Among these, north Zhili was doing well, as Li Xuan had a high reputation in Hebei.
Not only were many of the Weisuo Institutes in Hebei supporters of Li Xuan, but the local citizens also deeply respected Prince Fenyang.
As long as it was a policy promoted by Prince Fenyang, there was no reason for the people of north Zhili not to support it.
Moreover, this so-called "apportionment of peasants to the land," which involved integrating the poll tax into the land tax, exempted the landless from taxation, clearly benefiting the people.
Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, official and gentry classes had exploited their privileges to conceal households, and cunning individuals registered elsewhere to evade taxes, leading the poorest households owning dozens of mu to report truthfully. Consequently, they faced an increase in the poll tax, becoming the dynasty's foremost corruption.
Therefore, the entire region of Hebei was jubilant about this.
