"A lot of people are hiding out. No way, let's 'run' too! ”
One day in February 1992, Deng Shiqi, a native of Shaxian County, Fujian Province, made the most helpless decision in his life, but it was later proved to be the most correct decision.
In a kind of private financing called "Biaohui", Deng Shiqi was miserable. He was cornered and had no choice but to run.
The couple took a green-skinned train to Xiamen, supported two briquette stoves, propped up a piece of plastic sheet, set up a stall, and sold snacks.
Worldly things are often so peaks and turns.
After more than 20 years of painstaking operation, Deng Shiqi's snack stalls have become a "golden phoenix", with more than 140 chain franchise stores, and as early as 2013, it achieved an annual output value of more than 100 million.
As a result, Deng Shiqi has become a legendary snack leader.
The people of Shaxian Do not think that the sand is small and do nothing. They are like grass seeds scattered all over the country, where they go to take root, sprout, so that snacks like grains of golden sand, everywhere shine golden light, gathered into the world's snack "hegemony", but also achieved their own wealth and dreams.
Shaxian people go south and north, moving forward with their dreams, naturally inseparable from the help of the "iron brothers" of the railway.
01 Yingxia Railway Activates Snack "Living Fossil"
Shaxian County, bordering Nanping to the east and Sanming to the west, is like a bright pearl, embedded in the middle of Fujian Province. There is a tributary of the Minjiang River, which comes from the Wuyi Mountains, turns in Yong'an, flows through Sha county, and reaches Nanping.
Trains gallop on the Eagle Xia Railway
Sha County, Inshacheng County. Thousands of years ago, the water of the Shaxi River collected and gathered sand and generously gave it to this land. The ancestors came by the water, found the place livable, stopped trekking, and lived together. Because of the sand as the source, it was named Sha Village, which was later derived and upgraded to Sha County.
Shaxian snacks have a long history and are known as the "living fossils" of the traditional diet of the ancient Han people.
In 1957, the Yingxia Railway was opened to traffic, making the transportation in Shaxian more convenient. The loud whistle of the train activated the "living fossil" of Shaxian snacks. In particular, in the early days of reform and opening up, a large number of Shaxian people began the struggle to get rich under the encouragement of "allowing some people to get rich first."
It was a boiling time. Holding flat burdens, one carrying altar jars and cans, the other carrying peanut butter, chili sauce and other ingredients, with the simple dream of "living a good life" in their hearts, they squeeze on a green-skinned train full of hope to go to strange cities.
Shaxian snacks have a long history
The people of Shaxian County spent hundreds of yuan to build a small shed on the side of the road, bought several briquette stoves, supported two steel pots, and sold the "old three things" of flat meat, mixed noodles and tea eggs.
"Exquisite" stores will hang a simple sign at the door, crookedly written: one yuan into the store, two yuan to eat, five yuan to eat well.
At the end of 1992, Zhang Shaochun, who was working as a farmer in his hometown in Shaxian County, had just turned 20 years old, and his annual income was only about 5,000 yuan.
I heard that many villagers who went to other places to make snacks "got rich", and he was farming in the middle of the hillside, and he ran home like a gust of wind and said to his parents: "I also want to dry snacks!" ”
He took the train to Xiamen. Busy for more than 10 hours a day, counting money in the evening: "Wow, more than 400 pieces!" Excited to count over and over again.
In 1995, Zhang Shaochun, who had become rich, returned to his hometown to build a new house.
It was a hot time. At that time, Cui Jian's "Nothing" resounded throughout the streets and alleys, and a large number of migrant workers and businessmen gathered in the city, who "ate" noodles and flat meat, and since then they have "provided" and moisturized each other with Shaxian snacks.
When more and more people walk into Shaxian snack bars, speak in various accents, and say the "small set" and "big set" (generally referring to mixed noodles, flat meat, steamed dumplings or mixed vegetables, the large portion is called a large set, and vice versa, it is a small set) or "four big Kong" (usually referring to mixed noodles, flat meat, steamed dumplings, stewed cans), the era of Shaxian snacks has arrived.
Shaxian Railway Station Old Station Building
As more and more Shaxian people "go out", Shaxian Railway Station has become increasingly lively and busy, and during peak hours, there will be more than a dozen bus stops every day.
Shaxian Railway Station is a third-class station. "It used to be small and simple, the station house was a wooden tile house, and there were only a few wooden benches in the waiting room. The small square in front of the station is a muddy field, and it will be muddy when it rains! Cheng Jinfu, who grew up by the railway, recalled.
However, it is such an inconspicuous small station, which for a long time is not only the only channel for Shaxian people to go out, but also the "golden corridor" for the transportation of snack raw materials in Shaxian County.
Shaxian people carry peanut butter, cooking wine, Chinese herbs for boiling soup, etc., board the green-skinned train and go to all parts of the country to expand their territory.
In the 1990s, people in Shaxian were waiting at the train station
There are many people standing, and crowding is inevitable. Especially after the Spring Festival every year, the black pressure on the platform is full of passengers, railway workers work overtime, often busy until one or two in the morning, almost everyone is "every Spring Festival to lose a few pounds".
Speaking of taking the train, Luo Yongming, who is nearly sixty years old, recalled: "As soon as the train stopped, everyone squeezed desperately. The whole carriage was crowded with people, pots and pans and sauces, and it was very hard to take the train at that time! ”
It's hard, but so what?
Still, it can't stop the people of Shaxian County from "living a good life".
In 1998, Chen Guiqing, a villager in Changfu Village, Xiamao Town, Shaxian County, and her husband took a train to the provincial capital of Fuzhou. Since 2000, the two of them have gone north to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and continue to make snacks.
Time flies, the years pass. More than 20 years have passed, and the hard work of the two has been exchanged for "stable happiness".
Shaxian people take the pu-speed train out to go out
02 The train has become an "accelerator" for shaxian people to get rich
It's a time of farewell.
On September 26, 2013, under the reluctant eyes of the people of Shaxian County, the Shaxian Railway Station, which has been operating for more than half a century, shut down passenger traffic.
It was also an era of "embrace".
On the same day, the Changfu Railway was opened.
Since then, Shaxian has begun to embrace the "era of moving cars".
On December 29, 2018, the opening and operation of the Nanlong Railway made Shaxian leap into the "high-speed rail era".
On December 7, 2013, the first China (Shaxian) Snack Tourism and Culture Festival after the opening of the train was opened, including the "Thousand People Visiting Shaxian" by EMU, 16 activities in four categories, attracting "foodies" from all over the country.
On the opening day, more than 30,000 people poured into Shaxian to taste delicious snacks.
Opened to the Pu Railway
"It is often said that flat meat is 'brick', noodles are 'steel', and stew pots are 'cement', so that we can build high-rise buildings. Today I would like to add a sentence: the train is an accelerator for our Shaxian people to get rich! At the tourism and cultural festival, a hot speech by a food stall owner won thousands of warm applause.
In the early days of the Changfu Railway, Li Xianjin was still closed at nine o'clock every night as usual, but he did not expect to encounter tourists who came to visit him frequently.
So he decided to postpone closing for an hour a day.
It was this hour that increased the daily turnover of the snack bar by several hundred yuan! At that time, Li Xianjin did not realize that the "travel revolution" brought by the train would make Shaxian snacks usher in a golden age of rapid progress!
Li Xianjin is the "shoulder handle" of the snack industry in Shaxian County. His storefront, decorated according to the specifications of the Shaxian Snack Group chain store, has a unified new logo and slogan. The difference is that in the lower right corner is marked a line of characters: Shaxian Li Ji No. 001.
Every year, Lee Hyun Jin goes to all parts of the country to promote snacks. In the past, he had a headache as soon as he opened the door, but now going out has become a "broken thing". For example, when he went to Beijing, he used to transport ingredients to Changle Airport first; now as long as you spend 20 minutes to Sanming North Railway Station, you can go directly to Beijing, which is much more convenient.
Similar to Li Xianjin, Zhang Wanjiang, born in 1974, is also a beneficiary of the train.
Zhang Wanjiang is a villager in Yubang Village, Xiamao Township, ShaXian County. Remembering the life of lack of materials in his childhood, his eyebrows twisted together: "Just one word, bitter!" ”
Since the early 1990s, villagers have taken the train out to open snack bars, leaving in large bags and small bags, full of shabbiness. A few years later, he returned to his hometown and returned to his hometown. They built houses, bought cars, and gave a vivid "lesson to get rich" to the villagers who stayed in ShaXian County.
The three brothers of Zhang Wanjiang looked very hot, borrowed more than 10,000 yuan from the east and west, took a train to Fuzhou, and opened a snack bar.
"Those days are unforgettable!" Zhang Wanjiang said. After the snack bar closed in the middle of the night, the three brothers took water and showered at the entrance of the store, and then used the table as a bed and lay down to sleep.
Fortunately, there is a harvest from hard work. After a few years of hard work, the three brothers' snack bars flourished.
In 2009, the Wenfu Railway, the first high-speed railway in Fujian Province, was put into operation, and the original 4 to 5 hours drive between Fuzhou and Wenzhou was shortened to less than 1.5 hours.
As a result, the two cities have changed from "distant relatives" to "close neighbors", and at the same time, they have also injected new impetus into the snack business.
The three brothers of Zhang Wanjiang also opened the store in Wenzhou.
After the business started, Zhang Wanjiang built a three-story building in the village and soon bought a big house in the city.
The train has become his "BMW" to shuttle between cities, and it has also become a powerful "accelerator" for his snack business to soar.
Embrace the era of emmobility
The prosperity of business and the great changes in life, Zhang Wanjiang used "one underground, one heaven" to describe: "Without the help of the railway, it is difficult to have a good life for our three brothers today!" He said with emotion.
03 "Straw" becomes "Gold and Silver"
"Jinbao Silver", is a traditional snack in Shaxian County, made of fried oil tofu wrapped in filling, because the skin is golden and crisp, the inside is white and smooth, quite like gold wrapped in silver, so it is named "Jinbao Silver", which was later extended to the meaning of "Fortune".
Shaxian snacks used to be just "a straw", a "straw" for people in small counties to hide debts and get rich in mountainous areas. Nowadays, with the help of "iron brothers", it has gone around and broken into Kyushu and won the favor of the market, and it has become a "gold package silver".
In the lofty mountains of The Land of Bamin, the Nanlong Railway spans the Yingxia Line five times, and two railways are almost parallel: one is the only passage out of the province, and the other is the last section of the current ring provincial train line. Between the mountains and rivers, echoing each other, the rafters of the times are like drawing a circle on the land of Eight Fujian, telling the world about the changes in the Fujian Dao.
The change of the Min Dao is actually the gospel of the Min people.
For many years, Wu Mugen ran a Shaxian snack bar in Shanghai. In order to ensure the flavor and quality of food, he often needs to travel between Shaxian and Shanghai.
After the opening of the Changfu Railway, Wu Mugen transferred trains from Sanming North Railway Station to Wuhan and Nanping, although the time was shortened, but the continuous transfer often tossed him to exhaustion.
Especially sometimes, the transfer time is only more than 10 minutes, he carries a heavy snack ingredient, from this platform to that platform, when it is difficult to catch the car, often tired and sweaty, once crouched on the ground several times breathless, almost collapsed.
In the era of moving cars, people in Shaxian are becoming more and more convenient to travel
In the past, taking the green-skinned train was hard and time-consuming, so Wu Mugen rarely returned home for several years. Later, with the train directly to Shanghai, he began to "accelerate". Every time, he departed from Shaxian in the morning, and it only took four and a half hours to arrive in Shanghai for lunch. After delivering the raw materials to each store, if you seize the time, you can also return to Shaxian to make snacks and sleep.
"The raw materials and cash that used to be hoarded are now being revitalized!" Wu Mugen said.
With the successive opening of the changfu and nanlong railways, Sanming North Railway Station has become one of the four major transportation hubs in the province, and the train has achieved "public transportation", the service quality has been continuously improved, and the station setting has become more convenient.
Sanming North Station took over the "baton" of Shaxian Station
The more than 60,000 snack owners outside Shaxian County, the vast majority of them come and go by train, and the sadness of not being able to go home for many years due to inconvenient transportation has long become history.
Nowadays, the travel of Shaxian people is becoming more and more "willful": buying a good ticket on the mobile phone APP can "impress" home; those who are close can rush back that night, get off the train and then make snacks, and they will not feel very hard.
The benefit of the train to Shaxian is not only in "going out", but also in "bringing in". While driving the vigorous development of the snack industry in Shaxian County, the EMU has also driven the development of tourism, real estate and other related industries.
In 2017, in the WeChat group and circle of friends of Shaxian snack owners, a song caught fire:
Hard
Make snacks and work hard
You don't have to worry about running out of money in your pocket
Say it out loud for the New Year
Take a train and a plane
Buy a good house and buy a good car
ShaXianxia is really happy!
As the operation of the train becomes more and more dense and faster, I believe that there will be more diners in the whole country, and even the world, who will be "oral convinced" of Shaxian snacks, and there will be more "Shaxian Xia", take the train and take the plane, buy a good house and buy a good car...