When people are tracing why Xu Jiayin went from a poor rural farmer to become the richest man in China and even the king of real estate in the world, his career path is amazing. But in fact, Xu Jiayin has shown his talent for business since he was a child: he has sold vinegar, resold saplings and coal, and made a round trip in the "business sea" at a young age. This experience also determined the fate of his later life.
Xu Jiayin was born on October 9, 1958 in Jutaigang Village, Gaoxian Township, Taikang County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, which is a barren Yellow Flood Area. His father, Xu Xiangao, joined the guerrillas led by the Eighth Route Army as a young man, participated in some peripheral battles, and was wounded in a battle in 1946, unable to remain in the army, and later returned to his hometown to continue farming.
Xu Xiangao has been married twice. His ex-wife gave birth to a daughter for him and died, and his wife brought him a son born to her ex-husband, and then gave birth to a son Xu Jiayin for him. In this way, Xu Xiangao's three children are not siblings.
When Xu Jiayin was more than a year old. My mother died of septicaemia.
After the death of Xu Jiayin's mother, life at home became even more difficult. The three children are still young, their father Xu Xiangao was injured and lost their ability to work, and their grandmother is small and cannot work in the fields. For this reason, their family is the poorest in the village. According to Xu Jiayin's own words, he grew up wearing revealing clothes, and when he went to school, he spent his life hungry with moldy sweet potato cakes on his back.
As people say: "If you are poor, you will think about change", and "The children of the poor will be in charge of the house early". In order to be able to change the fate of his life and to be able to get ahead, Xu Jiayin has had the tempering of "doing business" since he was a child.
Although Xu Jiayin's grandmother was small-footed and could not work in the fields, she could make vinegar, which was the only livelihood of the family at that time. In order to be able to sell it, Xu Jiayin and his half-brother Xu Jiaqin looked at the vinegar made by his grandmother at a young age, went to the village to visit households, and sold it along the village. Whether it's a hot summer or a winter with ice and snow, it never stops. Later, when he went to school, he used holidays and Sundays to come out to sell in order to earn some tuition and subsidize his family.
In this process, Xu Jiayin has endured countless hardships, I don't know how many times he has fallen, how many times he has been drenched in rain and snow, how many times he has been bullied by children, and I don't know how many times he has been bitten by dogs. But Xu Jiayin endured it because he had to live tenaciously.
In the seventies, the state advocated afforestation, and afforestation movements arose in various places. At that time, saplings were in short supply, and ** was also high. Xu Jiayin keenly spotted this business opportunity. Although he was still in school at the time, he used his spare time and holidays to ask for information about saplings, and then turned them upside down and sold them to where they were needed. At that time, the organized units in the countryside were production brigades and production teams, but Xu Jiayin had already learned to negotiate and trade with the leaders of these production units.
In 1975, Xu Jiayin returned to his hometown after graduating from high school, he was reluctant to work in the fields, and he was bent on finding a way to make money. When he found out that coal was in short supply at that time, he immediately threw himself into the business of pouring coal. He pulled a cart of coal from Pingdingshan, a hundred kilometers away, and sold it out as soon as he returned.
In this process, Xu Jiayin also suffered a lot, he basically slept in the open air, couldn't afford to enter the restaurant on the way, he took the stove, went to **cooked, and slept anywhere at night.
What's even more dangerous is that it was not allowed to transport coal without permission at that time. In order to avoid the blows, Xu Jiayin often acted at night, and on several occasions because it was dark or the road was slippery, causing the car to overturn and almost die, he climbed out from under the overturned coal pile and limped on.
Xu Jiayin's "reselling" business did not stop until the end of 1977. At this time, the country resumed the college entrance examination after the "Cultural Revolution", and Xu Jiayin was overjoyed. Because the college entrance examination is the only way for Xu Jiayin, who has a high eye and a long heart, to jump out of the farm.
For this reason, Xu Jiayin put down his "reselling" business, studied hard, and finally in the second year, with the third place in Zhoukou City, he was admitted to Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute, which is now Wuhan University of Science and Technology.
Xu Jiayin finally walked out of the farm at the age of 20. But this period of his life in his hometown has left a deep imprint on his later life, or it has determined the direction of his life
Xu Jiayin's hard-working spirit, as well as his ability to adapt to changes and seize opportunities, enabled him to seize the God-given opportunity of real estate development in time, become the king of real estate in the world, become the richest man in China, and let him embark on a brilliant life.
However, in the "business" that Xu Jiayin has been engaged in since he was a child, and the rhetoric and exquisite "flickering" talents he learned have made him the world's first fraudster, which has discredited him.
Also, Xu Jiayin has been bent on getting ahead since he was a child, which made him ostentatious, flashy and extravagant, and extravagant, and finally became riddled with huge debts and went to prison.
For this reason, it is said that the experience of life can determine the direction of life. Xu Jiayin's life experience is exactly like this: his childhood experience is the starting point of his brilliant life, and it becomes the end of his life's destruction.