Gu Qingcheng also mastered the top biotechnology, which was why she thought of this crop that she had overlooked.
The climate in Lingnan is very suitable for growing sugarcane.
In this time and space, people who want to get the taste of "sweetness" mostly do so by squeezing juice from fruits such as honey and sugarcane.
For example, the most popular zhujiang at present is sugarcane juice.
There is only this kind of preliminarily processed "sugar water", no "sugar"!
Nowadays, if you want to make braised pork, there is no sugar.
Gu Qingcheng had so many things to consider in the past that she even forgot about sugar (sugarcane).
Of course, even if Gu Qingcheng did not "invent", after a few decades, the intelligent working people would slowly be able to make sugar.
But that requires a process and is only local.
Gu Qingcheng can’t wait, and the sugar is good!
It not only enriches people's taste, but also forms an industrial chain and earns huge profits.
Also, here’s a little-known fact about time travel: sugar can also be made into alcohol!
Alcohol is one of the most powerful weapons in ancient times.
Looking at countless time-travel online novels, no matter whether it is the male or female protagonist, when they travel back to ancient times, they all need to get things like soap, glass, and alcohol.
As for alcohol, the most direct and commonly used method for time travelers is to distill and purify existing alcohol.
The ancient native Gu Qingcheng said: ...distilled liquor?
ha!
What a joke!
Don’t you know that in ancient times, all the drinks were made from grains!
In ancient times, food was more important than anything else!
In order to prevent the powerful and wealthy from wasting grain to make wine, many emperors of successive dynasties issued "alcohol prohibitions".
If all the grain is used to make wine, how will the people survive?
When the people can no longer survive, they will naturally rebel!
Therefore, in ancient times, let alone a time traveler, even the real powerful and wealthy could not brew wine whenever they wanted, or make alcohol with wine whenever they wanted!
Sugarcane is not food!
Moreover, in Lingnan, the land is vast, the population is sparse, and the climate is warm, which is suitable for large-scale sugarcane cultivation.
While Gu Qingcheng continued to urge Doctor Zhang and others to develop medicines, she also sent people to explore the surrounding areas to indicate places to plant sugarcane.
This place is not limited to Luozhou.
After three years of operation, Gu's has established a firm foothold in Luozhou.
It cannot be said that the entire Luozhou has become the Gu family’s base camp, but it is not far off.
The Gu family's influence in Luozhou is increasing, and according to Gu Qingcheng's plan, the Gu family should also expand to the surrounding areas.
Enclosing land and building a sugarcane plantation is just the first step!
Gu Qingcheng sent out several teams of troops and began to carry out activities in several surrounding states and counties.
What’s more, there are actually wild sugarcane forests in the mountains of Lingnan.
It is located at the border between Luozhou and Yuezhou!
"I'll go check it out too!"
Gu Qingcheng had an idea, and took her female soldiers, selected 200 members of the Gu family, and brought sulfur, mint, etc. to drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants, and headed to the primitive wild sugarcane forest together.
"It's indeed sugarcane!" Or the original seedling.
I just don’t know whether this untamed seedling is as sweet as real sugarcane!
Gu Qingcheng rode his horse around the sugarcane field, thinking silently.
"Whether it's true or not, we'll know once we try it!"
Gu Qingcheng is a person with top-notch biotechnology and also has the habit of "doing experiments".
She ordered people to cut some sugarcane, and then boiled it according to the "ancient method".
In the dense forest, Gu Qingcheng's troops set up camp.
In the temporary camp, there were fires and big pots.
Cook, cook, stir, cook...
After a series of simple and crude procedures, the sugarcane juice becomes syrup, and then after processes such as coagulation and cooling, the simplest version of brown sugar blocks is obtained.
“This is brown sugar!”
Gu Qingcheng took the brown-red block that didn't look good and smelled it. It was indeed that "familiar" smell.
Her memories and feelings in the novel world will be erased, but her "common sense" will remain.
And in Gu Qingcheng's "common sense", there is knowledge of brown sugar and white sugar.
After making brown sugar, you can also purify it to obtain finer, whiter white sugar, or rock sugar.
Gu Qingcheng is also very familiar with the process of purifying brown sugar.
However, this is not Gu's Wu Castle after all. If you want to conduct further "experiments", you still have to go home.
Of course, before leaving, Gu Qingcheng would mark this sugarcane forest with the "Gu family" brand.
The barren mountains and wastelands in the wild were worthless. Gu Qingcheng directly sent someone to contact the Yuezhou Governor's Office and bought the vast forest for less than a hundred strings of cash.
but--
Just as the Gu family's soldiers were diligently waving their sickles to harvest wild sugarcane, there was a rustling sound in the woods.
Gu Qingcheng became alert instantly. Could there be some wild beast?
She immediately gave the order to prepare for battle, and the little female soldiers also took up their weapons.
Then, a group of young men in traditional Chinese costumes emerged from the jungle, led by a little girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old...
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