Noob needs some help about resource management

Hi guys,

As the title says, I've come back on AoE2 DE for the fun of the game and decided to try to become a better competitive player to have some fun on the ladder.

I've practiced different openers and B.O in order to at least get a viable economical power and improve my macrogaming. So far, I got the gold medal in the 3 economical scenarii of the Art of War on AoE2 DE and I manage to get castle age in random map in around 15-ish minutes on a regular basis, which is, I believe, quite okay.

However, I got a big problem. I know that, to have a solid economy and military power, one needs to never have more than +/- 1000 of each resource and to keep building buildings or units to avoid that. That's my problem. I tried to do a fast castle into boom vs. a standard A.I just to try it and it went just fine, but I noticed that when I had 100 villagers and could focus on military etc, my stock of resources just skyrocketted because of the shitton on vills I had. I tried to move the most part of my vill population to gold and food (for a knight spam) but I still had 5000+ wood and around 2000 stone.

Do you guys have any tips to balance my resources ? I don't really see what I can do to spend my wood and stone while keeping my food and gold as they were since they were just enough to supply my 4 constantly producing stables

Thanks a lot !