(Recommended reading: Zhang Liang had an uprising of several thousand people, only more than 1,000 at the beginning, and later increased to more than 5,000 people, but despite this, the imperial court frightened tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress it.

This further reflects the weakness and lack of confidence of the entire Han court, with the rebellion of Beigong Boyu and others in the west, and the Zhang Liang uprising in the east, the vitality of the court is being exhausted little by little.

And Ye Chen took advantage of this time to soar in strength, mainly because there were many people who fled to Liaodong, although the actual impact of Zhang Liang's uprising was very small, but the momentum was not small, Zhang Liang's name was still very big, and as soon as the general came out, people everywhere were panicked.

Many people are afraid that the Yellow Turban will sweep again, and there are many families in some areas close to Youzhou who have begun to go to Liaodong, for them, there is a Ye Chen in Liaodong, who is the nemesis of the Yellow Turban, as long as he is there, the Yellow Turban will not go.

These ordinary people just want to live a stable life, and Ye Chen can give them a stable life, so they go to Liaodong.

This was something that Ye Chen did not expect, and tens of thousands of people went to him before and after, but at this time, the entire Liaodong was under his control, so he easily accepted these people.

Today's Ye Chen is not just a Ye family and a county, but the entire Liaodong, a county, plus the Ye family is prepared, it is really not a matter to accept tens of thousands of people one after another.

Time is very fast, it is the time of the autumn harvest again, in the past few months, Ye Chen has not taken care of anything except for vigorously developing various undertakings in Liaodong, and a lot of things have indeed happened this year.

First, the rebellion of Xiqiang made Dong Zhuo, and now Dong Zhuo is already powerful, and the court can't help him, on the one hand, he has to rely on him to deal with the Xiqiang rebellion, and on the other hand, he is afraid that he will sit big, which is indeed very tangled, but in the end, he still let Dong Zhuo sit big.

In addition to the Xiqiang rebellion, then Zhang Liang rebelled, the scale of Zhang Liang's rebellion was not large, at most he only had more than 8,000 soldiers, but there were nearly 100,000 besieged him.

The imperial court has been afraid to such an extent, as soon as Zhang Liang appeared, the imperial court tried its best to deal with it, and the final result was that Zhang Liang was extinguished, which also showed the powerlessness and fear of the imperial court.

Ye Chen has gained a lot of benefits in these two wars, now Dong Zhuo is still fighting, he needs a lot of materials, and the weapons are basically purchased by Ye Chen, although all the high-end weapons and equipment made of steel Ye Chen did not continue to sell him, but the demand for ordinary weapons is a lot.

Originally, Dong Zhuo could build it himself, or he could buy it from the surrounding area, but in the end he was eaten by Ye Chen, and Ye Chen mastered a certain situation of Dong Zhuo through trade, so Ye Chen used a lower price to make Dong Zhuo feel that he might as well buy it.

Ye Chen can start work on a large scale, and he has raised so many blacksmiths, and some of them work on assembly lines, and the cost is much lower than that of ordinary weapons and equipment, so the price is low, and Ye Chen still has money to make.

The most important thing is that he wants to hit Dong Zhuo's own power to produce, as long as Dong Zhuo feels that it is more expensive to build than buying from Ye Chen, then he is willing to buy it, and Ye Chen opened his mouth, how much ordinary equipment is needed.

In this way, Dong Zhuo really gave up making his own food, and all the materials he needed were purchased from Ye Chen, even the grain was bought from Ye Chen, of course Ye Chen would not sell his own grain to him, his own grain was hoarded, and the grain sold to Dong Zhuo was purchased in the surrounding areas of Luoyang.

It is very uneconomical to transport grain back to Liaodong from a distance, and there is no need to do so now, but it is no problem to buy and sell it to Dong Zhuo nearby.

In fact, the grain trade can't make much money, the main reason is that Ye Chen wants to monopolize the trade with Dong Zhuo, the grain trade is undoubtedly a big business in ancient times, and it is very profitable, the key is that Ye Chen buys it elsewhere, and it is not so convenient to do things without his own territory, and he can't buy cheap food from others.

In addition, the grain that Ye Chen sold to Dong Zhuo was slightly cheaper than the market, so he didn't make any money in this way, but this successfully tied Dong Zhuo, and through the trading of various materials, Ye Chen was also able to understand the situation of Dong Zhuo's army.

Dong Zhuo also purchased everything from Ye Chen in order to be cheap and convenient, and Ye Chen took advantage of the situation to ask Dong Zhuo to help gather all the blacksmiths under his rule, move his family to Liaodong, and help build equipment in Liaodong.

For this, Dong Zhuo agreed without thinking about it, the blacksmith has no effect on Dong Zhuo at all, just give it to Ye Chen, and you can exchange some benefits from him.

Ye Chen is drawing money from the bottom of the kettle and digging up all the blacksmiths, one day if Dong Zhuo can't buy weapons and wants to build them himself, then he will find out how short of blacksmiths there is.

Although the blacksmith's skill is not very high, it is not possible to pull a person to fight, and even if it is really played, the quality is not good, and the speed is definitely not comparable to that of a skilled blacksmith.

This is the trick of the US imperialists in later generations to deal with our Greater China, making us think that it is better to buy than to build, and when we are about to build airplanes, he will sell us a large number of airplanes, and as a result, our airplane project will be discontinued, and we will be subject to others, and we will have to pay a higher price when we start it again.

Monopoly equals huge profits, Ye Chen did make huge profits in Dong Zhuo's trade, but it was also cost-effective for Dong Zhuo, because whether he made it himself or bought it from others, it would not be at this price, it was much higher.

Others may not make much money selling like this, because they still have to help transport it over, you must know that the consumption on the road is huge, after transporting a large number of people, a large number of people will be required, and a large amount of food will be consumed every day, but Ye Chen will use water transportation, although the consumption is also large, but after the transportation volume is large, it is very cost-effective.

In the war of Zhang Liang's rebellion, Ye Chen didn't make any money except for trading with Zhang Liang at the beginning, but this war produced a lot of homeless people, and many of these homeless people came to Ye Chen.

So in this war, Ye Chen earned a lot of people, and population is a resource, of course, no one has realized it yet, no one is robbing Ye Chen, and he is still scolding him for being a stupid hat.

Almost all of the money Ye Chen earned from Dong Zhuo was used to resettle refugees, and except for part of the money he earned, he spent it on stockpiling food and weapons, and the rest was used for the development of Liaodong.

The main thing is to distribute farm tools and seeds to the refugees, these displaced people can only have an effect on the territory after they can produce themselves, and only when they have produced can they not continue to ask the Ye family to invest, so that they can produce food for Ye Chen.

Ye Chen is very willing to invest in this area, because if he invests more, he will be able to harvest more in the future, invest more, reclaim more land, and collect more taxes.

In addition to investing in land, Ye Chen also invested a lot in other aspects, all for the development of Liaodong and the growth of his own strength.

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