After asking Zhuge Liang about the development of Nanzhong, Zhang Xi finally had a certain confidence in his Nanzhong development plan and was relieved a lot after getting Zhuge Liang's suggestions and affirmation.

There is no way, Zhang Xi in his previous life was just an ordinary person, and his local governance experience in this life is still in the relatively mature Nanjun area, and there are ready-made governance plans for reference.

The situation like Nanzhong is special, there are not many precedents to refer to, Zhang Xi really has no confidence in the governance plan that he is thinking about alone, and can only seek Zhuge Liang's approval.

In this era, Zhuge Liang's governing ability is definitely first-class in the world, don't ask who he asks.

After helping Zhang Xi determine the development plan of Nanzhong, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi finally began to talk about the distribution of resources and minerals among the various ministries in Nanzhong.

This matter is the real purpose of Zhuge Liang's southward journey.

Regarding the issue of mineral deposits, there is actually a certain tacit understanding between Liu Bei Group and the Shuzhong family.

The Shuzhong family knew Liu Bei's financial situation, and after a series of wars, they were not only short of food, but also short of money.

The Shuzhong family knew that this batch of mineral resources was a life-saving financial source for Liu Bei, so Liu Bei definitely hoped to develop it quickly.

After all, although there is a trend of hard currency after being linked to Shu brocade, compared with the real five-baht coin, it is not too popular with the people after all.

And Liu Bei also knows that as far as those mineral deposits in Nanzhong are concerned, except for salt and iron, which are legal official camps, and the family does not dare to touch them, other mineral deposits, whether it is gold ore, silver ore, copper ore, or tin ore, these families have great interest in intervening, after all, minerals are a kind of thing that can be inherited for a hundred years.

Liu Bei needs the strength of the family to help him quickly develop mineral deposits, and the family also needs to get Liu Bei's positive permission to enter the mountains to mine and accumulate family business.

Therefore, the two sides are willing to cooperate.

But the disagreement between the two sides is what kind of cooperation should be adopted.

The real contradiction here is not only Liu Bei and the family, but more importantly, the ideas behind each force under Liu Bei's group are different.

Liu Bei's Yuancong faction is okay, but its own heritage is not enough, whether it is money, food or manpower, it is not enough to eat a share of minerals alone.

In addition, they had a close relationship with Liu Bei, so as long as Liu Bei gave some of the copper mine share he occupied to the Yuan Cong faction, they would be satisfied.

What is really competing is the Yizhou faction and the Jingzhou faction, two factions that have the support of their respective local wealthy families.

The Jingzhou faction hopes to obtain the mining rights for a certain number of years in the mine by way of redemption.

This approach is actually the most beneficial to Liu Bei Group, after all, the property rights of the mine are still in Liu Bei's own hands, and if Liu Bei redeems with the family, he can also take the initiative in the negotiations, and he can immediately get a large amount of copper money to subsidize the government's finances.

Moreover, it is certainly easier to recover the original currency from the market than to re-mint it, and at the same time, it will not cause major damage to the existing economic system.

Again, after the mining period expires, Liu Bei can also redeem with the family again, and so on, Liu Bei can recover a large amount of copper coins every few years.

In the end, it is also the selfish way of the Jingzhou faction to obtain the mining rights, which is to compare who has more money and who is close to the king of Hanzhong.

Obviously, when did the Jingzhou faction follow the king of Hanzhong?! You Yizhou guys are on the top?!

In this way, the Jingzhou family, which was originally at a disadvantage due to lack of manpower, can be pulled down to an equal position with the Yizhou family.

Copper mines, even if they are far away from the Jingzhou family, hope to be able to get a piece of the pie.

The proposers of this plan are economists from Liu Bei Group, Liu Ba and Liu Zichu.

It can be said that Liu Ba's suggestion takes into account the interests of Liu Bei Group and the Jingzhou family, although the Yizhou family suffers a little, but in the end it is still open to the Yizhou family, as long as you pay the money that the king of Hanzhong cannot refuse, then you can also obtain the right to copper mining.

But the Yizhou family definitely can't agree with Liu Ba's suggestion.

The copper mine is in Nanzhong, and Nanzhong belongs to the Yizhou Thorn History Department both geographically and administratively. Have a woolen relationship with you Jingzhou people?!

Therefore, the plan proposed by the Yizhou family is like this.

Liu Bei Group and the Yizhou family together to carve up the ownership of all minerals in Nanzhong Minerals except for salt and iron, the specific distribution ratio and the amount of purchase ownership, we can talk about it privately, and even the Yizhou family gritted their teeth in order to drive the people from Jingzhou out of this mineral distribution, and agreed that Liu Bei would levy taxes on the minerals they mined, but we can also talk about this tax ratio privately.

The proposers of this plan were Huang Quan and Fa Zheng, who together suggested it to Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong.

Obviously, in the face of the pressure of the Jingzhou faction, Huang Quan, a native of Yizhou, chose to cooperate with the Dongzhou faction represented by Fa Zheng.

Regardless of where the Dongzhou faction was originally from, they have been living in Yizhou for a long time, and their core interests are also in Yizhou, although the Dongzhou faction originally had many contradictions with the Yizhou locals because of land and population issues, but when it comes to the foreign Jingzhou faction, there are many interests between the Dongzhou faction and the Yizhou localists.

By the way, the Nanzhong Hao family, such as the Li family, the Meng family, the Jiao family, etc., are all within the scope of the Yizhou local faction, and these local snakes firmly support the Yizhou faction plan, after all, they are the local snakes, it is convenient to do anything, and the interest space is also the largest, of course, I don't want to pay the redemption money again every few years so troublesomely, a hammer deal is the best.

For such two cooperation plans, Liu Bei did not make up his mind.

In fact, the two plans are not too bad for Liu Bei, after all, Liu Bei is the one who really controls the majority of Nanzhong minerals, not to mention that both plans can bring Liu Bei a lot of wealth or taxes.

However, the plan of the Jingzhou faction will lead to the dissatisfaction of the Yizhou faction, and the plan of the Yizhou faction will exclude the Jingzhou faction. Now that Liu Bei has more people under him, there are people who represent the interests of various forces, and he must consider it holistically.

It wasn't until Zhuge Liang went south that Liu Bei reluctantly made up his mind and chose the plan of the Jingzhou faction.

On the one hand, the plan of the Jingzhou faction did not completely exclude the Yizhou faction, and it was a competition for those who had money to obtain mining rights, unlike the plan of the Yizhou faction, which completely excluded the Jingzhou faction.

On the other hand, Liu Bei is now in Yizhou, and his control over the Yizhou faction is stricter, but for Jingzhou, he can only count on his second brother Guan Yu to manage it.

The last Jiangdong sneak attack, Jingzhou's local family has a tendency to be unstable, if it weren't for the loyal and reliable people guarding each position, maybe what would have happened to Jingzhou.

If the families in Jingzhou are excluded from the distribution of minerals in Yizhou this time, God knows what these families will think, which is very detrimental to unity.

Again, Liu Bei didn't want his civil and military officials to have such a strict geographical division. Especially when it comes to such national events.

To sum up, it is understandable that Liu Bei chose a fairer plan for the Jingzhou faction.

And this time Zhuge Liang went south, with this plan, to preside over the redemption work in Wei County, the most important of which is to bargain with the representatives of the major families to demarcate the redemption area and mining years.

This kind of thing, only Zhuge Liang, who usually acts fairly, has first-class government affairs ability, and is trusted by the Jingzhou and Yizhou factions and Liu Bei, can really convince everyone.

In order to do this well, Zhuge Liang didn't dare to be sloppy at all, and pulled Zhang Xi to discuss day and night, and finally had a more general understanding of the distribution of minerals in various parts of Nanzhong.

And Zhang Xi also suggested that Zhuge Liang should not redeem all the minerals at once.

Let's not talk about whether these families have the ability to mine all the minerals in Nanzhong at one time, even if they can, Liu Bei Group will slowly give up the initiative to these families in the redemption again and again.

Therefore, there must be a follow-up development plan, continue to attract these families to invest money, and dig out all the copper coins that these families hide in the cellar, so that it is the most beneficial thing for the finances.

With a copper mine, it does not mean that Liu Bei can mint five baht coins uncontrollably, not only economic geniuses like Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba, but also Liu Bei knows that this is not good for the government's finances.

They may not understand the specific principle, but they are very clear about the consequences, after all, there are too many cases in this regard in ancient China.

Again, although it sounds like nonsense, there is really no shortage of copper coins in this era, what is lacking is the circulation of copper coins. Whether it is a prince or a family, there is a tradition of hiding copper coins, or even using copper coins for burial.

The more chaotic the world became, the more the families and nobles treasured the copper coins, as if they wanted to find a sense of peace of mind.

Therefore, Zhang Xi suggested that Zhuge Liang could develop the minerals in Nanzhong in batches, for example, this time he could first develop the copper mining area north of Guchang and Dongchuan.

As for the copper mining area south of Wei County and near Fuxian Lake, the mountain is temporarily closed to no development and no development.

In fact, it is the set of financial investment in later generations, which must always give investors the hope of continuing to make money, so that the financier can continue to harvest leeks.

It's just that Liu Bei's eyes are not so black, he is not a white wolf with empty gloves, he really took out real money, these gold, silver and copper mines are Liu Bei's capital, and in this era, it is a sure thing to make money and not lose money.

Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi discussed for a long time, and the two wilted guys finally designed the overall process and division of the area for this redemption, and the rest was to wait for all the families to be in place, and start the public redemption.

Yes, this is what Zhang Xi suggested again. Privately negotiated redemptions with the Maison's representatives were replaced by public redemptions, also known as auctions.

There are two benefits to this.

One is to be more open and transparent, everyone is looking at money and talking, and no personal relationship is good.

Another. As far as the relationship between the Yizhou faction and the Jingzhou faction is concerned, there is also the Dongzhou faction within the Yizhou faction, and the difference between the Nanzhong faction and the Yizhou faction.

Whether you can rob it or not, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi don't care, Liu Bei may be happy to see it. A group of families is not a good thing for the lord.

And if you grab it like this, won't the price of this auction go up?!

It's all money, you can't do without it, right?!

(End of chapter)