Chapter 51 Zhang Yong himself

Zhang Yong is from Jianyang, Sichuan.Jianyang is more than 80 kilometers away from Chengdu and is the most populous county in Sichuan Province.Jianyang has developed agriculture and is the vegetable garden of Chengdu.After the world entered industrialization, agricultural development is almost synonymous with economic backwardness, and Jianyang is no exception. Zhang Yong, who was born in this large agricultural county in 1971, grew up in a courtyard where five families lived together.Zhang Yong's family background is average in that compound. His father is a cook in an agricultural machinery factory, and his mother is a primary school teacher. Zhang Yong has two younger brothers and a grandmother at home.

Zhang Yong's childhood coincided with the period when China's supplies were most scarce. The one with the best life among the five civilian families, the man is the manager of a state-owned hotel in the county.The appetizers that the manager drank at that time were often a few peanuts, each of which had to be broken into four petals to eat.Therefore, poverty has become Zhang Yong's inherent fear and enemy, and memories of material poverty almost constitute the main body of Zhang Yong's childhood memories.Because of this, "hands change destiny" It became the life goal of Zhang Yong and Haidilao.

Poverty is not only Zhang Yong's enemy, but also his philosophy to explain the world.To this day, when he talks about social injustice, he often boils it down to one sentence: "It's all caused by poverty." Fortunately, Zhang Yong's childhood poverty did not cause him low self-esteem, because everyone was poor at that time.On the contrary, Zhang Yong, who grew up in poverty, has a self-confidence that is extremely inconsistent with his growth environment.This may be due to three factors. First, because his mother is a primary school teacher, his family is the only family of five that subscribes to "Youth Daily" and children's books, so Zhang Yong has the habit of reading books; Second, he loves to listen to the radio. Zhang Yong’s childhood playmate said that when they were playing outside, Zhang Yong liked to listen to the radio alone in the house; People—the appreciation of the hotel manager, who likes to chat with people when drinking in the yard, and Zhang Yong is often his only chat partner.

The manager is also a person who likes to read newspapers and books and care about current affairs. He always sips wine and breaks peanuts while sitting on the bench together. God chat.Naturally, this loyal "drinking friend" got a different view from the manager.He said: "This kid will be promising in the future." When Zhang Yong was a little older, the manager proposed, "I will take you on a business trip in the future to broaden your horizons." I asked Zhang Yong: "Does this manager have no children?" Zhang Yong said: "I also find it strange that he also has two boys, one of whom is about the same age as me, but he didn't say he would take them there."

Evidently, while the manager was drinking, his children were engaged in child's play, as were all the other children in the yard.And Zhang Yong is his year-end friend. In 2010, Zhang Yong, who was almost 40 years old, recalled this year-end friend and said: "When I just opened the hot pot restaurant, he got esophageal cancer. When he was about to die, he asked someone to call me. He was speechless. Dip your hands in water and write 3 large characters on the table, work hard! I turned my face away, I didn’t want him to see my tears.” Zhang Yong naturally obtained information that other children could not obtain from books, newspapers, radio, and conversations with the well-informed hotel manager who was more than 20 years older than him.In that era of extreme material scarcity, there was not much material to show off among children, and the capital that could make a boy stand out from the crowd, apart from fists, was knowledge.

Zhang Yong is not a man of Kong Wu.According to his memory, he had only fought once since he was a child (except for the civil war between the three brothers of the Zhang family), and it was when they were a large group.Zhang Yong's knowledge made him the head of the child.After he grew up, he also said unabashedly: "I don't know why, people always listen to me. "Obviously, Zhang Yong is a man with a desire to be a leader. But Zhang Yong, who loves reading and reading newspapers, is not a good student.Because the grades in junior high school were not very outstanding, and because the family life was difficult and hoped that he could find a job early, his parents did not let him continue to study in high school, but entered a technical school in Jianyang that guaranteed job assignments to learn electric welding.This incident made Zhang Yong feel very uncomfortable, and he is still a little bit aggrieved when talking about it.

Zhang Yong, who was born to want to do great things, can't think highly of a welder.He gave all the welding materials distributed by the school to his classmates. During school, he only read miscellaneous books and played.Fortunately, there are always a group of people around Zhang Yong. All the exams are helped by a few classmates. In the end, even the graduation certificate was taken back by others for him. In 1988, 18-year-old Zhang Yong graduated from a technical school and became a worker at the Sichuan State-owned Tractor Factory.