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Chapter 378 Xiaoge¡¯s old training

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    West Chang'an Street, Xu Mansion.

    The sound of ¡®pah pah pah¡¯ was heard constantly in the study room.

    I saw Xu Fan holding a board a few inches wide and beating his son one after another.

    Xu Yuanchun was lying on the stool with a piece of cotton towel in his mouth. His body was twisting as his father beat him, with various painful expressions on his face.

    "Master, stop fighting." Seeing that her son's buttocks were swollen to the point of being swollen, Mrs. Ji had the courage to hold Xu Fan's arm and begged, "What heinous thing did Yuanchun do to make you suffer?"  Beat him to death?"

    "Ask him yourself!" Xu Fan was still angry. He pointed a board at his son and cursed: "My old Xu family has lost all their face!"

    "Ah, Yuanchun, what have you done?" Ji was shocked and quickly pulled the cotton towel from her son's mouth.

    "Ugh, mother, I just lost the bet and want to be my teacher." Xu Fan cried with tears in his eyes: "I don't want to be my teacher either, but who can really let him go to heaven? Li Maocai and Chen Yiqin are two of them.  If you refuse to go back on your word, I am the one who has made the decision, so I am bringing shame on our Xu family."

    "You fart, when did our Xu family have this house rule?!" While the wife was not paying attention, Xu Fan slapped Xu Yuanchun on the buttocks again.

    Xu Yuanchun didn¡¯t put anything in his mouth this time. He screamed in pain and almost tore off the roof.

    "Keep your voice down!" Xu Fan glared at him and said, "Your grandfather took medicine and just fell asleep."

    "" Xu Yuanchun sobbed and did not dare to say a word, thinking in his heart that if you don't hit me, won't I stop screaming?

    "Master, it's just a matter of becoming a disciple. It's just a child's play. What a big deal." Ji took the opportunity to snatch the board from Xu Fan's hand.

    "What's the big deal?" Xu Fan was so angry that he kept talking and gesticulating: "What an important day today is. There are hundreds of officials in the court and two or three thousand imperial students, who are all listening to their father's lectures attentively! Then there was a bang.  The big ball fell from the sky and almost hit my father in it!"

    "Is it the one flying in the sky?" When Ji and a group of ladies visited the garden today, they also saw the big colorful ball flying across the sky above the capital. At that time, everyone praised it for how beautiful it was.

    "I didn't expect that I actually went for my father-in-law"

    "You didn't expect that there was so much going on!" Xu Fan said angrily again, "Do you know who else is on that balloon besides the boy named Zhao?"

    "Who else?"

    "The Lord of Lanling County!" Xu Fan roared, going to kick his son's butt again.  "What use do I have for this idiot? He saw the county owner being snatched away by a boy named Zhao. Not only did he want revenge, but he also wanted to become his teacher! Why did I become such a loser!"

    Seeing that Xu Fan was about to go crazy again, Ji quickly stopped her husband and said to her son: "Go away quickly, Nie Zhan. Are you still here to make your father angry?!"

    "Hey, kid, go back and reflect." Xu Yuanchun didn't care about the burning pain in his buttocks. He hurriedly got up and pulled up his pants with both hands. He held his neck high while running out and said, "My kid won't give up. The days are still long."  Maybe he likes another girl, and I will have a chance"

    "Have you heard, what do you think?" Xu Fan angrily laughed and said, "This is the first time I've heard that there are people waiting in line for this kind of thing!"

    "Hey, this kid is too honest." As soon as her son went out, Ji quickly closed the door, fearing that her husband would chase him out.

    "Didn't the master lead him to this road? I don't understand. In a family like ours, we don't just choose any kind of girl, but we still have to marry that unruly county head?"

    "What do you know!" Xu Fan sat down angrily.

    "Yes, I don't understand anything." Mrs. Ji brought her husband a cup of tea and sighed distressedly, "I just regret my eight thousand taels of silver."

    "What eight thousand taels of silver?" Xu Fan asked with a frown.

    "You've been busy these two days and didn't bother to tell you." Ji took out a few stocks of Royal Xishan Coal from her sleeves and said, "This is what the eldest princess was selling to us that day as a treat. I am actually a businessman."  Thinking that since Yuanchun likes the county owner and you have always wanted to marry the eldest princess, I gritted my teeth and subscribed for 800 shares of her."

    "Eight hundred shares, so many?" Xu Fan was surprised at first.

    According to the custom at this time, what people often call "one share" is 10% of the shares. I have never heard of anyone whose business can be divided into 800 shares.

    But after reading the words on the stock, he burst into laughter again: "It turns out there are one hundred thousand shares Ten taels of silver per share, which is one million taels. It seems that our eldest princess is really unwilling to be lonely."

    "I heard that she is going to open a coal mine in Xishan." Ji told Xu everything she had heard.Fan said: "It seems that more than 2,000 coal mines have been purchased, and the road in Xishan needs to be rebuilt."

    The eldest princess did not go into detail about the acquisition of the coal mine, and Ji couldn't figure out what the coal mine or the abandoned coal mine was, so she just took it all as the same thing.

    "What a big deal." Xu Fan couldn't help but gasped, thinking that it seemed that after the eldest princess withdrew from the royal family, she poured all her wealth into Xishan.

    He shook the eight hundred stocks in his hand and couldn't help but smile: "I think you can make a profit without losing your eight thousand taels of silver."

    "Really?" Mrs. Ji was overjoyed when she heard this and said, "That's great. How about I buy more?"

    "It's not impossible." Xu Fan nodded.

    ??~~

    In this era, all wealthy people face the same dilemma, which is the extreme lack of investment channels.

    In addition to a series of upstream and downstream businesses related to overseas trade, the only businesses that can make a lot of money are banks and salt merchants.

    But these two industries are already saturated and have their own thresholds.  Even for a power like the Xu family, it would be very difficult for them to get involved, let alone other wealthy people.

    Even the overseas trade itself, the participants in each industry upstream and downstream, have already been negotiated.  No one can sell more than one bunch of silk or one pound of tea.

    So there is no motivation to expand reproduction.

    Since there is no place to invest, the huge amount of silver flowing into the country from overseas trade can only be squandered or hoarded.

    But who wants to let money grow hair in the cellar?  Is money piled up there with nowhere to go different from rubbish?

    Therefore, when Xiaoge Laoyi foresaw the financial prospects of Xishan Coal Industry, he immediately encouraged his wife to invest more.

    "I'm afraid it will be too much for a while." Who knows that Ji is in trouble.

    "I heard from the eldest princess that she is not short of the money at all. It was her boss who persuaded her to take out 5,000 shares for one cent, so that everyone can take advantage of it."

    "Who is her godson?" Xu Fan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of a name and said, "It can't be that boy named Zhao, right?"

    "It seems that the real surname is Zhao." Ji frowned and thought hard: "Oh, by the way, the name is Zhao Hao."

    "Sure enough, it's him!" Xu Fan's expression suddenly changed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I won't invest any more. You can also return these 800 shares!"

    "Ah? As for such a big feud?" Ji couldn't help but puzzled: "Don't you always say that grudges are grudges and business is business?"

    "You don't understand." Xu Fan said with a gloomy face: "They are implementing Zhao Shouzheng's policy. What will it look like if we get involved?"

    "You were right to withdraw the money." He lowered his voice and said, "Because I will definitely mess this up for them!"

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