The officials and big families of Xiangyang City came to Xiangyang Wharf to greet them, and welcomed King Li Yan, who had just entered Shannan, and broke thirteen families in a row, into the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The city has already set up a reception banquet, and it is very rich.

But after Li Chao heard it, he didn't have any good color on his face.

"Don't you know that there has been no rain for a long time, most of the crops have died of drought, and locust plagues have begun to appear in many places. Many people saw that the autumn harvest was hopeless, and it was difficult to harvest the green and yellow, and they did not know where the food for the winter was. At this time, shouldn't we, as officials of the imperial court and parents of the people, find ways to save food for drought relief and disaster prevention? It's all at this time, and it's still a big fish and meat, and a big banquet, should this be? ”

It's a bit of a scenamy.

The local officials and wealthy businessmen in Xiangyang put a hot face on Li Chao's cold buttocks, and they all laughed very embarrassed. Kindly pooled the money to set up a reception banquet, and if you don't appreciate it, it's just that, and you still say such things.

However, Li Chao is a Shangguan, or an envoy, one person holds many important positions, within the sixteen states of Shannan, his words to the imperial court official document still worked, after all, the imperial court is still separated by Li Chao.

"From today, alcohol will be banned in Shannan Dongdao! Those who dare to brew privately, be exiled to the army, and confiscate their family property! ”

Li Chao stood on the dock of Xiangyang City and very unceremoniously announced the first official document of his arrival.

Dry law.

It is forbidden to make alcohol, but it is also forbidden to sell alcohol, and even to drink alcohol. Those who violate this order will be fined money for the lightest, and the heavier will be punished with hard labor, and even confiscated into the army and raided the house, which is extremely severe.

The severity is even a little too much.

But Li Chao thinks that it should, and now that the disaster has appeared, although it has not yet reached the point where he can't even drink alcohol, this is a gesture, and Li Chao just wants to show everyone the seriousness of the matter.

"From today, it is forbidden to waste food, and all restaurants and restaurants must be taxed at an additional 20%. If food is wasted during a meal, a serious fine is imposed. ”

Li Chao introduced another strange regulation.

I manage the sky and the air, and now I still care about people eating and farting.

Wine is not allowed to drink, and now it is not allowed to waste food. People pay for themselves, and they are not allowed to waste it. On the dock, there was already a lot of whispering.

But Li Chao turned a blind eye.

"From now on, all the people of Shannan Province will purchase grain with grain stamps, with a monthly limit. Those who do not have grain are not allowed to sell grain in all grain stores, and those who do not have food stamps are not allowed to sell grain. Those who dare to trade grain without food stamps will be severely punished, and the light ones will be fined for grain, and the heavy ones will be confiscated! ”

Li Chao promulgated a new rule.

There were already a lot of exclamations at this time.

Food, food stamps?

If the people don't have food, they don't have food stamps, and they can't buy food from grain stores without food stamps? And the grain store can't sell grain directly, can't collect money and silk, can only collect food stamps, which sounds a little confusing, but it's not a good thing.

"The details, this minister will let the official Zhang Bang announce later!"

After speaking, Li Chao flicked his sleeves, turned over on his horse, and led a large group of people to leave the local officials and businessmen, and went directly to the Yamen of Shannan Dongdao.

Leave them looking at each other.

Li Chao suddenly threw out the three new rules, not to mention that the people of Xiangyang looked confused and couldn't understand it, even Li Chengqian and the people who followed Li Chao every day couldn't figure it out, they hadn't heard Li Chao say it before.

The prohibition of alcohol and the prohibition of wasting food has been understood in the past, but what is the third article about?

"Control!"

Li Chao immediately said only two words to Li Chengqian next to him.

In the event of a great famine, how to raise food is the key, but if the food is raised, if the distribution of food is well controlled, to ensure that the food can be distributed to more people, so that more people can have food, this is also the key.

For the sake of stability, Li Chao now dares to use any tricks.

Grain stamps, to put it bluntly, are limited food supplies. When the great famine came, food had been listed as a strategic material by Li Chao, and it was not something that could be bought if you had money, and no matter how rich you were, you were just a mouthful. You are not qualified to own more grain, whether it is a poor person or a large household, you have to make a grain book, on which according to your family's household registration in the imperial court, indicate the number of people in your family, and then set the monthly grain quota according to the number of people, and exchange it for food stamps.

If you want to buy grain, you have to bring a food book, and then take the food stamps to buy food. If you don't have food stamps, your family is rich, and you pay ten taels of gold to buy a bucket of rice, which is also forbidden.

Of course, if you have food at home and you don't need to buy food, that's a different story.

But for ordinary people, the vast majority of them have little food to spare. The biggest role of grain stamps is to prevent the hoarding of grain.

We can't let rich people hoard a lot of food, and let ordinary people have no food to eat.

Such laws and regulations run counter to the market economy.

But when is it now, how can Li Chao still care about the market economy, it's like a person is dying of thirst, where will he care if the water is clean or not, whether it is black tea or green tea or boiled water, just drink water.

Rationing food is the most desperate way to do it.

"Teacher, this food book should be issued according to the household sticker, so is it impossible to do the grain book without the household registration sticker?" Shangguan Yi asked on the side.

Li Chao cast an appreciative look at the student.

Indeed, there is a purpose for having food stamps and food money. The purpose is to take the opportunity to clear out those hidden households, and now there are a large number of hidden households in the local area, and now there are many hidden households that were originally hidden under the temple and have been cleared out, but there are still many hidden in the names of large households, and some are simply fugitives who have not been registered with the official government.

These people, anyway, are black households, and they are the people of the Han Dynasty.

Li Chao is ready to take advantage of this famine to clean up these people.

If you want to get food from the imperial court to survive, first of all, you have to get the imperial court to handle the household registration, get the household allowance and grain book. Then pay for food stamps, so that you can go to the grain store to buy food with the tickets.

Without household subsidies, you can't handle the grain capital, and you won't get the food ration from the imperial court.

In times of famine, you can't buy food with money, and if you don't have food from the court, you can only wait for death.

Are these hidden households willing to continue to be black households and then starve to death, or are they willing to register their household registration and become the people of the Tang Dynasty and then get relief?

It was up to them to see their own wishes, but Li Chao did not give them a second choice.

Under the grain rationing system, the large households either continued to hide these black households and then distributed grain to them from the grain stored in their own homes, or they could only release these hidden households and let them become the members of the imperial court, and then the imperial court would supply the grain.

Of course, it may be that the big families neither want to divide their own food, but they don't want these people to go, but at that time, the hungry hermits will definitely not agree.

"The merchants' grain can only be sold on grain stamps?"

"That's right, all grain stores will have to be supervised by officials sent by the government in the future, and their grain can only be exchanged for grain stamps, and then they will take the grain stamps to the yamen to settle the bill."

The people had to first apply for grain in the Yamen, and then get the quota, and then pay the government to buy the grain stamps within the quota. With these stamps, you can buy food from official or private grain stores. Grain stores cannot collect money directly, only food stamps. After receiving the food stamps, they were exchanged for money from the yamen.

This is a more complicated way of trading, and Li Chao has gone to great lengths to put an end to the direct transaction of money and grain, and everything has to be purchased with food stamps.

Food stamps are the most vital part of Li Chao's future efforts to control the food supply and stabilize the situation in disaster years. (To be continued.) )