When Qingmei was cooking wine, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang... One by one, the loud names of the same era crossed, and Cao Cao bowed his ear and said to Liu Bei: The hero of the world, only the king and the ear.
Liu Bei was so frightened that the chopsticks fell to the ground——
So many officials' children, royal relatives, and well-known big V, you don't choose, but you look up to me as a straw shoe seller?
Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were from the Runanyuan clan of the great family, the fourth and third dukes, and the former officials of Menduo, and were the sons of standard officials.
Sun Ce and Liu Zhang inherited the family property, Sun Ce's father Sun Jian was the mayor of Changsha, and Liu Zhang's father was the secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee. Liu Zhang was also a royal family member.
Liu Biao was the well-known Big V at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and when he was a teenager, he befriended celebrities widely, known as "Jingxiang Eight Jun", and he was also a royal family.
What about Cao Cao himself?
His father Cao Song was a lieutenant and ranked third duke. Equivalent to today's minister of national defense, so Cao Cao served as the deputy director of the Luoyang City Public Security Bureau at the age of 19.
Look at Liu Bei again... A seller of straw shoes.
From an early age, he was funded by his uncles of the same clan.
Although he was widely proclaimed to be the King of Zhongshan Jing, more than two hundred years before Liu Bei was born, his ancestral title was stripped away by Emperor Wu of Han.
The name of the emperor, when he met the thick, people laughed.
When encountering mean people, it is inevitable to be asked a sentence:
Do you also deserve the surname Liu?
Most successful people will only hide their family background and network of contacts in the process of starting a business, leaving you with only a self-made inspirational story. Make you think that his success depends entirely on his ingenuity.
And Liu Bei, among the large number of entrepreneurs in the Three Kingdoms, can be said to be the only one who makes a living from selling shoes and starting from scratch.
Liu Bei is powerful, first of all, because he has completely relied on his personal efforts to struggle from the bottom of society to the top.
Secondly, Liu Bei's entrepreneurial story can be said to be repeated defeats and repeated defeats, and this indomitable will can not be found in the entire history of China.
He did not have his own territory, and successively attached himself to Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, Yi Lübu, Yi Cao Cao, Yi Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao...
On the road to entrepreneurship, he has been bankrupt and liquidated many times, his wife and children have been robbed five times, and the 47-year-old is still under the fence.
But Liu Bei just did not admit his fate, 5 consecutive ventures, again and again, and finally trapped in the dragon into the sea, leading the Shu Han company to successfully list.
In the first year of Zhongping, Liu Bei was 23 years old and started his own business for the first time.
With the younger brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they went to fight the Yellow Turban, and there were only a dozen people with seven or eight guns. Because of his good performance, he was named an Anxi County lieutenant (police station chief), and as a result, he was dismissed by his superiors before his ass was hot: those who were named officials for military merit were selected and eliminated.
Liu Bei whipped the governor sent by the city to dismiss and resettle him, and then in a rage, he defected to his college classmate Gongsun Zhan, and his first venture failed.
In the second year of Xingping, Liu Bei was 34 years old and started a business for the second time.
Tao Qian, because of his serious illness, ceded his position as chairman of Xuzhou Group to Liu Bei.
Unfortunately, as soon as he took office, he was maliciously annexed by Lü Bu.
The company was almost bankrupt, and even his wife was arrested twice by Lü Bu to humiliate and collect debts, and finally went bankrupt, Liu Bei went to the headquarters of the Cao Group, located in the strategic development department of XuDu.
In order to express satisfaction with the status quo and no longer start a business with peace of mind, Liu Bei bought a house in Xudu and planted vegetables and watered vegetables every day in his garden to show his intention to settle down, but Liu Bei's restless heart did not settle down after all.
Four years after Jian'an, Liu Bei was 38 years old and started a business for the third time.
This time it was even more tragic, and the company was destroyed by Cao Cao before it could start business.
His subordinate Guan Yu was recruited to the Cao Group, Zhang Fei became a laid-off worker and made a living by setting up a stall in Mangzhongshan, while Liu Bei himself jumped to the Yuan Group.
Five years after Jian'an, Liu Bei was 39 years old and started his business for the fourth time.
With a little loan from Yuan Shao, Liu Bei once again embarked on the road of entrepreneurship.
Helplessly, in the face of Cao Cao's large-scale attack, he could not resist it again. It had to sell the company to Liu Biao's Jingzhou Group and become its subsidiary.
In the Jingzhou Group, Liu Bei wanted to make some achievements. He had strong business ability and high emotional intelligence, and was quickly welcomed by the whole group. However, the chairman Liu Biao was not happy and suspected that he wanted to take his own place, so he treated Liu Bei coldly and was strictly wary.
Liu Bei made several strategic proposals with the group's senior management, such as entering the Xudu market when the Cao Group and the Yuan Group were fighting a price war. However, Liu Biao did not accept it.
Liu Bei could only wait patiently and slowly stay up for time.
In Jingzhou, this stay is 8 years.
Until the Bankruptcy liquidation of the Jingzhou Group, Cao Cao annexed Jingzhou and started the idea of the Jiangdong Group.
Liu Beicai waited for the opportunity. Sun Quan, the newly appointed chairman of the Jiangdong Group, fought a fierce battle with Cao Cao, and even Cao Cao's factory building was burned down, and the Cao Group was driven back to the Central Plains.
Liu Bei did not miss this opportunity, he asked Sun Quan to borrow a piece of land in Jingzhou to build a factory, and once again embarked on the road of entrepreneurship.
This year, Liu Bei was 47 years old.
As the old saying goes, fifty knows the destiny.
For an ordinary person, several consecutive entrepreneurial failures, and his own nearly half a hundred years, I think he will admit his fate, thinking that he does not have the fate of being the king and dominating.
But Liu Bei, he was not.
After defeating Cao Cao with Sun Quan at the age of 47, Liu Bei started from scratch, first opening the Yizhou market, then entering the Hanzhong market, and detouring from the southwest market to the Central Plains.
And this struggle, at once, is 11 years.
At the age of 58, Liu Bei occupied Hanzhong and Yizhou, and finally announced the launch of the IPO, the king of Hanzhong, and the Shuhan company successfully landed on the new third board.
(There are three companies in the New Third Board, hence the name)
At this time, there were only 2 years left before Liu Bei's death.
Liu Bei's life can be said to be a life of struggle and indomitability, but also a life of ups and downs and drifting.
For an old man who is more than half a hundred years old, looking back in the twilight years, life can be said to be a coffin, basically a lifetime is like this, and it is also a loss of ambition, ready to spend his old age peacefully and quietly, but Liu Bei's road has just begun.
We turn back the time to the seven years of Jian'an, Liu Bei is 41 years old.
At that time, Liu Bei spent most of his life under the fence and spent his years. At a banquet for Liu Biao, Liu Bei burst into tears. Liu Biao asked why, and Liu Bei said:
"Prepare to taste the body without leaving the saddle, the flesh of the hips is gone, this long time do not ride a horse, the flesh in the hips is raw, the sun and the moon are like a stream, the old age is coming, but the work has not been accomplished, so we cannot be without sorrow."
People are over forty years old, and they still want to continue to struggle and make meritorious achievements.
In the twelfth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei hired Zhuge Liang as the CEO of his company.
Our people today will only lament what the three Gu Maolu and Corporal Li Xian are, but let's restore the real scene of history to take a look:
At that time, Liu Bei was 46 years old, and even if he was not very successful, he was an old man who had been in business for many years.
Zhuge Liang, 26 years old, a fresh college graduate who has just come out.
A 46-year-old entrepreneur, instead of throwing it to the company's human resources director, took two vice presidents of the company to visit a young man who had just graduated, was rejected twice in succession, and still came to the door for the third time.
What kind of spirit is this? How many people can do it today?
Every time I look at the Three Kingdoms, I always have a relationship with Liu Bei.
Why?
Because Liu Bei's story is the most inspirational.
Why did Liu Bei succeed?
By faith, by indomitable will.
This is the corporate culture of Shuhan Company.
After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang pointed out in his annual work report to the company's board of directors:
"The first emperor started a business and the middle road collapsed, today under the three points, Yizhou is tired, this sincere autumn of critical survival is also ... Now when the award led the three armies, the Northern Ding Central Plains, the Xingfu Han Room... May the Board of Trustees have the effect of reviving the thief..."
He led the Shu Han employees to start a second business, six out of the Qi Mountains, seven in the Central Plains, until they died of exhaustion on the job...
Why should a hero sigh the year!!