Zhu Baosan used his life as a person: integrity, righteousness and light wealth to make a large number of confidants, two of whom played a crucial and fueling role for his continuous rise and peak!
Pivotal - Zhu Baosan
The first one is Ye Chengzhen!
Ye Chengzhen, born in 1840.
His life is also quite legendary, born into an ordinary peasant family. He was the second oldest in the family, his father died when he was six years old, and he was pulled by his widowed mother to grow up with his brothers and sisters! He only attended private school for half a year, and then dropped out of school due to family poverty. Since childhood, he broke into the beach alone, started as a miscellaneous apprentice, and later rented a sampan boat to ferry in the Huangpu River, and sold food and miscellaneous food to foreign ships. By chance, when the ferry carried passengers, the guest left a valuable package, Ye did not privately swallow, but patiently waited for the guest to come back to recognize, the guest is exactly the hardware British businessman, in order to thank Ye Shijin is not ignorant, introduced the hardware business to Ye, and has since made a fortune.
At that time, Ye Chengzhen was already a well-known hardware king, with industries throughout real estate, fire oil, coal, money, match factory, etc., and when his wealth was at its peak, he surpassed the Shanghai Beach Real Estate King, who was later known as the richest man in the Far East, and Shanghai Daban Hatong! (Of course, when Ye passed away in 1899, Hatong's wealth did not reach its peak)
Although Ye Chengzhen was only eight years older than Zhu Baosan, he started the Shunji Hardware Store by the Self-Reliance Portal for a full 16 years before Zhu Baosan, which can be described as a young man's fortune, and once he made a fortune, he was unstoppable. Also more than a hundred years later, it is also Hong Kong, there is also a young fortune, a fortune is also unstoppable, known as the landlord of Hong Kong at that time!
Zhu Baosan was able to make friends with Ye Chengzhen, who was far more wealthy and social status than he was at that time, zhu Baosan's own personality charm, and Ye Chengzheng's broad-mindedness, and more benefited from the fact that they were all Fellows of Ningbo, because Ningbo businessmen were particularly united, supported and helped each other, and in the current language, it was called hugging the group for warmth, so that they could dominate the beach at that time. As a peer, at this time, Ye Chengzhen can be described as a big family, and when dealing with Zhu Baosan, he has no attitude of competitors and peers, but looks at the younger generations who are pleasing to the eye, and also sees him as a confidant of his peers. Ye Chengzhen not only gave up the Wangpu storefront located at No. 13, Sima Road, which was downtown in Shanghai Beach at that time, to Zhu Baosan to open his shenyu, but also introduced many large customers to Zhu Baosan, who also changed from small hardware to large hardware business according to Ye Chengzheng's business policy, orderly diversified operation, extended his tentacles to real estate and other industries, and gradually became another hardware king!
The King of Hardware - Ye Chengzhen
The second is Yuan Shuxun!
Yuan Shuxun, a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province, was born in 1847, and was a contemporary of Zhu Baosan, who was born in 1848, and when he was a small civil servant who did not debut, he liked to go to the Xieji hardware store where Zhu Baosan worked. At that time, Zhu Baosan had just been promoted to the general ledger office, and he was very busy, but he had never neglected Xiao Yuan. Although Zhu Baosan is silent and taciturn, not very good at words, and even looks a little stunned on the surface, but as mentioned earlier, his advantages, plus he may be a sullen type, although he does not talk much, he is good at grasping the key points and never talks nonsense. Otherwise, how can we say that listening is more important than telling? In addition, he naturally likes to make friends with all kinds of people, especially shrewd and active talents!
Coincidentally, Yuan Shuxun was such a talent, he became the governor of Liangguang at his peak, and later in the early days of the establishment of the Republic of China, the Great Demon King of Yuan Shikai, as a distant relative, still wanted to ask him to be the governor directly subordinate, and he also refused very much.
At that time, Yuan Shuxun soon made his mark, soaring from a small lord Bo all the way to Su Song Tai Dao (that is, Daotai, equivalent to a provincial and departmental leader), and Shanghai was under his jurisdiction. Because of the previous friendly relations, Zhu Baosan was more successful in the commercial sea. The two of them complement each other, quite like the friendship between Hu Xueyan and Wang Youling!
In order to let his friends better handle government affairs and make political achievements, Zhu Baosan sacrificed his ultimate secret weapon- Gu Qingchuan (the father of Gu Weijun, the first diplomat of the Republic of China). Gu Qingchuan this person is like Bao San Zhuge Liang, especially good accounting, is his own accounting director and strategic staff, he suggested that Zhu Baosan change the original "shou zhu wait for rabbit" style of specially relying on store sales, (this is also most of the merchants at that time adhered to, the old passive way of operation) instead of taking the initiative to undertake business, and to undertake is the big hardware business required by large builders, a huge amount of money, commonly known as wholesale sales model. It is with the assistance of Gu Qingchuan that Baosan can achieve long-term development in business! On the one hand, he thanked Gu Qingchuan for his dedicated assistance, he knew that Gu Qingchuan had great talent, and in order to provide him with a broader stage in order to be unyielding; on the other hand, in addition to recommending talents for his friends mentioned above, of course, he wanted to install his own cronies in the political circles. The so-called people in the DPRK and China are good at doing things, from ancient times to the present, at home and abroad, all of which are unspoken rules and clear reasons!
Soon, Zhu Baosan obtained a huge profit that ordinary businessmen could not hope for.
The Qing government ordered all customs tariff revenues at each treaty port to be handed over to the customs road, and Yuan Shuxun was specifically responsible for handling the debts of Gengzi's indemnity. This is a huge amount of money, and the cycle is very long, and it usually needs to be deposited in various silver numbers and money houses in Shanghai, waiting for disbursement. Which silver number and money house can get the right to deposit this money, it really can become rich in an instant. Thinking that when Hu Xueyan borrowed money from foreigners on behalf of the Qing government to help Zuo Zongtang recover Xinjiang, the Qing government used local taxes to offset the principal and interest of foreigners' loans, and the right to deposit this money also fell into the hands of Hu Xueyan's Fukang Qianzhuang, which greatly increased Hu Xueyan's strength, and took advantage of the time difference to use this money to invest in lending, speculate in silk futures, and lay the foundation for his position as the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty.
Yuan Shuxun was not good at the economy, and handed over the deposit power to Gu Qingchuan and Zhu Baosan's decision to implement. Zhu, as Gu's former boss and Bole, obeyed Zhu Yan. Therefore, every morning, the second floor of Zhu Baosan's Shenyu store was full of friends, and the managers of various silver money houses rushed to visit the door, all of which wanted to get the allocation of this money. As a result, Zhu Baosan became a credit appraiser who had the right to dismantle and enlarge the various money banks in Shanghai, which made the entire Shanghai financial circles look at him.
Shanghai Daotai - Yuan Shuxun