He is more of a "general" and needs to be under the command of sufficient soldiers.
Gu Heng started to "recruit people" from Jiankang again.
This time, Gu Heng didn't even need to say too many persuasive words before many members of the Gu family rushed to sign up.
What a joke!
Any one of the Gu family’s businesses in Lingnan is a treasure trove.
Sugar and salt are all highly profitable industries.
There is also Champa rice, which has been planted in Jiankang and other places.
It can produce two crops a year, and its yield is 30% higher than that of ordinary rice varieties.
Just the food item made Gu's family earn a lot——
Well, in war, food is the hard currency.
Whoever has food is the boss.
If he were an ordinary grain merchant, he might be slaughtered like a fat sheep by those in power.
But, the Gu family is different.
Gu Heng is no longer the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and Gu Yi is no longer the prince consort, but the huge Gu family is still there.
Gu's relatives and old friends are spread throughout the court and influence the entire capital.
The Gu family's good breed also further consolidated the relationship with in-laws and cronies.
Therefore, even if the head of the family is not around, the Gu family is still a powerful family that cannot be provoked in Jiankang.
Everyone outside knows that the Gu family is "rich", and the Gu family members are even more aware of the "hegemony" of Gu Heng's ancestors and grandchildren in Lingnan.
So, when they heard that Gu Qing was recruiting again, the Gu family members rushed to go!
Is there a lot of miasma in Lingnan?
cut!
That's old news. Sanniang has been a promising child since she was young, and she has become more and more capable in recent years.
The exiled imperial physician she hired at a high price developed a medicine to treat malaria.
Are there many barbarians in Lingnan?
Hey!
You may not know this, but the female leaders in Lingnan are all close friends of our Sanniang.
Lingnan——
Anyway, no matter how many difficulties there are, as long as Gu Qing and Gu Sanniang are here, none of them will be a problem!
Let’s hurry up and go to Lingnan to make a fortune, oh no, to help our people!
Gu Qing’s “mobilization” this time was quite grand.
Not only did the Gu clan members respond positively, but even some aristocratic families felt that Lingnan had great potential!
The Gu family has already eaten a large piece of fat meat, and other families also want to go to Lingnan to get a piece of the pie.
The direct branch cannot be easily dispatched, but every family has side branches.
Even the new emperor Chen Jing, who usurped the throne, and his Chen family were very tempted.
War is so expensive. Chen Jing was a rebel general who overthrew the previous dynasty by force.
After seizing the Xiao family's kingdom, Chen Jing learned his lesson and did not dare to give up military power easily.
He still has 100,000 elite soldiers under his command.
But maintaining an army is too expensive.
The expenditure of 100,000 elite soldiers almost exhausted Chen Jing's inner treasury.
"No! We must find other sources of income as soon as possible!"
Chen Jing wanted to embezzle the national treasury to support his own private army, but the court officials refused to allow it.
The Northern Dynasty was watching covetously, and wars were always breaking out in the prefectures and counties along the river.
Chen Jing treasures his own direct subordinates and will not send them out easily. Those fighting on the river bank are other generals.
The national treasury also needs to pay this part of the military expenditure.
Chen Jing was holding onto his own inner treasury, yet he still wanted to get his hands on the national treasury. Meanwhile, his private soldiers were well fed and well paid, yet they didn't have to fight. Those who fought were hungry, not paid, and were also being targeted...
Tsk, the relationship between Chen Jing and the court officials is really tense.
As the emperor, Chen Jing really lacks money!
"Lingnan is my Lingnan. How can I allow the Gu family to dominate alone?"
Chen Jing had witnessed with his own eyes how booming Gu's sugar, salt and other businesses were, and he had long been jealous to the point of having bloodshot eyes.
Now, more major families are heading south, and Chen Jing can no longer sit still.
"Someone come! King Xuanliang!"
Chen Jing thought about it for a while and finally made a decision!
…
"Prince Liang? Chen Duan?"
Gu Qingcheng was far away in Lingnan, but within three days, she received a letter via carrier pigeon from Jiankang.
She took the letter and went to the study to discuss it with Gu Heng.
"Why, Chen Duan is coming to Lingnan too?"
Gu Heng was very satisfied with the "Lingnan style" that he had created with his own hands.
Although the Gu family intended to become the king of Lingnan, Lingnan was too big.
The Gu family alone can’t eat it all!
The Gu family's great cause also requires the help of other families.
What could be more solid than an alliance of interests?
As for whether those families would compete with the Gu family after coming to Lingnan, Gu Heng and Gu Qingcheng were not worried.
First come, first served!
The Gu family has already taken the lead, and has absolute advantages in both military forces and industries.
Not to mention foreign families, even local powerful families chose to cooperate with the Gu family rather than confront them.
Gu Heng has absolute confidence in his family, especially Aqing.
"Well, Chen Jing is short of money, and Lingnan has long been declared a treasure land 'full of gold'."
Gu Qingcheng was not at all surprised by this situation.
In fact, similar rumors in Jiankang were entirely her doing.
She needs allies, and even more importantly, she needs to divide the existing alliances.
Her great cause has always been from the bottom up, from the inside out...
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