Spring goes to autumn, cold comes and summer.

Before you know it, a year has passed.

The pain of losing love and losing a best friend seems to fade and forget little by little with the passage of time and busy work.

After all, as long as life goes on, for the sake of tomorrow, people still have to live well.

The day of the implementation of the mining farm project that I agreed with Dazhi is getting closer and closer.

During this period, we have returned to our hometown several times to conduct field surveys and gain an in-depth understanding of the local government's various procedures.

We learned that due to the relatively closed location of the mine, no one knows about the ore so far.

The company registration process is also relatively simple.

When we went to the county business department to consult about the formalities, the staff looked at us with strange eyes, as if we two young people were crazy.

In the eyes of the locals, the idea of mining is completely unreasonable, and there is not a single mining farm in the entire county area.

On the contrary, for me and Dazhi, all the situations in which the news was closed and unattended, and the locals did not believe in the fact that there were mineral deposits, turned into a rare opportunity.

The quarry project is indeed ripe for start-up.

In the late spring and early summer, Dazhi officially resigned from Shenzhen, and I also left the engineering company in Beijing, and the two of us began to devote ourselves to the various procedures of the mining farm, and planned to make the mining farm ready for construction in early autumn according to the established plan.

After two years of experience in the workplace in Shenzhen, Dazhi has changed a lot, becoming deep, shrewd, and calm.

This is a good thing, because Dazhi is mature, which makes our connection with the local government business department very smooth.

But on the other hand, he completely saw this venture as a kind of gambling with no way out, doing everything with all his might, and it looked like he was making a desperate bet, which made me feel pressured.

Pressure is motivation!

He was fully committed and inspired my entrepreneurial passion.

We overcame all obstacles and quickly registered a company in the county.

The name of the company is taken from the title of me and Dazhi, called "Great Country Ambition", which is a metaphor for the business principle of the mining farm is to maintain national laws and regulations, maintain a high degree of consistency with the national development strategy, and have the feelings of a great country.

Although there are some hiccups in the company registration process, it coincides with the state encouraging college students to start their own businesses, and our own professionalism makes all kinds of materials fully prepared and comprehensive in the process of handling various certificates, so the application for the license is also a green light and relatively smooth.

The processing time was very short, and unexpectedly, after getting the approval of the business license of the mining farm, Dazhi and I were very excited.

It seems that the first step in the business plan of the mining farm is a safe step.

On the day of the license procedures, in the county seat, we found a small coffee shop on the side of the road, sat down, and discussed the details of the implementation of the next mining site.

The most important thing to discuss was funding.

"Let's first summarize the overall situation of our brothers' funds? To be specific, let's see how big a funding gap we have next. ", Dazhi proposed.

Although we had discussed the funding plan many times before starting the project, now that the mining business is about to start operation, we still feel uncertain.

I understand Dazhi's mood at the moment.

He took out his bank card from his bag and handed it to him.

"This is my bank card, I just took out 2,000 cash, leave it for pocket money, and you can deposit the rest to the public account, and in the future, you will be the general manager and CFO of "Great Power Ambition". ”，

Things went well, and the excitement I had just come out of the administrative center had not completely subsided, so I played a joke with him.

Dazhi smiled.

"How much money is left in the card?"

Such a sharp question made me a little embarrassed, and my face couldn't help but turn red all of a sudden.

After working in Beijing for more than two years, removing all kinds of expenses, although I have been cutting back on food and clothing for the sake of starting a business, I am still ashamed to deposit money in my bank card in the end.

"It's not very clear, it turned out to be 50,000, it took a little bit in the past few days, and it is estimated that there are more than 40,000, right?" , I replied vaguely, I have always been like this, how much money do I have? It's just that the big numbers are clear, and if you want to be more specific, you can't say it.

I know that when Dazhi asks like this, he must count the fillet points, which is a question I can't answer.

The big numbers in Kari also embarrassed me.

Dazhi took the bank card and carefully put it away.

His situation is the same as mine, a poor and white background, during the period of working in a foreign company in Shenzhen, the salary is slightly higher than that in Beijing, in order to save money for starting a business, every day in addition to the canteen is instant noodles, but the money saved is also pitiful.

Fortunately, all the wealth and belongings of the two people combined, they can barely start the project we have been dreaming of for a long time.

Funds are limited, and Dazhi, the CFO, is really not easy to do.

......

He carefully registered our current total asset figures one by one.

Next, there is the discussion of the company's articles of association, workflow, corporate PR business, etc., all the details that involve the company's later operations.

We have repeatedly demonstrated these issues in the business planning stage.

However, the huge contrast between the practice and theory of the project makes us have to re-plan the details of various problems, and discuss and revise the content that was too idealistic and is now obviously unreasonable in more detail, so as to facilitate better implementation in the next step.

After a long day of discussion, the final focus is still on funding.

The investment in equipment in the mining farm is the most critical issue, whether it is to buy the old or the new one, there is a gap in funding, which is a big problem, and it turns out that the purely theoretical funding plan we developed at the beginning simply does not work.

This is undoubtedly a blow to the two enthusiastic young people who intend to start a business!

However, Dazhi and I also realized that even though there was a sea of swords and fires ahead, there was no turning back.

He and I are now cut off from all our own back roads, in other words, the current situation is "the arrow is on the string and has to be sent".

In such an embarrassing situation, all we have left is the passion for entrepreneurship, tens of thousands of dollars in our pockets and a license to operate a mining farm with an uncertain future.

In order to make the most of the resources available, the most urgent task now is to raise funds to ensure that the mining farm can be put into operation as scheduled in the early autumn.

We study for half a day, calculating repeatedly.

Funds are still stretched thin.

At the end of the discussion, I was about to fall into a state of despair, and my head suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Flipping through the business plan, I inadvertently provided me with a new idea of "four or two thousand pounds" in the initial business plan.

"Buy equipment first, mortgage the purchased equipment, and apply for a small loan at the bank as a guarantee of capital flow."

"We don't have any money, but we can use the bank's money!"

Dazhi had been frowning, and as soon as my thoughts came out, he cheered a little.

Mortgage loans in kind are a business that all banks can handle.

There should be no resistance to such a plan!

We immediately split up and did what we said.

The money for the purchase of the equipment was quickly paid, the equipment was in place as scheduled, and the enthusiastic manufacturer also sent technical instructors to explain the on-site operation.

At the same time as the equipment was commissioned, we also began to contact banks around the county to apply for loans.

The truth is exactly what we envisioned.

As long as things are in line with the rules of business, it will work smoothly.

A number of banks are very supportive of the loan needs of companies with great ambitions.

The bank loan was very smooth and approved very quickly.

With sufficient financial security, the company's operation is gradually on the right track.

......

The mine actually started to produce, but the reality was ten times harder than we thought.

Although we were well prepared, there were some situations that were not expected.

After Dazhi and I bought the equipment, the money in our hands added up to less than three digits.

After the bank loan was approved, the funds received were barely enough to keep the company running.

It must not be diverted for other purposes.

"A penny is hard to beat a hero"

At the hardest time, our brothers didn't even have the money to work overtime to eat instant noodles.

"Break a penny in half and spend it"

In a certain period of time when starting a business, it is our preferred self-help program.

The money was spent on the cutting edge, and we didn't even have the money to build dormitories.

However, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

Dazhi found the driver who hauled the ore powder and asked someone to help us get a discarded iron container in the county town and install it in a corner of the mining site as a temporary dormitory.

After working at the mining site every day, the two of us snuggled up in containers like homeless people and made do with a good night's sleep.

Our living environment is comparable to the hard years when we just graduated from the internship and lived in the basement of Beijing.

entrepreneurial passion,

Let's forget about hunger;

Forget about the heat;

Forget all the little comfort that basic material conditions can bring!

The good news is that everything is quietly changing qualitatively.

All the efforts become the accumulation of wealth over time.

Both material and spiritual.

......

Time flies.

It's hard though.

A sweltering summer has finally come to an end.

Autumn is coming, and the air is fresh and cool.

The sky was blue and cloudless.

The endless green gauze tent, under the blowing of the autumn wind, seems to set off a green wave.

The hard work paid off, and with the hard work of me and Dazhi, the mining farm is really on track and has begun to take shape.

An autumn afternoon.

Dazhi and I stood on the platform in front of the mining site, looking down at the endless fields in the distance, looking at the green sea that was surging in the wind, and we felt refreshed.

The operation of the mining farm is smooth, the sales of mine powder are also smooth, and although the profit is not as high as expected, both the demand and the market prospect have far exceeded our expectations.

"It's so easy to do business, I knew it was like this, and the sooner we started to do our own things, we wouldn't have to suffer so much." , Dazhi stretched his limbs, looking very satisfied, he had completely forgotten the purgatory-like midsummer that he had just spent in the tin room, and he took suffering as pleasure, and I didn't even know what real suffering was for him.

"Yes, things are going so smoothly at the mining site, it has greatly exceeded our expectations, and we should have started operating half a year ahead of schedule!" I was infected by his optimistic attitude, looking at the endless green fields in the distance, and I felt happy.

"Do you feel that way? ---- "Just an idea, you can't do anything without capital?" ”

In fact, in entrepreneurship, the pain of being penniless, I don't need to say more, we all have a real experience now.

However, no matter how hard the days are, there will be a time to come out.

Looking back, the machines roared and the mining site was busy.

The trucks pulling ore powder at the mining site are lined up on the mountain roads.

Selling mine powder is money!

The business of the company is better than imagined.

"Have you ever thought about what our revenue will reach if this continues, and the company will run well for two years?" , Dazhi asked me.

"Don't you say, I've been busy with on-site things these days and haven't paid attention to financial income, what's the situation now? The income should be good, right? I knew in my heart that the truth should be optimistic.

"We now have a monthly operating income of about 150,000!" Dazhi's answer confirmed my suspicion.

"If our sales channels are expanded, the company's revenue can go to the next level!" , he was excited.

"Our production capacity is limited, and we can't supply it if we expand our sales channels?" I glanced at him, a little skeptical.

"Big country, have you ever thought that in another month, we will use the money we earn to buy another set of equipment? Scaling up production? Dazhi rubbed his fists and grinded his palms, eager to try, and it seemed that he had planned to do so for a long time.

"That's not okay, over-exploitation will seriously damage the ecological environment, in addition, don't forget, our approval document clearly limits the company's production capacity, you add equipment, it is a double violation, which is not allowed."

"We can re-apply to expand production capacity."

"No, it's too big for the environment." Looking at the dusty mining sites and scarred ridges, I was worried.

Mining is profitable, but the environmental impact is very different from what I originally envisioned.

"We can't blindly expand production capacity, on the contrary, we need to limit the amount of extraction, and at the same time we need to allocate some funds to take ecological restoration measures to carry out ecological restoration of damaged mountains." I suggest that the attitude is very resolute, and it is an indisputable fact that over-exploitation will destroy the living environment of the hometown.

"Let's discuss this later." Dazhi glanced at me and was a little unimpressed with my suggestion.

His knowledge of this worries me.

"Dazhi, it's not that I'm acting rashly, have you thought about it, at present, the impact of our mining farm is very small, no one pays attention, if it has a great impact on the surrounding environment, the government will definitely intervene, once the government seizes us, all our investments will be completely finished." We can't afford to lose too much! This is also the foundation of the survival of small businesses like ours. ”

I'm telling the truth.

So far, the mine has not been operated by the government, because it is small and no one pays attention.

"Let's talk about that later." Dazhi was a little excited, and the joy brought by the optimistic business data was poured cold water on my next few words, and he was a little unhappy.

After a while, his constricted brow stretched again,

"Even at the current level, our year-end revenue is very good."

"Work overtime, let's impact the performance."

"You're going to hit the business? What is the number? I looked at him.

Dazhi is right, the company must have development goals.

"A million."

Dazhi replied to me in an excited tone.

Million?!

This is an astronomical amount for us who were working as workers two years ago.

Nowadays, this number seems to be a breeze for companies.

This is the first gift of our hometown's rich mineral deposits to our hard work over the past year.

In the distance, the roar of machines in the mining site grew louder and louder.

With the deafening roar, as far as the eye can see, the autumn wind in the distance sets off the green waves of the green gauze tent, allowing us to see the hope of harvest.