The innkeeper reluctantly returned the ten thousand taels to Prince NanAn.
If he could, he would have backed out and not done this deal.
A land deed can be reissued.
But it's unimaginably difficult.
Renewing it requires a tax, one-tenth of the land's value; their owner sold it for twenty thousand taels, but if the government office says it's worth sixty thousand taels, they would have to pay six thousand in taxes.
They were already at a loss with nowhere to cry, paying another six thousand taels is like stabbing their owner with a knife, isn't it?
And that's not even considering the bribes...
The shopkeeper took a deep breath.
At least this is a money problem.
If it can be solved with money, it's not a problem.
There's something even more difficult, and that is proving to the government office that this land belongs to their owner.
Since the house deed and the land deed can be owned separately, the house deed can serve as part of the proof, but it's not enough.
