In the evening, Ye Chen called Wu Xian over alone to understand the situation, and the others were also tired, so try not to disturb them.

"Wu Xian, how is the consumption of materials?" Since he had not recruited displaced people, Ye Chen could not estimate how much it would cost and whether the grain reserves could be sustained.

"Young master, thousands of people eat and drink, the cost is really a lot, just food costs fifteen quintals of grain a day, and you have to feed them for a year."

At present, only a few thousand people are recruited, and it is fifteen quintals of grain a day, and nearly five thousand quintals of grain a year, which is nothing, but Ye Chen is asking for no restrictions. Moreover, on the first day, the hungry people were not fed.

On the first day, thousands of people were enrolled, and in a few more days, tens of thousands of people were enrolled. Tens of thousands of people can eat a huge amount of food a year.

"It doesn't matter, the Ye family is consumed, and besides, these people are not fed in vain, and they will produce a lot of food next year to slowly make up for my Ye family's consumption."

Wu Xian didn't dare to say more, although he didn't understand Ye Chen's approach very much, no one would pay attention to the people in this era, and he didn't think they were of any use, let alone someone to eat and drink for them for free.

Ye Chen also has considerations, the current grain can support tens of thousands of displaced people, and even if the entire displaced people in Liaodong are collected, tens of thousands of displaced people can be fully supported.

On the first day, almost all the displaced people in Xiangping City were recruited, and hundreds of people were recruited on the second day, but the news spread.

Many people in other counties who couldn't eat rushed to Xiangping, helping the old and the young along the way, stumbling, although it was difficult, but there was hope.

Ye Chen heard about this from some homeless people a few days later, so Ye Chen ordered that several stations be set up along the way to distribute some flatbread and water on the roadside.

Originally, Ye Chen wanted to use a cart to pull people, but now there are construction sites everywhere around the Ye family, construction is going on everywhere, and the cart has to transport materials, so he can't pull out the extra cart, so he can only give some help along the road, so that they can reach it alive as much as possible.

Many officials and big families in Liaodong didn't understand the Ye family's approach, and even many people in the Ye family didn't understand him, even Old Man Ye didn't understand, but he didn't object to Ye Chen, but let Ye Chen do it.

As a result, no one in the entire Liaodong stopped Ye Chen's actions, not to mention those officials, who were often overwhelmed by bandits and bandits, so how could they care about this.

If someone dies on the side of the road, it doesn't matter if they die in the wild, if they die in the city, the government has to deal with it, and it is also a hidden danger for a large number of displaced people to gather together, so they can't wait for the Ye family to help solve it.

In this way, the Ye family's recruitment of displaced people was posted in many county towns with notices, and local officials organized to send the displaced people over, like sending the plague gods.

Ye Chen didn't have any opinions on this, although they had bad intentions, they really helped Ye Chen.

In a few days, the Ye family had recruited more than 20,000 homeless people, and homeless people from other places were also slowly pouring towards Ye Chen.

In a few days, the Ye family recruited tens of thousands of homeless people, and tens of thousands of homeless people had to eat hundreds of loads of grain just one day, and they could bankrupt a small family in a year.

But Ye Chen is not worried, he is rich now, and his ability to make money will be even stronger in the future.

Now the recruitment of displaced people is not so busy, mainly because the surrounding areas have been collected, and the scattered people from other places, although there are many, they will not come all at once.

The escort battalions have been freed, and many ordinary family guards have been sent to all the settlements to maintain order.

On this day, Ye Chen called Tai Shici, Hutou and Li Ren to the study.

"The main reason for calling everyone here this time is what I said last time, that is, to expand the army, and I plan to recruit 3,000 people."

"Second brother, now that the five hundred guard battalions have been trained, they can start recruiting new soldiers."

Tai Shi Ci said that Hu Tou and Li Ren have no opinion, although Li Ren is young, but he has a flexible mind, trains hard, and makes very fast progress, so Ye Chen called him together, intending to let him assist in training recruits.

"Big brother, this time the guard battalion is expanded, I want you to be in charge, the soldiers are selected by you, and you are responsible for training."

"Second brother, no problem, the eldest brother will definitely train an elite soldier for you." Tai Shi Ci has this confidence, the recruit training method brought by Ye Chen can quickly make the troops take shape, and it is also very easy to train by himself, and he will be an elite soldier in a few months.

"Okay, the eldest brother soldiers are mainly recruited from my Ye family's tenants and newly recruited homeless people, I only have one request, as long as the elite soldiers are not overused, and the number of people is not enough, then recruit from other places."

This batch of trained soldiers is the child soldiers and seed soldiers, and they must be the best soldiers among the elite soldiers, and only the combat effectiveness of the elite soldiers is high, so the unevenness will greatly affect the combat effectiveness.

"The previous methods of selecting soldiers can be used for reference, but they cannot all be based on them."

In the past, the selection was all tenants, and everyone's living conditions were similar, and most of the people recruited this time may be those displaced people, these displaced people have not eaten for a long time, they are malnourished, and many of them must not be able to run five kilometers, but as long as they are given enough nutrition, many of them can become qualified soldiers.

After the matter was arranged, Ye Chen let them do it.

At the beginning, it was still a long-distance run, and these homeless people, as long as they could run five kilometers, they would be admitted immediately.

At the end of this day, although nearly 10,000 people participated in the selection, Tai Shici only recruited more than 700 people, which shows that there are still too few people who can run five kilometers.

These people have only eaten a few days of full food in the past few days when they came to the Ye family, and they didn't have a bite of food all day before.

In this case, those who can still run five kilometers are undoubtedly physically strong and strong-willed.

The first day of enrollment was generally smooth, and there was an episode where one ran very fast, a lot faster than others.

Tai Shi Ci called him over when he saw it.

This person is about twenty, tall and tall, but he is relatively thin, obviously caused by malnutrition, his eyes are bright, and he is solid.

"Who, who, whoever".

"In Xia Qingzhou, Lu Liang, the word Fang Liang, because of the disaster in his hometown, he fled to this place, but fortunately the Ye family recruited refugees, so he had enough to eat." Lu Liang replied with his fists clenched, his voice was loud, and he immediately got Tai Shici's favor.

"Look at your slender body, strong arms, and steady bottom, but you have practiced martial arts."

"Practicing guns and sticks since childhood".

"Okay, I'll lend you my gun, play a few tricks and see." After Tai Shici finished speaking, he handed the spear he was carrying to Lu Liang.

Lu Liang took the spear, looked at it for a while, tried the weight of the feel, and compared the spear in his hand back and forth a few times.

"Drink" Lu Liang shouted, the spear began to wave, a little bit of spear flowers, full of momentum, although not as good as Tai Shi Ci of the day, but it can also be remarkable, the shadow of the gun is transformed, full of murderous aura.

"Good martial arts". Tai Shici on the side was a knowledgeable person, and when he saw that Lu Liang had this martial art, he immediately applauded.

The spear in Lu Liang's hand flew up and down, stabbing out one after another gun shadows, as if it was endless, and his feet were like flying, moving left and right.

Lu Liang is undoubtedly superb in martial arts, but his body is weak, and after a quarter of an hour, he is panting like a cow and sweating like rain, which shows that he has not been full of food for a long time, and he has just completed a five-kilometer run, and his body can't bear it.

Lu Liang stopped, standing like a benchmark, with a tall figure, a good man.

Tai Shici walked over, took the spear, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Not bad, not bad."

Tai Shici saw that as long as Lu Liang's body was well conditioned, he would be a strong general, and he could be brave.

"You go down and rest first, and then follow me back to the camp when the meeting is over." Needless to say, if there is such a talent, of course, you must accept it quickly.

In the next few days, Tai Shi Ci was busy recruiting soldiers, and every soldier Tai Shi Ci had to see it in person, and the strictness of recruitment can be seen.

In the end, the number of recruits did not reach 2,500, so they had to put up notices in the city, and in the name of recruiting guards, they supplemented more than 300 people, so that they could gather enough for 2,500 people.

The recruitment of people is enough, and the next thing is, of course, training, recruit training, naturally starting from the queue, the original five hundred guard battalions are already competent as recruit instructors.

Five hundred veterans trained two thousand five hundred recruits, the scene was very lively, although Ye Chen strictly forbade beating and scolding soldiers, but he was very experienced in dealing with these recruits and veterans.

Zama steps and push-ups are the most common, and these people can get them to do more than 100 push-ups at the beginning to get them to do it.

When Ye Chen was training recruits in full swing, the bandits in Liaodong had not been cleared, but had a tendency to become more and more intense.

Five days had already passed, and Zhu Ming naturally couldn't find the Qingfeng Zhai gang, so he took the soldiers to turn around the surrounding mountains, and he didn't find a single shadow of a bandit.

That Qingfeng Village had already been exterminated, and then it was pretended by Ye Chen and his party, so naturally he couldn't find it, but Zhu Ming didn't dare to go back like this, it's okay if nothing happens, if something happens again, then the family in Liaodong will never let him go.

Han Dong and Yan Cheng were no better, they mobilized everyone in the county government to look for bandits around, but how dare those people really look for it, if they don't find it, it's okay, if they find it, they still have their lives.

So more than ten days have passed, and they haven't even caught a single thief. It's good that they didn't catch it, but the problem is that the thieves are still committing crimes everywhere, and they can't get away with it if they want to.

This Huang Fei was even more upset, he could not have left it alone before, but after Taishou gave the order, the emergency reports from the counties below floated towards him like snowflakes, making him so angry that he was about to vomit blood.

Although Ye Chen was busy, he had been paying attention to the changes in things, and he felt that it was almost time for him to take action himself.