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After Cao Zhang's letter, he let the soldiers rest in Anyi, and he practiced the snake spear in the county government, after Gao Gan's heads-up, he was more familiar with the use of the snake spear, and he also liked this light and weird long-pole weapon more and more, and Cao Zhang was very confident in the reply of the Wei family in Jiangyi, because if the Wei family and the Huo family were really enemies of foreign clans, the imperial court was his only choice, as everyone knows today, Cao Jun represents the imperial army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And he thinks that his Cao Zhang's Duoer is enough to give them confidence, he killed from Runan to Hebei, did not taste a defeat, and even entered Huguan, one of the Xiongguan in the world, with an impressive record, this series of achievements is enough to give the Wei family and the Huo family confidence to fight against Hulu.

The most important thing is that Cao Zhang represents the imperial court, receives military orders, and will have a steady stream of backup, unlike them who are helpless and alone, so Cao Zhang thinks they will inevitably agree.

It's just that bargaining in the middle is unavoidable, and the most nervous thing about this kind of local clan is their own interests, and if their interests are ensured, they will contribute, just like Chen Qun also made a big effort after the implementation of the "Green Seedling Law", because he knew that the income of self-cultivated farmers and the "Green Seedling Law" and their family would benefit from the Huaixian market.

But these are the last sections, Cao Zhang is now more and more sophisticated, and he won't feel very difficult about this kind of bargaining, anyway, he is the strong side, the knife handle is in his own hands, and how to dance in the end is not up to him.

Sure enough, after Cao Zhang's leisurely three days, the envoy who delivered the letter returned, and there was another person who came back with this envoy, that is, the envoy sent by the Jiangyi Wei family.

After Cao Zhang heard the news, he immediately met the envoy in the study, and this time Cao Zhang met alone, because he knew that the Wei family sent someone to bargain, and it was more appropriate to say this kind of thing in private, and people who came could also talk freely.

The person sent by the Wei family is called Wei Ze, who is the third son of Wei Ting, the head of the Wei family, the word Shuxian, who looks like he should be only in his early twenties, handsome, tall, about eight feet, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a square scarf on his head, wearing Confucian clothes, and the appearance of a handsome son.

After he saluted Cao Zhang, Cao Zhang let him sit in front of a desk, and he sat on the main seat and said with a smile: "Shuxian can come to Anyi, Zhang is very happy, with the help of the Wei family, it will be much easier to sweep away the thieves in Pingyang."

When Wei Ze heard this, he arched his hand on the mountain and said: "My lord's words are serious, foreign forces have invaded Pingyang for a long time, and we and the Huo family are struggling to support us. ”

Cao Zhang smiled, thinking that it is not a loss to be a son of a family, praising you, you also praising me, but in fact, there is indeed a needle hidden in the cotton, I said that with your help, it will be much easier to sweep away Hulu, you just said that your family is struggling to support, isn't this sitting on the ground and starting the price?

Cao Chang remembered that in modern times, he asked those who were engaged in housekeeping to clean up in his own house, and those people always said that some unclean places were dirty, saying that it was difficult to clean, and it would take a long time, and then how much did it cost an hour.

The young man in his early twenties in front of him obviously has three of them, but his conversation is more elegant, more subtle, and more strategic than that of the cleaning aunt.

Cao Zhang didn't bother to go around in circles with him, and smiled directly: "After the thieves are eliminated, I will be the guard, the merits of the Huo family, and the Wei and Huo families will inevitably continue the glory of their ancestors in the military and political worlds." ”

Fools understand the meaning of these words, as long as you Wei and Huo help me take down Pingyang, I will show your merits, let you be an official, civil and military attachés are whatever you choose, this is already the biggest promise, the so-called learning and excellence, being an official is the dream of the ancients.

When Wei Ze heard this, he immediately got up and said, "Thank you, for your support!" My Wei family and the Huo family will not forget the grace of the adults. ”

Cao Zhang smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, if you really want to be able to take Pingyang, these are what you deserve." ”

Wei Ze said: "My lord, in fact, our Wei family and the Huo family have already discussed, if the adults can let our two families become officials, our two families will only ask for one place each, and never ask for more." ”

Cao Chang was stunned when he heard this, from this sentence, Cao Zhang got two messages, one is that there must be someone in the Huo family in Jiangyi, and he is also a person who can speak, because Wei Ze cannot be the master of the Huo family when he does not get the benefit of the Huo family, and it is only three days for Wei Ze to send a letter to today, if they still have to go to discuss with the Huo family who are far away in Xiangling, there is no way to catch up in three days.

In such a tense situation in Pingyang, how could the Huo family, who was guarding Xiangling, send a core figure of a family to Jiangyi? The reason is very simple, I'm afraid that some people in these two families have already guessed from his Cao Zhang's movements that Cao Jun's purpose is in Pingyang, and they also guessed that he Cao Zhang would come to them for assistance, so they sent people to Jiangyi, the closest to Hedong County, to discuss the terms of cooperation with the Wei family in advance.

As for the other information revealed by this sentence, the Wei Huo family has other conditions, and this condition must not be low, otherwise they would not be able to have only one official quota, which made Cao Zhang interested in knowing this condition, so Cao Chang smiled: "Only one official quota?" Two is two? However, there are also a lot of families in Pingyang who are attached to the Wei Huo family, don't they need official quotas? ”

Cao Zhang asked tactfully, but the meaning was very clear, you can only have one, don't those families want any of them? If you are in charge of their families, will you be able to keep them from being disgruntled afterwards?

Wei Ze smiled calmly: "Our Wei Huo family and those like-minded squires have only one wish, that is, after expelling those foreigners, begging the imperial court to give me the right to mine minerals in the mountains and rivers of Pingyang County, and prohibit outsiders from mining." ”

Cao Zhang never expected that he would make this request, and at the same time he was impressed by the Wei family and the Huo family, Cao Zhang was reborn in the late Han Dynasty, and he could not learn anything, but the history of the Han Dynasty must be learned, since he was a child, he heard Cheng Yu Guo Jia talk a lot about the history of the Han Dynasty, when the Han Dynasty was first built, the heroes and soldiers did not even have carriages and decent horses, but after more than ten years, the economy of the Han Dynasty has developed unprecedentedly.

One of the characteristics is that the Han Dynasty has a lot of gold, so much that it is unimaginable, compared to the war-torn end of the Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty to Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty is a rich era, Cao Zhang clearly remembered that Cheng Yu and he said: Gaozu Liu Bang gave Chen Ping 40,000 catties at a time, and asked him to go to Chu to carry out rebellion activities, but he didn't ask him how to use it at all.

Lu Pheasant died, and the edict rewarded the princes and kings with 1,000 catties each; Emperor Wen ascended the throne, because the ministers had merit in exterminating the Lu family, and rewarded Zhou Bo with 5,000 catties, Chen Ping and Guan Ying with 2,000 catties each, and Liu Zhang and Liu Jie with 1,000 catties each.

During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty (the father of Emperor Wu), Liu Bi, the king of Wu, recruited talents in order to rebel, and beheaded a general of the Han Dynasty to reward 5,000 catties, a column general to reward 3,000 catties, a general to reward 2,000 catties, and a reward of 2,000 stones.

When King Liang Xiao died, he left 400,000 catties; Wei Qing fought against the Huns, beheaded 19,000 people, and the army was rewarded with more than 200,000 catties; Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne and rewarded Huo Guang with 7,000 catties and King Guangling with 5,000 catties.

Wang Mang married a woman surnamed Shi as the queen, and spent 30,000 catties; In the last years of Wang Mang, Shangshu Province alone had more than 60 gold shortages of 10,000 catties.

These are enough to show that there was a lot of gold in the Han Dynasty, when Cao Zhang was studying at the university, some students questioned that the gold of the Han Dynasty was actually brass, and he was reprimanded by the professor of the school for not reading history books. There is a saying in the Food and Goods Journal: "There are three grades of gold, gold is the top, platinum is the middle, and red gold is the bottom." And Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in the book "Shuowen Jie Zi" with "gold, five-color gold", "silver, platinum", "copper, red gold"

Therefore, the gold that is sent out at every turn is the gold of yellow, orange and orange, which Cheng Yu also confirmed to Cao Zhang, and the key to such wealth from the early to the middle of the Han Dynasty is as Sima Qian said in the historical records: national unification, opening up of Guanliang, and lifting the ban on Shanze. And one of the most important points is the lifting of the ban on Yamazawa.

In Sima Qian's "Historical Records", which specifically describes the economy of the Han Dynasty, several super-rich people are described: Zhuo Wangsun, Cheng Zheng, Kong, and Bing, and what these people have in common is that they are all people who have made a fortune by mining and smelting steel.

Cao Zhang most remembered the passage describing Zhuo Wangsun: "Rich enough to serve thousands of people, the joy of shooting and hunting in the fields is intended to be the king." "That is to say, he is rich enough to rival the country.

At present, Wei Ze put forward such a condition to him Cao Zhang, that is, let the local squires led by Wei and Huo monopolize the mineral mining rights in Pingyang, and it is not an exaggeration to describe this condition as a lion's big mouth.

Manzhong said that Tuoba Xianbei, Southern Xiongnu, and Qianghu all coveted Pingyang, because Pingyang is a natural pasture, it seems that he ignored this, Pingyang must have extremely rich mineral deposits, otherwise the nomads would not be so coveted, because cattle, sheep and horses can be raised, but the iron ore for refining swords can not be raised, so they do not hesitate to use soldiers to support local forces in Pingyang to mine iron ore to supplement armor.

In the era of cold weapons, some people do not mean that there are soldiers, some people have knives to represent soldiers, and now most of the minerals under the control of the Central Plains Cao Jun have been under the jurisdiction of Cao Zhang's arsenal under the Jinwu Temple, and these minerals were originally managed by local clans, but Cao Cao's first Yanzhou because of the rebellion of Lu Bu and Zhang Miao, the local clans were cleaned, and the minerals under their control were naturally confiscated, and Sili, Yuzhou, and Yongzhou were in turmoil, and the local wealthy families were in the mood to hire people to open mines, and they were naturally requisitioned by the arsenalNow the only family that still retains minerals in Cao Jun's territory is the Chen family in Xuzhou, but Chen Deng, the assassin of Xuzhou, has never received the support of Cao Jun's arsenal, but uses his family's minerals to smelt weapons, which is also a change of direction to confiscate minerals.

And now, Wei Ze proposed such a condition to Cao Zhang, which is equivalent to giving Cao Zhang a big problem, Cao Zhang's mind flashed a lot of thoughts after hearing this condition, and finally stopped at one question: Do Wei and Huo want to be the grandsons of King Zhuo, or do they want to be Liu Bi, the king of Wu in the rebellion of the Seven Kings during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty? (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )