Figures in history can be roughly divided into two categories, one is a great man and the other is a little man. Great men decide the direction of history, while small people embody the truth of history. Of course, the "Eight Heavenly Kings" in Wenzhou should be classified as nobody. When wanted by the whole country, none of them had more than 500 thousand assets. After the incident, most of them were ordinary and returned to the public. Hu Jinlin thought he would be beheaded, went to prison with trepidation, and was released in a daze. Shortly after his release, he planned to set up a steel rolling mill. "There is no rolling mill in Wenzhou, and there is no one in Yueqing. Now the capital construction is in urgent need of steel. I want to run a rolling mill! " When he said this, he had forgotten that three years ago, he was hit by the competition with state-owned enterprises for raw materials. Businessmen are always economic animals. For them, watching business opportunities slip through their fingers and being indifferent seems more difficult than decapitation. Private rolling mills with only 4.5 mu of land are unsustainable in 1988. Hu Jinlin went to Shanghai to do business with Shenzhen, and the farthest place was Qaidam Basin in Xinjiang. He said, "The newspaper said that the development of the western region was the dawn of the 2 1 century, and I immediately thought that I could take my chances." After being rejected, Hu Jinlin returned to his old job and began to produce and sell "AC contactors". At this time, the low-voltage electrical appliances in Liushi have made people sit up and take notice, and Hu Jinlin is no longer the "king" here.

When Zheng, the "Curly King", was arrested, he was a little black and humorous. One day, the "Working Group on Combating Economic Crimes" drove by Liushi and saw a three-story small white building, which was quite eye-catching. The team members discussed in the car, "Can this family afford a house without capitalism?" The next day, Zheng, our landlord, became the focus of investigation. When the working group raided the house, they found many abandoned motor coils in the yard. He was accused of "making fake and inferior coils for profiteering", and the name of "king of coils" was thus delineated. Zheng was released after being detained for half a year, and he dared not go out to do business for nearly seven or eight years. Later, he fell in love with the newly popular computer and set up a small computer training class in Liushi Town.

Liu Dayuan, the only "screw king" who has not been caught, has been doing screw business. The "Dayuan Screw Shop" he opened in the most lively Shiqian Street in the town has become a reform model for journalists to take pictures many years later. He is most proud of, "In the 1980s, the screws in my shop were the most complete. At that time, there were only more than 20,000 kinds of standard parts companies in Shanghai, and I had more than 40,000 kinds! " Later, the state-owned Shanghai Standard Parts Company was really washed by Liu Dayuan.

"Catalog King" Ye Jianhua was originally a self-employed photographer. One day, Hu Jinlin found him and asked him to take a catalogue of his automobile products. Inspired by this, Ye specially took a catalogue of enterprises in Liushi Town. He is a bit like a salesman. He always marks the product name and basic data in the catalogue, and also marks "national price" and "Liu market price" respectively. Dealers who don't know anything about electrical appliances go everywhere and can see it at a glance as soon as they take out this catalogue. In this business, he ranked among the "Eight Kings" and was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. After he was released from prison, Ye Jianhua never dared to do this business again, so he opened a photo studio, an advertising company and a garage. The "catalogue king" has finally become the past.

The young man who spent the longest time in prison was Cheng, the "miner's lamp king". After he was sentenced by public trial, his family could no longer stand in Liushi, and his parents, brothers and sisters were forced to leave their homes. After Cheng got out of prison, he went to Shanghai to do business, and then he disappeared. The experience of Li, the "king of contract", is very similar to that of Cheng. He was put back after being locked up for four months, then moved to Shanghai and later lived in Canada. Wang Maiqian, the king of secondhand goods, died of liver cancer on 1995 at the age of 50.

Among the "Eight Heavenly Kings", Zheng, the "king of electrical appliances", made some achievements in the future. He became a fugitive after being wanted by the whole country. Finally, 1983 was arrested by the police in September and released without charge in March of the following year. After he was released from prison, he returned to his old job and founded a Kai Guanchang. In the early 1990s, Zheng went to Wenzhou University to study international trade and became the oldest student in Wenzhou University. After graduation, he suddenly turned to the clothing industry, founded "Zhuang Ji" Clothing Co., Ltd., and invited Hong Kong star Lv Liangwei to be the brand endorsement. This company later became a relatively large-scale clothing industry in Wenzhou. In the future, Zheng was selected as the "Man of Wenzhou Reform" and will always be named as the representative of the "Eight Heavenly Kings".

The "Eight Kings Incident" was famous all over the country around 1982, which once overwhelmed Wenzhou private enterprises. 1984, Yuan Fanglie, then secretary of Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, deeply felt that "unless the Eight Kings case is overturned, there is no hope of invigorating Wenzhou's economy". He organized a joint investigation team, reviewed all the files, and came to the conclusion that "except for some minor tax evasion, what the Eight Kings did was in line with the spirit of the central government".