Fan Li's name should not be very familiar to posterity, but the god of wealth, the god of wealth, who is worshipped by people, is Fan Li. Nowadays, the god of wealth that people worship is Fan Li, and there must be a reason why Fan Li is enshrined. Fan Li is the Shang Saint in the mouth of our descendants, and it is also the prototype of the god of wealth enshrined by posterity. Why do we worship Him as the God of Wealth?
The great thing about Fan Li's business is that it understands the way to do business. It is worth mentioning that Fan Li's teacher is Ji Ran, who is the world's earliest scribe, and people today probably do not know about this person. Most people had never heard of Ji Ran, and Fan Li at that time studied with the teacher, which led to Fan Li, who later became a businessman.
Ji Ran is historically erudite and omniscient, especially good at calculation. He often traveled in the mountains, seas and lakes, and when he traveled south to Yueguo, he took Fan Li, the grand master of the Yue Kingdom, as an apprentice, and gave Fan Li the Seven Plans. This led to the later Fan Li assisting the Yue King. That is to say, Fan Li's skills were almost all learned here in Ji Ran. In Fan Li's life, the first half of his life was to help the Yue King to restore the country, and the second half of his life was to engage in business.
The reason why Fan Li was worshipped as the god of wealth by posterity is that in the process of doing business, Fan Li did not only care about his own enjoyment, but scattered his family property three times, so that Fan Li's business can be briefly summarized as three gatherings of wealth and three scattered wealth. In this way, Fan Li can become the god of wealth that posterity worships. For future generations, the most difficult thing to do is to retire from success.
After Fan Li helped the Yue King to restore the country, he did not enjoy the glory and wealth, and in such a situation, Fan Li avoided the same ending as Wen Zhong. Compared with Fan Li, the merits of the wen are not less, but the end of the wen is given to death by the Yue king, compared to that, Fan Li's ending is much better. Fan Li eventually died.
In the process of doing business, Fan Li summed up his own business heart, which is Fan Li's eighteen plans for doing business. Although this was summed up by Fan Li more than two thousand years ago, the truth is still applicable even today, and it can be said that these eighteen schemes have exhausted human nature. So what are these eighteen?
Business should be diligent, do not be lazy, lazy is wasted;
The price should be clear, do not be vague, vague is more contentious;
The cost should be frugal, do not be luxurious, luxury is exhausting money;
Credit owes to know people, do not indiscriminately, indiscriminately out, and if you abuse it, you will lose money;
The goods should be inspected, do not indiscriminately enter, and the price of the goods will be reduced if they are indiscriminately entered;
Money should be clear and cautious, do not be confused, confused is harmful;
Be conscientious in the event, do not entrust, entrust, entrustment is a big victim;
Accounts should be audited, do not slacken off, slack off capital stagnation;
Accept to be humble, do not be grumpy, grumpy is less transactional;
The Lord's heart should be quiet, and do not act rashly, for there are many mistakes in acting rashly;
The work should be fine, do not be rough, rough is inferior;
Talk to the rules, do not be impetuous, impetuous is more accidents;
Be cautious in and out, do not scribble, scribble more mistakes;
Employ people should be fair, do not be crooked, crooked is difficult to entrust;
The advantages and disadvantages should be subdivided, do not be confused, and the confusion is expensive;
The goods should be corrected, do not scatter, loose is difficult to check;
The time limit should be agreed, do not be sloppy, sloppy will lose credibility;
Buy and sell at any time, do not delay, delay is a bad opportunity.
Fan Li's life is full of legends. Fan Li was born in 517 BC and died in about 420 BC, that is, Fan Li lived for nearly a hundred years. Even today, Fan Li's age is long-lived. Fan Li's business eighteen plans people should keep in mind, this can be said to be a treasure left by Fan Li to future generations.
Fan Li was evaluated as "loyal to the country; wisdom to protect oneself; business to get rich and become famous in the world." "Many businessmen of later generations worshiped his statue and revered him as the god of wealth. Fan Li was the grandson of Fan Wuzi, the ancestor of the Fan surname, and is regarded as the ancestor of the Fan clan of Shunyang. Nowadays, people who do business will worship the god of wealth, but very few people know who the god of wealth really is.