In a feudal dynasty, the land was basically controlled by noble clans and aristocratic families. The land in the hands of commoners was scarce.
And land was what produced food.
Whoever controlled food controlled all of humanity.
Food security was immensely important to humanity.
This was especially true in feudal societies based on small-scale farming. Ordinary people depended on the weather for their livelihood, and food was life itself.
Every peasant uprising was tied to food shortages caused by natural disasters or man-made calamities.
Only when a family was so poor they could barely keep themselves fed, when the whole family was on the verge of starving to death, would they risk their lives to drag the emperor from his throne.
Why should ordinary people live in misery while aristocrats, landlords, and wealthy merchants grew fat through exploitation and oppression? They wouldn't allow the people under their rule to live like that.
The fall of dynasties and empires was often closely tied to food.
Yet land was rarely in the hands of commoners. Instead, vast tracts were hoarded by the nobility. Commoners seldom ate their fill, often subsisting on one meal a day of thin gruel.
A certain God King had survived childhood by eating just a few grains of rice each day. Whether by luck or not, his home lay between two great empires, where there was no war. His village could make a living by selling vegetables, and so it was relatively well-off compared to other villages.
In short, land reform was equally crucial. How could so much land remain under the control of the nobility?
It had to be distributed among the people, so they could have land of their own.
Of course, they would have only the right to use it, not ownership.
When Qian Renxue