Preface
A villager scraped together 70 yuan and made a 10 billion yuan entrepreneurial legend! Now, he has returned to his hometown by plane and generously distributed 10 million red envelopes to the elderly. What kind of miracle story is this, which turned a small fund-raising action into an entrepreneurial legend of billions of dollars?
1. Borrowing travel expenses from neighbors and villagers to raise enough funds to go west Zheng Daqing decided to go to Xinjiang to make a living.
In 1959, Zheng Daqing was born in an ordinary farming family in a mountain village in Sichuan. There are many brothers and sisters, and life is poor. Although Xiao Zheng Daqing can't eat and clothe, he has a wooden personality and a kind heart. The old people in the village always like to ask him for help when they have something, and they will also give him some delicious food.
At the age of 18, Zheng Daqing joined the army. Although the life in the army was boring and single, it also sharpened his tenacious character. After returning from the army three years later, Zheng Daqing told his father that he wanted to go to other places to see the world. His father, Du Lao, was very supportive of his son's idea and felt that a good boy had ambitions in all directions.
But I can't even afford a train ticket. He borrowed money from his father, but Du Lao himself didn't have much money, so he took his son to borrow money from a friend in the village.
An old He family in the village lent him 20 yuan; Lao Li's family scraped together 30 yuan; Uncle Wang borrowed another 12 yuan from him. Everyone is not rich, but they are happy to take out a few dollars of their own to help Zheng Daqing, a fleshy son.
Finally, the 70 yuan of travel expenses was enough. Zheng Daqing was grateful, and promised his father that he would come back to repay him if he made a fortune in the future. The old father touched his head and said, "I don't help you just to ask you for something in return, I just hope that you can become a talent and benefit the people." ”
2. Hard work to take root in a foreign land
In the early spring of 1965, Zheng Daqing came to the unfamiliar Xinjiang. There was only a dime left in his pocket, and he still carried a shabby bedding. In order to save money, he slept directly on the construction site. During the day, he worked hard with his co-workers, and at night everyone spread out straw mats and slept on the spot.
The workers didn't have much education, so they would play cards and gamble for money or go to women when they had nothing to do. Zheng Daqing is often left alone, he doesn't want to spend money, and he will take the time to go to the used book stall to buy some books and come back to read. Everyone thinks he is too Confucian and doesn't understand his fun.
However, Zheng Daqing enjoyed it. He grew up in a poor family and couldn't go to school, and the biggest regret in these years was that he didn't know enough to read and write, and he didn't know much. Now that he has free time, he soaks in books and reads, and he feels that he has gained a lot of knowledge, and he is just having fun in suffering.
Gradually, Zheng Daqing's diligent and studious qualities were discovered by the leaders, and he soon became the leader of the construction site team, and his salary was much higher than that of other workers. He began to methodically save money to send home. And my father will also follow his instructions and take part of the money to slowly pay off the original loan in the village.
Three years later, Zheng Daqing finally saved more than 2,000 yuan. This figure means a lot to him, it is the first pot of gold in his life. This made him confident in the future and felt that he could start his own business.
Three. Never turn back The entrepreneurial journey has been eventful
The next year, Zheng Daqing suddenly asked his boss to resign. He found a few co-workers from his hometown and said that he wanted to start his own business and become his own boss, but he needed their help. Everyone admires Zheng Daqing very much and is willing to follow him.
So, Zheng Daqing took more than a dozen fellow villagers to start a business in Xinjiang. Unbeknownst to him, the first contracted project was defrauded, and all the subsequent venture capital failed, and suddenly he was saddled with a huge amount of debt, and the industry was rumored that he was at the end of his rope.
But Zheng Daqing did not give up, and he could not live up to the trust that his old colleagues and hometown brothers had placed in him over the years. With a wife and daughter behind him, Zheng Daqing decided to grit his teeth and hold on. In order to raise money to pay off his debts, he spent long hours living in the office on the construction site, and the conditions were as difficult as a refugee.
At the most bitter time, he didn't even want to live anymore. Zheng Daqing sat on the side of the railroad tracks and listened to the rumble of the train at night, thinking that he would just rush into the matter. However, he knew that he had people to repay—fellow villagers, parents, and co-workers—Zheng Daqing cheered up and went out to talk about business again.
In a desperate situation, he finally negotiated a big deal with a large factory, which became a turning point in his career. Zheng Daqing was reborn, and then he realized that the meaning of life is far more than the bleakness in front of him. He wants to pass on this will to those behind him.
Fourth, stabilize the shopping mall and give thanksgiving
After more than ten years of ups and downs, by 1995, Zheng Daqing had established his own large-scale enterprise in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Tiandi Group, officially among the thousands of billionaires. The poor boy who couldn't get together 70 yuan at the beginning is now worth billions of yuan. At this moment, Zheng Daqing is very devoid of the joy of modern people, and instead of it, there is a heavier feeling.
He misses his hometown all the time. I think of the difficult years when I was young, and I think of the kindness of my father and fellow villagers...... Now that I have achieved something, it's time to repay the warmth and continue this blessing.
In 2001, Zheng Daqing, who had achieved something in his career, began to give back to his hometown. He has donated funds to build 5 hope primary schools, and also invested 300 million yuan to set up a garment factory in his hometown to solve the employment problems of many villagers. Since 2003, he has spent several years investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build the Cimu Bridge. Nowadays, the transportation in my hometown has become a forest-like network, and the lives of ordinary people have improved significantly.
Since then, every year before the Spring Festival, Zheng Daqing will drive a truck full of rice, cooking oil and other daily necessities back to his hometown, and distribute them to the elderly who are lonely and widowed from house to house. The children were also given candy and toys. Now, his mobile phone number has remained unchanged for more than 20 years, and people in the village can call him whenever they need it.
5. Flying a private jet Returning to the East said
In the Spring Festival of 2019, Zheng Daqing, who had already entered the year of his sixtieth year, drove a private plane from Xinjiang to his hometown - Yilong County in southern Sichuan. In order to allow the elderly with limited mobility to celebrate the festival, he also specially rented a few helicopters to take everyone to the sky to "take a walk".
In the village, every household received large electrical appliances sent by Zheng Dong - color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, etc. He also personally chartered the venue and organized a singing evening and invited old artists to perform. What touched the villagers the most was that Zheng Dong had prepared tens of millions of yuan in cash to give red envelopes to every old man.
"How did I leave here back then, do you all remember? 70 yuan, I made up half of my life's development capital......" Zheng Daqing's eyes were slightly red, he said, the most glorious thing in my life is not to succeed in becoming a billionaire, but to come back to send you a warm year.
Sixth, spark heated discussions, know the grace of the relationship
Zheng Daqing's series of actions sparked heated discussions on the Internet, and many people praised him as a model of gratitude and retribution. Indeed, after more than 20 years, Zheng Daqing has not forgotten the kindness of 70 yuan to change his fate. He always had a grateful heart.
But some people commented that it was a show and too fake. But we should not read too much into Zheng Dong's motives, because this goes beyond the incitement of interests. A successful person gives back to his old neighbors and is admired by future generations, and such a positive example should still be affirmed.
In this era, many people's first thought is how to be more successful and wealthy, but they often ignore the true meaning of life. And Zheng Daqing used his own life path to deduce to the world what is fundamental. What he is proud of is not the wealth he is sitting on, but the happiness and joy of being an ordinary person. What he cares about is not how to show off materially, but how to express eternal feelings spiritually.
epilogue
We are all working hard, eager to succeed, eager to break out of the world. But looking back at the beginning, we need to always remember those who have helped us. Zheng Daqing repays his neighbors with sincerity and links his hometown with bridges, which is the true meaning of success. Should you and I also have such a grateful heart?