Lu Yao's Sun Shao'an, who began to do farm work at the age of 6, dropped out of school at the age of 13 and began to help his father support this fragmented family, and at the age of 18, he was elected as the captain of the production team with his "shrewd and capable, not afraid of hardship" and became a "capable person" in Shuangshui Village. After the implementation of the responsibility system, he called for group farming, and built a brick kiln in the village, and after many losses and failures, Shao'an finally succeeded in getting rich, and finally Sun Shao'an built a school for Shuangshui Village.
In that era of extreme lack of resources, why did Shao'an succeed after failure?
Sun Shaoan himself has a flexible mind, and he dares to think and do. And he seized the opportunity.
At that time, the former Xixian Primary School wanted to expand its classrooms and needed to pull bricks, and Liu Genmin, a commune cadre, found Sun Shaoan and asked him if he could do this job. Sun Shaoan was very hesitant at first, because he couldn't pull many bricks by manpower, and he couldn't pull a lot with livestock, but he didn't, and it would take 1,000 yuan to buy one.
1000 yuan is undoubtedly a huge amount of money, Liu Genmin helped him find a way to borrow 700 yuan, and when he went home, Sun Shaoan told his family that his wife Xiulian borrowed 400 from her mother's family, and Shaoan went to Shanxi to buy a three-year-old mussel mule for 990 yuan.
And just like that, the days of pulling bricks began. In addition to pulling bricks, he also learned the craft from his master, which laid the foundation for him to open a brick kiln in the future.
A few months later, Shao'an's money for bricks was settled, in addition to repaying the loan and interest, as well as the money of his father-in-law's family, there were 2,000 yuan left in his hand, two thousand yuan, which was a huge amount of money for Shao'an, or he earned it with hard work.
In addition, there was also the mule that sold for 1,500 yuan, which is equivalent to the mule earning 500 yuan, a total of 2,500 yuan, Sun Shaoan was very excited at that time. After the package delivery was implemented at home, he was more confident that he could live a good life.
When Sun Shaoan was pulling bricks in the city, he saw that bricks and tiles have always been in short supply of materials in construction, and they can be sold as much as they want.
Shao'an went home and decided to open a brick kiln, he asked his father's opinion, and his father said that he would let him make up his own mind. In this way, Shao'an invested all the 2,500 yuan he earned into the brick factory, and Xiulian also had a trouble with Shao'an, because Xiulian wanted to take a new cave. But Xiulian was still persuaded by Shao'an.
In this way, the whole family went out and built a brick-fired kiln in nearly half a month. In more than a month, Sun Shaoan's brick kiln produced four kiln bricks. One kiln brick is 7,000 bricks, four kiln bricks are 28,000 bricks, in addition to taxes, each brick net income of two cents and five miles, a month, a family is about 700 yuan.
This made Sun Shaoan rise to the first eye-catching figure in Shuangshui Village. Sun Shao'an's success in starting his first business is inseparable from his family's support and unconditional trust. It is also inseparable from his own vision and shrewd mind.
At the commendation meeting of the "presumptuous households" elected by various communes, Sun Shaoan met Hu Yonghe, who made his fortune in transportation, Hu Yonghe has been running transportation all the year round, has a wide range of contacts and many resources.
Sun Shaoan was stimulated by Hu Yonghe and thought that he was a fake. After returning home, he secretly made up his mind to expand production and become a real "top farmer". He bought a big brick making machine. He also invited a Henan master with "two knives" to burn bricks.
As a result, this Henan master would not burn bricks, and the first batch of bricks was burned out, and Sun Shaoan could not deliver the bricks according to the contract, and later it was Hu Yonghe who helped Sun Shaoan through this difficulty.
But Sun Shaoan also went bankrupt because of this, he sold the brick-making machine, and borrowed 1,000 yuan from Xiulian's brother-in-law and sent it to the villagers.
Sun Shao'an met Hu Yonghe again, he was already a farmer entrepreneur, heard about Sun Shao'an's situation, so he helped him borrow 3,000 yuan from a friend's bank, Sun Yuhou gave Sun Shaoan another 1,000 yuan, Sun Shaoan had this 4,000 yuan, and his brick factory had hope again. He found the original brick master and studied hard with him, so that he could get started in case the master was not there.
After the first bricks came out of the kiln, they quickly sold out, and he paid off everyone's money. At the end of 1983, Sun Shaoan had repaid two large bank loans.
Sun Shaoan's final success is actually what he should be most grateful for is Xiulian, Xiulian is a virtuous helper who knows the general and does not dislike the poor and loves the rich, Sun Shaoan will never admit defeat in the face of difficulties, and he has always had a spirit of perseverance. He has always believed that as long as you don't give up, there will be hope.
This book is like a magnificent epic, condensing the majestic social symphony, broad human mind, brilliant life color and rich and solid suffering heritage, the thick and solid life suffering of the older generation, the romantic and magnificent life imagination and vigorous action ability of young people, and the life thinking obtained from life, which has achieved such a magnificent and majestic text like the Loess Plateau and the magnificent and majestic river.
The protagonist Sun Shaoping is a poor rural youth, but he is also a knowledgeable rural youth. Be pragmatic and have the courage to follow the call of the spirit. Whether it is the high school life of eating sorghum buns and drinking leftover vegetable soup, or the life of a farmer who works in the field, or even the life of a part-time worker after leaving the land, Sun Shaoping has a high-spirited arrogance and a reserved soul, and has experienced all kinds of hardships that ordinary people cannot imagine, and he has grown up in suffering.
Every kind of suffering is so tormenting, Sun Shaoping not only does not avoid them, but takes the initiative to go to them. This poor boy has gained valuable spiritual values, worries about the world, and is self-reliant. At every stage of his growth and growth, the advice he received came from books, which broadened his horizons and his suffering.
Just like the author Lu Yao said,Ordinary world, ordinary people, ordinary life. We can't get lost in the ordinary life, behind the ordinary there is passion, the ideological is willing to be mediocre, and the person who is content with the status quo in life is the real ordinary. The meaning of life lies in the fact that you can create the beauty and wonder of this process, and the value of life lies in the fact that you can calmly and excitedly appreciate the beauty and tragedy of this process. Believe in yourself, ordinary you can create an extraordinary life in an ordinary world.
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