The Complete Works of Think Tank, edited by Feng Menglong, a member of Amin Dynasty, is called "the son who helped the wind in Tang Dynasty". According to records, he started by planting trees, and finally established a "family shop" and became a generation of wealthy businessmen. Now it is often used to describe entrepreneurs who started from scratch and finally succeeded.
2 primitive accumulation
At the age of thirteen, relatives brought back a dozen pairs of local silk shoes from Anyou and distributed them to the children. Everyone scrambled to pick and choose, but Dou Yi did not move. When everyone finished picking, the remaining pair was accepted by Dou Jingjing thank humbly, took to the market for 500 yuan, and then went to the blacksmith to make two small shovels. These two tools are the starting point for Dou Yi to get rich.
Personal life
At the beginning of May, Yu Qian was mature and the city was flying. Dou Yiju had a dozen fights in Yuqian, and then told his uncle that he wanted to "borrow the temple to study". His uncle was the minister of supervision, in charge of the palace and the idle stables, and there was a temple in Yu Jiahui Square. Uncle promised him. Dou Yi uses two shovels to dig ditches, draw water, water and plant elm money in the yard every day. By autumn, there will be more than10 million seedlings growing, more than one foot high. By the next year, the elm seedlings had grown to more than three feet high. Sparse the saplings in the bucket and choose branches to keep strong and upright. There are 100 bundles of small elms, which are two feet thick and each bundle is more than ten pieces. After the autumn of the third year, some elm seedlings have grown to the size of eggs. Dou Yi also cut more than 200 bundles of elm firewood, and made several times of profit after selling it. Five years later, the young elm seedlings planted in that year have grown into wood. 1000 More than 30,000 rafters used to build houses were sold for 30,000 to 40,000. There is also wood for making cars, 1000.
It's amazing that a 13-year-old child can earn the first batch of tools for himself in the face of gifts from relatives. It is quite difficult to grow trees to get rich. It is obviously not easy for a teenager to collect money, dig ditches, draw water, release water and thinning, which is also strange. The most amazing thing is that he planted trees with "state-owned land" on the pretext of "going to the temple to study". At first glance, it's incredible, but today's loss of state-owned assets can't help but make people smile: this law was created by children more than 1000 years ago. How difficult is it to get rich? Is it easy?
4 Enter the manufacturing industry
After planting trees for five years and accumulating "original capital", Dou Yi can play big.
He bought Shu county green hemp and hired someone to sew it in a small cloth bag. Bought hundreds of pairs of new Ma Xie. He stays indoors every day, calls the children in every neighborhood and lane, and gives them three cakes and fifteen pence. Then give each of them a small cloth bag and let them pick up the seeds of Sophora japonica. After a month, I collected two cars of Sophora japonica seeds. Let the children pick up the shabby Ma Xie. Every three pairs of worn-out Ma Xie are replaced by a new pair of Ma Xie. Countless people came to replace old Ma Xie with new Ma Xie. A few days later, I received 1000 pairs of old hemp shoes. Buy some oil and indigo in the western market and hire a cook to cook it. I bought several piles of discarded broken tiles outside the workshop gate and hired someone to wash away the mud in the running stream.
Biographical record
After preparing the above raw materials, Dou Yi bought five stone-mouth cymbals and three file cymbals. Pay by the day, hire someone to cut Ma Xie with a file hoe, and smash tiles with a stone hoe. Sieve with a sparse cloth, add Sophora seeds and oil indigo, and let the servant mash it day and night. When they are mashed into milk, they will be made into more than 10 thousand long sticks with a diameter of three inches and a length of less than three feet, which are called "French candles" In June of the early years of Jianzhong, it rained heavily and the salary was expensive. Dou Yi will sell the "French candles" produced, each with 100 pieces. Cooking with it is twice as powerful as firewood. As a result, "there are countless profits."
Dou Xiao is amazing again. First of all, he changed from his own efforts to employing "children" and "servants", from "laborers" to "workers" and began to taste the taste of "workers ruling the people". Secondly, his technological invention was simply the pioneer of later "honeycomb briquette": combustible materials (Sophora japonica, old hemp shoes and indigo oil) were mixed with nonflammable aggregates (broken tiles) to make standard "industrial products", and its thermal efficiency "doubled wages". The most amazing thing is his economic thought. It costs money to collect raw materials (Sophora japonica seeds, old hemp shoes, oil indigo, broken tiles), buy fixed assets (stone mouth cymbals, file cymbals) and make products (French candles). /kloc-it was not easy for people 0/000 years ago to understand that things made can be sold and earned money.
We can see that Douwa has evolved from a self-employed person to a manufacturing entrepreneur. However, his journey is not over yet.
Develop real estate
On the south side of Chang 'an Xicheng Weighing Line, there are "more than ten acres of polluted places" and "all kinds of filth gather in the flag pavilion", which has become a dumping place. Dou Yi wanted to buy this place, but its owner didn't measure it well, so he took 30 thousand pence and left. Dou Yi set up a wooden pole in the puddle with a small flag hanging from the top. Then six or seven temporary houses were built around the tower along the ground, and people were hired to cook pancakes, jiaozi and other foods. Call on children to throw stones, tiles and hit flags on wooden poles. If you hit it, you will be rewarded with pancakes or jiaozi. The children in two streets rushed to throw. In less than a month, thousands of people threw stones and tiles, and the pool was soon full. Dou Eyuan built 20 paved houses on the filled land. If you rent it out, you can collect thousands of dollars from the rent every day, which is very profitable. This place was named "Doujiadian" and became a bustling urban area.
Rongcheng
In this regard, Dou has become a real estate developer and started to develop in contiguous areas. The same place, in the hands of the original owner, is a garbage pit. Through the operation of Shawn Dou, it has become a prosperous urban area, which shows the importance of vision. Nowadays, successful real estate developers often come up with strange tricks, but who came up with the idea of turning pit filling into a prize-winning game for children? When this game became serious, it became Fan Zhongyan's "work for relief".
Cao Suixing, a corps commander, lives in Chongxian Lane. A big tree in the yard is near the window, and its branches and leaves block the light of the house. Cao wanted to cut it down, but he was afraid of breaking the hall. When Dou E learned of the injustice, he asked to buy the big tree and promised to cut it down without damaging Cao's house. Cao Suixing was overjoyed and sold the tree to Dou Yi for only 5,000 pence. After buying this big tree unjustly, Dou E consulted with the tree-chopping craftsman and cut it into several pieces of wood more than two feet long from beginning to end. As a result, it not only didn't smash the hall, but also selected good materials from it, hired craftsmen to make hundreds of sets of gambling tools and sold them in its own business, "making a profit of more than 100 times."
At this point, it is hard to say whether Shawn Dou is engaged in manufacturing or real estate. He obviously improved the Cao family's residence, but in return, he got low-priced wood and made it into gambling tools to sell and profit from it. From a tree in the way to profiteering, only by your own eyes. From this we can see the most fundamental "core competitiveness" of a businessman or entrepreneur: the ability to discover potential profits. That is what Zhuangzi said, "He who hides in the room is holy". In the era of Douwa, the biggest "hiding in the room" was in the official family. He started with the "loss of state-owned assets", and of course he will pay attention to this soon.
people-oriented
There is a "haunted house" near Qiu's residence, which Dou E bought unjustly. Build walls around, tear down houses, and prepare to become cultivated land. Li Sheng wants to buy this land in Douwa and build a stadium. Dou Yi didn't sell it, saying that "someone has what he wants". When she got the favor of the new emperor, Dou Yi took the deed to see Qiu. He said, "Some people want to live in this house with their relatives. I'm afraid I've forced Qiu Jiadi, a poor man, to find it difficult to settle down. It can be seen that this place is spacious and leisure, in which horses can be played. Today, I offer the Yuan deed, and the government gives it. " Dedicate this place Li Sheng was very happy. Privately said to Shawn Dou: "Don't do small things?" Dou Yi said: "I dare not have such extravagant hopes. But if there is anything urgent to do in the future, I will come to you again. "
Classic deeds
Later, Dou E unjustly selected five or six "big businessmen and big businessmen" from two markets in the capital Chang 'an and asked them, "Do you have any children who want to be officials?" These wealthy businessmen were very happy and said, "Old Dou is a good friend!" " "So, Dou Yi took the resumes of the children of these wealthy businessmen to visit Li Sheng, saying that they were the children of their relatives and friends. Li Sheng happily agreed, and they were all assigned to various "fertile places". As a result, Dou Xiao "took tens of thousands of dollars" from these wealthy businessmen.
This is a typical case of "trading power and money". I don't know why the Commission for Discipline Inspection at that time (it seems to be called "monitoring the imperial history" or something) didn't check it. In fact, in Shawn Dou's eyes, what matters is the interests behind Qiu, not only the interests behind senior officials, but also the interests behind those poor beggars.
There is a semi-finalist named Mi Liang who lives in the street. Dou Yizhou helped him for seven years. One day, Mi Liang came to see him. Encourage him to buy a house. On the day of writing the deed, Mi Liang quietly said to Dou Yi, "I am good at identifying jade articles. There is a stone in this room that is actually a jade in the sky! " Dou Yi called a jade worker and asked him to identify it. The jade worker exclaimed, "This is a rare product." . So, Dou Yi hired a jade worker to process this piece of jade into a belt buckle, sell it for several hundred dollars, then process it into a box, and put things like head and tail on it for several hundred dollars. After that, Dou E unjustly gave the house to Mi Liang together with the deed, so that he could have a place to live as a reward for Mi Liang.
Dou Yi is a businessman. He is actually the operator here. Discover the potential profits behind everyone, and even let people automatically find profits for you. People-oriented, this is the real businessman. Shawn Dou started from farming, went through manufacturing, real estate and manager, and completed the course from urchin to businessman. Recalling the story in Notes on Three Villages, do you want to make a fortune by recycling eggs and chickens, and don't even enter the door?