บท 456: Clues

It was more complicated than expected to recruit soldiers from the Land of Fragrance. Gu Shenwei put forth his ideas, but when he tried to put them into practice, he could do nothing but hand them over to Zhong Heng.

The Land of Fragrance was wide but sparsely populated, and only a small piece of land around the capital was registered. It would take at least a year or two to carry out national measurement.

Zhong Heng adopted a simple method. According to the length of service and number of military exploits, the soldiers recruited would be given various plots of land with no specific location. The soldiers would receive a certificate with their names printed, noting the exact acreage.

Only at the end of the service could soldiers get real land. Their immediate family members could inherit the land if the solders died in war, but they were not allowed to privately buy or sell the land.