From herding cattle in the countryside with nothing to the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, Hu Xueyan's life is extremely legendary, and it is difficult for a person to achieve a business legend like him for thousands of years.
In the final analysis, the reason why he was able to start from scratch to become rich and enemy of the country later was that he was always ahead of others in terms of his personality and vision.
With a pattern in the chest, it is better to know how to send charcoal in the snow than to add icing on the cake
One early spring morning, Hu Xueyan was in the living room discussing investment with several semicolon treasurers, when suddenly a businessman came to visit, looking anxious. It turned out that he had planted a heel in a recent business, and he urgently needed a large amount of money to circulate, and in order to save the emergency, he was willing to take out all his property and transfer it to Hu Xueyan at a very low price.
Hu Xueyan did not dare to be sloppy, so he asked the merchant to listen to the news the next day, and he hurriedly ordered his men to go down to inquire whether there was a real thing. After confirming that the situation was true, Hu Xueyan did not say a word, let the semicolon money houses prepare silver together, not only agreed to his request, but also purchased the other party's property at the market price, which was much higher than the price transferred by the other party.
The businessman was stunned and questioned, "Why don't you even take advantage of the cheap ones, but you have to buy my property and shop at the market price?" ”
Hu Xueyan patted the other party's shoulder and said: "Rest assured, not that I do not take advantage, just the businessmen help each other, when you survive this pass, you can redeem these properties at any time, you only need to pay some more meager interest on the original price." ”
Hu Xueyan's move made the businessman grateful, and saved the merchant's entire family from bankruptcy.
In just one year, a strange businessman who had been helped by Hu Xueyan redeemed his property. Not only that, but they also became each other's loyal partners,
In contrast, the most wonderful kindness in the world is to send charcoal in the snow. It is not difficult to understand why the officials and gentry all admired Hu Xueyan. At the same time, Hu Xueyan's business is also surprising, no matter which industry he runs, there will always be someone to help. To have such a personality and the overall situation, of course, fame and fortune.
Know people, build strong networks to escort their careers
During the Daoguang years, Wang Youling donated zhejiang salt envoys, but had no money to enter Beijing.
Hu Xueyan met this person by chance on the road, listening to him sigh at the hardships of his career, while deeply feeling that this person was full of ambition, because he could not bear to see a person with lofty ideals buried because he had no money to enter Beijing, so Hu Xueyan invited him to the restaurant to talk, and also funded Wang 500 taels of silver. For Wang Youling, this is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow, and he felt Hu Xueyan's lifting, so he decided that he would spare no effort to repay him in the future.
Later, Wang Youling had a smooth career and was ranked as the inspector of Yipin, and in order to repay Hu Xueyan's kindness, he used public funds to fund 200,000 taels of silver to help Hu Xueyan open the "Fukang Qianzhuang". The establishment of this money house is the turning point in Hu Xueyan's life.
At that time, the children of the rich families in Suzhou who avoided the chaos in Shanghai and the qing generals had millions of taels of silver in the existence of "Fukang", and Hu used these funds to engage in investment, and soon the family wealth exceeded tens of millions. Hu Xueyan was obviously not satisfied with this, and he gave Yun Xiang, the official eunuch who had fallen into the brothel, which he liked very much, to Wang Youling, who was already an official at that time. In doing so, I got both Wang Youling's weight and the eyeliner of rue incense.
After that, Hu Xueyan was entrusted by Wang Youling with important tasks such as running grain and machinery and comprehensively managing water transportation, and almost mastered more than half of Zhejiang's wartime finances.
In the late Qing Dynasty, some well-connected Chinese merchants began to shuttle between foreign and political forces, hunting for profiteering opportunities in the gap between demand, and Hu Xueyan was one of them.
Next, Hu Xueyan became acquainted with Zuo Zongtang and was given the opportunity to become a "national business" broker, once becoming a monopolist, and his personal assets exceeded the Qing government's treasury reserves at its peak, reaching 30 million taels of silver.
If he had not funded Wang Youling, there would have been no later achievements, Hu Xueyan did not consider Wang Youling's current gains and losses, but did his best to help him in times of adversity, and he did the same for Zuo Zongtang, taking a hand at the crucial time, which not only achieved others, but also achieved himself.
From a small village in Pudong to becoming the biggest gang boss in China, Du Yuesheng's life is very legendary.
What are the roots that underpin this legend? Two words: be human. As his secretary Hu Xuwu said: "Du Yuesheng's victory is not in doing things, but in being a person." ”
There is no pattern, where the big picture comes
In 1910, the Shanghai Youth Gang celebrated the New Year. The boss, Jin Rong, gave a reward to his little brother. Receiving the reward, the little brothers were overjoyed. Only one of them took two thousand oceans and rushed out. Jin Rong felt strange, so he said to his confidant, "Go out and see, where has the little red guy gone?" ”
This little brother crossed the river in a swing to Lujiazui, got off the boat and ran all the way forward, ran to the place of Jinqiao, and gave all of Boss Huang's reward to the brothers at the bottom. Confidants reported to Jin Rong: "This boy gave the money to the little brother again. Jin Rong exclaimed, "I'm afraid that after I die, Huangpu Tan will be his." "This boy is Du Yuesheng."
Jin Jinrong was right, but he didn't expect that he wasn't dead yet, and Huangpu Beach was Du Yuesheng's. Two thousand oceans, in Shanghai at that time, were enough to buy a mansion. But Du Yuesheng actually gave it to the brothers below without leaving a penny.
"If you want to be a big brother, you must have a big pattern."
"Do things to see ability, people to see the pattern."
It was precisely because of this big pattern that Du Yuesheng gathered Gu Jiatang, Gao Xinbao and a group of brothers who were fighting for his life.
Be a man with two sides of the light, good at all sides of the benefit
In 1930, the employees of the French Commercial Hydropower Company went on strike, and the entire French Concession was waterless and without electricity. The Bureau of Legal Affairs and Industry sent someone to ask Du Yuesheng to mediate, but Du Yuesheng refused: "I don't have enough prestige!" The general director of the Legal Work Bureau had no choice but to call on Mayor Wu Tiecheng, who found Du Yuesheng: "This matter will be resolved by Chinese, which can teach the French Concession a lesson." ”
Du Yuesheng dialed the phone: "The workers' salaries should be doubled." The general director of the Legal Industry Bureau replied: "No, it can only increase by 75%. Du Yuesheng said, "Okay, then it's done." ”
Du Yuesheng summoned the strike leaders and asked them to put forward conditions, some demanding a 30% salary increase and some demanding a 40% salary increase. Du Yuesheng said: "Your requirements are too low, I have already said for you to increase by 75%, are you satisfied?" The audience shouted: "Satisfied." Du Yuesheng also said: "But the wages during the strike period are not paid, is it okay?" Everyone laughed and said, "Forget it, forget it." Only one person shouted, "I can't agree with that." Du Yuesheng said: "I have promised the capital that I cannot change it." The wages during the strike are posted by me. ”
This post paid 300,000 oceans.
First-class people, capable, no temper
When Du Yuesheng broke into the beach at the age of 14, she only worked in a fruit shop at first.
Because of the unique skill of peeling pears with one hand, he is called "Laiyang pear". Many people are particularly taboo about "history that cannot be looked back" after soaring. When people mention what they used to do, they get angry. But Du Yuesheng is an exception.
Every time he returned to his hometown, a group of beggars gathered around him. Tear open his throat and shout, "Laiyang Pear, give some money!" Du Yuesheng was not angry either, but said to his subordinates, "Give more." Gu Jiatang is one of the "Eight King Kongs" under Du Yuesheng,
He is also a brother who has been following Du Yuesheng to fight the world. In front of outsiders, he was respectful to Du Yuesheng. But in private in Du Fu, he often teased Du Yuesheng and picked up the fruit and delivered it to Du Yuesheng: "Cut one." Du Yuesheng always smiled and took it, without the slightest unhappiness.
Not only to his brothers, but also to his servants, he rarely said anything serious. "Mr. Du is a good waiter, we have done something wrong, and he also speaks softly." He has mixed at the bottom and knows that it is not easy for people below.
Du Yuesheng has a famous saying that is regarded as a classic by everyone: "First-class people, have the ability, no temper; second-class people, have the ability, have a temper; the last class, no ability, big temper." ”
He did indeed become a "first-class man". The rickshaw drivers and short-shirted class in Shanghai Beach once shouted the slogan of "be a man to be Mr. Du".
In 1951, Du Yuesheng's asthma became more and more serious.
He knew he was going to go west soon.
On August 1 of this year, the first thing he woke up,
It was to call the eldest daughter Du Meiru: "You go to the bank to get me a safe." ”
Du Meiru took it back, Du Yuesheng opened,
Everyone knows that the safe contains a lot of IOUs.
The least one is $50 million,
The largest one is 500 gold bars.
Du Yuesheng looked at them one by one, and tore them off one by one,
The children were puzzled: "Why did you die?" ”
Du Yuesheng said, "I don't want you to go around asking for debts after I die." ”
Then he was silent for a moment and then said:
"What is lent out is money on the surface, but it is actually human feelings,
Grateful, will always remember the good of our Du family.
If you are not grateful, you go to ask for an account, which may be exchanged for the disaster of imprisonment. ”
He tore up the IOU just to give the debtor a reassurance pill.
Before he died, his last words were: "I have no hope, There will be hope in China." ”
As a person, only Du Yuesheng can do this.
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