One morning, Hu Xueyan was talking to some big shopkeepers with semicolons in the living room. Speaking of the recent investment, Hu Xueyan sullenly taught several big shopkeepers who didn't make much profit from the investment, telling them that they must analyze the market next time and don't invest money rashly.

Hu Xueyan's voice just fell and someone outside told him that a businessman had something urgent to ask for, and the visiting businessman was in a hurry. It turns out that this businessman stumbled in a recent business and needed a lot of money to turn around. For a rainy day, he took out all his industries and wanted to transfer them to Hu Xueyan at a very low price.

Hu Xueyan didn't dare to neglect, so the businessman came to inquire about the news the next day, and he quickly ordered his men to inquire whether it really happened. His people came back soon, proving that what the businessman said was true. Upon hearing this, Hu Xueyan hurriedly asked the bank to prepare money. Because the other party needs too much cash and the money in the bank is not enough, Hu Xueyan urgently transfers a lot of cash from semicolon.

The next day, Hu Xueyan invited the businessman, not only agreed to his request, but also bought the other side's industry at the market price, far higher than the other side's bid. The businessman was surprised and wondered why Hu Xueyan insisted on buying those properties and shops at the market price.

Hu Xueyan told the businessman that he only kept these mortgaged assets for him temporarily, and when the businessman got through this, he could redeem them at any time, only paying a little more interest on the original price. Hu Xueyan's action made the businessman grateful to tears. He bowed deeply to Hu Xueyan and left Hu Jia with tears in his eyes.

When the merchants left, everyone asked Hu Xueyan that some big shopkeepers had been reprimanded for making less money for a long time, but they made less money by investing. Instead of eating fat in their mouths, they offered to give more money to each other. Why? Drinking hot tea, Hu Xueyan told an experience when he was young.

"At that time, I was a young man, and my boss often asked me to push the bill around. Once, when I was on the road, I was caught in a heavy rain, and a stranger on the same road was wet by the rain. I happened to have an umbrella with me that day, so I helped others open an umbrella. Later, it rained, and I often helped some strangers open umbrellas. After a long time, many people on that road got to know me. Sometimes, I don't have to be afraid if I forget to bring my umbrella, because there will be many people who have helped me. "

Say, Hu Xueyan smiled: "You are willing to open an umbrella for others, and others will be willing to open an umbrella for you. That businessman's estate may have been accumulated over several generations. If I buy it at his price, it will definitely be cheap, but people may never turn over. This is not a simple investment, but saving my family, making friends and living up to my conscience. When everyone has no umbrella on rainy days, if you can help others to cover the rain, cover it. "

Hearing this, the crowd was silent for a long time. Later, the businessman redeemed his property and became Hu Xueyan's most loyal partner.

Extended data

"A gentleman loves money and takes it wisely" comes from the Ming Dynasty's anonymous Zengguang Xianwen: "Confucius said: A gentleman loves money and takes it wisely; A virtuous daughter loves color and accepts it with courtesy. " It means that gentlemen love money, but they all get it through proper channels. Women who keep their duties like to dress up, but they all conform to the etiquette norms.

Confucius, a disciple of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, said: "Being rich and expensive is what people want, and there is nowhere to find it; Poverty and meanness are human evils. If you don't get them their way, you won't go. Isn't it good to be famous if a gentleman goes to benevolence? If a gentleman has no final food, he will violate benevolence and will do it again. "

Confucius said: "wealth and respect are what people yearn for, but it is unacceptable for a gentleman not to obtain wealth and respect through proper methods;" Poverty and meanness are disgusting to people, but a gentleman is unwilling to get rid of them without proper methods. How can a gentleman achieve his reputation without the code of benevolence and righteousness? A gentleman can't leave Rende, even for a meal; I was with Rende in the most urgent time and with Rende in the most turbulent time. "

The rich and expensive get it in their own way, and the poor and cheap get it in their own way. As the saying goes, "a gentleman loves money and takes it wisely", which is a well-known sentence. Either rich or expensive, everyone wants it. It would be best if everyone took "benevolence" to study, which is a kind of progress for the poor.

"A gentleman loves money and takes it wisely" is manifested in:

1, not greedy for ill-gotten gains

The ancients said, "Sake makes people blush, while white money makes people tempted." (The story of awakening marriage written by Zhou Zhousheng in Qing Dynasty means that wine makes people blush and money makes people tempted. ), indicating the attraction of wealth. China people say "Don't take ill-gotten gains", and Buddhism also describes the harm of ill-gotten gains as "poisonous snakes". The so-called "is this to show honesty? Being meticulous about money is not the wealth you deserve. Even if you get it, it will cause an accident. Don't ask for it.

Don't waste your share of money.

Both the ancestral property and the salary earned are the wealth of this job. The share of wealth is your own, you can use it freely, but you can't spend it at will. During the Warring States Period, Xunzi's Rich Country said: "A wise master must carefully protect his harmony, preserve his flow, open his source and consider the time." A wise monarch must carefully adapt farmers to the farming season, save money, expand production, explore sources of wealth, and consider adjustments at any time according to specific conditions. )

The country is like this, and so are individuals. Wealth is like running water. Once the running water is gone, one is missing. Therefore, if you want to live within your means, you can't just waste unnecessary expenses.

3. The wealth of labor is not inferior.

Some people don't like to make money by labor, and they feel that the work of labor is humble and hard, and their income is meager, so they feel embarrassed. In fact, Confucius said, "I am cheap because I am few, so I can despise." (The Analects of Confucius Zi Han, a disciple of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, means that when I was a child, my life was very hard and I could do some rough work. )

Even if a person works as a cleaner at home, delivers newspapers, or does odd jobs to supplement daily necessities and support his family, it is hard-earned income. Although it is small money, it is even more commendable to be open and honest with each other, and it deserves it. There is no need to feel inferior for this.

The wealth of wisdom will not be wasted.

Some people use their wisdom, skills and abilities to get wealth. For example, carving a stamp, designing a building, drawing a picture and inventing a new patent may all earn more wealth than other people's wages. This kind of intellectual wealth can be self-serving or beneficial to others, but it should also be used in appropriate places, otherwise it will be wasted in meaningless places.

In addition, faith, diligence, keeping precepts, learning dharma, blessing, wisdom and shame can nourish all beings, so we should actively cultivate them.

The meaning of wealth is not the accumulation of money, nor the increase of account number. Wealth is a tool to illuminate the connotation of life and benefit mankind. Being rich is a blessing. Knowing how to get and use money correctly is a kind of wisdom.

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