After Ye Chen returned to Liaodong, he had been working hard to develop his own territory, and explosive development occurred in half a year.

First of all, after half a year of training, the 10,000 troops of the guard battalion have been formed, and the newly recruited 5,000 soldiers are close to the combat effectiveness of the original guard battalion, and everyone can ride horses, and Ye Chen specially trained 5,000 cavalry.

Being able to ride a horse is not the same as being a cavalry, the cavalry must be able to fight on horseback, which requires long-term training, and the newly recruited 5,000 soldiers have only completed all the subjects of infantry, and the subject of riding a horse cannot be done for the time being.

In business, the Ye family is developing rapidly, Du Kang wine alone can make a profit of nearly 200 million per month, there will be so much because the Wuhuan people on the grassland have been vigorously purchasing, and then Ye Chen finally found out, it turned out that they not only drank it themselves, but also traded with the Huns on the grassland.

Not only the procurement on the grassland, but also the demand in other states is also very large, especially Jizhou and Xuzhou, which are run by the Mi family and the Zhen family, which have to pull a large number of goods every month.

The base in Luoyang has also been built, and Luoyang's Du Kang wine is currently only supplied to the Wei family and the Luoyang Ye family, but after expansion, there will soon be excess production and the market can be expanded.

What I want to say is that the relationship between the Ye family and the Wei family has become very bad due to the conflict with Wei Zhongdao, except for business matters, the two families have no contact, I heard that Wei Zhongdao's health is very poor now, although he can get out of bed, he can't stand a little cold, and he stays at home all day.

No one is to blame, this is all his own fault, as for the business, Ye Chen is not worried at all, anyway, the agency fee has been collected, and it is impossible to return it, the Wei family can do it for others if they don't do it, there are huge benefits in it, he doesn't believe that the Wei family will give up.

Of course, the Wei family is not so stupid, there are huge interests in this, for the sake of the family's interests, Wei Zi really does not dare to give up the agency of Du Kang wine easily, and because Du Kang wine brings not only a lot of profits to the Wei family, but also influence, which also makes him dare not give up.

Speaking of the Ye family's other businesses, it is worth mentioning the Ye family's paper industry.

As soon as the Ye family's paper was launched, it was sought after by the major families, especially Ye Chen, who also printed a book to sell, and the most proud and fundamental thing of the major families was the collection of books at home.

Commoners can't read at all, because they don't have books at all, these books are monopolized by the major families, and as long as these books are there, they can prosper for generations.

Carving a book with bamboo slips costs a lot, costs tens of thousands, where can ordinary people afford it, now Ye Chen has printed a book of books, which is not only convenient, but also easy to preserve, although the price is still not cheap, but compared to the previous cost of tens of thousands, now only a few thousand costs are enough.

A book for thousands of dollars, is it expensive? Of course, it is very expensive, because the cost of the Ye family's manufacturing is only a few dozen dollars, first of all, the cost of paper is a big dollar to sell a piece, in fact, the cost of the Ye family is twenty pieces of paper a big dollar.

So why did Ye Chen sell it so expensive? Because no matter how cheap it is, ordinary people will not buy it, they are concerned about the problem of having enough food, so Ye Chen's customers are those big families, and there is nothing for ordinary people.

Then it is very reasonable for Ye Chen to sell so expensive, because compared to bamboo slips, their cost is several times cheaper.

When the paper was made on a large scale, Ye Chen also did one thing, that is, he printed a few books and a large pile of paper and sent them to Cai Yong, one was to admire his personality, and the other was to apologize for what happened last time.

Although it wasn't his fault last time, he did objectively bring trouble to Cai Yong. In these books, Ye Chen also specially printed a few of his poems.

It's not that he wants to pretend to be forced, but to improve his reputation, reputation is too important in this era, with fame, you can recruit talents, and more people are willing to defect to you.

Although Ye Chen doesn't have to think about it for the time being, his reputation has been ruined, but it doesn't mean that he can't do it in the future.

This paper business has also brought huge wealth to the Ye family, those families love and hate Ye Chen, love is that the appearance of paper has greatly reduced the cost of their books, and hate that this will break the monopoly of the big family.

The price of books has been greatly reduced, although the people still can't afford to read, but some small families can read books, not only small families, but also some wealthy people will have a few people in the future to start reading.

In this way, the competition of those big families has slowly increased, if it weren't for the Ye family's relatively high prices for paper and books, then the major families would have to attack them en masse, otherwise their advantages would be greatly weakened after ten or twenty years, and the children of their families would have no innate advantages.

Ye Chen only kept the manufacture of paper secret, but not for movable type printing, he wanted to replace the heavy bamboo slips with paper in a short time, which not only had a huge impact on the entire Chinese culture, but also greatly stimulated the use of paper, which could make the Ye family obtain huge profits.

Next, let's talk about the Ye family's fleet, the second batch of big ships of the Ye family has also been built, although the first batch of ships is large, but it is still not suitable for too far sailing, so it is generally only active in Yuxian and Qingzhou.

The second batch of ships could reach Xuzhou, and the Ye family transported goods, mainly Du Kang wine, paper and grassland furs, to the south, and then transported back a shipload of grain from the south.

Especially Qingzhou, Qingzhou and Liaodong are very close if they take the sea route, if it is smooth, you can take a one-way trip in more than a day, and it only takes two or three days to take the long one-way road, the two places are greatly convenient, and the Ye family has also stepped up the commercial development of Qingzhou.

The next thing to talk about is the Ye family money village, the Ye family money village has a leap forward development in the past six months, the certificate issued by the Ye family money village is not made of sheepskin, but made of paper, of course, this paper is not the kind sold outside, but made of two kinds of bark plus cotton heads.

Cotton will be added to the coins of later generations, so even if you wash them with clothes, it will be fine, of course, the Ye family can't do these now, but it can be imitated, so that the anti-counterfeiting is greatly strengthened, and customers are more assured.

Now the whole Youzhou is full of money villages, and it is very convenient for everyone to do business, and they never bring a lot of copper coins out to do business. Yip Family Money also launched a business.

Many people are still worried about depositing money in the Ye family bank, but it doesn't matter, when you go out to do business, you will temporarily deposit the money in it, and you will go to another place to take it out in the Ye family bank, just a few days, so that you don't have to carry a car of copper coins on the middle road, which is convenient and safe.

This business is very popular, of course, the Ye family has to charge a lot of fees from it, and of course, it is more cost-effective than their own transportation.

Of course, the deposit and loan business of Yejia Qianzhuang has also developed rapidly, and with the convenience of everyone, more people are willing to deposit money into Yejia Qianzhuang, and there are also loans to expand business.

At the same time, the development of the Zhen family money village in Jizhou is not slow, even faster than the Ye family, because the Zhen family is already strong and has a very large influence in Jizhou, so it is very convenient to do.

The most important thing is that the two money banks recognize each other, and the bills you deposit in the Ye family money bank can still be exchanged when you get to the Zhen family, which stimulates the business growth of the two money banks, because the business contacts between the two states are very close, and the road is relatively far, but it is much more convenient after having the money bank.

Yejia Qianzhuang has saved about one billion yuan of money for more than half a year, and the business growth is relatively fast, and every month Qianzhuang can make a profit of nearly 10 million yuan, although it is not much, but at least it does not lose money, and the most important thing for Qianzhuang at the moment is not to make money, but his financial function.

The existence of the money village has made the Ye family's funds unprecedentedly abundant, and some things that have no money for the time being can also be done in advance.

Now the foundry industry in Yuxian County is also very developed, and the weapons and armor not only equip all the guard battalions, but also hoard some of them.

Now the overall situation of the Ye family is the rapid development of various undertakings, Ye Chen feels that his existing territory is no longer enough for his own development, and he thinks about when he can expand his territory again.

A county is really not enough for the Ye family to develop after expansion, and it is imperative to expand the territory, but it is just necessary to wait for the opportunity.