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Guanhu Village is located in the southwestern edge of Guangdong, because of its remote location and remoteness from the economic center, the village has few other economic sources except for crops such as rice and peanuts. This has led to Guanhu Village being located in the list of poor villages all year round, and it is impossible to achieve collective prosperity.
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However, it is such a poor village, but now every family lives in a villa, and the living conditions have changed from the previous Xiao Suo poverty.
So what exactly changed them?
Guanhu Past
It turned out that just over thirty years ago, Guanhu Village produced a high-achieving student. Chen Sheng, an 18-year-old rural child at the time, was actually admitted to Peking University, which undoubtedly caused quite a stir in the village.
Chen Sheng's family has 5 children, he is the third oldest, although his parents are farmers, they know that only knowledge can change their destiny, although they can't read big characters, but they have to support a few children to read.
In his early years, Chen Sheng, like most children, failed to understand his parents' thoughts, let alone understand the meaning and weight of the words "knowledge changes destiny".
In a daze and distracted manner in class, after class, he plunged into the field to play, which is his daily portrayal, and he has been repeatedly taught, and his parents have repeatedly disciplined him or he is so playful.
For Chen Sheng at that time, life was also happy.
Unfortunately, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and when Chen Sheng was 12 years old, his family underwent great changes.
My father was seriously ill, and even if the family emptied their savings and pooled together money, they could not save my father's life.
After his father left, the older brothers and sisters seemed to grow up suddenly overnight, and they offered to go out to work to help their mother maintain their livelihood and fully support Chen Sheng's study.
As a result, Chen Sheng had the "privilege" that he did not have to work in the field, but only needed to read with his heart.
Only then did Chen Sheng suddenly awaken. He began to be angry and trying to be strong, studying hard, and in order to catch up with the courses he had left behind, Chen Sheng studied day and night.
The time soon came to the 1979 college entrance examination, but the heavens did not care for Chen Sheng, because of the lack of systematic learning, Chen Sheng was seriously biased, and he fell off the list.
Unable to withstand the blow, Chen Sheng was disheartened and felt that he was not the material for reading, and he had failed to live up to the expectations and efforts of the whole family, so he went home and followed his mother to farm. What he originally thought was: Since the road to study is not feasible, it must at least reduce the burden for his mother.
But every day facing the loess with his back to the sky, in addition to planting land, or planting land, Chen Sheng lost more than ten pounds in two months. For two months, he had felt the hardships of farming and the difficulties of his mother, but even if he worked so hard, he still did not get much income. It was at this time that he deeply felt his own smallness for the first time, and understood that "knowledge changes destiny" may be his most promising way out.
He assured his mother that if he re-studied for a year, he would be able to pass the examination.
Broaden your horizons and change the turning point of your life
In 1980, at the age of 18, Chen Sheng ushered in his second college entrance examination, this time he defeated himself and was finally admitted to the Department of Economics of Peking University with the first result in the county.
Guanhu Village, which is extremely poor, has ushered in the first high-quality student in history, which makes the villagers very excited.
Such a big happy event, the people in the village went to congratulate, but they saw that Chen Sheng's mother was not happy at all, and her eyebrows were tight.
In fact, everyone in the village knows what the reason is, in the poor Guanhu Village, the family does not have much savings, Chen Sheng's father died a few years ago, the family has no top pillar, in the poor Guanhu Village, their family is also the poorest one.
Heartbreakingly, when the child is really admitted to a prestigious university, the mother does not make up enough for the child's travel expenses at home, let alone the tuition.
Most of the villagers in Guanhu Village are surnamed "Chen", how many relatives have brought their ancestors, and the villagers who know the news have also generously donated, 1 piece 2 pieces, 1 piece 8 pieces, and pieced together Chen Sheng's travel expenses.
Chen Sheng, who got the travel fee, looked at the crumpled money in his hand and made up his mind to make a name for himself and repay these respectable villagers.
People say that the children of the poor have long been in charge, Chen Sheng is no exception, four years of college, Chen Sheng has been soaking in the library, dare not have a moment to relax. Because now the opportunity has been placed in front of him, if he can't grasp it, he really has no face to face his family, and he has no face to face the villagers who help him go to school.
In the four years of college, Chen Sheng has been exposed to more and more things, his vision has become higher and higher, and the pattern and level have been greatly improved.
After graduating from university, Chen Sheng was assigned to the General Department of the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee of the Government, the main work content is to investigate the economic changes in Guangdong, as well as social changes, economic and people's livelihood, and provide important information to the superiors.
During the work, Chen Sheng sent back most of his salary to subsidize his family. But in fact, his salary is not even one-tenth of that of his brothers who go out to work, and the rest of his salary is not enough for his own life. This made Chen Sheng gradually come up with the idea of going to the sea to do business.
The salary of graduating from a prestigious school is not as good as that of an ordinary vendor
In 1986, Chen Sheng was transferred back to his hometown to work, and seeing the great changes and rapid development of his hometown, he wrote an article "Where Will China's Economic Reform Go".
After the article was published, it was criticized by the leadership, and Huai Cai did not meet him and made him unwilling.
Because of the particularity of the work and his own professional knowledge, Chen Sheng has also had a deeper understanding of guangdong's economic trend in the past 6 years, and he believes that the real economy will be the top priority of future development.
One night, Chen Sheng, who was in a bad mood, went out to relax and saw that the stall owner on the side of the road wanted to talk to each other casually. Who knows that the other party has no time to take care of him, and told Chen Sheng that he can earn more than 30 yuan a night, which makes Chen Sheng even more depressed, the money earned by others in one night is worth half a month's salary, and he is a famous university graduate, but he is not as good as a stall.
After thinking about it, Chen Sheng, who was not willing to show weakness, immediately submitted an application to stay with pay and officially went to the sea to do business.
At first, because there was no start-up capital, he followed the stall owner to sell clothes, in just half a year, Chen Sheng earned 3,000 yuan, with the principal, Chen Sheng contracted vegetable fields according to the experience of these years, made a lot of money, and obtained the first bucket of gold in his life.
Chen Sheng, who made money, did not stop his pace, through the study of the market, with his sensitivity to the economy, he quickly set his sights on real estate development.
In 1993, Chen Sheng officially entered the real estate industry and partnered with others to open a real estate company. In just three months, Chen Sheng achieved a return on the cost and doubled the benefits.
In just three years, Chen Sheng has made the company the top of the industry and become the "leading boss" of real estate.
With the rapid development of real estate, Chen Sheng's wealth has accumulated more and more, and naturally he began to touch new industries.
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By chance, Chen Sheng picked up the "pig killing knife", and it turned out that Chen Sheng thought of his disciple, Lu Buxuan, a meat seller at Peking University.
He wanted to study the doorway inside, and he wanted to get to know Lu Buxuan, who was also an alumnus.
Adhering to the principle that he could not be impulsive in doing business, Chen Sheng started his own old business. He went deep into the grassroots, after conducting an investigation, he was directly shocked, the sales of the local pork market in Guangzhou alone are as high as billions, the demand for pork is huge, and the profits are good, is this not a huge business opportunity?
In 2006, Chen Sheng resolutely entered the breeding industry and built the "Earth Pig No. 1" farm at the junction of Zhanjiang and Jiangxi.
At the same time, he opened a chain store to sell pork, and in 2 years, his pig breeding business was smooth sailing, becoming the largest pork chain store in Guangdong.
In the continuous struggle, Chen Sheng's wealth is also accumulating, and in 2018, the sales volume reached 1.8 billion, and the annual income doubled, and now Chen Sheng is also a rich man worth tens of billions.
In fact, after he had money, he began to return to his hometown and gradually helped his hometown renovate primary schools, junior high schools, and high schools.
Subsidies are also provided to teachers living in poverty.
Drink water and think of the source, know the gratitude map
After Chen Sheng became bigger and stronger, he still did not forget the "grace of one meal" of the villagers in those years, and it was precisely with the generosity of the villagers that Chen Sheng could get out of the poor mountain village and have today's glory.
In 2014, Chen Sheng revealed in front of the media that in order to thank the villagers for their support that year, he would invest 200 million yuan to build 258 villas for his hometown and donate them to the villagers of Guanhu Village free of charge.
In addition, we will also build a pig farm and a breeding base for lychee forests in the village to jointly lead everyone to get rich and solve everyone's employment problems.
He knew very well that it was better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish.
Such a kind act, to repay the villagers, Chen Sheng was frightened for 3 years and did not dare to return to the village for the New Year.
Since the completion of the first phase of the villa in 2016, the villa has been deliberately destroyed.
The reason is that the villagers are dissatisfied with the distribution, on the grounds that there are too many brothers and sisters, they want to get more real estate, and the contradiction escalates when you fight for it.
Confucius said as early as the Analects: Man does not suffer from widowhood but from inequality, and does not suffer from poverty but from uneasiness. This is especially evident in backward villages, where I can't live a good life, and you don't want to live well.
Even the villagers who have moved out for many years have heard about it and returned to the village jointly to ask for a villa.
Good things don't go out, bad things spread far and wide. The various practices of the villagers have made the outside world talk about it, and they are all worthless for Chen Sheng, but some people say that Chen Sheng is just speculating and plotting against him.
Under the influence of various factors, the villa plan was shelved.
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In the face of these statements, Chen Sheng did not care, but returned to the village to give everyone a meeting.
You know, Chen Sheng Company can be said to be a workaholic, doing things vigorously, even if the plane is delayed by a few hours, the people in the conference room do not dare to leave half a step.
But Chen Sheng, who returned to the village, did not have the prestige of a big man, and in his heart, the villagers were still as kind as they were decades ago.
Finally, on the basis of the original, he agreed to add 2 new apartments of 80 households in the village to solve the problems of the children of the villagers.
Chen Sheng's sincerity touched the villagers, and no one said that he was putting on a show.
On June 4, 2018, Chen Sheng held a banquet in Guanhu Village to celebrate the joy of the villagers' housewarming, and told the villagers: "I will also be old, relying on me is not a long-term solution, building pig farms, lychee forests, the original intention is to make everyone's life better." I can have what I have achieved today, and it is also because I have read books and knowledge that I can change my destiny. So if you raise your children well, life will get better and better."
The villagers all said that the original young man went out and said that it was Guanhu Village, and it was not easy to find a partner, which made people dislike and could not lift their heads. Now they are very proud, and it is much easier to marry a daughter-in-law than other villages.
As Chen Sheng said, relying on others is not as good as relying on ourselves, knowledge can change our destiny, and only by not forgetting to dig wells and know how to be grateful can we go further.