The land certificate in his hand had his name on it, along with the information that the land was three mu (approximately 0.33 acres) and its location.

He frowned and went to the prefect to ask:

"Sir, this is not right. Doesn't my Li family own 1,280 mu? Why does my land certificate only show three mu?"

The prefect gave a wry smile and said:

"That's right, your Li family does own a total of 1,280 households of land. However, each of these lands is registered under their own name, and they are not all collected under one person's name. They do not belong to you or the Li family."

Upon hearing this, the head of the Li family hurriedly asked:

"In other words, the land belongs to each individual, and is not collectively attributed to the head of a household?"

The prefect nodded and said:

"That's right, that's the policy. It has never said that all of a family's land should be attributed to one person."

Upon hearing this, the head of the Li family was struck dumb.

If that's the case, then he will only own three acres of land.

There aren't many people in his family who are truly family.

If each person has three mu of land, the total is only a little over one hundred mu. Isn't that a huge loss?

We hired over 300 people, wasn't that a waste of time?

Their land will not be counted under the head of the Li family, but rather under their own name, and in the end, it cannot belong to the Li family.

The key issue is that this land cannot be given away or sold, so even if the heads of the families here wanted to ask these people for that land, they couldn't get it.

We can't take it by any means.

So after all that hard work, the Li family ended up with nothing.

The key point is that they even provided food and lodging for those who were impersonating family members for a period of time. No matter how they looked at it, they felt they had been taken advantage of.