In the novel "Ghost Blowing Lights", the four protagonists of the group have their own strengths, Hu Bayi is calm and courageous, Wang Fatzi is righteous, Shirley Yang is calm and calm, and big gold teeth are smooth. And the characters we are going to talk about today belong to a special group with the big gold teeth: the fallen masters.
The big gold teeth in film and television dramas
The Fallen Master was a group of more special figures in the early days of reform and opening up in the 1980s.
At that time, the socialist market economy was not perfect enough, and the planned economy was still the main body. And many things because of the existence of the price dual-track system, so that some people see business opportunities. Therefore, they took advantage of the fact that prices were different inside and outside the system to buy and resell all kinds of tight commodities. This group peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but disappeared in less than a decade.
And in such a group of gray characters, there is naturally no shortage of people with means and brains. And Mu Zhong is such a legendary grandfather with courage and vision. His reputation was not only very loud in the country at that time, but also went out of the country, but also many people with heads and faces were kind to him.
Many people may think that a capable person like Mu Zhong, who can buy and sell bulk goods, and even exchange slow-selling cans for passenger planes, comes from a family of either high-ranking officials and aristocrats or a huge wealth. But in fact, when he was not famous, Mu Zhong was just a boilermaker who had not fully studied in college.
How did Mu Zhong rise up in the spring breeze of reform and opening up? And how to make his grandfather's career bigger step by step? What difficulties and obstacles have he encountered in his career of buying and reselling? With the change of times, where did he go after the decline of the fallen master group?
Mou among them
Don't worry, let's start with his boyhood. As the saying goes: three years old to see small, seven years old to see old, Mou Can later make an amazing career, and his childhood experience must have a lot to do. Let's go back in history and see how wonderful this legendary grandfather's experience of his youth was!
The young man is intelligent, but it is a pity to create people
In 1941 in Wanxian County, Sichuan, Mou was born in a family with ordinary conditions. The age of Mou Zhong's birth was not very peaceful, and there were constant wars on the Chinese mainland, first there was the War of Resistance Against Japan, then there was the War of Liberation, but thanks to its location in the southwest, Mou Zhong's youth did not experience too many twists and turns.
Mu Zhongzhong had already shown a better talent than most people when he was a child. When he was in elementary school, he belonged to the group that was more lively and active, and attracted people's attention. His teacher was also a unique vision, seeing both his strengths and his shortcomings to the point, and made this assessment of him: If Mou Zhong can change his exaggerated problems, then there will definitely be great success in the future.
Times changed, new China was founded. Mou Has also been successfully pursuing his studies. From an early age, he dreamed of becoming a journalist who could cover people from all walks of life. In 1959, he participated in the college entrance examination with great interest, thinking that his dream was about to come true, and the results of the examination were announced, and Mou fell behind.
In the face of the blow of the college entrance examination, it is estimated that most people are discouraged, either giving up the road of further study, or having a mental breakdown and giving up on themselves. Mu Zhong's reaction was different from ordinary people, and even if he fell off the list, he was not willing to give up his college dream. He chose to go to Wuhan, nearly 700 kilometers from home, to participate in the spring special enrollment of a school there.
In fact, from the perspective of his unwillingness to give up in the face of failure and his insistence on chasing his ideals in the face of difficulties, he will be able to make some good achievements even if he does not have any major achievements in the future. But at this time, Mu Zhong did not think so much, he just hoped that he could enter the university and realize his dream of becoming a journalist.
After arriving in Wuhan, Mou Zhong successfully passed the spring special recruitment examination and entered the Zhongnan Institute of Industrial Construction and Design. But the heavens will descend upon the Scythians, and they will first suffer their hearts and minds and work their bodies. After studying in Wuhan for half a year, Mou received a withdrawal notice from the college.
The notice said that his household registration was not in the local area, and according to the policy of the university at that time, it was not possible to go to school without the local household registration. So the school could only let him withdraw. Mou Zhongzhong was thus expelled from the university and returned to his hometown. Although this blow caused Some setbacks to Mu, he still did not choose to give up.
After being dropped out of school, Mou has been gathering information about other universities that can recruit him. Even though his family was trying to persuade him to give up, and even more to dismiss his college dreams as unrealistic fantasies, Mu did not have the slightest idea of giving up. This time, he heard that there was an art academy in Xinjiang, thousands of miles away from home, enrolling students, and the flame in his heart was strong again.
So he packed his bags in the midst of all the opposition and prepared to set off for the land of dreams. From Sichuan to Xinjiang, it spans more than a thousand kilometers. On the train, Mu Zhong imagined his college life, how to pursue the dream of a journalist after graduating from college, and when he thought that he would soon embark on a dream-chasing journey, Mu Zhong was so excited that he couldn't sleep. In this way, with great pride and beautiful ideals, he came to Xinjiang.
But maybe God felt that the trials and setbacks he had given him were not enough. After several tossing and turning, Mou Zhong finally came to the gate of this art academy. It's just that what he sees in front of him shatters Mu's dreams: closed schools, empty campuses, dilapidated houses, all of which seem to mock him, making him stop being self-sufficient and pursue his so-called dreams.
After experiencing three blows, Mu Qi also understood some truth, and in the face of the dilapidated scene in front of him, he calmed down and began to reflect on what he was desperately trying to enter the university during this time. Is it to gamble on the breath of a young maniac, or is it really to learn knowledge?
He gave up his dream of studying at university and went home to work as a boilermaker
Mu Zhong finally understood this truth, if he really wanted to learn knowledge, it actually didn't matter where he was, as long as he had a heart to learn. Mu Zhong, who wanted to understand, let go of his obsession and returned to his hometown. In the face of reality, he also learned to accept that after all, people must live before they can pursue their ideals, so he decided to find a job that was enough to support his living expenses first.
As luck would have it, he soon found a job as a boilermaker in his hometown glass factory. Although the boilermaker is very different from his ideal journalist, Mou Zhongzhong did not complain, and he chose to do the job in a down-to-earth manner. At the same time, he also shows his unyielding side of the status quo: he devotes himself to work while studying various books and absorbing the knowledge in his spare time.
Over the past few years, Mu Zhongzhong has read a lot of books related to politics and law from a shallow depth, and he has also dabbled in many philosophical books. Gradually, he became more and more enthusiastic about politics, and whenever there was an event held in the glass factory, he would actively participate in it and fully express his views and opinions.
Because of his unique insights and profound grasp of theoretical knowledge, as well as his excellent oratory ability, Mou Zhong gradually became a little famous among young intellectuals and workers, attracting many like-minded people. Among them is a teenager, Yang Xiaokai from Hunan. The two had similar political leanings and shared views on many things, and soon became friends who talked about the world together.
By 1974, Mou Zhong had devoted himself entirely to the political cause. Mu Zhong, who had long been dissatisfied with promoting his views through speeches, began to write articles to discuss social issues with more people. This may be a kind of compensation for his journalistic dream.
However, China was in a special period at that time, and people like him belonged to the outliers of the crowd. Together with Yang Xiaokai, he wrote the 10,000-word essay "Where China Is Going", and together with others, he wrote more articles full of revolutionary enthusiasm. This quickly caught the attention of some people. Soon after, he was arrested and jailed for making their articles too inflammatory.
This is no less of a blow to Mu Zhong than the failure of the college entrance examination that year, and even more dangerous than the last time. Because according to the archives at that time, Mou Zhong was actually executed by the insider. However, I do not know why, the death penalty was not carried out, but was changed to four years and four months in prison.
At the end of the special period, the policy of reform and opening up has also begun to be implemented, China has ushered in a new journey, and Mou Zhong has also entered a new stage of his life. Mu Zhong, who walked out of the prison gate, looked at the outside world, he felt the change, understood the change, and decided to fight again, bound to keep up with the trend of the times.
As a result of imprisonment, Mou Zhong's job in the glass factory was also lost. The family hoped that he would find a job with similar treatment, as long as he was stable and not like when he was younger. But how difficult it is to expect such an expectation: he is older, not as energetic as a young man; he has a history of imprisonment, which also makes the leader very uneasy about him.
Mu Zhong knew his predicament and had ambitions in his heart to achieve, so he decided to join the entrepreneurial army and follow the trend of the times, at this time, he was already thirty-eight years old.
The spring breeze of reform is blowing all over the ground, and boilermakers have big dreams
Although he is not young, Mu Zhong still shows a little more courage than young people. In order to start a business, he found relatives at home to borrow money from them, and soon after he borrowed three hundred yuan as his starting capital. After that, he contacted several friends who had the same entrepreneurial ideas as him, and several of them founded a Sino-German store together. Sino-German stores can be regarded as one of the earliest private enterprises after the reform and opening up.
With the help of the east wind of the policy, Mou Zhong soon showed his extraordinary vision and ability in the business field. He first proposed the concept of "replacement card", as long as the customer who bought the electrical products here, if the product has a problem within the specified time, he can be returned. Such a promise is now a necessary marketing tool for every business, but in those days, it was a very bold and heartwarming move.
Mu Zhong's approach has indeed attracted a large number of customers for him, and many customers have become his repeat customers, and the competitiveness of Sino-German stores has exceeded that of his peers by a large margin. But Mu Zhong is still not satisfied, because he believes that such means can easily be imitated by others to learn from the past, and they must have their own unique business.
After thinking about it, Mu Zhong felt that in order for his business to be unique in the local area, he must have something different from his competitors. At that time, the most different from competitors was the product from other places. So he turned his attention to the field and expanded the four generations of cross-regional business: purchasing and selling, organization, and consignment. These four businesses have made a lot of money for Mou's enterprises.
Who would have thought that a few years ago, Mu Zhongzhong was just a boilermaker who was imprisoned for his extreme speech, and after a few years, he was transformed into a genius businessman who turned three hundred yuan into eighty thousand yuan in a year.
In the face of such achievements, most people may have long been overjoyed and do not know why. However, at this moment, Mu Zhong was still calm and did not lose his mind because of the temporary success. He believes that his business still has a lot of room to expand, and he began to look for more opportunities to make him bigger and stronger.
In early 1983, Mu Zhongzhong did not know where to inquire about a gossip, saying that in Shanghai, bronze grandfather clocks were selling very hot. He smelled the hidden business value behind the news and decided to seize the opportunity. He immediately contacted a semi-suspended military enterprise in Chongqing, commissioned them to imitate a batch of products according to Shanghai's best-selling grandfather clock brand, and then sold the products to a company in Shanghai.
Just by running at both ends and turning things around, I earned seventy thousand yuan. This experience made Mu Zhong feel that such behavior was very promising, but he also knew that such an act was called buying and scalping, speculation and upside down, which was a criminal act. Perhaps out of fluke, or perhaps out of the pursuit of profit, Mu Zhong began to do such a business often for the next period of time.
After all, paper can't contain the fire. In mid-September of the same year, he was imprisoned for the discovery of the company's business of buying and reselling. This time, however, instead of waiting for his release as honestly as before, he decided to gamble on his own future and vision for the future. Relying on the political philosophy books he had read and his experience in political activities, he wrote down an application for joining the party and some views on the economic situation in prison and handed them over to his superiors.
Mou Zhongzhong (left)
It is also strange to say that what he wrote was actually placed in front of the leader. Perhaps there was something desirable in his article, and after 11 months, Mou was released from prison.
Mou Zhong, who was released from prison again, began to show his fists and put into practice his vision of the future of the enterprise while he was in prison. He first transformed the Sino-German store, applied for a business certificate, and transformed into a Sino-German industrial company. Then he found a bank loan as his start-up capital.
However, I don't know whether the local business environment is not good, or Mou Zhong's bad luck, several companies he has set up have either had a dismal business or have not even opened. This made Mu Zhong feel a little frustrated.
But he didn't give up. Since there is no improvement in opening a company in Wanxian County, let's move to a big city!
Mou Zhong came to Chongqing with his team in 1985, and after inspecting the business environment, he decided to move the company here and renamed it nande group.
Since then, the legend of Mou's generation of international fallen masters has officially begun.
The road to the fall of the grandfather has ups and downs, and for a time it has dominated the top
After tasting the sweetness of being a pouring master, Mu was out of control. He first looked for bank loans to enrich his capital flow, and then he inquired around for news to see where the products were selling well elsewhere and could be sold at a higher price. It will also pay attention to the domestic market to see what products are selling tightly.
By going back and forth between places, buying and selling backwards, Mu Zhongzhong and his Nande Group once again became a member of the first echelon of commercial enterprises. However, Mu Zhongzhong is still not satisfied with the achievements of the group, and he believes that only limiting his vision to the country is a kind of cocoon behavior: the current domestic market needs to be developed urgently, and domestic commodities alone will certainly not be able to meet the demand. So he began to look at the international world, taking the first step of becoming an international grandfather.
But anyone who wants to be a top figure second to none inevitably has to go through a lot of twists and turns, and Mou Zhong is no exception. At that time, the domestic demand for refrigerators was very high, and the enthusiasm for consumption was hot, so Mou Zhongzhong imported 3,000 refrigerators from South Korea and wanted to make a lot of money from them. But people are not as good as heaven, and when the refrigerator ordered arrives in China, the enthusiasm for consumption has faded, and most of the refrigerators he ordered have been smashed in his hands.
On another occasion, Mou Zhong negotiated cooperation with foreign companies, and he bought jellyfish skins in the coastal areas and resold them. However, when Mou zhong completed the acquisition, the foreign company suddenly tore up the agreement, resulting in a loss of millions of yuan in Mou.
There are not many blows and setbacks like this, and some losses even put Mou Zhong and his Nande group in danger of bankruptcy for a while. If it is an ordinary person, it is estimated that it has long been discouraged and abandoned the expansion of business from this corner. But who is in the woods? The crisis was just a risky opportunity for him. It is precisely because of his unyielding nature that he got a chance to make him famous in one battle.
On a trip to Beijing to sell goods, Mu met a very unusual Henan man. After a brief conversation, the two understood: good fellow, meet your peers. So I began to exchange my "experience", shared my secrets of getting rich, and talked happily along the way.
When it came to foreign trade, this Henan man saw that Mu was also a bold one, so he revealed a gossip to him: the Soviet Union in the north was a bit unpeaceful, and many things were being sold at a reduced price, and even large passenger planes were being sold at a bidding price.
After Mu Zhong listened, his heart was already wavering. He felt that this news was mostly true, and he might have a chance to eat this big order, but he still went back to verify it first, one was to determine the authenticity of the news, and the other was to prepare early. When he was done, he returned to the company and began to inquire about relevant news from multiple channels. Sure enough, the news was true, the SOVIETS had a batch of Tu-154 airliners ready to sell.
But another question comes, although the price of this batch of passenger aircraft is already very favorable, but Mu Zhong still does not have so much money to buy it, what to do? Buy and sell!
He first contacted domestic companies interested in buying aircraft, and finally found the newly established Sichuan Airlines. Sichuan Airlines was also worried about the purchase of aircraft at this time, and it was at this time that Mou Zhong came to the door to propose that he could provide them with a batch of passenger aircraft with preferential prices. The two sides hit it off and soon signed the contract, and Mou Zhong, who got the contract, immediately contacted the Soviet side.
After negotiations, the Soviet side agreed to cash on delivery and settled the payment by bartering, after all, the Soviet Light Industry at that time was very underdeveloped, people's living standards were not guaranteed, and what to do with the aircraft. As soon as the Soviet plane arrived in Chengdu, Mou Zhong transferred it to Sichuan Airlines, and soon mobilized 500 tons of backlogged canned goods from various places to be shipped to the Soviet Union.
Just by exchanging cans for airplanes with such a hand, Mou made a profit of nearly one hundred million yuan. This transaction is also the largest single barter transaction in the history of Sino-Russian unofficial channel trade. After this battle, Mu Zhong's scenery was immeasurable, and he and his Nande group became a popular myth.
After this, the South German Group cooperated with the Russian side to launch satellites together. You must know that in that era, the aerospace technology of the mainland was not very developed. Therefore, it is really proud that SÜD can participate in such a project as the launch of satellites.
However, at this time, Mu Zhong did not know that no matter who it was, the higher he was held up, the more miserable the end when he finally fell.
It is not advisable to buy and sell backwards, and a generation of upside-down masters will eventually go to prison
With the change of the times, the market economic system has gradually improved, and the group of fallen masters has gradually declined, even Mu Zhong, who is the leader in this group, is no exception. His company, though still thriving, essentially relies on borrowing to survive.
Mou Zhong, well aware of his company's plight, began to put forward many eye-catching ideas, such as his proposal to develop Manzhouli and turn it into an international city like Hong Kong; and his idea of blowing up a fifty-kilometer-wide gap in the Himalayas to allow heating currents to pass through. He made a big fuss and rhetoric, just hoping to attract the attention of investors and revitalize his company.
But the world is unpredictable, in 1997, a former subordinate of his published a book, exposing the criminal facts of Mu Zhong's buying and reselling, and the public was in an uproar. The richest man, who was once put on the altar, has now become the first deceitful person who everyone hears of his name and scolds. Two years later, Mou was arrested on suspicion of credit fraud. After investigation and verification by many parties, it was found that the facts of Mou's crime were conclusive, and he not only forged credit certificates, but also illegally embezzled state funds.
Mou went to prison for the third time. This time, he had no luck and kept serving his sentence in prison until 2016, when he was released from prison for his good performance.
Mou Has been brave and strategic in his life, does not easily compromise in the face of setbacks, and has an extraordinary vision in the field of business, although he has achieved temporary achievements by buying and reselling, he was eventually imprisoned for buying and reselling illegal and disorderly. For such a business tyrant, his merits and demerits are ultimately left to the world to evaluate!