Essays about people who made fortunes in our neighborhood

1. The "Big Bamboo Man" who lives on the back side of the back street

His surname is not "Zhu", but people like to call him "Big Man Bamboo". There is a story!

Twenty or thirty years ago, he lived on the backside of a back street. There was a thatched hut with a banana tree planted next to it. Behind the house was a bamboo forest. From a distance, it looked very... It's poetic and picturesque. When you get closer, you can see that the owner of the hut is very poor.

At that time, he was thin and yellow-skinned. He often squatted beside the hut with his head lowered, smoking leaf cigarettes, then spitting out two bubbles of saliva and sighing. The burden of life at that time weighed too heavily on him.

Later, with the reform and opening up, the spring breeze blew across the land, people's hearts were filled with warmth, and everyone was striving for a well-off life. He was also thinking: How can I make a fortune?

The first thing he thought of was the bamboo forest behind his house. He learned grate craftsmanship as a child and could weave various bamboo handicrafts. It happened that this was a tourist city, so he made some bamboo handicrafts to sell. His craftsmanship is very good, and the bamboo handicrafts he makes have both Chinese artistic characteristics and practical value, so they are very marketable. As a result, their family's life began to improve.

Once, a foreign tourist group came. One of the foreign friends took a fancy to his bamboo handicrafts and asked, "How much does one cost?" At that time, he did not understand the international market nor the market. I just made a rough estimate of the information and plucked up the courage to say: "Ten yuan each." The foreign friend is a businessman with a very business acumen. He thinks that this kind of bamboo weaving craft is good and the price is good. If it is shipped back to the country, there will definitely be sales. So, he wanted to make a trade with him and ordered 10,000 pieces from him. When the translator translated this passage and asked him, "Can it be done?" he was so happy that he wanted to agree immediately and say, "Sure," but he opened his mouth and did not answer for a long time.

At that time, foreign trade was not as convenient as it is now. They found the relevant departments before signing a foreign trade contract and promised to deliver the goods within three months. Relevant departments told him: When dealing with foreign businessmen, you must first ensure quality and secondly pay attention to credibility. If you can't handle it alone, you can hire a few people to help. He was a down-to-earth man, and he nodded and agreed.

Three months later, he delivered the goods in full. The foreign businessmen were very satisfied, and the relevant departments were also very satisfied.

He earned 100,000 yuan from this transaction. From then on, he laid the foundation for setting up a bamboo weaving craft factory. He served as both the factory director and technical director, taking care of everything inside and outside.

Later, with the development of the country, his bamboo weaving craft factory grew bigger and bigger, and its products were sold not only domestically, but also abroad. He became the first person in the area to make a fortune from bamboo, and his bamboo handicrafts have become a local specialty and a local flagship product.

Now, where his family lives on the hillside in the back street, the banana trees and bamboo groves are still there, but the hut is gone. What appears is a small villa-shaped building. He used to smoke leaf cigarettes and sigh. He also became energetic and high-spirited. As a result, people who knew him in the past have forgotten his past. When they see him, they will always call him with envy: "Big Bamboo!"

2. He used to be a writer. Tea business

He used to be in the tea business. He opened a small tea shop in the neighborhood. The business was not very prosperous at that time. He often looked depressed while sitting at the counter of the small shop, and , I also heard him often say: "It's about to close, the business can't stop!" But at that time, people still liked to call him the little owner of the tea shop.

This is the hometown of tea. Ancient books record: "The tea is of the highest quality and is given as tribute." But for some unknown reason, it has never entered the ranks of my country's famous teas. This is also a question that he has never been able to figure out.

Later, with the reform and opening up and the economy booming, a tea market suddenly appeared in this "little-known" town. Every year at the beginning of spring, many out-of-town guests come to the town. The town is lively, the hotels are full, and the streets are bustling. Customers from out-of-town rush to purchase the local fresh green tea.

This phenomenon naturally attracted the attention of the small tea shop owner: He thought: Why is the locally produced young green tea so popular among outsiders?

It happened that he knew an out-of-town customer who liked drinking, so he bought a bottle of "Wuliangye" and specially entertained this customer in order to find out what "business secrets" were hidden in it. The foreign customer was so happy after drinking that he "spoke the truth after drinking" and patted the young tea shop owner on the shoulder and said, "You have good wine, good tea, and beautiful scenery! It's a pity that you don't know how to do tea business!"

What the out-of-town customers said was exactly what the tea shop owner wanted. He followed suit and said: "Now I also have a batch of new green tea on hand, and I want to transport it to other places. Can you build a bridge for me to learn from you?"

That customer has long been known as "Wuliangye" Intoxicated, he patted his chest and said, "No problem! It's all on me. As long as it's the fresh green tea you have, I'll keep it for you and we'll take it." So he and the foreign customer immediately bought it. The ticket, along with his batch of new green tea, flew over together.

When he arrived in other places, the small tea shop owner was greatly disappointed. It turned out that the out-of-town customers he followed, including all the businessmen who went to them to purchase new green tea, were all "second-rate dealers". Because of the acquisition of tea town The new tender green tea that came was of good quality, so they sold it to some small local tea processing factories, who then packaged and dressed it up and turned it into the "famous tea" in their area.

This made him suddenly realize! He felt aggrieved and angry, and in the end, it turned into a force that inspired him: Since the new green tea in his hometown can be comparable to the famous tea from other places, why should "second-rate dealers" transport it to other places to "trampling" and "trampling" the local area? What about tea resources? Then, he came up with an unbearable idea: he must develop the tea industry in his hometown!

After returning, he began to plan and establish a tea processing factory in his hometown. He wanted to produce locally produced fresh green tea on the spot and create famous tea products in his hometown.

In the spring of the next year, when the new green tea came on the market, he put up a big red sign in front of his small tea shop with ten big words on it: Open to purchase local new green tea!

When the out-of-town customer came to the town again, he was very excited to see the tea shop owner and said, "Okay! We can cooperate well again this year!"

Tea shop The small boss explained: "I bought it for ourselves. We have already opened our own tea processing factory."

The foreign customer was very surprised. He followed his "second-rate dealer" thinking and said: " Ah? After all, you are smarter than me. If I take you out once, you will know how to make our famous tea locally and then ship it to us, which will certainly make more money and make greater profits!"

The young owner of the tea shop had to explain again: "You completely misunderstood." In order to prevent the customer from spreading false rumors, the young owner of the tea shop took him to visit the tea factory he founded. Although the scale was small at the beginning, there Everything is brand new: new factory buildings, new equipment, new processes. Everything there is also formal: formal process flow, formal operating rules, and formal testing methods. The purpose of registering trademarks and brands with local characteristics is to create famous brand products of the tea town.

After the visit, the foreign customer gave a thumbs up to the tea shop owner in admiration and said repeatedly: "Okay! Good! After seeing your tea factory, I have to say: you are A promising entrepreneur, and I am just a small businessman who only sees petty profits."

The small owner of the tea shop smiled modestly and kept saying: "Where! Where! I have also been a businessman since I was a child. I just think that our tea town has such conditions and we should develop the precious local resources.

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Later, after years of hard work, the small tea shop owner’s wish came true. He no longer opened a tea shop, but concentrated on running his tea factory; the tea in their hometown also He has really entered the ranks of my country's famous tea; and he has also transformed from a small local tea shop owner to a local private entrepreneur!