Guan Yu's joining was really a big surprise, and Ye Chen's excitement was beyond words.

For several days, Ye Chen was in the guard camp, training with the guard camp, watching Tai Shici and Guan Yu compete in martial arts after training, and he often went on the field to compete with the two of them.

This kind of life was not until Bai Feng returned, and Ye Chen did not leave the guard camp.

This time Bai Feng went not only as a commercial activity, but also covered up many things under commercial activities.

"Zimo, this trip to the grassland has gone well." Ye Chen looked at the dusty white wind and said.

"It's just a general understanding, and a lot of things haven't been rolled out yet, so it will take a few months."

It is too difficult to establish an intelligence network in the grasslands, not only because they are foreigners, but also because the tribes on the grasslands are mobile, and they go wherever there are water and grasses.

Wu Xian, who was on the side, was a little confused, but he already knew that his young family master was hiding a lot of things, and Ye Chen didn't let him know these things, so he didn't dare to ask more.

"Let's talk about the harvest of this trip." Ye Chen turned his gaze to Lin Li, and there were only four of them in the study.

"Young master, according to your orders, I bought five hundred high-quality horses, and the rest are mostly the furs of the grassland..."

Lin Li gave a detailed introduction, according to Wu Xian's calculations, this trip is not counted as 500 war horses, but it can earn more than 20 million.

The main reason is that there are a lot of goods on this trip, and they are all things that the grassland urgently needs. Grain and salt are urgently needed by the grasslands, and Du Kang wine is the favorite of the grasslands, and they can drink spirits like water.

The furs of the grassland are very cheap, so the Ye family can earn a big difference in price after they are shipped back.

But these are not what Ye Chen values the most, what Ye Chen wants is a monopoly, he has already begun to plan how to monopolize the trade of the grassland, although he has already taken the first step, the tribe that cooperates with him can only choose him.

Ye Chen's second step is to prevent other merchants from flowing Du Kang wine into the grassland, of course, there is no way to inflow in a small batch, but as long as the inflow of large quantities is controlled, it will be fine.

In this regard, the Ye family has an innate advantage, how much Du Kang wine does each family pull from the Ye family every month, these fluctuations will not be too big on the whole, if someone suddenly increases greatly, then there must be a problem, and it will be investigated secretly at that time.

Controlling the steppe is not an overnight thing, even if an exclusive sales agreement is reached with the steppe tribes, but this agreement is not binding after all.

So what Ye Chen has to do is to squeeze the profit space of the grassland, when most of the market is robbed by the Ye family, other families want to do business with the grassland, if the single transportation volume is small, it is not cost-effective, if the transportation volume is large, the grassland has a large number of orders from the Ye family, and there is no need for so many things.

And Ye Chen's weapon is Du Kang wine, if you want the Ye family's Du Kang wine, then you can only do business with him, as for the others, they can't provide unlimited Du Kang wine.

Although other agents can also sell Du Kang wine, but if it is sold to the grassland on a large scale, it is easy to be discovered by the Ye family, once the Ye family finds out, the Ye family can cancel their agency qualifications, don't want to sell Du Kang wine in the future, this is too risky, I believe no one will do it.

"Lin Li, have you gained anything else from this trip to the grassland?" It would be nice to let Lin Li take care of the business matters, and Bai Feng had more important things to do next.

"Young family master, this time we have received orders from two tribes, although these two tribes add up to a few thousand people, not as big as the tribe of the king of the cliff, but they also want a lot of things."

"Oh, how many things did they ask for?"

"The amount is very large, and the need is greater than that of the Qiaowang tribe combined, and the young family master said that he can only provide them with enough, and there can be no surplus, so I only promised them a part of the goods because the family was understaffed."

Ye Chen thought about it and felt that there seemed to be a problem inside, but he couldn't say it, so he said, "What do they want?" ”

"It's all pretty much the same, grain, salt, iron, and Dukang."

"How long do they want to use the amount they originally wanted?"

"According to the population, the materials they originally wanted can be used for more than half a year." Lin Li said to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen felt very strange, the tribes on the grassland would not purchase so many things, they often migrated, and they generally needed more things in winter, but they didn't need so many things in normal times.

"Don't care so much about it first, this winter is coming, it is estimated that you can do business with the grassland again, and the road will be closed by heavy snow, so it will be difficult to do, so you can run again and do business again."

"Yes, young master."

Ye Chen instructed Lin Li and Wu Xian to go and get busy separately, leaving Bai Feng behind.

"Zimo, I bought you a county order from Xiang Dangdang today, and you will do your best to operate it in the future."

"Yes, lord, dare to ask if it was Yuxian who bought it?" Bai Feng was not surprised that Ye Chen bought the county order, because the Ye family's development had already encountered a bottleneck, and it was really difficult to raise so many soldiers and horses with at least one family.

"That's right, it's Yuxian."

Bai Feng really looked like this, from Ye Chen invested a huge amount of money to build a ship, this county has already mentioned a very important position, someone must operate and protect it.

"Zimo, your burden is very heavy, the first is to run the shipyard, you must build a large enough ship, otherwise the county is surrounded by the sea on three sides, it is a dead land, only by building a large enough ship can you survive."

"The wind understands, please rest assured."

"Also, when you get over there, you have to start training soldiers, all the 1,000 cavalry will be brought, and you will recruit another 2,000 soldiers, and these 2,000 soldiers will be recruited in the name of Yuxian, but there is one thing, that is, these soldiers must only obey the orders of my Ye family, and they must not let others interfere."

In troubled times, soldiers are kings, and with Yuxian as a base in the future, Ye Chen will not allow others to get involved, but Ye Chen can't buy all the main officials in Yuxian County, if people know that he is doing this, it will be easy to arouse suspicion.

But after buying the county order of Yuxian County, and buying off the Youzhou Thorn History, this Liaodong Taishou will also rely on him in the short term, so it is very easy to elevate other officials, and it is a big deal to spend some money and let other officials not do anything.

"Lord, it's no problem to recruit troops, but I estimate that there must not even be rats in the current warehouse in Yuxian County." Everyone knows what the current Han looks like, and I am afraid that he will face a situation of poverty and whiteness when he takes office.

"It doesn't matter, just recruit soldiers, if you don't have weapons, the current Ye family can fully afford it, as long as you can achieve self-sufficiency within half a year." It would take two or three months to train recruits, and Ye Chen would have the money to equip these two thousand people by then.

Ye Chen instructed again: "This time Li Qing will go with you, let him be in charge of the farmland and recruit the displaced people, the wall of Yejiabao has been completed, there is no need for so many people, half of the displaced people here will be arranged, and the newly recruited displaced people will also be placed in Yuxian County in the future." ”

"Okay, my lord, it's okay in this regard." Bai Feng still has this talent, and it is not difficult to deal with these things.

"The army training doesn't need you, this time except for a thousand people left here, the rest will be brought, and I will bring the rest over in Xiangping except for Lu Wolf."

"If you have any other questions on your side, raise them together, and then prepare for a few days to take office as soon as possible."

"Lord, I need a lot of money in the early stage, so that I can develop quickly."

"Of course, I will give you funds, you still need to build a batch of workshops when you go, and in the future, our Ye family's production base will also be transferred over there." You can't do it without money, so Ye Chen has prepared a start-up capital for him.

"Well, then I'm sure."

"Since the county will be the base in the future, then the defense must be foolproof, after you go, you must secretly draw a map of the county, and look for a place to defend, and establish a solid defense line for me."

The base focuses on safety, and only a safe base is worth all-out investment, otherwise once it is attacked and there is no defense, then everything will be in vain.

"Don't worry, the wind will definitely build a solid base for you." With resources and people, this Bai Feng still has this self-confidence.

"Zimo, don't worry too much, after the matter here is dealt with, the focus of the Ye family will naturally shift to your side, and I will also go over, and I am expected to go over there after the beginning of spring next year."

The future of Yuxian County will definitely be the center of gravity of the Ye family, this is a secret base, Ye Chen will not let too many people pay attention, so what will be produced in the future, Xiangping Yejiabao will become a transit station to reduce others' attention to Yuxian.

Now the focus is still on Xiangping's side, and a lot of things are inseparable from Ye Chen, so Ye Chen will not pass in the short term, not to mention anything else, this autumn harvest will start soon, and the pressure of the autumn harvest of hundreds of thousands of acres of land is also very large.

Originally, the Ye family didn't have so much land, but most of the Chen family and Guo family's land were taken under Ye Chen's name, so the Ye family's land property skyrocketed.

In the next few days, the Ye family was secretly deploying resources, because the Ye family was going to secretly shift their focus to Yu County.

Yuxian County, as the next Yejia base, cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness.

Bai Feng was very well prepared, and the people and things that should be brought were prepared, but the Ye family was hollowed out by him again, and most of the liquidity was allocated to him.

As for the outcasts, Bai Feng didn't plan to bring them with them, if the team was too big, it would be difficult not to attract the attention of others, and it would also slow down the march.

Therefore, the work of the displaced people was handed over to Li Qing, and Li Qing arranged for them to be transferred over slowly, and besides, they had to build a residence over there first, and they couldn't have tens of thousands of people who had no place to live in the past.