After seeing the shipyard, Bai Feng took Ye Chen and his party to the county seat of Yuxian County.

Now the scene is busy, construction is going on everywhere, the old city was demolished by Bai Feng, and it was rebuilt, mainly according to Ye Chen's request, the city wall was torn down.

The original walls were already very dilapidated and of little use, and also limited the construction of the new city, which was built according to the plan, the various areas were classified, and the buildings had to be neatly arranged.

In fact, there are not many houses now, and the newly built new city is a little larger than the original old city.

Because at this time, there are not many people in the county seat of Yuxian County to settle down, but Bai Feng has planned a large area of land for the construction of a new city, no one now, it does not mean that there will be no one in the future, this will definitely be a prosperous place for business in the future, these lands are kept, and they can be sold in the future, which is also Ye Chen's suggestion.

The new city does not build a city wall for the time being, if the enemy can fight here, it proves that the Ye family is basically finished, otherwise as long as the Ye family is still there, it is absolutely impossible to let the enemy fight here, so the city wall does not have much effect.

In the future, Ye Chen also planned to build a city wall, but this city wall was not used to defend against enemies, but to better manage the city.

After arriving in the county seat, Ye Chen looked at some of the main places in the county, except for the training ground that Ye Chen secretly called Bai Feng to build, to train cavalry, the place should be large, and he had to train secretly at the moment, so Ye Chen asked Bai Feng to find a place to build in the county.

After reading the county, Ye Chen felt that great changes were taking place in the county.

The county is not dead, but full of vitality, full of construction scenes, farmers are spring ploughing, the county is being transformed, and there are workshops and shipyards built by the Ye family.

Farms were established in the county, surrounded by farmers' fields, they produced and lived here, with a long-lost smile on their faces, and children also followed the adults to play in the fields.

Busy crowds can often be seen on the roads, transporting various materials and building in many parts of the county.

"Zimo, the construction of Yuxian County is good, in the future, or in a few years, it will become very prosperous, and more importantly, it will become a logistics base for the Ye family." Ye Chen and Bai Feng went to the county government to sit down, and Ye Chen said to Bai Feng.

"Thank you, the wind will definitely try its best to build a good county."

"Well, the work in all aspects of the county is still very good, but there are some problems that must be paid attention to." For the above, a sweet date and a stick are the easiest way to control people, and after complimenting, it is time to talk about the shortcomings.

"I see a lot of children playing in the fields, and these children may be our foundation in the future, our big supporters, so we can't just let it go." Ye Chen continued: "So I want to build some academies to teach them to read and practice martial arts. ”

Bai Feng frowned when he heard this, in this era, only those children of the family can study, and it is quite difficult for Ye Chen to let ordinary people also study.

"Lord, the idea is good, but the peasants only care about food and clothing, will they send their children to the academy?" Bai Feng didn't know what to do about this policy, and said to Ye Chen suspiciously.

"Definitely not, so we have to take measures, first, it's completely free, and it includes food and lodging. Second, we will definitely have to do a lot of projects in the future, which require manpower, and we can give priority to joining, you must know that it is of great benefit to help our Ye family work. ”

Bai Feng was a little embarrassed when he heard this, it's not that there is no way to recruit people in, there are many people who are willing to eat and live in a bag, because people in this era are hungry and afraid, and they can eat for free, what a good thing it is.

It's just that Bai Feng took into account the cost, and he knew that if he really did this, then the annual investment would be too great, because there were more than 20,000 children here, and more than 10,000 after deducting girls.

Although the Ye family is making money now, there are more places where they need to use money, originally these farmers raised them for a year, and after a year, they could create a lot of income for the Ye family, and now Ye Chen wants to raise these children, these children are not only raised for a year, but to be raised, now there are only more than 10,000 people, and there will definitely be more than 20,000 people, more than 30,000 people, or even more in the future.

Ye Chen saw that Bai Feng had been frowning and not speaking, knowing what he was thinking, so he said: "I know, this will definitely become a burden for the Ye family, this burden is no less than the shipyard, but I can't help it, my background is not good, although I can buy an official from the Han Emperor in the future, but even if there is an official, I will be looked down upon." ”

Ye Chen sighed leisurely and said: "I am a businessman, and I am destined to be looked down upon by those big families, so if the territory expands in the future, there will definitely be a shortage of many, many government talents, if there is no place to recruit, I can only cultivate myself." ”

"What the lord thinks about is that we can only select some talented or potential talents for training, which can solve the problem of government talents and reduce pressure."

Bai Feng knew that government talents were necessary, and cultivating them by himself was a method, but the investment in a college was too great.

"I know that this investment will be very huge, but we can't do it all at once, first of all, the construction of the academy, the hiring of teachers, it will take a long time, so we will do it now, we can do as much as we can, but in the future, the foundation is that every child can go to school."

Ye Chen said again: "Educated people, if they are not allowed to deal with government affairs, they can also play a great role in the various industries of the Ye family, even if they become businessmen, they can also bring prosperity and taxes to our place, in short, education has great benefits for us, but the cost is indeed too great, but it doesn't matter, our Ye family is developing, and we can make more and more money in the future." ”

Bai Feng was convinced, although the pressure increased, but the situation in front of him was that Ye Chen was born as a businessman, and it was difficult to get the support of those families, so talents could only be reliable by cultivating themselves, although this investment was huge, so big that it might cost billions, but in the future, the Ye family would definitely become stronger and stronger, and they would be able to afford it when the time came.

All of a sudden, Ye Chen had another reason to make money, although education would not be launched all at once, but even if the investment in the first year was hundreds of millions.

"Rest assured, Feng will definitely do a good job in the work of the academy and provide us with sufficient talents in the future.

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"Well, in addition to the academy has to be done, the roads in this county also have to be repaired, but this can be done slowly, the main roads can be repaired first, and the roads can be repaired after the farming, let the homeless people recruited by the Ye family do it, only give them food, and don't give them wages."

"Yes, my lord."

"Zimo, tell me about the current situation of the displaced people."

"My lord, this time we have recruited more than 185,000 homeless, plus more than 200,000 have been recruited before, some of them are real homeless, and some are fake homeless, otherwise there would not be so many."

"Oh, and fake outcasts? How to say. ”

"The so-called fake homeless people are actually some of them tenants from other families, and their families broke away and came to join my Ye family."

It turned out that as a tenant in the Ye family, although the field tax to be paid was about the same, the Ye family used a fair measuring instrument to measure, and would not pit the farmers, plus helping the Ye family to work not only had food, but also wages, and the Ye family actively responded to the last snow disaster and attached importance to the lives of the tenant farmers, so the reputation of the Ye family gradually spread.

Many of them worked on the side of the original master's family and did not have enough to eat, but this time the Ye family recruited homeless people again, and they were actually not much different from the homeless, so they simply moved their families to the Ye family.

The original landlord's family was also unable to provide enough food and farm tools because of the destruction of Wuhuan this time, so they turned a blind eye to the tenant farmers who broke away from themselves.

Ye Chen smiled after understanding the reason, this is a good thing, at least it will be very beneficial for Ye Chen to expand his territory in the future.

"My lord, there is no way to settle all these displaced people, I mean there is no way to catch up with the spring ploughing, so I can only divide them to other places. More than 10,000 people were divided into fishermen, and in order to ensure their livelihood, we guaranteed to buy all the fish that were harvested, dried and distributed as food. ”

Ye Chen nodded and said, "This attention is good, we do need fishermen." ”

"Some of them were distributed to various workshops, and some shipyards also absorbed some people, and recruited thousands of people to renovate the new city of Yuxian County, and in the end, there were still more than 10,000 people who had not finished arranging, so they were asked to go to the beach to boil salt, and we collected the boiled salt and distributed it to the displaced people below."

"Boiling salt?" Ye Chen frowned, this salt industry has always been a place where Ye Chen wants to interfere, but he doesn't dare to enter it easily.

"Yes, my lord, these homeless people also need salt, but they don't have the money to buy it at the moment, so we give it to them for free."

Ye Chen didn't speak, he thought about whether he should enter this profiteering industry, but he knew that boiling salt was already lagging behind, and drying salt should be developed on the seaside, and only dried salt could be produced on a large scale.

didn't make up his mind, but Ye Chen planned to go to the beach first to see if there were any conditions for drying salt, if there was a first way, at least the salt that the Ye family needed could be provided by themselves.

Ye Chen chatted with Bai Feng about the development of the county, and chatted for an afternoon, determining and revising the development direction of some of the county.

This trip to Yuxian County gave Ye Chen a lot of confidence, because Yuxian County has begun to make a profit, the workshop has been built and production has begun, although the Ye family's investment is still needed, but it will slowly decrease, and it will not take long to reach breakeven.

Yuxian County can already start to be used as the base of the Ye family, and with the base, Ye Chen also plans to start making great strides in development.