In the great historical changes of the rise and fall of China merchants and business gangs, the game between power and capital has never stopped. Do you remember the TV series "Qiao Family Courtyard"? The spread of Shanxi business empire there is also full of the game between power and capital, trying to tell a businessman's family change history with vivid story.
From a macro point of view, every rise, decline and re-emergence of the merchant groups in China is also inseparable from the political and business game in the society at that time, and the specific results often depend on the degree of openness, civilization and conservatism of the society at that time.
Wang Yuxian, a young scholar, has completed the magnificent book Power Capital and Business Groups, which traces the great changes of business groups in China in the past 600 years and is also a historical summary reflecting the rise and fall of businessmen in China.
In our ancient books, there is a saying about the order of professional division of labor in social society, "scholars, farmers and businessmen" Does this mean that the status of businessmen is in a lower position in society? According to the author Wang Yuxian, this does not mean that the social status of businessmen is low, but that the status of farmers is always at the bottom of society.
And businessmen, although in the eyes of scholars, businessmen often focus on profit and do not seem to care about social changes, in fact, even if the gentry struggle for power and profit, when will there be a shortage of businessmen in this process? The big businessmen in every society still have a certain right to speak, which is not lower than the status of farmers and workers. Therefore, that ranking statement is a suppression of the rapid development of businessmen's power, in order to prevent businessmen from trying to use capital to interfere with the political reform and social development of state affairs under the condition of good economic development.
It took me almost a week to finish reading it, and my feelings are summarized as follows: Power Capital and Business Group is a truly complete and comprehensive history of the development of China business groups. Starting from the original source of the business gangs, this book compares the ancient and modern times, discusses the current business gangs, spans 600 years of history, combs and comments on all the important business gangs in the history of China's economic development, and can be said to be a good book in the true sense about the heavy history of China's business gangs.
As summarized in the screenshot above, this book is ancient and modern, taking history as a mirror, aiming at enlightening the present. "Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall", which is of great significance to sorting out the history of China commercial gangs. By combing the history of business gangs in China, the author summarizes the spiritual values, business philosophy and the law of rise and fall of businessmen in the book, and analyzes the experience and lessons of the game between politics and business in the development of business gangs in past dynasties, which can also be said to be the ideological thinking of entrepreneurs in the new era.
For today's people, this masterpiece of the development history of business gangs is to remind today's businessmen how to better grasp business opportunities and destiny in the future development.
Salt merchants, private businessmen at sea, foreign trade merchants, comprador, bank merchants and modern financial industrialists; Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants, Guangdong merchants, Fujian merchants, Yong merchants ... This book reviews and combs the development history of these important commercial groups in detail. The historical materials of the book are rich and rigorous, and the textual research is informative. It is different from most popular history books, and it is a historical work of commercial gangs with certain historical value. At the same time, the book also contains some epic legends about the game between politics and business, the struggle between business and sea, and the reform of home and country. Very readable, not obscure.
The current business environment is very different from the past, but we can still learn a lot of wisdom and ways to be a man that business gangs must have in order to develop. Whether it is Shanxi merchants or Huizhou merchants, those who can get ahead in the business environment at that time are the examples that business people should learn in the future.
Of course, the interpretation of this book is also in place. For example, why did Shanxi salt merchants first rise? Instead of the business gangs in Fujian and Guangdong, which are close to the sea? This has a lot to do with the commercial policies of the Ming Dynasty at that time, especially the salt policy. In addition, the open system and the reclamation system are also important reasons for the rise of Shanxi merchants. Then there is the rise of silver as the standard currency in the Ming Dynasty. The combination of these factors is of great benefit to the development of Shanxi business gangs.
After the rise of Shanxi merchants, the second wave of development and growth was the establishment of Shanxi Bank. The credit transaction between bank notes played a vital role in the commercial development at that time. It can be said that this pioneering work laid the peak of the development of Shanxi merchants in one fell swoop.
For example, there are detailed data in the book that give us a vivid interpretation of the social situation at that time. 1753 There were pawnbrokers 18075 in China and 5 175 in Shanxi Province, accounting for 28.6%. 19 10 There are 52 accounting bureaus registered in Beijing, of which 34 are run by Shanxi people. After careful investigation, only three of the managers of these 52 accounting bureaus are not from Shanxi. This also shows that Shanxi's business philosophy is popular from one side.
In recent years, there are many movies and TV plays derived from these words, such as bank number, bank and money house, which is another way to interpret the commercial development of China from multiple angles. In contrast, the book Power, Capital and Businessmen by Wang Yuxian, a young scholar, has more depth and popularity. It is said that this book is also a study book for business leaders recently, which shows the popularity and spread of this book.
The book is nearly 500,000 words, and there are many highlights to see. I won't go into details here. I recommend you to read every book carefully. In today's commercial society, this book is suitable for everyone to read. (End of full text)