeed become a living legend of this era. Sometimes, he even felt that Dai Yun was more like a transmigrator than he was. Her proactive spirit, her understanding and mastery of military affairs, her ability to ignore what must be ignored on the battlefield, her calm decision-making ability, and even her unique temperament that combined affinity and a spirit of equality... But Dai Yun was not, after all. She was just a unique existence in this era. It was rare for Ye Tao to have such a friend and to witness such a personality.

"This matter is somewhat significant, and I can't decide it on my own. I will go back and ask my uncle to convene a meeting of the elders. However, I believe everyone will agree. There are many things that require your mediation. I still need you to put in more effort," Dai Yun said with a nod.

"Don't be so polite, we are friends. We've shared life and death on the battlefield, so there's no point in being so reserved. If you weren't a girl, we should be having a brotherly hug right now," Ye Tao joked.

Unexpectedly, Dai Yun really gave Ye Tao a "brotherly" hug. This hug was full of passion and strength, unrelated to the lingering affection between a man and a woman. Although somewhat surprised, Ye Tao hugged Dai Yun generously, patting each other's backs vigorously, and laughing heartily.

This scene astonished the two people's attendants standing by, as well as Feng Zi, who was leisurely drinking tea on the side. His jaw almost dropped. This was, after all, not the norm in this era.

Ye Tao always kept his word. The words he said to Dai Yun caused his workload to increase several times. Every morning he had to handle various affairs of the Road and Bridge Department. Every afternoon, he was fixed to train those "students", explaining various theories and techniques. And every night, in addition to preparing the lectures for the next day, he also had to discuss with Feng Zi how to write the manuscript that explored unification and the gains and losses of past dynasties from a "grand historical" perspective. He also had to write his various ideas on venture capital and accounting firms into letters and communicate with all parties. Since Feng Zi was mainly responsible for the actual writing of the manuscript and the collation of historical materials, he did not have much time to help Ye Tao with the basic work of copying letters. Ye Tao had no choice but to hurriedly set up a small secretariat to cope with this aspect of the work. This secretariat had to deal with many new terms every day. Because they did not have a basic understanding of Ye Tao's ideas, they were always in a state of cautious doubt about any of their work results. As the levels involved became higher and higher, and the degree of confidentiality became higher and higher, everyone was trembling with fear. It wasn't until more than a month later, with the arrival of Dai Qiuyan, Sophie Marceau, Qian Shun and others, and Liu Qing and others also handled the affairs in Danyang and followed, that the secretariat was further expanded and the busy work was somewhat alleviated.

After several conversations with General Xu Jingtao, Ye Tao learned that the old general was not unaware of the various problems that Yunzhou would produce, but he did not have any special talents in this area. He could quickly establish a wartime economic system, but asking him to formulate a long-term economic plan in a detailed manner would be the death of him. But since Ye Tao had his own ideas, General Xu readily stated that as long as he could do it within his current authority, Ye Tao could ask him anything. With General Xu's cooperation and the full support of the Dai family, things were developing in a better direction.

Due to the full support of the Dai family, the information obtained by the guards Ye Tao sent out to investigate the situation was much richer than expected. It was not just a fleeting impression and the details that could attract the attention of these soldiers from Dongping. The Dai family even notified various places to send copies of various relevant documents accumulated over the years. The annual trade volume, trade structure, various minerals and products that had existed, famous merchants and well-known products that had existed in various places, and other information were all available. And those strange mineral samples and plant and animal specimens forced Ye Tao to set up a local specialties office under the Road and Bridge Department to handle them.

The suggestion to establish an independent accounting and auditing institution similar to Deloitte naturally received the full support of Her Highness the Princess. Due to his mischievous spirit, Ye Tao pretended to find several tribal wise men to learn about the various languages ​​circulating on the grasslands. Subsequently, he chose a phrase from the most widely circulated Kalmyk language that meant "protector of property." The pronunciation of this phrase could be roughly recorded as "Po Ho Yong Ti". Then, Ye Tao artistically transformed this homonym into four resounding Chinese characters: "Pu Hua Yong Dao." When Tan Weixin, who was far away in Danyang, learned that Ye Tao had gone to such great lengths to copy this name, making it reasonable and legal, she lay on the soft chair and laughed for almost half an hour. And being able to laugh for so long without dying was enough to prove that her health had indeed improved.

The issue of venture capital involved a large amount of funds and a wide range of levels. After many negotiations, Li Mian finally represented Tan Weixin to Yunzhou. After a face-to-face meeting with several powerful figures of the Dai family and several tribal chiefs of Yunzhou, the contribution ratio was determined: 7.5 million taels of silver from the internal treasury, 12 million taels of silver from the Dai family, and a total of 10 million taels from the Yunzhou tribes. When this number was known to the ministers in the court, everyone gasped in unison. Nearly 30 million taels of silver was a super-big deal, and this money was completely controlled by an institution called the "Yunzhou Development Foundation." The imperial court had no say in how this money was used. What was even more shocking was that this money arrived without any delay. On the day the Yunzhou Development Foundation opened in Ningyuan City, the Yunzhou tribes' mighty carriage team transported large piles of gold and jewelry under the escort of five thousand warriors. It took a whole day just to unload the goods. The golden color greatly opened the eyes of the whole city. The representatives of the Yunzhou tribes did not care. They said carelessly: "It's okay, gold and jewelry won't be damaged by wind and rain anyway."

The representatives of the Dai family were much more civilized and did not plan to transport the goods in place at one time, or to concentrate all the funds in one place. In addition to a car full of neatly stacked ingots of pure silver, there were also two payment vouchers for 500,000 taels issued by Deloitte Accounting Firm.

The internal treasury sent the money to the Danyang office of the Yunzhou Development Foundation, which opened on the same day. Although the internal treasury was not high-profile, the castle-style building still became the topic of the entire Danyang in a short time.

No moment was more suitable for increasing the impression of Yunzhou in everyone's minds than this moment. And this would also become the premiere of the first professional design team in this time and space that Ye Tao had spent a lot of effort to assemble.

What is design? Even in the era Ye Tao came from, some people were confused about the definition of design. And the people who were confused even included Ye Tao himself. Design can make simple things complex or vice versa, but making complex things simple is where the designer's skills are truly tested. Design can make technology or processes simple and smooth, and even produce a feeling that transcends the technology itself, which involves the re-packaging of technology. Design can fill a plain life with beauty, and that is what many modern designers are pursuing. And design is an even more powerful tool for conveying ideas and concepts. Countless designers are trying in this field and have gone far... And this design team assembled by Ye Tao, after receiving a short period of high-density indoctrination of ideas and skills, cannot complete the things that these design masters in Ye Tao's mind can complete. Publicizing Yunzhou, introducing Yunzhou, and promoting Yunzhou are just the first projects they are carrying out step by step under Ye Tao's guidance. They are lucky. Apart from them, no design team can use such a grand project of promoting a region to practice.

The design team members all came from Ye's Workshop. They had repeatedly tasted the benefits of establishing a unified visual identification. IKEA furniture was like this, Yi Zhan Lou was like this, and the Blood Kirin Army and Federal Express, who had many friendships and business dealings with them, were also like this. Even now, Qi Hai Business Society, Jiu Zhou Business Society, and so on are learning Ye's Workshop's visual identification plan. The core logo they designed for Yunzhou is extremely simple, which is a simple city gate placed on a cloud. This logo is so simple that a child of a few years old can draw it after seeing it a few times. But as this logo appears in various places and on various media, the power of this simple logo is magnified countless times.

The most eye-catching thing is the huge banner set up north of Dongjiaji, on the main road leading from Dongping to Yunzhou: "Yunzhou Welcomes You." To say that this banner is also a pioneering project in this era. The second generation of I-shaped cast iron is used to build the framework spanning the entire road, and the outside is painted with the first generation of anti-rust paint in this era. All connections are carefully treated with anti-corrosion treatment. Compared to these things, what is even more rare is the banner with bright colors. The banner is made of spliced wood boards, with the Yunzhou logo at both ends, and the five big characters in the middle are the powerful "Fongzheng Da Biao Song Traditional Chinese". Wood boards are not comparable to cast iron, and the erosion of wind and rain is very serious. But Ye Tao did not use a paifang-style building, but used this framework, naturally he had his confidence. After the wood board is colored, both sides are sprayed with glue using a foot pump. And the glue that is sprayed is a secretion of some kind of fish, which is almost only soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol after drying. After spraying the glue, no matter how heavy the rain is, the rainwater cannot stop on the surface of the wood board, naturally avoiding the problem of rainwater erosion. The installation of the wood board adopts the method of rivet fixation, and then waterproof paint and spray glue material are used to fill the rivet holes. When the entire smooth and bright banner was installed, there were countless exclamations.