Commercial Characteristics of Laohuang County

The business of people in Laohuang County has the following characteristics:

(1) Honest business is the main business characteristic of people in Laohuang County. There is a saying: "The human heart is a steelyard, so we should act according to our conscience. If they want to do business well, their reputation is a fortune. " Always win by quality, stress genuine business ethics and credibility, and be childlike. Therefore, there is no need to worry about cheating when dealing with honest people in Huangxian County. Some people describe Huangxian people as simple and tolerant, unpretentious, sincere and frank, simple and straightforward, kind and generous. This kind of character possessed by the people of Laohuang County is "reality" in their own words, and this kind of folk custom is still a habit.

(2) Huangxian people are kind, straightforward, straightforward and honest. Advocating "business ethics is human nature, personal connections are the venation of wealth", and using "simple business law" will win people's hearts and win the trust of others. Especially pay attention to "harmony is precious" and "harmony is precious". If the goods are bought in the store, even if the quality of the goods is not good, the delivery man will politely refuse and let him leave the store happily, so as to pay attention to the future situation and repeat customers, which is incomparable to many businessmen.

(3) Being good at using all available resources, regardless of weather, location and people, are all means for them to do business. In debt collection, we should avoid kindness (soft-hearted), cowardice (the other party talks nonsense and believes it) and cowardice (being scared by the other party). Apply Sun Tzu's art of war to the business world.

(4) Pursue asceticism and take "it is better to rely on yourself than on the earth" as the creed. Be able to bear hardships, be bitter-oriented, be proud of suffering, take pleasure in suffering, and step by step. This ability to bear hardships is not only tempered by the natural environment, but also the teaching and example of Confucius and Mencius' cultural spirit.

(5) value righteousness over profit, and be a friend. Paying attention to honesty is fundamental. First, we must not go against our conscience. Second, you can't be sorry for your friends. As the saying goes, there is a noisy horse in Hebei, a bandit in Kanto and a hero in Shandong. People in Laohuang County are adhering to the characteristics of "Shandong is a hero", attach importance to loyalty and nostalgia, and are willing to "do whatever it takes" for their friends. The basic meaning of righteousness: first, be loyal to your friends, share life and death, share weal and woe, and keep your promise; The second is to help the chivalrous and help the poor, and draw a sword to help when the road is rough. Just like the song "Good Han Song" sings: If the road is rough, shout, if you should make a move, make a move and rush into Kyushu! This is very different from those southerners who seem to be hospitable, but actually value profits and money and always want to get "oil and water" from others.

(6) When talking about business, there must be wine. Without wine, the conversation would be dull. This is similar to people in the northeast. Businessmen in the northeast should have an amazing capacity for liquor, otherwise it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the business world.

At the same time, they also attach importance to their homeland and love their hometown. As long as you earn a lot of money in other places, you will build civil engineering and houses in your hometown to show that you are homesick for drinking water, don't forget your hometown and honor your ancestors. Such as the former residence of Huangxian County and the former residence of Wang in Haidai Town. In addition, people in the agricultural economic circle in Jiaodong take advantage of the slack season to do some service work with employers in the commercial economic circle, and earn a little money from employers, thus forming a kind of complementarity. In short, from the perspective of business history, people in Laohuang County do business as much as Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants. In the vast sea of business, a number of businessmen who do business in good faith and enjoy a high reputation in Kyushu have emerged.

In business, people in Laohuang County have similarities and differences with Shanxi Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants around them, mainly in the following six aspects:

First, geographically, the main business scope of Shanxi merchants is to develop into northern Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and northern China through westward advancement; Huizhou merchants are mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of Huaihe River, Jiangsu Province and Yangtze River, and sometimes they go north to Beijing and Tianjin along canals or sea routes. Huangxian people mainly go to the three northeastern provinces by water, land in Beijing and Tianjin and develop in the surrounding areas. Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the south and Shanxi in the west.

Second, business content: Shanxi merchants mainly deal in draft banks, but also engage in grain, cotton, salt, tea and so on. This is what the north needs. With Guan Gong's benevolence and righteousness, they set up a guild hall in the business office to help them. For example, the Shanshan Guild Hall in Liaocheng, Shandong Province was built by businessmen from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. Huizhou merchants advocate culture and cultivate the character of "being good at Confucianism", mainly focusing on money houses, dealing in salt, tea and wood, or making profits from silk and grain. Wherever Huizhou merchants went, they built more gardens, villas and theaters to make friends. Huangxian people mainly operate silk shops and pawn shops, as well as banks, grain shops, pharmacies, textiles, groceries, coal and petroleum. , the business scope is relatively wide.

Third, in terms of business philosophy: Shanxi businessmen value money rather than officials, "learning to be excellent is to be an official", and educating children how to make money from an early age; Huizhou merchants value officials over money, make money for officials, teach their children to be officials from an early age, and pin their hopes for success on officialdom; The people of Laohuang County inherited China's traditional Confucian thought, "Be an official if you study hard". They taught their children to study, do business and be an official from an early age, paying attention to the monarch and his son, being loyal and filial, and absorbing the advantages of Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants. They not only do business honestly to make money, but also build city walls, Confucius temples, academies, help the people and organize group training in the form of public welfare undertakings, which won the appreciation of the people and the court.

Fourthly, in the mode of operation: Shanxi merchants often start from small vendors, carefully calculate, gradually accumulate capital, develop steadily and form their own system; Huizhou merchants started with observation, opportunistic, combined with each other, and formed a business gang. The big ones went to the government, the profits were booming, and the extravagant wind was eager to boast about wealth. Although they are very active in the business world, it is often you who sing and I come on stage. It's hard to be as calm and sophisticated as the people in Old Huang County, not surprised by the change, but slow and steady.

Fifth, Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants are more or less "detached", doing business for three to five years or even twenty or thirty years, while Huangxian people are particularly attached to and love their hometown, and few people are away all the year round. Shanxi merchants left their hometown and their marriage was unfortunate; Huizhou merchants feast, Dona wives and concubines; The family education of Huangxian people is extremely strict.

Sixthly, in China, no matter whether Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants or Huangxian people do business, there are many similarities in traditional culture and commercial culture, such as attaching importance to cultural education and pursuing artistic taste, in the clan concept of "attaching importance to righteousness, destroying relatives and repairing the world", in "men are hardworking and women are chaste" and attaching importance to family status, in professional spirit, in business ethics and so on.

In a word, the business history of people in Laohuang County is a history worthy of in-depth study. Up to now, Huangxian county's economy is still developed, and its fiscal revenue is 2 1 100 million yuan, ranking 16 among the top 100 counties in China. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Huangxian county has a good atmosphere". Welcome to research and be a guest.