Through this incident, many people suddenly discovered that the Ye family actually had a deep foundation in Luoyang, regardless of whether the person was killed by Ye Chen or not, but through various performances, the Ye family's strength in Luoyang is amazing.

This directly aroused more attention from all parties, the difference is that He Jin, Yuan Kui and others are even more afraid of him, and they are all trying to drive him out of Luoyang, while Zhang Rang doesn't care, he doesn't think that the expansion of Ye Chen's strength will get out of control, he is superstitious about power, as long as he still has power, he is not afraid.

Zhang Rang was still happy, which gave Zhang Rang an illusion that Ye Chen had shifted the focus of development to Luoyang.

In any case, those who paid attention to Ye Chen before paid more attention to him, and some people who didn't pay attention to him before began to pay attention to him, but no matter what, this can only be the same for Ye Chen, do his own thing, and do what he wants.

Except for going to the barracks once every two days, he was dealing with the Ye family's business affairs, and with the matter that Liu Hong handed over to him to open a bank, even if he was not in the barracks for a long time, he didn't have to worry, besides, there were Tai Shici and Guan Yu in the barracks.

On this day, Ye Chen received a letter from the Ye family, introducing the situation of the Ye family, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a large number of refugees have poured into Liaodong, there are hundreds of thousands.

The Ye family can't accommodate it, hundreds of thousands of refugees, it's difficult to deal with a state, not to mention that the Ye family only has one county, but later the assassin and the county guard went to the Ye family and asked the Ye family to help accept these victims.

The state and the counties have borne a part of it, but the assassin Guo Xun is very cooperative and helps the Ye family with all his might, not only because Ye Chen saved his life, but also because Ye Chen is now in a high position, and he has even been made a marquis, although he is the lowest pavilion marquis.

With the cooperation of the state and the county, the Ye family's resettlement of refugees is no longer limited to Yuxian County, and all parts of Liaodong are scattered and arranged, so it can be reluctantly arranged, but the burden is too great, and now the Ye family spends money like a waterfall, although it can still hold on, but it is very difficult to maintain.

The refugees have all been resettled, but half of them can only feed one meal a day to survive.

Ye Chen was thinking of a way, but now the Ye family's stall was too big, and the pressure was too great for so many victims to suddenly pour in. There are only two ways to do this, open source and throttling.

There are some difficulties in open source at present, because after the war, the entire Han Dynasty was depressed, and the sales of Du Kang wine also declined one after another.

There is no way to have much growth in the short term, so we can only start from the aspect of throttling, how to throttle? Ye Chen set his eyes on the army.

Now the size of Ye Chen's army is fifteen thousand, which is too much, because the Yellow Turban Rebellion is coming, Ye Chen exhausted all of his troops and Dora Army, in order to be able to grab more credit in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and now that the credit is enough, there is no need to maintain such a large army.

Therefore, Ye Chen planned to disarm, because there was still no big war in the Han Dynasty in a few years, although there were continuous small wars, most of them had little to do with Ye Chen.

Ye Chen thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to keep 8,000 soldiers and increase the naval army to 2,000, and then transfer 5,000 men and horses to Tuntian, the soldiers of Tuntian not only do not need to be raised by the Ye family, but also produce a part, so the burden of 5,000 people can be reduced at once.

At the same time, Ye Chen also reduced the size of the horses, in addition to maintaining the use of eight thousand soldiers, that is, the horse farm kept a part of the seeds and sold the rest, which could not only save a lot of money, but also obtain a sum of money in the short term.

Now there are 2,000 guards by Ye Chen's side, 500 at the Luoyang base, and 500 tiger heads to take away, so Liaodong only retains 5,000 people in the end, plus 2,000 sailors, so that the burden is greatly reduced and it is more reasonable.

In the past, everything was exhausted, and the army was given priority, but now it is to raise and re-raise those who can be raised, and priority is given to development.

After making a decision, Ye Chen did not hesitate, and wrote a secret letter to go back, and at the same time, Ye Chen planned to let the guard battalion go back, except for leaving five hundred people to help him, the remaining fifteen hundred people let them go back. When they went back, Ye Chen asked them to bring back the money for the sneak attack on Runan in the Battle of Yingchuan, and at the same time, Luoyang also brought back some of the money.

With this amount of money, it is much easier for the Ye family to maintain, and after the war, there are gaps in many markets, and the Ye family has begun to seize some new markets, and they will be able to produce something after a while.

Now the biggest difficulty of the Ye family is the food problem, the food shortage is great, the current solution is to settle tens of thousands of people as fishermen, the Ye family's shipyard is free of charge, the fishermen fish for the Ye family, and the Ye family guarantees their food.

In addition, a large number of cattle and sheep were purchased from the north, and the steppe people needed Du Kang wine, salt, and grain, so they exchanged with them.

The Ye family is currently maintained, but it is quite difficult, so Ye Chen has to look again to see where he can make money, the most profitable thing at present is Du Kang wine, although the profit of salt is large, but the amount of sales is limited, and there is only one customer Dong Zhuo at present.

But fortunately, Dong Zhuo began to arrange after he went back, and transported several batches of salt in a row, and when he had enough salt and could continue to operate, he would have to use the knife.

"That's right, table salt." At present, what can be quickly realized is table salt, which is hard currency, and you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it, but it depends on how to sell it.

"Smuggling table salt." Ye Chen thought of this plan and felt that it was feasible, so he wrote out the method and sent it to Liaodong for them to find someone to try.

Ye Chen dared to smuggle salt, and he was not afraid of touching the interests of others, because after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, many families were destroyed, and many of those who were not destroyed also suffered heavy losses, and their strength was greatly reduced, and it was easy to infiltrate at this time.

So Ye Chen planned to cut the salt into zero and sell it secretly, anyway, their cost is very low, with the county as a unit, it is good for a county to grab a 10% share, and it is easy to cause a backlash if there is more. Easy to be targeted.

One percent of the share, even if they find out, they will not go all out to repel it, and there are few people who infiltrate, it is easy to hide, even if they are found and throw things away, it is good to run away, and the loss is not big.

After handling the matter, Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief, now he has been out of the Ye family for almost a year, everything depends on the team he has cultivated, after a year of training, they have grown up very quickly, and the affairs of the Ye family can be handled in an orderly manner, but this time it is a big test.

From the bottom of his heart, Ye Chen still very much wanted to go back to Liaodong as soon as possible, but not now, so he stepped up preparations for the Royal Money Bank, and only by getting the Money Village right and on the right track could he have a chance to leave.

After a month of preparation, everything was almost over, and the people who monitored the Wei family did not report the special situation, as if the Wei family had given up revenge, although Ye Chen felt that it was impossible, but he did not have too much energy to pay attention, so he could only take one step at a time.