This is the end of the agenda for the expansion of the armed forces, and each party will go to implement the arrangements.

Ye Chen asked that the army should be recruited within half a month, and more than 18,000 recruits should be recruited, which was not very difficult for Liaodong, the most important thing was that Liaodong had enough reserve soldiers.

It is imperative to expand the army, and now that Liaodong has enough strength, it is time to go out.

After Ye Chen finished the army expansion meeting, Wu Xian came to him.

Wu Xian knew that Ye Chen would not be able to return to Yejiabao in the short term, so he looked for it.

Today, Wu Xian is still in charge of the Ye family's business.

"Wu Xian, hard work." Ye Chen said.

Wu Xian was moved, Ye Chen trusted him very much, and handed over the Ye family's huge business to him to manage.

"Tell me about the past year or so." Ye Chen didn't have time to delay, and directly asked Wu Xian to start reporting.

"Young family owners, now the Ye family's income mainly comes from several major sources, and the biggest trade is the trade with the grassland, involving grain, wine, salt, tea, fur, etc., and the annual benefit is about two billion yuan." Wu Xian said.

The trade with the grassland is the trade of bulk commodities, and the profits are extremely high, the Ye family almost monopolizes the trade with the grassland, and the Xiongnu and Xianbei on the grassland also have hundreds of thousands of people, and the trade volume is very large.

"Yes, this is the benefit of monopoly, we have the products that the grassland needs, and only we have it in the short term, the Huns and Xianbei can't do without us, so let's be slaughtered obediently." Ye Chen said with a smile.

Trade with the steppes is enough for 10,000 troops.

"Young family master, due to too many wars in the Central Plains, our business has been greatly affected, the trade with Dong Zhuo has been cut off several times, and the trade volume along the Yellow River has also plummeted." Wu Xian said.

The impact of the war on commerce was very great, and during the war, especially the sales of Du Kang wine, plummeted, many people stopped drinking it, and the princes also began to restrict the purchase of Du Kang wine.

Now that the war is over, business has not recovered much.

The princes have reacted and strictly controlled the sales of Du Kang wine, and many princes even took the sales of Du Kang wine as their own.

Most people just see that Du Kang wine is highly profitable, and a small number of people see that Du Kang wine will lead to the outflow of wealth and make them unable to collect taxes, so they ban or restrict Du Kang wine.

However, this kind of thing can't be completely banned at all, and many families can't control it, so although the sales of Du Kang wine have plummeted, they still have a lot of income.

"In addition, there is still a large market for furs and illicit salt sold to the south, and we have obtained a lot of wealth for our Ye family." Wu Xian then reported the detailed data.

Fur is a hard currency, and the princes also need to buy it to make weapons, so it is not prohibited, and in addition, Ye Chen did not go through the normal channels in the first place, and it is very difficult to ban it.

"Yes, now there are signs of shrinking in various businesses, which is inevitable, but it's okay, I have found a very large market for our Ye family, and I believe that we can quickly make up for these losses." Ye Chen said.

What Ye Chen said was naturally Jingzhou, which used to have a lot of trade with Jingzhou, and after the eight Jingzhou families came to Liaodong, the trade with Jingzhou was very large, but now it is different.

The Ye family's fleet has been able to reach the Yangtze River and trade with large ships, which is very different from the previous land route.

Also, Cai Mao controls Jingzhou, in order to get more benefits, he will inevitably strengthen his cooperation with the Ye family and earn more money from it.

Today's Jingzhou is quite calm, with the promotion of Cai Mao, it will inevitably be able to develop greatly, and with Jingzhou as the base, it can also radiate from all sides.

In addition, Ye Chen supported Sun Ce and let Sun Ce develop, which will also be a big market in the future.

"Young family owners, although the market for Du Kang wine is sluggish, the business of private salt and tea is expanding, and it can still make up for this part of the loss." Wu Xian said.

Private salt didn't dare to expand before, because Ye Chen didn't have his own territory, and there were not many troops, so he could only do it quietly, but now who is afraid of whom, the families in Liaodong have been subjugated by themselves, and even many families in Youzhou are controlled by Ye Chen, and if they want to deal with Ye Chen, they can only send a large army to attack.

Even if Ye Chen openly sells salt, there is no need to be afraid.

Therefore, salt is still expanding, and an increase in income is inevitable.

Tea is a new industry, very popular, so it is inevitable to obtain high profits, and the income of these two pieces is enough to offset the sluggish market of Du Kang.

In addition, in fact, the Ye family also has a big industry, which is also very profitable, that is, weapons and equipment, but this income is calculated separately.

These revenues are directly turned into weapons and equipment reserves.

Liaodong itself also needs a lot of material reserves, weapons and equipment and other military supplies need to be reserved, so the income of weapons and equipment is calculated separately, and it is not under the management of Wu Xian, so Wu Xian did not calculate this income.

Wu Xian also reported on some other industries, the income of these industries is also very considerable, but it is relatively scattered, not as profitable as these bulk goods, but it is also a lot of income.

Nowadays, Wu Xian does not report much on the restaurant business, and many places have withdrawn, even if they are still in business, they are relatively small compared to other industries.

In addition, Wu Xian's separate report is the money bank business.

"Young family master, now the business of the money village has stopped expanding, mainly because the young family owner has offended too many princes, and he is afraid that he will be troubled by the time, and even the money of the money will be seized and annexed, so we are very careful about this." Wu Xian said.

Today's money bank is actually very profitable, but if it is opened on someone else's territory, others can confiscate it at any time, so it is really difficult to deal with.

Ye Chen sighed, there was no way, he had offended too many people.

"Well, there is no need to expand in other places, Jingzhou and Jiangdong can be expanded, especially Jingzhou is indeed focusing on expansion at present, and all the personnel transferred back will be invested in Jingzhou, and when Jingzhou is arranged, Jiangdong will be fully developed."

Ye Chen's support for Sun Ce actually didn't have much kindness, first of all, he wanted to control Jiangdong as much as possible, and when Ye Chen controlled Jiangdong's economy, he actually almost controlled Jiangdong, and the other was to contain Jingzhou, in the distant future, Ye Chen might have to start a war against Jingzhou, and when the time comes, with Sun Ce to contain it, the pressure can be reduced a lot.

And Ye Chen wants to use the Jiangdong area as a place for commodity dumping.

"Yes, young family master, go all out to open Jingzhou."

Ye Chen already has a foundation in Jingzhou, and Cai Mao will definitely do his best to assist for his own interests, so he can open up the situation in Jingzhou and obtain high profits for the Ye family.

After arranging these, Ye Chen asked Wu Xian to go back, he still had a lot of things to deal with.

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