 Under constant fiscal pressure, many villagers resorted to selling their labor to boyars or to peasant entrepreneurs.According to a report by the "Ispravnic" of Gorj County, in 1819 migrant farmhands could barely cover their tax debt.The Phanariotes' hold on the country was nonetheless put into question by various episodes of the previous half-century, and especially by local troubles coinciding with the Napoleonic era; under the Phanariote regime, Wallachia had dissolved her levy army.