Lin Biao didn't say anything in the end, and simply agreed to Ye Shaolong. In fact, he also knew in his heart that the current Yejiabao was simply not capable of raising a huge navy.

In the final analysis, Yejiabao is still too local, and the people under Ye Shaolong's rule are only more than 100,000 people. Relying only on these more than 100,000 people, in addition to raising an army of 60,000 on land.

It is completely impossible to raise a navy. That's why Ye Shaolong is in a hurry to expand his territory, and only enough territory can accommodate more people.

Only with more people can we raise more troops, and when the Yejiabao army is strong enough on land, it will be able to naturally develop the navy.

Lin Biao understood Ye Shaolong's strategic goal, and he was very supportive, this is the road to the real strong!

Su Can was eventually sent to garrison the city of Tianjin, while the tower guarded the capital. Li Chengke and Lin Biao were responsible for selecting soldiers to form a legion to expand the territory.

The people who moved back to Yejiabao have resumed production after a month of recuperation. The abandoned fields were once again filled with crops.

At present, Yejiabao is far from being saturated with grain, and after two major battles, as before, there is a crisis of food shortage.

Fortunately, under the supervision of Xiao Dashan on the side of Baoding City, the people and soldiers who stayed there have opened up the wasteland and farmed, and although the grain collected is not much, it is enough to cope with this short-term food shortage crisis.

This time, Ye Shaolong did not hesitate, and directly moved out the 50,000 people gathered in Yejiabao, and scattered these 50,000 people in the wasteland between the capital and Baoding City.

Villages began to be built on both sides of the official road along the concrete road, and each village was allocated a large area of land for planting.

And Ye Shaolong only needs half of the grain they harvest, which means that the more grain the people grow, the more they will get in the end.

This method greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the people to grow grain, and every household went all out to plant, as long as the family's labor force was enough to manage it, they could open up the wasteland indefinitely.

The relaxation of the policy will naturally attract merchants with a keen sense of smell, and businessmen have moved their minds when they see the huge benefits in it.

The people are happy to farm because of the protection of the Yejiabao army, and the fields they have worked hard for will not be ruined because of the war. When the people have enough hope, they will have an active interest.

However, if a merchant wants to enclose land and take care of the work and farm, it is obviously impossible to recruit people in the original place. So they began to dig people from other forces, promised food to those who were willing to flee to farm, and began to enclose a large area of land.

At first, this kind of thing did not reveal its drawbacks, but as more and more merchants entered, gradually large tracts of wasteland began to be insufficient, and merchants began to compete with the local people.

The matter was a big one, and finally Tang Feifei and Su Xiaocao were stabbed with some big officials in charge of internal affairs.

Tang Feifei found Ye Shaolong and told Ye Shaolong the whole story, asking him to make an idea.

Ye Shaolong saw the plan to defeat other forces from this matter. When he took this matter on his body and told Tang Feifei that he didn't need to pay attention to it, he would take care of it.

The next day, Ye Shaolong called the two sisters, Mingzhu and Chenzhu, and asked them to bring 10,000 security personnel and go to the villages with him to do errands.

The two sisters didn't know what Ye Shaolong was going to do, so they listened to his orders in a daze, and followed Ye Shaolong with 10,000 security guards.

Every time he went to a village, Ye Shaolong asked for a roster from Tang Feifei and arrested all the merchants involved in farming.

Outside the gate of the Imperial Palace in the capital, almost all the merchants within Yejiabao's power were caught here. Ye Shaolong stood on the imperial city, condescendingly looking at more than 300 merchants below.

"Do you know why you're being caught here?" Ye Shaolong shouted loudly, ensuring that the sound could be heard clearly by the more than three hundred people below.

Surprisingly, no one answered Ye Shaolong's question.

The more than 300 businessmen below are all cautious in their words and deeds, and no one dares to talk too easily. Although none of them spoke, the merchants knew more or less why they had been arrested.

It's nothing more than a matter of fighting for land with the local people, and they are all very worried in their hearts, they don't know what Ye Shaolong will do with them next.

Although the status of businessmen is more lofty than that of ordinary people, under Ye Shaolong's rule, it seems that businessmen are also not taken seriously.

Ye Shaolong didn't get angry because the merchant didn't answer, but continued with a smile: "You should know more or less why in your hearts at this moment? But you can rest assured that it is not the commander who wants to blame you for gathering you today. It's about working with you! ”

As soon as Ye Shaolong said this, it finally caused a small commotion, and the more than three hundred businessmen below began to talk.

Not long after, an old man was finally elected by the businessmen, and the old man took two steps forward, raised his head and shouted at Ye Shaolong: "I don't know what Ye Shuai wants to cooperate with us?" In fact, if Ye Shuai needs the help of our people, he can just say it, although our business is profit-seeking, he still has a little conscience and knows the fundamentals. ”

Ye Shaolong nodded with satisfaction after hearing this: "Actually, you should all know that Ben Shuai was also a businessman before, and everyone should understand this, so I don't pay attention to businessmen." ”

This reminder finally reminded many people of the fact that the Ye family had made a fortune in the provincial capital before, and now, no one doubted Ye Shaolong's sincerity.

After solving the concerns in the hearts of all the businessmen, Ye Shaolong did not stop being polite, and said directly: "In fact, it is completely unnecessary for everyone to compete with farmers for land this time, and it is understandable for merchants to pursue profits, but if it is even this little profit, it is obviously inappropriate for everyone to fight like this." ”

It was still the old man who stood up and replied: "Ye Shuai, if you have anything that you need our people to serve, even if you open your mouth, you don't dare to say anything, but it's no problem to help you as much as you can." ”

"Hahaha, refreshing!"

Ye Shaolong laughed twice, and then said: "Ben Shuai's meaning is still to let you hire people to farm the land. But it's up to me to farm there and recruit people from there! Of course, your safety, including the fields you have cleared, will be under the protection of the Yejiabao army. ”

All the merchants immediately exclaimed, everyone didn't believe that there would be such a good thing?

"Of course, you still have to pay half of your grain rent, and if you want to sell the grain you get, you must sell it to Yejiabao first. If you want to sell to other forces, you must first obtain the consent of the commander. Ye Shaolong's tone became heavier.