What happened in Fuyuan County is not an isolated case.

When Wang Shou killed the former county magistrate of Fuyuan County, the county magistrates of more than a dozen counties and some real power figures in the counties were also killed by the Yuzhi Army at the same time and replaced with new officials. For a time, the officialdom of the entire county town near Nanjun had undergone major changes.

After these incidents, before the aristocratic families could react, the soldiers of the Yulin Army and professional personnel began to measure the land in Nanjun.

Measuring the land is a huge and cumbersome project, so Shi Zhipei did not intend to complete the land at once. He just asked the soldiers of the Yulin Army to go straight to the hidden fields hidden by time with some minor officials in charge of cadastral land.

Some of these hidden fields were cultivated by aristocratic families or bought or robbed by those who cultivated fields.

According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this newly reclaimed land needs to be included in the cadastral land of the court and can be exempted from taxes in the past few years, but after a certain period of time, taxes will be required.

But those aristocratic families went to underreport or concealed the land through their relationship. For example, if they reclaimed 100 acres, they said that they had reclaimed ten acres, five acres, one acre, or even just not even one acre, and simply did not report it.

It is conceivable that the number of hidden fields in the hands of the aristocratic families has been mastered over the years.

This result directly led to the soaring population of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the available arable land has remained unchanged, and even decreased. In this way, the taxes collected by the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is based on agriculture, naturally cannot feed so much of the population.

After not being able to support so many people, those excess populations will either starve to death or rise up and start the next dynasty.

This kind of thing seems to be fate. In the feudal dynasty, it seems that every dynasty cannot escape this kind of reincarnation.

What Shi Zhipei needs to do now is to find out the hidden fields and turn them from the private property of the aristocratic family into registered state-owned assets.

But his behavior is to poach the lifeblood of aristocratic families, and those aristocratic families naturally cannot allow such things to happen.

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On the land of a cultivated land, Jiang Ran from the Yulin Army, with more than a dozen soldiers and seven or eight minor officials, was placing against the land that had not been ascended to the throne on the official cadastral land.

And their behavior soon reached the ears of the owner of this land.

The owner of this cultivated land is Yuan Xing, who is part of the branch of the Yuan family. However, the land belongs to him, but the actual ownership is still under the control of the Yuan family. This land is still the land of the Yuan family.

Yuan Xing only owns the right to cultivate this field. If the head of the Yuan family is dissatisfied with Yuan Xing, they can take away the cultivated land at any time. Within the Yuan family, there are many fields that can only be used. Most of the Yuan family's children with branches only have the right to cultivate.

If you want to truly own this land, you either make some significant contributions to the Yuan family or have a certain status in the Yuan family. Therefore, over the years, just by relying on these lands, the Yuan family has firmly controlled everyone in the Yuan family branch.

As the actual farmer of this field, when he heard that someone in the government was measuring his land, he suddenly felt a little angry and frightened.

He was angry that someone dared to stroke the tiger beards of the Yuan family and come to run to Tai Sui to get into the ground.

What was shocked was that the main maritime attaches great importance to these arable land. If these arable land were registered by the government in his hands, then his fate would be very miserable.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xing had no time to think about it, so he called dozens of tribe members, brought hundreds of servants, and headed towards his own land in a mighty manner.

Jiang Ran was responsible for commanding the Divine Bow Camp in the Imperial Guard, so he naturally had no eyesight and saw Yuan Xing and his group from afar.

Looking at the hundreds of people, he was not in a hurry. He directly formed a round formation with the carriage he brought with him. The dozen soldiers under his command were holding bows and arrows, hiding behind the round formation formed by the carriage, calmly watching the hundreds of people who were in bad shape.

"Swoosh~"

When Yuan Xing and his men approached about a hundred steps, Jiang Ran shot out an arrow and headed straight for the land in front of Yuan Xing.

Jiang Ran's arrow was for warning, so he was originally planning to shoot the arrow in front of Yuan Xing's feet, but he didn't expect that Yuan Xing had a master under his command. After seeing the arrow shot by Jiang Ran, an old man behind Yuan Xing just flashed and rushed to Yuan Xing, and then grabbed the sharp arrow.

"The hidden arrow hurts people, what the villain does!"

The old man snorted coldly, shook his wrist and threw the arrow he had just caught out. The arrow headed straight to Jiang Ran's face at a faster speed than he had been there.

Looking at the sharp arrow coming towards him, Jiang Ran was not too excited. He just wanted to warn Yuan Xing, so the hard bow in his hand was just a little bit open. Even if the arrow came back much faster, it did not pose a great threat to him.

So when the arrow branch was about to reach his face, he turned his head slightly and easily avoided the arrow that the old man had returned.

As for the behavior of receiving arrows with his hands, Jiang Ran could do it, but he did not easily take them. In his opinion, although this behavior is pretentious, it is indeed a brainless behavior on the battlefield.

After all, there are all kinds of arrow branches. Do you know what kind of arrow is shooting at you. If you have the poisonous barbarian wolf-tooth arrow, just take it with you empty-handed. The best result is to lose one hand. As for the bad result, you may even have to explain your life to the pretentious behavior.

Therefore, Jiang Ran would not do this kind of brainless behavior even if he beats him to death.

"Who will stop here!"

Jiang Ran seemed to have not minded the man's arrow that came back, and according to the original plan, he directly warned loudly.

However, after scolding him, he immediately lowered his voice and spoke to his soldiers: "The old man is at least in the Ningyuan Realm. If he dares to rush over alone later, don't worry about the others and shoot this old bastard to death!"

"clear."

The soldiers under Jiang Ran had a very good understanding of Jiang Ran, so they naturally knew that Jiang Ran was a person who never suffered any losses, so without waiting for Jiang Ran to say more, they pointed the bow and arrow in their hand at the old man just now.

Jiang Ran looked at the old man fiercely and whispered a harsh word, "Old bastard, you actually want to shoot me to death with my arrow. Today I want to see how many arrows you, the old maggot, can follow!"

"If you can't shoot you into a hedgehog, I, Jiang Ran, will be incompetent!"

The old man who had just returned the call to Jiang Ran, for some reason, suddenly felt a little chilled. He looked up at Jiang Ran who was injured without any mistakes, and was not too surprised. After all, he was not good at using hidden weapons, and the distance was really far, so it was normal not to shoot Jiang Ran to death.
Chapter completed!