A meal, surnamed Wang, was called a meal by later generations because he made a fortune in One Stop, but his real name has been forgotten. He used to be a poor scholar in Lu. History tells him that "the tiller is often hungry, and the mulberry is often cold", and it is not good to farm and raise silkworms, which is not the material for farming. Just like a college student who came out of the countryside, he finally graduated from college, but it doesn't matter. He can't find a job and has been in college for a long time. You have to turn it back and let him go home to farm and raise silkworms like his parents. You should be energetic and out of shape. One is that it can't be done, and the other is that it can't be done well. However, Yi Dun didn't break the jar and fall, blaming others. Many of his experiences from scratch are worth learning from.
If you are poor, change it. As the saying goes: after learning martial arts, the goods are sold to the relatives of the country. Being a civil servant after graduating from college is of course the first choice. But because of the wrong time, I can't be a national cadre. Can't I indulge myself? Of course, it is not for an ambitious young man, so self-employment has become the first choice. Yi Dun is a knowledgeable, educated and self-motivated young man. He knows the truth that "when you are poor, you want to change." "What kind of prince would you rather have?" Who wants to be poor all his life? But it is easy to make up your mind to start your own business and strive to get rid of poverty and become rich, but it is difficult to do it in practice. What occupation to choose is the first big problem. I have been thinking hard and trying to find a way to get rich. Farming and raising silkworms like other farmers? Practice has proved that this is not enough. What should we do if they are not as strong and experienced as themselves?
By chance, Eaton heard that Tao Zhugong, the richest man in China, moved to live near his hometown. He was overjoyed and hurriedly "asked about the technique", asking what technique? Ask the secret of getting rich, of course! Tao Zhugong is a contemporary god of wealth. Is it that easy to see? He is not rich, but he lives in seclusion here, keeping a low profile and unwilling to meet guests. Just like Liu Bei's visit to Tao Zhugong in the Three Kingdoms, he finally touched the "God". Tao Zhugong met him and gave him the eight-character secret: "If a child wants to get rich quickly, he must be an animal."
The original meaning is cattle, and it is extended to livestock. Five-legged is the female animal of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and donkeys. Tao Zhugong deserves to be regarded as the originator of business. He saw at a glance the industry suitable for Eaton's management: animal husbandry. A poor family is not suitable for industries with high capital. But animal husbandry is small and profitable, so let him raise a few cattle and sheep first, and according to the principle of "chicken lays eggs, eggs lay chickens", he will gradually multiply and grow, and he will make a fortune after a long time. This is indeed a feasible way to get rich for Yi Dun. A word woke the dreamer, and according to Tao Zhugong's instructions, he moved to Xihe River and started his breeding plan in the south of Yizhi, Shanxi Province, where the soil is wet, the grassland is vast, the water plants are rich and the scenery is pleasant.
After all, Yidun is a man of culture. Different from other herders, he quickly delved into the secret of grazing, explored the law of "cattle are full, horses are full at night, and sheep are full", created the feeding methods of "drinking livestock with salt water" and "fighting rice to raise thousands of chickens" and the method of removing testicles from male livestock, and for the first time adopted the hybrid breeding method of mating local and foreign varieties to breed and improve offspring. As the saying goes, "A ewe gives birth to a ewe and squeezes into the enclosure wall in three years" and "A cow gives birth to a cow and five cows in three years". Yidun led his three sons, Wang Jing, Liao Wang and Wang Jian, to work quickly. In a short period of time, chickens, pigs, mules and horses flocked to become large local farmers.
Overcome the idea of "small wealth means security" and bravely enter the "rich champion". A man can take a horse to the river, but he can't make it drink water. Yidun did not stagnate in the animal husbandry directed by Tao Zhugong, but became a wealthy professional farmer safely, and his abundant original capital made him even more powerful. He set his sights on a wider field-making and selling salt, and his livestock are the best tools to transport salt. What do you want to drill? In the salt-making industry, Eaton invented the recycling and drying method of salt, which greatly shortened the time of salt-making. Moreover, in order to manage the pool salt more effectively and speed up the trafficking, Yidun also tried to change the backward transportation mode of donkey-loaded car transportation, wanted to transport it by boat, and dug the first artificial canal in Shanxi.
Yidun transported salt to the western regions in exchange for batches of pearls, agates, jewels and jade articles from the western regions. Suddenly, his eyes lit up: it turns out that the profit of the jewelry industry is even greater! So he began to set foot in the jewelry industry and study the jewelry industry. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Many things happen, and he soon became an expert in jewelry industry. Huai Nan Zi Xun Lun records: "A jade worker dazzles the jade like a gorgeous jade without losing his feelings", while Bao Puzi Zhuo Zicai records: "Green and mysterious, unless it is ceramics, it will not be able to make a market." At this time, Yidun's career reached its peak. "In the past ten years, its interests have been immeasurable, better than princes and famous in the world." His fortune "reaches Sangquan in the west, Yanchi in the east and North in the south", and Fiona Fang is a hundred miles away. The vast territory and scope are rare in the world. "Salt and Iron Theory" in the Han Dynasty contains: "Within the fish hole, the birds don't know the height of heaven and earth; The frog of Kanjing doesn't know the size of the river; Whether the poor are women or not, I don't know the concerns of the country; Merchants, I don't know rich ... "
Now, the world has been a thousand years, and the story of Yidun has become a legend, but it should not be just a legend. We should learn many of his qualities.