Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170407235132

Farming in Xin is a bit different from the west. In the west some farms are small hamlets while others are large feudal estates. In Xin farming is not much of a private industry nor one ruled over by feudal lords farming is both essential for life and a major source of income thus it is lorded over by the state.

Farming revolves around the well-field system in which a square area of land is divided into nine identical sections and are worked by local serfs/peasants families who are assigned a field and live nearby. The eight outer fields belong to the serfs and by extent to the town/city in which they work while the ninth middle field is exclusively for the State.

Now the reverse type of farm exist where the eight outer fields go to the State and the middle goes to the families. These farms are known as 'Imperial Farms' and are normally in the form of massive expanses of land. A prime example are the farms within the wall of Zhengzhou which are Imperial farms.

Private farming does exist to some extent but it is not anything large scale and is normally just a small garden of sorts. Although private farming of some luxury goods does indeed exist (Some luxury goods though are only allowed to be farmed by the state for example silk is one of these) 