"Your Highness, are you... short of money recently?" Luo Xuening blushed, with a hint of embarrassment on her pink face.

Apart from this reason, she really couldn't imagine what else could happen that would make a prince like her ask for medical expenses.

Long Moxun: "...What do you think?"

Long Moxun glanced at her dimly, with helplessness in his eyes. He really admired Luo Xuening's amazing train of thought. The thing that Prince Jing's Mansion lacked the least was money. Of course, even if he was short of money, he couldn't use this small medical fee to make up for it. It was just a drop in the bucket and could not solve any problem.

The Prince Jing's Mansion is not short of money, but what it lacks is people. For someone like Luo Xue Ning, Long Mo Xun intends to bring her to his side and use her for his own purposes, but Luo Xue Ning is too stupid to think of it.

Others were willing to work for him, but Luo Xuening tried every means to stay away from him.

Long Moxun admitted that he was more or less stubborn. The further Luo Xue Ning moved away from him, the more he wanted to get closer to Luo Xue Ning.

For example, he knew very well that Luo Xue Ning could not afford to hire Dr. Sai to treat people with her status, but he just wanted to see Luo Xue Ning submit in front of him even though she was obviously reluctant and unwilling.

Long Moxun's obsession with Luo Xuening is quite deep, and it is beyond ordinary admiration. However, Long Moxun himself is not aware of it yet.

"How about I introduce a way to make money to the prince?"

Luo Xuening raised her head, her face slightly flushed, like a spring flower in March. Her smile always makes people feel refreshed.

"Do you think that I look short of money?"

Luo Xuening smiled awkwardly. She knew that Prince Jing's Mansion was not short of money. She lifted her hair with her delicate hands, revealing a delicate face: "When it comes to money, the more the better. Moreover, the prince has to support such a large palace and so many people. One more business means one more guarantee, right?"

If you really want to seize the throne in the future, it will be a very expensive matter. In short, Prince Jing's Mansion is not short of money, but you can't always complain about having too much money. Otherwise, why would you come to ask in person for a small medical fee?

Besides, our Prime Minister's Office paid for the medical expenses. Now Prince Jing is asking for more money. Isn't this just robbing one's thieves?

"It's easy for you to say. Nowadays, the market in the capital is mostly divided up by a few princes. I do have a few shops, but the profits are not big. Moreover, if I were to invest in a shop, I don't have that much spare money and energy now, so your way of making money is useless to me."

Although Long Moxun is a prince, it has only been a few years since he left the palace to build his own residence. In addition, Long Moxun's biological mother has long disappeared. Without any external support, he can only look after the few shops passed down from his family and earn a little money for supplements. If he really relied on making money from a few shops, he would have eaten up all the money long ago.

And in fact, the market in the capital, as Long Moxun said, had already been divided up among several princes.

Of course, the princes mentioned here are not the princes personally appointed by the current emperor, but the emperor’s brothers.

Throughout the dynasties, every struggle for the throne was accompanied by a massacre, and the same was true when the current emperor first ascended the throne.

Those who were still able to survive after a massacre were either so powerful that the emperor did not need to fear them, or they hid their power so deeply that the emperor could not move against them.

However, no one who can survive in the royal family is a fool.

The few princes who remain now, Prince Duan, Prince Rui and Prince Min, are not easy to deal with. It is not easy for them to eat on their uncle's turf.

"Of course, it's not possible to do the traditional store business, but why doesn't the prince try a field that the princes haven't set foot in? The princes can monopolize the stores in the capital, but can't the prince monopolize the money in the capital?"

"Well, tell me about it."

Long Moxun became somewhat interested. He looked at Luo Xuening calmly, his eyes falling on her black hair intentionally or unintentionally.

"If the prince wants to steal money from other princes, he has to take advantage of the situation and specifically target areas that the princes can't reach. In addition, they can't intervene in areas that they can't intervene in. Considering these conditions, I think it's most appropriate for the prince to open an investment bank now."

"Investment...in bank?"

Long Moxun was a little confused. He searched carefully in his mind. Although there were many talented people in his mansion, he had never heard such a strange word from anyone.

"What is this?"

"That is, we usually do trading, and what we sell is commodities, while investment banks also do trading, but what they sell is information and negotiation."

"As for investment banks, their core value is to match deals. They can unite sellers and buyers in Nanshao and even other countries to maximize the value of a product. The relationship between investment banks and their partners is profit sharing."

Long Moxun still had only a vague understanding of it. Not to mention that this gentleman was not a businessman with a shrewd business mind, even if he was a businessman, he would not be able to understand it if his mind was slow.

Luo Xue Ning thought about it and decided to tell the story with a short story: "For example, I have a pearl, but it has no market and I can't find a buyer. Then, I can go to an investment bank, and the investment bank can find a buyer for me, so that my pearl can be sold at the highest price."

Long Moxun lowered his head slightly, glanced at her, and said, "Where did you find this priceless pearl?"

Luo Xue Ning: "......" I was just making a metaphor, can you highlight the key points? Pay attention.

But she knew that Long Moxun understood that investment banks actually had some similar responsibilities to ancient pawnshops, but the responsibilities were higher than pawnshops. They both put goods in one place to sell, but the effects were very different. Because pawnshops would depreciate the goods, while investment banks would only increase the value of goods.

That’s why Luo Xuening said this is a value-added transaction.

After listening to Luo Xuening's explanation, Long Moxun finally understood how the so-called investment bank worked. However, the problems involved were not the slightest bit.

"First, how do we collect information about buyers and sellers? Second, how do people place goods or even money in our investment bank? Third, how does our investment bank use this money? What is our profit distribution?"

Long Moxun asked so many questions in one breath, which showed that he was really interested. However, this investment bank was like a big pie, and how it would be divided in the end was still unknown.

This series of questions made Luo Xuening a little flustered. She reorganized her thoughts and said.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about this problem. The prince's subordinates must have many information networks. When you collect intelligence, you can also collect information about buyers and sellers. It's a piece of cake."

Long Moxun snorted coldly. Not bad, he even reported the news from his intelligence network.

In fact, in the capital, anyone with a little power will build his own intelligence network, which may be small or large, depending on the person, but this small intelligence network will not make everyone ignorant of the outside world and lose the opportunity to assess the situation in vain. Therefore, Long Moxun was not surprised that Luo Xue Ning knew that she had a special intelligence network. However, she said it so openly, which made Long Moxun say coldly: "What does my intelligence network have to do with you, Luo Xue Ning, you really care too much."

"......"

Luo Xue Ning was choked and couldn't speak for a moment. She rolled her eyes. She was always not polite in front of Long Mo Xun, and now, she was even worse.

What bothered Long Moxun was not her rolling eyes, but her sometimes careless words. Everyone knew the importance of intelligence, but if one really spoke such things openly, that would be a matter of life and death. Long Moxun was not afraid, but Luo Xuening was just a small ant that could be manipulated by anyone. Couldn't you be more careful?

The worry that was about to be answered turned into an accusation, and Long Moxun was quite upset.

"Your Highness, are you trying to tell me that I shouldn't bring up these things? Don't worry, I'll just talk about it in front of you. I do have some political awareness."

Luo Xue Ning said this coldly, but it made Long Mo Xun's brows relax for a moment, and he was actually a little happy. But he thought for a long time and felt that there was nothing worth being happy about Luo Xue Ning's plain words. Luo Xue Ning was not that guarded against him, so why should he be happy about this matter?

The little bit of arrogance in Prince Jing's heart flared up again. His slightly relaxed brows suddenly became a little colder, which made Luo Xuening sigh inwardly. This prince really knew how to change his expression.