Xin'an Town, Changning Guard.
It had been nearly fifty years since the reclamation began.
Today's Xin'an Town had entered a mature stage of development. Farms of every size dotted the town.
Besides the clan farms, villages had also sprung up one after another, built against mountains and beside waters. Their residents were commoners who had followed the Wang Clan here during the early days of reclamation.
Those commoners came from impoverished families in Changning Guard and several nearby guards, or from tenant farmer families whose contracts had been released. Migration and reclamation were dangerous, but once they gained a foothold, families could own quite a bit of farmland themselves, and their total income would make a qualitative leap.
When the Changning Wang Clan held a Pioneering Order to reclaim Xin'an Town, it did not mean they could enclose all the land in Xin'an Town and turn it into private Wang Clan farms.
The Great Qian Kingdom encouraged reclamation and even provided some financial support. Its main purpose was still to expand the nation's territory and increase humanity's space to reproduce and inhabit. Therefore, families participating in reclamation had the right to prioritize enclosing land and building farms according to the extent of their investment, but they also had to guide ordinary commoners willing to reclaim land to settle and multiply here.
Furthermore, the government divided clan jurisdictions according to agreements between aristocratic families. All commoners within those jurisdictions were considered residents of that clan's jurisdiction. The clans bore responsibility for defending the land and protecting the people, while also taking on duties such as collecting taxes.
In return, of the forty percent tax collected within a clan jurisdiction, ten percent belonged to the local clan.
From this, it could be seen that land and commoners attached beneath an aristocratic family