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A Contract Split in Three: Land and Tax in the Wu Slips

In 1996 a well in Changsha yielded over 100,000 Three Kingdoms Wu slips; about 2,200 of them are land-tax contracts, each cut into three matching pieces for the office, the supervisor and the farmer.