Preface
The 2024 Hurun Report will be announced as scheduled, and the top few of them can be said to be basically all in the fields of e-commerce, Internet IT, and infrastructure.
Only Qin Yinglin, who ranked 13th, is an exception, and he is worth 135 billion yuan, relying on animal husbandry.
There are thousands of farmers in China, but Qin Yinglin is the only one who can achieve such a scale.
But what no one could have imagined was that when he first started his business more than 30 years ago, Qin Yinglin was still a retail investor with only 22 piglets, and even failed to start a business due to lack of experience, and lost all his money.
It was all thanks to his younger brother's bride price that he was able to persevere, and finally came to the position of "the richest man in Henan" worth hundreds of billions today.
However, the younger brother, who played a key role in Qin Yinglin's entrepreneurial period, is still an ordinary person working in the factory.
So, how did Qin Yinglin make a fortune by raising pigs?
As the "richest man in Henan", why is his younger brother just an ordinary person?
Give up the "iron rice bowl"
In 1965, Qin Yinglin was born in a peasant family in an ordinary small mountain village in Henan.
Because of this, his parents attach great importance to Qin Yinglin's education, and they firmly believe that only learning can change their fate.
And Qin Yinglin did not disappoint them, he got up early every day, focused on studying, was unwilling to waste every minute and every second, and often helped his parents to provide all kinds of help within his ability, and was a well-known good child in the village.
In order to allow the excellent Qin Yinglin to continue studying, his eldest brother even resolutely chose to drop out of school.
But no matter how good Qin Yinglin's grades are, no matter how much he helps his parents, he is just a student, and he can't change the status quo of his family's financial difficulties, and his parents still need to work hard, which makes Qin Yinglin very heartbroken.
One day, Qin Yinglin saw an article in the newspaper praising the 10,000-yuan household that started by raising pigs, which made him very excited:
At that time, the average person's monthly salary was only a few dozen yuan, and 10,000 yuan was an unimaginable big number, which would inevitably change the status quo of the family and make it easier for parents to work so hard.
Qin Yinglin, who thought that he had found a change in the status quo, soon found his father, saying that he could follow the example of the newspaper and make a fortune by raising pigs.
But raising pigs is not easy, just the money to buy piglets is a huge challenge for the family that is not wealthy, and the father is in thought.
Considering that his son has always been so smart and filial, and he has also gone to school and is a cultured person, he is already much better than himself, so his father finally agreed with Qin Yinglin's opinion, took out all the family's savings to build a pig farm, and bought more than 20 piglets.
However, due to the lack of experience in raising pigs for the first time, and unfortunately encountering a swine fever, all these piglets died not long after.
This kind of upheaval made the family face an existential crisis in an instant, looking at the corpse of the piglet, the father with a heavy expression and a sad brow and the mother who kept crying in grief, Qin Yinglin was silent.
Although his parents didn't blame him, in his opinion, it was him who caused all this, and it was he who took it for granted that caused the family to fall into this situation.
This incident became a demon in Qin Yinglin's heart at this time, urging him to study harder and harder, so he decided to set his future goal on animal husbandry.
Since then, Qin Yinglin's grades have become more and more excellent, and his parents' mood has been comforted, especially after learning that his son has been qualified to be sent to Henan University, he is even more excited.
However, what his parents never expected was that Qin Yinglin directly gave up this opportunity.
This is the first time that his parents have been angry with Qin Yinglin, even if his father did not blame Qin Yinglin when all the piglets died before, only this time, he angrily asked his son what he wanted to do.
But the answer he got made him silent for a moment, and Qin Yinglin said the goal he had set - animal husbandry at the Agricultural University.
As the father who knew Qin Yinglin best, he understood what his son was thinking in an instant, and the original anger disappeared, replaced by various complex emotions.
"What if I don't pass the exam, what a chance..."
In the end, his father understood Qin Yinglin and asked him to study hard and strive to achieve his goals.
In the end, Qin Yinglin did not disappoint his parents, he was successfully admitted to the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Henan Agricultural University, and began to learn all kinds of knowledge about breeding, especially pig raising.
In the past four years of college, Qin Yinglin has not slackened at all, soaking in the library every day, studying various theories of animal husbandry diligently, and when there are various practical tasks, he is the first and always rushes to the forefront.
In addition to knowledge, the university campus also allowed Qin Yinglin to broaden his career, and when he came to learn about the development situation, related technology, sales and other information and knowledge in addition to the breeding itself.
This also made Qin Yinglin make up his mind to return to his hometown after graduation and lead the villagers to breed together to get rich.
In addition to knowledge, Qin Yinglin also met his other half on the university campus-Qian Ying, and on the way to entrepreneurship, the two encouraged and supported each other, and finally succeeded in success.
After graduation, Qin Yinglin was assigned to work in the meat factory of Nanyang Food Company, as a state-owned enterprise, both the salary and the stability of the job are enviable, and the parents are proud of their son's work, which is quite gratifying.
However, no one expected that 3 years later, Qin Yinglin once again broke through their common sense, and chose to take his wife to resign from the "iron rice bowl" and return to his hometown to raise pigs together.
Go home and raise pigs
"That kid from the old Qin family is crazy, don't you want a good iron rice bowl, come back and raise pigs?" "It's the same as not studying in this university, we can also do pig raising, can there be any difference?"
The news that Qin Yinglin went home to raise pigs shocked the whole village, and people talked about it for a while, not understanding why Qin Yinglin did this.
In the eyes of them and even their parents, raising pigs is a dirty and tiring rural work without any culture, and it is a waste for a college student to come back to do this, and he actually quit his job as an "iron rice bowl" that others can't ask for.
However, because Qin Yinglin has always had his own opinions, he did a good job in the end, just like although he gave up the escort before, didn't he also go to college?
After thinking about it for a while, his parents decided to support Qin Yinglin's career. And his wife Qian Ying, as a college student in this field, naturally supports her husband.
In this way, with the support of his family, Qin Yinglin officially embarked on his own pig raising road.
Qin Yinglin first took the savings he and his wife had saved in the past few years, and after borrowing some money from relatives and friends, he bought 22 little piglets and built a pig shed, vowing to make up for his childhood regrets!
Since the funds are not very sufficient, many aspects of the pig shed need to be done by the couple, whether it is moving bricks or digging wells, they are hands-on.
For these piglets, they are like babies, in order to save money and not blow themselves cold in the summer, they also have to move the electric fan to the pigsty to cool the pigs.
However, God did not favor this hard-working couple, but played a bad joke: a swine fever quietly came.
Although the couple soon discovered this, when the swine fever was too fast and fierce, in just three days, all the piglets died, leaving only the dazed couple.
Although the couple quickly cheered up and wanted to try again, their financial situation no longer allowed them to continue to start a business, and they didn't even pay off the debts they owed before.
For a while, the nightmare of his childhood seemed to come back to Qin Yinglin's side, making him a little trance-like.
But at this moment, Qin Yinglin's brothers stood up and showed a family affection that was thicker than water:
The elder brother, who chose to drop out of school for Qin Yinglin, took out his savings over the years, and the younger brother handed over all the bride price money he was going to marry to Qin Yinglin.
The help of the brothers was like a light in the darkness, which not only pulled Qin Yinglin out of the quagmire, but also led him to success.
Qin Yinglin, who was regrouped, learned the lesson of the last time and began a more scientific and formal breeding, and even vaccinated all piglets.
Finally, with the help of his brothers, Qin Yinglin harvested his first batch of more than 200 piglets, successfully earned his first pot of gold, and also got his own reward.
Relying on this money, Qin Yinglin first replaced the debts of his brothers, and the others were all invested in the pig breeding business, and in just four years, his assets reached an astonishing 4 million, becoming a famous local pig farmer and a wealthy man.
At the same time, Qin Yinglin did not forget his original intention, and began to invite the villagers to join the pig breeding business, and the whole village embarked on the road of raising pigs to get rich.
Since then, Qin Yinglin's career has become bigger and bigger, and when the slaughter reached an astonishing 100,000 heads in 1999, he also improved the breeding business and established his own Muyuan breeding company.
On January 28, 2014, this was the most special day for Qin Yinglin and Qian Ying, their Muyuan company was officially listed, and they held more than half of the shares, with a market value of 4.5 billion, and successfully made a down payment in Henan.
Since then, Muyuan has become bigger and bigger, making profits almost every year, and by 2023, it will exceed 100 billion, becoming the ninth place on the list of China's richest people that year, and China's aquaculture industry deserves to carry the handle.
But from the previous story, we also know that Qin Yinglin can succeed, in addition to his own efforts and persistence, the contribution of his brothers is particularly important, but now Qin Yinglin is worth hundreds of millions, but why is his younger brother still an ordinary factory businessman?
Of course, this is not because Qin Yinglin has forgotten his younger brother, not to mention the kinship relationship between the blood, just the kindness of the year He will not forget.
Qin Yinglin also wanted his younger brother to be an executive of the company, but he was rejected by his younger brother, he didn't care much about how much wealth and fame he had, he thought that his ability did not match these, and he should still make money with his own hands.
What few people know is that in addition to borrowing money at the beginning, in the process of Qin Yinglin's entrepreneurship, his younger brother has always been the closest partner standing by his side.
After achieving success, Qin Yinglin did not forget the country and society, he knew that without the help and recognition of the country and the people, he would not have achieved such great results, so he has also been focusing on public welfare:
In 2021, we will raise funds and donate 100 million yuan to Henan to survive the floods, in 2022, Muyuan will donate 200 million yuan to fight the epidemic, and Henan Agricultural University will donate 1 billion yuan to help our alma mater cultivate more outstanding students...
In addition, Qin Yinglin has always been keen on poverty alleviation, and as of 2020, he has helped 142226 poor households get out of poverty, and the income of poor households has increased by 782 million yuan.
Qin Yinglin used his practical actions to show his sense of responsibility to the society!