First off, I'm not a rich hater. It's just that in the process of researching the cultural industry in recent years, I have come into contact with many new businessmen.Some of them developed overseas and returned to China to start businesses; some worked in central or provincial agencies and then went to sea;In terms of culture and management, the advantages of the former two are obviously stronger than the latter, but in terms of strength and social influence, the advantages of the latter far exceed the former. Nowadays, as long as the big and small media talk about the topic of new merchants, most of them talk about coal bosses and upstarts in Shanxi.

The reason why the Shanxi Coal Boss became famous and became the mainstream of the new merchants was because of their appearance at the earliest, which saved the property market in Beijing. A friend who develops high-end real estate in Beijing told us that the coal boss in Shanxi is our lifesaver.In the past few years, due to macroeconomic adjustments and tight money, the foreign companies and white-collar workers who are the main targets of our house sales are also stretched. A large number of houses cannot be sold, and the banks are calling for loan repayments every day. We are about to go bankrupt.Suddenly one day, a group of unremarkable Shanxi local old hats came from the mountains, carrying a large sum of cash, and bought all our vacant houses at once.

Without new businessmen, there would be no booming real estate industry in Beijing. Under the macro-control policy implemented by the state, property prices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, and cities along the southeast coast not only did not fall, but also tended to skyrocket.In the eyes of real estate bosses, new businessmen, who are highly valued, are being questioned more and more in the eyes of ordinary people and experts and scholars. Generally speaking, there are the following aspects: A foreigner came to Shanxi to invest in coal mines. In the case of coal prices soaring these years, he lost everything.When we asked the reason, we were shocked: Shanxi government and coal colluded, and he was so crowded that he could not survive.In the county where he invested in coal mines, the secretary, the county magistrate, and a large local coal mine owner are brothers.As soon as his coal mine opened, the secretary and the county magistrate offered to do work for him, and proposed that the brother-in-law of the big coal mine owner be the executive mine manager. In order to build a good relationship with the local government, he agreed.A few days later, when the executive mine manager came, he put forward a condition that he could not accept: the profit of the coal mine should be divided into 20-80, with investors accounting for 20% and the executive mine manager accounting for 80%.Of course the investor didn't do it, so he sent the executive mine manager away.Since then, the bad luck of this coal mine has come: people from the county will come to inspect every three days, and the mine will be shut down with various excuses;After a year, tens of millions of investors' money was in vain, and they finally returned with a grudge.

Coal, which is a huge profit industry, has also become a money-grabbing industry.Shanxi coal bosses colluded with officials, seized resources, monopolized the market, and ran amok, which is despised by the world. There is another story: A well-known reporter from Beijing TV Station came to Shanxi to investigate government-coal collusion, and received a report from the masses that the brother of a deputy secretary of a county party committee ran a large mine with an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons.Although this mine has perfect procedures, it is suspected of using its power to embezzle state-owned assets.The reporter worked hard and finally investigated everything.But as soon as he returned to Beijing, the leader said to him tactfully: Someone from above said hello. There are too many incidents exposed in Shanxi this year, which will affect stability. Let's talk about the film you made.This release has not been aired until now.Afterwards, the reporter said with emotion: Those unattractive Shanxi coal bosses really have a lot of hands and eyes.

In history, Shanxi merchants were famous all over the world for their diligence and simplicity. In the Qing Dynasty, some scholars commented on Shanxi people: "Simple and honest, with the style of ancient pottery and Tang Dynasty." But today's new merchants have already completely forgotten the ancestral precepts.A well-known commercial building in Beijing is famous for selling high-end luxury goods. Because of the high price, customers who come here to shop are jokingly called one of the "Four Idiots in Beijing" by Beijingers.But no one expected that the people who often come here to act stupid are not foreigners who don't understand the market, but those new businessmen.

Millions of jewelry, tens of millions of furniture, and hundreds of millions of yuan in antiques have become the targets of frantic purchases by new businessmen.People in Beijing jokingly said that without the support of the Shanxi coal boss, this high-end luxury store would have collapsed a long time ago. Now not only has it not closed, but it has also opened a branch in Taiyuan. The business is quite prosperous. After all, it is still in Shanxi" "Silly hat" many! Once, when I was having dinner near the Asian Games Village in Beijing, a friend pointed to the mansion outside and said: Did you see that? That is the most expensive villa in Beijing, with an average price of more than 50 million yuan.There are two major sights in it: one is the magnificent woman driving a BMW and Mercedes-Benz, which is the "mistress" of your coal boss showing off her social status; Purchase something.The extravagance of the Shanxi coal boss is almost crazy.

However, there is a Western proverb that needs to be alert to those new businessmen: whoever God wants to perish, first let him be crazy! In sharp contrast to spending a lot of money in the capital, the newcomers are extremely stingy and harsh in mining safety management and accident handling. A few years ago, a major mining accident occurred in a certain county in Shanxi, killing more than a dozen people. The reason was simple: the boss was unwilling to spend 30,000 yuan to renew a cable. In the end, because the cable broke, more than a dozen fresh souls returned to the underworld.A reporter from a TV station who came to interview said with emotion: Shanxi mine owners gave millions of mistresses and tens of millions to collude with officials, and they were reluctant to spend 30,000 yuan to buy a safety belt for the miners. It is outrageous!

In recent years, the mine accidents have caused the most tears on the Internet, and the most hated thing is the concealment of mine accidents.The Linfen mine disaster, the Fanzhi mine disaster, and the Ningwu mine disaster in Shanxi that have been reported by the news media are all human tragedies in which officials conspired, mine owners paid, accomplices contributed, and miners suffered.Once a mining disaster occurs, tragic events such as hiding, hiding, burning, and mutilating corpses will continue to be staged. Right now, one of the fundamentals of the central government's governance is to put people first.However, some new businessmen go against the trend and don't take human life seriously, which is intolerable.Black mine disasters are the most shady and the most afraid of news exposure, especially the "Focus Interview" of CCTV.

Several major mine accidents in Shanxi were exposed, under the supervision of the news and public opinion, officials were dealt with seriously, and the mine owners were fined and bankrupted. Unexpectedly, due to news exposure in recent years, Shanxi has produced a group of new rich men who made their fortunes from mine accidents. Most of these people are journalists with poor professionalism and people pretending to be reporters.As soon as they heard of a mining disaster, they rushed to the scene, extorted the local government and the mine owner on the grounds of exposure, and blatantly demanded "hush money".Perhaps because of a guilty conscience, government officials are afraid of losing their black hats, and mine owners are worried about closing the wells and shutting them down, and finally spend a lot of black money to "settle" those extortionists.Once, we joked to our friends from the "Focus Interview": You went to Shanxi to investigate the mining disaster as Li Kui, and you have nothing to do, which is daunting.However, as soon as you left, a group of ghosts emerged from the ground, and everyone made a lot of money.This can also be regarded as a by-product of "Focus Interview".The friend was shocked.

It is no news that newcomers are snapping up properties in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Qingdao.The media in Beijing called their move "ecological migration".The implication is that due to over-exploitation of coal, Shanxi has depleted groundwater, destroyed vegetation, air pollution, and frequent mine accidents. Linfen, Datong, Yangquan, Taiyuan and other places were once included in the blacklist of "cities unsuitable for human life" promulgated by the United Nations.The newcomers were forced to invest and buy properties in places with beautiful mountains and rivers because they couldn't bear the harsh environment.

From this, we think of the Shanxi merchants in history, who were praised in the history books: "The Liao Dynasty served six hundred cities in Mongolia and Russia, surrounded by gold, silver and treasure." In the past, the Shanxi merchants brought back the silver earned in hundreds of cities. In the hometown, a magnificent deep house compound was built, and now it has become a famous scenic spot that tourists flock to. Hundreds of years later, their descendants, the so-called new merchants, got rich overnight by digging underground treasures, and then threw a lot of money outside.One is to invest the money earned from outside to the hometown; the other is to invest the money earned from the hometown to other places.This is the superficial difference between Jin merchants and new Jin merchants.Essentially speaking, the Shanxi merchants in those days were rich and prosperous in the world, relying on their own wisdom and hard work, and they were sunshine wealth, so they dared to show their life value in front of their hometown; They rely on collusion with officials and improper management. Their wealth is soaked in the blood and tears of miners, and their actions pollute the environment. The local people have a lot of opinions on these people.Therefore, they dare not make a big show in their hometown. In the minds of Shanxi people, yesterday's Jin merchants brought them spirit and glory, and today's new Jin merchants brought them pollution and disaster. Now Shanxi is full of shantytowns, subsidence areas, and gobs everywhere.Changing this situation requires a lot of capital investment, but those newcomers who got rich by mining coal have fled with a lot of money.Newly promoted merchants have gone to pursue green mountains and green waters, and they have made their hometown their hometown, so what should we do?Many Shanxi people, including some farsighted politicians, are thinking about this issue.For example, in a certain county in Shanxi, in order to retain the funds of those coal bosses, the local government has implemented the development strategy of "one mine, one business, one industry". and an environmental protection industry.This move by the government alleviated the sharp social contradictions to a certain extent. There are two cash cows in Shanxi, one is coal and the other is culture.The advantages of these two resources are clear to many ordinary people.However, one grows thick and fat, while the other is not congenitally deficient.The rise of the new Shanxi merchants and their various injustices have aroused the nostalgia for the old Shanxi merchants across the country. The dramas about Shanxi merchants, "Dragon Ticket" and "Qiao Family Courtyard", which have been broadcast continuously in the film and television industry in recent years, can best illustrate this problem.Although scholars, officials and ordinary people in Shanxi have many opinions on the new merchants, they have always placed high hopes on the new merchants in the development of the cultural industry, hoping that they can use their capital advantages to develop the cultural industry and transform Shanxi's single Economic structure, cultivate new economic growth point, rebuild a new Shanxi with blue sky, clear water and glamorous.However, except for some coal bosses who have made some moves, most of the new businessmen have been hovering outside the gate of the cultural industry, not acting as investors, and have been acting as ordinary spectators. Shanxi merchants are hot topics, new Jin merchants are unwilling to invest, Shanxi cultural people do nothing.However, cultural people from other places took advantage of this opportunity and began to exploit Shanxi's cultural resources without any scruples, just like private mining of coal.Take the currently popular Shanxi merchant dramas as examples, all of which have serious historical problems, and even inappropriately packaged and fabricated Shanxi merchant resources for the needs of the plot. For example, in history, it was the basic norm of Shanxi merchant families not to accept concubines, but every big drama made a big fuss about the groups of Jin merchant wives and concubines.It involves the emotional story between the father-in-law and his daughter-in-law; "Dragon Ticket" tells the story of a son of a Shanxi merchant who is entangled with four women; Not Qiao Zhiyong himself, but his two women.When starting a business, in order to reverse the situation, abandon the old love and find a rich new love; when expanding, it is the old love of yesterday, and the woman who became a widow later contributed money to help.At every turning point, Qiao Zhiyong, the protagonist, was at a loss and became furious, while the two women who played supporting roles became the protagonists, with strategies and methods. In the end, the two women became Shanxi merchants. This logic makes people feel extremely absurd.Shanxi merchants in history have achieved themselves by themselves, and the people they look down on the most are children who are incompetent and sell themselves.Now, for investors outside of Shanxi who do not understand the culture of Shanxi merchants, the ancient high-quality resources of Shanxi merchants have not been reflected. After such TV dramas are staged one after another across the country, it is not conducive to the image of Shanxi merchants.If the new Jin merchants can take out the funds in their hands and combine them with the cultural people of Shanxi to truly display the essence and spirit of yesterday’s Shanxi merchants, not only can they obtain better economic returns, but also restore the true colors of history, why not? ! The cultural industry in Shanxi needs the support of new merchants.Newcomers with a sense of responsibility also need to use the cultural industry to change the understanding of their parents and villagers.An uneducated businessman is at best a nouveau riche who wanders around in leather shoes before he has time to put on socks on his muddy feet. Even if such a local leopard can buy many government titles with money, he cannot buy dignity and the respect of his fellow villagers. respect.