The Grand Imperial Grandson of Great Ming

Transmigrated into the body of Zhu Yunteng, the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, he is unwilling to accept a tragic fate for himself and begins to find ways to build power and prepare for rebellion.

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Chapter 121 Perfect Response

The Imperial Guard took Zhu Yunwen's booklet, carefully put it away, and then quickly left.

Zhu Yunwen traveled extensively among the people to investigate and understand the situation. Whenever he discovered any shortcomings in the implementation of the land reform, he would write a memorial and send it back to the court for improvement.

For example, some powerful families in certain areas resisted the government's attempt to reclaim their land for various reasons. Zhu Yunwen then proposed several solutions, which were sent back to the court for implementation.

For example, this time, Zhu Yunwen discovered that some people were trying to take advantage of the land distribution decree by launching air raids.

After careful consideration, he had already devised a solution. Seeing the prefect's puzzled expression, Zhu Yuncong smiled and said:

"I think there are some areas in this decree that need improvement. For example, the land distribution decree should not be distributed in a general way based on the entire family population."

The prefect, somewhat puzzled, asked, "What does Your Highness mean?"

Zhu Yunwen said, "To give an example, if there are ten people in a family, the brothers will eventually divide the family property. We can't just directly attribute their land to the father. Inevitably, there will be favoritism or uneven distribution later on."

Therefore, in order to avoid this problem, I have decided that when implementing the land distribution decree, it will be based on individuals rather than families.

Simply put, if a family has ten members, the twenty or thirty acres of land cannot all be attributed to the head of the household. Instead, the two or three acres of land that each person has should be distributed among them.

The husband has three mu, the wife has three mu, the eldest son has three mu, the youngest daughter has three mu. The grandson has three mu, and the granddaughter has three mu.

This method of allocating and recording land on an individual basis, rather than on a household basis, avoids unfair situations within families.

Upon hearing this, the prefect initially did not realize the problem, but felt that it seemed to make some sense.

In any case, Zhu Yunwen's previous land distribution decree was also based on the number of people in the family.

However, the land allocated was all attributed to the head of the household or the head of the family, which is rather vague.

Zhu Yunwen's current idea is to calculate the land ownership on each individual's share, instead of pooling it together and assigning it to one person in the family.

But as the prefect pondered this, he suddenly felt that something was amiss.

In his view, if this were done, wouldn't it be pointless for those powerful families to hire so many people to impersonate their family members?

Because these lands were distributed equally among each of them, rather than being pooled together and given to the heads of these families.

Upon thinking of this, the prefect's expression changed.

Zhu Yunwen clearly saw this scene, and a cold smile appeared on his face as he thought to himself:

You think you can play tricks on me?