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also called for a ceiling on the quantity of land that could be used for
personal cultivation to ensure that there was some sort of equality.
Despite the land reforms, the lower class peasants continued to get
the short end of the stick; many landlords evicted or forced workers to
surrender their land. The reforms even ensured a liberal compensation
was provided to the intermediaries for any portion of their feudal estates
taken over by the government. The delay in the enforce the reforms
resulted in opportunities to circumvent the laws and dilute landlords
provisions. There was also a direct relationship between the
compensation paid to the intermediaries and the burden on the peasants
as they were asked to bear the expenses to buy their right of ownership in
some cases and even otherwise the compensation was to be financed by
the net increase of revenue accumulating to the state in the form of rents
and land revenue direct paid to the Government by the tenants.