Chapter 53 Two "miscarriages" of business

Zhang Yong failed to enter the gambling industry, thanks to a group of Sichuan scammers. At that time, there were no 100 yuan denominations of RMB, and 5,000 yuan was a thick stack.Zhang Yong packed the money densely in an aluminum lunch box.The classmate who lent him 600 yuan, in order to protect Zhang Yong's 5,000 yuan and to participate in the great cause of founding the first casino in Jianyang, took the coach to Chengdu with Zhang Yong. The car starts and stops, passengers pick up and down all the way.Meanwhile, a person came up.The man inadvertently revealed a gold watch on his wrist, which aroused the surprise and appreciation of the surrounding passengers.A gold watch of that age is a rare thing.One of the travelers said he knew the area the man was from.Every family there raises a lot of cattle and sheep and is very rich.So someone asked: How much is this watch worth?Some say 2,000, others say 3,000.At this time, the man said: "I bought this watch for 2,400 yuan. My wife is hospitalized in Chengdu. I was in a hurry and didn't have enough money. If anyone can give me 1,200 yuan, I will sell the watch."

As a result, many people began to bargain with this man, and the seemingly simple and honest man refused to give up the price. Who in the world is easy to be fooled? Someone who wants to take advantage. Who in the world is easy to lose money? People who want to get rich and have money. At this moment, Zhang Yong in that car had both!Zhang Yong, who often reads books and newspapers, knows that gold is valuable. He discussed it with his "venture capital" partners. If the big gold watch is real, it must be worth more than 1200! The "venture capitalist" was eager to prove his ability in front of the "leader", so he asked for the gold watch to come over to have a look, and even bit his teeth, which made the man furious and snatched it away, almost punching him. Yong's classmate.

The "venture capitalist" said to Zhang Yong: "This is really true." Therefore, Zhang Yong made the first business decision in his life, buying a gold watch for 1,200 yuan.Because they need to open the lunch box to get the money, they show their wealth in front of so many passengers.After Zhang Yong got the watch, he suddenly felt that everyone in the car seemed to be robbers. He and his companions decided to get off the car immediately.But when the car drove away, the two of them realized almost at the same time that they had been tricked! The gold watch is of course fake.Zhang Yong and Zhang Yong came out of the watch shop in Chengdu, holding a lunch box containing only 3,800 yuan and a fake gold watch, and sat on the side of the road in a daze.How can he still have the face to meet that Fujianese who thinks he can achieve great things?

The business plan to enter the gaming industry was reluctantly abandoned. More than 20 years later, Zhang Yong said to me when recalling this incident: "Mr. Huang, if I really paid 3,800 yuan to see the Fujianese, I guess he would be able to sell me the poker machine. "However, Zhang Yong, who was fledgling at the time, never thought that a machine with a price of 6,000 could be sold for 3,800! The "venture capitalist" who stole money from Zhang Yong behaved very professionally.He regretted that he had pretended to be a gold expert, and readily assumed his responsibility.He said, "I don't want the 600 yuan.

" But Zhang Yong didn't appreciate it at all. Twenty years later, when he talked about the "venture capitalist" classmate, Zhang Yong still had a bitter heart. He said, "That guy just pretends to understand." Zhang Yong woke up before he had time to realize his big dream. The 21-year-old Zhang Yong was extremely depressed.This is Zhang Yong's first lesson in business, since then he knows, don't try to take advantage! Back in Jianyang, the news that Zhang Yong was cheated quickly spread among his classmates.When the students got together, they found that the "leader" talked less.Once while strolling in the park, they saw three middle-aged people cheating people with playing cards. Zhang Yong broke out and beat the leader without any explanation.This was Zhang Yong's only experience of fighting with his hands.

The greatest asset of young people is their resilience.Zhang Yong quickly forgot the frustration of being unfavorable, and began to think about other businesses. In the 1980s, gasoline was still a planned and controlled commodity in China. Fuel tickets were required for refueling, and fuel tickets were only issued to drivers of the government and state-owned enterprises and institutions. Private refueling could only be obtained through connections with public companies. Zhang Yong saw a business opportunity from it. He thought, if he could receive gas tickets from public drivers and sell them to private drivers, wouldn’t he be able to make money?

Zhang Yong, who was often absent from work, found a piece of cardboard, wrote "collect oil" on the front and "sell oil" on the back, and came to the road from Chengdu to Jianyang to start his gasoline business. Whenever a car came, he stood up to meet it and held up the sign of "recover oil".It's a pity that after waiting for two days under the sun, not a single car stopped.On the evening of the second day, just as he was about to call it a day, a brand new Jiefang car appeared.He stood up again and held the sign up high.The car actually stopped.Zhang Yong greeted him full of joy, with the window rolled down, it was a driver who was about his age.Pooh!He spat on Zhang Yong's face, and as soon as he refueled, the car sped away.Zhang Yong wiped his face, and did not come back on the third day, and the gasoline business also aborted.

20 years later, Zhang Yong said when talking about this past event: "I later realized that there is something to do with oil harvesting. But I didn't understand at the time. I stood for two days, ate a stomach full of ashes, and was vomited." Foaming all over my face, I felt that this business was difficult to do, so I gave up. After that, I started making hot pot, and then I didn’t do any other business.” The story of Zhang Yong's collection of oil did not surprise me.A 21-year-old man who wants to get rich, in China in the early 1990s, of course he dared to try anything, and he could meet anything!

But Zhang Yong's expression and tone when he told about being spit all over his face by the driver made me feel strange.He totally looks like he's telling someone else's story! There was no humiliation, no resentment, no irritation in his tone and demeanor, and nothing I expected, how the experience had worked on him later.This incident was brought up just to answer my question of "what else do you do besides hotpot?" Zhang Yong is a bit different, his nerves of humiliation seem to be numb.