Of course, for the rich, war sometimes means war tax.

This kind of war tax that robs money is completely unreasonable. This is the same as what Li Chao does now and buys, which is the court's extortion of the wealthy people.

"There are more than a dozen households in my family today to get relief food." Feng Xiaoan sighed.

The government has notified it early that if the family has no food and no money to exchange food coupons, they can go to the government to register and receive relief grain to overcome the famine.

Anyone can register to receive relief food.

But if one was originally a slave or a black householder, he would receive relief food, which would mean that he would be registered as a naturalized person in the government and become a registered household.

If the people who were registered as the Tang Dynasty first would not be able to obtain grain and would not be able to receive relief grain.

Feng Xiaoan and Zheng Ji were both big families in Xiangyang, both big merchants and big landlords. They had many land and shops at home, many tenant shops, and many black households who were completely hidden in their manors and slaves they owned.

For those slaves, Fengzheng and other local tyrants would not let them hungry, but they were bought a lot of food. The remaining food also became more precious.

The slaves at home are not qualified to go to the government to receive relief food.

These slaves must be fed by the slave owners themselves. The court has now issued new regulations, or new regulations issued by King Li Yan, prohibiting the abuse of slaves, especially prohibiting starving slaves. If the slaves are abused and starved to death, the master will bear very serious consequences. The minor ones are fined, and the serious ones are even imprisoned.

But the government did not give them relief food.

This forces slave owners to take out precious food to feed their slaves. If they don’t want to feed them, there is only one way to register and release slaves to be exempted from them. Then these slaves can register and become naturalized in the government, and then they can get food and provide food and relief.

Now many people have begun to release some old and weak slaves from the crowd to save food.

Of course, the Feng and Zheng families can still feed their own slaves now, but in addition to slaves, there are many black households. These people are not their slaves, but they do not have official household registration status. They do not serve the court and pay taxes. They rent their land, rent their land, and only pay a rent to them. In short, it is not as heavy as receiving an insufficient equal land from the court, and then having to bear a full rent, even lighter.

But now, these hidden households cannot receive relief food because they do not have household registration.

These people could only borrow grain from the landlord's house. At the beginning, Feng Xiao'an, Zheng Ji and others were willing to borrow. First, these people were their tenants, and second, borrowing grain was of interest, and the interest was not low.

But now, the court has issued a new rule.

It is stipulated that usury in the disaster area is prohibited. If the annual interest exceeds 80%, it is strictly prohibited to crack down on it. It is even stipulated that such usury in the disaster area exceeds 80% of annual interest, and the court does not recognize it. If the people borrow, they can only repay the principal and not have to pay a single profit.

This would have cost these landlords the lives of them.

It turned out that the year of disaster came, and it was a good time to get rich. Tenants borrowed grain from them, and they became increasingly unable to live without them in the future. But now, tenants ask them to borrow grain every day and do not allow high profits, so it would be a big loss for them to lend out the grain.

If you don't borrow it, it won't work.

If the black households cannot borrow food and have no food to eat, they will go to the government to register for naturalization and then borrow relief food.

After the tenants registered with the government, of course they could still tense their family’s fields in the future, but now the imperial court has long been implementing the policy of immigration to the border. After the landless tenants were found out, the government would move them to the border and give them land there. Some would first collectively farm the planting, while others could divide the land as soon as they went there.

Anyway, the government is sending these black households hidden by the former wealthy households to the border. In this way, the court can add more land to cultivate, increase taxes and increase taxes.

For the local bigwigs, this is simply a nightmare.

It was finally difficult to have a major disaster year, but it was impossible to lend money, take the opportunity to raise grain prices, merge land, and recruit refugees to hide. On the contrary, lending money would be restricted, and the price of grain would be unified. Now even the black households have been poached, and it is difficult to raise slaves.

A knife cuts the flesh.

But they have no way to deal with this.

They cannot stop the tenants at home and prevent them from going to the government to register for naturalization unless they can take out their own food and lend it to the tenants at low interest rates.

But now no one’s family has too much food, and I don’t know when this disaster will end.

If you stop me from registering and you can't provide food, then these people will be very hungry, but no matter what kind of feelings the owner has in the past, you will not be polite when you wave it with a hoe.

But when people leave, they will not come back.

Next year, who will plow and who will plant that land?

"I heard that there are countless black households queuing up in front of government offices in various places to become naturalized, and many slaves have been free overnight. They are happy to be waiting for naturalization registration."

"This is all the secret tricks of King Li Yan." Feng Xiaoan said angrily.

"But what can I do? No one can accept this sword. Now, not only us, but also many of the barbarians and gangsters in the mountains have gone down the mountain to register. After registering, I can receive some relief food. I am moved by such a good thing."

"Relief food? Not all our food is yet."

"Every day, thousands of people are sent to Shuofang, Longxi and other places. From now on, this family has a thousand acres of land, and it is difficult to find enough tenants to cultivate."

If there are fewer tenants, of course there will be great trouble. At that time, there are fewer people who rent the land, so they may have to reduce their rent.

"You said, where did King Li Yan get so much relief grain? He distributed grain every day, used labor for relief, and had so much grain? How many days can it be distributed? I want to know, if the grain shines, what will he do then?" Feng Xiao'an said.

"This relief grain has added a lot of messy things, locust powder, fish bones, tree leaves, grass roots, etc. I heard that one stone of grain can produce four or five stones of relief grain. King Yan Li bought one stone of grain from us, and it turned out to be four or five stones in a blink of an eye. Do you think he has food? He has a lot of food. Those disaster relief grain processing workshops are working day and night, and the relief grain is constantly processed."

Feng Xiaoan nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly he leaned in and said in a low voice, "What would happen if the grain relief factories caught fire, or the grain relief warehouse caught fire?"

Zheng Ji took a deep breath and looked at Feng Xiaoan in horror.

"Are you crazy?"
Chapter completed!