Huang Zhong was shocked, they treated the people well in Jingzhou, but it was just for the people in power to whitewash the peace, and they still didn't pay much attention to the people.

But he didn't expect that in Liaodong, the people had been valued to such an extent.

As long as you come, you can ensure production and life in the early stage, and as long as you are willing to work hard, you can live an unimaginably good life.

Huang Zhong's thoughts were a little messy, and he remembered what he had seen and heard along the way.

Ye Chen is "greedy", when he was in Jingzhou, he had heard that Ye Chen's Luoyang and Nanyang were all scraped, and what he did in Xiangyang was what he saw with his own eyes, a cart of treasure was transported to Jiangxia, and Huang Zhong also stopped Ye Chen and them outside Jiangxia City.

And when he arrived in Guangling and then to Yecheng, he was even more of a witness, and he also participated in it.

All this made him think that Ye Chen was indeed greedy.

These things and rumors made Huang Zhong always think that this Ye Chen was also extremely scraped in Liaodong, so the people of Liaodong must not be doing well.

However, everything Huang Zhong saw was not like this.

The people of Liaodong are doing well, at least better than other places.

Similarly, there are still many poor people in Liaodong, but no matter how poor they are, they will not starve and freeze, and they can still live a good life if they work hard.

Along the way, Ye Chen also took several generals to go deep into the homes of the people.

Huang Zhong saw that Ye Chen was very loved by the people here, and as soon as Ye Chen came, he took out the best things in the house, not because he was afraid of him, but from the bottom of his heart.

However, Ye Chen's arrival did not appear crazy, the village here is still the same as before, but each village has to accept a lot of new refugees.

These newly joined refugees didn't know Ye Chen, so there was no scene where the entire village came to watch Ye Chen.

Not long after they joined Liaodong, their sense of belonging was a little worse.

Ye Chen didn't care, he entered the village just to feel whether the policy of Liaodong had been changed and whether it was implemented in place.

The result made him more satisfied, the stall has been too big in the past year, the war, and Ye Chen got millions of people from all over the Han Dynasty, it is really not easy to settle them.

Fortunately, the system in Liaodong is perfect, and the displaced people have arrived, and the counties will report how many people each village can accommodate, and then take the people away, and then the village will be responsible for resettlement.

Break down this huge project into small pieces and spread them out into villages, and everything becomes much easier.

Camping at night, Ye Chen called several generals over.

"Second brother, we have been visiting Liaodong for two days since we entered Liaodong, and you have been frowning, is there something wrong?" Tai Shi Ci asked.

Ye Chen shook his head and said: "Increasing the number of millions of people a year, it is not easy for Liaodong to achieve this point now, but now Liaodong has reached the point of expansion, and the most important thing in Liaodong next is to reorganize the army, but this requires the mobilization of great manpower and material resources, and the operation of the entire Liaodong will be disrupted, and many of these people will not be able to take care of it at that time, I am afraid that their lives will be greatly affected." ”

To expand the army, equipment, food, camps, these have to call a lot of manpower and material resources, all resources to the army, the original Liaodong reserves are very large, but suddenly add millions of people, no matter how many reserves are not enough to consume.

Ye Chen visited and found that many people were still living in great difficulty, and the expansion of the army at this time would undoubtedly make their lives even more difficult, so Ye Chen frowned.

"My lord, now that our army can fully guarantee the safety of Liaodong, we can postpone the expansion of the army for about half a year, and then we will not have these concerns." Guan Yu said.

At present, the army in Liaodong can indeed ensure the safety of Liaodong, but Ye Chen has already made up his mind to expand externally, and now that all the princes are expanding outward, how can Ye Chen fall behind.

Expand the territory and strengthen your own power, so that you can go to the Central Plains to compete with the princes for hegemony in the future, otherwise you can only be trapped in a corner, and you will still be annexed after a few years.

"It is imperative to expand the army, and the force for foreign operations needs to be expanded to 30,000, and there are 20,000 troops left behind, and the requirements for the remaining troops can be lowered a little." Ye Chen looked at everyone and said solemnly.

A few people didn't know what Ye Chen was thinking, but Ye Chen had definitely expanded his army, so they just had to do their own thing.

After listening to this, Huang Zhong was shocked in his heart, looking at the situation of everyone, this Liaodong is good to the people, and it has completely formed a tradition, from top to bottom, they all treat the people sincerely, and take all aspects of the people into account.

"Second brother, I have a way to reduce the burden on our Liaodong." Zhao Yun spoke at this time.

Several people frowned, thinking hard about how to crack it, and at this time, Zhao Yun said that there was a way, which immediately cheered up several people.

"Second brother, if we lack anything, we will ask Yuan Shao for it, anyway, the hostages are still in our hands." Zhao Yun said.

"Haha, yes, what we lack most now is food, what I'm most afraid of is that our army will mobilize a lot of food, and then these people will starve, as long as we get a lot of food, other problems will be solved." Ye Chen laughed happily when he heard this.

In fact, Ye Chen may be able to come up with this method, but now there are too many things in his mind, and all aspects of Liaodong have to be considered, so he didn't think of it for a while.

The core problem is solved, and the other problems are much less troublesome.

Now Liaodong is very rich, but having money is not a problem that can be easily solved, now that the princes have begun to run their own territories, they are very aware of the importance of food, Ye Chen wants to go to various places to buy food like before, it is obviously unrealistic.

Buy, if you can't buy it, then grab it, now the best one to start is of course Yuan Shao.

Jizhou is rich and has a lot of food, which is just enough to extort a sum.

Solving the food problem, Ye Chen was a lot easier.

In the next few days, Ye Chen visited and returned along the road, and they had not arrived after seven or eight days of walking, which was originally a three-day journey.

Today's Liaodong has changed greatly from when Ye Chen left.

Not only did there be more people, but the roads were wider, the arable land was more, and the caravans were coming.

Many of these new people missed the agricultural season and could not farm, so Liaodong organized them, distributed grain every day, and then let them work.

Let them reclaim the wasteland, let them build roads, and according to Ye Chen's plan, widen the roads in eastern Liaodong and pave them with relatively hard gravel.

In addition, you can see a lot of small traders on the road, and the small traders carry a lot of things on their backs to sell in various places and make a living.

What Ye Chen wants is this kind of vigorous life, when the people are rich, the territory will be stable.