There is also the prototype of the TV series "Qiao Family Courtyard" Qiao Zhiyong; Sheng Xuanhuai, known as the father of modern industry, and finally Zhang Jian, the famous "first industrialist".
So these five were wealthy businessmen in the late Qing Dynasty. Among them, Hu Xueyan, the most famous "Red Top Merchant" in modern times, is probably the most familiar one, and he is also a representative of Huizhou merchants.
Today, Hu Xueyan's story has been written into a novel, made into a TV and widely circulated. "Learning from Hu Xueyan in business" has even become a trend, as if almost all business people have a book "The Way of Doing Business in Hu Xueyan".
Hu Xueyan, what charm can make the world so sought after? I believe many people are interested in this issue, so let's talk about Hu Xueyan in this issue.
Hu Xueyan's life is really like a legend. Grassroots counterattack, famous, experienced ups and downs! Nowadays, many cool novels are written according to this routine, because only the plot stories with great contrast can arouse readers' interest.
Although the biography of Hu Xueyan we are seeing now also contains fictional elements, Hu Xueyan's experience is a legend in itself, and all elements of the grassroots counterattack can be found in him.
For example, when I was a child, my family was poor, and then my father died when I was 12 years old. /kloc-at the age of 0/3, he started wandering around, running errands as a waiter, and suffered everything. Finally, he was appreciated by a bank boss, who not only taught Hu Xueyan a lot of business knowledge, but also let him inherit all the property. In this way, Hu Xueyan in his early twenties changed from a pauper to a bank boss in Hangzhou!
However, this is only the first step of Hu Xueyan's success. In the next 40 years, he constantly expanded the scale and scope of his business and actively made friends with powerful people.
For example, he and Zuo expanded their business empire through cooperation between officials and businessmen. At the most glorious time, they not only owned tens of millions of assets, but also were given a yellow jacket and a second-class flower feather by Cixi, and the name of "Red Top Merchant" in Hu Xueyan went down in history.
Unfortunately, 40 years of painstaking accumulation was destroyed by a commercial war of 1883. Starting from 1882, Hu Xueyan tried to monopolize the raw silk trade, and he launched an encouraging commercial war with foreign businessmen on his own. Due to the outbreak of war and financial crisis, Hu Xueyan, which was originally a shoo-in, was defeated, and the business empire accumulated by Hu Xueyan for 40 years collapsed.
Hu Xueyan's change from a cowherd to the richest man and a red-crowned businessman is not only due to luck, but also because he is good at making friends with big names like Zuo, which may be more due to his understanding and grasp of business rules. Most importantly, I think his understanding of how to be a man and how to be a man is higher than ordinary people!
For example, I appreciate three sentences left by Hu Xueyan. He said: Everything is fake, it is true to rely on yourself, and popularity depends on yourself. If you can't do it yourself, where will you have friends?
On the surface, we think that Hu Xueyan's brilliant achievements depend on the Left, but in fact, Hu Xueyan knows very well that everything is true only by himself. You see the ending of Hu Xueyan, which actually confirms this sentence.
There is a second sentence, Hu Xueyan said: The truth in this world is straight, but the road is often curved! In other words, no matter whether you are a man or a businessman, you should learn to be flexible and learn to make a detour when dealing with people instead of going straight. This is a kind of wisdom;
In the third sentence, he said: We only ask about cultivation, not about harvest, because people can only control the process, but not the result. This is the attitude that teaches us to do things and treat work.
Sometimes we might as well think about it and think it over. You may not be as successful as Hu Xueyan, but you can learn from his thinking. The three famous sayings left by Hu Xueyan are truth, and each of us should actually listen to them.