After the transaction was completed, Yang Miaozhen did not leave immediately, she lived in the small building newly arranged by Chen Xian for Yang Miaonu for seven or eight days, and then left with two hundred family members, driving mules and horses, and carrying goods.

Soon after Yang Miaonu left, Peng Hu took two hundred elite soldiers to escort a thousand young men and women to Dongzhuangzi again.

This group of teenagers is the same as the last time they sent them, and the age of the men generally seems to be around thirteen, or even younger.

Chen Xian reluctantly made it difficult for him to order this group of teenagers according to the price last time.

However, Peng Hu didn't want a three-eyed eye musket this time, but only gunpowder.

Chen Xian asked Peng Hu's former life secretary to inquire, and it turned out that Peng Yibin's craftsmen actually used the casting method to create a three-eyed gun, no wonder he was reluctant to ask Chen Xian's high-priced divine musket.

For this, Chen Xian is not surprised, the three-eyed gun has never been a difficult thing to do, the blacksmith of the Ming Dynasty can do it, there is no reason why the blacksmith of the Song Dynasty can't do it, and even if someone imitates the arquebus in the future, he will not be surprised.

In fact, one of the purposes of Chen Xian's release of the three-eyed gun was to delay the popularization of arquebuses as jamming bullets.

For Peng Hu's request, Chen Xian agreed without hesitation, since he had long thought that the three-eyed gun would be imitated, then he naturally would not think about how to make a profit after the three-eyed gun was imitated, and selling gunpowder was the best choice.

Chen Xian promised Peng Hu that he could exchange a divine musket for gunpowder at the price of three catties of gunpowder.

However, he told Peng Hu that because the people sent by the Peng family did not agree, he would no longer accept the Peng family's population in the future, and if the Peng family wanted to exchange for muskets, gunpowder, and armor, they would either take good copper coins or copper in exchange, or transport coal in for exchange, equivalent sulfur, fire nitrate, grease, and high-quality charcoal refined iron, and horses could also be exchanged.

He warned Peng Hu that if he dared to cheat next time, he would refuse to do business with the Peng family again.

Peng Hu reluctantly agreed to leave.

In fact, Chen Xian refused to accept the Peng family's population again, of course, because the other party did not follow the rules, but more importantly, Chen Xian could no longer stand the pressure of the new population.

Now Chen Xian's Zhuangzi has become a large grain absorber, and the surplus grain of East Zhuangzi has long been insufficient to support the more than 4,000 people under Chen Xian, Chen Xian has begun to absorb grain from West Zhuangzi, Tangjiazhuang and even further away Laiwu County.

Although with the productivity of Chen Xian's factory, the profits earned were enough to feed more than 4,000 people, but this situation was undoubtedly very dangerous, and once these three Zhuangzi joined forces to cut off Chen Xian's food supply, they would immediately force him into a corner.

The food problem is not only an economic issue, but also a security issue.

In order to alleviate this problem, Chen Xian has begun to hoard a large amount of food, but this is still only a palliative solution.

The best way to solve this problem is to acquire large tracts of land that are large enough to feed your population.

But Chen Xian didn't dare to eat Dong Zhuangzi at this time.

Don't look at Chen Xian in the past six months, he has absorbed 3,000 people from the Peng family and the Yang family, but in fact, there are not many people who can come in handy.

Among the 1,000 people sent by the Peng family in the first batch, 500 boys were too young, and after half a year of training, although they were already able to use discipline, they were too young and their combat effectiveness was limited.

Although the quality of the 1,000 teenagers sent by Yang Miaozhen is good, the training time is too short, and it can only be barely said that they can see it, and they have not formed combat effectiveness.

Therefore, at this time, the available strength under Chen Xian's subordinates, in addition to the original company of 150 people, was more than 100 young people under the age of 20 selected from the captured Peng family's minions, more than 100 young people under the age of 20 selected from the purchased Yang family's cannon fodder, plus more than 100 young people who had been lured from Xizhuangzi one after another in the past year, and dozens of young mountain people who had defected to him one after another.

After more than half a year of training and study, these new apprentices are all over fifteen years old, and their combat skills, work skills, and brainwashing have been basically completed.

These groups of men add up to almost exactly 600 people. Barely enough four companies, six hundred people, formed a battalion.

The phalanx of a hundred people is still too thin, and it is certainly not a problem to deal with some horse thieves who are not large in scale and poorly equipped, but if you face a large-scale regular army, it is definitely not enough.

The spear phalanx of four hundred people is barely enough.

A battalion, a team of 600 people, to take Dongzhuangzi, of course, is no problem, but to control the entire Yiyuan is a fool's dream.

If he only takes the East Zhuangzi and keeps the West Zhuangzi and Tangjiazhuang, not to mention the cold lips and teeth of these two Zhuangzi, he will definitely find a way to use all means to deal with him, just blocking the trade route is enough for him to drink a pot, and without Laiwu's coal and iron, his factory will stop production.

Therefore, before accumulating enough strength to take Yiyuan in one go, he would rather be so vague and vague, and he can drag on for a day.

As long as Chen Xian is given another year, he will be able to train more than a thousand troops, and at that time, he will dare to fight the idea of the entire Yiyuan, as long as he can control the entire Yiyuan, and block the western exit of this mountain plain, this plain is a closed independent kingdom, which is easy to defend.

The western exit of the Yiyuan Plain was very close to Laiwu, and at that time, if anyone dared to block Chen Xian, Chen Xian would dare to fight out......

Therefore, for Chen Xian at this time, it is the best choice to make a fortune quietly, and it is no longer appropriate to continue to introduce the population.

In early summer, when Chen Xian finally succeeded in straightening out the management system of the new Zhuangzi, Qingyazhuang was finally built.

After the completion of Xiangshuizhuang, Chen Xian transferred all the construction teams here to the Qingya Reservoir construction site and the Qingyazhuang construction site.

Two construction teams, plus young apprentices who take turns to help with internships on both sites, there are thousands of people working on both sites at all times.

In this era, there is no machinery, people are the most basic labor force, as long as it is properly organized, the more people there are, the faster the work speed.

When it comes to organizational management, Chen Xian is definitely a top talent in this era.

The application of some simple and modern management systems has made the efficiency of Chen Xian's engineering team very amazing.

The Qingya River Reservoir was repaired at the end of March, and the dam began to store water, and with the supply of cement, the difficulty of building the reservoir dropped by an order of magnitude.

At the beginning of June, Qingyazhuang was also completed.

On the night of the completion of Qingyazhuang, Chen Xian was happy, drank some wine, and was slightly drunk, but he didn't know what was going on, so he rolled with Yang Miaonu......

I don't know who ate whom......

The completion of Qingyazhuang once again relieved the living pressure of Chen Xian's population, and scattered more than 4,000 people into three small villages, and people suddenly felt much more relaxed.