After the banquet, Ye Chen began to think about cooperating with the eight great families of Jingxiang, their purpose had basically been figured out, and they didn't hide it much, they just came to cooperate with the Ye family.

The cooperation projects are different, for example, the Cai family wants the Ye family to build ships for them, the Cai family is very powerful in Jingzhou, and controls most of the Yangtze River, because they control the Jingzhou naval army, so naturally many parts of the Yangtze River are also controlled by them.

Of course, Ye Chen was very willing to cooperate with them, but this was not very important to himself.

The eight great families of Jingxiang will come all the way to Liaodong, but in fact, Ye Chen indirectly forced them.

Ye Chen cooperated with large merchants in Xuzhou to transport a large number of goods to Xuzhou, and from Xuzhou they entered the Jingxiang area in a big way, and at the same time, merchants in Xuzhou also bought a large number of goods in Xuzhou and sold them to Ye Chen.

In this way, the Jingxiang area does not seem to be doing much, and they have also purchased a large number of goods there, and they have indeed made a lot of money in the past year or two.

But making money is one aspect, and the other aspect is that the family in Jingxiang area is the most nervous, and it is the big forces around Xuzhou that have entered Xuzhou and gained a firm foothold, and there is a tendency to slowly penetrate into it.

If they don't care, then the power in the Jingxiang region will definitely be divided by them a lot, which they can't tolerate, the eight great families control most of the power in Jingxiang, and it is naturally not difficult to have the power to make money.

It can be said that these powers are their foundation, and they absolutely cannot tolerate the power being divided, so they came up with this strategy of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle.

They came directly to Ye Chen, cut off their beards in the middle, and snatched the business of the big merchants in Xuzhou in Jingzhou, so that they would not be able to survive in Jingzhou, and they would naturally withdraw after a long time, and they could not shake their roots.

For Ye Chen, this has no effect on him, and it is actually better to do business with them directly, if Ye Chen can trade with them directly, the profit will definitely be greater, the reason why he traded with Xuzhou before was because Ye Chen's ship could not sail far.

Now the Ye family's ships can reach Yangzhou, and then reach Jingzhou by the Yangtze River, but the journey is too far along the way, and the ships can reach it, but there is no base in the middle to repair and replenish.

Ye Chen had already sent someone to survey the sea route to the south, and Ye Chen didn't dare to go too far rashly if the sea route was not opened up, it was easy to have an accident.

Nowadays, the sea route has almost been opened, but the road is too far away, and the supply depot in the middle has not yet been built, and it is really difficult to reach Jingzhou.

But Ye Chen would not stop there, he had long wanted to reach the south, but the ships were too small before, and now the ships could reach but there was no supply line.

"We must speed up our pace to the south, this Jingxiang Eight Great Families can take advantage of it." Ye Chen muttered to himself while thinking.

With the basic idea, Ye Chen had a countermeasure for negotiating with the Eight Great Families.

The next day, Ye Chen invited the eight great families to a banquet, and there were no specific matters at the wine table, after all, they had different demands, they wanted to separate, and it was too chaotic to negotiate together, and they couldn't talk about anything.

After the banquet, the two sides have a little friendship, and then they can negotiate specifically.

The Cai family of the eight great families has the greatest influence on the official face, but the influence of the Pang family, the Kuai family, and the Huang family is not smaller than them at all.

The Kuai family has two brothers from the Kuai family, but now the reputation is not as great as that of later generations, the Huang family has Huang Chengyan, and the influence of each family is not smaller than that of the Cai family, but the Cai family is accustomed to using marriage methods, the relationship is huge, and the power in the official face is huge.

The other ones are actually very influential, and they are not inferior to them in the fight.

"Mr. Cai, thank you for coming to Liaodong." Ye Chen first negotiated with the Cai family.

"Ye is too polite, our family master admires Ye Taishou's young talent very much, so I asked me to come to Liaodong with a heavy gift to congratulate him."

When Ye Chen heard this, he secretly said that this surnamed Cai was really good at talking, not only prompting the kindness of the head of the family, but also pointing out that I came from thousands of miles away with a heavy gift, so I had to give some face no matter what I said.

After the two chatted a lot, they finally got to the point.

"Ye Taishou, we eight great families went north together, I want to invite you to the Jingxiang area to develop, there are still many places for us to cooperate."

"As a business family, of course my Ye family likes to cooperate with you, and I will not refuse anything that makes money."

"Okay, Ye Taishou is fast-talking, then I'll say it directly, we want Ye Taishou to bypass Xuzhou, go south directly, through the Yangtze River, and cooperate with us directly, I don't know how Ye Taishou will be."

"Of course it's no problem, I've had this intention for a long time, but this journey is too far away, and I really can't reach it for a while." What Ye Chen said is the truth, if you can remove the cost of middlemen, it is all profit, Ye Chen will definitely make a lot more money by trading directly with Jingzhou.

"Well, we understand this, but we have obtained information, depending on the fact that the Ye family has built a larger ship this year, it has been able to reach the Yangtze River, and it is completely possible to go along the river to my Jingzhou."

"To tell you the truth, I started to prepare early in the morning, but the road is too far away, the ship needs to be maintained, and the ship also needs to replenish fresh water, and there is no supply point along the road yet, so it can't sail far for a while."

People didn't come to Liaodong for nothing, and besides, the strength of the eight great families, this bit of information was still easy to get, so Ye Chen didn't hide everything.

"Since Ye Taishou intends to cooperate with us, it is better that we can enter Xuzhou to trade, so that we can save the middle of the sale, and both of us can have more profits."

It was not a good idea for the two sides to trade in Xuzhou, Ye Chen didn't want to conflict with the family in Xuzhou because of this, Xuzhou was also a big market for the Ye family, but they had to trade with the family in Jingzhou.

If you don't know how to be interesting, then you can't blame others for causing trouble for yourself.

"It's better to trade in Yangzhou first, don't hide it from Mr. Cai, our Ye family is already building a supply station, it only takes three months, and our Ye family's ship will be able to arrive in Yangzhou in three months, and we can trade in Yangzhou at that time."

The surnamed Cai thought about it for a while, their main purpose was to prevent the penetration of the great family of Xuzhou into Jingzhou, as for making money, it was only incidental, and the delay of a few months had little impact.

As long as they can cut off Xuzhou and make it impossible for them to infiltrate Jingzhou, then the purpose of their trip will be mostly achieved, and the next thing is to discuss cooperation, but then it is the affairs of the eight major families.

The Cai family also has a purpose, the Cai family's business is not very large, they mainly run the officialdom, and marry with local influential families and some high-ranking officials.

The Cai family has a great influence in Jingzhou, and even when Liu Biao went to Jingzhou, in order to sit firmly in the position of the state pastor, he also had to marry the Cai family.

Liu Biao is a smart man, and he is a mediocre person in governing the local area, but he has a very good set of how to deal with the family, if he wins over the family, the Jingzhou family is so complicated, and most of his life is managing the relationship with these families.

However, Liu Biao also has a good fate, Jingzhou is located in the south, the north has been in the midst of war, and the south is relatively stable, so he can be in a safe corner and develop.

But after all, he is not a man of great talent, most of the military power is controlled in the hands of the Cai family, and after his death, the family in Jingzhou began to split, and Jingzhou is not in Taiping.