Chapter 500 - Chapter 245: The Land Grant for Military Achievements (Vote Request)_2

In this era, in the south, intensive farming of rice fields that could be harvested twice a year presented a completely different scene. The best fields in the south yielded an astonishing amount, four to five times that of the good fields in the north, and were very similar to the floating gardens of Tenochtitlan. However, such outputs equally demanded large amounts of manure and river silt to maintain nutrient input.