Chapter 71                                                             �

Ye Tao was unable to walk with the fierce blood army and the Huo Qi army who set out to return to Danyang. The matter of the bell tower was too big, so he could only stay in Yicheng for a while to implement the initial preparations.

Qi Zhentao, who quickly received the news, immediately found Ye Tao and asked Ye Tao to organize a briefing for him and a group of top maritime merchants. After answering various feasibility questions and answering them to the thirsty, Ye Tao finally satisfied these top maritime merchants. They will negotiate with Qi Zhentao and donate a huge amount of funds, but they will ask the bell tower to be named by them. Ye Tao later learned that Qi Zhentao is joining forces with some big maritime merchants to organize a collaborative organization called Qihai Merchant Company, mobilizing the forces of all parties to do all business related to the ocean and ocean trade, and want to squeeze out the giants of Chunnan Country in the maritime merchants.

Maritime merchants allow Dongping Maritime merchants to break through the heavy obstructions of Chunnanguo Maritime merchants and the official government, and taste the first-hand sweetness of Nanyang trade and further distant trade, rather than relying on some merchants with special feelings for Dongping, such as Muhammad, who have special feelings for Dongping. The establishment of the Tissot watch shop has allowed Qi Zhentao to have irreplaceable goods resources and also made Qi Zhentao's ambitions greater. They are not short of money. After the already stable trade, they have higher profits and efficiency, and they lack influence, which makes Qihai Merchant's reputation stand out. And they think the naming rights of the bell tower are worth throwing away.

Peng Detian was surprised after learning the news. But he also got more inspiration from here. After agreeing to the proposal of Qihai Trading Company headed by Qi Zhentao, he organized a briefing with Ye Tao in order to make up for the shortage of the construction cost of the bell tower. Peng Detian did not rush to obtain funds directly from many wealthy merchants with these levels that could join Qihai Trading Company, but calmly and cautiously explained that Qihai Trading Company has now used 600,000 taels of silver land start-up funds and 60% of the expenses incurred during the entire construction project, and obtained the right to naming the bell tower. After the bell tower was completed, all those who contributed to the inevitable landmark building of Yicheng would see that the copper nameplate at the entrance of the bell tower had their own name.

Perhaps this is not a great honor, but in this era when the status of a businessman is not too high, any opportunity to become famous will be seized. Peng Detian cautiously refused to accept donations for the time being, but instead aroused everyone's appetite.

The two-foot-eight-inch-high clock tower model is placed in the banquet hall. Those invited to attend the briefing can always consciously or unintentionally glimpse this scale model of this building that may not be in line with the current aesthetics, but no one can ignore the scale model of its grand and gorgeous building. Under the rendering of Peng Detian and Ye Tao, the atmosphere at the banquet is so warm.

Building a bell tower. This is something Ye Tao never expected. Even if this very typical European building has been improved and can be accepted, it is even more interesting. What is even more interesting is the letter from Danyang from the Harrier Eagle. After learning that Yichenggang was preparing to build a bell tower, some ministers and merchants in Danyang wanted to ask if it was possible to build a bell tower in the new city of Danyang City... Then, they were fooled by His Royal Highness Zhaohua. The bell tower drawn according to His Royal Highness's description does not look like anything else. Just like Aisinger in the movie "The Lord of the Rings", perhaps only Ye Tao can understand the humor of Tan Weixin. Could she be hinting that in this world, Ye Tao and she have the potential to become a devil?

With such fun catalysis, Ye Tao was easily drunk by the friendly merchants, stuffed into the carriage, and sent back to the Chun Nuan House. Ye Tao, who was a little confused, became a big problem for Sophie.

The drunk Ye Tao did not vomit everywhere. He just lay there in a daze, not asleep or in an alcoholic coma, but was fantasizing in a half-dream and half-awake state, but his brain could not accurately control his body.

When Ye Tao's maid and little secretary had been removed from Ye Tao's clothes and wiped away the large amount of sweat caused by the hotter weather and alcohol on his body, Sophie would not blush and beating as she was at the beginning. Her hands were trembling. But as the hand holding the sweat towel that was wrung out and Ye Tao's body contacted, Sophie's breathing would unconsciously obey Ye Tao's breathing, and even her heartbeat seemed to resonate with Ye Tao. No one knew better than Sophie herself. She was just a beautiful girl dominated by admiration.

Putting the sweat towel back into the copper basin, Sophie knelt on the edge of the bed and looked at Ye Tao quietly. Then, she bent down and put her face on Ye Tao's exposed chest. Her ears could clearly hear Ye Tao's heartbeat. For a maid, this is very disrespectful behavior, but no matter how long she has lived in this country that is adorable and implicit, Sophie will never be able to erase the romantic and impulsive Frank blood flowing in her body.

Ye Tao gently held Sophie's head in a daze, put his finger into Sophie's long hair, and rubbed it kindly as if he was serving a little beast. When Sophie heard it, Ye Tao hummed a song she had never heard before...

"My home is inside the Second Ring Road..."

"The people here have so much time..."

"They are talking about who has three or two shortcomings..."

"...They are watching you and taking out some brand of cigarettes..."

If Tan Weixin heard it, she would definitely recognize He Yong's "Bell and Drum Tower", and then knocked Ye Tao's head with her unpowerful arm, warning him not to reveal the stuff. However, Sophie only felt that the song was really soft and beautiful, but she was so helpless. I don't know what kind of association the construction of the bell tower evoked Ye Tao.

"...Who asked the question so difficult, and there were correct answers everywhere." Ye Tao woke up while muttering the lyrics of this sentence.

"Young Master..." Sophie felt the movement, and just stood up, but suddenly felt a dizzy turn. It turned out that Ye Tao hugged Sophie and lifted her to the bed, then rolled over, pressing Sophie under her.

"...Sophie... It is my luck in my life to have you..." Ye Tao's eyes were clear, looking at Sophie in his arms. He looked at Sophie in his arms, and his mind might have been filled with his imagination and thoughts of this almost exactly the same image and body, perhaps the tacit understanding formed in the past with this beautiful girl named Fumeier in recent years, as well as intimacy and trust. It was precisely because of this gentle whisper that caused Sophie's originally unprepared mind and body to be ignited.

Sophie held Ye Tao's neck in a caterpillar way, raised her upper body slightly, and kissed Ye Tao's lips.

The heavy breathing was played together, and the dripping sweat mixed together. When Sophie was trained by dancers since she was a child, who had been applying sesame oil for many years, exuded the most instinctive and instinctive fragrance in the world due to emotions, Sophie's skills that she heard and witnessed many times in her dancers' training but never had the chance to try were finally presented to the ideal object in Sophie's heart...

Sophie, who had always been diligent in taking care of Ye Tao's daily life, finally couldn't continue to perform perfectly in this regard the next day. Until the sun was noon, Lu Dan suspiciously and anxiously knocked on the door of Chun Nuanju, the most core group of buildings, and came to Ye Tao's bedroom door to urge Ye Tao to go to the luncheon set up by the Governor. The two people who had consumed too much energy were woken up.

Ye Tao is willing to lie in the beauty's arms for a while. Although Sophie's tenderness and affection and the strong fragrance on her body will never have any intersection with the star that came to his mind when he named Sophie, longing for a character is different from having a character. If there is anything that makes people feel particularly stable in this era, it is nothing more than that he can truly own a person legally. And when the relationship between possession and physical fit, spiritual belonging, and emotional dependence are combined, there is no more perfect relationship. At least, for a man who is used to the lack of security in modern society, this is true.

"You sleep for a while." After printing a kiss on Sophie's forehead and hugging Sophie again, Ye Tao still stood up.

Although Ye Tao took a shower with cold water very quickly, then quickly put on his clothes that were as simple as ever and walked out of the room, Lu Dan still noticed something.

Lu Dan said nothing, he just smirked in front of Ye Tao intentionally or unintentionally. Judging from his current performance, Lu Dan is a qualified general manager, but he is definitely not a general manager who can adhere to the superiors and inferiors who Ye Tao does not care much about.

Half because of the preparations for the bell tower, and half because of Sophie's health. He had been away from Danyang for quite some time. Ye Tao, who was not good at dragging his trip back to Danyang, stayed in Yicheng for three days. The busy Ye Tao did not notice anything, but Sophie was embarrassed. After all, she was trained with her and then presented to Ye Tao with all the dancers sisters except Cassandra, as well as Ye Tao's mother's middle-aged woman who looked like a torch but always kept silent. However, compared to the sisters
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