Compared to rock salt, sea salt is the best.
However, the current method of making salt is basically boiling salt.
It requires firewood, pots, and manpower.
Of course, in ancient times, the last item was worthless.
But, save as much as you can.
Just like Gu Qingcheng, the only reliable people she can mobilize now are about ten followers and twenty guest girls.
Although those wanderers also settled in the fishing village with the Gu family, they were still in the probation period.
Whether it is reliable or not is still unknown.
After all, boiling salt is not something without technical skills.
The last step of filtering is the technical difficulty that needs to be kept "confidential".
And now, Gu Qingcheng has thought of a more convenient and effective method of making salt - the salt-drying method!
Compared with boiling salt, drying salt is simply a business with no capital cost.
Salt fields are demarcated on the seashore, and when the southeast wind blows in spring, the sea water will complete the process on its own.
After collection, filtering and other processes, it becomes high-quality sea salt.
Guarding such a large beach is like guarding an endless treasure chest.
With the money, Gu Qingcheng now has a foundation for what she wants to plan!
"Do you need more manpower?"
Gu Heng wanders around every day.
In addition to personally experiencing the customs and culture of southern Xinjiang, I am also looking for old friends.
Ahem, don’t forget, this is Lingnan, the ancient “holy land” of exile.
Those who can come to this place are either extremely evil or extremely wise and capable.
Especially in the last hundred years or so, dynasties have changed frequently.
Not to mention the usual party struggles in the court, even during every change of dynasty, many loyal or treacherous officials would be exiled here.
Our dynasty has only a history of more than 40 years. When the founding emperor of this dynasty seized the throne, he exiled a large number of people.
Gu Heng was already in his sixties and had lived through two dynasties. Among those ministers who were exiled, there were many old friends!
What's more, there are also branches or in-laws of the Gu family.
Since Gu Heng has come to Luozhou, he might as well visit his old friends or their descendants.
"Well! Aung, I want to do something that requires a large number of reliable people."
Gu Qingcheng sighed again, she was still too young.
Six years old!
Not to mention a little girl, even if he was a young man, he would have no prestige.
If she wants to recruit soldiers, people may be willing to take a gamble on her because her last name is "Gu".
However, it is not easy to gain the other party's loyalty.
To put it bluntly, it is a question whether a six-year-old girl can grow up to be a successful person.
The infant mortality rate is too high these days.
A cold can kill an adult, let alone a child.
Gu Qingcheng can only wait for herself to grow up slowly.
For now, she can only seek help from her elders.
"Okay! I'll find a way!"
When Gu Heng saw Gu Qingcheng's serious expression, he knew that his granddaughter probably had a new plan.
After the incidents of purifying rock salt and horseshoes, Gu Heng no longer treated his granddaughter as a child.
He placed Gu Qingcheng on an equal footing, even treating her as the "head of the family."
Gu Heng had such great trust in his granddaughter that he didn't even ask Gu Qingcheng what her plan was, but started looking for ways to help gather manpower.
exiled prisoners and their families and descendants;
Gu family’s in-laws and old friends;
There are also orphans who have lost their families for various reasons.
Gu Heng began to recruit people on a large scale.
Gu Heng's energy as the former Minister of the Central Secretariat began to be fully utilized.
In less than two months, a lot of people gathered around the Gu family's newly built three-story house.
Among them, there are seventy or eighty young and strong people.
In addition, Gu Heng wrote another letter to Jiankang, selecting two heads of the family from the dozen or so families who stayed in the capital, and asked them to take their young and strong men and their followers to Lingnan.
Gu Heng was like a martial arts leader who had returned to the world. With one order, talents from all directions gathered together.
Gu Qingcheng: ...My grandpa is so awesome!
And those wanderers seemed to have sensed something, and they all actively tried to strive to be able to join the Gu family like Nie Chengfeng.
By the time the twelfth lunar month was almost approaching, Gu Heng had already helped Gu Qingcheng select two hundred people who could be reused.
These people have already joined the Gu family and are their servants.
If they want to become a retainer or even a higher-level retainer, they need to continue working hard.
The project that Gu Qingcheng is about to start is their opportunity to show their talents.
Huoshui: ...Honey, don’t be busy with infrastructure construction, it’s more interesting to complete tasks.
Gu Qingcheng ignored Huoshui's nonsense and continued to move forward step by step according to her plan.
Now that we have the manpower, we need to place them.
No problem, just continue building the house.
Then, the land was enclosed and sold.
Gu Qingcheng bought a large area of mudflats around it.
In addition, she also expanded the Gu family's "base camp" outward by more than ten miles.
The tentacles were almost touching the county town before they withdrew.
After such "expansion", the territory under the name of the Gu family included several villages and several hills.
When connected together, it is not much smaller than a county town.
Of course, most of the Gu family’s territory is wasteland and mountainous land.
Some are even the territory of local slang people.
However, these Li people hid in the mountains and forests, unwilling to accept the "enlightenment" of the government, and were regarded as savages and barbarians.
Their interests (such as territory) are not protected by the government.
The governor of Luozhou unceremoniously gave this piece of land to Gu Qingcheng.
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