Qiao Xiaomai owned this much land for the first time and was currently interested in being a small landowner.
She also had crops like chilli and corn in her space.
Chilli was just a vegetable, non-essential.
But corn was different; corn was a staple food.
Before sweet potatoes were introduced to Daqi, the common people there led a difficult life. Despite the emperor's light taxes, the land was barren, there was no fertilizer, and all labor had to be done manually leading to low efficiency.
Furthermore, there were continuous disasters, with floods in the east and locust plagues in the west.
Anyway, before the introduction of sweet potatoes, ordinary people were struggling to sustain basic living.
These days she had been indulging a bit, Qiao Changshun would often reminisce about the harsh old days, like when they would eat wild vegetables for most of the year, steam buns made from ground tree bark mixed with flour, and so on. It was a hard time.
