West Chang'an Street, Xu Mansion.

The sound of "papapapapapa" kept ringing in the study.

Xu Fan was holding a board about inch wide and whipped his son one after another.

Xu Yuanchun lay on the stool, biting a cotton towel in his mouth, and his body twisted as his father whipped, and his face changed with various painful expressions.

"Master, stop beating." Ji saw that his son's ass were swollen, so he had to pluck his courage to hold Xu Fan's arm and beg forth: "What kind of evil things did Yuanchun do? Do you want to beat you to death?"

"Ask him yourself!" Xu Fanyu was still angry and pointed at his son with a board and scolded: "He has lost all the face of my old Xu family!"

"Ah, Yuanchun, what did you do?" Ji was shocked and quickly pulled off the cotton towel from his son's mouth.

"Wuwu, mom, I just lost the bet and wanted to take someone else's teacher." Xu Fan cried with tears in his eyes: "I don't want to worship this teacher, but who can really go to heaven? Li Maocai and Chen Yiqin refused to repent. I didn't agree with it alone, so I lost the face of our Xu family."

"You fart, when did our Xu family have this family rule?" While the wife was not paying attention, Xu Fan slapped Xu Yuanchun's ass again.

Xu Yuanchun didn't have anything in his mouth this time, and he let out a whistle and almost lifted the roof off.

"Give me a little less!" Xu Fan hurriedly glared at him and said, "Your grandfather took medicine and just went to bed."

"..." Xu Yuanchun sobbed and didn't dare to say anything, thinking that if you don't hit me, wouldn't I stop calling?

"Master, I'm just a teacher. The child is having fun. What a big deal." Ji took the opportunity to snatch the board from Xu Fan's hand.

"What a big deal?" Xu Fan was so angry that he said and gestured: "What an important day today. There are two or three thousand students in the court, who are concentrating on listening to his father's lecture! As a result, a big ball fell from the sky, almost locking his father in it!"

"Is it the one flying in the sky?" Today, when Ji and a group of wives were visiting the garden, they also saw the large colored balls flying over the capital. At that time, everyone was still praising them for being beautiful.

"I didn't expect that it was for my father-in-law..."

"You didn't expect that there were too many things!" Then Xu Fan said in a furious voice: "Do you know who else is there in the balloon except the boy named Zhao?"

"Who else?"

"Lanling County Lord!" Xu Fan roared and wanted to kick his son's ass again. "What's the use of me wanting this idiot? He saw that the county lord was snatched away by a boy named Zhao, not only wanted to take revenge, but also wanted to take others as his teacher! Why did I give birth to such a coward!"

Seeing that Xu Fan was about to go crazy again, Ji quickly stopped her husband and said to her son: "You go quickly, you're a sin. Are you still making your father angry here?!"

"Oh, I'll go back and reflect." Xu Yuanchun didn't care about the pain of his butts, so he quickly got up and put on his pants with both hands, ran out and said with his neck: "I won't give up. Life is still long, maybe he likes other girls again, and I'll have a chance..."

"You heard that, are you talking?" Xu Fan laughed in anger and said, "This is the first time I heard about this kind of thing. There are still people waiting in line for such things!"

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

"But wasn't the master who led him on this road? I don't understand. For people like us, what kind of girl do not choose casually, and she still has to marry the unruly county lord?"

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

"Yes, I don't know anything." Ji brought a cup of tea to her husband, sighed in distress: "I'm just a pity that 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 haven't had time to tell you." Ji took out a few stocks of the Royal Xishan Coal Industry from his sleeve and said, "This was what the eldest princess invited and sold to us that day. I was thinking that since Yuanchun liked the county lord, you have always wanted to get married to the eldest princess, so I gritted my teeth and subscribed to her 800 shares."

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

According to the habit at this time, the "one share" that people often say is 10% of the shares. I have never heard of any business that can be divided into 800 shares.

However, after reading the words on the stock, he laughed in silence: "It turns out there are 100,000 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 was going to open a coal mine in Xishan." Ji said to Xu Fan in detail what he heard: "It seems that he has bought more than 2,000 coal mines, and he has to rebuild the road in Xishan."

The eldest princess did not explain in detail about the acquisition of the coal mine, and Ji couldn't figure out what coal mines or waste coal mines were, so she took them seriously.

"What a big deal." Xu Fan couldn't help but gasp, thinking that it seemed that the eldest princess had retired from the imperial childbirth and threw all her wealth into the west.

He shook the eight hundred shares in his hand and couldn't help but smile: "I think you will make sure to make a profit for your 8,000 taels of silver."

"Is that true?" Ji was overjoyed when he heard this, "That's great. Why don't I buy more?"

"No, no," Xu Fan nodded.

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In this era, all rich people face the same dilemma, that is, they are extremely scarce in investment channels.

In addition to a series of upstream and downstream business related to overseas trade, the transactions that can make a lot of money are money deals and salt merchants.

But both industries are already saturated and have their own thresholds. Even with forces like the Xu family, it is very difficult to get involved, let alone other rich people.

Even overseas trade itself, participants in every industry upstream and downstream have already negotiated the number. No one can sell an extra bunch of silk or a pound of tea.

So there is no motivation to expand reproduction.

If you can't find a place to invest, the huge amount of silver flowing into the country from overseas trade can only be hidden in a cellar except for squandering.

But who would like to let the silver grow hair in the cellar? Is there any difference between the silver piled up there and the earth-shaking trash?

Therefore, as soon as Xiaoge predicted the money prospects of Xishan coal industry, he immediately encouraged his wife to invest more.

"I'm afraid it's going to be a problem for a while." Unexpectedly, Ji's family was in trouble.

"I heard from the eldest princess that she didn't need this money at all. It was her godfather who advised her to take out five thousand shares to share one, so that everyone could benefit from it."

"Who is her godson?" Xu Fan was stunned, and suddenly thought of a name and said, "It's not that boy named Zhao, right?"

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

"It's him!" Xu Fan immediately changed his face and gritted his teeth and said, "I won't invest, you can also get rid of these 800 pieces!"

"Ah? As for such a big grudge?" Ji couldn't help but wonder: "Didn't the master often say that grudges are grudges, and business is business?"

"You don't understand." Xu Fan said with a dark face: "They are implementing Zhao Shouzheng's strategy. What does it look like if we mix it in?"

"It's right for you to withdraw the money." He said, "Because I will definitely mess with them!"
Chapter completed!