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墾令 - Order to Cultivate Waste Lands

English translation: J. J. L. Duyvendak [?]
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4 墾令:
祿厚而稅多,食口眾者,敗農者也;則以其食口之數,賦而重使之,則辟淫游惰之民無所於食。無所於食則必農,農則草必墾矣。
Order to Cultivate Waste...:
If salaries are liberal and consequently taxes numerous, then the large number of persons who live on others would mean ruin for agriculture; but if they are assessed according to the calculated number of persons who live on others and are made to work hard, then the wicked and licentious, idle and lazy will have nothing on which to live, and having nothing on which to live, they will take up agriculture; when they take up agriculture, then it is certain waste lands will be brought under cultivation.

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