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Confucianism -> Liji -> Wang Zhi -> 33

Anciently,
the public fields were cultivated by the united labours of the farmers around them,
from the produce of whose private fields nothing was levied.
A rent was charged for the stances in the marketplaces, but wares were not taxed.
Travellers were examined at the different passes, but no duties were levied from them.
Into the forests and plains at the foot of mountains the people went without hindrance at the proper seasons.
None of the produce was levied from the fields assigned to the younger sons of a family, nor from the holy fields.
Only three days' labour was required (by the state) from the people in the course of a year.
Fields and residences in the hamlets, (when once assigned), could not be sold.
Ground set apart for graves could not be sought (for any other purpose).


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