"Land Administration Office?"
"Yes. Why are the common people rebelling? On the surface, it’s because they are starving, but in reality, the root of the problem lies in the land."
In the twilight of the Great Ming Dynasty, land annexation was severe, and that is not even accounting for the issue of the princes of the blood. The gentry, who owned vast tracts of land, would employ various means to conceal their holdings to pay little or no grain tax. Since the total tax quota was fixed, the less they paid, the more the peasants had to make up. Consequently, the peasants went bankrupt one after another.
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