After a combination of punches by Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang, the families of Nanzhong and Shuzhong finally reached a consensus of interests on the matter of sucrose.

The Shuzhong family has grain, but most of their human resources are invested in the copper mining that has just been allocated, and they temporarily allocate manpower to Nanzhong to plant sugarcane.

The four surnames of Jianning have no food in their hands, and the core area is not very suitable for growing sugarcane, but they have a very high reputation among the Yi people, even in Yongchang and Yunnan counties, and they can find ways to persuade the Yi people in the mountains to come out of the mountains and come to the plantation to grow sugarcane.

And the Wang family and the Lu family are the head snakes of the land, not only familiar with the place, but also have a lot of influence in the local area, and it is impossible to bypass them to reclaim the plantation.

One side has food and no one, one side has no land, and one side has land and no food. With the cooperation of the three parties, won't this Nanzhong sugarcane plantation project be launched?!

And Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang said that we have no objection to you reclaiming mountains and forests to plant sugarcane, and we can also tell you how to boil sugar, but the sugarcane plantation you reclaim, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, is also subject to taxes.

It's not very high, but after all, it's not food, and if you compromise it, you can take 20 taxes and 1.

Of course, if you boil cane sugar, if you use it yourself, then you don't have to pay taxes, but if you want to transport and trade, you have to pay commercial taxes.

Well, considering that cane sugar is a proper luxury, the tax is relatively high, five taxes and one, this is no problem, right?!

As for the plantation growers. Let's give you a little preferential conditions, the tax will be exempted, so that the people can reduce the burden a little, but the people in your plantations will not care about the people for the time being, but even if the Han people are homeless, you must go to the government to register and make a register, become a free citizen, and obey the government's forced labor.

This is the condition of Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang.

Of course, the families have opinions on this, but not on agriculture and human servitude, mainly because of this commercial tax, is it a bit too high?!

Yes, sugar was a luxury at this time, but with the large production of sucrose, sugar was not so rare in the future. Isn't five taxes and one too high?!

Ten taxes one, right?!

And Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi discussed it slightly, and also took a step back, allowing a commercial tax of ten taxes and one tax, but for the Yiren of Nanzhong Plantation, the government also had to intervene in the jurisdiction.

Of course, it is only registration, not the treatment of the Yi people, so it will not levy the tax on the Yi people, nor will it launch the forced labor of the Yi people.

However, after five years of cultivation on the plantation, these Yi people can voluntarily register as Han people in the government, and then they will have to serve as forced labor, but as long as they continue to plant on the plantation, they can still be exempted from the labor tax.

In addition, since it is registered, the life and death of the Yiren must also be guaranteed by these families, and it can't be like the landless homeless people of this era, who die and bury them casually, and even the government doesn't know about it.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang just fell in love with the homeless and Yi people in the hands of these families.

The families discussed it a little and felt that although this limited everyone from hiding the population and could not use the displaced people and Yi people as livestock, the mere fact that they did not have to pay the human tax could attract a large number of Han Yi to work on the plantation.

The Han people's tax is actually quite high, and compared with the agricultural tax, the people's tax is the biggest burden on homesteaders.

As for the can't help it, there is a shortage of people everywhere in Nanzhong, and all kinds of foundations need manpower to maintain, and Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi can't collect half of the commercial tax for nothing.

After the two sides finalized the cooperation agreement, the framework of this matter was settled.

As for what the plantation will develop into in the future, and whether the people working on the plantation will eventually become serfs again, Zhang Xi is not sure.

Anyway, legally, Zhang Xi has already established the status of free people for them, and if these displaced people and Yi people would rather be exploited by the plantation owners than become free people, then it is not for Zhang Xi to govern.

Zhang Xi felt that he was already worthy of his conscience.

Once the framework is set, then the rest is a matter of management and coordination, and this kind of thing does not need to be personally intervened by Zhang Xi, the governor of the city, and handed over to Wang Shi and Gong Lu, the two managerial talents recommended by Zhuge Liang, to be responsible.

What's more, these two are also Nanzhong people, and they will communicate better when they deal with the Nanzhong family.

After Zhang Xi was busy with these things that made him pay more attention, he could finally relax for a while and began to perform his duties as the governor of the city.

It's almost September, and Zhang Xi, the governor of the city, has to go around the south and central places.

After all, the war has just been pacified, and it is necessary to go to various places to reassure the people.

As for Zhuge Liang, he will not go back to Chengdu immediately for the time being, and will stay in Nanzhong until the end of the year, and then return to Chengdu after coordinating the various families to start mining areas one after another.

Therefore, Zhang Xi was very irresponsible and entrusted some government affairs of Wei County to Zhuge Liang to deal with, and he took Zhang Yi and one of the five governor's mansions to start the work of inspecting Nanzhong.

The first stop is Yueshan County, where Ma Tan is located.

One thing to say, Ma Tan, what his military talent is, Zhang Xi can't see it for the time being, but his ability to govern the place is really good.

In just a few months, Ma Tan had already calmed the hearts of the people of Yueshan County and began to preside over the construction of mining infrastructure in the iron ore area near Lushui.

Ma Tan took advantage of the influence of the wife and child of Gaoding, the former king of Yi in Yueshan County, to attract a group of Yi people to go out of the mountains and settle in the iron ore production area, and at the same time agreed with these Yi people that as long as they had been mining for five years, the whole family could obtain the qualification of Han people, and at the same time obtain the land of Yue Song County, and they would be taught to cultivate by a special person.

At the same time, Ma Tan also appointed the Yi people to surrender the general E Huan as the Sima of Yueshan County, went to the mountains to persuade the Yi people to go out of the mountain, and at the same time organized a Yiren-based army to be responsible for the protection of the mine, and the Han soldiers to distinguish their functions, but the basic treatment was not much different, and the bowl of water between the Han and Yi was as flat as possible.

As for the contradictions between the Han and Yi, Ma Jian also tried his best to treat them fairly, and although the appointment of local officials was still mainly Han Chinese, Ma Jian stipulated that all punishments of more than 20 battles must be reviewed by him, the Taishou of Yueshan County, before they could be punished, so as to avoid the occurrence of local officials bullying the Yi people.

Zhang Xi arrived in Yueshan County, and after listening to Ma Tan's report on the above-mentioned decree, he was also stunned for a while.

You are really a good disciple of the prime minister, co-authored the prime minister's "Anyone with more than 20 rods", it started from you?!

You're not afraid of exhausting yourself to death?!

When Ma Tan talked about this, he also had a bitter face, and complained to Zhang Xi helplessly.

I can't help it, he doesn't want to.

This place is too special, it can be said that among the six counties in the south and central China, the Hanyi contradiction is the most acute place, but there is also a very large iron ore area and gold and silver deposits in this place.

If you can't convince the Hanyi to maintain local stability in this way, these minerals will not be able to be mined at all.

Forget about gold and silver mines, it doesn't matter if this thing is meaningless, but iron ore must be in the hands of the government, and it can't be faked by others.

Ma Tan didn't want to be so tired of managing so many things, but in order to quickly stabilize the people's hearts, appease the Yi people, and attract the Yi people to go out of the mountains to become miners, he had to do this.

After listening to this, Zhang Xi immediately understood.

Ma Tan's hard work is different from the hard work of the prime minister in history, Ma Tan's is a temporary behavior, as long as you wait until the Yi people of Yueshan County are convinced, and most of the Yi people go out of the mountains to mine or cultivate, you don't have to be so tired.

And the prime minister that. The prime minister is a matter of personality, he has too much sense of responsibility, and he doesn't worry about his subordinates doing things at all.

In this case, Zhang Xi has nothing to say, so he can only ask Ma Jian not to be too tired, find more people to help him, and don't carry everything by himself.

But as soon as he talked about this, Ma Jian was depressed again.

This place in Yueshan County, located at the junction of Shuzhong and Nanzhong, is already a relatively remote place in Yizhou.

In this place, to the south is the barbarian Yi people gathered in Nanzhong, and to the north is Jiangyang County and Qianwei County. Although this place can't be said to be disobedient to the king, the cultural and educational affairs are much worse than Shuzhong after all.

In such a place, where can I find any suitable management talents to help me?

Moreover, even if it is a talent from Jiangyang and Qianwei counties, people prefer to go to Chengdu, who would come to a place like Yuewei County to suffer? !

Ma Jian wanted to attract talents in and around the jurisdiction at that time, but there were really no children of the family who wanted to come to his side to be officials.

As for the children of the poor family, it is not that Ma Jian looks down on the children of the poor family, but the children of the poor family in these years are really good and bad, and some people really say that they are invincible in the world, and they are powerless to do it.

Ma Tan didn't have so much time to discern the talents of these people one by one, and he didn't dare to hand over such an important place as Yueshan County to these people who didn't know how to be talented.

When Zhang Xi heard this, he frowned and thought about it for a while, and he kept weighing the pros and cons, isn't this a ready-made, small-scale reason for experimenting with the imperial examination system?!

I don't know what the ability is, go to the examination room to take a test, and Ma Jian will ask questions, according to the actual situation in Yueshan County now, let these poor scholars make targeted answers, won't this be able to know the advantages and disadvantages of everyone's ability? !

But this matter, Zhang Xi still didn't dare to make decisions on his own, after all, the influence of this matter was too great, Zhang Xi still decided to wait for the time being, and when he returned to Wei County after his inspection, he would discuss it with Zhuge Liang before deciding what to do.

After inspecting Yueqi County, Zhang Xi did not dare to delay his trip, and continued to set off to Qiqi County.

And Ma Zhong of Qiqi County can't wait for Zhang Xi's arrival.

(End of chapter)