Liu Bei was unlike Xiaotian, lacking the powerful backing of the Dark Dragon Army. Moreover, whenever anything happened, the Yellow Turban Army would appear as if by magic. But were those really the Yellow Turban Army? No, those were soldiers of the Dark Dragon Army.
Besides, once land annexation took place, the common people naturally had no way to earn money; but once factories were established, the people would have a way to make a living. By then, even if the land was left uncultivated, those gentry and powerful clans still had to pay taxes, and they would naturally surrender their land over to the State Governor's Estate. Right, this was the late Eastern Han dynasty, where even the gentry had to pay taxes.
"As for auditing the farmland, I think Zhang Fei would be a good fit."
Chapter 128