On the third day, Ye Chen finally dealt with the affairs of the restaurant.

In the past three days, three more restaurants have opened in other places, and before the opening, Ye Chen ordered people to spread the news everywhere, continuing the popularity of the earliest restaurants in Xiangping City.

Of course, although another three days have passed, the first two restaurants to open are still hot, and although the turnover has fallen, it has stabilized.

The average profit of each restaurant is 250,000 yuan, which provides a solid impetus for the development of the Ye family.

There are several other restaurants that will open one after another, but this is no longer something for Ye Chen to stare at. He arranged for the training of cooks and waiters, and there was nothing to do.

The purpose of training cooks and waiters was to continue to expand, and according to Ye Chen's plan, he would open a few branches in Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Luoyang within a year, at least to open all the big cities within the Ye family's sphere of influence around Youzhou.

After arranging the things in the restaurant, Ye Chen set his sights on the land.

No matter which dynasty the land goes to, it is impossible for Ye Chen to ignore it, although in terms of income, the income of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland may not be as high as that of thirty restaurants.

But the basis of the struggle for hegemony is nothing more than money, food, armor, and population. Where does the population come from, there is land to have a population. Food also needs to come directly from the land, and only when there is a population can there be money and food, and there is armor.

People, especially farmers, cannot survive without the land.

"Mr. Wu, didn't I teach you new bookkeeping methods and Arabic numerals, why do you still use this old method." Ye Chen shook his head helplessly.

Two days ago, Ye Chen came to the tent room and found that the tent inside was in chaos.

If you want to go through the old accounts, it will be even more devastating, and the bamboo slips of several bookshelves don't even have a label, although Steward Wu has them in mind, but if there is a lack of Steward Wu, then it will make people collapse if they want to find accounts and check accounts.

So two days ago, Ye Chen taught Steward Wu the new bookkeeping method and Arabic numerals, but he verbally replied that the new method should be applied, and Ye Chen was still the same every time he came.

Ye Chen was helpless, Manager Wu was an old courtier of the Ye family, and he couldn't say anything serious, and it was unlikely that he would even be replaced with the support of the old man.

The Ye family is like a group enterprise, and it takes too much time and effort to manage the Ye family, which has big ups and downs.

Moreover, the Ye family will grow rapidly in Ye Chen's hands, and there will be more and more accounts in the future, and the bookkeeping method of this flowing account can no longer match the rapidly developing Ye family.

Just talking about the business of the restaurant, the accounts have increased more than ten times compared to before, and the accounts of a large number of branches will be even larger in the future, not to mention a manager Wu, a few more Wu housekeepers like him are too busy.

"Young master, this is still the old method and habit, and when I get used to the new method, I will use the new method immediately."

Manager Wu was very disapproving, thinking that he had been keeping accounts for decades, and there was no problem, but how could he get to the young master and do nothing.

Because the family is the young head of the family, and more importantly, his three sons are also working in the Ye family, and the Ye family's family business always has to be inherited by Ye Chen, so Manager Wu agreed on the surface but was actually very resistant in his heart.

Ye Chen shook helplessly and said, "Manager Wu, I want to go to see the cultivation of the farmland, you can go with me."

"Young master, you can't help it, you can't help it, how can you be the eldest young master to deal with those mud legs, there are people watching on the farmland, nothing can happen."

Hearing this, Ye Chen's face pulled the elder, and he wanted to get angry, but looking at the old man who had worked hard for the Ye family all his life, he couldn't have a seizure.

"Okay, then you tell me about the current cultivation of the Ye family's farmland." Ye Chen's inability to get angry directly does not mean that he will compromise, farmland is his foundation and his future dependence.

"Young master, with the financial support of the restaurant, I have asked the blacksmith workshop to make farm tools, and I have also gone to the north to buy more cattle and horses to help with farming, and these things will be distributed in a few days."

"So can the spring ploughing be completed on time?" Ye Chen's face darkened even more when he heard Chief Manager Wu's answer, because Chief Manager Wu gave him some uncertain information.

"Young family owner, because of the lack of funds before, the operating rate of the blacksmith workshop was insufficient, and there was no iron ore and coal prepared, so it was slow, but now that the money has been allocated, I believe that the tools will be made soon."

Mr. Wu was working hard to explain, while Ye Chen had the urge to kick people, Nima, when your tools are made, this spring ploughing is probably over.

Ye Chen didn't talk nonsense anymore, but turned around and left with a blushing face.

Knowing that he couldn't ask Mr. Wu anything, he probably hadn't seen much of it himself, and he still had to distinguish himself from those mud-legged peasants in his concept.

"Tiger head, go get me a carriage, I'm looking for someone who is familiar with the Ye family's fields to follow."

Seeing Ye Chen's dark face, the tiger head didn't ask much, and went directly to do something.

This tiger head is Ye Chen's newly found guard, a tall man with a big head, a dull head, a bit of a tiger head, two years older than Ye Chen, who worked in the caravan before, was seen by Ye Chen, and was directly brought to his side as a guard.

Although the tiger's head is sluggish, it is nothing, he is very honest, and he has practiced some fists and feet with the caravan. Martial arts are not good, but the strength is very great.

The carriage arrived, followed by an old man in his sixties.

"Uncle, what's your name?" In the carriage, the tiger head sat in front of the driver, and the old man sat next to him. Originally, Ye Chen wanted him to sit in the carriage with him, but he refused to live or die, Ye Chen didn't want to waste time and went with him.

"This adult, the little old man's surname is Zhang, and everyone calls me Zhang Laogen."

"Well, hello Zhang Laogen, do you know anything about my Ye family's fields?"

"Understand, understand, Xiao Lao'er went to the field at the age of nine and worked in the field for forty-three years, and only went to the Ye family's kitchen to light the fire when he couldn't do it the year before last."

It turned out that Zhang Lao Gen was only in his fifties, but he looked like he was in his sixties. It can be seen how bitter the peasants of this era were.

Without saying anything all the way, Ye Chen staggered for more than half an hour before arriving at the place where the Ye family's field was located.

Due to the relatively large farmland, the Ye family built several farms here, and the tenants lived in the farms to work in the fields nearby.

As soon as I jumped out of the carriage, a smell of dirt and grass came to my face, which made people feel refreshed.

More than 100,000 acres of farmland are all distributed in this area, except for a few small hills.

There are many farmers working in the fields, but the tools they have are very primitive.

Walking along the way, you can see many farmers in simple and thin clothes sweating on the land.

Their tools were hoes, but the number of hoes was small, and even the most primitive digging rods were used, and of course there were advanced oxen-drawn ploughs.

At this time, the pears were all straight ploughs, and some of the plowshares were still wooden, and two oxen were needed to pull them, which was of course much less efficient.

Ye Chen's face has not been good since the beginning, not because the farmers don't work hard, but because the Ye family is not doing well enough.

Many farmers came to the fields at dawn and did not go back to eat at noon until the sun went down.

Despite this, there is still a lot of farmland that has not been cultivated well, and if the land is not cultivated before spring planting, the agricultural time will be missed.

If the farming time is missed, it means that the farmers will not have enough to eat, and some people will even starve to death.

At a glance, at least half of the farmland has not been cultivated, and it is estimated that it will only be half a month before spring sowing, if it cannot be completed on time, the consequences Ye Chen also understands, although the Ye family can help them get through this time, but this is not what Ye Chen wants.

Food is too important for the future, and he needs the peasants not only to be able to eat, but also to be able to feed the army.

Of course, these are far away, Ye Chen hurriedly walked half of the farmland and didn't have the heart to go down, beckoning the tiger head to go back.

Ye Chen did not immediately return to the Ye Mansion, but went to the blacksmith workshop, which was actually in the courtyard next to the Ye Mansion, where a place was vacated as a workshop for craftsmen.

Before I got to the door, I heard the sound of a hammer hammering iron, this iron-striking business was actually controlled by the imperial court, the so-called salt and iron franchise, but the blacksmith workshop was actually not a secret in the major families, and the imperial court would not take care of it.

There are not many people in the iron, only a dozen, and the construction work generally requires the cooperation of three or four people, one to make a fire, one to strike iron, and one to hold a plier to fix the building.

Ye Chen took a quick look at their situation and found that the efficiency was extremely low, and it was estimated that he could build dozens of pairs of farm tools in a day.

Dozens of pairs of more than 100,000 acres of farmland are powerless, although some farm tools are just taken over to repair, the speed will be faster, and there will be more than 100 pairs of farm tools a day.

Ye Chen didn't have time to change this, and now he had more urgent things to do.

"Stop, everyone, who's in charge here". Ye Chen yelled in the blacksmith workshop, and more than a dozen people stopped.

A man shirtless, sweaty all over, and his skin was roasted to a bronzed color, walked out.

"Hello young master, I am Wang Tieshan, the head of craftsmen here." Since the workshop here is next to the Ye Mansion, Wang Tieshan knows Ye Chen.

"Very good, the situation is more urgent now, many farmers do not have the tools at hand, and the farmland is very slow, so you need to speed up the construction of farm tools."

"Don't worry, we work overtime and work overnight."

"Very good, everyone is happy, you work hard, your salary will quadruple this month, if you can do more, it will meet my expectation that there will be a month's salary as a bonus at the end of the month."

"Good". A group of men in the workshop shouted excitedly, some waved the tools in their hands, and some almost jumped.

"Wang Gong, but your efficiency is too slow, you go find someone for me, find more people to help, I ask you to build more farm tools in the shortest time."

Ye Chen didn't have time to ink, so he simply arranged things and went back to Ye Mansion.

Ye Chen wants to make the impossible possible, according to the current progress, at least one-third of the farmland cannot be completed on time, which means that one-third of the income is missing, and many people will starve or even die.