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Chapter 499: The Responsibility of Being a Teacher for One Day and a Father for Life

Two days after returning home, Huang Xiaochuan went back to work because school was about to start again.

The little girl naturally had to be taken with her at all times. Apart from being mischievous, she had no other flaws. Huang Xiaochuan found a corner in his office and set up a toy house for her. Most of the time, the little girl would play happily in it by herself.

Just as Huang Xiaochuan was looking at some Nasdaq index reports that had just been sent to him, someone knocked on the office door.

Huang Xiaochuan looked up from the pile of tedious data reports and said, "Come in!"

The student who came in was Qiao Hongbo. Huang Xiaochuan couldn't help but look at the calendar on the table. It wasn't time for them to start school yet, so why was he here so early?

Qiao Hongbo greeted Huang Xiaochuan with a smile: "Teacher!"

Qiao Hongbo then made a funny face at the little girl to tease her.

The little girl was getting a bit bored playing by herself when she saw someone coming. She immediately perked up and ran over to Qiao Hongbo on her short little legs.

"Brother, play with me."

Huang Xiaochuan pretended to be serious and said, "Xiaoduo, Dad and your brother have things to do. Go play by yourself. Dad will make you something delicious when we get home."

"Hmph!" The little girl left in dissatisfaction.

Looking at this little girl, Huang Xiaochuan felt that she was really different from other children. Generally speaking, when other children are rejected without reason, they will definitely cry and make a fuss, but this little girl is different. She will not act spoiled, but she will express her dissatisfaction. Compared with children of the same age, she is a bit too smart.

Qiao Hongbo smiled and said, "Junior Sister is so cute."

When it comes to this precious daughter, Huang Xiaochuan is full of lawsuits: "Forget it! Are you still praising her? As long as she is let out, she will definitely get into trouble. Either she will be beaten or other people's things will be damaged. If I don't find something for her, she can tear down my office."

Qiao Hongbo laughed. What Huang Xiaochuan said was true. Ever since his teacher's wife went to England, his teacher often brought his junior sister to school. This little girl was cute, but she was also quite good at causing trouble. But this little girl had powerful backing! Grandpa Wang treated her like a precious jewel. Just because a vice principal muttered that Huang Xiaochuan bringing a child to work was not a good influence, the old man brought his books and teacup and camped out in that vice principal's office for almost a week.

From then on, no one in the school dared to mention this matter again. After all, it didn't affect the teaching tasks, and everyone inevitably encounters some difficulties. Leaders should be more humane.

Fortunately, the junior sister is cute and looks harmless, which deceives many people. In fact, hidden under her cute appearance is a violent little girl who is known as the most powerful girl under the age of five.

After exchanging pleasantries, Qiao Hongbo got down to business with Huang Xiaochuan.

"Teacher, this is some data you asked me to compile during the summer vacation."

After Huang Xiaochuan took it, he glanced at it briefly without saying anything. This was actually a way to train the students' academic abilities, which was to learn to find what they needed from massive amounts of data, provided that the general direction was determined first.

For example, what Huang Xiaochuan is having Qiao Hongbo and his team do now is to study and understand the impact of housing marketization on the economy after the abolition of housing allocation benefits.

Huang Xiaochuan also wanted to clear his head, so he discussed this issue with Qiao Hongbo.

What impact do you think real estate development will have on my country's economy?

After thinking for a moment, Qiao Hongbo said, "Since the issuance of Document No. 23 last year, the welfare housing allocation has become history. Moreover, the national economic direction has been determined to expand domestic demand, and real estate has been positioned as a new growth point for the national economy in the next few years."

By reviewing relevant data from the National Bureau of Statistics, I found that my country's current urbanization rate is only 32%, indicating a huge potential demand for housing. However, the current supply is still relatively insufficient, as the proposal to fully develop the real estate market has only been in place for about a year.

Following your suggestion, I used Lewis's dual economic model to conduct a deduction. The results show that accelerating urbanization will lead to rapid development of the real estate market. In other words, the real estate market will also greatly promote my country's urbanization development; the two are mutually reinforcing.

Moreover, according to the multiplier effect theory, real estate can also drive upstream and downstream industries such as steel, building materials, home appliances, and decoration, which will bring tremendous momentum to the entire economic engine. Therefore, I believe that in the next ten to twenty years, real estate will become a pillar industry of my country's economic development.

Huang Xiaochuan was quite satisfied with Qiao Hongbo's performance.

He then gave his student some pointers: "What you've said are all positive impact analyses. As academic research, you should also study what potential risks might arise if real estate development becomes unbalanced. You can learn more about the island real estate bubble, and also about the several crises in Hong Kong's real estate market. I have a lot of relevant data here, and you can check it anytime."

This office contains a wealth of data on domestic and Southeast Asian economic development over the past decade. These were all obtained by Huang Xiaochuan at his expense. To exaggerate a bit, even the Shanghai Institute of Economics might not have as comprehensive a collection as this.

Qiao Hongbo nodded excitedly. This was wonderful! You know, the materials the teacher had were not available anywhere else. He wondered where the teacher got them from. But following a teacher who had both academic ability and connections and financial resources was truly a blessing.

Moreover, my professor even gave me 10,000 yuan for researching data at the National Bureau of Statistics, which covered my food, accommodation, and taxi fares. Compared to other professors' students, I felt like I had fallen into a paradise. Who wouldn't envy the graduate students supervised by other professors these days?

"Okay, I understand. By the way, this is the remaining budget, and these are the receipts for the money spent." Qiao Hongbo took some receipts and a stack of money tied with a rubber band from his bag and placed them on Huang Xiaochuan's desk.

Huang Xiaochuan glanced at the stack of receipts and money on the table and said, "Keep the money; consider it your subsidy. Not only you, but everyone else will too. You'll be responsible for collecting and organizing the receipts. Once your junior brothers and sisters return, have them hand them over to you. Please take this opportunity to help me keep accounts."

Qiao Hongbo didn't stand on ceremony with his teacher. After all, he had known the teacher well since his undergraduate years and was familiar with his temperament.

"It's no trouble at all. If there's nothing else, I'll head back to my dorm. I came straight here as soon as I got back, but I haven't had a chance to clean my dorm yet."

Huang Xiaochuan waved with a smile: "Hurry up and go!"

Qiao Hongbo smiled and waved to the little girl before leaving Huang Xiaochuan's office with his luggage on his back.

A few days later, Huang Xiaochuan's students returned to school one after another.

They also came to Huang Xiaochuan one by one to report on their summer vacation achievements. Huang Xiaochuan also tested each of the students, and overall, they were quite good.

Moreover, after a year of observation and interaction, Huang Xiaochuan found that these students were of good character and suited his taste perfectly.

So after everyone had arrived, Huang Xiaochuan arranged for Qiao Hongbo to call the other five people to his office.

Once everyone was present, Huang Xiaochuan asked them, "I'd like to ask you all, since you're all so confident about the future of the real estate market, what are you going to do?"

The six people were collectively bewildered, not understanding Huang Xiaochuan's words for a moment. What were they doing? Of course, they were doing research!

That was the first thought in everyone's mind.

Xu Tianlei looked around, raised his hand, and said, "Conduct continuous and in-depth research on the development of the real estate industry."

Seeing the others nodding in agreement, Huang Xiaochuan shook his head and chuckled, "Idiots! Now that you've discovered the trend of real estate development, why aren't you getting involved? You guys are supposed to be studying economics with me? Let me tell you, if you don't have tens of millions in assets in the future, don't go out and tell people you're my students. I can't afford to lose face like that."

Upon hearing this, the group was startled. Tens of millions? They looked at each other in bewilderment.

Because he had been following Huang Xiaochuan for a long time, Qiao Hongbo boldly said, "Teacher, doing business requires capital. Even if we know that the real estate market will be booming in the future, we don't have the money to participate! Moreover, this is a long-term investment, and we can't see the returns in the short term. Besides, you always tell us that investment is risky and we should be cautious before investing."

Huang Xiaochuan laughed upon hearing this: "I have a suggestion. Let's treat this as an academic practice. The six of you will register a company, and I will invest in it. The main business of this company will be investing in real estate. As Qiao Hongbo said, this is a long-term investment project. So let's see how much return my investment will bring me, and how much profit you will ultimately gain."

Seeing that Huang Xiaochuan was serious, Xu Tianlei raised his hand again and asked, "Teacher, how much money do you plan to invest?"

Huang Xiaochuan smiled and extended his palm.

"Hiss, 500,000?"

"Wow!"

"Really?"

"So many?"

The group gasped in surprise!

Huang Xiaochuan glared at the listless students, exasperated: "It's five million!"

Upon hearing this, the group was so shocked that they couldn't speak, their eyes widening in disbelief.

Huang Xiaochuan shook his head as he looked at his students, who seemed to have never seen the world before.

This was also an idea that suddenly came to Huang Xiaochuan. The future real estate development boom is unstoppable, and it would be quite easy to get a share of the pie. Moreover, some of these students come from relatively poor families. Although he always finds excuses to give them various subsidies, this is not a long-term solution, is it?

The principle of "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" applies here, so Huang Xiaochuan came up with this idea.

This amount of money is nothing to him, but it can bring him a rich return. It can also allow several students to put theory into practice and earn a considerable income for them. It's a win-win situation, so why not do it?

Duan Jinglan looked at her teacher with her deep, large eyes, and then asked, "Teacher, why are you doing this? Since you have so much money, you can do it yourself. We can just work for you."

The other five people had the same idea and wanted to hear why Huang Xiaochuan wanted to do this.

Huang Xiaochuan looked at the group with dissatisfaction: "Look at the prospects of you guys! Don't you know what it means to be a teacher for a day and a father for life? Although I'm not much older than you, as the old saying goes, there is no order of precedence in learning; those who are accomplished come first."

Now that I've become your teacher, I must take on this responsibility. I need to cultivate not only your academic research abilities but also your practical skills. I don't want to be remembered years from now and people saying behind my back that I was the teacher of so-and-so, a bookworm. I can't bear that embarrassment.

Furthermore, the ancients said that "there are houses of gold in books." Why do you study? Isn't it to change your destiny? Now the opportunity has arrived. The choice is yours, and I will absolutely respect it.

With things said to this extent, how could they not be moved? Meeting such a teacher was a blessing from their past lives.

The decision to start a company for investment was made.