Zhu Yunwen was indeed resourceful. He didn't need to punish these powerful families or use his status as the crown prince to resolve these matters.
Instead, he took a different approach, turning a blind eye to their schemes and forcing these powerful families to treat the refugees, beggars, and ordinary people as their own family. Under these circumstances, Zhu Yunwen further improved the policy.
While keeping the original policies unchanged, the implementation of the land distribution order will be slightly improved.
Each family member's land was counted as their own.
In this way, the head of the Li family would get two or three mu, his wife would get two or three mu, and each of his family members would get two or three mu, all of which would be allocated to each of them.
Even if the Li family brings in so many people to impersonate their family members, the land will ultimately belong to those individuals, not all of them, and will not be attributed to the Li family head.
Therefore, although the Li family and other prominent families came up with countermeasures, in the end, it was all for naught.
Not only did they work for nothing, but they also had to support those hundreds of people for a period of time.
This is what is called losing both wife and army; the loss is considerable, and no advantage is gained at all.
However, these people are clearly unaware of the policy improvements at this moment, and are probably still thinking about how to use their so-called family members to help them acquire more land.
It would take at least a few days for Zhu Yunwen's decrees to be transmitted back to the imperial court, and then another few days for the imperial court to distribute them to the local areas.
Therefore, during this period, those powerful families who did not receive the news will inevitably continue to treat those who are not family members as their accomplices in seeking benefits.
Therefore, they will inevitably continue to stay in the mansion.
But this was not enough for Zhu Yunwen; he wanted these people to continue to willingly pay some price.
So the news spread that he would frequently visit these aristocratic families.
The purpose of doing this was very simple: to give those powerful families the illusion that Zhu Yunwen might visit their families at any time, so they had to maintain appearances at all times.
So they often had to feed and clothe the beggars and refugees to keep their lies going.
Clearly, in the eyes of those powerful families, this was worthwhile, even though there would be some costs involved.
In any case, these so-called family members will make sure they get a little more land.
Furthermore, it was indeed a great honor for Zhu Yunwen, as the crown prince, to visit their residence, so they did not object to it.
Every day, I prepare lots of good food for those fake family members to eat together.
Zhu Yunwen would also occasionally dine at the homes of certain aristocratic families, and over several days, these families would incur enormous expenses every day.
Not only do we have to provide good food and drink for those beggars and vagrants who are pretending to be family members, but we also have to ensure that they have good clothes to wear.
With so many people and so many conditions to meet, one can only imagine the expenses incurred by these aristocratic families.
After some time, the imperial decree was finally issued.
Luoyang Prefecture also officially began implementing the land redistribution order. This order involved local officials collecting all the land from the people and then redistributing it equally among the local population according to the different local conditions.
Furthermore, the allocated land cannot be bought or sold.
The lease can only be for a period of one year.
In addition, the land will be redistributed every ten to twenty years to avoid uneven land distribution caused by population changes.
When the land redistribution decree was first implemented in Luoyang, the powerful families of Luoyang Prefecture were extremely excited and happy.
Perhaps some powerful families, nobles, and landowners in other places strongly resisted the land redistribution order because it would cause them to lose the excess land they had previously acquired through various means.
However, some prominent families in Luoyang Prefecture acted in the completely opposite way.
According to their meticulous plan, this time they will not only avoid losses, but will also gain some land.
However, whether things will actually develop as they imagine remains to be seen.
That morning, the government officials began to distribute land in various places.
The powerful families were delighted because, at Zhu Yunwen's behest, the government officials first allocated land to these families.
This gave the powerful families a sense that their interactions with Zhu Yunwen during this period had not been in vain.
So, isn't it a good thing that they were the first to be divided up the land?
Therefore, these powerful families were very excited, feeling that they might be able to get an even bigger share this time.
So the officials arrived at the Li family's residence and told them about their land. It was located at the foot of the South Mountain outside the city, totaling 1,280 mu.
Upon hearing this news, the head of the Li family almost burst out laughing, overwhelmed with excitement.
Previously, the Li family owned 1,000 mu of land. Now, after the land reform, not only did the Li family not lose any land, but they also gained more than 2,200 mu.
This situation, where he not only didn't lose money but actually made a profit, naturally made him extremely happy.
Just as the head of the Li family was extremely happy and smug, the officials made the members of the Li family register one by one.
After all the members of the Li family, along with those they had brought in to impersonate their family members, were registered, the yamen runners began distributing land certificates to each person according to their names.
Each certificate includes the corresponding name, the area and location of the land, and so on.
After everyone had received their certificates, the head of the Li family looked at the land certificate in his hand and fell into deep thought.
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