After reviewing the confessions of the jailer and the prison warden alongside the prior evidence, Xia Yunyi found that the entire mining case was gradually coming into focus.
The origin of the case was quite simple.
Under the Imperial Court's policy of light corvée and low taxes, ordinary people who had previously surrendered their lands to powerful families now wished to redeem them, while those whose fields had been forcibly seized demanded the return of what was rightfully theirs.
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