Of course, for the wealthy, war sometimes means war taxes.
This kind of war tax, which is like grabbing money, is completely unreasonable.
This is the same as what Li Chao is doing and buying now, which is the extortion of big families by the imperial court.
"More than a dozen families in my family went to receive relief food today."
Feng Xiaoan sighed.
The government informed them early that if they had no food at home and no money to exchange for food stamps, they could go to the government to register and receive relief food to survive the famine.
Anyone can register for relief food.
However, if the original identity is a slave or a black household, receiving relief food means registering with the government for naturalization and becoming a household and a citizen.
If the people of Datang are not registered first, they will not be able to apply for grain and receive relief grain.
Feng Xiao'an and Zheng are both big families in Xiangyang, they are both big businessmen and big landowners, and there are many land and shops in their families, as well as many tenant guys, and many black households who are completely hidden in their manors, as well as the slaves they own.
For those slaves in their own homes, Feng Zheng and other local tycoons still won't let them starve, just because a lot of food has been bought.
The rest of the food is also precious.
And the slaves in the family are not qualified to go to the government to receive relief food.
These slaves had to be fed by the slave owners themselves.
And now the imperial court has issued a new regulation, or a new rule issued by King Li Yan, prohibiting the abuse of slaves, especially the prohibition of starving slaves, if the slave is abused to death and starved to death, the master will bear very serious consequences, the light will be fined, and the heavy will be imprisoned.
But the government refused to give them relief food.
If they don't want to feed them, there is only one way, to register with the government and release the slaves, and then these slaves can register with the government for naturalization, and then they can handle the grain skills to relieve the grain.
Now many families have begun to let some old and weak slaves go away to save food.
Of course, the Feng Zheng family can still feed their slaves now, but in addition to slaves, they also have many black households.
These people were not their slaves, but they did not have official household registration, they did not pay taxes for the service of the imperial court, they rented their fields, rented their fields, and paid them only one rent, which was no heavier than receiving a small amount of land from the imperial court, and then having to bear a full share of the rent, or even lighter.
But now, these hidden households, because they have no household registration, they can't receive relief food.
These people can only borrow grain from the landlord's family, at the beginning, Feng Xiao'an, Zheng Ji they were also willing to borrow, first, these people are their tenants, and second, there is interest on borrowing grain, and the interest is not low.
But now, the imperial court has issued a new rule.
It is stipulated that usury is prohibited in the disaster area, and those who exceed eight cents of annual interest are considered usury, and the imperial court strictly prohibits cracking down.
It is even stipulated that this kind of usury of more than eight cents of annual interest will not be recognized by the imperial court, and if the people borrow, they can only repay the principal without paying back a penny of interest.
In this way, it is simply the life of these landlords.
It turned out that the year of disaster had come, and it was a good time to make a fortune, and the tenants borrowed food and money from them, and they became more and more inseparable from them in the future.
But now, the tenants are asking them to borrow grain every day, and they are not allowed to lend usury, so it is too much of a loss for them to lend this grain.
If you don't borrow it, you can't.
If the black households can't borrow food and have nothing 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 rent their fields in the future, but now the imperial court has long been engaged in the immigration frontier policy.
When the landless tenants were identified, the government would move them to the frontier and give them land there.
Some of them started planting collectively, and some of them were able to divide the fields as soon as they went.
Anyway, the government is sending these black households that were originally hidden by the big families to the frontier.
In this way, the imperial court can add more cultivated fields, and it can also increase the number of taxes and taxes.
It's a nightmare for the big families in the area.
Finally, a catastrophe year came, but as a result, we could not lend money to borrow grain, we could not take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, we could not annex land, we could not recruit displaced people to hide, on the contrary, the lending of individual loans had to be restricted, the price of grain was unified, and now even the black households have been poached, and it is difficult to raise slaves.
A knife to cut meat.
But there is nothing they can do about it.
Nor can they stop their tenants from registering with the government unless they can lend their own grain to the tenants at low interest.
But now no one has much food at home, and I don't know when this disaster will be over.
If you don't let you register, and you can't give you food, then these people are very hungry, but no matter what kind of landlords they used to have, they won't be polite with a hoe.
But when people are gone, they will not come back.
Next year, whoever plows the land will plant it "I heard that there are countless black households queuing up to be naturalized in front of the official yamen in various places, and many slaves have also been freed overnight, happily waiting for naturalization registration."
"This is all a trick of King Li Yan."
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Feng Xiaoan said angrily.
"But what can be done, this knife can't be used.
Now not only us, but even those barbarians and fangs in the mountains, many of them have run down the mountain to register.
If you register, you can receive some relief food, and I am very touched by such a good thing. ” "It's not all our food."
"Every day, thousands of people are sent to Shuofang and other places in Longxi, and in the future, this family has thousands of hectares of land, and it will be difficult to find enough tenants to cultivate."
If there are fewer tenants, of course there will be great trouble, and when there will be fewer tenants, maybe they will have to reduce the rent.
"You say, where did this King Li Yan get so much relief food, every day to distribute food, work for relief, how many days can so much food be distributed, I want to know, if this food shines, what will he do then."
Feng Xiao'an.
"There are a lot of messy things added to this relief grain, locust powder, fish bones, tree leaves, grass roots, etc., I heard that one stone of grain can make four or five stone relief food.
King Li Yan bought one stone of grain from us, and in a blink of an eye, it became four stones and five stones.
Those disaster relief grain processing workshops are working day and night, and the relief grain is constantly being processed. ” Feng Xiaoan nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly he leaned in and said in a deep voice, "You say, if those relief grain factories catch fire, or simply the relief granaries catch fire, what will happen to the results?"
Zheng Ji took a breath of cool air and looked at Feng Xiaoan in horror.
"You're Crazy" "I'm not crazy, it's King Li Yan who is going crazy," Feng Xiaoan replied. t1706231537: