In the past year, the biggest change in this land is probably the Northland. For the first time, the bear demons who used to be salted in alcohol every day exchanged the fruits of their labor for food.

And, of course, spirits.

In fact, at the beginning, Gao Li planned to use sugar beets to make wine. In the last life, sugar beet brewing was not a new technology. Theoretically, as long as it is a sugary crop, it can be used to make wine. So sugar beets and sugar cane are all right. However, Gao Li did not choose to make beet wine in the end, because after the first batch of beets were brought back to the Central Plains by the merchants, the chefs of the Central Plains caught the mouths of countless gourmets with a unique sweet taste.

Sweets are rare in this world. Because of its seasonality and scarcity, the high price of honey does not allow them to enter the homes of ordinary people. So apart from fruits, it is difficult for ordinary people to have a sweet tooth. Beets are considered vegetables and have a very high sugar content. But because of the scarcity of sugar beets, for a while, the price of sugar beets was hyped to an extremely high level.

At this point, it would be inappropriate to use beets for wine, as Gao Li needed a lot of spirits to satisfy the drooling bears. If beets were used to make wine, the bears would not be able to afford it. Beets are sold as scarce vegetables at a high price, and the money is used to buy grain. As we all know, starch is sugar, but starch is not sweet. Sugar beets are sold at a high price and then made from starchy grains.

Gaoli's demonized yeast is able to make wine with a very high purity and very low fusel. Further purification of the high-grade liquor results in the bear-fairy's favorite spirit, which has no aroma.

In order to further encourage the enthusiasm of the bear demons to grow, the price of the spirits is not high. It is guaranteed that every bear demon can afford this wine.

So, these bear demons drank the liquor they exchanged for their own money, and the mood was called a beauty.

Gao Li buys sugar beets and sells them to the Central Plains at a high price to make a difference, and then buys grain, and sells some of the wine to the bear demon, and some directly sells it to the bear demon, and then transfers a difference.

Of course, in fact, compared to the investment back then, this money is actually not much, and it is nothing. However, it is also a positive income, which can slowly bridge the original investment of Gaoli. Especially as a near-monopoly business, as long as there are no natural and man-made disasters, once the scale of the bear demons develops, it will bring an extremely stable and sustainable development path.

After a full year of labor with the grain subsidized by Li Zhuang, the bear demons received their first "huge money". At this time, the whole group went crazy. They had never seen so much money in their lives, they had never used money to buy so much food in their lives, and they had never used money to buy such good wine! They could even go hunting without their hands, and buy their cattle and sheep directly from the wolf demons!

The bears may not be very smart, but they know what makes money.

At the beginning, the skeptical bear demons were crazy, and at this time last year, some of them did not believe Gao Li's claims, and they were not enthusiastic about growing sugar beets. Not only is it not enthusiastic, but it even laughs at those who are desperately farming. said that this was just a trick of the Central Plains people, and wanted to make their bear demons abandon their dignity and become vassals of the Central Plains people. At that time, there were indeed some bear demons who were told by them to throw down their hoes and no longer manage the fields.

Once farming stopped, the distribution of relief food provided to them by Gaoli would cease to be distributed. At that time, a series of battles broke out, but they were all suppressed by Anton. After all, Anton accepted more Central Plains culture. He knew very well that Gao Li was willing to post money to help the bear demon, and the main purpose was, of course, to stabilize the Central Plains and prevent the bear demon from disturbing the north. Gao Li's ability has become more and more understandable as merchants travel between the Northlands.

In a nutshell, destroying the bear demon clan may be simpler for Gao Li. But Gao Li didn't do this, he didn't use his own strength to bully the bear demon clan, and he also took the initiative to give money to help them develop.

People must know how to advance and retreat.

Therefore, Anton used strong means to suppress the chaos, and those bear demons who did not farm could only go hunting as usual, or gather some wild fruits in the forest. A small number of them went together to steal the cattle and sheep of other wolf demons, but they were chased by wolf demons all over the grassland.

However, when they saw that their neighbors had received white silver and strings of copper coins in their hands, they were anxious.

Is he crazy! Lend us grain to eat, and give us money to buy our sugar beets?

These guys don't understand what short-term and long-term gains are, but they understand one thing. Now, the people who ridiculed the most in the past are more anxious to grow them now. After all, they were a year short of time, and now they will have to work harder to catch up. For these reformed people, Anton treats them equally. Help them coordinate plots, prepare seeds. After stabilizing the last of the instability within the clan, Anton was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, the bear demon group felt the warmth for the first time in the long winter. This warmth comes from the grain, from the spirits, and from the toil of the whole year.

If it was this time in previous years, the bear demons under the cold wind might have gone south to steal livestock from the wolf demons.

Anton looked at the dried meat hanging under the shed outside the window, and a heartfelt smile appeared on his face.

All of this is due to Gao Li.

The great prince who was far away in the south.

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At this moment, in Yannan City, Gao Li, the City Lord's Mansion, was looking at this letter from Anton.

The distance from the west to Yannan City is the shortest, and if you return to Shangjing and then go to Pingyang, the distance will be about doubled. This time, Gao Li returned directly to Yannan, and it only took ten days on the road.

Of course, this must be thanks to jellyfish.

The jellyfish transforms itself into a balloon that provides levitating power to the carriage. It doesn't take to fly high, as long as the cart is no longer in close contact with the ground, the donkey and the pegasus can pull the cart and run wild.

From Western Xinjiang to Yannan, ten days is enough.

Back at the palace, the first thing waiting for Gao Li was a mountain of various reports. During the time he left the palace, Nonoka arranged all kinds of big and small things according to the rules every day, waiting for Gao Li to return.

Anton's letter is prominently placed among them.

It is a detailed report on the results of the year, the production that the bear demons plan to increase in the coming year, and a lot of praise for Gao Li.

At that time, Noroka planned a relatively loose pricing strategy for the bears. However, with the rise in the price of sugar beets, the repayment pressure of the bear demons has been further reduced, and their mood is better.

"Look, how good people say, it's all thanks to me. Gao Li said.

"Of course, if it weren't for you, maybe what they would have to face now would be the Emperor's Shuntian Army. Nonorka said.

"The Heaven-Breaking Army, the Emperor's is the Heaven-Breaker, the self-proclaimed 'Heavenly God' is Suncheon, and the evil cultists are also Suncheon. Gao Li explained.

"Eh, you said that these people can't have a little new idea when they come up with names? Nonorka said.

"How do I know, I guess it's easier to call, right?" Gao Li said with a smile.

In any case, Gao Li is very happy that the threat of the Northland has been lifted and a sustainable business has been developed. Most importantly, this business model allows the bear demons to settle down and no longer have to run around day and night. Once life settles down, you can eat enough. In a world where there is a lack of entertainment, there are not many entertainment options available to the family, and reproduction is one of them. A stable life will inevitably make the population of the bear demon grow rapidly, and the rapidly growing population will inevitably provide a large number of wealthy and high labor forces in more than ten years, effectively providing production capacity. The supply of sugar beet will become more and more stable, so that both the northern sugar production base and the southern sugar production base can be guaranteed.

Gradually, a large number of bear demon populations will generate a demand from being full to eating well. This will bring a lot of infrastructure demand, a lot of demand for high-quality goods. There will be huge potential to be tapped, although it will not make money in the short term, but Gao Li is making a long-term investment.

Of course, there is a new project waiting for Gao Li to do at the moment.

Perfume.

Why does a fragrance have to be a perfume? Because of all the perfume applications, the most important feature of perfume is that it is convenient and easy to use, and the user never knows what is fragrant on them.

First of all, Gao Li got a factory in the workshop area. But then Gao Li decided to make a place outside the city, because the smell was unbearable.

Then there is the processing of the spices.

Steam extraction and alcohol extraction are both means. The last thing that is lacking here in Gaoli is alcohol, after all, cane sugar is produced in large quantities, and the leftover from sugarcane juice can be used directly to make alcohol, and alcohol can also be made from grain, and even fruits can be used.

It is not difficult to extract, in fact, what is really difficult is the ratio of spices.

The smell of a single perfume is more monotonous, and some gardenias can be found outside Yannan City, these are all four-season gardenias, which bloom most in spring, and also bloom sporadically in other seasons. Gao Li went to ask Ruan Suya if Yanan had this kind of flower, Ruan Suya said that Yanan has a lot of this kind of flower, and although it is winter in the Central Plains at this time, Yanan's climate is still warm, and gardenias are in full bloom.

Gao Li immediately said, "Get me some." ”

Ruan Suya said with a smile: "Lord Gao, you just came back and wanted gardenias, are you going to eat them?"

Gardenias can be eaten, this person is well known, but Ruan Suya probably can't guess what Gao Li is going to do.

"No, I'm going to make something you women like the most. "Gao Li Dao.

"Oh, what is it?" asked Ruan Suya curiously.

"I can't say it yet, let's wait until I make it. Gao Li said with a smile.

"So, how many catties are you going to have?" asked Ruan Suya.

"Let's get 10,000 catties first. "Gao Li Dao.