Song Erniu has always been a person who is obsessed with work and rarely goes out for fun on weekdays.
When he was working in his hometown, he had no time or money to go out and play. When he came to America, although he had money, he didn't have enough time. Moreover, he felt that working to make money would make him happier than going out for play.
Of course, this is mainly related to Song Erniu's worries.
As a person who didn't even have food to eat when he was young, and who worked at the lowest level in Songjiang, his hometown, for many years, Song Erniu is really afraid of poverty, and he knows even more how difficult it is to make money.
He knew very well that it was luck that he was able to start a business in canvas workwear. It did not mean how strong he was, but that everyone was only looking for gold at the time, and gold mining was really profitable, and it was very dangerous to be among gold diggers. It happened that gold diggers were in urgent need of wear-resistant clothes as work clothes, but there was no corresponding finished product on the market.
After a combination of various factors, he started to choose the canvas business, and was extremely lucky to accumulate the first pot of gold. He was even more lucky to not be robbed by those brutal gangsters in the early days...
There were many small businessmen setting up stalls in the gold mining area back then, and many of them were even more successful than Song Erniu in various businesses. There were even many gold businessmen with a rich fortune... But to be honest, Not many people were able to get through it all without being robbed on a large scale and saving their lives and wealth.
Although these businessmen also wear firearms when doing business in these dangerous areas, it is difficult to compare with those robbers who specialize in robbery.
And Song Erniu was lucky, maybe because he was low-key enough, maybe because he was only in the business of selling cheap work clothes and his cash flow was not big, so he was not attracted by the gangsters. In short, he survived the danger in the mining area. the year before, and then expanded rapidly after accumulating capital.
And many businessmen who did business at the same time as him died in the mining area.
One of the wealthy gold businessmen even had his family kidnapped by gangsters.
Doing business in early America, especially in the goldfields, was very dangerous.
Song Erniu survived this dangerous period, and only then did the Song Clothing Company emerge.
Song Erniu, who has experienced all this, knows very well that his success is an accident. Even if he is reborn again, it will be difficult for him to replicate his success again... After all, luck is hard to say. God knows when it will be robbed. The bandits were robbed and shot to death.
The hardships in the early years and the dangers and crises in the early stage of business made Song Erniu know that success is rare. Since God has given him an opportunity, he must seize it firmly.
So he always works very hard!
In addition, he was afraid of poverty in the early years, and he also had a natural desire or greed for money. He always wanted to make more money. Even the purpose was not just for money, but the process of making money itself.
You must know that with his current wealth, even if he does nothing and just waits for death, he can still live a luxurious life for the rest of his life... As rich as he is now, in fact, most of the time money is just a bunch of money to him Numbers no longer have much practical significance.
Anyway, he can enjoy what he should enjoy. No matter how many millions he is worth, it will not make a qualitative change in his quality of life.
However, he still enjoys the process of making money...
In this way, even in the years after America developed, he was still obsessed with work every day. Apart from necessary social interactions and participating in various banquets, he rarely went out to play.
So today I went to visit Fenglaifeng Taoist Temple on the outskirts of the county... He didn't care about sightseeing or anything, and he had no interest in it... If it weren't for a blind date, he would rather read through the various information documents collected by the secretaries when they were in Songjiang.
However, Brother Song's family appeared to be more active, especially the two children who were chirping and chirping along the way. They lay beside the glass window of the carriage, kept looking outside, and asked their mother various questions from time to time.
The little niece took the trouble to ask over and over again: What is that? what is that?
His mother also took the trouble to answer over and over again.
Compared to the constant laughter and laughter coming from the carriage of Brother Song and his family, the carriage where Song Erniu was riding alone seemed quiet... He even squinted for a while on the road.
The carriage swayed all the way and finally arrived at the foot of Fenglai Peak, where it met the Chen family's entourage. The Chen family's entourage said that their eldest son and his family had arrived first and went up the mountain first, leaving the entourage waiting here to inform Song. The family then went directly to the pavilion on the mountainside to meet.
Then a group of people abandoned the car and walked up. In front of them was the Song family chatting while walking, and the two children couldn't stop jumping around.
Behind them were two maids and two attendants carrying thermoses, teapots, cakes and many other items.
Fenglai Peak is also a famous tourist attraction near the county seat. During the climbing season every year, a large number of people come to climb up and enjoy the distant views. On weekdays, such as during holidays, many people take their families out for an outing on the weekends.
But naturally there aren't many people during the working day... After all, everyone has to work and eat these days, so there's no time to take the family out for fun during the working day.
Therefore, the Song family and the others slowly walked up the mountain path without meeting any tourists on the way.
Soon, they arrived at a cliffside pavilion on the mountainside and saw the eldest son of the Chen family, Chen Yuanxiang, and one of his followers.
I heard from Brother Song that this person, as the eldest son of the Chen family, had also determined to study and become an official in the early years. However, he failed to pass the high school exam several times. In the end, he had to study in a technical secondary school. Later, he did not take the college examination to become an official. , but began to take care of the family business.
The Chen family's comprehensive small textile factory was managed by Chen Yuanxiang. The eldest son of the Chen family ran the Chen family textile company. In the early years, it was actually doing well. It didn't make a lot of money, but it didn't go bankrupt.
But in the past two years, this textile factory has become more and more stretched... Of course, this is also related to changes in the textile industry environment. New cotton yarns have emerged rapidly in just over two years, which has a huge impact on the market. .
The birth of new cotton yarn has allowed a large number of textile companies to seize the opportunity and have sufficient capital to enter the new cotton yarn industry and use the cost and quality advantages brought by the new cotton yarn to become bigger and stronger.
But it has also caused quite a number of small and medium-sized textile companies that are not strong enough, or that are conservative and do not keep up with the times, to quickly face crises.
This situation is actually very common throughout the Dachu Empire, because the emergence of new cotton yarns has led to a new round of reshuffle in the cotton spinning industry and large-scale mergers and reorganizations among enterprises.
The Chen family's textile company is not operating well and is even facing bankruptcy. This is not an isolated case, but a common situation.
Of course, this does not mean that the entire cotton spinning industry is in crisis. In fact, the entire cotton spinning industry has experienced corresponding growth in terms of output value and new investment amounts. A number of new high-quality enterprises in the cotton spinning industry have emerged, such as Wang Liqing's Anhua Textile Company is an independent cotton spinning manufacturer that has taken advantage of the trend.
In general, the cotton spinning industry, driven by new technologies, has further raised the technology and capital thresholds, causing the cotton spinning industry to have a situation where big fish eat small fish and small fish eat shrimps.
So to a certain extent, Chen Yuanxiang, the eldest son of the Chen family, was unlucky... He took over the family business and spent several years getting familiar with the industry. After sorting out the factory and industry conditions, he just wanted to do something ambitious. , as a result, there was an explosion of new cotton yarn... and then I ran into big trouble when I failed to keep up.
Of course, with the financial strength of the Chen family, even if they want to follow up, it will be extremely difficult. The new cotton yarn is based on a complete set of matching new equipment, and its investment scale is very large. Small textile companies generally cannot afford it. .
When Wang Liqing was working on a new type of cotton yarn, he lost face and asked his wife to get hundreds of thousands of funds... Otherwise, he couldn't buy the equipment and couldn't afford the talent... These days, technical talents for the new type of cotton yarn are very valuable... …
So to a certain extent, the decline of the Chen family's textile company is doomed... To be precise, the decline of all the Chen's textile companies is doomed. It's uncertain if the owner changes.
Even if Chen Yuanxiang did not take radical expansion measures two or three years ago and incurred a large amount of debt, the new production capacity could not be digested and utilized by the market and could not be sold.
However, in the context of the rise of new cotton yarns, only the low-end market is left for small textile companies like the Chen family. If they do well, they can barely survive. If they are not careful, they will go bankrupt.
After all, the low-end market seems huge, but the competition is equally fierce, and the profit margin is too low. It is actually more difficult to operate than the mid-to-high-end market.
Because in the low-end market, price is everything, and small and small textile companies are far inferior to those large companies in terms of cost control.
If nothing else, just for the purchase of raw materials, the purchase prices of small companies and large companies are not on the same order of magnitude.
If you want to compare costs with those big companies, you really can’t compare...
In the past, the survival of many local small businesses actually relied on local support!
In this case, if local officials are strong enough and care about local independent industries, they can still survive. If they encounter an unreliable local official who does not care about the life and death of local enterprises, then there is a high probability that they will be destroyed. .
The situation of the Chen Family Textile Company is what Song Erniu has focused on these days... After all, this factory was the core industry of the Chen Family in the past, and through the operation of this core industry, we can basically understand the Chen Family Some basic characteristics of people in power.
Obviously, through the operation of the Chen family textile company, Song Erniu can say with certainty that the Chen family really has no talent for doing business... and there are probably not many connections left at the top.
In the subsequent business cooperation with the Chen family, I am afraid that more attention should be paid to this aspect. At least they should not be allowed to have any management rights. They can just get some shares and pay dividends with peace of mind. Don't come to the company to mess around.
At the same time, Song Erniu's initial thought of making some investments relying on the Chen family's connections in his hometown can be given up.
Although Song Erniu is a local, Song Erniu's business and personal connections are actually in Jinshan Mansion in America... He doesn't recognize half of the people in his hometown, and he doesn't have the time or mood to spend time in this small town in his hometown. What kind of connections are there in the place?
If you want to do any business with the Chen family locally, you have to mainly rely on some of the Chen family's personal connections... But now it seems that the Chen family's personal connections are not that good either...
Well, from now on, the business here in my hometown will be like this. There will be a small garment factory, and then it will be enough to jointly run the Chen's small textile company with the Chen family. I don't expect to make a lot of money, that is, I will give it to my eldest brother, his family, my parents, and It is enough for the Yue Chen family to earn some living expenses and maintain a decent life.
As for real local investment, you still have to choose to invest in the Yangtze River Delta where geography, transportation and industrial layout are more complete.
Songjiang City is the first choice, but considering that the personnel costs and factory building costs in Songjiang City are relatively high, it can be appropriately done in surrounding areas, such as Suzhou, Yangzhou, Tongzhou, Zhenjiang, and Changzhou.
If the factories in the Yangtze River Delta can get up and running, and denim brand clothing can also open up the local market, then we can choose to open several more branches in the Pearl River Delta, Tianjin, Hantian and other places.
As for my hometown... just start a small business and do some charity.
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After Brother Song saw Chen Yuanxiang in front of him, he immediately stepped forward to say hello and formally introduced Song Erniu who followed him.
First, he said to Chen Yuanxiang: "This is my brother Song Erniu. He has been in North America for many years and just came back a few days ago!"
Then he turned to Song Erniu and said, "This is the brother Yuan Xiang I mentioned to you before!"
Then a few people started chatting, but they just said some ordinary greetings, but they didn't talk too deeply.
Soon Chen Yuanxiang said: "My wife, my sister, and my boy are on the platform in front now. Come on, let's go there too!"
Then the group of people continued to move forward, and within a short time they arrived at a flat land on the mountainside. There was a pavilion in the flat land, and there were several people in the pavilion.
Song Erniu saw the Chen family in front of him from a distance. There was a young woman dressed as a woman, holding the hand of a little boy, and there was a young girl standing next to her.
There were two maids and an attendant waiting nearby.
Just looking at this group of people, Song Erniu could basically figure out the identities of the people in front of him.
The older person holding the little boy's hand should be Chen Yuanxiang's wife. I heard that she was from a big family in the next county, so the little boy was naturally Chen Yuanxiang's son.
As for the young girl next to him, if nothing else goes by, she is Chen Yuanxiang's younger sister, who is also the direct daughter of the Chen family who is her blind date.
Song Erniu looked at it carefully and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The direct daughter of the Chen family in front of him was very good-looking. Although she was not as good as his two personal maids, she was still the best choice. She has a superior appearance, surpassing most ordinary women.
The most important thing is that this woman has a very good temperament. Just wherever she stands, people can tell at a glance that this woman is from a noble family.
This kind of temperament coupled with its own outstanding appearance makes people unable to take their eyes away...
How should I put it? It’s not that Song Erniu has never seen beautiful women. After becoming prosperous in these years, all kinds of beautiful women have played more... The various long-term or short-term personal maids he has hired over the years can form a platoon... ...but there are far more than just these two brought back to my hometown.
The two personal maids he brought home are a bit special. They are in a long-term relationship. The main reason is that they have top-notch looks, and there is nothing messy about their personalities and the families behind them, so Song Erniu still likes them. , they were given a super long-term guaranteed contract...
Song Erniu took them back to his hometown to recognize his family, mainly because he couldn't give them formal status, but he allowed them to meet his family to some extent, and they were regarded as part of the Song family.
But the girls I have experienced in the past all come from ordinary or even poor families.
But there are no ladies, beautiful women from the upper class for him to fool around with... It's even difficult for him to get in touch with him on weekdays...
The upper-class families in Jinshan Mansion didn't like his sudden wealth very much, and they would not easily let him meet their women.
So Song Erniu has been living in the upper class in Jinshan City for several years, but there are only a few unmarried daughters from the upper class that he can see... none of them are of good shape and appearance.
After all, many people only come into contact with Song Erniu for business purposes. They would not bring a business partner, who is also a suddenly rich man that they despise in their hearts, to their families. They would also introduce their unmarried daughters to him...
Strictly speaking, this Chen family's legitimate daughter was the first unmarried legitimate daughter from an upper-class family that Song Erniu had ever seen.
Such appearance and temperament, coupled with her unique upper-class background, combined together make Song Erniu feel amazing.
Although Song Erniu has good psychological quality and good expression control, even though he feels amazing in his heart, he actually does not keep his eyes on the Chen family's legitimate daughter for too long...
However, the eldest daughter of the Chen family was still very keenly aware of his gaze. She also raised her head and glanced at Song Erniu for a few times, and then quickly turned her head slightly and shifted her gaze.
There is no blush, just helplessness and sadness!
She had known for a long time that Song Erniu had no education. He only went to high school and never even went to junior high school. His family background was just an ordinary farmer. He left the country early and went to America to work hard to build a huge family business. His wealth was Her mother couldn't help but persuade her again and again.
I've seen sketches of this appearance before, but I can only see a basic human appearance.
Now that she has actually seen it, the legitimate daughter of the Chen family can't help but feel a little disappointed. How can I say that Song Erniu's appearance... is very ordinary!
He doesn’t look like the handsome young man from a noble family that girls expect at all!
Although she had never expected it so much... But when she saw the ordinary-looking Song Erniu, she still couldn't help but feel a little disappointed!
In addition to disappointment, there is even more helplessness and even sadness!
Because even though the man in front of him was not good-looking and never looked like the handsome young man from a noble family that he expected, he still couldn't refuse him, and even... he had to take the initiative!
Because the Chen family needs him, and he needs him too!
The Chen family needs this marriage more than the Song family!
