It's light without food.

Zheng Ji sighed that the food has been handed over, and the Zheng family will no longer have to worry about the food in the future. Perhaps, he should have left Xiangyang with his family for a while, and he still has an industry in Shu, and maybe he should live there for a few years. Shu is free of disasters and harmless, and the climate is also good, so it is best to live in.

It's always like staying at the emperor's feet every day, worried.

After saying goodbye to the officials, Zheng Ji went home.

At the same time, he found his wife and talked to her about this.

"Relocate to Shuzhong? Oh, it's almost the Chinese New Year, and it's time to go to Shuzhong forever." The lady was unwilling to move. She lived here for so long and had been used to everything here.

"It's not hard for us to take a boat. It's just a long time. It's easy to get from Han River to Dajiang, then go up the river and take a boat all the way."

"What should we do if our son? The eldest brother has just been admitted to the Imperial College, and the second brother has become Li Xiang's marriage."

"Dalang Erlang stayed here, just as the family also needs someone to keep the family and keep their business. The other children followed us to Shuzhong. I think, this disaster cannot be passed for a while, and it turns out that the New Year will be even worse. It is not easy to stay in Xiangyang, so it is better to go to Shuzhong early. Anyway, the grain business here cannot be carried out. The fields in this family probably cannot be planted next year. What are you still here to do? I am worried all day long and can't sleep well. Alas, I closed my eyes recently and always dreamed of Feng Xiao'an, dreaming of him asking for my life. We go to Yizhou and are far away from here. No matter how he changes in the future, we don't have to worry."

"Feng Xiaoan is so confused that he insists on fighting with the court, so he can't beat his arms." Mrs. Zheng is also a sober person. Although the court's recent actions are very unpopular, the poor are very welcome. Besides, this is actually the case in the court. Even rich landlords are not often plundered and extorted by the court.

This is the case with the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was not much better.

Small fish eat shrimps, big fish eat small fish, everything is the same, and crows are like black in the world.

In November, Xiangyang suddenly started a trend of wealthy people going south. A large number of rich people began to take their families to leave from Hebei, Hedong, Guanzhong, Henan, Shannan, Huainan and other places, and went to Shannan West, Jiangnan East, Jiangnan West, Qianzhong, Jiannan and other roads. Some went to join relatives and friends, some had industries in the south, and some simply took gold, silver and fine soft materials to the south to buy land and buy property and settle down again.

Because the court suddenly ordered that the wealthy landlords in the disaster area forcing food to buy food from the wealthy landlords in the disaster area, and the government took the initiative to persuade them to temporarily move out of the disaster area, this made the wealthy and powerful people in the disaster area finally feel no nostalgic and began to move out of the disaster area on a large scale, or flee from the disaster area.

The court not only did not stop this trend, but even supported it.

"If you have the ability, you will die if you walk away. If you walk away, you will die. Just wait for the disaster and come back."

Li Chao, who has returned to the Political Affairs Hall, is very calm about the following report. Even the current trend of wealthy families escaping from the disaster area, and the role of Li Chao in secret fanning the flames. Recently, the news of many large families in the disaster area being killed by hungry people was robbed of food in each issue of Banyuetan.

For the court, when the rich people leave the disaster area, their food can be taken out to help more victims. Moreover, when the rich people leave, they do not need the court to worry about them, and they can move out by themselves.

Li Shimin finally did not agree to start reducing the amount of relief grain for the people again. In fact, Li Chao was unwilling to do this. When it really came to that point, the result would be quite cruel.

Li Shimin chose to buy grain from the wealthy landlords. This made the court complain a lot in the hearts of the wealthy and powerful people, but in order to ensure that the Tang Dynasty was not in chaos, Li Shimin didn't care about these things.

"The whole north is half of the country, but there are complaints." Fang Xuanling said helplessly.

Li Chao said, "There are those powerful landlords who have complaints, but the people in the world praise Your Majesty. Besides, although the powerful landlords now have complaints, they are just complaining, and they won't resent the court. What the court is doing now is actually within the tolerance of everyone, and it is not the end."

"It's very dangerous in the end. If the powerful people really go to the end, it will be reversed. The powerful people rebelled are much more harmful than ordinary hungry people." Fang Xuanling pointed out.

"I also know that we are walking on the wire rope now. Every step is extremely difficult and you may fall if you are not careful. But we cannot stop yet, and it is easier to fall when you stop. We can only walk this section quickly while being careful."

There are only two ways for the prime ministers to go.

Faced with such a serious famine, either the landlords and powerful people should be safeguarded. The court allowed the landlords and powerful people to hoard food in the years of famine, make profits at high prices, and then watched countless people starve to death. Watched the people become refugees, move around, and finally become hungry people who rebel, and make chaos everywhere, sweeping across the Central Plains.

If the court does not want to see such a result happen, it will have to temporarily attack the powerful landlords.

This is what the imperial court is doing now, restricting the grain market, controlling grain transactions, and even forcibly snatching the grain of landlords and powerful people, processing relief grain, using labor for relief, and quantitative grain supply, etc.

This is also dangerous. People cannot eat enough, they will rebel if they are hungry, and they will be anxious. The powerful may feel dissatisfied because of some damage to their interests. If this kind of resentment is greater, the powerful may unite to rebel.

Feng Xiaoan and the others conspired to rebel.

Although their rebellion was very small, these people could really do things that were chaotic. Just like the Sui Dynasty suppressed the Southern Chen in the past, but because the Sui Dynasty implemented the new court policy in Jiangnan, it greatly affected the interests of the powerful nobles in Jiangnan. As a result, the Jiangnan chaos was in chaos and the entire Jiangnan rebelled.

Countless powerful men rose up to rebel the Sui Dynasty.

Of course, although this Jiangnan rebellion was huge, they destroyed it quickly. Yang Sushi Wansui and other generals quelled the rebellion in Jiangnan. It took more than a year to wipe out the rebellion.

After quelling the rebellion, the new policy of the Sui Dynasty was finally successfully implemented in Jiangnan.

For the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty, they also knew clearly that these various disaster relief strategies are harming the interests of the powerful.

"The two evils are the least. If they really want to rebel, then there is nothing we can do." Li Chao said carelessly. When formulating these policies, Li Chao had already considered the possible reactions of the powerful people. The most dangerous one is that the powerful people will resent or even rebel because of this.

Li Chao weighed the various consequences and finally concluded that the powerful people had the least possibility of rebellion. Even if they were rebellious, it was a relatively less harmful type in various developments.

"If you really want to rebel, then water will flood the soil and soldiers will stop you. If the court borrowed some food from them in the year of disaster, they would rebel and rebel, then they would seek death. If the reputation is not right and the army is Wuming, what will they rebel? Why do they let others follow him? Should they let those disaster victims and people who are unwilling to borrow food and want to watch the starving people, follow them and support them?"

"I hope I don't get to this point. If I really get to that point, even if the court can quell the rebellion, it will make the court worse." Fang Xuanling said.

Li Chao also understood that when a rebellion occurred, he would sprinkle a handful of salt on the wounds of the Tang Dynasty. Now he could only hope that the landlords and powerful people would not be so stupid.
Chapter completed!