Yang Xi was coerced and lured, but this trick really worked, and the three of them didn't think about it for long, and they surrendered one after another.

Yang Xi did not treat a few people badly, all of them were classified as vice president units, and the three of them naturally knew that the purchase price of the vice president unit was different from that of ordinary members, the general members were different from cooperative units, and the cooperative units were different from ordinary merchants.

The last thing that Chenhe Port lacks now is money, and what it lacks is people. A month's salt production can earn more than 10,000 taels of silver, plus wine, paper, glass and other industries, the income of 20,000 taels of silver is ironclad. Even if there are 10,000 workers, an average of one tael per person, it will only be 10,000 taels.

Expenses such as iron and grain basically cost one or two thousand taels to the sky. Now Yang Xi's workers, plus the fighters, are only five or six thousand, so much money, it is a waste not to spend it here, and the grain inventory has also reached an unclear number, so he is eager to turn money into strength.

Now, the entire Exian County, except for the Huang family, is basically under the control of Yang Xi, and the three major salt gang forces have sent personnel over for training for a month, and after brainwashing, it is equivalent to adding one or two thousand peripheral personnel.

In the blink of an eye, the winter solstice is about to snow, and it is impossible to produce salt, so Yang Xi also stopped his plan to increase troops on the nameless island.

At this time, Meng Zhaoyuan, the second head of the Meng family, came to report that the county magistrate of Chaisang County was critically ill and asked Yang Xi if he wanted to spend money to buy the post of county magistrate.

Hearing this news, Yang Xi couldn't help but be shocked. With the status of the Meng family, it is naturally not a problem to buy. Yang Xi immediately proposed to fight for the post of county magistrate in the name of Meng Zhaoyuan, and Chenhe Port paid for it, so as to compete for the position of county magistrate.

The position of county magistrate, five million yuan, that is, five thousand taels of silver, Yang Xi must be able to afford it at the moment. Chaisang belongs to Yuzhang County, the location is very important, for the entrance to Poyang Lake, Yang Xi will definitely occupy it, in order to prepare for the future plot of the entire Yuzhang County. At this time, Yuzhang Taishou was a king mastiff, and during the Yellow Turban Uprising, he was invited by Dong Zhuo to be the Sima of the Zuo Army, and together with Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo, he exterminated the rebel army.

However, in the Battle of Xiaquyang, the commander of the Chinese army, Lu Zhizhi, was dismissed, and the morale of the army was shaken, leading to a great defeat. Then Wang Mastiff was transferred to the front line of Wancheng, but because Wang Mastiff and Zhu Jun had some friction in the Xu Zhao Rebellion that year, in order to prevent internal disharmony, Huangfu Song recommended Wang Mastiff as Yuzhang Taishou and transferred away from the front line.

Wang Mastiff and Dong Zhuo had a close relationship, Yang Xi thought that he was not a good bird, and prepared a thousand taels of silver for him, of course, this can only be done by the Meng family.

Moreover, Wang Mastiff is the family of King Chaisang, and his family is in the county, so he is not afraid that the Meng family will turn the sky upside down.

Thinking that Chaisang is a county, with a population of only more than 10,000 and a population of only seven or eight thousand, how much oil and water can there be, plus Yang Xi's wealth and generosity, basically cut off other people's thoughts. In January of the following year, Wang Mastiff went to the imperial court, with Meng Zhaoyuan as the magistrate of Chaisang County, and the cost of buying an official was 5,000 taels.

As the so-called people in the DPRK and China are easy to do, Meng Zhaoyuan was just supported in January, and Yang Xi personally surveyed the terrain. Chaisang County is named after Chaisang Mountain, but more importantly, it is not far from the Yangtze River. Once you get this county, you will be stuck in the waterway to the entire Yuzhang County.

Yang Xi ordered Meng Zhaoyuan to divide the land by the river for 20 miles for the land of Chenhe Port, and the price was of course according to the land price at that time, but it was in the name of the Meng family.

The name is the Meng family, but in fact, it is all the manpower of Chenhe Port that controls the development. Tian Qi, the director of Yang Xi's spindle department, led 600 people and dozens of craftsmen, and began to build Mengjiagang. Due to the current spindle business, the Chenhe factory is no longer produced, but all handed over to other members of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce to operate, as for the plan of one Chenhe god car in each township of the county that Li Qi said two years ago, it has already been completed. Today's Chenhe factory does not have to produce spindles by itself, and it is also the largest spindle production base in Jingzhou.

Meng Zhaoyuan, as the vice president unit of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, naturally had to send people to cooperate, so far, Mengjiagang began to develop day by day.

Yang Xi predicts that two-thirds of the salt coming from the sea next year will be unloaded directly at Mengjiagang and then flow to the counties of Yuzhang County.

There are also other products such as paper and wine, which will be transported directly to the Mengjiagang warehouse, and the merchants of Yuzhang County will buy goods from Mengjiagang, which will become simpler.

Yang Xi's economic aggression, due to the establishment of Mengjiagang, expanded the scope of radiation at least three times. This is the geometric effect of capital operation.

At the same time as expanding the territory, the expansion of the combat team of Chenhe Port has never stopped, and by this time, the guard battalion has a strength of 1,000 people. There are also more than 1,000 people in the ship's guard battalion, and Yang Xi feels that he has the strength to meet new challenges.

In the fifth year of Zhongping, that is, in 188, Yang Xi came here for five years, and his strength was much stronger.

After the New Year, the fleet began to come and go in the river, and there was no major incident, and twice encountered the merchant ships or salt ships of the Luojia flag, and they must have killed each other, and the people of Chenhe Port were also injured more than a dozen people.

For this reason, Yang Xi specially instructed Sangou to send more than ten elite members of the special agent battalion to the Yuzhang County Governance Office, which is the location of the Luo family's foundation, to specifically investigate the roots of the Luo family.

Luo Qi, the head of the Luo family, because of his ancestors' meritorious service, the official system of Shangshu Order, was later implicated in the disaster of the party, was demoted, and moved his family to Yuzhang.

This is not counting, the key is that Luo Qi's eldest wife, Zu Nan, is the sister of the thief Kou Zu Lang in Jing County.

The current Luo family, basically the ancestor has the final say, since this woman is a thief, naturally the thief nature does not change, and later married into the Luo family without the knowledge of the Luo family, but where can the Luo family withstand the power of Zulang.

Zu Lang is now in Jing County, there are four or five thousand thieves, and later Sun Ce wants to conquer the entire Jiangdong, and he doesn't know how long he fought with Zu Lang, and there are mutual victories and defeats. Later, Zu Lang was defeated and surrendered by Sun Ce, but he had the same status as Tai Shici.

Yang Xi knew that he had provoked a real big shot, but he was not afraid.

"Sun Ce can overturn you, I, Yang Xi, with the world's top IQ, will definitely beat you all over the ground to find teeth."

Just after January, Yang Xi received the news that Liu Xiang wanted to immediately raise 5,000 county soldiers, and Yang Xi was called with the army, and on February 15, he went to the north mountain of Lingling to suppress thieves.

"Finally came, I don't know how it will be this time, Jian Yan is too tough, if he doesn't take refuge in me, he will be exterminated by Liu Xiang sooner or later. But I still have to inform him! ”

But what stunned Yang Xi was that before he set off for Xiling, he heard that Jian Li and other hundreds of yellow turban thieves went to Beitou Yellow Turban Marshal Guo Tai.

"I'm going to go, this person doesn't change his dead nature, and sooner or later he will be stabbed under the horse with a shot." Yang Xi hates that iron does not become steel.

"But that's fine, I don't have to go to Liu Xiang's tent to listen to the command, otherwise I really don't know what will happen."

It turned out that it was February, and the rest of the Central Plains Yellow Turban had an incident.

Guo Tai is equal to the Baibo Valley of the West River, and attacked Taiyuan County, Hedong County and other places.

In April, the Yellow Turban Army of Gepi in Runan County rose again and captured the county.

In October, the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou and Xuzhou rose up again and attacked the counties.

In November, the Han court sent Bao Hong, a military captain, to fight against the most powerful Gepi Yellow Turban. The two sides fought at Gepi. Bao Hong's army was defeated. In February of the following year, he was imprisoned and died in vain. The various departments of the Yellow Turban rose one after another, and the momentum was restored.

Yang Xi was completely speechless, but what Yang Xi faced was not these problems, these battlefields were too far away from him.

Yang Xi's battlefield is currently in Jiangxia and Yuzhang County.

Yuzhang County is almost all of Jiangxi, with a population of one million, Yang Xi feels that this is a big fat meat, and there is no famous family here, the first stop in Jiangxia, this should be the second stop.

"Let's start with the Locke!"

When Cai Kao entered the office, Yang Xi scanned it first.

"The brain is 10% developed, and the body is 88."

Seeing this value, Yang Xi nodded, the indigenous is below 93, and it should not be Cai Kao's opponent.

"I don't know how much Zulang is."

Cai Kao saw Yang Xi smirking vigorously, staring straight at himself, and his heart was a little hairy.

"Childe! Male ------!! Cai Kao was a little panicked.

"Childe! Cai Kao doesn't have that hobby, don't look at it, or I'll find Mao Luan for my son? Cai Kao looked terrified.

Yang Xi withdrew from the interface at this time, and he was stunned, looking at people like this, it is indeed a little easy to misunderstand, and his face suddenly burned, and he quickly opened the topic and said: "Who looks at you, just now this son was thinking about a happy thing!" Sit down, I have a task for you. ”

Cai Kao then sat down with a sigh of relief and said, "But according to the son's orders!" ”

"Tell me about the specific situation of the guard battalion now!"

"Go back to Childe! The guard battalion is currently four old platoons, all of which have increased to one and a half hundred and fifty people. The cavalry platoon that Childe trained with me last year currently has 300 people, and it also has a certain combat effectiveness, but the candidate for this platoon leader has not yet been selected. As for combat effectiveness, Cai Kao really doesn't know, after all, he hasn't fought, and I don't know what the actual situation is. ”

Cai Kao reciprocated seriously, but Yang Xi was silently calculating.

The cavalry battalion's one-year training should have some combat strength, but the quality of the horses is average, and there is a certain gap with the war horses in the northern grasslands, which will have to be made up later. But there are basically no decent cavalry in the south, which is very good.

"Good! Cai Kao! From today onwards, you will lead 300 cavalry from Exian to the south, go straight to Chaisang Mengjiagang, join me, and give you a real chance to prove yourself! ”

"Order!"

Cai Kao's eyes showed a fierce light, for four years, he was conducting inhuman military training here, and today from Gongzi's words, he finally heard some other meanings, and he felt a little enthusiastic.

Yang Xi also felt extremely excited.

It's been almost five years since I've been here, and now that I have my roots, it's time to start showing another side of myself.

Emperor Taizu of the era when he came once said a sentence.

"Politics and power come out of the barrel of a gun!" Yang Xi was ready to show off his gun.

Since then, the preparations for the Three Kingdoms performance industry have been completed, and the second volume has entered, the real era of blood.