(Recommended reading: After resting for one night, Ye Chen went out with Zhang Jing, who also had a pseudonym.

Walking on the street, Ye Chen found that there had been too much change here, he hadn't been here for more than a year, it had completely changed, there were already many shops on the street, and there were more people coming and going.

Walking on the street, many of the people who buy and sell things are farmers, of course, there are also many small businessmen, looking at the smiles on the faces of farmers, Ye Chen knows that the achievements of Yu County are fruitful.

Turning around in the county seat of Yuxian County, the commercial atmosphere here is already very strong, and from time to time you can find that there are many small traders, big businessmen, and big families who are not interested in this remote place, but the small traders are very popular here.

These small merchants sell small things that the peasants need, and the price is not high, it is easy to sell, the key is that the environment here is good, there are no evil officials, there are no high taxes, and there is not even a city entry fee.

Set up a stall here, as long as you pay a certain amount of taxes, all other fees are exempted, and no one dares to collect protection fees or arbitrary fees or anything. In this way, the cost of the goods will be low, the price will be low, and then it will be good to sell.

Many small traders from other places have come to love this place after doing business here, and many of them have settled here.

Of course, there are also big businessmen here, but only a few business families who are good friends with the Ye family come here, and they are mainly engaged in the procurement and transportation of bulk commodities.

The Ye family is engaged in large-scale production here, and it definitely needs a lot of raw materials, and some goods also need to be shipped out, but in order to keep secrets, Yuxian County has supported several families that are not very large.

Each family is only responsible for one thing, so they don't know the true situation of the Ye family, plus a large part of it is coming in and out from the sea, they know even less.

At present, business is prosperous in Yuxian County, but Ye Chen asked to keep a low profile, although he did not prohibit personnel exchanges, but did not publicize it.

Many people can only see superficial things when they come to the county, those low-priced goods, the goods that a group of farmers are buying and selling, they naturally don't look down on them, in their eyes, the county is just more lively.

Therefore, these people do not exaggerate the prosperity of the county, but belittle the county, because in their eyes, unlike other places where there is food, drink and play, there are farmers here.

Big businessmen, the big family naturally looks down on the peasants, so they don't have a good impression of the county, they come here just to make the Ye family's money, although many families cooperate with the Ye family, but they only send people to come to the county, and they have never stepped into the county.

Ye Chen wants this effect, he doesn't want people to know everything about Yuxian County, and now it's better to develop in a low-key manner.

After looking at the county seat, Ye Chen walked out of the city, at this time the farming was over, but there were still many farmers in the farmland.

Patches of farmland are full of crops, and every crop is hope, not only the hope of farmers, but also the hope of Ye Chen.

The farmland in the county can be planted in time, and even some farmers will go to the reclamation after planting their own land, but now there are not many places that can be reclaimed, and a large number of displaced people poured into Liaodong during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and most of these people were arranged to be reclaimed in the county, until the county could not accommodate it before being placed in other places.

Ye Chen took a look, and the farmland here was covered with fertilizer, which showed that the farmers were still very active and worked hard for their lives.

After looking at the farmland, Ye Chen was very satisfied, and when the autumn harvest came, some of the grain grown in these fields would become the farmers' rations, and some would also become Ye Chen's military rations.

Along the way, Ye Chen also discovered that the Zhuangzi here were obviously much denser, which indicated that the population had increased a lot.

The county carries out grid management of farms, and the farms are relatively loose at first, but after the population increases, new farms are opened under the grid one by one, which is fast and convenient to manage, and it is very convenient to arrange some people in each village in the future.

"Let's go, let's go into the Zhuangzi and have a look."

This was a new farm, and Ye Chen saw that the houses were neatly arranged, there were many old people sitting outside the courtyard chatting, and a group of children were playing.

Regarding Ye Chen's arrival, a few people came forward to ask, this is the militia organized by the farm, and they will patrol back and forth, but this is solved by the soldiers of the guard battalion.

"Lord, really Lord." Not long after Ye Chen entered the farm, a young man inside walked over quickly, but his left arm was missing.

"Li Tiedan." Ye Chen recognized this person, this person was a soldier of the guard battalion before.

Hearing Ye Chen call him, the person named Li Tiedan actually shed tears.

"See the lord."

"Hurry up, get up." Ye Chen helped him up.

"My lord, why are you here?"

"Come and see the folks, I used to fight abroad, and then I served in Luoyang, and I haven't been able to come and see, and now I am in Liaodong Taishou, and things are busy, but no matter how busy I am, I have to take the time to take a look." Ye Chen said emotionally, these are not false, there is no need for him to come to the void in front of these people.

Ye Chen patted Li Tiedan, and then said: "Your arm was cut off a few years ago during the battle with Wu Huan, have you been doing well in the past few years?" ”

Li Tiedan was very excited when he saw that Ye Chen not only remembered his name, but also remembered when his arm was gone.

"Lord, I'm doing well, the pension is enough for me to spend for decades, plus the lord has also divided ten acres of land in my family, and there is a ploughing cow. It's just that, my lord, I never dreamed of going back to the guard camp again. Li Tiedan trembled with excitement as he spoke.

"Tiedan, there is no way to go back to the guard camp, but you can also do more for your brothers, even if you have a lot of food, some of this food will be used as rations for your brothers, and you are with them."

"Yes, yes, my lord, I am with them always.

I was assigned to this Zhuangzi to train the militia here, and there were thirty men under my command, and I demanded them in full accordance with the discipline of the escort battalion. ”

"Well done." Ye Chen's eyes lit up when he heard Li Tiedan's words, and he had a new plan in his heart, but the occasion was not suitable, so he suppressed the excitement in his heart first.

"Lord, please do something, that..." Li Tiedan's face flushed, and he was squirming and pinching.

"Anything, just say, as long as I do it." Ye Chen was very curious when he saw Li Tiedan's appearance, thinking that he had encountered some difficulties and needed his help.

"It's not a big deal, I just want to invite you and your wife to my house to sit, of course, the home is simple, if the lord and wife are inconvenient, it's fine." When Li Tiedan saw Zhang Jing, he thought it was Mrs. Ye, because Ye Chen had never brought a female dependent when he went out, and Ye Chen's current age, ordinary people would have already crawled all over the ground, so he misunderstood.

This misunderstanding is really difficult to explain Ye Chen, so he simply doesn't explain.

"Haha, let's go, go to your house and ask for a glass of water." After Ye Chen finished speaking, he affectionately took Li Tiedan's hand and walked forward.

Li Tiedan was very excited, the reason why he invited Ye Chen was because he had been bragging to his wife for the past few years, saying how good he had a good relationship with Ye Chen, and saying that Ye Chen would come to see him.

But wherever Ye Chen is free, his mother-in-law has been counting him, although she didn't really count Li Tiedan, just joking with him, but it also made him very faceless.

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