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Wei Ze looked at Cao Zhang with an indifferent expression, but the look in his eyes was eager, and this subtle contrast revealed the mentality of this young Wei family son. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cao Zhang looked at Wei Ze with a smile, but there was a thoughtful look in his eyes, as if he was considering Wei Ze's proposal, and the study fell into silence for a while.

In the end, it was Cao Zhang who broke the silence and said: "Shuxian, the right to mine minerals in Pingyang County in this generation is very important, I don't know if there are gold mines, silver mines, copper mines or iron mines in Pingyang, if there is one of these minerals, it will not be easy to do, gold and copper mines can be used to smelt coins, if the situation is serious, it will be like Dong Zhuo's private minting of five baht coins back then, resulting in soaring prices, and iron ore can be used to refine weapons, my dynasty decree is forbidden to open private warehouses to cast weapons, so this matter is really difficult for me." ”

Wei Ze immediately said: "My lord, Pingyang is the Qiang force has three branches, one is called Huangzhong Yi Conghu, one is called Jincheng Yi Conghu, and the other is called Xian Lingqiang, they are collectively referred to as Qiang Hu, they were all defeated by Zhang Wen in Yongzhou in the past year, Dong Zhuo migrated to the border of Pingyang, because he was defeated by the Han army, so the place where the Khan Court was set up is extremely hidden, my Wei family has been fighting with it for many years, I know the habits of Qiang Hu, and I have also made careful investigations, and now I know the location of the Khan Court, and I know several routes, which can help the Lord lead the cavalry to smash the Yellow Dragon. ”

The two seemed to answer the question, but in fact they were bargaining back and forth, Cao Zhang said the difficulties of the government, and Wei Ze immediately told Cao Zhang the value of his Wei family, knowing that the location of the Khan Court is indeed a very valuable information, because that will save Cao Zhang the trouble of spying on the military situation and sending troops to probe the war.

The Wei family and the Huo family proposed this condition naturally to be prepared, not to worry about Cao Zhang's disagreement, but even if Cao Zhang agreed, he had to make this matter reasonable and legal, hearing Wei Ze say this, Cao Zhang smiled and said: "Even if I promise to give you the right to mine, you can't privately mint coins and raise private soldiers, you can only mint farm tools and ornaments, I don't know Wei, can the Huo family do it?" ”

Wei Ze said in embarrassment: "If there is chaos today, how many people can afford to buy jewelry?" Abandoned farmland is everywhere, and who are the farm tools sold to? To tell you the truth, most of Pingyang is iron ore, and there is only a small amount of gold ore, even if you mint coins, there will not be much, and the adults said that iron ore cannot cast weapons, so it is unprofitable to get the right to mine. ”

Cao Zhang saw that Wei Ze had made it clear and understood, and also showed his hole cards, only to hear Cao Zhang say: "Privately minting money is a disaster for the country, as an official of the DPRK and China, I naturally can't agree, but I can let the imperial court buy your smelted gold ore at the market price, and the imperial court will buy as much as you want, as for the agricultural tools produced by iron ore, I will let Juntun buy it, and we will buy as much as you make, and then the Wei and Huo families will increase the number of officials by one person, one government and one army, I Cao Zhang's words are first, and I will try my best to take care of it, Shuxian might as well go back and discuss with the housekeeper, this is my last concession. ”

Cao Chang had already made a full consideration when Wei Ze put forward this condition, even if he handed over the mining rights, he would try his best to suppress the development space of the Pingyang squires, so that they could make a fortune, but they must not be allowed to develop, if they could mint coins and weapons, sooner or later they would also become local clans like the Sima family and the Yang family, which was something that Cao Chang absolutely did not want to see.

Letting the imperial court buy all their gold mines is equivalent to sending money, they only need to mine them and then smelt and purify them all before they can be sold to the imperial court, now the territory controlled by the imperial court is increasing day by day, and the "Green Seedling Law" is ready to be implemented, the rise of productivity and surplus value in various places will inevitably have a demand for money, so it is time to buy gold mines.

As for Cao Zhang's purchase of farm tools is also to prepare for the "Green Seedling Law", after all, the displaced people in various places will inevitably need farm tools to cultivate the fields at the beginning, so the Huimin warehouse not only needs to put the grain for loans, but also to put some farm tools, farm tools can be lent to the displaced people at the market price to open up the wasteland, and the money or grain can be returned to the harvest time, and now the green seedling law is only tried in the two counties, and the demand for farm tools will increase greatly after the implementation of the local area, so Cao Zhang is not worried about the loan of farm tools at all.

Cao Zhang's condition did not harm the economic interests of the Pingyang squires after obtaining the mining rights, and secondly, it could also inhibit the development of the Pingyang squires, and at the same time pave the way for the implementation of the "Seedlings Law", which can be said to be a comprehensive proposal.

And Cao Zhang also promised to take care of the guards, the Huo family officials, which is equivalent to changing the direction of letting them stand in line, as the saying goes, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, which is also a very tempting condition, not to mention that Cao Zhang also let the two families each add an additional official quota, and the two conditions are only for them not to mint coins and weapons, which is already very fair.

But Wei Ze couldn't be the master, so he only heard him say: "Ze Xiu wrote a letter, imploring the lord to borrow a fast horse and pass it to Jiangyi, please ask my father." ”

Cao Zhang smiled and said, "Okay, Shuxian might as well spend a few days in Anyi, and wait for Lord Lingzun to reply to us before we discuss." After speaking, he called a guard to come in and explain a few words, and then said to Wei Ze: "I have already explained it properly, Shuxian will notify this guard if he has something." ”

Wei Ze immediately thanked him, and Cao Zhang said to him again: "This county guard is a very big place, and the environment is good, Shuxian will live here, if you need anything, tell the guards, whether it is good wine, food or beautiful women, you can do it!" After saying that, he smiled and said goodbye and left.

After Cao Zhang left the study, he returned to the courtyard where he lived, and sighed secretly while thinking about his negotiation with Wei Ze today, his subordinates are a group of generals who can fight and are accustomed to fighting, but there is no powerful strategist, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Liu Ye, all have a good relationship with him, but they are also valued by Cao Cao, and it is really impossible to dig them up to serve him, so that now such negotiation trivial matters can only be done by himself, and there is no one to discuss, and he can't help but feel a little tired.

"A strong man guards the Quartet!!!!" Cao Zhang sighed from the bottom of his heart.

On the fourth day after the negotiation between Cao Zhang and Wei Ze, Jiangyi's reply came, this letter was written by Wei Ting to Cao Zhang, the content of the letter was roughly said that he received a letter from Cao Zhang, expressing his gratitude to Cao Zhang's weight, and also knew Cao Zhang's wishes from his son Wei Ze's letter, saying that the Pingyang squires led by Wei and Huo were all good people who lived and worked in peace and contentment, and such things as minting private money and private soldiers would definitely not be done, so he said that Cao Zhang's proposal was very good, and said that they would definitely comply, In addition, he said in the letter that he was very moved by Cao Zhang's consideration of their Pingyang squire, and said that there are not many people who can be officials in himself and the Huo family, so each family still only needs one official quota, one government and one army.

The wording in his heart was humble and polite, extremely courteous, and he took the initiative to make concessions, Wei Ting's practice of knowing advance and retreat made Cao Zhang's good impression of him greatly, and immediately told Wei Ze that they would send troops to Jiangyi two days after the army was reorganized to sweep away the Hulu forces for it. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )