The land laws of the Jin Dynasty were mostly inherited from the Eastern Han Dynasty, with strict restrictions on the number of acres of land that scholars and commoners could own and the number of tenants.
Before Adrian Huan ordered the measurement of land and the census of households, he carefully studied the laws of the Jin Dynasty.
The Huan family was a high-ranking family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Adrian Huan was appointed as the magistrate of Yandu County, in charge of a large county with a thousand households, and was an official of the sixth rank. According to the laws of the time, he could occupy 25 hectares of land, have three tenants, and 20 households under his control.
Compared with the property that Princess Nankang had prepared for him, the land tenants of a sixth-rank county magistrate could only be counted as a fraction. If the land was measured strictly according to the law and the households under the protection of the family were included in the county, Adrian Huan's loss would be no less than that of the Yandu tyrants, and even more.
However, Adrian Huan not only held an official position, but also the title of county duke, and enjoyed a fief of 5,000 households. All the households in Yandu County, even the powerful families such as the Chen family, were his "tenants".
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