When officials want to learn from Zeng Guofan, business to learn From Hu Xueyan, in modern history, this sentence is widely known to everyone, and it is regarded by many people as the standard of life. To have such an influence, it can be seen how powerful Hu Xueyan is. However, as the old saying goes, there are people outside the people, there is such a person in history, worth more than half a billion Yuan, and he does not have to kneel when he sees Cixi, who is this person? That is Zhang Zhenxun.
For the name Zhang Zhenxun, most people may feel unfamiliar, indicating that they have not heard much. Historically, this name is inseparable from a famous brand, that is, Zhangyu Wine.
Historically, Zhangyu Wine was the first industrial wine producer in China, and was the only listed company in the same industry in China that issued both A and B shares at the same time. In history, it won a gold medal and three excellent prizes at the Panama Pacific World Exposition in 1915, becoming a well-known national enterprise.
What does this have to do with Zhang Zhenxun? Historically, the founder of Zhangyu Wine, Zhang Bishi, is Zhang Zhenxun.
Historically, Zhang Zhenxun is not only the founder of Zhangyu Wine, but also the founder of the first batch of industrialized domestic machine brick factories, glass manufacturing plants, and machine weaving factories, and has founded many enterprises and factories in China, and is also the richest man in Nanyang. The foundation for this is zhang's way of doing business.
Born in Tai Po, Guangdong Province, Zhang Bishi grew up in a difficult family and was forced to drop out of school after three years of private school. He became a family at the age of 17, and then his hometown was devastated and left his hometown to live in Jakarta.
At the same time, there were not a few people like Zhang Bishi who went to Nanyang to make a living, but Zhang Bishi was talented from an early age and could stand out no matter what industry he did. During his time as a helper in the rice shop, he won the trust of the boss and became Mr. Bookkeeper, and later a boss of the neighboring shop also assigned his daughter Xu to him as a partial room. Since then, Zhang Bishi's business talents have been truly brought into play.
In addition to the rice shop business, Zhang Later also operated liquor merchants, reclamation companies, financial exchange, mining and traditional Chinese medicine. In just over thirty years, Zhang Bishi became the richest Chinese man in Nanyang. The property reached 80 million taels of silver, which was 10 million taels more than the qing government's fiscal revenue that year, and more than 50 million taels of silver than the property of Hu Xueyan, the richest man in Jiangnan at that time.
You may have to ask, there are so many overseas Chinese in business, why does Zhang Bishi stand out? Let's look at an example.
As early as when Zhang Bishi was in the liquor business, there was a time when there was a young Dutch officer who often did not pay or even make unreasonable trouble after drinking. Believing that this man was a scoundrel, the guy wanted to coax him out, but Zhang Bishi said: "This person has an extraordinary temperament, and there may be unspeakable bitterness in buying drunk troubles, and in the future, everyone should not look at him coldly, nor ask for wine money, but also treat him with courtesy." ”
The guy was skeptical at the time, but then he was stunned. It turned out that this person was a member of the Dutch royal family, because he could not bear the pain of service, so he borrowed alcohol to dispel his sorrows, and later became the local governor. Because he was taken care of by Zhang Bishi, he later gave great help to Zhang Bishi's career.
At the peak of Zhang Bishi's career, he was very influential in Nanyang, and the British and Dutch colonial authorities repeatedly wanted to knight him, but he politely refused. In Zhang Bishi's view, he was born a Chinese and should serve the Chinese nation. Historically, he said this and did the same.
After the age of 50, Zhang Bishi was also an official and a businessman. After being recalled to China in 1893, he was summoned by the Guangxu Emperor several times, and Zhang Bishi also put forward a number of suggestions such as setting up a ministry of commerce, opening a special zone, and attracting foreign investment. He successively served as consul general of Singapore, minister of commerce, zhengqing of the Taibu Temple, and the general office of the Cantonese-Han Railway, and was rewarded with a head-to-wear, and Empress Dowager Cixi was exempted from kneeling. This kind of treatment is no less inferior to Hu Xueyan.
While running for the country's business, Zhang Bishi also invested heavily in the construction of many national enterprises, and Zhangyu Wine was created by him with 3 million silver dollars. Even though he was rich enough to rival the country, Zhang Bishi still had the world in mind, was enthusiastic about education and charity, and built many schools in his lifetime. At the mouth of the Yellow River, he raised more than two million silver to help the victims of the disaster; after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, he took out 800,000 oceans to revitalize the Beiyang Marine Division.
Among the overseas Chinese in Nanyang at that time, Zhang Bishi was the first person who was most willing to spend money to do charity and education. Later, after Zhang Bishi died at the age of 76, the coffin was transported back to his hometown for burial, and people along the way set up road sacrifices and animal sacrifices, and the British and Dutch colonial governments all lowered their flags to half-mast to mourn. Because he had funded the Xinhai Revolution, Sun Yat-sen specially sent representatives to mourn the alliance: fine wine won the gold medal, the fragrance of the world; Wei Jie won the hearts of the people, and it flowed through the ages.