In the evening, Liu Qi and Wang Tianhammer sent a message, saying that the Chen family could no longer hold on, closed a large number of grain stores, and the remaining grain stores had also raised prices.

This is undoubtedly good news, after receiving this news, the Ye family is very happy, especially the shopkeeper of the grain store and cloth store who has been holding back for almost a month.

The Ye family was immersed in joy, while Ye Chen was even more confused and uneasy.

I wonder why the Chen family stopped at this time, you must know that the Chen family has invested a total of more than 300 million yuan, if they don't completely defeat themselves, then the more than 300 million yuan will be wasted.

What made Ye Chen uneasy was that if the Chen family or the people behind the Chen family didn't give up, then they would definitely be brewing a shocking conspiracy, and if they were not careful, they would be swallowed up.

Ye Chen thought about it for a long time, and finally made a decision: to form an army. Form an army that is loyal to the Ye family and loyal to yourself.

With this thought, Ye Chen began to prepare.

First of all, it is to understand how many troops the Ye family can raise at present.

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked. If you are fully armed, not counting war horses, each warrior will have to invest at least 30,000 yuan a year.

A soldier's full-body equipment costs 20,000 yuan, not counting weapons, but the armor of the whole body alone costs more than 10,000 yuan, the weapons cost from seven or eight thousand yuan to tens of thousands, and the standard weapons of ordinary soldiers cost seven or eight thousand dollars.

Other clothes, military salaries, and training expenses cost about 10,000 yuan a year, so it is not easy to raise an army.

Originally, Ye Chen wanted to have a 3,000 army, but after calculation, the Ye family couldn't afford to raise it at all, and at present, it would be a little difficult for the Ye family to operate at most.

500 troops, a year's investment is 15 million, although the Ye family can afford more troops, but this is bound to have an impact on the development of the Ye family, especially now that the Ye family is in a weak period.

The budget is out, and the plan to recruit how many people is there, so the next step is to determine where to recruit from? Who's hired?

It is very simple to recruit people, and you need young people between the ages of 15 and 23, because in order to train into a lineage, it is very important to recruit people from where.

Ye Chen didn't plan to recruit people outside for the time being, the sources of personnel were mainly his own tenants and caravans, and they had been selected from the family guards.

The age limit is mainly due to their strong plasticity, and they can better accept some of the ideas they bring from later generations.

After preparing for two days, early in the morning of the third day, Ye Chen came to a clearing more than a thousand meters away from Ye Mansion, where there was a hill of several hundred meters, which became a wasteland because of the more gravel.

Although it was just dawn, more than 2,000 young people gathered.

These young people are all people who are related to the Ye family.

The scene was noisy, but Ye Chen didn't have any displeasure, because it was a group of farmers, a group of untrained farmers.

The reason why so many people came, firstly, because of the good reputation of the Ye family, and secondly, because of the high benefits promised by Ye Chen.

What Ye Chen promised was not "one person as a soldier, the whole family is glorious" in later generations, but "one person is a soldier, and the whole family is full".

Don't look at this subtle difference, "eating enough" is the common desire of the majority of farmers in this era, so Ye Chen uses food as the slogan, which shows how attractive it is.

To say that the whole family is full is not a slogan, but a real thing, it was eaten and covered by Ye Chen's selection, and other expenses were all paid as long as they were not personal expenses.

Not only that, but there is also a high military salary, which is enough to feed a family of five according to the average living level of this era.

Of course, Ye Chen only recruited the Ye family's escort team, that is, private soldiers, without establishment, which was equivalent to the local security regiment during the Republic of China.

Ye Chen didn't dare to recruit troops in the name of recruiting troops, that was looking for death by himself, now the Han still has prestige, and if he dares to raise troops, he will definitely be suppressed.

There are more than 2,000 people, and the black pressure is overwhelming, how to select the soldiers who want it? It's very simple, run, and win 500 places.

So the group of people in the black pressure started running, how long and how long? These are not limited, anyway, they ran around the hill bag and ran until they couldn't hold on, and the five hundred people who persevered in the end were the winners, the people Ye Chen wanted.

Ye Chen also ran behind the team, born in troubled times, if you want to live, if you want to live better, then you have to be better than others.

"Quick, quick, fast". The tiger head shouted and shouted on the side, urging everyone to run quickly.

Tiger Head's physical fitness is very good, so Ye Chen arranged for him to do the work of selecting soldiers.

Although the weather was cold, they were sweating profusely, and many people were already panting.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes, no one gave up, which shows how much pressure there is to eat.

Twenty minutes later, many people didn't insist enough, Ye Chen let the tiger head scream, and couldn't hold on to standing aside, the Ye family would have a reward later, and they would not let them come in vain.

In half an hour, there were still people in their early 1,000s running again, and Ye Chen also ran again.

Most of the peasants of this era did not have enough to eat, and most of the people who were still running were thin and yellow-faced.

If they can keep running, they have actually reached the limit of their body, and compared to their long-term malnutrition, what makes them keep running is their will.

The body lacks nutrients, and it can be recuperated in the later stage, and Ye Chen also has this confidence, but he can strengthen his training in terms of will, but he can't fundamentally change it.

In forty minutes, only a few hundred people could hold on. Many people have reached the limit of their will, their physical limit has long been reached, and some are close to the limit of their will.

After running for another five minutes, Ye Chen saw that the number of people was almost there, so he told them to stop.

At this time, Ye Chen was also panting, he ate and drank well, and his body was still good, but he almost reached the limit, after all, he didn't exercise often before.

The five hundred people selected stood aside, Ye Chen stood in front of them panting, they were also out of breath, and some of them turned pale and even crumbling.

Ye Chen instructed Hutou that those who were not selected would be given a meal, and another three days' wages would be paid, and the wages for these three days would be paid according to the standards of the Ye family's restaurant, which would be enough for the family to cope with for half a month.

In this way, those who were not selected were not dissatisfied, but were very grateful to Ye Chen, because they were doing manual work to survive, which made them have half a month's income when they came to run in the morning, and they were very happy.

There are 481 people left, and the rest will be left to the tiger head to choose, and 500 people will be filled.

Looking at this group of people, Ye Chen didn't say much, arranged for them to have a full meal, and then everyone received a settling-in allowance equivalent to two months' salary, and then let them go back and gather here on the fifth watch tomorrow morning.

When they received two months' salary, many people cried, because it could feed a family of five for two months, and save some food for three months.

In this era when people are cheaper than grass, it is happiness to be able to eat a full meal.

When people are recruited, training becomes a problem, and Ye Chen has no talents with military talent under him.

Suddenly, one head and two big, Ye Chen is not good at training the army, although he has watched several TV series of the "I Am Special Forces" series before, but ancient combat and modern combat are two different things, one is a cold weapon and the other is a hot weapon.

Fortunately, because I liked to watch the TV series "I Am a Special Soldier" at that time, I went to the military forum to study soldier training.

How can I say that the basic training will still be possible, and then the combat skills, cold weapon combat methods such as formations, etc., will be talked about when we find talents.

After deciding, Ye Chen hid in the study when he went back, studied the training method, and began to write the training outline by himself.

The training mainly trains the physical fitness and discipline of the soldiers.

Physical fitness is mainly morning and evening cross-country long-distance running and various training, such as push-ups, frog jumps, sit-ups, and horizontal bars and parallel bars.

This discipline training is mainly queue training and housekeeping regulations, plus the inculcation of ordinary discipline.

Speaking of queue training, it has a very good effect on ancient warfare, the effect of queue training on discipline has been proven by later generations, needless to say, Ye Chen can directly use it.

Ancient warfare, the era of cold weapons, was very important for military formations, and the army's daily training also had training battle formations.

With platoon training, soldiers will form battle formations faster, more orderly, and cooperate better with each other.

Platoon training can also make the army disciplined, not easy to break up in case of accidents, and not collapse when retreating.

A detailed training outline has been compiled, but it is only recruit training, as for the training of cold weapons and battle formations in the later stage, Ye Chen has no ability.

Once the plan is set, it's much easier to do next.

In the early morning of the next day, although it was stipulated that the assembly would be at five o'clock in the morning, Ye Chen arrived at four o'clock in the morning with the tiger head.

The soldiers arrived one after another, and by five o'clock in the morning, all of them arrived, and no one was absent or late.

Ye Chen asked them to line up first, at least roughly neatly, and it was already ten minutes after they lined up.

"Hello everyone, I am Ye Chen, the young head of the Ye family, I will be your instructor in the future, train you, as long as you do three things, that is, obey orders, obey orders, obey orders."

"Did you hear that?"

"Yes"

"Heard"

"What".

......

The various answers of the sparse Lala, this is the peasant, this is the untrained peasant.

Ye Chen was not angry at all, but he was very angry.

"You guys should have just answered 'yes', now run ten kilometres, start because of your poor performance."

After Ye Chen gave the order, the tiger head took the lead in running in front, some of them ran with excitement, and some of them still didn't know what was going on.

The last two were followed up by Ye Chen with his buttocks.

Ye Chen also followed, he also needed to train, and he also hoped to gallop on the battlefield in the future.

Long-distance running is physical work, and it is still very difficult to go down ten kilometers, but this group of people are hard-working people and often do physical work, so no one can't support it.

"Walk slowly, don't stop, don't sit down."

It was easy to stop immediately after running, and Ye Chen asked them to slowly walk back to the meeting place. Because it is running around a hill, the distance is not far.