The lack of population restricts the development of the Ye family, in addition to expanding the territory, it can only increase the population, and it is not impossible to expand the territory, but it is not the time for the time being, and there are many things that cannot be kept secret at this time.

Ye Chen was thinking about how to recruit people when he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"That's right, if I can't recruit someone, I can rob it!" Thinking of this, Ye Chen became happy, as if he could conjure up a lot of people at once.

If Ye Chen robs someone? Do you want to be like that, robbing in broad daylight?

Of course not, Ye Chen had the idea of the Youzhou bandits, and now there are many bandits in the entire Youzhou except for Liaodong, so Ye Chen began to fight them.

At the beginning, he had made an agreement with Guo Xun, the assassin of Youzhou, to suppress bandits in the entire Youzhou, but Wuhuan suddenly invaded, and even if the matter was delayed, now Ye Chen plans to start suppressing bandits again.

There are many benefits to suppressing bandits, training troops, making money, and you can also get a large number of people, most of these bandits are just ordinary people, and a few are extremely vicious real bandits, and when the time comes, you can just screen them.

After making up his mind, Ye Chen began to arrange, now there are 10,000 guard battalions, and 6,000 can be dispatched at a time, and then take turns to suppress bandits.

Ye Chen's new round of suppression of bandits began, and as soon as the army came out, whether it was a climate or not, there were no bandits who could resist it at all, and there were still two generals in the guard battalion.

Ye Chen began to stir up the situation in Youzhou, many bandits disappeared one after another, and the people and businessmen applauded.

In fact, the bandits are not difficult to suppress, especially the bandits at this time, there is no organization, no training, and there is no combat effectiveness at all, unlike the bandits after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, many of them have experienced battle formations, and understand the layout and defense.

A few bandits made a direct forced landing, and many bandits sent an army to crush them, and there was no resistance at all.

The bandits not only brought Ye Chen a lot of income, but also a large number of people, every time he suppressed the bandits, Ye Chen would not kill indiscriminately, of course, even if he surrendered, those who were full of blood would have to take a few knives, and the rest would be pulled to the mines to do coolies, Ye Chen had opened some iron mines and coal mines.

In addition to these benefits, Ye Chen also unexpectedly received other benefits, that is, the Ye family's reputation in the entire Youzhou has soared, and even the business of the Ye family's money has also increased greatly, and many people are more assured to deposit money in the Ye family's money bank, or use the business of the bank.

This was something that Ye Chen hadn't thought of before, and what he didn't expect was that the sales of Du Kang wine had also increased significantly.

It turned out that Ye Chen exterminated the bandits, and when transporting Du Kang wine, the guards could naturally be reduced, and the cost was reduced, so that the price of Du Kang wine could naturally be reduced, the price would fall, and the sales would go up.

These unexpected gains made Ye Chen very happy, and he was happy to suppress bandits every day, and the guard camp rotated every two months, and Ye Chen planned to exterminate all the bandits in the entire Youzhou.

There is a small episode in this crackdown on bandits, that is, the bandit leader Tie Dan, who was invited by the Zhang family to intercept and kill Ye Chen, actually led the crowd to surrender directly, in his words, Ye Chen and the five hundred of them lost their armor when they killed themselves, and now thousands of people have killed them, how can they fight, just surrender directly.

Ye Chen, the other bandits who did not sneak attack, directly led his troops to rush and kill, and he had to surrender without a few rounds of charges, many bandits did not have decent weapons at all, some of the bandits had weapons, and some of them directly held wooden sticks, how much combat power could they have.

After half a year, Ye Chen captured tens of thousands of people, and he finally recruited 5,000 recruits, and these 5,000 recruits were also allowed to participate in the suppression of bandits after three months of training, but at that time, there were not many bandits in the entire Youzhou.

Ye Chen spent most of the year suppressing bandits, he rarely dealt with the affairs of the Ye family and the county, and he only went to see if there was a major decision, this year was a year of change, and it was also a year for the Ye family to break the bottleneck and develop rapidly again.

With a large population, the workshops can work hard to produce more, especially the shipyards, which require a very large population, and need more crews to build new ships.

At present, the Ye family has several fleets, and there are more than 80 ships that can sail far away, and these ships have begun to generate very large profits, and each fleet has millions of profits every time it goes round trip, but most of this part of the income is directly purchased in the local area and transported back to Yuxian.

Therefore, although the fleet also earns tens of millions of dollars a month, they all buy grain, and with the increase in the population of Yuxian County, the consumption of grain naturally increases.

After a year of hard work, those peasants already have their own grain, and they don't need to be fed by the Ye family, but the workers in those workshops also have to consume a lot of grain, and there is also a guard battalion, which currently has 15,000 people, and also needs to consume a lot of food.

Now the Ye family has begun to build a bigger ship, this ship can reach Yangzhou, but the construction period of such a ship is also very large, and Yangzhou is not the territory of the Ye family, and there is not much strength there, this big ship has no dock and can't even dock, so even if the ship is built, it will be troublesome.

Therefore, if he wants to trade further south, Ye Chen has to get more wharves along the coast, but this wharf is not something he can get if he wants to, Ye Chen still has to find an opportunity.

However, it is not wrong to build a big ship first, even if you don't go to Yangzhou, there is a larger tonnage in Xuzhou, which can transport larger materials at a time.

After Ye Chen began to trade south by ship, there was another product in the trade with the grassland, that is, tea, and there were some tea leaves in the north, but the tea was too unpalatable, and Ye Chen only drank it a few times occasionally.

However, the tea leaves in the south are not very good, mainly because of the production process, which has not gone through the steps of sun-drying and roasting tea, but is directly dried or dried to make tea cakes.

But even so, it is still very popular in the grassland, because the grassland people eat barbecue every day, and it must be very uncomfortable if they don't drink some tea, although they make a big can of cow drink, but it can relieve the greasy and help digestion.

In this way, Ye Chen and they have another source of wealth, they have a market if they have a demand, and the current tea is not cheap, although there are not many people who drink it.

Other developments are all developed in an orderly manner according to the established route, but Qian Zhuang and Paper Ye Chen have been doing promotion, and they have spent a lot of money to promote.

It's good to say that the paper is to send a large stack to some celebrities, to some cultural celebrities and high-ranking officials, for them to use, they have friends, and they will talk about this matter, and it will slowly become popular.

Ye Chen of this money village has put a lot of thought into it, mainly using the intelligence network to secretly propagandize, and he may not believe it at first, but when many people around him talk about it, you will pay attention to it, and slowly believe it.

Moreover, the decoration of the money village is tall, and the façade is also the best, and you can often see it when you enter and exit the restaurant or other high-end things, which is also a kind of publicity.

There are many people who accept the money village in Youzhou and Jizhou, and there are also a few money houses of the Ye family and the Zhen family in Luoyang, although the people in Luoyang use it less, but Jizhou and Youzhou often use it to do business, and there are so many money houses on the street, and slowly they will understand.

This year, the Ye family's career can be said to have developed rapidly, hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland have allowed the Ye family to reserve a lot of grain, and the fishery has also developed greatly, the people of Yuxian County can eat cheap seafood every day, and the Ye family's workshops and warehouses will also purchase a large number of people, and the people's nutrition has been greatly improved.

Although the Ye family spent a lot of money this year, it still allowed the Ye family to reserve more than one billion dollars, mainly because there was a lot of investment in education this year, which ate a lot of money from the Ye family, and the shipyard was also a big money-eater.

Last time, the horses that the Ye family stole from the grassland were not sold, and then they traded with the Wuhuan people, they didn't have enough money, so they used a lot of horses to offset them, and now the Ye family horse farm has 20,000 horses, which is not counting the 15,000 horses in the guard camp. These horses consumed all of Ye Chen's gains from the bandits.

This year, the 15,000 guard battalion of the Ye family has been formed into an army, and its combat effectiveness is strong. Economically, all undertakings are developing rapidly, and the ability to make money is very strong. On the foundation, Yuxian County has formed a scale and has become a prosperous logistics base, which can support Ye Chen's strategy.

A year has passed, and now it is the end of 183, this winter is particularly difficult, Ye Chen is even more looking forward to the spring of the next year, a huge uprising is about to begin.

Ye Chen was ready to welcome the advent of this great era.