Back to the Ye family, the Ye family learned about the situation, everything is developing steadily and at a high speed.

Now that the county has been reunited with the Xiangping Ye family, under normal circumstances, Ye Chen will be in the county.

This time Ye Chen brought back a lot of money, Ye Chen is going to start a new round of expansion, the first thing, Ye Chen is to expand the army.

"Big brother, Yun Chang, although we have done a very successful job on the grassland this time, I still feel that the strength is too weak, and in the battle of more than 200,000 cavalry, we are also tricky, otherwise it will not play any role."

Thinking of the 200,000 or so cavalry fighting on the grassland, Ye Chen was excited, he knew that he couldn't have so many cavalry, because he really couldn't afford to raise them, but now his army of more than 10,000 was too weak, although the combat effectiveness was strong, he lost more than 100 people in the grassland for so long.

"Well, 10,000 people, you can only fight 5,000 people at a time, which is indeed a little less." Guan Yu said with his beard on his back.

"What Yun Chang said is, second brother, I agree to expand the army, but not too much at a time, otherwise it will lower the overall combat effectiveness, which is not cost-effective." Tai Shi Ci also expressed his opinion.

"This time, I plan to expand the army by 5,000, with an additional 5,000 soldiers and horses, and our Ye family can fully afford it." Ye Chen was already in a hurry, because after this winter, it would be 183, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was about to break out in 184, and if he wanted to get more benefits in this peasant movement, he couldn't do it without strength.

The three of them discussed for a while and then went to work, now the Ye family's career is thriving, but the Ye family has always kept a low profile, many people in this county still think that it is just a barren place, but they don't know that today's county has been turned upside down.

Three days later, Guan Yu and Tai Shici came to Ye Chen, Ye Chen thought that they had already started recruiting people, and now they came to report the situation to him.

"Big brother, Yun Chang, is there something wrong, why are you in such a hurry." Ye Chen saw that the two of them had an anxious look on their faces, so he invited them to take a seat.

"Second brother, the recruitment situation of this soldier is a little unsmooth.

Tai Shici said to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen was a little strange, the recruitment of the guard battalion had been very smooth before. This is the first time this has happened.

"Big brother, what's going on? The number of people who signed up or not was too small. "Ye Chen has never forced them, and there is no need for them, because the super high welfare of the guard battalion is very attractive.

"Brother Ye, when we sent people down to publicize, it was very smooth, and everyone signed up very enthusiastically, but..."Guan Yu glanced at Tai Shici when he said this, and the latter words seemed to ask Tai Shici to say it for him.

Tai Shici took Guan Yu's eyes and said: "The number of people who signed up is very large, there are more than 20,000 people, but less than 1,000 people are qualified after we delete the selection, so I will recruit as many people as possible, and what is lacking can only be lacking." ”

Tai Shi Ci adhered to the principle of ordering the shortage to be indiscriminate, and chose to rather recruit less than mix with unqualified soldiers, this matter is difficult to say, and Tai Shi Ci is Ye Chen's sworn brother, so he made a decision. Although Guan Yu was still a guest on the surface at this time, he actually regarded himself as Ye Chen's subordinate, so it was a bit taboo to make decisions without permission.

"Big brother did the right thing, I didn't think about this before, and it seems that the army expansion plan can only be postponed."

Ye Chen can't help it, the quality of the soldiers is not good, it is very easy to forcibly recruit five thousand people, but if the quality of the soldiers in an army is too different, it will be a fatal blow to the army's battle, and it will also affect the judgment of the commander.

The same is 5,000 people, if the strength of the old guard battalion is used to calculate the strength of the old guard battalion when fighting, it is easy to have problems, because the quality of the soldiers of this batch of guard battalions is relatively poor, and you calculate according to the previous combat effectiveness, and as a result, the plan is done, and the original 5,000 people can resist 10,000 people, but these 5,000 people can only resist 5,000 people, then there will be fatal loopholes in the plan, and even lead to the annihilation of the whole army.

Therefore, Ye Chen is not in favor of recruiting unqualified soldiers, but he must recruit 5,000 people, otherwise this will also have an impact on the future strategy.

Ye Chen asked Guan Yu and Tai Shici to go to train first, although they didn't recruit enough manpower, but how many were counted first, and if they were not enough, they would slowly figure out a way.

After they left, Ye Chen went to find Bai Feng, after all, he knew more about the situation below.

"Lord, there is really no way to solve this problem you are talking about for the time being, not only the army is short of people, in fact, some of the workshops below are also short of people, especially the shipyard, which is supposed to have large-scale personnel, plus the shipyard has been building new ships recently, and has been expanding the scale, so the personnel gap is very large."

Ye Chen really didn't know about these things, Ye Chen had a lot of things before, and Bai Feng wouldn't bother him with these things, but now Youzhou is quite stable, and there are no large-scale homeless, so although Bai Feng has been working hard to recruit homeless people, he will only recruit one or two thousand people in a month.

"Oh, there should be more than 200,000 people in the entire county to recruit displaced people on a large scale twice, plus the original population of the county, and the successive recruits in the past year, is there a shortage of people in the workshop under so many people?" Ye Chen asked suspiciously.

The workshop is the Ye family's biggest source of income, and Ye Chen can't let these workshops have problems, so this matter must still be taken seriously.

"Not everyone in this workshop is suitable, there are certain conditions, although most of them are apprentices, but some are born crop men, let them go to the workshop they can't do it, and I can't recruit everyone into the workshop, this food is also very important."

There is a lot of farmland developed in the county, and these farmlands require a large number of laborers, so Bai Feng recruited people into workshops and shipyards.

Ye Chen was also very distressed after knowing the reason, this field can't be planted without people, although you can buy food everywhere now, but food security must be guaranteed in the future, otherwise everything is not to be discussed.

"Zimo, there is a way to change this status quo and see where you can get a large number of people." Ye Chen couldn't think of any way for the time being, so he could only try to ask Bai Feng.

"There's a way, but I don't know what the effect will be." Bai Feng thought for a while and said.

"Well, it's good to have a way." Ye Chen really didn't think of any good way for the time being, it was better for Bai Feng to have a way than to catch the blind.

"There are not many displaced people in Youzhou, but there are still in other states, our fleet goes back and forth between Qingzhou and Xuzhou every day, and when we come back, in addition to pulling a large amount of grain, generally one or two ships are empty, we can try to recruit displaced people in Qingzhou and Xuzhou."

Bai Feng said his plan, and Ye Chen also thought it was good, at least it was a solution.

"But my lord, we don't have much strength in Qingxu and Xuzhou, so we have to think of a way to recruit them." The Ye family in Qingxu and Xuzhou has only recently started to carry out commercial activities, and the previous ones have basically withdrawn, and now their power in the two states is limited, and there is no way to organize large-scale displaced people.

"In this way, Xuzhou will let the Mi family help us, you go and calculate, how much money will be given to recruit one, now our Ye family has money, and we can spend it when we need to spend it, and we can recruit more people, why can these people make more money when they are charged to the workshop or farmland."

Now the Ye family is really not bad for money, not to mention the money made by Du Kang wine and paper, now the Ye family restaurant has also expanded a lot, and it is also very profitable, let's just say that the trade with the grassland is tens of millions of dollars every time, which is too profitable.

The Wuhuan people were slaughtered by the Ye family, they had also traded with other families, but once they were discovered by the Ye family, they suppressed them openly and secretly, and the profits they made were not more than the Ye family, and their trading volume was still very small, and they were hated by the Ye family for a small profit, and they felt that it was not cost-effective, so they did not continue to trade with the Wuhuan people.

So the Wuhuan people had no choice but to be slaughtered, but the king of the cliff was okay, although he fought with the Huns to the death, but after all, both sides had needs, so the king of the cliff still maintained a deal with the Huns.

With money, Ye Chen wants to develop, but development is inseparable from people, and now the Ye family's development has encountered a bottleneck, and this bottleneck is the lack of population.

The population is insufficient, so he can only recruit displaced people, but this is only a way, and he doesn't know what the effect will be, so Ye Chen thinks positively and wants to recruit a group of people as soon as possible.

Even if the population is recruited, how many qualified soldiers are there? Ye Chen felt that he had to think of other ways.