After learning about the situation of the Ye family, Ye Chen began to arrange the production base in Luoyang. This base may not take a few years, but its role cannot be ignored.

First of all, the personnel arrangement, all of them must be loyal to the Ye family, and there is also the guard battalion, Ye Chen plans to take five hundred guard battalions to go.

Someone must be managed over there in Luoyang, and in the end Ye Chen planned to let Li Qing go, Li Qing worked in the Ye family very early, first following Wu Xian, and then following Bai Feng, and there was no problem with ability and loyalty.

The commander of the guard battalion, Ye Chen planned to send Wu Xing, Wu Xing was wrong, the first batch to join the guard battalion, served as a squad leader in the guard battalion, although the ability was not as outstanding as Li Ren, but after more than a year of training, it was no problem to command the five hundred guard battalion.

Then the most important thing is the still, the stiller Ye Chen plans to let the guard camp keep it, and when brewing wine, it is the same as that of Yejiabao, winemaking and distillation are separated, and the stiller is only done by people who are absolutely loyal to the Ye family.

In fact, the distillation part, the guard battalion can also do it with a little training, but Ye Chen wants to build a professional army, so he has not allowed the guard battalion to do more other things.

When Ye Chen came back from Luoyang, he had already arranged for the people over there to start construction and build the base, the base was built in a small mountain col, focusing on defense, and there was a small forest around, and the location was relatively remote, so it was easy to hide some things.

After a few days of preparation, the city is already ready to go.

This time, there are several thousand people in the team, and 1,000 of them are ordinary guards, and when the base is expanded in the future, it will definitely not be possible for all of them to be guarded by the guard battalion, and the guard battalion only needs to guard key places and things.

The distillation room, Ye Chen demanded that it must be guarded by the guard battalion, except for those who do distillation, no one is allowed to approach, no matter who is in the base.

Moreover, Ye Chen also left a hand, so that if the situation of the guard battalion changed, it would not be able to hold it, and it would have to destroy the retort first.

The gates are also guarded by the guard battalion, and the rest of the place can be defended by ordinary guards.

After some arrangement, Ye Chen felt that the guard battalion was no longer enough, there were only 5,000 people, Luoyang needed people, Yejiabao needed people, and Yuxian County needed people even more, and people had to be arranged to deal with Wuhuan, otherwise they would be empty of people and money if they took advantage of the loopholes.

There was too much shortage of personnel, and he went to Luoyang in part, which suddenly made Ye Chen feel that his strength was too weak.

After coming back and dealing with the affairs of Luoyang, ten days have passed, Ye Chen plans to go to Lan County, now the importance of Yu County has surpassed that of Yejiabao, Ye Chen plans to stay there for a while, Yejiabao has Wu Xian here, and there is no big event.

A day later, Ye Chen appeared in Yu County, and when he arrived in Yu County, Ye Chen summoned Bai Feng, and went to find him the next day.

"My lord, the trip to Luoyang can go smoothly." Early in the morning, Bai Feng arrived at the place where Ye Chen had stayed.

"It's okay, there are some twists and turns, and the harvest is good." Ye Chen thought that he had been yinned by a little kid, and said with a helpless smile.

The two sat down, and Bai Feng began to report.

"Lord, the spring ploughing situation is good, everything has been completed according to the plan, and the workshop has begun to be built, but the output is still not very large, and it has been expanding. The renovation of the new city has also been completed. During the time you left Liaodong, there was good news in Yuxian. ”

"Oh, what good news." Ye Chen became interested and asked with a smile.

"First of all, the ship has been successfully built, and it is already in sea trials, and it is preparing for its first voyage in the near future."

This is definitely good news, Ye Chen smashed more than a billion before and after, in order to be able to successfully build a ship for a long voyage.

With this ship, Ye Chen can do more, the tentacles of business can be extended to the south, and the entire Liaodong is also alive, and Yuxian is no longer a dead place, and Ye Chen cannot be trapped.

"How many ships are there this time, and when will the second batch of ships be built?"

"There are more than a dozen ships this time, and it's hard to say when the next batch of ships will be built, because this time the construction is successful, and the shipyard has invested in the construction of larger ships, so the time is not easy to estimate, but the slowest is about half a year.

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"Well, that's good news, I don't know what else is good news."

When Bai Feng heard this, a trace of excitement suddenly fell on his face and said: "This second good news is that the salt drying method has yielded results, the first batch of salt has been manufactured, which is enough for tens of thousands of stones, and we have expanded a lot in this second batch, if it is manufactured, it can produce tens of thousands of stones of salt at a time." ”

Salt is a profiteering industry, Bai Feng knows it very well, so he will be excited, although these salts do not dare to be sold on a large scale now, but this does not mean that they cannot be sold in the future, and now the trade on the grassland Wuhuan side has been monopolized by the Ye family, they also need a lot of salt, and it is no problem to sell it to them.

This is also good news for Ye Chen, at least his salt drying method is correct, and when the war is together, how much territory Ye Chen controls, then the salt trade on this territory is calculated by himself, and no one else wants to get a piece of the pie, and when he is strong, he will sell the salt to other places.

"Well, that's good news, how about the rest."

"This side of the horse farm in Huan County has been expanded by me, and now there are more than 6,000 horses, all of which are traded from Wu Huan, I have communicated with Wu Xian, he has a good surplus every month, and some of the transactions with Wuhuan are produced in Yu County, and Wu Xian will send someone to send them over, and I will expand the horse farm."

"Okay, I didn't expect you to do this before, it's very good." Ye Chen originally planned to expand the army, and this horse must also need to be expanded, but he didn't expect that Bai Feng had already begun to expand the horse farm.

"What is the financial situation of the whole county now?" If you want to expand the army, you have to have money, and if you have to invest a lot of money in Yuxian, then Ye Chen will not be able to expand the army.

"It can't break even, this shipyard is going to build new ships again, and it is a lot of investment, if more than a dozen big ships are to be built, hundreds of millions of dollars will be gone."

In the past, more than a billion dollars were mainly invested in the construction of docks, docks, and other things, as well as training workers, conducting research and development, and so on.

However, even if the ship is built in the later stage, it is also a matter of burning money, and a ship will cost tens of millions, and the investment in larger ships in the future is estimated to be greater.

"Well, what about getting rid of the shipyard input?" Ye Chen also knew that the shipyard had invested a lot, and if it was not realistic to rely on a small county alone, Ye Chen would have to figure out how to build the ship.

"If you don't count the shipyards, you can basically break even, but now that large-scale construction has stopped, there are not many places that need to be invested, and the productivity of the workshops has been increasing."

Now the biggest investment in Yuxian County is to support those displaced people, but as long as those displaced people give food, they no longer need anything else, Ye Chen has allocated funds before the money for food, and has already bought food, so there is no need to invest again.

There is also raising soldiers, the county is responsible for raising 2,000 people, and the remaining 3,000 people are raised by the Ye family, so now the county needs a large amount of investment is the horse farm, if a horse eats according to three people, 6,000 horses are equivalent to more than 18,000 people eating, and it is needed every day, this investment is very large.

Every day is a consumption of more than 100,000 yuan, plus there are 2,000 horses to be raised on the side of the guard camp. However, although raising horses is expensive, the profit of Du Kang wine produced in Yuxian County is also tens of millions per month, and the output will expand in the future, and the profit will be more, so it is no problem to run the entire Qixian County.

"Okay, since there is no need for a large investment in Yuxian County, then I want to start a new round of army expansion, and I want to hear your opinion."

"I don't know how many soldiers and horses the lord plans to expand?"

"Plus five thousand, exactly according to the standards of the current escort battalion."

"The lord, five thousand soldiers and horses, fully armed, plus training, it will cost more than 100 million in a month, and the Ye family will have no problem to bear it, and the military camp on the county side has also been expanded, and it is no problem to train these five thousand soldiers and horses, so I support the lord's decision."

Ye Chen nodded after hearing this, if there were 10,000 guard battalions in hand, then many things would be much easier.

"Okay, it's decided, I'll go to my eldest brother and Guan Yu tomorrow to discuss this matter with them, and then you can cooperate with them more."

"Yes, my lord."

A new round of expansion of the escort battalion is about to start, and this time it is directly doubled, and it does not count the trained sailors.