Putting aside the matter of the army for the time being, Ye Chen went to check the production of fertilizer for the first time.

Last night, I already understood that with the help of a large number of curved ploughs, the speed of spring ploughing has been accelerated a lot, but there are still more than 10,000 acres that have not had time to be cultivated.

But it's much better than expected.

Ye Chen's inspection of one village after another, some of the Zhuangzi did very badly, most of them could only be regarded as qualified, and the most brilliant one was Lijiazhuang.

The spring ploughing situation of Lijiazhuang is no worse than that of other Zhuangzi, but the amount of fertilizer produced is more than three times that of the rest of the Zhuangzi.

When he came to Lijiazhuang, Ye Chen understood why this Zhuangzi would be better, because Li Qing belonged to this Zhuangzi.

At the beginning, Ye Chen saw that Li Qing was good, and asked him to be responsible for the initial fertilizer production.

"Li Qing, you Li Jiazhuang is doing a very good job, very good."

Ye Chen just praised a few words, and did not give an actual reward, in fact, the reward had already been given, that is, fertilizer.

There must be a big difference between the harvest with fertilizer and without fertilizer at the time of harvest, and some of them regret it at that time.

"Young master, this is what we should do." Li Qing saluted Ye Chen as he spoke.

"Li Qing, other Zhuangzi are not very keen on fertilizer making, why are you Zhuangzi different from them." Ye Chen already knew that Li Jiazhuang would do so much, all because of the poor man in front of him, so he made a tentative speech.

"Young master, first of all, no one has been able to make fertilizer before, maybe there will be a big effect, if the effect is good, the benefit is still us; Secondly, for us, the young master gave us food and money, so he should do more things for the young master, and it was just a matter of more effort. ”

The reason why other Zhuangzi are not very enthusiastic about making fertilizers is because of everyone's inertial thinking, which believes that the role of fertilizers is limited.

"Well, it's very good, although this is the reason, many people don't understand it." Ye Chen beckoned to Li Qing, sat down on the ground himself, and motioned for Li Qing to sit on the ground as well.

Li Qing is a straightforward man, and after a little hesitation, he sat on the ground with Ye Chen.

"Lijiazhuang has made so much fertilizer, there is a delay in spring ploughing."

"Young family master, during the day, our Zhuangzi people take turns to make fertilizer, and there are not many people who use it, most of them are made at night with torches, so there is no delay."

"Well, work hard, the good days won't be too far away, don't dare to say anything else, it's still okay to eat enough every day."

Spring ploughing determines the harvest of the year, and this year we have done our best, and we can only do this.

Next year, there will be a large number of curved ploughs to use, and a lot of new ploughing cattle have been bought, and the ploughing cattle are not enough to buy a horse to act as, plus next year to make fertilizer in advance, I believe that there will be a good harvest next year.

So Ye Chen didn't say big things, and Ye Chen would gradually reduce the rent, but he didn't dare now, and now he didn't have the confidence to offend all the landlords.

Lowering the land rent by himself will definitely offend the majority of the landlord class, now that he has no strength, he naturally does not dare, in the future, with a strong army as a guarantee, Ye Chen has nothing to dare not do.

Then Ye Chen asked some more information, and let Li Qing continue to work.

They are now packing up the fertilizer they have made and preparing it for use. Ye Chenguan and Li Qing have prestige among them, and they can coordinate people and things well.

"Looks like I've found a good talent." Ye Chen muttered to himself for a while and went back.

Ye Chen has always been eager for talents, he needs talents in many aspects, and there are too few talents around him, so he has to do many things himself.

As for how to use fertilizer, it was very simple, Ye Chen only taught them half a day, and then let them operate it themselves.

Compared with spring ploughing, spring sowing is much simpler, and it can be completed in less than three days.

After the spring sowing, Ye Chen can be considered to be able to let go of a large piece, and then he will have time to transfer his experience back to the military and business.

For Li Qing, Ye Chen is still more concerned, at least he will continue to pay attention to it later, talents are rare, and it is the ability to coordinate a group of farmers to do a good job.

Back in Ye Mansion, Ye Chen started another money-making plan.

Ye Chen gave this operation a very representative plan, called the "Wine Plan", of course, this is just his own YY in his heart.

I've been to a sake brewery before, and I told the brewing workshop to make as much sake as I can, and I will store all the sake first.

At this time, these stored wines are going to work, and as for the effect, you have to try it to know.

Ye Chen locked himself in the study again to "create", this time he only drew a rough sketch, although the still is simple, but the principle is simple, and there is still a certain amount of technology to design this kind of thing.

However, if you understand the principle and the simple principle, it will be much simpler.

Ye Chen drew a rough pattern, and wanted to find the masters of the blacksmith workshop and the carpenter's workshop, ready to start designing.

When Ye Chen was about to walk out of the study, the door of the study opened, and the only one who could enter the study casually was the maid Dong Xue, and there must be something, otherwise Dong Xue would not have come to disturb Ye Chen casually.

"Cher, what's the matter?"

"Young master, Liu Qi said that he was looking for you in an urgent matter, and he was waiting in the side hall."

Liu Qi, one of the people in charge who had previously spilled out to collect information in response to the conspiracy of the Chen family, although the Chen family had died down, Ye Chen did not take them back, and was even ready to find an opportunity to expand and set up a special agency.

"Young master, something happened." When Liu Qi saw Ye Chen coming, he quickly got up and saluted and said.

"Don't worry, Liu Qi said slowly" Ye Chen turned to Dong Xue and said, "Xue'er, go pour a cup of tea."

Saying that, Ye Chen sat calmly on the chair, and then said, "Liu Qi, what's going on."

Liu Qi saw that Ye Chen was so calm, so he settled down.

"Young family master, I got the news today that the two chefs we are training have long been bought by the Chen family, and now they have run to the Chen family."

"Hmph, the Chen family will give me this hand." Ye Chen was very angry, but he didn't have much to worry about, Ye Chen was able to make the restaurant bigger than just a few dishes.

Ye Chen was angry that Chen Jiaming couldn't do it, so he liked to engage in these conspiracies.

"Young family master, after knowing that the two chefs ran to the Chen family, we also found out a piece of news." Liu Qi is an old Jianghu and knew that the Chen family must have a follow-up conspiracy, so he immediately launched an investigation.

"Oh, what news."

"Although the Chen family's restaurant is concerned, it has been secretly decorating, thinking that it wants to imitate us and steal business with us."

Ye Chen was not surprised by this news, since the matter had already happened, the next thing was to think about how to take it.

"Liu Qi, you have to find out the progress of the Chen Family Restaurant, calculate when they will open, and I will give them a big gift on the day they open."

"I understand the young master, I will immediately arrange for people to keep an eye on the Chen family." Liu Qi has been living with Ye Chen very well recently, and he doesn't have to work as hard as he used to follow the caravan around, and his income is much higher than before. So I work hard.

"In addition to keeping an eye on the Chen family, several other suspicious families should also send people to keep an eye on them, and if they don't have enough manpower, they can absorb more people, but in the future, recruit people with loyalty first and ability second."

Although the ability to do intelligence is very important, loyalty is even more important, otherwise selling important intelligence to the enemy at a high price will only be counterproductive, and it will be you who will suffer.

"Understand the young master".

After Liu Qi left, Ye Chen knocked on the arm of the chair with the fingers of his right hand, thinking about the problem, this action of tapping his fingers was brought from the afterlife, and this action was only like this when he was thinking deeply.

A plan against the Chen Family Restaurant took shape, Ye Chen put this matter aside for the time being, and he had to think about the secrecy work in the future.

Can't have anything in the Ye family, and then they were all stolen by the enemy by means, at least this time Ye Chen's distilled liquor plan will not have this kind of problem again, there will definitely be secrecy measures.

In fact, Ye Chen is not afraid of the Chen family's imitation, first of all, the stove, the wok and even a few stir-fried dishes can be imitated, but there is nowhere to find many materials.

Some ingredients were not discovered at this time, they were specially found and cultivated by Ye Chen, and in order to speed up the efficiency, many condiments and ingredients were made by special people.

The Chen family can learn how to make dishes, but the chefs only teach how to make dishes, but they don't teach how to make ingredients and condiments, they only know how to use them, but they don't know how to do them.

Moreover, all the processes of restaurant operation are not simply imitated, and many details can ruin the business if you don't pay attention to them.

You don't see, the waiters of the Ye Family Restaurant have to be trained for more than half a month.

Although he is not afraid of the Chen family's competition, it does not mean that Ye Chen will not do anything, since the Chen family is unkind, Ye Chen also plans to be ruthless.

Ye Chen knew that the investment in the decoration of the restaurant was huge, so let the Chen family decorate it, and when the huge investment could not be recovered, some of them cried.