Chapter 52 first financing

Zhang Yong, who graduated from a technical school, was assigned to the Sichuan State-owned Tractor Factory where his father worked as a cook.However, this technical school graduate who studied electric welding couldn't even do the most basic electric welding work, so he became a "thorn" in the workshop.Fortunately, this thorn is not causing trouble, but he comes in late and leaves early and often absent from work. However, Zhang Yong, who is idle and loves to read books and newspapers, is not idle. He always pays attention to national events and business information around him and in the news.

In 1990, in the courtyard where his family lived, the first batch of rich people in China at that time—self-employed people had already appeared.Granny Zhan’s house is next door to Zhang Yong’s. Her husband has an ancestral skill of making smoked goose, and Granny Zhan’s family started the smoked goose business.The courtyard is filled with the smell of smoked goose and the stench of washing goose. Not only can Zhang Yong often taste the delicacy of the leftover smoked goose, but he is also amazed by the life changes that the smoked goose business has brought to this neighbor.Granny Zhan's family quickly became a household with ten thousand yuan, which was rare in Jianyang at that time, while Zhang Yong's monthly salary was only 90 yuan.

The power of role models is endless!Zhang Yong saw hope. what kind of business?Selling smoked goose is obviously not what Zhang Yong yearns for, because it is too untechnical.How can Zhang Yong, who is full of knowledge, be interested in the catering industry!So, Zhang Yong began to look around for business opportunities.Finally, he caught his first business opportunity. When he went to Chengdu, he saw a lot of people playing a poker game called “Smashing Size”.Seeing a lot of people surrounding a machine, scrambling to put money up, Zhang Yong's eyes lit up, and he decided to do this business!Buy one, put it in Jianyang, and the money will be spent!But where to buy poker machines?It's a gambling device, and it won't be sold publicly.

Zhang Yong played his strengths - reading newspapers and finding information from newspapers.The hard work paid off, and he finally found an advertisement for a poker machine at the seam of the "Reference News" newspaper.So he followed the clues, walked the streets and alleys of Chengdu, and found a person who was illegally selling poker machines. It was a Fujianese man with long hair and wild cranes flying in the sky.He was full of curiosity about this 21-year-old boy from Jianyang, because almost all the people who bought this kind of poker machines were quite mature people, and they all had to be introduced by acquaintances.

Zhang Yong asked: "How much?" The Fujianese said: "6,000." Zhang Yong gasped and said, "I didn't expect it to be so expensive!" In fact, compared with his peers, Zhang Yong was a rich man at the time.Because Zhang Yong knows that any business needs capital, he gave all his monthly salary to his mother to save from the first month of work.Generally, young people have to buy some new clothes after they go to work to make money, but Zhang Yong, who is determined to do great things, still wears patched trousers after work, which was indeed a bit shabby and unusual at the time.Zhang Yong worked for two years and saved a full 2,000 yuan.

This was not a small fortune at the time. Obviously, the Fujianese are sophisticated businessmen.He said to Zhang Yong: "Young man, I think you will be able to achieve great things in the future, so I will sell you 5,000 yuan." More than 20 years later, when Zhang Yong talked about this with me, he still said strangely: "That person actually said that I can achieve great things!" It can be seen that it has become Zhang Yong's belief to do great things.Although he has become the boss of more than 10,000 employees today, he still has to find evidence from fatalism.His memory of his old friend - the hotel manager - so vividly said the same thing.

Psychology believes that normal people are narcissistic. People will find answers to their own success more from hard work and genes; while others will explain their success more from opportunities and backgrounds. No one doesn't like compliments, let alone a 21-year-old youth. In addition, they gave it a discount of 1,000 yuan!This is Zhang Yong's salary for one year. To the Fujianese who valued himself so much and gave him a discount, he said gratefully: "You wait, I'll go back and borrow money." Back in Jianyang, Zhang Yong took out his own savings of 2,000 yuan from his mother, plus the only 1,600 yuan at home, and there was still a shortfall of 1,400 yuan.At this time, when a middle school classmate who helped Dad manage the grocery store heard about Zhang Yong's business plan and difficulties, he stole a wad of money from Dad's grocery store cash box without hesitation.The two ran to the back of the room to check, and it was 600 yuan.It turned out afterwards that this was the most risky "venture investment".

But it is still 800 yuan away from the 5,000 yuan of Fujian people? The only rich people around Zhang Yong are Granny Zhan who sells smoked goose.He found Granny Zhan and said, "I'm going to do business, and I'm short of money, can you lend me?" Mother-in-law Zhan asked: "How much difference is '7" "800 yuan." Zhang Yong said. Granny Zhan, who sells roast goose, didn't ask Zhang Yong, "Do your parents know about this?", so she readily lent him 800 yuan. In those days, 800 yuan was not a decimal.It's beyond my imagination that Grandma Zhan lent money to the hairless Zhang Yong so easily.I asked Zhang Yong if this Granny Zhan was still there?He said: "It's still there, and it's in Chengdu." So, I met this Granny Zhan.

For more than 20 years, Granny Zhan's family is still selling roast goose, and they still sell it in roadside shops like those on the streets of Sichuan. I asked Granny Zhan, who is already in her 60s, Zhang Yong borrowed money from you at that time, did you ask him what business he does?Grandma Zhan said: "I seem to have asked, but I can't remember clearly. By the way, I don't understand what Zhang Yong said about the game console business, so I lent him the money." I asked again: "Then did you ask Zhang Yong? Do his parents know?" Grandma Zhan said: "I didn't ask, why did I ask them? I know Zhang Yong won't mess around. Besides, our two families have a very good relationship. Sometimes they don't have enough money at the end of the month, so they often borrow money from me. Many years later, he Parents know."

"Then you never thought that Zhang Yong would fail in his business and still not get your money?" I asked again. The cheerful Granny Zhan laughed and said, "I haven't thought about it." Then she said, "If you haven't made it yet, let's not make it!" I guess the latter sentence was said by the current Granny Zhan after thinking about it.The previous sentence "I haven't thought about it" may be the intuition of Granny Zhan more than 20 years ago.Grandma Zhan started the roast goose business after she retired. Before she retired, she was also a primary school teacher.Maybe this Granny Zhan, who has had countless children, really saw Zhang Yong's excellence very early on.Otherwise, how could a 21-year-old have so much credit with her?

I said to Granny Zhan, "Your 800 yuan almost made Zhang Yong the owner of Jianyang's casino."