Chapter 126 The Dilemma of Shanxi Merchants: Can Coal Bosses Enter the "Genealogy" of "Shanxi Merchants"

The business wisdom of Shanxi merchants is profound and subtle. Shanxi merchants have extensive and rich professional spirit. Today, some people list coal bosses as "new Jin merchants". When people are happy that Shanxi merchants have "successors", it is also thought-provoking.Yes, in today's relatively developed productive forces, the "speed of wealth accumulation" of coal bosses has greatly surpassed that of the ancestors of Shanxi merchants in the past.However, in the era when Shanxi merchants lived, productivity was extremely underdeveloped. However, it was this almost primitive life that honed the hearts and beliefs of this group over and over again. Therefore, today, people remember Shanxi merchants and Jin merchants. After remembering the glory of Shanxi merchants, they even remembered that era.Well, some people list coal bosses as "new Jin merchants" and include coal bosses in the "family tree" of Shanxi merchants, which can't help but make people think deeply.

First of all, what is thought-provoking is the real dilemma faced by the "coal boss phenomenon". In recent years, it has become commonplace for news about coal bosses in Shanxi to make headlines at home and abroad, and frequent mine accidents have made "black-hearted mine owners" synonymous with coal bosses. During this period, "Shanxi Merchants", a unique business group in the history of Chinese business that began in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and ruled the Ming and Qing Dynasties for 500 years, is gradually entering the public's field of vision.At the same time, as the cultural products with "Shanxi elements" such as the TV series "Qiao Family Courtyard" and the drama "Liqiu" are popular in the market, it has once again aroused the enthusiasm of all walks of life for the Shanxi merchant culture with "honesty and trustworthiness, righteousness and profit" as the core connotation. Affectionate call.

Nowadays, the world is changing, and under the background that the term "Shanxi Merchants" is becoming a "cultural symbol" or a "spiritual totem" of an era, some people raise such a question: what should be the "social attributes" of "new Shanxi merchants"? Accurately define and define?How should the public and public opinion rationally treat the newly rising group of "coal merchants"? We believe that labeling coal bosses as "new businessmen" is a very serious issue, that is to say, the hat of "new businessmen" is not something that can be worn casually.

Don't you see, in the current "economic construction movement" that is surging like a storm, waves of "business-making" movements have been set off in various places, but in fact, in the process of building "businesses", what we see is full of More utilitarian "thinking", its purpose is only to attract more eyeballs and obtain meager commercial benefits.In a sense, this is not conducive to the creation of a real contemporary "merchant class" in society. Therefore, we must carefully weigh this issue. Scientifically speaking, at least for now, the Shanxi coal boss cannot be called a "new businessman".Because Shanxi merchants in history are a class, a group, and a social group that integrates enterprises and entrepreneurs.On such a "platform", they show a "personality" of an enterprise and entrepreneur.On the other hand, looking at today's coal bosses, we seem to have not seen the shadow of such a group or class.The most fundamental thing is that they and their companies lack "commercial spirit".It is under the light of this "commercial spirit" that the world can feel the valuable "merchant personality" and "merchant soul".

Secondly, what is thought-provoking is that the extravagant and wasteful behavior of coal bosses is incompatible with the spirit of frugality, integrity, and advocating business and helping the world embodied in the ancestors of Shanxi merchants in the past. We know that human beings have social attributes, people are people in society, and their economic behavior is no exception.Only when everyone integrates into society can they obtain happiness and happiness.The prerequisite for obtaining this kind of "happiness and happiness" is that you must integrate into this society and let this society recognize you.So, what do these so-called "newcomers" do?

I remember that an authoritative domestic media once made a series of reports on the "Shanxi Coal Boss Phenomenon" with the themes of "When is the luxury?" elicited an extremely strong response. All of this may explain a certain problem. Third, it is thought-provoking that if coal bosses are listed as "new Jin merchants" and included in the "genealogy" of Shanxi merchants, then the "classics" of Shanxi merchants in Shanxi for a century will be "read wrongly" risk. If this is the case, we have to ask, can the coal bosses integrate Shanxi merchants' outlook on life, integrity, righteousness, and profit, the innovative spirit of advancing with the times, and the universal thought of helping each other into their business behavior and mind? Are you educated?

If this is the case, we have to ask, can the coal boss perfectly inherit and carry forward the core values ​​of Shanxi merchants and the unique spiritual temperament of a business group—a broad and rich historical and cultural heritage? Can our Shanxi coal boss afford all this?