The situation of the wasteland to the south of the city was explained in a letter by the wet nurse to Wei Ruo, indicating that land belonged to no one and was by law the property of the Government Office. If the common people wanted to cultivate it, they would require approval from the government.
In the past, the magistrate of Xingshan County did not object to the reclamation of ordinary wastelands, and the wasteland to the south was even more unclaimed, given it was land that most people did not want. If someone had the guts to dare to till a barren piece of land where no crops would grow, they had no reason to disagree.
