fan li
Fan Li was born in poverty, but he is knowledgeable and versatile. In his early years, he met and intersected with Chu Wanling's literary genre. Because he was dissatisfied with Chu's policy that "non-nobles should not be officials" at that time, he went to Yue to assist Gou Jian. Fan Li first worked as a doctor in Yue, and he is already a big official. Later, he helped Gou Jian, the King of Yue, restore the country, became a general in the world, and his rank was much higher. However, Fan Li's mind is clear. He saw that "Gou Jian is a difficult person who can share joys and sorrows", so he retired after his success and took the initiative to resign from Yue.
Li, a pseudonym, went to Qi to do business and soon made a fortune. He distributed the money he earned to relatives, friends and people around him, and then moved to another place to continue his business. He made a fortune in business three times and distributed his wealth three times. As we all know, Fan Li is very talented in business, so he is called "Tao Zhugong" and is regarded as the originator of businessmen.
Fan Li does business, unlike contemporary officials and businessmen, who do business while being an official. Here is the secretary and there is the chairman; While holding the country's good fortune, while eating the dividend of performance shares. Fan Li is not like a contemporary invisible official and businessman. Being an official is bright, but doing business is dark. When doing business, he abused his power in the name of his son or wife or others, but he earned every penny. Fan Li went into business after resigning from his post, which had nothing to do with the official circles of Yue State at that time and Qi State now. He made a fortune by his own efforts and wisdom.
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Fan Li led his wife and three sons to "father and son manage production" and "farm by the sea" in Qi State, and relied on his hard work and wisdom to "live without geometry and produce hundreds of thousands", so that "Qi people heard Qi Xian and thought it was a phase"; Doing business on the road is "if you live in nothingness, you will be extremely tired." Ten million is one hundred million. Fan Li's assets have reached hundreds of millions, and the wealth and name of "Tao Zhugong" are well known all over the world. Now, some people misunderstand him and think that his hundreds of millions of assets were acquired by officials. Some officials and businessmen even think that Tao Zhugong is their grandfather.
But Fan Li is not an official businessman, nor is he the ancestor of the official businessman. He became a rich businessman and had his own way.
From Yue State to Qi State, Fan Li once took "cherishing precious stones" and "cherishing treasures" as the capital for his prosperity. But he still has more precious "capital": ten years of reunion and ten years of lessons, which not only honed his perseverance and will to bear hardships and stand hard work, but also allowed him to accumulate experience in running the industry. Therefore, it is not surprising that Fan Li "plowed the sea hard" and knew how to make overall plans and manage reasonably after he arrived in Qi State. So "living in a geometric place leads to hundreds of thousands of production".
When Fan Li was in Vietnam, he learned a lot from economist Ji Ran, including the way of Yin and Yang, the way of governing the country and the way of doing business. For example, "you can tell the pros and cons of it, and you will know the price", which is close to the current relationship between supply and demand and the law of value; "Up to 80, down to 30, all farmers get it" is also a win-win situation for agriculture, industry and commerce, which can be proved from the book Fan Ran (compiled by Lu Xun); The second volume of Van Ran introduces the origin, price and top-grade characteristics of various products. It can be seen that he did a lot of market research. In this case, Fan Li not only has theoretical equipment, but also has practical investigation. He also chose Dingtao in the "world" as "the road to trade whether it is necessary or not", so he "changed things and made profits one by one" and was so "planned"
Fan Li is a clever man. The reason why he retired at the beginning was because he knew that "it is difficult to last long under the big name"; At the time when "Qi people heard of Qi Xian and thought that they were close to each other", he "returned to Xiangyin and scattered his wealth", and once again went into the Tao anonymously, because he knew that "staying at home will give birth to a daughter and staying in an official will give birth to a beauty" was the road of "clothes are the best" and he didn't want to be honored for a long time. It can be seen that Fan Li knows the dialectics of advance and retreat. How many officials and businessmen can be so indifferent to official positions, power and money today?
Now some people say that Fan Li is the ancestor of officials and businessmen, because he raised him, but in fact he raised him. Officials and businessmen use public power to gain illegitimate interests. Can they compare with Fan Li who does business with real skill? Those who call Fan Li the grandfather of government and business are either ignorant or shameless, and have never entered the right way of doing business. They should change their "three views".