Gu Shouxin told Gu Xin to continue, because he felt that his little girl's mind was developing entirely like her mother's, and she could think of making money no matter where she was.
Seeing her father's interest, Gu Xin organized her thoughts and said, "I just thought of this when we were registering. We'll still use the lantern festival method, but the target audience will be our Gu family and the common people. The government will build a food street in the trading area, and interested people can rent it. We'll teach them the skills. Once they've learned, they'll earn money and give us five or ten taels of silver each month. Once they've earned two hundred taels, we won't have to pay anymore, and the skills will be theirs. The food in our Great Zhou is probably not available in the other five countries. So, most of the money we earn will come from the other five countries. In this way, our family earns silver, and the common people earn silver, and life will get better and better, right? Of course, if someone is clumsy and can't learn, we'll let them rent the wasteland that Uncle has cultivated and collect rent every year. They can't earn silver just by doing odd jobs for others."
Gu Si said, "Third sister, when I got home last night, my father told me that the people he hired to clear the land have someone who wants to rent the land! However, they don't have any seeds."
Gu Shouxin stroked his chin: "The seeds are easy to obtain; I can transfer them from Cizhou. Let me think about it, these two things are feasible."
The three of them returned to the backyard for dinner, and at the table, Gu Shouxin mentioned Gu Xin's suggestion.
Grandpa Gu was the first to agree after hearing this: "I've been talking to some elderly people in the city recently, and many of their children have gone to other states to make a living. If there are suitable jobs for them in Kuncheng, they won't leave their hometowns."
There are very few young people in Kuncheng. When Gu Shouxin wanted to recruit yamen runners, he had to relax the age limit and recruit several strong women in their thirties to fill the positions.
In Kuncheng, most of the men are under sixteen or over forty. The younger ones have almost all gone to other places to make a living. They might come back once a year, and some only come back once every two years.
Uncle Gu naturally agreed; the happiest thing in his life was looking at vast fields of crops.
Cai Xiaolian, on the other hand, was interested in the food street and kept Gu Xin's suggestion in mind.
After discussing it, the Gu family came up with a complete plan, which they then sent their constables to ask each household.
Anyone interested in learning how to make snacks? Just want to earn some money to make a living!
Anyone interested in farming? The government will provide seeds for free in the first year. If you have land, you can rent it, or you can reclaim land yourself if you wish.
As for the matter of reclaiming wasteland, the people in Kuncheng had never really thought about it. The Gu family had already cleared a lot of land since they arrived here, and spring plowing had already begun. Would it be too late for them to reclaim wasteland now?
Let's try renting some land instead!
On the 20th day of the first lunar month, Gu Nian removed the glass.
She immediately decided to build herself a bright laboratory.
On the 21st, she took Gu Xin and Gu Si with her to choose a site for her laboratory outside the city.
The Gu family has her own laboratory where she researches gadgets. Some things can't be researched indoors, otherwise an explosion would happen.
The three sisters, along with Bai Ersi, Liushi, and Bashi, left the city together.
The weather was very nice at the end of January, so they didn't take carriages but rode horses.
After exiting the northeast gate and leaving the main road, we headed down a small path.
Bai Liu and Bai Ba have already scouted out the area around Kuncheng over the past two months, and now they're introducing it to Gu Nian.
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