The workshop at Lin Family Manor has been bustling these past few days, as all the cotton harvested from both the Lin and Lu Manors has been brought into the workshop.
The people of Lu Family Manor, each household received twelve strings of coins from selling the cotton, were overjoyed. If the land were used for growing hemp, such generous returns would not have been possible!
It's important to note that for a farmer in the Great Tang, an annual income of fifteen strings of coins was usually sufficient for self-sufficiency, with possibly a little surplus.
This fifteen-coin income included not just grains and silk from the fields but also all household income from agricultural by-products.
And now, just from growing cotton, each household from the two manors can earn ten strings of coins! This amount is more than enough to buy grains and coarse cloth, to pay "rent" and "adjustment" fees.
