He didn't react until he left Yiyuan, that Chen Er was really doing business with him, he calculated roughly, this business turned out to be a big profit, because when Chen Er calculated the price of grain and charcoal, he increased by 20%, and when he counted iron and soap, he gave 20% cheaper. ”

He Guan returned to Zhuangzi in a fog and told He Yuanwei about the encounter of this trip, which made He Yuanwai also confused.

Chen Xian sent nearly 30 blackmail letters at the beginning, and everyone didn't want to accept the conditions in the letters, but they didn't dare to refuse, and they were even more afraid that they would really send things and be swallowed by people and livestock carts, so everyone was watching and hoping that there would be a bird to explore the way.

Because the He family was too close to Yiyuan, they were afraid that Chen Xian would really come and go in person, so they had to be this bird.

After the news came out that the He family sent someone to Yiyuan to deliver things, everyone's eyes were on the He family.

So when Steward He not only brought back the men, livestock, and cart, but also brought back the cart that had been robbed by Chen Xian before, and also brought back the goods with a higher value than the charcoal sent over this time, and the goods with a higher value than the grain that had been robbed before, people didn't believe it at first, and personally sent people to make sure, some small Zhuangzi like the He family, and the shops in the county, immediately took action, and sent coal, iron, grain, sulfur, fire salt, iron ore, oil, and other goods to Yiyuan according to Chen Xian's extortion letter.

As more and more people return from Yiyuan with goods that are far more expensive than they cost, there is no longer any doubt.

Subsequently, from Yiyuan, there was news that people under the age of eighteen could be exchanged for Chen Jiaji's armor, treasure knives, soaps, three-eyed muskets, divine gunpowder and other precious goods.

What's the least valuable thing these days? People are the least valuable! There are men everywhere who can't survive.

After getting the news, a group of puffers in the county took a group of dozens of beggars in the county to Yiyuan, but they didn't meet, but they really exchanged for a car worth hundreds of yuan, which caused a sensation in the county.

So the county's people's teeth, splashing skins, government officials, and township tigers set out one after another, from the county seat, township, everywhere to collect population, some people even ganged up to break some fugitive Han spontaneously formed in the mountains to reclaim the village, looting the young people inside.

For a time, a large number of young people flowed to Yiyuan.

Chen Xian set up a shelter camp outside Xizhuangzi, and built a large circular brick bath in the center of the camp, and in the center of the bathroom was a two-story boiler to provide hot water for the ring baths around it.

A circle of simple adobe barracks was built around the baths, each of which could accommodate twenty people.

Each teenager who is sent here is first sent to a bathhouse to take a bath, and at the same time, someone will check them for skin diseases.

After the examination, those with skin diseases were sent to an isolation camp away from Zhuangzi, and those without skin diseases were placed in the entire camp, their clothes were destroyed, and they were given simple clothes that were not aesthetically pleasing but warm enough.

The teenagers then live in the camp for about a month, during which time they are observed and some of those who are ill are removed and sent to live in quarantine camps away from the crowds.

On the other hand, during this time in the camp, the teenagers will be taught some basic rules, such as taking regular baths, learning to line up instead of fighting with their fists, learning to obey, and knowing who has brought them out of the sea of suffering and lived a warm and well-fed life......

After the camp is over, the teenagers are assigned directly to the central school in West Zhuangzi and become first-year students......

In just two or three months, Chen Xian bought more than 3,000 teenagers between the ages of 10 and 18.

Although Chen Xian is now very short of labor and wants to buy some adult labor force, he resisted these impulses, because these teenagers between the ages of ten and eighteen are the real reassuring team after being educated.

On the one hand, Chen Xian could only transfer the middle-grade personnel of the regular army to form an engineer battalion to participate in the construction, and on the other hand, he could produce more three-plough heavy ploughs, purchase more cattle and horses, and even eliminate some of the war horses of poor quality and use them as horses.

In addition, Chen Xian also had to organize older apprentices to participate in the work of grabbing seeds and harvesting, but fortunately, these simple teenagers, after simple brainwashing, are very easy to manage, and they are full of enthusiasm and rarely lazy.

Through these measures, Chen Xian transferred a part of the elite forces from the agricultural company, restored the establishment of the construction company, and let the construction company and the engineer battalion work together to restart the construction of the new hydroelectric factory and the affiliated Zhuangzi.

He first resumed the construction of two hydroelectric plants in East Zhuangzi, and then selected and planned three new hydroelectric plants in the vicinity of West Zhuangzi.

Chen Xian plans to build all of these new hydroelectric plants into cement workers.

On the one hand, this is to sharpen the knife and not cut wood, and with cement, when building new hydroelectric factories and water conservancy facilities, both speed and quality will be greatly improved.

On the other hand, whether it is Tang knives or armor, the market is actually not large, especially Tang knives, if the production is too large, the price will fall, but the market will not expand, this thing itself is a luxury.

Although armor is not a luxury, there are only so many people who can afford it, and Laiwu itself is a place where iron is produced.

In addition, Chen Xian handled a lot of loot some time ago, so that the armor in the Laiwu area was basically saturated, and the high-quality armor produced by Chen Xian's factory could only be sold in small quantities to Yidu.

As for soap, it is also a luxury, doing too much will make the price of soap fall, if Chen Xian has controlled a large area of territory, he doesn't mind letting soap become a civilian product, but not now.

Since the market for products is mostly saturated, it would be foolish to expand production again.

In addition to the construction of the factory, Chen Xian also put the iron-making furnace, the improvement of the hydraulic forging hammer, the development of plate armor, and the construction of cavalry on his agenda.

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In this busyness, Chen Xian ushered in the first child in his life, and Yang Miaonu gave birth to a daughter.

Under Yang Miaonu's strong suggestion, Chen Xian named this daughter Chen Wan.

Just when Chen Xian was immersed in the joy of winning his daughter, the form of the outside world suddenly changed.

At the beginning, there were fewer and fewer forces that sent people to Yiyuan, and it seemed that there was an invisible hand that was blocking those large and small forces that sent people to Yiyuan for money.

After that, some of the larger Zhuangzi began to default on the goods that Chen Xian had to send to Yiyuan every month.

These signs made Chen Xian understand that new troubles were coming!

After Chen Xian carried out an armed demonstration, the business and personnel exchanges between Laiwu and Yiyuan became frequent, and Chen Xian took advantage of that time to spread some of his newly formed intelligence teams to more important places in Laiwu under the cover of defecting to relatives and friends.

Sensing that trouble was coming to him, he immediately activated these intelligence teams to find out the source of the trouble.