"You're a little money fan!" Chen Xu smiled and hugged Meng Wan in his arms.

"Leasing business is a mode of expansion of finance, although there are a lot of rich people in Daqin at present, but the real brave explorers do not necessarily raise enough money to build sea ships, and as you said, a big ship often tens of millions of dollars, plus equipment crew food, medicine, clothing and other expenses, an expedition team wants to go to sea, in addition to the big ship, at least more than 100,000 dollars, so navigation is a very money-burning industry, not the top rich can not afford it, but the real rich do not want to go to sea to risk making a fortune, After all, the investment is too great, and once something happens, it will be lost, and the accumulation of decades or even generations will be completely wiped out, but if we spend money to build the ship first, and then rent it to those explorers with how much money is spent every year or simply how much income is from each voyage, all they have to pay is to recruit manpower and boatmen, prepare food, clothing and other daily necessities and other necessities, then the pressure will be much less, and if the ship is damaged or even capsized, they do not need to pay for all the losses. Only through these unconventional means, with a large amount of money to leverage the development of the shipbuilding industry, can we promote the rapid development of navigation, because this matter alone depends on the imperial court, time is not waiting, Daqin can afford to wait, I can't wait, husband, I can't wait, if not, some things may need to drag on for more than 20 Chinese New Year's Eve years or even longer......"

Chen Xu's words Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan roughly understood, so they stopped talking, because Chen Xu said more esoteric and they couldn't understand it, and all the professional terms of finance, leasing, burning money, and insurance sounded like a cloud.

"I will arrange someone to do it in the ship leasing company, but the insurance company will arrange someone to do it, and the faster the better!" Chen Xu turned his head to look at Fan Caiying, who was holding his second daughter Qiuyue, and said.

"Yes, Master Hou, don't worry, you have taught me many times about insurance, the theory is not complicated, I will let my brother personally go to the East China Sea to prepare for this matter!" Fan Caiying hurriedly agreed.

"Well, Brother Sizhe is steady, he should be good to go!" Chen Xu nodded, and then the family turned back to Xing'er's marriage, discussing what gifts and specific arrangements needed to be prepared, etc., and when they returned to the Qinghe Hou Mansion, they found that Yang Zhu, the Ministry of Rites who had arranged for the emperor to come to pass the edict, was already waiting at the door of the Hou Mansion.

After getting off the car, it was naturally a salute greeting, and the Hou Mansion was also busy preparing for a while, after which Yang Zhu read out the edict of the First Emperor to reward the Taishi and the court clothes, carriages, horses, honor guards and other etiquette systems and regulations to be prepared, anyway, when he became a Taishi, everything was different from before, and there was a special guard of honor with the emperor's royal family, and there was a special forbidden army guard and the Imperial Medical Department arranged to live in the Taishi Mansion of a special family imperial doctor, the last dynasty could not only sit next to the First Emperor, so that the First Emperor as a student could ask for teaching and governing the country at any time, And you can wear a sword to the palace, see the emperor does not worship, and you can also accept the worship of the ministers with the first emperor.

In short, Taishi is a very awesome title.

However, no matter how awesome it is, it is just a title and identity, which is actually redundant for Chen Xu.

In fact, the more titles he had, the more noble his status became, which made him more depressed and cautious.

But Chen Xu was the Taishi, but he was very excited and excited for the servants and subordinates of the Qinghe Hou Mansion, because from now on, their identities will also rise and become people in the Taishi Mansion, and they will be more respected when they go out, so the Hou Mansion is jubilant and lively at this time, up to the housekeeper and down to the slaves, and they all come up to kowtow to congratulate Chen Xu.

Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan Fan Caiying Fan Caiwei are very happy, Chen Xu has become a prince, and their identities are more respected, only Shui Qingrou knows Chen Xu's thoughts, but she can only gently say that she can't do anything.

Soon after the Ministry of Rites ordered Yang Zhu to drink a cup of hot tea and left, the Ministry of Rites ordered Gao Teng to also come with a holy decree and sent the catalogues and land deeds of the 5,000 households and fields and forests that had been rewarded.

Chen Xu was originally the Marquis of Jingyang, there were 3,000 households in Jingyang County, this time the first emperor once again sealed 5,000 households in Jingyang, and almost two-thirds of the entire Jingyang County became Chen Xu's fiefdom.

Gao Teng had just left, and the Ministry of Industry ordered Zai Hong to come with the holy decree and was ordered to build the Taishi Mansion on Chen Xu's fiefdom, but after Chen Xu accepted the holy decree, he asked Zai Hong not to rush to start construction, he wanted to take the time to chat with the First Emperor, and it was best to cancel the construction of the Taishi Mansion.

In Chen Xu's opinion, this Taishi Mansion is first of all a bit overstepping, that is, a Taishi Palace should be built in the Taishi Mansion, and the implication is obvious, that is, the emperor can't live in an ordinary house when he studies with the teacher, but the palace is a building with this pattern, only the Son of Heaven and the princes and kings can live, and Chen Xu is not a prince or a king, so it must be out of line.

Not only that, this Taishi Mansion also has a strong style of the first emperor, that is, like big, especially large, according to the planning of a scroll of silk silk atlas brought by Zai Hong, the main building of the Taishi Mansion designed by Shaofu covers an area of at least 500 acres, if you add some matching landscapes, ponds, ditches and woods, etc., the final area must be more than 1,000 acres, you must know that it belongs to the industry of Shaofu, and the Zongshan Villa, which the royal family likes to play the most, covers an area of only 500 acres, and it is too much to build a large mansion of thousands of acres for him.

Chen Xu and Zai Hong are very familiar with each other, and they used to be superiors and subordinates, and the relationship is very good, so Zai Hong bluntly told him that this Taishi Mansion must have exceeded the system, and he also revealed that this planning map should have been prepared by the First Emperor a long time ago, just like the Taishi chair that was carried to the court today, because Zai Hong of the San Dynasty had just returned to the Ministry of Works, and the emperor arranged for the officials of the Shaofu to send it, which showed that it was not prepared in a hurry.

For Zai Hong, it doesn't matter to him whether the Taishi Mansion is repaired or how much it is repaired, he just has to do things according to the emperor's orders, as long as the court gives money.

For Chen Xu, the construction of such an over-the-top Taishi Mansion will not be much smaller than the project of the library and Beijing Normal University, and it will cost at least tens of millions of money, which is a great waste for the imperial court and a great waste for the people.

Nowadays, Daqin is in ruins, the infrastructure is very imperfect, and the investment in water conservancy, transportation and people's livelihood is the most important aspect.

The most important thing is that Chen Xu may not live after repairing, now he already has two sets of mansions with an area of more than 200 acres, and there is also a Huayu Palace where Ying Shiyan is married, the family has hardly been to it a few times, and now it has been changed to a soap factory.

And just as he was chatting with Zaihong, Shaofu ordered Zhao Wei to come with the holy decree, followed by more than a dozen carriages, all loaded with gold, silver, jewelry, and silk satin rewarded by the emperor.

Listening to Zhao Wei read the holy decree of the reward, Chen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly as he watched the lively scene of the housekeeper directing the servants to carry the gifts back and forth.

He couldn't refuse these things, because this was the first emperor using this method to show his gratitude to him, just like the first emperor himself said, he was just a mortal emperor, for Chen Xu, a disciple of the immortal family, he could only use all the best things that the mortal emperor could come up with as a reward.

Of course, there may be another reason for this.

But no matter what kind of thoughts, Qin Shi Huang has shown his greatest sincerity and achieved enough humility and courtesy.

When it was never able to see through Chen Xu's thoughts, it was able to do so without hesitation, which also showed Qin Shi Huang's true broad-mindedness.

Because once Chen Xu is promoted to the position of Taishi, no matter which heir ascends the throne in the future, he will not be able to shake Chen Xu's position, unless it is the collapse of Great Qin.

In the next few days, the Qinghe Marquis Mansion was very lively, countless princes and princes and relatives and friends came to pay tribute to Chen Xu as a prince, all kinds of gifts filled all the treasury full, in addition to the common valuables such as silk and gold and silver jewelry, there are also a large number of jade and ivory, rhino horn tiger skin, ginseng deer antler velvet and so on like linen wood thrown everywhere, because there are too many, the servants have nowhere to place, can only be stuffed in what horns casually, Chen Xuxu inspected the treasury twice, His face twitched for a long time, but he couldn't calm down, and finally had to order that a large number of valuable medicinal materials should be left behind, and then most of them would be sent to the health center and handed over to Xu Fu for disposal.

In addition to these expensive gifts, the most received is a pile of redemption tickets, just three days of the festival holiday, the total value has exceeded one million dollars.

The limelight is too high, which is completely different from the low-key he has always wanted.

And behind this scenery, there are great hidden dangers.

What's more, he is not short of money, in terms of wealth, he is already the richest man in Daqin at the moment, just the shares of a Huaxia money village are already worth hundreds of millions, as well as the shares of Qinghe Shopping Mall and Keju Commercial Plaza, as well as the shares of the bus company, Fan's winery, Shui's tea house, Jiangdong tea house, Jiangxi porcelain and other shares Plus, Chen Xu's annual income now will not be much less than that of the Shaofu who gave the first emperor to take charge of the money bag, at least twenty or thirty million yuan in a year, and this money is enough for him to live freely.

Therefore, money and gifts have now become superfluous for Chen Xu.

But because of his identity and status, he had to accept it.