Struggle of Baochai

Xue Hong took a few servants, plus five or six guards with big arms and thick waists, and a lot of other things, and stood at the door and told his family: "If things go well this time when I go to the capital, it may be possible within half a month. Come back, you have to guard the door at home, don't worry."

"Master, be careful in everything." Mrs. Xue's eyes were red, and she was very reluctant.

Xue Hong nodded, and then looked at Baochai: "My son, I'm going here for my father, you need to pay more attention to the big and small things at home."

Baochai nodded, and when Xue Hong looked at Xue Pan, he glared, with a look of resentment: "You should also be less stubborn, help your mother take care of the house more, and learn more about business."

Xue Pan nodded in response: "Father, you should be more careful when you are away. You would rather spend more money on food than wrong yourself."

Hearing his son's words, Xue Hong felt very dissatisfied with Xue Pan, but he felt warm in his heart, and his expression turned down a rare kindness: "For my father's sake."

Xue Hong didn't care about seeing off his family anymore, and got on the carriage cruelly. Baochai looked at the carriage going away and didn't know why he felt sore and uncomfortable.

"Okay, don't look at it, go back." Mrs. Xue took her son and daughter's hand and retreated into the inner courtyard, ordering people to close the door.

In the following time, Baochai was busy going to school, reading newspapers, and learning new things.

For example, learn a new accounting method from the accountant. In her previous life, Baochai managed the family business and managed the Rongguo Mansion, but she knew that that set was already outdated. I was deceived, so I devoted all my energy to study.

Not only that, she also detained Xue Pan at home to study with her.

Xue Pan was very displeased, and wanted to go out to play after a short time, but Baochai couldn't do it, so she wept every day at this time, telling some stories about female students in school who were bullied by their brothers because of their failure to live up to expectations, and called several members of Xue's family An old man with many years of experience, the housekeeper told Xue Pan some things about the world.

Xue Pan couldn't help being cried by Baochai, and he always loved Baochai the most. Hearing Baochai talk about how female students were bullied by school students and how they were insulted outside, Xue Pan would bring it to Baochai. Thinking of Baochai's fear of making such a difficult situation, even if he had a playful heart, he put it away, so he had to press his temper and learn some economic methods.

Seeing that this method worked, Baochai found more and more such short stories or reports in newspapers to read to Xue Pan, and then asked the housekeeper to invite a retired clerk who had been in charge of criminal affairs at home. Every day, the clerk told Xue Pan about various cases in the yamen for an hour, and also about how prisoners in prison were tortured.

After a few days like this, Xue Pan had put away his playful thoughts and started to concentrate on housework.

Mrs. Yuan Xue felt distressed seeing her son being detained in such a way. She wanted to intercede with Xue Pan, but Baochai stopped her with a few words. Although he restrained Xue Pan, it was really for his own good, so he didn't say anything more. Later, seeing that Xue Pan had changed for the better, he felt happy and at the same time, he loved to discuss some family matters with Baochai more and more.

One day, when Baochai came back from school, she saw her mother reading a letter. She went up to ask and found out that it was Mrs. Wang's letter.

The letter wrote that Jia Min's son had passed away, and Jia Min was in grief but couldn't afford to get sick. Mrs. Wang wrote in the letter very complacently, showing a bit of joy. She was happy in Jia's house but still wanted to Pretending to be sad, unable to let go of her heart, she could only write to her own sister to tell her.

After reading the letter, Mrs. Xue covered her face and sighed, "I didn't know my sister was so cruel."

Baochai looked puzzled after reading it, and after a long time sat down and advised Mrs. Xue: "Mom, let's spend less time with my aunt in the future."

"What do you mean by my son?" Although Mrs. Xue was somewhat dissatisfied with Mrs. Wang's thoughts, but after all, they are sisters of the same mother, and the sisterhood can be broken easily.

"Now Mrs. Jia's aunt only has one son and one daughter. The Lin family's heirs are so thin that the only son left like this. Although my aunt has never seen the child's aunt, it is not hurt, but it shouldn't be like this. She is gloating, this is her sister-in-law and uncle's sister, so she is so cruel, and if there is something wrong with our family in the future, how can I rest assured that my aunt will help us wholeheartedly."

Baochai said in a slow voice: "Mom should have recognized my aunt's personality. I shouldn't have said this to a junior like me, but I'm always uneasy."

"My son thinks too much." Mrs. Xue was stunned for a while before she said this: "Your aunt and Jia Min are separated by a layer, so I am close to her."

Seeing that Baochai couldn't be persuaded, she didn't want to say anything else, but she was thinking about persuading her again when she had time. If she couldn't be persuaded, she now has a father and brother, so she just stays in Jinling and doesn't go to the capital. Well, Mrs. Wang can't harm her family even if she thinks about it.

Thinking of the relationship with Daiyu in the previous life, and thinking of such a clean and clear girl, now that her younger brother passed away, her mother was ill, and she didn't know how she was crying. Baochai was heartbroken again. The younger brother of the Lin family, who had never seen him before, silently read a few scriptures on the past, and discussed with Mrs. Xue that Jinling is so close to Yangzhou. After all, he knew about this, and he should send some medicinal materials there.

Mrs. Xue is soft-hearted and kind. When Baochai talked about how sad the Lin family was, she also hurt her heart for a while, and asked people to pack up a lot of precious medicinal materials. Instead of going through the postal service, she personally sent her confidant The son took someone to send it.

After a few days, the old woman came back and only talked about how haggard Jia Min was, how sad Mr. Lin was, and how thin Miss Lin was. Mrs. Xue shed tears again, and Baochai also called the old woman to ask a question. , after learning that Miss Lin had read the letter she wrote and expressed her gratitude, she was also relieved.

Although she didn't know if this letter could unravel that sentimental sister Lin, but after all, it was a friendship from a previous life, so it's better to do more if you can do what you can.

It happened that school was suspended for these two days, and Baochai had just asked the old woman when she received a letter from Xue Hong. And he has gone out of his way to confirm the court's development of Siberia. The court's finances are really tight, just like Baochai's intention to jointly develop with big merchants. There are several big merchants in the capital, and some of them have been operating Zhongjinghou's line of shipping, and several big banks also expressed their willingness to contribute money and efforts.

It's just that most people want to compete for the silver mines and money mines and copper mines, but they don't pay much attention to oil mines and road construction.

Because of this, Xue Hong easily won the [-]-year exploitation right of a large oil field that had just been surveyed, and he even went to the court, willing to spend the entire Xue family's efforts to build a railway from Mongolia to Siberia.

The court was very satisfied with this, and also rewarded Xue Hong, because Xue Hong was the first businessman who expressed his willingness to build roads, and the court also offered him many preferential conditions. Several experienced scientific researchers who had built railways helped Xue's family survey, and another thing was that they could mobilize some death row prisoners to do labor. The Xue family only took care of the three meals a day for these death row prisoners without paying extra wages.

The most important one is the completion of this railway. In the next hundred years, the Xue family will get [-]% of the expenses for the transportation of people or goods via this railway. This is the one that makes Xue Hong the most happy. Now it seems that The cost of income is not large, but the Xue family will spend countless manpower and material resources, but after careful calculation, as long as the court intensifies development efforts, within ten years, the mineral resources obtained during the period will be absolutely rich, and these minerals will need to be transported back However, taking the railway is the best choice. At that time, the Xue family will not know how much profit they will make.

Xue Hongxin praised Baochai for his long-term vision, only this one thing, the Xue family will have no worries in the next hundred years.

Baochai was overjoyed when she read the letter, and she took Xue Pan and his brother and sister to discuss the early preparation of funds, how to lead people to investigate, how to mobilize personnel, and analyzed the benefits to Xue Pan in detail.

Xue Pan also knew a lot about the world at this time, he was not the big fool Xue in his previous life, so he naturally knew that Baochai's words were true, and he scratched his ears and cheeks with joy.