On the evening of January 17, the 61 million in cash on the stage was neatly stacked.
The people on the stage held the money until they were soft, the mobile phones under the stage flashed, and the news spread throughout the network in an instant.
This is the year-end bonus prepared by the boss Cui Peijun for his business elite, and many people have a specific concept of how much 5 million is for the first time.
Cui Peijun has once again become the boss of someone else's house. And this is not the first time that this boss has paid employees like this, why did he do it?
01 Little away from home
In 1965, Cui Peijun was born in Housanmu Village, Annili Township, Changyuan County, Henan Province, and his family was poor, he did not finish junior high school, and at the age of 14, he bought glasses on credit from the county optical factory, and then ran to the surrounding townships to sell glasses to make a living.
Changyuan County is located on the "tofu waist" of the Yellow River's "copper-headed iron-tailed tofu waist", where the Yellow River has become a "hanging river".
In history, it was flooded in ten years and nine years, and one-third of Changyuan was located in the Yellow River beach area, and the Changyuan people had long been cultivated to leave their hometown to find a job.
The reason why Nagaki's chefs are famous all over the world is partly due to historical traditions, and the fundamental reason is the forced life away from home.
The same is true of Cui Peijun, who crosses the Yellow River with a suitcase on his back as a young man, and the billowing river water flows under his feet wrapped in mud and sand.
Cui Peijun, who is an 18-year-old adult, heard that Shanghai has many opportunities to make money. So with the belongings accumulated over the years, he took the train all the way south, and he wanted to do business in Shanghai.
Although the big Shanghai is wonderful, Cui Peijun, who is bent on making money, is disappointed here.
The glasses he brought from his hometown were not favored by fashionable Shanghainese, and Cui Peijun soon returned to Changyuan from Shanghai.
At that time, Changyuan anti-corrosion was already famous, and after the reform and opening up, projects all over the country sprang up, which was naturally inseparable from anti-corrosion.
Changyuan's engineering team took a brush to brush all over the country, and Cui Peijun soon entered the industry.
Cui Peijun's uncle was in Shanxi, so he went to Datong to develop. Accumulated since childhood, within a few years, Cui Peijun established his own anti-corrosion engineering company, this year he was just 22 years old.
02 Fallen leaves return to their roots
When the wheel of time enters the 21st century, the 35-year-old Cui Peijun has become a big boss of anti-corrosion projects, and his annual sales revenue has already exceeded 100 million.
Although he has been in Shanxi all year round, he has not been far from his hometown Changyuan, on the one hand, for business needs, on the other hand, because although Shanxi's noodles are good, they cannot feed the stomach of a Henan person.
So when he heard the news of the "return project" of the Changyuan County Government, he immediately returned to Changyuan from Datong, leaving behind the anti-corrosion company that was doing just right to let his wife take care of it.
In his eyes, his hometown is no different from when he left. Young people go out to work all over the country, and old people take their children to seek a living in the saline-alkali land.
Cui Peijun's next plan is to make cranes, and Changyuan lifting has a historical foundation for many years, when the entire industry is transitioning from workshop to factory.
On both sides of the road from the county seat of Changyuan back to Cui Peijun's hometown, several lifting equipment factories have already sprung up.
In this way, the 37-year-old Cui Peijun returned to the place where he left when he was young.
In 2002, he and six other people opened the curtain on the construction of the Henan mine, completing the site capital construction in just four months, and there was a profit by the end of the year.
Such a speed is really not something that ordinary people can do, and what is more frightening is that Cui Peijun will expand the factory and put it into production every two years. At the same time, he also continues to acquire small and medium-sized lifting plants in the surrounding area.
Henan Mine, which has been established for 8 years, is already a small lifting giant with annual sales of 2 billion yuan.
And what made Cui Peijun most proud was the acquisition of the Xinxiang mine.
When the Xinxiang Mine was founded, Cui Peijun was still tossing the glasses business in Shanghai, and when the factory in the Henan Mine was just built, the Xinxiang Mine was already well-known throughout the country.
The two crane manufacturers are even more looking down in Changyuan.
I don't know if Cui Peijun had a deliberate element when he named himself at that time, and the Henan mine with light seniority must have overwhelmed the old Xinxiang mine in its name.
After all, one is Henan Province, and the other is Xinxiang City. So the two companies once went to court because of their names.
In 2011, the majority shareholder of Xinxiang Mine was ready to retire by transferring its shares. Originally, I had already found the next home at a price of 50 million.
Unexpectedly, a dramatic scene occurred in just 10 days, with the intervention of the local government, Henan crossed the mountain first, and Cui Peijun became the winner of the equity transfer.
Although Cui Peijun later transferred his shares, the Xinxiang Mine brand was already hidden by snow at this time. The acquisition gave another boost to the rapid development of Henan Mine. Although the Xinxiang Mine later restarted, it had long been left behind
03 How to help students
In the 10 years from 2002 to 2012, Cui Peijun completed the transformation from 0 to 2 billion yuan, and in the 10 years from 2012 to 2022, Henan mines dried from 2 billion to 8 billion.
Although there is still a gap with his colleague Wei Hua in Changyuan, Cui Peijun's reputation on the Internet is already out of the circle compared to Wei Hua's boss Han Xianbao, in popular terms.
There are two bosses in Henan who are famous throughout the country, one is Yu Donglai, the boss of Fat Donglai, and the other is Cui Peijun.
Boss Cui's love of money is something that the whole network knows, especially at the end of each year, it sends millions to outstanding employees, and it shocks the eyes of the majority of netizens.
But few people know that Boss Cui actually started sending money very early. It all started with an interview.
In 2003, Boss Cui, who had only returned to his hometown for his second year to start a business, was interviewing for a new person.
Suddenly, I saw that the applicant in front of me had just graduated from high school, and when I saw that he was still in his own village, he casually asked why he didn't go to college.
Take a closer look at the original interviewer's father who has long died, and although he was admitted to Zhengzhou University, his family has no money to provide. I heard that Boss Cui returned to his hometown to start a business, so he wanted to find a job.
At that time, it was not easy to get a college student, let alone the best university in Henan.
Cui Peijun couldn't help but think of himself who dropped out of school at the age of 14, and had to run around for a living, and as a result, he suffered the loss of not going to college
Even if I became a boss, I couldn't even understand a complicated drawing.
Boss Cui directly refused her to come to work, but asked her to go home first, and then sent someone to deliver the student funds to her home.
In Changyuan at that time, there were many such poor student families, and the employees in their own factories had a similar situation.
The following year, at the initiative of Cui Peijun, Henan Mine set up the "Poor College Students Scholarship Fund".
At that time, Henan Mine had just been established for 3 years, and Boss Cui himself was still exploring the way to gain a foothold in the market.
04 Be kind and charitable
As the only major shareholder of Henan Mine, Boss Cui pays 1 million yuan to the scholarship fund every year.
For all children of employees admitted to university, each person will receive an annual subsidy of 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan until graduation from university, and encourage employees to educate their children well.
For the children of employees in difficulty, at the primary and secondary school levels, each person will receive an annual subsidy of 1,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan.
At the same time, the same funding will be given to students who are difficult to enter universities in more than 20 townships around Henan mines.
Boss Cui, who looks like a big old man on the outside, is more delicate about charitable funding.
Boss Cui stipulated that the fund only subsidizes poor students admitted to university, and only the first year.
In his opinion, as long as you enter university, you can already be an adult, and you can complete college independently through part-time and work-study.
If you keep donating, the other party may feel indebted and easily become dependent.
His way of donating was also simpler and more rude, and each time he personally found money for students. In his own words, he wanted to meet this student once in a lifetime.
In Chinese culture, getting rich without forgetting is a praised virtue, and so is Cui Peijun.
The money earned on the land of Changyuan naturally has to be fed back to this land.
Changyuan is no longer the saline-alkali land of the Yellow River 30 years ago, and Cui Peijun is not the wanderer who crossed the Yellow River and left home.
Because I have been in the rain, I want to shelter others from the wind and rain.
Boss Cui not only distributed money to students, but also donated money to rebuild two primary schools. Every year on Teachers' Day, he also gives money to reward outstanding teachers
It has also invested more than 4 million yuan to build new rural areas, so that it is no longer difficult for surrounding villagers to walk and drink water.
He also donated more than 5 million yuan in one lump sum to the construction of safety in Changyuan County, and the more monitoring probes on the streets of Changyuan County increased the sense of security of the common people.
In addition, Cui Peijun often helps the surrounding villagers, whenever there are difficulties in the nearby villagers' lives, medical treatment, schooling, etc., before they can speak, Cui Peijun and Henan Mine will take the initiative to lend a helping hand.
In the era when the Internet was not yet developed, Cui Peijun's benevolence and charity have become a good story in Changyuan.
05 Filial piety comes first
The first time Cui Peijun came out of the circle, he was known as the boss of someone else's house.
At the company's annual meeting in 2022, Boss Cui issued 8 million year-end bonuses to performance elites on stage, and when the cash was halfway through, Boss Cui saw that his employees could no longer hold it, and joked that it would be like that.
Boss Cui, who can play, will also let advanced employees go to the stage to count money, limited to 15 minutes, and if the count is correct, you can take it home directly.
Boss Cui also changed his tricks and paid money to employees, and on the third and eighth festivals, he gave 800 yuan in gift money and holiday gifts to each female employee in the factory.
In the summer, when it was hot, he went to the workshop to give each person a cooling subsidy of 500 yuan.
Boss Cui even took out a bonus of 4.2 million yuan to reward 24 front-line outstanding employees with a BYD car each.
If it is said that employees are directly paid and welfare, it is Boss Cui's rude and powerful. Then taking filial piety culture as the core of the company's culture is Boss Cui's oriental gentleness.
Although at the beginning, many people did not understand. But what Boss Cui thinks about is definitely to be done.
So since 2012, Henan Mine has organized various filial piety activities.
Every spring, at the filial piety cultural tourism festival, more than a dozen buses leave on time. Take the parents of more than 1,000 employees to sightseeing tours across the country.
Every year, the Mid-Autumn Festival "filial piety culture festival", not only arranges special personnel to send holiday gifts to the parents of business managers, but also invites employees' parents to participate in the banquet, and Boss Cui personally attends the scene to send flowers and holiday condolence money to employees' parents.
In addition, Cui Peijun also evaluates the "Mine Filial Star" once a quarter in accordance with the requirements of the new 24th filial piety, and advocates filial piety throughout the group.
Why did Boss Cui do this?
As a farmer entrepreneur, he knows that filial piety is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, but his business manager is often unable to take care of his parents because of his work.
Therefore, using filial piety not only reminds employees that they must not forget the nurturing grace of their parents.
Moreover, through the form of company organization, the parents of employees are proud and proud, so as to better support the work of their children.
Boss Cui himself said that no matter how strong the employee's ability is, as long as he does not honor his parents, then Henan Mine will not tolerate him, which is also his bottom line as a person.
epilogue
There are thousands of bosses in China, when most eyes are attracted by the Internet giants in first-tier cities, in the county town of Henan, there are fairy bosses like Cui Peijun, when his employees, not only salary bonuses are arranged clearly, but more importantly, they know what they are fighting for.
In addition to sending money to make employees happy and directly feel the meaning of struggle, filial piety culture wraps the development gear of Henan Mining, so that every employee and family can be sublimated.
Perhaps this is what Boss Cui, who loves to make money, should really be remembered.