Facts have proved that Li Yongji still overestimated the strength of the Wang family, and also overestimated the influence of the Wang family's extermination on the official face.

The Wang family is indeed very rich and powerful, and it is a local tyrant, but because it is usually too low-key, a businessman, and not a prestigious high-level bureaucratic family, so in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, it is a family that cannot be put on the table.

If you don't rebel, the court won't look down on you, and the magistrates won't be able to control you, even if you rebel, as long as you don't have a big impact and destruction, it won't be a big deal in the eyes of the court.

Now the magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, if you dare to say that there are no bandits, robbers or civil unrest in the local area, you are embarrassed to greet people, so the Wang family's rebellion was destroyed, because it was "strangled in the bud", that is, it did not cause much impact and destruction, so in the eyes of the Qing government, it was just an ordinary local bandit, and the definition was the rebellion of the Wang bandits.

In addition to factors such as too little destructive power, there is another reason why the imperial court despises the rebellion of the bandits, that is, there are too few heads of bandits.

At the beginning, Li Yongji had already agreed that only the head of the Wang family would be removed, and no one should be counted, so no matter how ruthless Zhou Da was, he only clicked the main family members of the Wang family, and the other servants did not move, but just found a place to watch and wait for disposal. The members of the Wang family who were clicked were only about 100 people in total, excluding the old and weak, and there were only about 30 heads of men.

If it weren't for the evidence that the Wang family had fornicated with the bandits, and the bandits were too sensitive in the eyes of the Qing government, and they were to be placed in the prosperous era, the destruction of the Wang family might be a matter of one sentence in the center of the imperial court, and it would not have attracted the attention of the important ministers at all. In other words, if you don't engage in fornication and banditry, but just make it an ordinary bandit, then the influence of this matter can be further reduced.

As for the relationship between the Wang family and the governor of Liangjiang, it is even more unreliable, when the Wang family is strong, it may be a little useful, but when He Guiqing knew that the Wang family was actually exterminated by bandits, and the evidence was conclusive, and he also walked 800 miles to report to the imperial court urgently, he immediately executed the concubine of the Wang family secretly, yes, it literally, it was a secret killing, and there was no intention of avenging the Wang family at all, and he was even afraid that someone would talk about this.

But no matter what, this is also a good thing for officials to handle properly, after all, Qingpu County is in the rear of the camp in the south of the Yangtze River, and the geographical location is quite important, once something happens, the consequences are unimaginable, so whether it is to boost people's hearts or for something else, there is still a necessary disposal.

In this way, it took only a quarter of an hour before and after Su Shun and others gave the arrangement.

The first is punishment, the Wang family led by Wang Feng was defined as a rebel, Wang Feng's Wang family was arrested and interrogated on the spot, and the Wang family property in various places was confiscated on the spot.

The second is praise, because of the proper handling of He Jiyun, the magistrate of Qingpu County, the special official was promoted to one level, from the seventh-grade magistrate to the sixth-grade Songjiang Prefecture, and for the time being, he was also in charge of the affairs of the Qingpu magistrate; In addition, the local regiment trained the Jingwu Army to fight effectively, and the special reward was given to Li Yongji, the general manager of the Jingwu Regiment, and a foreign commissioner of the ninth grade, plus 3,000 taels of silver.

He Zhixian's promotion is expected, people are originally in the system, or they are from the imperial examination, and it is natural to be promoted, as for Li Yongji, he also has an official promotion, and he has been directly promoted from no product to the ninth grade, which is unexpected.

However, if you think about it carefully, the foreign commissioner is actually a military attaché, which is one level lower than that of a civilian official, and the foreign commission is actually extra, that is, the meaning of the establishment, which was originally a rotten official position in the Xianfeng period, so it is not a brilliant reward.

On the contrary, with this official position, that is, a serious court official, he must eat official salaries on a monthly basis, that is, he will be able to issue orders to mobilize Li Yongji's army in the future, instead of just a militia with strong autonomy as before.

Therefore, in the eyes of discerning people, compared with the total amount of this Zhengjiupin foreign commission, it is still three thousand taels of silver, but when the layers are deducted, when it really reaches Li Yongji's hands, it would be good to have half of it.

But no matter what, this can be regarded as a promotion, with this general identity, Li Yongji can be officially called an adult, before the people of the Jingwu Army called him an adult, just an honorific title, there are always some names that are not right, but now it is justified, and outsiders can also call him Lord Li.

When the court's reward came down, it was already a month later, and during this period, the local government had already carried out further raids and arrests of the Wang family in advance, so even if the Wang family still had survivors in other places, this time they did not run, as for their local properties, they were naturally all confiscated, but they did not go into the treasury, but into the pockets of relevant people.

Li Yongji couldn't control the Wang family's industries in Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places, but the Wang family had more local industries in Qingpu County, so Li Yongji made a lot of money by exterminating the Wang family.

However, since most of this wealth is real estate such as fields, and Li Yongji is not much interested in being a big landlord in the here and now, and what he needs most is gold and jewelry and other things that can be sent to modern society for money, so after a little consideration, he decisively decided to auction the Wang family's property for cash, rather than continue to stay in his hands.

The more than 100,000 acres of fertile land of the Wang family are all good land, most of them are high-quality paddy fields, and many of them are connected together, and the value is very high, so when they heard that they were going to sell the land, there were really many people who were tempted by it, not only many large local households in Qingpu County rushed to buy, but even people outside Qingpu County heard the news and came to buy.

In addition, the Wang family's tea introduction and salt introduction are also good things, which are customs clearance certificates issued by provincial governments, which are better than the regular salt introduction tea introduction of the imperial court. With these two things, you can justifiably purchase tea and salt, which is a profitable business.

There is also the fact that although many of the shares held by the Wang family in various places have lost their role because they have been seized by the government, the Wang family still has a lot of wholly-owned money houses, pawnshops, grain shops, silk villages and other industries in Qingpu County, as well as many gambling houses, **, big tobacco houses and other industries. Among them, in addition to the money village, pawnshop and grain shop Li Yongji is kept for his own use, other industries such as tea houses, gambling houses, **, silk villages, and big tobacco houses are all for sale.

Because the Jingwu Army had visited Qingpu County before, and the county was so scared that the county did not dare to open the city gate, many people had seen the majesty of the Jingwu Army in that incident, coupled with the strong support of Hezhi County, so the auction was carried out quite smoothly, which lasted nearly a month, and it was sold cleanly, and a total of more than 30,000 taels of gold were obtained, as well as jewelry and jade worth more than 1.1 million taels of silver.

That's right, it's gold and jewelry, because Li Yongji has long explained that if you want to buy the Wang family's property, you don't need silver or copper coins, just jewelry, jadeite and gold.

Among them, Li Yongji's first jewelry, the first jadeite in jewelry, if there is no suitable jadeite, then like Hetian jade, diamonds, ivory products can also be counted, and other things will be counted first, if these are not suitable, gold is also fine.

Obviously, these things that Li Yongji wants are things that can be sold at a high price in modern society, because he heard Zhang Xinda say that jadeite and Hetian jade in modern society are bullish every year, and the price of ivory products is also high.

By the way, Zhang Xinda has already obtained a green card in South Africa, and bought a medium-sized jewelry company in South Africa, the jewelry company has the right to export gold and jewelry, and it can already be justifiably laundered money, no, it is an unknown jade jewelry and gold products, and South Africa's silver production is also a lot, buying silver from South Africa is not only cheaper, but also easier to obtain.

In any case, Li Yongji's gold jewelry is the most suitable for him, and it is also the item with the highest value in modern society at present. And because Li Yongji already had a jewelry store at this time and had many professional masters, he only accepted high-quality products, and he didn't want jade and jade with a little difference.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil during this period, and the price of jewelry jadeite itself was not high, so the jewelry jadeite worth one million taels of silver, if it was placed in modern society, the price would not be scored, not to mention anything else, there were more than 20 pieces of the best Laokeng glass imperial green products, which also had a set of zodiac products that were also considered to be the best in the Qing Dynasty, and if they were sold together, the price would definitely not be low.

This is still too short, according to Li Yongji's estimate, if this acquisition continues, and after a long time, the number of jewelry and jade products will be more and more, and there will be more and more high-quality products.

You know, the Qing Dynasty is very obsessed with jadeite, and the number of jadeite exported from Myanmar to the Qing Dynasty is also very large, but because of the long-term war, after a hundred years of **, it led to a large number of outflows and losses, but in 1860, as long as there is money, it is still easy to collect jadeite jewelry.

In addition to auctioning off the Wang family's property, Li Yongji also reintegrated resources internally and redivided the scope of responsibility.

To put it simply, Li Yongji will continue to be mainly responsible for the military for a considerable period of time in the future, and will continue to provide supplies in short supply on time, and as for business matters, they will all be handed over to his father Li Zhengxiang.

In other words, whether it is Dai Mengde jewelry or CITIC Money, although it is still Li Yongji's own personal sole property, in terms of operation and management, it is all handed over to his father Li Zhengxiang.

Since then, Li Zhengxiang is fully responsible for business matters, in order to make things convenient for him, he also spent a huge amount of money to buy Li Zhengxiang an alternate Taoist identity, at present, because of time, this identity has not come down, but it is a sure thing.

As for the Yongji Fund, it will be merged into CITIC Money, which is a special business of CITIC Money, this foundation will continue to maintain the model of interest-free loans, and will expand the beneficiary group, not only the people of the Li and Wang families can apply, but also other people who are related to the Li and Wang families, which is equivalent to expanding the commercial sphere of influence of the Li and Wang families.

In addition, handing over all business matters to his father also gave Li Zhengxiang greater autonomy, fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the whole family to participate, stimulated Li Zhengxiang's ability, and allowed Li and Wang to connect more closely.

After all, it can be seen from the previous series of things that his cheap father Li Zhengxiang's ability to deal with people and business is quite strong, and he belongs to the type with high emotional intelligence, which is more suitable for business than himself, plus he is his own father and immediate family, and the business affairs are handed over to him, Li Yongji feels very relieved, at least more at ease than handing over to others.

In this way, Li Yongji will be able to draw out the energy he has invested in business and go all out to recruit troops and prepare for war. After all, according to the information given by Zhang Xinda, there is not much time left, and the Taiping Army will launch an offensive to break the Jiangnan camp for the second time, which is the most glorious moment of the Taiping Army, and it is also the most proud battle of the Taiping Army!

In this battle, the Jiangnan camp will soon be breached, and a large number of southern Jiangsu areas such as Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Hangzhou will fall, if there is no exception, Qingpu County will be easily captured by the Taiping army, so the next is also the biggest crisis moment in Qingpu County.

However, the crisis means the opportunity, as long as you grasp it well and achieve heavy results in the battle with the Taiping Army, then the soaring Huang Tengda is just around the corner, and it is definitely not the same as the little favor given by the Wang family.

In short, a chance to take off is just around the corner, and Li Yongji decided to go all out and make the best preparations to meet this new challenge!