At the age of 14, he suffered an accident and became paralyzed in bed, and at the age of 32, he became seriously ill.
However, he started from scratch with the 100 yuan that his brother and sister had gathered, and used 30 years to turn his fate upside down, earning 23 million yuan a year by selling chickens.
Once lying in bed and caring for by his mother, he is now a bellwether for more than 400 farming families to make money.
He is Ma Jun of Suizhou, Hubei Province, who has rewritten the chapter of his life in 30 years.
In 1971, Ma Jun was born in Shuangsi Village, Suizhou City, Hubei Province, with 958 households in the village, and his family was the poorest family in the village.
When Ma Jun was 2 years old, his father died, and the top pillar of the family fell, leaving 8 children, and Ma Jun also had a sister who was paralyzed in bed.
The family relies on the 39-year-old mother to bear the family expenses alone, and the poverty of life gradually wears the mother's backbone.
At that time, many people approached Ma Jun's mother and asked him if he would like to send her son to a family that could afford to raise him, but Ma Jun's mother never wanted to give up on him.
Growing up in such a family, Ma Jun was particularly sensible from an early age, in addition to helping his mother and taking care of his disabled sister, he would also help the villagers herd cattle and subsidize the family when he had time.
When Ma Jun was 14 years old, he accidentally fell off the back of a cow while herding cattle.
Originally, it was not a big deal for the cow to fall off the cow's back, but Ma Jun unfortunately suffered from necrosis of the femoral head and was paralyzed in bed.
This sudden accident was too much of a blow to Ma Jun:
I thought that when we grew up, we would be able to share everything for our mother, but at this time we were paralyzed and had to spend money to see a doctor.
The brothers and sisters all took out the money to support Ma Jun to go to the doctor, not only did their own money run out, but even the money of the relatives was spent to support him to see a doctor.
Wang Guozhen once said:
Pessimistic people, first defeated by themselves, can be defeated by life, optimistic people, first overcome themselves, and then overcome life.
At the age of prosperity, he suffered this accident, and he could only lie in bed every day, relying on his family to take care of him, and Ma Jun endured unimaginable pain and suffering for ordinary people.
But even under such circumstances, he still faced fate with an optimistic attitude.
With the help of a well-wisher, Ma Jun went to Wuhan for joint replacement surgery, after which he could barely walk on crutches.
There is already a sister who is paralyzed in bed, Ma Jun has become disabled again, and the life of the whole family is in trouble.
Ma Jun thought:
I can't go on like this anymore, I can't let my mother take care of me anymore, I should do something.
After consulting with his family, he took the 100 yuan savings that his brother and sister had pieced together to prepare to start a business.
In 1990, there was a fish pond 500 meters away from Ma Jun's house, and he paid for a small piece of fish pond, and he stayed by the fish pond to feed and supervise the fish, and when it was time to sell fish, he called his brothers and sisters to help.
In order to take care of the fish pond, he built a small house to live by the pond, and got up three times a night to inspect the fish pond.
At that time, the windows of the place where he lived were paper paste, leaked in winter, and slept particularly cold at night, facing the water and wind, and he could not sleep warmly almost every night.
Even in such an environment, Ma Jun still insisted on exercising his knee joints, trying to make himself lose his crutches and walk on his legs.
He never accepts defeat:
Impossible things, I have to make it possible, as long as the knee joint exercises it a little more flexible, can take steps to walk, a lot of very inspirational people, a leg can still jump and walk, not to mention I still have legs, and feet.
With amazing perseverance, Ma Jun persevered.
The first time he sold fish, he earned more than 3,000 yuan, from this money, he spent 14 years to raise fish, accumulated more than 400,000 yuan of savings.
Watching Ma Jun's life get better day by day, but at this moment, fate played a joke with him again.
The humid environment by the fish pond made Ma Jun suffer from ankylosing spondylitis, and the lumbar spine could not move freely, originally he just couldn't move his legs, and now even turning his head has become a luxury.
But fate still did not make Ma Jun bow his head.
His mother had worn socks for several years, and in order not to cause trouble for his family, he insisted on exercising, so that he could lean on the sofa or a stool every day, curl his legs behind him, and wear socks with his backhand.
Even if he is disabled and plagued by diseases, Ma Jun still wants not to add a burden to his family.
In 2005, someone drove to Majun's fish pond to fish, and after fishing, they would buy a few free-range native chickens from Majun to go.
Moreover, the native chicken is better than the fish, selling dozens of them every Sunday, Ma Jun's own breeding is not enough to sell, he even sold out the free-range native chickens of the same villagers.
He immediately realized that free-range chickens were a business opportunity.
In 2005, Ma Jun tried the cattle knife and raised 2,000 native chickens, and he insisted on free range according to the habits of consumers, and these 2,000 native chickens made him a net profit of 60,000 yuan.
In 2006, he took all his savings to expand farming, in 2007 he raised 10,000 chickens, and in 2008, he farmed 20,000 chickens.
By 2012, Majun raised 30,000 native chickens per year, with annual sales of 4 million yuan.
No matter what the size of the development, he still insisted on working on the farm every day, sometimes too tired, and his thighs and calves were swollen when he returned.
However, in 2013, the local chicken industry entered a stage of rapid development, price war, homogenization of products is the trick given by competitors, the price of native chicken fell from the original 20 yuan to 10 yuan.
In the face of the fierce price war, Ma Jun does not intend to reduce the price, but to work the quality of the product and create differentiated products.
He improved the breed of native chickens, insisted on breeding the traditional Hongshan chicken native to Suizhou, and did not allow different breeds of chickens to mate with each other and disrupt the breeds.
In 2013, he bought 3,000 purebred native chickens from local farmers and set up a breeding farm with all his savings, but to breed breeding, it was not enough to have a breeding farm, but also a supporting hatchery.
Ma Jun no longer had any extra money to build an incubation plant, and several brothers and sisters heard that he was experiencing financial difficulties and took the initiative to help him build an incubation plant.
Looking back on it in hindsight, Ma Jun couldn't help but cry:
When I started my business, their conditions were not very good, the eldest brother and the second brother were all borrowed money, the sisters were also, to this step, the brothers and sisters also worried, I did work hard myself.
More than 20 years of hard work, the help of brothers and sisters, the bitter taste, is not three or two sentences can be explained, Ma Jun can only taste alone.
This man who did not accept fate has completely changed his fate, but he still has to continue to go further on his career path.
In 2017, a large restaurant chain heard that Ma Jun's free-range chickens were of good quality, so they went to buy it, but Ma Jun was reluctant to sell it to him and let the family come back after half a year.
It turned out that the breeding cycle of free-range chickens was extended to 12 months later, and the meat quality and taste were better, and he decided to extend the breeding cycle from 8 months to 12 months.
Although prolonging the breeding cycle will increase the cost of breeding, Ma Jun chooses to breed hens mainly and balance the cost of breeding by laying eggs by hens.
Just when competitors are busy fighting price wars, he concentrates on the quality of products.
He chose to cooperate with the hotel for a long time, and at the same time held a tasting event at the entrance of the supermarket every week, the price of other people's chickens was less than 20 yuan per kilogram, and the chickens he raised could sell for more than 30 yuan per kilogram.
In 2018, Ma Jun's native chicken sales exceeded 20 million yuan, and he set up a cooperative to continue to expand the scale of breeding.
He provided farmers with chicken seedlings and breeding techniques, and solved the problem of selling for farmers for free, and more than 400 farmers followed him to get rich.
At the same time, he also drives the entrepreneurship of disabled people like him.
Now, Ma Jun's conditions can already ask his mother and sister for a nanny, but as long as he is not on a business trip, he will push off the cooperation and go home to cook for his paralyzed sister and elderly mother.
From being paralyzed in bed as a young man, to taking care of his family's life and helping farmers get rich, Ma Jun changed his destiny and realized his dreams, relying on his determination to do something.
"Tianxingjian, a gentleman should keep improving himself."
Ma Jun has used 30 years of hard work to prove one thing: between you and your dreams, there is only one action.
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Author: July