Chapter 20 Accumulation of Wealth: Bloody, Nasty

Everyone wants to be rich, and everyone wants to be rich. When you are in a feng shui "threshold" where the earth can generate gold! When you reach out to accept a "fortune" that can make the sky fall! Who can tell clearly the chance and necessity, luck and certainty that exist at the "intersection" of fate, opportunity and wealth time and space? All this can only be explained clearly by the legendary experience of the coal boss. Shanxi is a well-known coal province in my country for a long time. Shanxi people have always had a "tradition" of relying on coal to eat coal and relying on charcoal to eat charcoal.

In the mid-1990s, the international coal market entered a different situation. The situation at that time was such a coal overcapacity, and the coal market was almost depressed. At this time, some small coal mine owners took advantage of the country's "policy gap" in the management of the coal industry to create a "time gap" in the management of the coal industry and the management of tax and fee policies. The development foundation has been laid on the means and shortcuts of "ultra-low cost". Later, the international coal market gradually heated up, and the price of black, inconspicuous coal rose sharply.And because the mining cost of coal bosses basically does not rise or rises very little, so coal bosses welcome the "spring" of their "career" with joy.As a result, in Shanxi, many millionaires, multi-millionaires and even billionaires sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Of course, in addition to market factors, there are many other subjective and objective factors that contributed to the "miracle" of the coal boss.To sum up, the sources of wealth of coal bosses mainly include the following aspects: First of all, it is the "policy opportunity" for market regulation in Shanxi's coal industry in its development process. The Shanxi Coal Boss phenomenon is first and foremost a market phenomenon.In other words, the status of Shanxi coal bosses is closely related to the coal market.If the coal market is booming, the wealth of coal bosses will "increase all boats", and vice versa.During this process, the coal bosses completed the first pot of gold as a milestone in their entrepreneurship. Some started to get involved in the contracting and operation of township and village-run coal mines through their relatives and friends in the government department; They are continuously shipped out after the ass, anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so there is no need to go through various formalities with the government.

Secondly, it is the local area that provides the necessary conditions for the coal bosses to make a fortune at a "low cost" at the cost of painful losses. The "low cost" we are talking about here refers to small coal mining, which can make a fortune. Coal bosses don't think about the long-term at all, and most of them are predatory mining.This is mainly manifested in the low resource recovery rate and the almost complete loss of "reversible recovery" of ecological resources.Dry rivers, land subsidence, house cracks, landslides, etc. frequently occur, resulting in a great waste of resources and damage.What is particularly distressing is that due to the destruction of resources, subsequent mining is difficult, which means that the jobs of future generations have been smashed.Someone commented on this phenomenon in this way: small coal mines "enrich the mine owners, suffer the people, hurt the resources, and lose the future".Today's reality is that although the inherent conditions for the storage of coal resources in Shanxi are very good, the "universal values" of coal utilization in Shanxi have not yet been formed.In this way, it is really difficult for the "grace" of all things in nature and the queen of heaven.

Another is that the local miners paid a cheap price of life for the coal boss to start a "low-cost" business. The miners in small coal mines are all migrant workers. Their wages are low, their benefits are basically zero, their working conditions are harsh, and they have suffered many casualties. It can be said that the coal in the hands of the coal boss is bloody coal.The profits in the pockets of the coal bosses are also bloody profits. Their wealth buildings are built on the painful blood, sweat and bones of peasants and miners. Third, the "high investment" and "high returns" achieved by the coal industry in the market have accumulated "bloody and nasty" private wealth for coal bosses.

The sudden wealth of the coal boss achieved "success" under the double "huge" situation of investing a huge amount of money in a hugely profitable industry.From this point of view, under the premise of "entering the right industry", the coal boss invested capital and completed personal wealth accumulation under the "path to get rich" model of "helping others, making people prosperous".It can be seen that the wealth of these coal tycoons does not come from high technology, nor does it come from the economic law that commercial products circulate through the market.Therefore, as a Shanxi social science expert put it, the Shanxi coal tycoons represent neither advanced productivity nor advanced culture, but a specific historical phenomenon produced under specific historical conditions.

Fourth, there are various loopholes in various local management departments due to their own insufficient management, which provides the necessary conditions for coal bosses to make a fortune at "low cost". As the saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs.When selfish desires and corruption meet, in some places, there is always such a scene: on the one hand, there is the scene of Heikouzi's "vigorous" "Great Leap Forward", on the other hand, "rectification and acceptance" by "relevant departments" like a revolving door. There is a saying, "When the gods doze off, the little ghosts cast spells indiscriminately." However, it is this "snooze" that creates some "earth consumption" who are looking for opportunities to choose food to take the opportunity to dig "holes".As everyone knows, one is "capable of drilling" and the other is "good at speculating". These two are the "natural strengths" of some coal bosses who "cross the rivers and lakes" in the coal market.

Fifth, it is the objective conditions of the coal boss himself that have achieved his "great cause" of "low cost" and getting rich. The culture is not high and bold, and the rich have no sense of responsibility.Under certain environmental conditions, these congenital deficiencies have become the "necessary conditions" for the success of these people's careers.The so-called "the ignorant are fearless", these coal bosses are able to endure hardships, are bold, dare to take risks, know how to exploit, are good at speculation, and can even be ruthless when necessary, all of which are necessary conditions for coal bosses to become rich.