Ye Chen came to the Taishou Mansion, and there were not only the big and small officials of the Taishou Mansion present, but also the big families from last time.

The difference is that Han Dong and Yan Cheng did not appear this time, although these two people have not been condemned, but their official positions have been removed.

"Ye Xiaoyou, this time your Ye family has made remarkable achievements in suppressing bandits, and I would like to express my gratitude to the Ye family on behalf of the Taishou Mansion."

"And I will go to the court and exempt the Ye family from the tax burden of thirty percent this year."

Taishou Li Wei said to Ye Chen with a smile. Recently, he has been doing well, the prestige of Huang Fei and others has been defeated, in order to suppress bandits, all major families have surrounded Taishou, and it can be said that Taishou has initially controlled Liaodong.

"Thank you, Lord Taishou."

Anyway, the people are too guarded, and they thank Ye Chen, and subtract the thirty percent tax burden of Ye Chen's family, although this thirty percent tax is really not much, mainly because the land property has to pay taxes, but the real land property reported to the government is really not much.

But this is always an attitude, representing the attitude of the Taishou Mansion, so Ye Chen also has a relatively low posture.

"Haha, Ye Xiaoyou is a heroic boy, I just want to recommend Ye Xiaoyou as filial piety, I don't know what Ye Xiaoyou thinks."

Ye Chen knew that the deal was coming, if they agreed, then they had to help them suppress the bandits, of course, this bandit was Ye Chen's established strategy, even if they didn't come to invite Ye Chen, Ye Chen would go to the bandits.

It's just that someone came to invite Ye Chen, so he had to give some benefits, since he was going to suppress the bandits, it was better to have more benefits.

"Thank you Taishou, Chen will definitely live up to Taishou's expectations, and if he becomes an official in the future, he will definitely benefit one party."

Seeing Ye Chen accept the gift from Taishou, the eyes of those families were full of smiles, in their opinion, Ye Chen had a short mouth, and the next thing was much easier to discuss.

"Ye Xiaoyou's dragon and phoenix will definitely not disappoint the imperial court."

"It's just...", Li Wei said with a sudden frown.

Ye Chen knew that the meat drama was coming, and the people gave the gifts, so it was time for him to express himself.

"What difficulties does Taishou have, you might as well say it bluntly, all of you here are people with heads and faces in Liaodong, maybe you can help Taishou solve the difficulties."

Ye Chen pulled other families into it, this time he didn't want to be treated as a fool anymore, although in the end he proved that he was not stupid at all, and even made a lot of profits.

"Alas, Ye Xiaoyou, this bandit has been disrupting the normal order of my Liaodong and endangering the people.

After Li Wei finished speaking, he sighed and looked at Ye Chen.

Of course, Ye Chen understood what he meant, but he still had to pretend to be stupid, and if he wanted benefits, I would go to suppress the bandits.

"Lord Taishou, if the government is willing to suppress the bandits, I, the Ye family, will support it and immediately donate 1,000 quintals of grain and 100,000 yuan to the government to help the Taishou quell the bandits as soon as possible."

Everyone was dumbfounded, Ye Chen actually said this, if you want to talk about Ye Chen, people have donated so much, what else can you dislike, the bandits have nothing to do with the Ye family.

But this is not the purpose of their visit this time, of course, the purpose is to let the Ye family send troops to suppress the bandits again.

However, people said that the last time the bandits suffered heavy losses, with more than 2,000 dead and wounded, and nearly 1,000 people died in the battle alone.

At this time, everyone didn't know how to speak, and the scene was cold.

After all, Li Wei is too guarded, and he has to preside over it here.

"Ye Xiaoyou, you misunderstood, it is naturally my duty to suppress the bandits, but the current ability is not enough, so I hope that Ye Xiaoyou will work hard and send troops to suppress the bandits again, I will be grateful to the Taishou Mansion and the representatives of the family."

Li Wei had no choice but to directly pick out the matter.

"Lord Taishou, it's not impossible for my Ye family to suppress bandits, but this loss is too great, and my Ye family can't bear it for more than a month."

Ye Chen said with embarrassment. He did not directly refuse, nor did he agree, that is, he left room for negotiation.

"I don't know what Ye Xiaoyou wants?" Li Wei is also an old fox, and as soon as Ye Chen said this, he knew that he needed benefits.

"This, first of all, I don't know if the income you said last time belongs to my Ye family, does it still count?" Ye Chen's words certainly meant to allude to the fact that the Han family had sent someone to ask for their belongings.

"Ye Xiaoyou, rest assured, the order officially issued by my Taishou Mansion counts, of course it counts, you can also ask everyone here if they all support this decision of Taishou."

"Yes, yes, little brother Ye, don't worry, whoever dares to question this decision in the future will not be able to get along with my Wang family."

"Yes, our Li family also has this attitude."

"Our Yang family is too."

The heads of each family expressed their stance one after another, Ye Chen knew that the Han family's plan was completely bankrupt, and it would be difficult to mix in the future, and each family would not provoke the Ye family in order to let the Ye family suppress the bandits.

"What's the matter, Ye Xiaoyou, but there are other questions."

"Alas, although this bandit has been captured, but not every one of them is Qingfeng Village, for more than a month, in addition to the extermination of Qingfeng Village, the others have lost money, and the loss is big, not to mention the seizure, and they have to bear a large amount of pension."

Ye Chen shook his head and sighed as he spoke, as if the Ye family had really suffered a heavy loss.

When Ye Chen said this, everyone else believed it, because they knew that even if the officers and soldiers went to suppress the bandits, it would be thankless, not to mention that the Ye family only used their own private soldiers.

In their impression, the official and military branches of the government are better than their own private soldiers, and they also have a lot of private soldiers at home, but they have never fought a war, so their combat effectiveness is not high.

What they didn't know was that the Ye family's soldiers were not private soldiers at all, they were built in full accordance with the army, and after high-intensity training and actual combat, they were now a strong force.

"Otherwise, Ye Xiaoyou, my government is willing to report to the imperial court to send part of the funds to the Ye family, you also know that the county's financial resources are limited, otherwise I will not report to the imperial court and distribute it directly."

Ye Chen rolled his eyes, who is the current Emperor of the Han Dynasty. It was Liu Hong, the posthumous Emperor of Han Ling.

"Little Brother Ye, otherwise, how about we send a little bit from each family here, and then the Ye family will send troops to suppress the bandits?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's good."

"My Li family is willing to support the Ye family with 500 quintals of grain and 50,000 yuan."

"My Yang family is also out."

Everyone was afraid that Ye Chen would not agree, so they offered one after another, and in the end, there were probably tens of thousands of loads of grain and more than one million yuan of military expenses.

This is a decent income, and besides, I had planned to send troops.

"Ye Xiaoyou, what do you think of this?" Li Wei looked at Ye Chen with a blank eye, afraid that if Ye Chen refused again, then it would be difficult for him to do it.

Ye Chen deliberately thought about it for a long time, and during this period, including those family heads, they all looked at him, expecting him to agree.

"That's fine."

Ye Chen seemed to have made a very painful decision, and it took a long time for two words to burst out.

"Since it is expected by everyone, my Ye family should take the responsibility, and I hope that all families will keep their promises, and all the income from my Ye family's bandits will belong to my Ye family."

"This is nature."

"Of course"

Everyone hurriedly agreed, and they could rest assured that they would not be able to sleep well at night, for fear of being killed by bandits in the middle of the night.

"Okay, since my Ye family has already agreed, then I will go back and train those doormen, and strive to get together 3,000 people within five days, and then go to encircle and suppress those bandits."

In fact, where does Ye Chen need five days, an order, the three thousand guard battalion will fight wherever it is, this is not because I am afraid that some family masters are just talking empty words, and they will not honor it when the time comes.

Anyway, I won't act until five days later, and if you don't send the things to my Ye family, I'll still drag them.

Of course, those family heads didn't know Ye Chen's thoughts, and they thought that the Ye family had suffered heavy losses last time, and it was not easy to gather enough manpower.

They all expressed their understanding, and said that they would send things over tomorrow.

Their idea is also very simple, we have given you everything we promised you, and if you don't send troops to suppress the bandits, we will have to trouble you at that time.

In this way, the meeting convened by Taishou ended successfully, and everyone got what they wanted.

Although the major families have produced some blood, it has little impact on them at all, and no one dislikes Ye Chen for getting more benefits.

Now the Ye family is really short of food, mainly because Ye Chen has recruited too many homeless people, these homeless people have no food at all, and the Ye family has to provide them with a year's worth of food.

A few hundred or thousands is nothing to the Ye family, but with tens of thousands of displaced people, Ye Chen still feels a little pressure.

In the past, the Ye family's grain storage could cope with these tens of thousands of people, but in this way, the Ye family has no food storage at all, you must know that Ye Chen wants to accumulate food and raise the army in the future.

Otherwise, Ye Chen would not have ordered someone to dig up so many warehouses.

When it came the next day, a lot of foreign carriages came from outside the Ye family, and these carriages were all carrying grain and big money.

Unexpectedly, these families acted surprisingly fast this time, and all of them were delivered early the next morning, and there was no shortage of families, and there were enough things promised.

They are all old foxes, and they know that the bandits are of great benefit to them, at least the caravan is safe, and their personal safety is more guaranteed.

The things were delivered, and the rumors released by the Han family in the market were gone, and even the direction changed, and they all began to praise the Ye family for their righteous deeds of helping to suppress bandits.

Ye Chen knew the news, smiled and said, "This person can't be too kind, otherwise people will treat you as a fool." ”

The matter was settled, and it was time for Ye Chen to send troops, this time he did not delay for five days, but waved his troops out three days later to start a new round of suppression of bandits.

During this break, the army trained for more than half a month, and its combat effectiveness was even better.