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Chapter 800 - Chapter 603: What Is the Purpose? (Part 2)

No matter how the crops in the fields turn out, the amount of tenant rent remains fixed.

This may seem better than a sharecropping system, but in reality, fixed rent often leads to tenant bankruptcy.

If there is a reduction in yield, tenants may end up having to compensate the landlord with additional grain.

This is just a conflict between landlords and tenants, not to mention the taxes, corvée labor, various extortionate levies, and the oppression of common people by landlords and gentry.

Officials and gentry have numerous ways to harm the common people, with countless insidious tricks.

Officials collude with gentry to shift their own land's taxes onto ordinary farmers.

An ordinary farmer may only own ten acres, but is required to pay taxes on thirty acres, with the extra twenty acres not belonging to them, yet they have to pay the taxes.

Even worse, the common people don't even know who is causing them harm, nor which family they are paying taxes for.

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