Family members had bribed officials to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by having the brothers declared dead, allowing them to inherit their father's share of the ancestral farmland.
家族が役人を買収し 彼らを死亡したことにして 代々の農地のうち父親の相続分を 自分たちが相続できるように 土地の相続手続きに介入したのです