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Others of Minh M?ng's programmes were to construct highways, a postal service, public storehouses for food, monetary and agrarian reforms. He redistributed land periodically and forbade all other sales of land to prevent wealthy citizens from reacquiring excessive amounts of land with their money. Rich landowners had to return a third of their holdings to the community, and Minh M?ng introduced a program of salaries and pensions for princes and mandarins to replace the traditional assignment of fief estates.
