Chapter 12 Figures in corporate history: "King" is like an ant

People in history can be roughly divided into two categories, one is big people, and the other is small people. Big people determine the direction of history, and small people embody the truth of history.Of course, Wenzhou's "Eight Kings" should be classified as small people. When they were wanted by the whole country, none of them had more than 500,000 yuan in assets. After the incident, most of them were ordinary and returned to the common people. Hu Jinlin, who originally thought he was going to be beheaded, entered the prison in fear and was released in a daze.Not long after he was freed, he planned to set up a rolling mill. "There is no rolling mill in Wenzhou, let alone Yueqing. Steel is urgently needed for infrastructure construction. I want to set up a rolling mill!" When he said this, he had already forgotten it for three years. In the past, he was attacked precisely because he competed with state-owned enterprises for raw materials. Businessmen have always been economic animals. It seems that it is harder to kill their heads than to let them watch business opportunities slip through their fingers without doing anything.The private rolling mill with only 4.5 mu of land was unsustainable in 1988. Hu Jinlin went to Shanghai and Shenzhen to do business, and the farthest place was the Qaidam Basin in Xinjiang. At the dawn of the 21st century, I immediately thought that I could try my luck." After returning from a bad nose, Hu Jinlin resumed his old business and began to produce and distribute "AC contactors". At this time, low-voltage electrical appliances in Liushi had already become a trend , Hu Jinlin is no longer considered a "big king" here.

The "coil king" Zheng Xiangqing was a bit black humorous when he was arrested.One day, the "Working Group for Combating Economic Crimes" drove through Liushi and saw a small three-story white building that stood out. The team members discussed in the car, "This family does not engage in capitalism. Do you want to build a building like this?” On the second day, Zheng Xiangqing, the landlord, became the focus of investigation. When the working group ransacked his home, he found a lot of discarded motor coils in the yard, and he was accused of “producing fake and inferior coils to make huge profits.” The title of "Coil King" is thus delineated.Zheng Xiangqing was released after being imprisoned for half a year. For nearly seven or eight years, she dared not go out to do any business.Later, he became obsessed with the computer that had just become fashionable, and held a small computer training class in Liushi Town.

Liu Dayuan, the only "Screw King" who was not caught, has been in the screw business.The "Dayuan Screw Shop" he opened in the busiest former street in the town became a reform model for reporters to take pictures many years later.What he is most proud of is, "In the 1980s, my store had the most complete screws. At that time, the Shanghai standard parts company only had more than 20,000 kinds of screws, and I had more than 40,000 kinds!" Later, the state-owned Shanghai Standard The piece company was really overwhelmed by Liu Dayuan. "Catalogue King" Ye Jianhua was originally a self-employed photographer. One day, Hu Jinlin approached him and asked him to take a catalog for his electrical products. Inspired by this, Ye Jianhua specially took pictures for enterprises in Liushi Town.He is a salesman. He will mark the name and basic data of the product in the catalog, and also mark the "national price" and "willow market price". The catalog is clear at a glance.In doing this business, he was actually listed as one of the "Eight Great Kings" and was sentenced to prison for one and a half years.After he was released from prison, Ye Jianhua didn't dare to do this business anymore, so he opened a photo studio, an advertising company, and an auto repair shop. The "catalog king" finally became a thing of the past.

The youngest but the longest prisoner was Cheng Buqing, the "Mine Lamp King". After he was tried and sentenced, his family could no longer gain a foothold in Liushi, and his parents, siblings were forced to leave their hometowns.After Cheng Buqing was released from prison, he went to Shanghai to do business, but he didn't know where he ended up. "Contract King" Li Fangping was very similar to Cheng. He was detained for four months and then released. Since then, he left for Shanghai and later lived in Canada. "Traffic King" Wang Maiqian died of liver cancer in 1995 at the age of 50.

Among the "Eight Great Kings", Zheng Yuanzhong, the "King of Electric Appliances" who will make some achievements in the future.After being wanted by the whole country, he went into exile. He was finally captured by the police in September 1983, and was acquitted in March of the following year.After he was released from prison, he returned to his old business and started a switch factory. In the early 1990s, Zheng Yuanzhong, who was in his forties, went to Wenzhou University to study international trade and became the oldest student of Wenzhou University.After graduation, he suddenly turned to the clothing industry, founded "Zhuang Ji" Clothing Co., Ltd., and invited Hong Kong star Lu Liangwei to be the brand endorsement. This company later became a relatively large-scale clothing industry in Wenzhou.In the selection of "Wenzhou Reform Figures" in the future, Zheng Yuanzhong will always be listed as the representative of the "Eight Kings".

The "Eight Kings Incident" became well-known throughout the country around 1982, and it was so stinky that it once suppressed private enterprises in Wenzhou. In 1984, Yuan Fanglie, then secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, deeply felt that "if the case of the Eight Kings is not overturned, there is no hope of revitalizing Wenzhou's economy."He organized a joint investigation team to review all the case files and concluded that "except for some minor tax evasion, what the Eight Great Kings did was in line with the spirit of the Central Committee."

The vicissitudes of life are flowing, and history has always been moving forward. The status of the "Eight Great Kings" is insignificant, their fate is like ants, and the six characters of "conforming to the spirit of the Central Committee" seem to have given them justice.