In June 186, King Jing and Min beheaded Zhao Ci and beheaded him. Since then, Zhao Ci has only been in rebellion for four months before he was suppressed. Most of the remnants of the remnants were peasants or coercions from their fellow villagers, most of whom surrendered, and a small number of them became displaced people and scattered to various places in Nanyang or Jiangxia, where they did not know.

Exian County is located in Jiangxia, and naturally some displaced people went down the river and were taken in by Yang Xi. Yang Xi didn't care about the ban of the imperial court, anyway, Li Jue seemed to appreciate his appearance, and turned a blind eye. And his current status in Exian County, except for politics, has no right to speak, and only in terms of economy, it ranks third.

The Huang family and the Hu family can't compare, they are old landlords, but they can only rank themselves. The Hu family is currently on their own warship, and the Huang family can't afford to make big waves.

In fact, everyone doesn't know that in terms of force, there is no one in Exian County who can compete with the Chenhe factory, and even the county soldiers are not in Yang Xi's eyes.

Your 200 peasant soldiers, without training, I directly transferred 200 people from the workers to defeat the county soldiers, these are all daily training of the worker soldiers, the key is good nutrition, people themselves now have money, there is no shortage of food.

But Yang Xi already felt a strong sense of urgency, and he didn't have much time left. In another four years, the imperial court will send Liu Biao to serve as the pastor of Jingzhou, and Liu Biao will take office and directly kill a large number of heroes. Unless you're strong enough, he can't cut you.

In July, there were displaced people fleeing south one after another, and in January, Chenhe Port received four or five hundred people, plus the previous daily increase, and now the Chenhe factory has reached a terrifying number of more than 1,900 people.

Yang Xi has deliberately stockpiled food in the past two years, and the increase in these hundreds of people is not a big deal, as for the salary, the first month is the training period, which can be delayed for a month.

For the homeless, the Chenhe factory is paradise.

Yang Xi made some arrangements for the new joiners. Those who passed the training were partly admitted to the dock, some continued to the previous Chenhe Paper, and some were assigned to the guard battalion and the special service battalion.

The guard battalion now has five platoons, each with ten squads, amounting to 250 men, plus the platoon commanders and battalion commanders, a total of 256 men. In order to hide his strength, Yang Xi ordered the third platoon leader and the second dog to cross the Caishi River, go 30 miles to the south, and garrison Huang Baoshan, who had surrendered the remnants of the Yellow Turban, on the same day, as a strategy for the south and hide troops. The commander of the fourth platoon, Xu Huling, was stationed along the Caishi River to the southwest of the coal mountain named after Yang Xi, opened up a camp, and trained every day.

Seeing that the plate was big, there were two more things that made Yang Xi embarrassed. One is the traffic problem, from the Chenhe factory base to the Chenhe port, take the waterway out of the colorful stone river, along the river to turn half a circle, manual rowing to take a day.

Take the overland route along the official road to the county seat of Exian County, go out of the city to the east very quickly, and ride a horse for only three hours.

But these are transporting goods out and moving around with management personnel in different places, some are husband and wife, and some have small families, living separately, and it is difficult to meet.

The second problem is that most of the men and women in the Chenhe factory are young people, and when they have money and freedom, they naturally need spiritual food. Regarding the issue of falling in love, getting married, and having children, Yang Xi also considered it.

This is still Yang Xi's recent discovery, Yang Di, who has been with him for more than two years, seems to be a little ambiguous with Guanxi, and the two seem to be talking a little differently. But the two don't seem to be too embarrassed to go public.

Since there are two of them, others must also have them, this problem is easy to handle, the problem is that after getting married, the education and raising of children are raised.

These Yang Xi can't solve them, the education problem can, and the raising problem can be solved by yourself, after all, it's not a 24-hour job.

More than 1,000 people, including more than 100 family members under the age of 10, Yang Xi decided to build a school next, starting with the next generation. These are all sparks that can start a prairie fire.

Chenhe School was established in Mashan Pavilion, after all, this is the base, most of the people's families are here, the land cost here is low, and Yang Xi has basically occupied the Jute Pavilion now.

After arranging this matter, but the worries of all the Chenhe people, Yang Xi began to plan to go to Xiangyang to meet Pang Degong.

Time rewind to March, Pang Shanmin left Chenhe Port, turned back to Xiangyang, and walked all the way, it took four or five days to meet Pang Degong in Da Xian Mountain.

Pang Degong was naturally extremely happy to see so much wine and a fine glass bottle, so he began to inquire about the trip.

Pang Shanmin explained the Chenhe factory and Chenhe Port in detail one by one, and Pang Degong nodded again and again. Finally, when asked about Yang Xi's situation, Pang Shanmin was even more excited this time.

"There must be a master behind this Yang Chenhe, otherwise it would be impossible to do such deeds. However, the mountain people have been in the place for more than half a month, and they have not seen the people behind it. There are many whimsical ideas, all of which come from Yang Chenhe himself. It is expected that this person must have excelled in his own right. There is also a resolute personality, do things well, well-organized, the river is ten miles wide (it is also three kilometers away, the ancients like to exaggerate), this person actually swims three times a night, although the child has learned the six arts since childhood, but at most two rounds of support has reached the limit. ”

Pang Degong nodded and said: "Regardless of the person behind this son, if it is really as you say, this son behaves like this, then this son was born at the wrong time." This son has great ambitions, and he must not be a person who has lived under the people for a long time. ”

Yang Xi didn't know the conversation between the two so far, after all, the computer system in his brain was not omnipotent.

In August, Chenhe Port is very lively every day, and it has been called the most prosperous port in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

All kinds of small boats shuttle every day, and merchants from all over the world come here endlessly, and even some inland merchants have rushed over.

Yang Xi finally waited for the arrival of the Anlu Huang clan in Jiangxia County.

On August 12, a large ship with a height of four zhang and a length of more than 20 zhang appeared in the river, which should have been the largest at that time. The Wu State later built a larger ship because of the strength of the whole Wu State.

The power of this ship is the dual power of the turret and the giant sail (whether there is a sailboat in the Three Kingdoms is still controversial, and this book takes the view of a sailing ship, if there is no sailboat, the battle of Chibi is nothing).

"Fortunately, my Chenhe Port is dug deep!" Yang Xi is a little stage frightened.

One look at the flag of the ship, and the word "yellow" is written on the flag.

It was the first time Yang Xi had seen such a big boat, but the speed was really not flattering, and he turned around on the river and fell for at least five minutes before he came ashore. There were iron locks to lock the ship.

A door opened on the side of the ship, and twenty or thirty people disembarked from the ship, led by an old man, whose face was wrinkled, but somewhat oily, and his eyes were slender but shining.

"Chenhe Port! Yes, yes, my An Lu Huang clan arrived today, didn't you greet you? A small place is a small place, and you don't know how to count etiquette! This is like talking to himself, and the voice is not loud, but at this moment, everyone looks at him, he is the focus, and everyone can hear a random sentence clearly.

Yang Xi realized that he was the master and should have received it, but he was stunned. smiled awkwardly at the moment, and didn't mind the other party's arrogance, after all, his identity is a businessman now, and the status of a businessman at this time is like this.

"In Xia Yangchenhe, I am the person in charge of this Chenhe Port, I don't know that there are important people from the Anlu Huang clan coming to my Chenhe Port, please atone for your sins! The wind is strong by the river, please move to the living room! ”

Although Yang Xi is the first time to see the real big man in the late Han Dynasty, he is not stage frightened, this person should be Huang Zu's uncle, at this time Huang Zu has not yet come out of the mountain, and he has not controlled the entire Jiangxia, so the Jiangxia Huang family will not just take his Chenhe Port, look at this posture, it should be here to do business.

Sure enough, after some understanding, Yang Xi knew the identity of this person, Huang Zu's second uncle, Huang Yan, is also an important branch of the Huang family.

To Yang Xi's surprise, the Huang family in Exian County also got the news at this time, and the head of the family, Huang Ping, also hurried to Chenhe Port.

It is impossible for the Huang family to be ignorant of Chenhe Port, but there are often spies, and the Huang family at this moment also knows that Yang Xi is not a pawn of the Hu family, but a faction of its own. After knowing this, the Huang family regretted it, but it didn't help.

However, Huang Ping came over, but Yang Xi was not hostile, this person looked very capable, but in front of Huang Yan, he kept calling his second uncle.

Yang Xi is not willing to make too many enemies, after all, he is a big landlord, and he is also the foundation of Huaxia, if he can unite, he will be united, Huang Yan in his current words, although he is a little arrogant, but after all, he is a quality person, and the gap between Yang Xi and Huang Ping was resolved in a few words.

Yang Xi is just seeking money, and at present, the world is not chaotic to the extent that he can kill someone with a knife at every turn without being responsible, and he doesn't have to worry about it, and he can unite some people and be good for his own development, so he naturally can't ask for it.

Huang Yan didn't stay for a long time, this time he came out, he came out and took away three hundred jars of Chenhe wine, and Yang Xi gave him two taels of silver, which was the shipping price. and five thousand knives of paper, and five hundred taels of silver. There are 100 sets of glasses, and each set is only counted as two taels of silver, and there are 1,300 taels of silver here.

At this time, the grain has risen to 200 yuan a stone, and Yang Xi's goods have not increased in price, in fact, they have depreciated.

As for salt, it is now very expensive, and a pound of salt has risen to 300 yuan.

Salt is too difficult to come by, and most of the coarse salt is boiled and cut out in a pot of seawater, which consumes a lot of labor and time.

However, after Yang Xi's fleet reaches a certain strength, it will be different, as long as it can reach the seaside, Yang Xi will turn the entire salt industry upside down.

However, I don't know how many people's interests have to be touched, as far as the news brought back by Dong Cai, just in the section from Chaisang to Jingling, there are at least ten or more salt merchant gangs, these people are either supported by the family, or they are smuggling salt, and the salt gangs that do not pay taxes are very strong, ranging from hundreds of gangs to thousands of people.

Yang Xi has not met these people for the time being, because the products operated by Yang Xi have nothing to do with them.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye, August 18, and if there were cameras or cameras, Yang Xi would definitely strongly demand that the whole process of today's situation be filmed. Because on August 17, Yang Xi received news from the second master that the first propeller ship was about to be launched.

After several stages of testing, the second master's grasp is already very high, and this will be another epoch-making day. Yang Xi didn't sleep at all, and the next day, when the sky was bright, he quickly left the Chenhe factory and went straight to Chenhe Port.