After starting the land distribution, Anning immediately discovered a critical weakness: the lack of sufficient clerks.
During this past year, Anning had clerks recommended by the Soldier Committee who could read, but this crash course of teaching only allowed the clerks to understand orders, which was utterly inadequate for handling the massive paperwork involved in land distribution.
The shortage of talent significantly slowed the progress of distributing land.
However, the news of the land distribution by the adults had spread, and as a result, peasants from far and wide flocked to Conte every day to inquire when it would be their family's turn.
The lack of skilled individuals also limited the execution of Anning's subsequent plans; he had wanted to establish an agricultural cooperative bank to provide loans for seeds and similar needs, based mainly on the practices of a certain faction remembered from memory.
