Under the glass of Tang Wenbin's desk, there are two words: "Heaven moves healthily, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement", "The terrain is vast, and a gentleman carries things with virtue". I asked him how he liked these two words. He smiled shyly and said in Pingjiang Dongxiang dialect (Hongqiao dialect), "I haven't spent much time in school, and I haven't finished high school. I understand that a gentleman should run like Tianyu, and should persevere, work hard and strive for progress even if he is wandering from place to place."; The momentum of the earth is thick and smooth. A gentleman should enrich his virtue and contain all things. The measurement of objects should be like the earth. Nothing can not be carried.
The same is true of people who treat people, receive goods and do business.
In June 1998, listening to a fellow villager telling colorful stories outside, and looking at the rolling mountains in front of the door and behind the house, the 17-year-old told himself that he had to go out of the mountain to see the world outside the mountain, and secretly determined not to come back until he broke into fame. With hundreds of yuan in mind, I followed several people from the same village when they were young.
The first stop is Beijing, the capital. At first, like all people from rural areas who came to Beijing, Grandma Liu was dazzled by the prosperity of the capital metropolis. The reality is always cruel. After staying with his fellow countryman for a few days, he found that prosperity belongs to others and has nothing to do with himself. The most realistic and urgent problem before me is to fill my stomach and have a place to sleep. No diploma, no work experience, even no decent clothes, no company wants to own.
I can't go back like this. There are still dozens of yuan in my pocket. I have no diploma and no work experience. However, I have strength. I have to endure hardship and can't hesitate. The next day, he went to the construction site of his hometown and started working as a porter. It's not that I can't bear hardships, but I'm far from my original idea. After working for a month, he began to think about how he should establish himself in this city, because if he is the same as his fellow countrymen, a few months later, once the construction site is completed, he will have to go to the next construction site in another city or go home with them. So, after work, when others were playing poker and drinking wine, he bought maps and newspapers to get familiar with the city, and then looked for all kinds of useful information to see if he could find a suitable job.
Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. In the third month of work, a boss in his hometown needs a person who is familiar with Beijing traffic to help him connect with some businesses on construction sites in various areas of Beijing. It's not difficult, but we should be honest and reliable and practical. He was introduced, and in this way, he was the first of the dozen people who went to Beijing with him to find a job that guaranteed food and shelter and a commission increase on the base salary. The opportunity is rare, so we must work hard. With loyalty to the boss, conscientiousness, responsibility and good communication skills, less than a year later, we helped the boss connect with the business from the beginning, until we mastered certain customer resources and had our own business volume. With some savings, he and his friends opened their first cooked food factory in Shenyang in 2003 and became the "boss". In the first half of the year, the business was good, but the good times were not long. With the continuous improvement of consumers' requirements for food quality, they did not have more money to invest in updating equipment. In addition, they did not agree with the partners, and the management of the company in all aspects was not in place. After only two years of persistence, the factory closed down and still owed a whole body of debt.
From hundreds of thousands of yuan of savings to hundreds of thousands of yuan of foreign debt, at the beginning, he really regretted it and was depressed, but soon, he adjusted his mind, cheered up, cleared up the debt, and after a friend introduced him to Zhengzhou, a blessed place in the Central Plains. After learning about the market, he decided to go back to selling. There was no rest day, only Bai Jiahei. With the tenacity of the children in the mountains, with an unyielding aggressiveness, and with a natural keen sense of business, he soon found some ways to sell in Zhengzhou. Although he was in debt, because he was trustworthy, kept his word and had excellent reputation, he got generous help from his friends and founded a win-win food trade shop in Erqi District, Zhengzhou City.
Effort pays off, adhering to the concept of honesty, down-to-earth work, and honest management. Then, Zhengzhou Tangweilong Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Yiyang Chaoyang Brothers Areca Factory and Zhumadian Tangweilong Food Trading Company were founded, and their business was flourishing in the Central Plains.
The wandering son misses his home. He has never forgotten that he is a child going out at the foot of Mufu Mountain, nor that he is a child growing up in the Miluo River; There is an eternal "logo" - Pingjiang people. While doing a good job in their own business, they have always been concerned about the dynamics of their hometown and their relatives. Every year, he comforts the elderly in the nursing home in his town, builds roads and bridges for the town and village, donates money and materials to the school, and helps families in special difficulties. In 2016, he also established Hunan Tangweilong Industrial Group Co., Ltd. in Pingjiang. He said that people always want to go home, and it's good to go home! The mountains and rivers of my hometown have nurtured me, and I should give back.
As he said at the 2nd Annual Food Safety Conference of Hunan Province and the Food Industry Cooperation and Development Forum of China (Pingjiang) Leisure Food Cultural Festival, "As a member of Pingjiang back to start a business, when I return home, I feel a sense of belonging, feel very warm, and deeply appreciate the love of the people in my hometown. I will definitely double the care of the people in my hometown, work steadfastly, be a sincere person, run an honest enterprise, and be an enterprise with a sense of social responsibility.".
He often said: "The road is long, and I will go up and down to seek.".
