When the Wuwei army defeated the city of Anqing, and the news that Huang Gui was captured and his life and death were unknown, it was already the afternoon of July 16 when it reached Huangzhou.

The post man with a four-hundred-mile rush on his back rushed into the Huangzhou Mansion with a rolling belt, and only had time to take out the battle report from the cowhide letterbox on his back and present it, and then rushed out of the palace with a rolling belt, and rushed out of the West Gate to Jiangling Mansion.

After reading the news, the judge of Huangzhou, who was sitting in the government, immediately sent someone to invite Yao Zheng, and he himself went to Cao Zhizhou's mansion to ask for a meeting to discuss how to deal with this.

Some people may ask, this Wuwei army was defeated by Wang Qing's broken stone army under the city of Anqing Mansion, and what to do with Huangzhou Mansion, but I don't want to think that there are more than 10,000 displaced people under Huangzhou City now, many of whom are migrated here from Taihu County in the west of Anqing Mansion.

After a while, Yao Zheng, who was outside the city to supervise the river workers, hurried to Caofu, the three giants of the Huangzhou Mansion together, felt that such a fiasco of the war could not be hidden, in order to prevent the homeless people from getting the news to mess around, it was better to share it with the homeless people directly.

After making up his mind, such important matters were naturally handed over to Yao Zheng, who was ranked third in the official rank, and perhaps he could mobilize the third class of officials and the first archers of the government to maintain order.

One of these two old foxes is a Zhizhou but has multiple fractures all over his body and is sick in bed, and the other is a general judge but has no authority to actually deal with government affairs.

After nightfall, Yao Zheng did not mobilize any archers, but led dozens of officials to the camp of the homeless camp, and when the young and strong people who went out to work for relief returned to the camp, he asked the homeless people to choose the people in charge of each family to gather and tell everyone about the city of Anqing.

However, the displaced people did not react when they heard the news, only a few people in the camp migrated from the surrounding areas of Anqing Prefecture, most of them were people from counties along the way such as Taihu County, Susong, Wangjiang, etc., which were not far from Anqing.

Then Yao Zheng said aloud: "Fellow villagers, now that the war in Anqing Mansion is rotten, I am afraid that it will be difficult to turn back this winter, and we need to make plans as soon as possible." ”

When Yao Zheng's voice fell, someone shouted: "Dare to ask Lord Bo, but the implication is to drive us away?" ”

When these words came out, many people also came back to their senses, and indeed Yao Zheng wanted them to make plans early, and the meaning of his words was self-evident.

Yao Zheng said loudly: "The imperial court provides relief, and it should be started, and the matter will be stopped, how can it drive people away?" The meaning of Yao's words is that the war is twists and turns now, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to return to my hometown this winter. Now the camp is full of people, and the weather is hot, but if it is cold, how should we take care of the old and the young. If you work every day, you can also have food and clothing for your family, don't you want to make progress and get by? ”

mentioned his family, and everyone came to their senses, and they were silent for a while, and it was time to think about it.

Soon, something will come, and he asked, "Please also ask Lord Bo to guide us on a clear path!" ”

Someone took the lead, and the others naturally echoed in unison, so Yao Zheng also pretended to shake his head and said: "I recruited tea farmers before, but no one was willing to settle in Huangzhou, why bother?" ”

Then there was a humane: "My lord doesn't know, it's good to settle in Huangzhou to be a tea household, but we don't dare to owe the Hades account!" ”

Yao Zheng also said: "You have suffered a loss, but there is a reason why you can't trust the court, if I Yao comes forward to borrow these fifteen times to wait with you, are you willing to settle down?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they said this, and an old man in the crowd came out and said, "What do you mean by this, my lord?" ”

Yao Zheng said with a smile: "Yao is willing to guarantee for all the old folks, if you really can't pay the money, Yao will pay for it, how about it?" ”

Suddenly, the crowd was shocked again, and someone asked: "May I ask my lord, if you really settled in Huangzhou and became a tea household, can you really have fifteen yuan of loans, houses and cattle, and ten acres of private land?" ”

Yao Zheng nodded and corrected: "If you are a complete family and are willing to be a tea household, you will have a private loan of fifteen yuan to settle down, with an annual interest rate of two cents, and you can repay the principal and interest with Yao before the tax next autumn." In addition, one family can get a thatched hut and ten acres of private land repaired by the government, and three families can share a prime-aged ploughing cow. ”

This led the displaced people to settle down, and then sent to Huilongshan in the north of Huangzhou to build a mountain farm, and the plan to reclaim terraced fields and plant tea is something that Yao Zheng has been working, but the objective problem is that the displaced people are deserters, and they do not really have the intention of leaving their homeland and abandoning their homeland in this life and never returning, and they are counting on the official army to exterminate the thieves so that they can go back and reorganize their homeland.

Moreover, the artisans and tenant farmers among the displaced people were more mobile, and in the early days of the migration, they had already found their own way out or defected to their relatives, and more than ninety percent of the remaining people belonged to yeoman farmers, and these yeoman farmers were naturally more inclined to return to their hometowns after the war subsided.

But now, there is no time to return home, and I heard that the official army was actually defeated by the Broken Stone Army, so he is trapped in the camp camp every day, relying on work for relief to mix some food and clothing, it is better to find another way out.

And if you are a tea household, it is naturally much better than eating alms.

It's just that the people still have a lot of doubts about becoming tea households, which is also due to the capricious changes of the government in recent years.

Not to mention, this was first Cai Jing in the first year of Chongning (1102) to abolish the tea law in the southeast region "Trade Law", and formulated a new tea law system "Prohibition Law".

The tea law stipulates that "the tea produced by the military in Jinghu, Jiang, Huai, Liangzhejiang and Fujian Qiluzhou is still forbidden, and the fields are governed everywhere in the county, and the officials are buying", and tea farms are set up in Zhulu, and the tea farms purchase and sell local tea goods; Register the tea households in each tea farm, and prohibit merchants from trading privately with tea households; Tea merchants go to the designated place to pay gold thread or grain and grass in exchange for money, and then go to the tea farm to obtain tea, and finally go to the designated place to sell.

The implementation of this measure is to standardize the management system of tea plantations, merchants, and tea households, so as to obtain greater profits. After the reform, this prohibition law of official purchase and commercial sales also shifted some of the sources of profits to the merchants, which naturally harmed the interests of tea plantations and tea households.

In the fourth year of Chongning (1106), Cai Jing carried out a major reform of the tea law, proposing reform measures to simplify the collection of tea, abolishing the system of monopoly purchase by the government, and allowing merchants to directly go to the tea-producing counties or Jingshi to ask for long or short quotations (limited sales vouchers), and directly purchase from tea households. However, even if such a reform allowed merchants to trade directly with tea households, merchants had to go to the government to "draw plates" and pay taxes before they could buy and sell tea, so as to achieve the purpose of government monopoly.

However, this kind of reform for the government and tea households can get benefits and did not last long, Zhenghe two years (1112) that is, last year, Cai Jing, the old thief, but is ready to carry out the third reform, according to the news revealed now, his brain hole in this reform is also very big, not only to reform the tea, but also to move the salt and iron and horses, but last year after a gust of wind there was no news, anyway, there is no official document on the reform sent to Huangzhou Mansion.

Therefore, Yao Zheng previously hoped to move the displaced people to settle in Huangzhou as tea households, but the displaced people had a lot of worries, and no one applied for the recruitment at all.