If it weren't for this classmate having connections in the county government, he wouldn't have proactively made friends with him. Perhaps, it's not a lie but the truth.
But is that really possible? How many scholars are there in the Daqing Kingdom? If the land were returned to its original owners, how would these scholars survive? Wouldn't the scholar examinations become meaningless?
"Brother Ziyu, according to what you say, in the future, the tax exemption for the land owned by scholars would be just empty talk? Would farmers have to submit their grain to the county government?"
"Well..."
The classmate was momentarily speechless.
How could he respond? He was also a scholar, and quite a bit of his relatives' land was registered under his name.
However, he wasn't as ruthless as An Que; he only collected a symbolic amount of grain and wouldn't collect more than taxes.
Doing so would be harmful, and he couldn't bring himself to do such a thing.
