Twenty-four years of Jian'an, March.

Meng Huo rushed back from the White Horse Department, and at the same time brought the fact that the King of Mulu was willing to cooperate with the Han people and provide a quota of Dian horses every year.

What is the specific number, this can be discussed in detail, after all, it is a matter of interests, and King Mulu will not decide so quickly, and it is already very good to be able to express a willingness to cooperate.

For this reason, Zhang Xi sent Ma Jian to the "Silver Pit" to discuss cooperation with King Mulu in detail.

At the same time, Zhang Xi also instructed Ma Jian to take the craftsmen of mineral exploration to go to the vicinity of the "silver pit" to investigate and see if there is a silver mine.

After all, the name is obvious, it must be the site left by the previous generation of silver mining, otherwise it can be called "silver pothole"?!

Although silver was of little use in these days, and could not be used as a substitute for money, it was always a raw material for the manufacture of some luxury goods, and it was better to have something than nothing.

By the way, the mainstream currency in these days was five baht, and the materials were copper, lead, and tin.

The "gold" of the Han Dynasty is not copper, but real gold, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is an obvious example.

So, copper can be used to mint money, and gold can also be used as a high-end item as a reward from the emperor or a tribute from his vassals, representing value. Only silver, in this era, can only play a role in some ritual utensils, high-end aristocratic utensils or extravagant funerary goods.

So this silver, of course, is the best, if not, Zhang Xi is actually not very demanding.

After leveling the King of Mulu, the war in the entire Nanzhong was completely calmed down.

Next, Zhang Xi needs to think about how to govern this place.

Zhuge Liang can pacify Nanzhong and leave, because Zhuge Liang was the prime minister at the time, and no prime minister stayed in the barren land in the south every day to govern the place, and did not return to the central government to deal with government affairs.

But Zhang Xi is the governor of the city, and his duty is to take care of and govern Nanzhong.

First of all, the first thing to be solved is the disposal of the major surnames in Nanzhong after this war.

Needless to say, the Li family, as a great contributor to the counterinsurgency, must be on the table to ask for a seal.

Therefore, Zhang Xi went to the table and asked the king of Hanzhong to reward Li Hui.

As for the Meng family, although they were part of the rebellion, they continued to make meritorious contributions anyway, and they also made a lot of efforts to pacify Nanzhong, so they also had to ask the king of Hanzhong to reward and punish the Meng family, but Zhang Xi made a little suggestion.

In addition, the officials of the Taishou in each county died a lot because of the war, and they had to ask the King of Hanzhong to send a new Taishou, but Zhang Xi also made a little suggestion in the seal.

After all, Zhang Xi is not Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bei is still there, this kind of rewarding heroes and arranging local officials must be "grace from above", Zhang Xi will not be such a low EQ overstepping.

As for the Jiao family and the Jiao family, although they were meritorious during the counterinsurgency, they inevitably had a style of doing things on the wall, which Zhang Xi didn't like very much.

Although Zhang Xi will also perform his deeds, the advice given to Liu Bei in the recital is to give these two symbolic rewards, so that they will not be resentful, and there is no need to give too many benefits.

After dealing with these post-war problems, Zhang Xi had to face an even more troublesome problem - the allocation of the population in Nanzhong.

Because Meng was very competent as the leading party, many people in Jianning County who were originally cowering in the mountains and were basically wiped out by the local government who were half-cooperative and half-confrontational, and these Yiren in the mountains who lost their leaders were also relocated to the plains by Zhang Xi as a whole.

Although Meng Shu and Li Hui were promised to treat these Yi people as subordinate subordinates and serve as laborers for mining purposes, the number of Yi people who migrated out this time was too large, as high as more than 100,000 people, almost reaching a quarter of the total population of the four counties in Nanzhong.

By the way, this population size also scared Zhang Xi.

One Jianning County can pull out more than 100,000 Yi people, so how many Yi people are hidden in Yongchang County, Yueshan County, and Qiqi County? !

The population of Nanzhong must not be doubled?!

Therefore, in this era, although the population has indeed decreased sharply due to the war, the number of people who have hidden and fled into the mountains of the family is also quite huge.

Of the hundreds of thousands of Yi people in Jianning County, the Li family and the Meng family together can't eat so many people, and even if they have this ability, these two families don't dare to really swallow more than 100,000 people if they are sober-minded, who can rest assured that they will be handed over to the two families?!

Therefore, the Li family and the Meng family only divided a quarter of it, a total of more than 40,000 people, and the rest of the part, Zhang Xi's family did not give it, and it was uniformly settled in the southwest of Jianning County.

This place is the most ferocious place in Yonghong, after the war and the desertion, the population has dropped sharply, just to register the cause, to replenish the population.

At the same time, in order to prevent so many Yi people from gathering together to cause unnecessary trouble, Zhang Xi selected 10,000 young people from these Yi people, and asked Wang Ping to be responsible for training the Cheng army, and then brought them back to Chengdu and handed them over to Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, to deal with.

As for whether it can become a "Wudang Flying Army" again, it depends on the needs of Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei.

Among the remaining people, Zhang Xi selected thousands of Yi people with good physical fitness, divided them into five departments, and established the five departments at the same time, with Zhang Yi as the captain and the commander of the five departments to stabilize the place.

Unlike Zhuge Liang's practice of assigning the five commanders to Haoqiang, Zhang Xi didn't plan to get used to these Nanzhong wealthy clans.

Zhang Xi is an intuitive concept for the wealthy families in Nanzhong, if you help the Han, then the Han will not forget your benefits, if you don't believe it, just look at the Li family and the Meng family.

But if you like to be a wall-to-wall, and whoever forces you to listen to whom, then when the distribution of benefits after the war is blocked, don't blame me for not taking care of you.

Of course, if you feel unfair, you can also rebel now and speak with your fists, then I won't stop you.

But obviously, it is impossible for a group of wall-to-wall families to have this courage, and now that there are Li and Meng's defections, it is simply unrealistic for Nanzhong to have a large-scale rebellion.

In this way, after several screenings, nearly 100,000 Yi people were placed in the southwest of Jianning County by Zhang Xi, and they were registered like the Han people.

However, this does not mean that these Yi people can enjoy the same treatment as Han people, according to Zhuge Liang's ideas and suggestions, Zhang Xi agreed with these Yi people that as long as they can pay taxes to the government and serve for more than ten years, they can enjoy Han Min treatment, and if someone in the family joins the army and makes meritorious contributions, they can immediately enjoy Han Min treatment.

This is called "one person joins the army, the whole family is glorious".

After giving hope, Zhang Xi couldn't care about the life or death of these Yi people, otherwise, with the cultivation level of these Yi people, they would not be able to complete the tax and conscription of the government.

So, they must also be taught how to farm.

This kind of thing, in fact, is easy to handle, and before the Han people died in the army, they were basically qualified farmers.

Zhang Xi organized these Yi people into a group of ten households and sent a soldier to guide the farming, while the government only gave the annual cultivation time and guidance, and at the same time, the implementation of light taxation and thin taxation in the first two years should be able to initially teach these Yi people to farm.

Yi people are also human beings, as long as they have a regular income, and the government is not too ruthless, no one will want to go back to the mountains and fight with nature for food.

After Zhang Xi arranged the aftermath of these Yiren, he found a very serious problem - the grain storage in Nanzhong did not seem to be enough.

After all, these Yi people have just come out of the mountains, and they have been abducted by the Han army, and there is not much grain to eat, and the climate in the south is a little late to plant rice now, although it has been replanted, but it is estimated that it is very difficult to harvest twice a year, it may be one harvest a year, and the income in the first year will be reduced.

Although the climatic conditions in Jianning County are good, and the rice here can be harvested twice a year, the problem is that the development in many places in Nanzhong cannot keep up at all, and the arable area is quite small.

In previous years, there were two crops a year, and Nanzhong could barely be self-sufficient, but now there is one less season of ripe rice, and the people of Nanzhong are likely to be hungry before the end of the year. South and Central China will not be able to provide relief at all.

Therefore, Zhang Xi had to ask Chengdu for help.

At the same time, considering the continuous campaign, Chengdu may not have much surplus food, and it is necessary to arrange for military food hoarding to prepare for the Northern Expedition to support the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Zhang Xi made a suggestion to Liu Bei - to allow the Nanzhong family to contribute the amount of grain and grass to obtain the distribution right of the copper mine in Jianning County.

Zhang Xi has sent people to re-survey the distribution of copper mines in the entire Jianning County, and the reserves are amazing, although nearly half of the copper mines cannot be mined on a large scale with the current technical capabilities, but from the perspective of this era, the mineable part is already an industry that can be passed down for a hundred years and is rich enough to rival the country.

With so many copper mines, everyone in Liu Bei's group can't afford to contribute money and efforts, and if you want to quickly obtain copper mines, you must allow local heroes to join in.

Even what Liu Bei's group has to consider now is not to compete with the family for the ownership of the copper mine, but to formulate relevant laws to strictly control the right to mint and issue currency.

As long as they grasp these two rights, no matter how much copper they mine, they will only make a wedding dress for Liu Bei Group.

In these years, no matter how arrogant the family is, they don't dare to fight the idea of coinage, which is something that no one will sympathize with if the whole family is destroyed.

Therefore, even if the family mines a large amount of copper ore, they don't sell the copper ore to Liu Bei Group, and they can't make all the copper ore mined into bronze for burial, right?!

And about this point, in fact, there is no need for Zhang Xi to remind him, Zhuge Liang has already pulled Fa Zheng, Mi Zhu, Li Yan and others, and began to formulate laws and strictly control them.

These people, which one is not a human spirit, what Zhang Xi can see, how can they not see it.

As for the distribution of copper mines in Jianning County, the families in Chengdu are almost all about to come out with their brains.

It was at this time that the team of survey craftsmen sent by Zhang Xi found a super-large-scale tin mine on the south side of Fairy Lake, along Lushui and various branches of Lushui, a large number of gold ores and iron ore snow areas were found, and a large number of salt mines were found in the west of Guchang in Jianning County, and there was a salt supervisor set up since the beginning of the previous dynasty, which could be directly mined as long as it was slightly repaired.

Well, now Liu Bei couldn't sit still, and Zhuge Liang directly asked Liu Bei for instructions, and went to Wei County, where the Governor's Mansion was stationed, to control the distribution of interests with his own hands.

(End of chapter)