Punishment

Xu Zhi wanted to see if she would forcefully occupy all those stipend land at the risk of offending all the officials in Ju Prefecture.

After verifying her thoughts, Mu Yangling asked, "I saw that they were divided into pieces over there, and that each plot belonged to each person. Their stipend land isn't connected like His Highness's?"

Xu Zhi said matter-of-factly, "There is little land in Ju Prefecture and whatever little land we have is barren. How can they be connected?"