Chapter 1 Money Education
Zuo Zai was born at 0:16 a.m. on January 1, 1990, she is actually quite good at choosing the time to come out of the mother's womb, just ten minutes of difference, from the post-80s to the post-90s, for girls, this difference is a bit big. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The reason why Zuo Zai is called Zuo Zai, in addition to her father's surname Zuo, the key is that she also has an older brother named Zuo Yi, and again and again, the name is so simple and rude.
Zuo Zai loves money, as if he was born with it.
When he was four years old, Zuo Zai began to recognize a few Chinese characters, the first two words were his own name, Zuo and Zai, and the third one was similar to everyone else, which was one word, and then there were some words such as sun, moon, water, fire, and earth.
After recognizing these Chinese characters, she went to a warm candle company built by her father.
In 1994, her father's candle company had been in business for five years, saying that it was a company, but in fact it was a small factory restructured from a village-run enterprise.
When I went to the door of the company, I cried wildly, and I didn't even want to enter the door, and I cried for half an hour.
When I finally coaxed him to stop crying, my parents asked, "What happened to you just now?" ”
Four-year-old Zuo Zai said infinitely aggrieved: "How can the name of the company be called 'one day' (she doesn't know the warm word, she reads the day)."
"The company is not called a day, it is called a warm, this word is warm." Zuo Jianshe is a daughter slave, and he was troubled by his daughter for a long time, and he was not angry.
It's okay that Zuo Jianshe didn't explain, but as soon as he explained, Zuo Zai cried again. While crying, he said:
"The company only has my brother's name, without my name, the company will have nothing to do with me in the future, I will have no money in the future, no money is a poor child, no good food, no good drink, no beautiful clothes, no ......"
Zuo said this again, and he couldn't cry again.
The four-year-old baby, with a pair of big watery eyes, is full of grievances, as if it is an endless sea.
Zuo Jianshe and his wife were already crying and laughing at this time, they had seen four-year-old protest parents preferring sons, and they had never seen four-year-old children love money so much.
In fact, Zuo Zai is simply making trouble, because a warm candle company was established in 89, and Zuo Zai was born in 90.
My brother Zuo Yi was born in 1980, and he is ten years older than Zuo.
Zuo Zai's parents really wanted a daughter so much that they gave birth to another one after their son was ten years old. Speaking of which, in the 90s, family planning was strictly controlled, and in order to get left, the family was fined a large amount of money.
Zuo Jianshe felt that his daughter might be just messing around for a while, and soon she would not love money so much. But he soon discovered that he was wrong.
A year later, in 1995, the couple found that five-year-old Zuo Zai had saved a full 2,000 yuan, and in addition to the New Year's money Zuo Zai received in recent years, she earned a lot of money piece by piece, helping her mother mop the floor is a dollar, and taking out the garbage is also a dollar, so it adds up.
Mother Xiang Min felt that it was not good for a child to take so much money, so she and Zuo Zai conducted many rounds of "arduous" negotiations, asking Zuo Zai to hand over "pocket money", all of which ended in failure.
Under the unremitting efforts of his mother and the reminder that if he loses it, he will have nothing, Zuo Zai agreed that his mother would use her name to deposit the money in a bank near her home. Zuo Zai slept with her 2,000 yuan passbook every day, and when he woke up, he looked at the bank in the direction of the bank.
About two months later, Zuo Jianshe and his wife went to the company. Before going out, Xiang Min gave Zuo Zai ten yuan, and asked Zuo Zai to stay at home obediently, and wait for his brother to go to the stall next door to eat noodles at noon after school.
Zuo Zai's mother often does this, and she found that as long as she gives her daughter money, her daughter is quite obedient in everything.
But not long after Zuo Jianshe and his wife arrived at the company, they received a call from their daughter, crying shockingly. I couldn't tell clearly while crying, Zuo Jianshe and his wife hurried home, and the milky Zuo didn't stop crying.
"That...... That one...... Saving...... Silver...... Banks, burning ...... It's burned, and the money is ...... The money is gone......". While crying, he also pulled the door of the couple's house out.
Yes, it's this crying method again, and it's for money, Zuo Jianshe really has no way to take his daughter.
"Is the passbook still there?" Zuo Jian asked his baby daughter.
"Yes!" Left and then nodded like garlic.
"The bank can't be burned, the passbook is still there, and the money is there." Zuo Jianjian comforted.
"Really?"
"Really."
"Really?"
"Really!"
……
Zuo Zai asked more than ten or twenty times, and Zuo Jianshe told her that if there was really no more, he would give her another 2,000 yuan, which blocked Zuo Zai's mouth and stopped Zuo Zai's crying.
Zuo Zai loves money so much, Xiang Min found an excellent plan to educate Zuo Zai when she was in elementary school. Twenty yuan for 100 points, 10 yuan for 99 points, 9 yuan for 98 points, and so on, if it is less than 95 points, no money will be given, and if there is no 90 points, then you will be fined.
This simple and crude education method is extremely effective for Zuo Zai, she is either ninety-nine or one hundred points in the exam, and every time she takes the ninety-nine exam, she beats her chest for a long time, and earning ten yuan less is simply a great harm to her.
Xiang Min's money education method successfully made Zuo Zai the best child in the whole grade, and he was proactive in learning and had excellent self-control, so he didn't need her mother to worry about it at all.
When Zuo Zai was a child, she was only keen on making money, and she didn't like to spend money at all, so she liked to watch more and more money in her passbook.
In 2001, when Zuo Zai was eleven years old, Zuo Jianjian's Warm Candle Company had been in business for 12 years, and it was a very decent company, and it was no problem to earn three or five million a year. Just selling a candle, in the 2001 era, making three to five million a year might sound like.
In the nineties of the last century, state-owned enterprises were restructured, and many people made a fortune as a result. Zuo Zai's father, Zuo Jianjian, was also a practitioner of restructuring, but he did not make a fortune because of it.
Because Zuo Jianshe was originally just the second-in-command of a candle supply and marketing cooperative owned by a village collective, almost no one bought the candles produced by this supply and marketing cooperative, and the only assets were two broken factories.
The supply and marketing cooperatives can only produce small candles in red and white, and the villagers will come to take a few when they have red and white celebrations, because they are originally collectively owned, and the villagers will not give money at all when they take candles.
In 1989, a year before Zuo Zai was born, the supply and marketing cooperatives had nothing but two dilapidated factories, losing money every year, and the broken factories had become dilapidated houses, and no one was still trying to find a market.
At that time, the shareholding system was reformed, and the village wanted to get 20,000 yuan to find someone to take over the supply and marketing cooperative.
This hot potato, which has no assets and no money, who picks up who is unlucky, the leader of the candle supply and marketing cooperatives and other relevant people are hiding far away.
In the 80s, 10,000 yuan households were still a very powerful title, and 20,000 yuan was definitely a huge amount of money in the village.
The leaders of the village unanimously thought of Zuo Jian, the second-in-command of the construction in order to support his family, a few years ago.
The village is small, and everyone knows that Zuo Jianshe has made money in the past few years and is about to spend 30,000 yuan to buy a house in the city.
As a result, Zuo Jianjian, who had some feelings for the supply and marketing cooperative, bought the candle supply and marketing cooperatives in the village in a daze and renamed it a warm candle company.
Although the two factories are very broken, but the geographical location is still very good, the factory is near the river, and in the 90s, the famous transportation village - Wenzhou Yongjia Zhutu Village, relying on the transportation to start, the village is now a number of billionaires. Of course, that's all for later.
While using the skills he has learned from several years of construction to save the dilapidated factory, Zuo Jianshe mobilized the business acumen of Wenzhou people and thought about how to find a market for a warm candle company.
Zuo Jianshe thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with any way, because candles, in China, really existed thousands of years ago.
In ancient times, some people used reeds and beeswax to make lighting appliances (in fact, the West has also been there since ancient times, people called beeswax at that time, bees have no borders, bees have no borders, bees are considered by Catholicism to be a symbol of virgin conception, enshrined as pure light).
Candles were rare items in the East and West at the beginning, and they were still tributes in the Han Dynasty, and they were not so scarce at the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but they were still out of reach of ordinary people, and money could not buy them.
By the Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese candles began to be used as a commodity for "international trade", and money could buy them. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, candles were already a must-have for ordinary people's homes, and the production process was quite simple.
Zuo Jianshe thought about it, and only thought of Li Shangyin's Tang poem "Why should he cut the candles in the west window" (so Zuo Jianshe named Zuo Yi and Zuo again is simple and rude, obviously a cultured person, isn't it!) )。
But it was this poem that saved a warm candle company, Zuo Jianshe thought of his wedding in 1978 through this poem, although the wedding was very simple, but Zuo Jianshe took out almost all his belongings that year - 16 yuan, and asked someone to buy back a pair of dragon and phoenix candles from SH.
The 16 yuan in 1978 was definitely a luxury among candles. That warm candlelight, Zuo Jianshe will never forget for the rest of his life. Zuo Jianshe seems to have suddenly understood why he has inexplicable feelings for the candle supply and marketing cooperative.
Zuo Jianshe was stunned for a while, then ran home to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, and didn't find anything for a long time, so he almost turned the house upside down. His wife Xiang Min was confused by him. So I asked him:
"What are you doing here?"
"Find candles!" Left Construction replied.
"Looking for candles, you go to the factory, what are you doing at home?" Xiang Min was even more puzzled.
"The wedding candle, we married the pair of dragon and phoenix candles." Left Jianjian did not raise his head, and continued to rummage through the boxes and cabinets.
Xiang Min turned around and went to the bottom of the wardrobe and took out a box, the box was hidden in the pair of dragon and phoenix candles, the day she and Zuo Jianshe got married, looking at this pair of luxury candles, they were not very willing to light it, the candle burned off a small section above, and the carved dragon and phoenix were still lying on the candle.
Zuo Jianshe was like a treasure, and turned his head to study how to make his humble factory produce the perfect dragon and phoenix candle in his heart.
Zuo Jianshe has been studying for more than half a year, and on January 1, 1990, when Zuo was born, he really made a beautiful dragon and phoenix candle in the broken factory of his own warm candle company (it is not a dilapidated house, but it is still a little broken), although there is still a gap between it and the one he asked someone to buy in SH, but there are at least nine layers of likeness.
Zuo Jianshe is very satisfied, coupled with the birth of his daughter, January 1, 1990, is probably the happiest day after Zuo Jianshe got married.
In 1978, Zuo Jianshe spent 16 yuan to buy dragon and phoenix candles, 11 years have passed, in 1989, the village candle supply and marketing cooperatives are the same size as dragon and phoenix candles, but how much does a candle without patterns sell?
Two cents.
After Zuo Jianshe made the dragon and phoenix candles, the small ones were sold for three yuan a piece, and a pair was six yuan, and the pricing was also auspicious. However, at that time, 6 yuan was already a small amount of money, and it may not be comparable to 6 cents in 1978.
The 6 yuan pair is the same big candle as Zuo Jianshe when he got married, but he soon developed a larger dragon and phoenix candle, with prices ranging from 16 yuan, 66 yuan, 166 yuan to 666 yuan. A candle of 666 yuan weighs 50 pounds alone.
If the dragon and phoenix candles continue to be sold like this, by 2001, it will definitely be no problem to earn 1.8 million a year, but Zuo Jianshe can earn 35 million, or thanks to Zuo Zai, who loves money.
Things still have to start with the time when Zuo Zai was four years old and made a big fuss about the "One Day" company.
Because there was no word in the company's name, Zuo Zai's parents were troubled by Zuo Zai for a long time, and her father was forced to say to her helplessly:
"This word is warm, it means warm, and the nickname will be called Nuan Nuan in the future, okay?"
"Is a nickname a name?" Zuo asked her dad with her big eyes that were still flashing with tears.
"Yes, nicknames are the names of the closest people such as mom and dad."
"Is that a company formed by me and my brother's names?" Left and then start to shine in both eyes.
"yes."
"That's mine, right?"
"That's right."
"Then I have a lot of money, right?"
"That's right."
"I have all the delicious and fun things, right?" Zuo Zai smiled sweetly.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Zuo Jianjian and his wife were crying and laughing beside them.
After coaxing Zuo Zai, he took her to the factory, at that time in 1994, there were only 6 and 16 dragon and phoenix candles in the factory.
When Zuo saw the red candle again, he almost cried again. She didn't know the dragon yet, so she thought it was a snake. Because she is a serpent. The snakes in the zodiac books she had seen were either green or black, how could there be such a color with gold on a red background.
Zuo Zai felt that her father was too stupid, and the color was wrong, and he was angry again, and said that he wanted black candles, black snakes, and then white horses.
"Why do you need horses?" Left construction asked.
"I belong to the snake, many children in the kindergarten belong to horses, and my good friend wants to give her a white horse for her birthday."
In order to coax this little ancestor, Zuo Jianshe really made a white horse candle with great fanfare, and gave them the best kindergarten classmate of the child named Nuan Nuan.
This white horse candle is on fire in the kindergarten, and unlike Zuo, most of the children born in 1990 in the class are horses. Zuo Zai's white horse candle was only given to her only female friend from her childhood, Liu Tongtong (Zuo Zai's chief girlfriend at the kindergarten).
Maybe it's because Zuo Jianjian's white horse is so cute, many children go home and make trouble, children at that age have heard a lot of fairy tales, men want to be Prince Charming, and women want to meet Prince Charming.
In the end, the parents of many children in the kindergarten were troubled and had no choice, so they came to Zuo Jianshe and said that they wanted to buy white horse candles.
Because of the blind trouble of the left, the candle factory built by the left has been making zodiac candles since 95, and since then there are various cute cartoon characters, which are better than the dragon and phoenix candles.
If you want to ask what the shape of cuteness means, does Mickey Mouse Donald Duck have it? The answer is yes. But if you want to ask, what about copyright issues? At that time, how many small domestic workshops had heard of what copyright was?