He, jia gu ye. Er yue shi sheng, ba yue er shu, de shi zhi zhong, gu wei zhi he., Shuowen Jiezi
The Rites of Zhou assigned the people to nine occupations: first, farmers, who grew the nine grains; sixth, merchants, who increased the flow of goods and wealth.
In the Great Qi dynasty, trade flourished in Zhenzhou. Commerce grew ever more prominent, and merchants came and went like a woven tapestry. Yet behind the bustle and prosperity, farmers struggled more and more. Their harvests dwindled, and they had no way to sell their produce. As the Records of the Grand Historian says: “When seeking wealth from poverty, farming is inferior to industry, industry to commerce, and embroidery to sitting by the marketplace gate.”
In the winter of the twenty-eighth year of Qingyuan, the eldest master of the Gu family in Zhenzhou died of illness. The eldest daughter of the Gu family’s main branch had married into a family in the capital, only for the marriage to end in divorce. Rejected by her husband’s family and left without her father’s support, she was then told by a “wise man” that an evil presence had taken over the Gu family residence and that disaster was imminent...
So the mother and her two daughters moved out of the Gu residence, and Miss Gu took over the grain shop business her father had left behind. She began organizing grain transport by river and road, building irrigation works, reclaiming wasteland, and developing large-scale farming. Everyone said the eldest Gu daughter was beautiful, but cold-hearted, a smiling tiger who held a grudge and always got even.
Also known as: “Business Plans After Transmigration”
A few things to know:
1. The heroine gets married, then divorced. This is not a broken engagement.
2. The heroine is irresistible to everyone; the male lead has no prior sexual experience.
3. The heroine has real financial disputes with others. She is not a perfect person.
4. This is an imaginary-world novel about commerce and business. It includes many details about money, prices, official posts, and place names. Most are based on the Ming and Qing dynasties, with some references to the Tang and Song.
Theme: Enrich the nation above, enrich the family below
