Gu Qingcheng reached a deal with Li Mingzhu. Not only did she take away the huge sugarcane forest, but she also got a steady supply of sugarcane from the Li tribe.
With sufficient sugarcane, Gu Qingcheng started the sugar-making business.
She selected a dozen people from her tribe and opened a small workshop in Wu Castle.
The first products to be boiled are the primary products - brown sugar and black sugar.
Then, the brown sugar is further processed to produce white sugar that is as white as snow and as fine as sand.
There is also crystal clear rock sugar that is more durable.
Gu Qingcheng transported the sugars to the capitals of Luozhou and other surrounding states and counties and sold them at extremely high prices.
After hearing about the selling price, the key point is that such a high price was still snapped up, and even the knowledgeable Gu Heng was a little surprised.
"How can this thing be so profitable?"
This, like wine, is a luxury item for the rich.
Ordinary people simply can't afford it.
As for the wealthy and powerful families, they were not stingy with their copper coins in order to try new things and to look impressive.
So, Gu Qingcheng successfully harvested a large number of super leeks by relying on sugar.
"Lingnan is still a bit remote. If it were in Jiankang or Pingcheng in the Northern Dynasty, the price would probably be even higher!"
Gu Qingcheng still felt it was not enough and said with a hint of regret.
Luxury goods should be sold in the most prosperous places.
The same brown sugar and white sugar have two different prices in Lingnan and in the capital.
Gu Heng served as the Minister of the Central Secretariat and was also well versed in economics.
He nodded, "Aqing is right! If that's the case, then send someone back to Jiankang!"
There are also members of the Gu clan and Gu’s in-laws in Jiankang.
If you want to open a shop that makes huge profits in a place like Jiankang where powerful people gather, you must have enough backers.
Fortunately, the Gu family is an old southern clan with deep roots and prosperous branches.
Relatives are all over Jiankang.
A small sugar business can still be kept.
"Okay, I'll follow Aung's arrangements!"
Gu Qingcheng had clearly made up her mind long ago, but in front of her grandfather, she still acted like a good boy.
Gu Heng laughed and dotingly pointed his finger at Gu Qingcheng, "You! Naughty!"
However, Gu Qingcheng made sugar again, which further proved her ability.
Her interactions with the Li tribe also made Gu Heng very satisfied - those who do great things should have an open mind and a broad vision.
What foreign race? What barbarians?
Being able to use it and control it by me is a great help!
As a true descendant of an aristocratic family and a scholar-official, Gu Heng has traditional simple ideas - to care about the world and educate the people!
The reason why barbarians are barbarians is that they do not read and do not know etiquette.
As long as they are educated and understand what rituals and music are, they will be good subjects under your rule.
If Gu Qingcheng had not shown her ambition, according to Gu Heng's idea, after coming to Lingnan, she would have opened an academy to educate the people!
The people he identified were not only those living at the foot of the mountain, but also those hiding in the mountains.
To be honest, educating the barbarians actually gives you a greater sense of accomplishment.
Unfortunately, my granddaughter is not an ordinary little girl. She has the ambition to conquer the world.
As a good grandfather, Gu Heng naturally couldn't ignore it.
Let’s put aside the idea of educating the people. It’s more important to help Aqing grow step by step first!
Gu Qingcheng selected some people and quietly returned to Jiankang.
After receiving Gu Heng's handwritten letter, the Gu clan members in Jiankang naturally did not dare to slack off.
Furthermore, opening a shop and selling sugar is a lucrative business, and as a member of the clan, you can also share some of the profits.
Putting aside the family, the clan members will do their best just for the real copper coins.
Salt and sugar, the two most violent industries, are controlled by the Gu family.
Those who originally thought that the Gu family would decline also realized that the Gu family is still the same Gu family.
Even if the head of the family, Gu Heng, was exiled, the children of the Gu family would not remain silent.
Not to mention, Gu Yi went to the Northern Dynasty and was said to be highly valued.
The Gu family cannot fall!
The Gu family's side branches and in-laws also seemed to be encouraged and helped more wholeheartedly.
Even Chen Jing, who stole the Xiao family's kingdom, heard about the Gu family's affairs while staying in the palace.
"This old bastard Gu Heng does have some tricks up his sleeve!"
"It's ridiculous that in order to conceal their tracks, they even deliberately used the name of a girl!"
"Gu Qing? A nine-year-old girl, still immature and childish, can actually become the head of the Gu family?"
Chen Jing listened to the eunuch's report while looking at the memorial in his hand.
He simply didn't believe that these actions of the Gu family were the work of a little girl.
Gu Qingcheng: ...Should I thank you for underestimating me and giving me room to grow, or should I still despise your contempt for not treating me as an opponent?
No matter what happens in the capital, Gu Qingcheng still develops step by step according to her own plan.
The people sent to Jiaozhou returned one after another, and they were not sure what Champa rice was.
They used a rather clumsy method, which was to bring back all the rice seeds they found in the wild.
Gu Qingcheng led the old farmers to conduct experiments one by one, grafting and hybridizing again and again.
It was not until the fourth year that a relatively stable, drought-resistant and high-yielding rice variety was finally obtained.
Gu Heng was overjoyed and personally sent people to Jiankang with rice seeds.
It has been planted on a large scale in Lingnan, and experiments are also needed in the health field.
Due to the lucrative businesses of salt and sugar, the relationship between the Gu family's side branches and many in-laws and the Gu family became increasingly close.
Even Chen Jing's family and confidants began to cooperate with Gu.
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