"Grandpa, now we have to know how much money we have and how long we have to maintain it."

"Well, what Chen'er said is reasonable, in this way, Manager Wu, you go and prepare, tomorrow we will take stock of the Ye family's family background, and then come up with a response plan."

Old Man Ye spoke, and naturally the final word was made, and the banquet dispersed, and everyone was busy.

Early the next morning, Ye Chen and the others gathered in Old Man Ye's study again.

"Manager Wu, tell me what the situation of our Ye family is now." Old Man Ye's brows were faintly anxious, but as the head of the family, it was not easy to show too obviously.

Mr. Wu took a breath, sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "The Ye family's restaurants in Youzhou have all been closed for decoration, a total of 15, and there are still 7 in Jizhou and Luoyang that are still in business because they have not been hit by the Chen family."

Although the restaurant is not the main industry of the Ye family, it is the most critical industry in the current situation, because the restaurant can bring liquidity to the Ye family.

"Speaking of rice shops and cloth shops, all rice shops and cloth shops in Youzhou have been hit, with a total of 124 rice shops and 106 cloth shops, and in recent days there has been almost no sale of a grain of rice or a piece of cloth."

After Mr. Wu finished speaking, he sighed deeply, it was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

"As for Jizhou and Luoyang, we only have a very small number of rice shops and cloth shops, and there are only a dozen in total, which does not have much impact."

As soon as he heard this data, Ye Chen's heart also sank, there are more than 200 stores, there is no business, how big the cost of this day is, you can imagine. The key is that more than 200 stores are pressed, and the funds cannot be circulated.

Old Man Ye didn't say anything, frowned after listening, and motioned to Manager Wu to go down.

"The Ye family also has a major asset, that is, the field production, a total of 350,000 mu of land, 210,000 mu in Youzhou, of which there are 120,000 mu in Liaodong, my Ye family's base camp, and now spring is about to begin, sowing is imminent, and it cannot be delayed."

The meaning of Mr. Wu is very clear, the cultivation of more than 300,000 mu of land is also a large amount of input, although most of the tenant farmers are responsible for themselves, but the tenant farmers basically have no property, in previous years, most of the grain and farm tools and even ploughing cattle were rented from the Ye family, and they were returned to the Ye family when the grain was harvested.

Usually nothing, the Ye family has always done this, and is not very harsh on the tenant farmers, although the farmers are busy all year round and often hungry, but the Ye family has not done anything to force the family to ruin, and they are relatively good landlords.

Now, if the Ye family cannot provide enough grain, farm tools, and cattle, then the tenant farmers will have nothing to harvest in a year, many people will starve to death, and the foundation of the Ye family will also be shaken.

When the tenant farmers flee the famine, the Ye family's large fields will also become wasteland.

There are not many more than 300,000 acres of farmland, and the top ten farmers in the United States in later generations have millions of acres of land, and even many universities in later generations have tens of thousands of acres of land.

Farmland is the foundation of this era, and the Ye family also attaches great importance to this field, although the income is not as large as other businesses, but the annual income is real, and it is also reassuring to look at the warehouse full of grain.

However, the cultivation of fields requires a lot of investment, and manpower is better said, and the most worthless thing in this era is people, and there is no need to worry about no one working to feed them.

However, grain planting, cattle farming, farming tools and repairing water conservancy facilities are a major investment, and usually these Ye families can easily take them out, but now it is quite difficult, because all the industries of the Ye family have been impacted.

Manager Wu's words made the three of them fall into deep thought, land is fundamental, land is inseparable from farmers, and farmers need tools, seeds, and food.

These things all need financial support, and the Ye family is now in danger of breaking funds.

Do you give up most of your business to keep the peasants so that your land won't be wasted, or do you give up the peasants and keep your business?

This is a dilemma, no matter which one is chosen, the Ye family will be greatly damaged.

"Mr. Wu, how many goods do we still have in our hands?" Old Man Ye's face was full of heaviness, now that the Ye family has reached a critical juncture, if he doesn't handle it well, he may collapse.

"The head of the family, the owner of the family, some of the goods in the store have hundreds of thousands, some have more than one million goods, the average price of each store is 700,000 yuan, a total of 160 million yuan, plus a few warehouses are pressed nearly 300 million goods."

Manager Wu said this, the whole person trembled, if the 300 million goods were lost, then the Ye family would really be broken.

Old Man Ye also had a sad face, but his mood was quite stable, but he was worried, after all, he was a person who had experienced strong winds and waves.

Ye Chen was also pondering, but what he was pondering was not how many goods he was pressing.

Ye Chen not only didn't worry about the pressure of the goods, but was happy that the Ye family had so much food and cloth, these things were strategic materials in troubled times, and money couldn't buy them.

Although there are still four years before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han Dynasty is now full of displaced people and famine everywhere.

Although I don't have to worry about the backlog of goods, the Ye family is about to fall into a crisis of broken capital chain, which has to be solved.

And if you don't sell grain and cloth in the future, you have to slowly hoard food and cloth, but this requires huge financial resources.

In addition to the food and cloth accidents, the Ye family does not have much other income, except for the output of the field is the restaurant and some other businesses.

Ye Chen was worried about the Ye family's current crisis and future development.

"Manager Wu, you can introduce to me the overall situation of the entire Ye family, so that I can formulate countermeasures, Chen'er was ignorant before, and I basically didn't understand the situation of the Ye family."

Ye Chen said sincerely, Manager Wu glanced at Old Man Ye, and Old Man Ye nodded at him.

With the instruction of Old Man Ye, Manager Wu began to introduce the Ye family. "Young master, in addition to what we just told you, our Ye family also has a caravan, our caravan has traveled all over the entire Han Dynasty, and there are still more than a thousand people in the caravan, and now most of them are concentrated in a few states near Youzhou."

Ye Chen listened to it for a long time, and finally had a general understanding of the Ye family, this Ye family still has huge energy, and it used to be one of the four major businessmen of the Han Dynasty.

The other three are the Mi family, the Wei family and the Zhen family. Speaking of these three families, they are famous, because the three families supported three princes in the late Han Dynasty.

The Mi family supported Liu Bei, which was relatively weak, but it could also help Liu Bei pull up the supply of 2,000 men and horses and the supply of food and grass for military horses in the later period, the Wei family supported Cao Cao, and the Zhen family married Yuan Shao, and the famous Luo Shen married Yuan Shao's son.

Although the Ye family is one of the four major businessmen, I don't know that it is unknown in later generations, Ye Chen thought that maybe the Ye family did not support any princes, or Ye Chen did not cross, the original Ye Chen hiccuped and the Ye family had no successor, or was killed by the Chen family early.

No matter what, now that Ye Chen has crossed over, he must lead the Ye family to survive in this troubled world, and even dominate one side.

After some understanding, the Ye family still has a very thick family background.

First: the armed forces. There are more than 1,000 caravan guards, more than 300 people currently in Liaodong, and more than 1,200 family guards.

Second: fixed assets. In addition to the above-mentioned shop properties, the Ye family also has many properties, the largest of which is, of course, the headquarters of the Ye family in Liaodong, which is where Ye Chen and Old Man Ye live now. There are more than 20 properties in other places, and there are 7 properties in Luoyang alone.

Third: Tenants. The Ye family has a total of more than 20,000 tenant farmers, although these people are only tenant farmers and are not under the management of the Ye family, but the Ye family has a good reputation, and these people are willing to rely on the Ye family.

Population, currently regarded as ants by the nobles, will be a strategic resource in the future when the princes compete for hegemony, and it will be more important than everything else.

Fourth: The Ye family has valuable antique jade, with a valuation of nearly 100 million yuan.

Nearly 100 million dollars seem to be a lot, but compared to the Shi clan, it is still a little kitten, you don't see Emperor Han Ling selling officials, 20 million dollars can buy county guard-level officials, the price of the three public is 100 million, and Cao Cao's father can easily take out 100 million to buy a third public to have a good time.

It can be seen how strong the power of the scholar clan was at that time, the Cao family was not a top scholar clan at that time, if it was the Yuan family of the fourth generation and the third duke, it was estimated that it could easily come up with more than ten or two billion dollars.

The fifth resource of the Ye family is connections. The Ye family was one of the four major businessmen at the beginning, and their business was all over the Han Dynasty, and many business families and scholar families had dealings with the Ye family.

Speaking in detail, the Ye family still has a lot of bits and pieces of business, maybe the single one is too small, and the Ye family doesn't attach importance to it, but Ye Chen attaches great importance to it.

Because the Ye family has a brewing workshop, most of them are just the Ye family's own brewing supply restaurant and their own use, as well as a blacksmith workshop, which is used to produce farm tools, which is also mainly for their own use.

There is also a small shipyard, because Liaodong is close to Wuhuan, and also has experience in fur cattle and sheep business.

In fact, the energy of the Ye family is not small, but the old man Ye is getting old and unable to open up, and even it is a little difficult to keep it, but fortunately, the connections and prestige he left behind are there.

The Ye family has no successor, if it weren't for Ye Chen suddenly crossing over, the Ye family might not be able to last a few years.

Manager Wu introduced a lot of things, as well as a lot of bits and pieces, Ye Chen didn't have time to pay attention to them for the time being, so he could only grasp a few key points.

All three fell silent, and the room fell silent.

Old Man Ye and Manager Wu had a worried face, while Ye Chen was relatively calm.

Because Ye Chen was not thinking about the current difficulties, the current situation was not difficult for him to solve, what he was thinking about was how the Chen family would react and the future direction of development after the current crisis.

"The head of the family, the young master, or we will sell some antiques, so that we can get through the current crisis immediately."

"No!" Old Man Ye and Ye Chen shouted at the same time.

Manager Wu didn't expect that one of his proposals would be opposed by Old Man Ye and Ye Chen, so he was immediately startled, and hurriedly looked at Old Man Ye and Ye Chen, but the two of them were not angry.

Old Man Ye didn't expect that Ye Chen would also oppose Steward Wu's idea, you must know that ordinary people would think that this is a good way to solve the problem at hand.

Old Man Ye didn't speak, and looked at Ye Chen quietly, meaning to let him explain why. Test him.