Chapter 32: Talking about money hurts feelings

Time goes back 30 years, and 10,000 yuan households are still an enviable term.

10,000 yuan household is not only a fashionable word in the 80s, but also refers to the first batch of people who became rich after the reform and opening up. The 10,000 households are generally composed of individual farmers, construction contractors, and individual industrial and commercial households who have taken the lead in completing individual contracts, and they rely not on knowledge or plain knowledge in the initial stage of the economy, but on courage and hard work.

By 2016, the times have already changed, and for most Chinese people, the most popular saying is that a 100,000-yuan household has just started, a million-dollar household is so-so, and a 10-million-yuan household is considered rich.

The gears of the times are always turning, and the ever-changing technology has accelerated the replacement of economic subjects. In the 90s and 80s, if you want to become rich, it is not enough to rely on your own courage and hard work, you also need to have a unique vision to seize business opportunities.

This is a race against time.

No matter what industry you do, those who get rich are always the first to eat crabs.

Lin Yang remembers very well that in the summer of 1996, his father Lin Shizhong sold the small restaurant he opened in Panyu, Guangzhou, and then raised funds to change careers and began to make what he thought was the hottest BP machine in the market.

Because, since the second half of 1995, the paging business has gradually lost under the powerful offensive of mobile phones, and BP users have begun to stop increasing. In 1996 there was a decline, with fewer subscribers and a sharp drop in the number of pagers.

Successful businessmen often have a keen sense of smell.

Obviously, Lin Shizhong has no talent for business, he made a wrong decision, and he lost all his money, and Lin Yang's family even owed a lot of money because of this.

In the next few years, every time at the end of the year, there will be relatives and friends who tear off their faces and go to the door to collect debts, Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve night, other people's families are happy to celebrate the New Year, but Lin Yang's family can only be sad.

Life is far more difficult than imagined.

Fortunately, Lin Yang, who returned from rebirth, after careful consideration during this period of time, already knew how to help his father Lin Shizhong, step by step, and gradually walked towards a frank and bright road.

That night.

In the living room of Lin Yang's house, Lin Shizhong and his old classmate Li Wenhui were pushing cups and changing lamps at the dinner table.

As the saying goes, nothing is left to the Three Treasures Palace. Li Wenhui's purpose in coming this time is not just to find his old classmate Lin Shizhong to drink and catch up with the past, and to recall the past.

After three rounds of drinking, and three more rounds.

The night was getting deeper.

"Shizhong, I won't tell you anything, I know that your business in Guangzhou has always been good, so I ......" Li Wenhui looked embarrassed and stopped talking.

Lin Shizhong: "Huh?"

Men, either for money or for women.

Although Lin Shizhong is not smart, he is not too stupid, he has vaguely felt that Li Wenhui's expression is probably trying to borrow money from him.

But the problem is, the business he does is a small business, where is the extra money to lend him? The biggest bad habit of a businessman is to slap a swollen face and become fat, whenever you meet someone who asks you how your business is, you can't always be naïve and tell the other party that you are doing a bleak business, right?

Anyway, in Zhushi Village, if he is away from home, no matter whether his business is good or bad, at least he will answer: business is not bad, and he can eat together.

Silence, a silent silence.

Li Wenhui paused, broke the embarrassing silence with a little hazy drunkenness, and said to Lin Shizhong: "Shizhong, I ...... I'll tell you the truth, I have a good project on hand, and I am short of some funds, and I want to borrow some money from you......"

Really.

It's time to come, it's still coming.

Hearing this, Lin Shizhong frowned for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh deeply, he was not in a hurry to refuse Li Wenhui, and said slowly: "Wenhui, you and I have been old classmates for twenty or thirty years, I grew up together, I didn't treat you as an outsider, you don't always hide it, you have to care about me borrowing money, at least you have to tell me honestly, what project are you doing?"

"This ......" Li Wenhui was a little embarrassed.

In order to prevent others from knowing their trade secrets, they will be the first to take the lead, and people can only keep their trade secrets tight-lipped.

"Come, Wenhui, dry this glass of wine, just let me say nothing." Lin Shizhong saw that Li Wenhui was unwilling to tell him the truth, but he was also at ease, so he saved himself the step of refusing to lend him money.

"Don't...... Shizhong, I came today to sincerely ask you to borrow some money, this project, I took a lot of effort to get it reluctantly, the contract will be signed in a few days, before the funds are all in place, I can talk nonsense for the time being. Li Wenhui has words of suffering.

Throughout the night, Lin Shizhong was not impatient or impatient, and always maintained the attitude of "boiling frogs in warm water", Li Wenhui borrowed almost all the relatives and friends who could borrow due to lack of funds, and he was short of the last money, he really had no way, and in the end he could only tell Lin Shizhong truthfully.

As the saying goes, give it a go, and a bicycle becomes a motorcycle.

In the first decade of the last century, young people born in ordinary families wanted to go out and start their own businesses, and there was only one way: borrow!

That's right, if you want to start a business, you have to put down your subordinates and borrow money. Most of the time, starting a business is a bit like gambling, and if you bet right, you'll probably be able to soar to the top of your life. If you make a wrong bet, you'll end up in debt, and you'll be in debt for three to five years, or even ten years from there.

In the end, Lin Shizhong learned from Li Wenhui that Li Wenhui's factory was engaged in a sideline construction parking lot at this time, and let the workers in the factory contract, but most of the workers were not optimistic about the project, and only a few employees with investment vision were optimistic, and Li Wenhui was one of them.

Ninety-nine percent of the workers working in the factory are young people born in poverty, and even if they have the heart to contract the construction of parking lot projects, their families do not have the financial ability and their own extraordinary courage.

At noon the next day, when the whole family eats together.

Taking advantage of lunch, Lin Shizhong casually mentioned Li Wenhui's borrowing of money from him last night and his wife Zhang Meilan.

"How much does Li Wenhui borrow from you?" Zhang Meilao asked her husband angrily.

"7,000 pieces."

"Hehe, it's really a lion's mouth, and he asks us to borrow 7,000 yuan with one mouth? It seems that he really treats you as a big deal......" Zhang Meilan shook her head and smiled bitterly.

In 1995, the average monthly wage per capita in the country did not exceed 500 yuan.

7,000 yuan, in 1995, is about equivalent to 50,000 or 60,000 yuan in 2016.

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