CHAPTER XVI

_LAND AND PEOPLE_

Ancient land and land-tax-Combination of military service with

land cultivation--Studious class had to study _tao_ (in its

pre-Lao-tsz sense)--Next the trading classes--Next the cultivators--

Last the handicraftsmen--Another division of the people--Responsibility

of rulers to God--Classification of rulers and ruling ranks--Eunuchs

and slaves--Cadastral survey in Ts'u state--Reserves for sporting--

Cemeteries--Salt-flats Another land and military service system in

Ts'u--Kwan-tsz's system in Ts'i--Poor relief--Shrewd diplomacy--His

master becomes First Protector--commerce and fairs--"The people"

ignored in history--Tsin reforms and administration--The "great family"

nuisance--Roads, supplies, post-stages--Ts'i had developed even

before Kwan-tsz--Restlessness of active minds under the yoke of ritual.

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