Li Yongji's original plan was to stay in Qingpu County for three days, talk about family affection with his family, and simply listen to the operation of the family business, and then go back to Yangxinju Daying to meet with the foreign businessman delegation who had been waiting there for a long time, and formally talk to them about foreign trade issues.

Who knew that after only half a day, I had just gotten acquainted with my family and enjoyed the warmth of my family, so I had to deal with the various visits that followed.

Most of the people who came to visit were the nearby businessmen and gentry or their own relatives, and they immediately rushed over to ask for a meeting after they got their return to Qingpu County.

Due to the large number of people who came, the director surrounded the Li family's mansion in Qingpu County, so that Li Yongji's guard battalion and the Li family's security camp, that is, the people in the security department, became nervous and came to a full-scale martial law.

Originally, Li Yongji wanted to see no one, but his mother said that it was better to meet a few people, most of these people were his relatives, and if they didn't see any of them, they would always make people gossip.

Li Yongji actually disagrees with his mother's idea, and feels that her idea is still the same as before. Now that he is in a high position and has a heavy army, he is not afraid of this kind of thing at all, but since she asked for it, in order to make her happy, he also chose to meet him.

In fact, most of the people who can rush over to see Li Yongji are a little self-aware, either they have a little relationship with Li Yongji before, or they are close relatives and move around more diligently. If it is the kind of relatives who don't usually interact with each other or outsiders who don't know each other well, they don't dare to rashly ask to see each other. Li Yongji's identity is different now, even if you come to ask for a meeting, you have to have a little identity or a little dependence.

The first people Li Yongji met were not his various relatives, but the people he knew when he was very helpful to him.

For example, Qi Hongkui, the local shopkeeper of Jinxiufang, who sold Yangxinju to Li Yongji, and Shen Jingbai of Guangfeng, who was the first to cooperate with Li Yongji's CITIC Qianzhuang, were the first batch of people he received.

I didn't know this, I was shocked at first sight, and when I really met and spoke, I realized that this group of people is now familiar with their own family to the point of being very close.

For example, Shen Jingbai, not to mention that his distant cousin Shen Shiming is still the shopkeeper of CITIC Money, let's say that Shen Jingbai himself, it is said that his daughter has been married to his eldest brother Li Yongchang, and after this year, after his daughter turns fourteen, his eldest brother will marry the daughter of the Shen family as a wife.

There is also Qi Hongkui, he has now jumped to work in Dai Mengde Jewelry, his son is following Li Yongchang as a follower, and his daughter is also married to his eldest brother, and he will marry Li Yongchang as a concubine next year.

In other words, after the New Year, the Shen family and the Qi family will be relatives of themselves.

"Okay, you." Afterwards, Li Yongji joked to his brother, "Quietly, this is a wife and a concubine, and the blessing is not shallow." ”

"What a blessing." Li Yongchang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's not all arranged by my father, there's no way, who made you too busy and didn't dare to bother you with these things, so you can only push me out." Well, this is actually Daddy pulling foreign aid, which is a balancing act of his. ”

"Pull foreign aid? The art of balance? What do you mean? ”

"That's a long story, you can listen to me slowly."

It turned out that although the Li family was a small family in Qingpu County, it was only Li Zhengxiang, if it was said that the Li Wang family, that is, Li Yongji's old mother's family, it was definitely not a small family, but a large family.

It turns out that Li Yongji's grandfather Wang Tianzhong has thirteen brothers and sisters, of which Wang Tianzhong is the seventh, and his other brothers and sisters are all alive and well, and they are all scattered, and the clansmen are all over the entire Songjiang Mansion, especially in Songjiang Mansion, but they are basically mixed in the market.

Grandfather Wang Tianzhong has a daughter and two sons, the first daughter is naturally Li Yongji's mother, the second son is said to have run away from home in an early year, so far there is no news, the third son Wang Sanwu is currently one of the pillars of the Jingwu army.

This is not the point, the point is that among these brothers of my grandfather, my grandfather not only has the least wife, but only one, and also has the fewest children, only three. And most of his brothers not only have wives and concubines, but most of them are especially capable of giving birth. Among them, his sixth grandfather actually has six wives and eighteen children, and these eighteen children are scattered I don't know how many people......

In fact, not to mention Li Yongji himself, even Wang Tianzhong can't count how many relatives he has, if you really want to count, you have to find a genealogy to compare them one by one, but when Wang Tianzhong is usually poor, everyone doesn't interact much, once he is arrogant, then these relatives will swarm out.

Although this sounds a bit snobbish, you can't blame everyone if you think about it, it's really forced by the environment. After all, it is very difficult for everyone to live nowadays, and the means of transportation and communication in this era are very simple, and even large families usually have to go out to visit relatives far away, not to mention their small families.

It can be said that most of the people waiting outside to meet Li Yongji are relatives of the Wang family, and most of them are people who have been supported by the Yongji Fund. Those who can be supported by this fund are either close to Wang Tianzhong, or the Wang family is more capable, otherwise Wang Tianzhong will not give this interest-free loan lightly.

This is an interest-free loan, in this era, but it is regarded as an act of great grace, which is no different from borrowing money, it is not a good relationship, who will lend you money lightly? Therefore, from this point of view, those who have not received the support of the fund are not qualified to come to visit at all.

How to say it, most of these relatives of the Wang family may have been living at the bottom of the market, and they are not scholarly at all, so they are thick-skinned, and they also know more about the power of unity and huddles.

Because of this, since Li Yongji made his career, his grandfather's family also trembled, and the first impact was that Wang Tianzhong took over the ancestral hall and genealogy of the Wang family in a voice, and took over as the patriarch of the Wang family.

From now on, even if the people of the Wang family come out of the five suits, as long as they still rely on the help of the Wang family or have helped them, they have to listen to the words of the patriarch Wang Tianzhong, and any disobedience will be severely punished by the family law!

It is said that the family law of the Wang family is very powerful, ranging from whipping to death, and even dipping in pig cages, riding wooden donkeys and other methods, and the punishment is simply more than that of the government, and the deterrent effect is also stronger.

This also made Li Yongji understand why these distant relatives could pay 800,000 yuan every month, and why they could monopolize all walks of life so quickly when the Li family did not deliberately make a move, there are too many of these people.

Usually, these people may not be conspicuous, and because most of them are from the market, they are relatively scattered, and their strength does not look strong, but once there is a strong leader with them, and they are reunited together with clan power and money, then they can immediately become a powerful force when they gather sand into a tower!

This force is so great that Li Yongji's father, Li Zhengxiang, began to be secretly jealous.

Li Yongchang also said that his father Li Zhengxiang told him privately that the power of the Wang family has been getting bigger and bigger recently, although this is also a good thing, but it is not good to let their family dominate in the long run, so it is necessary to balance.

Recently, he has quietly sent people back to his hometown in Huizhou to gather relatives in his hometown, it is said that he intends to take over those relatives who can be related to the family and are willing to come here to do it, so that the number of people in the Li family will also increase a little, and the Wang family cannot continue to be dominated here.

It's a pity that the Li family's family is not a big family, even if you bring all the relatives from your hometown, it is estimated that the number of people cannot be compared with the local Wang family, the people of the Wang family are too capable of giving birth!

Therefore, while doing this, Li Zhengxiang began to pull foreign aid, not only mobilizing his son-in-law, that is, Lin Guangyao, so that Lin Guangyao could continue to dig deep into his relatives to help, but also hit his eldest son with the idea.

In this way, Li Zhengxiang personally made the decision and asked Li Yongchang to marry Shen Jingbai's daughter and marry next year. The Shen family is also a big family in the local area, in terms of strength, it is only stronger than the people of the Wang family, not weaker, and making friends with the Shen family is equivalent to forming an alliance with the local big Shen family.

In addition, he also discussed with Qi Hongkui to let Qi Hongkui's daughter be Li Yongchang's concubine, which is equivalent to tying up the Qi family, who is very well-connected in Suzhou Mansion. Although Qi Hongkui is not conspicuous here, his family is also a big family in Wu County, Suzhou, and if he is summoned, it will also be a big help.

By the way, where Qi Hongkui used to work, Jinxiufang, the real owner, the Su family, is said to be also fighting with Li Zhengxiang, and it is said that they plan to let one of their daughters come over to be a concubine for Li Yongchang.

In fact, these people originally wanted to marry Li Yongji, but unfortunately Li Yongji was too young, and because of his growing power, Li Zhengxiang did not dare to make decisions even if he was a father, and he felt that Li Yongji's future identity must be unspeakably expensive, and it was not appropriate to marry too early at this time, so he shirked all those who came over and wanted to marry Li Yongji.

Li Yongchang said that his father's practices were actually recognized by his grandfather Wang Tianzhong, and he also felt that it was not good for the Wang family to be dominant, and something would happen sooner or later. Therefore, Wang Tianzhong not only strengthened the internal management of the Wang family, but also helped Li Zhengxiang to get people from all walks of life to help, and recently began to tilt the Yongji Fund towards those people.

According to Wang Tianzhong's statement, a single family is self-defeating, and only by uniting a number of families, engaging in family alliances with blood relations, and using them together, can it last for a long time.

Hearing this, Li Yongji couldn't help but sigh that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. Look at my father and grandfather, they usually look quite harmless, who knew that they would join forces to make such a big family alliance quietly.

In fact, Li Yongji himself is quite contradictory about this kind of family alliance linked by blood and family, which is both useful and troublesome.

To put it bluntly, the things that these relatives are engaged in together are living Japanese-style zaibatsu or American-style conglomerates, which may be useful in the early days, but if one is not done well, this family alliance is likely to become a big cancer in the future.

However, for the time being, there is no need to worry about these too early, and the chaebol economy is not necessarily purely bad, the key is to see how to manage it.

Li Yongji thought about it, let them toss by themselves first during the grass creation period, and when it becomes the climate later, he will simply establish a law, set up the rules, and never tolerate a relative who violates the law.

Since this is the case, whether it is to take care of his father or to be familiar, Li Yongji has no choice but to continue to meet with these relatives who are very helpful to him one by one or together according to the list given by Li Yongchang.

really met, chatted, and after contact, Li Yongji found out that the small business engaged in by these relatives was really helpful to him.

In fact, things like selling tea and private salt are mostly eaten by one or two big families among relatives, after all, they have enough connections and experience, and what they lack is only funds and political support. With Li Yongji's financial support and the Jingwu army as a backer, even if these people don't have to take advantage of it, they can completely defeat the previous merchants just by virtue of legitimate competition, after all, these people from the Wang family do business, but they don't pay taxes at all.

However, most of the relatives of the Wang family are small households, and what they do is also a small business, so they are not familiar with the big business such as selling tea and illegal salt, and they are not able to do it, so they are all doing what they have been doing before.

For example, those who used to be coachmen opened a car dealership, those who used to work as thugs in casinos simply opened a casino by themselves, those who used to weave cloth hired people to open a loom room, and those who used to sell pork collected pigs and opened a slaughterhouse.

And after these people started a business, most of them directly sold products and services to the Li family. For example, the daily consumption of the elite army, although the clothing and weapons are purchased by Li Yongji from modern times, but in terms of food, they are all purchased here.

Like the eggs, pork, vegetables, and even firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea that Jingwujun usually eats, they are all covered by the relatives of the Wang family.

It can be said that just the daily consumption of the Jingwu Army has fed hundreds of relatives of the Wang family.

Li Yongji usually doesn't care much about this, but he doesn't know that the daily consumption of the Jingwu Army is an astronomical amount, after all, the treatment given by Li Yongji is too good.

According to Cheng Dù, the various benefits provided by Li Yongji to the officers and men of the elite armed forces, especially in terms of food, are several times or even more than ten times their own monthly salary! Purely from eating and drinking, even the landlords of Qingpu County can only be envious!

To put it bluntly, Li Yongji's current 20,000 elite soldiers, if you simply look at the daily food consumption, if you count it as money, you can feed at least 300,000 green battalion soldiers!

This made Li Yongji have an idea, and felt that he could continue to develop this advantage and promote his vegetable basket plan in a way that made money or took special care.

So, the conversation quickly looked like this:

"Ah, it turns out that the fish we usually eat in our army are provided by you, Aunt Thirteen, that's really good. What the? Is this business difficult to do? Can't make a lot of money? Oh, it's not like I said, your kind of door-to-door fish collection business is outdated, why don't you open your own pond to raise fish.

You see, I have a kind of largemouth catfish imported from the West here, which grows fast, has few diseases, and can live well even in muddy waters, and the most important thing is that the yield per mu can exceed 10,000 catties!

You heard it right, you can really produce 10,000 catties of fish per mu, can I still lie to you? But this fish is too edible, and love to eat meat and blood, you better use the pond alone, don't stock, otherwise the other fish will be finished, so it is best to open a chicken farm or pig farm next to it, so that those pig blood, chicken intestines and other scraps can be fed to the fish.

Then, speaking of which, I have a large white pig imported from the United Kingdom, which can be slaughtered in half a year, which is much faster than our local pigs. This pig not only grows fast, the meat is also delicious, and the feed is also easy to make. I'll give you some little piglets when I go back, and you can raise them according to the methods I provided, and you're guaranteed to make a lot of money. Tell you, our elite army will expand the army in the future, and we will buy a large amount of pork in the future, I saw that we are relatives, so I told you in advance, I don't tell you about ordinary people.

What the? You don't know how to raise pigs? I can't learn it, it's not difficult. Yes? Don't want to raise? Too little family? Can't raise it? There's no way, I can only give this pig business to the twelfth uncle first.

But it doesn't matter, you can still raise chickens, it's always okay to raise chickens, right? Can you give chicken a try? That's good, in fact, I also have a kind of white feather chicken imported from the West here, this is a kind of broiler chicken, it can mature in three months, you can get a chicken farm, specifically supply us with chicken, how much you raise, how much I collect, guarantee cash transactions. In addition, I have several kinds of laying hens here, what Xingza 579, Jingbai 823 and the like, all of which can lay eggs, and our demand for eggs is very large.

You can raise chickens and fish at the same time, and when the chicken intestines can be fed to the fish, the chicken and eggs can be sold to us, plus the harvest of fish farming, I tell you, you listen to me, in less than a year, your family will be well-off, or three years, you will be able to be broad. ”

In this way, Li Yongji used similar words to constantly sell to his relatives the modern popular pigs, cattle and sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, and other domestic animals and poultry, and used military purchases as a guarantee to let them engage in the breeding industry with peace of mind.

Li Yongji also told them that in the future, if you are engaged in the breeding industry, you can give priority to the interest-free loan support of the Yongji Fund, that is to say, as long as you are willing to engage in breeding, you can get the support of funds, technology, cubs and seedlings, unified acquisition and even armed protection, etc., as long as you take it back with peace of mind and raise it according to the method recorded in the data, and the rest is not a problem.

In addition to aquaculture, Li Yongji also vigorously promotes planting, but planting is not as immediate, so it is necessary to wait for this autumn harvest to let them see the results of their experimental fields.

Li Yongji has thought about it, since the chaebol economy with relatives as a link is inevitable, it is better to take advantage of the situation and let them become more beneficial to themselves.

The promotion of these modern improvements, if it is a normal promotion, with the conservatism of the Qing Dynasty, they may not do it, but if they are induced by interests, and use it as an excuse that I take special care of you in the face of my relatives, then it will be much easier for them to accept.

In this way, when they have significant results in breeding and planting, and become the group of people who get rich first, they will naturally make the people around them red, and then it will be much easier to promote them on a large scale.

Li Yongji felt that with the current situation, it is really better to develop the primary industry first, rather than doing anything industrialized first, and the planting and breeding industries are the most important of them, which has a direct bearing on everyone's food problems.

He believes that as long as these modern improvements solve everyone's food problem, it must be the heart of the world, and no auspicious rui can compare to these. At that time, I am afraid that even if he doesn't fight others, just relying on this kind of popular will, he can sweep the world sooner or later!

"Oops!" Li Yongji patted his forehead afterwards, "Why didn't I think of this early in the morning?" Misstep, blunder! What a waste of time, what a waste of time! ”