The Silver Empire: &Nbsp; The Inheritance Of Shanxi Merchants' "Business Road" And "Commercial Morality"

The road never ends for hundreds of years.

The silver empire is not a simple history of family heritage, but a huge and magnificent historical epic.

According to the adaptation of Shanxi writer's Silver Valley, the film depicts the rise and fall of a family in the changing era through the growth and maturity of Kang's three masters.

A review of silver after Jin Merchants

The legendary life, the interpretation of family history, put the sight in the Kang family. Instead of the Qiao family, Wang family, canal family and Chang family we are familiar with, it is obvious that we should blur the family background and set up a family again. This family assemblage can fully represent the development history of Jin Merchants in a period of time.

The silver Empire reflects the ideological conflict in social change through the attitudes of the two generations of Kang family to traditional morality, commercial norms and value orientation.

The female role in the film is the most obvious example of the conflict between the old and the new cultures. Du Yunqing, representing the western culture, finally liberated herself from the traditional "husband power" in the East. She used her death to defend her resistance; while the three young masters with new ideas used their insistence to fight against the stubborn father for the patriarchal war, and finally the father with the power of "royal power" lowered his head in the new form.

In this rebellion and social pformation, no one is the ultimate winner, and scenes of joy or sadness have begun to bury the traditional "three principles".

In the process of fighting against the old style of rites, three young masters completed the family type evolution, which was born in the evolution of social change and completely buried the family business history.

The three young men in the movie said: "business is just a man, so he exchanged promises with 9 cellars of silver. This is not a good news in the family, but it was successful in life. In the end, even the Kang family owner said with relief," I used 9 cellars to exchange a son.

Here, the silver Empire has a conclusion for a family's helmsman. In this story of ups and downs and great happiness, his life has been sublimated.

The plot of Qiao family courtyard by Hu Mei has such a plot. The foreign enemy invaded and Shanxi merchants became the support of the state finance. Even social disasters, political asylum, disaster relief and rescue were all tied up with the big rich tycoons. Why? Business needed the state, and the state was also inseparable from commerce. When the storm Dynasty needed commerce to maintain its power, the merchants closely associated with the court became the pillar of the country, which also appeared in the film's extensive scene.

In the troubled times, the responsibility of the country's family begins to show prominence, and this responsibility begins with the run and trust crisis generated by the silver vote.

In the movie, the three young masters chose to be motivated rather than passive. When he was determined to exchange a promise with silver, a political Kingdom collapsed for hundreds of years, and the financial Kingdom accompanying him was also not spared. At the same time, he also destroyed the authority of the Kang family for many years and the accumulation of Kang family for a hundred years.

And the opening sentence is: "heaven and earth are really big, people are really small, how to get there". At this time, there is a direct answer, which also gives the true meaning of "business road".

Shanxi Merchants' "five no" rules

Speaking of the spirit of business creativity and the courage to practice, Shanxi merchants can be said to be China's first and the world's leading big business groups that began to implement the "industrial chain" operation, controlling production, technology, packaging, pportation and even capital flows in the internal and external trade.

At the same time, they are also good at "diversification" and are working hard to expand their business and fields.

Therefore, in 1823, "Shanxi Merchants" created a historic "vote line industry" with its talent and talent. This is the first financial exchange system with advanced management concepts in the world.

And they continue to develop and improve the "ticket industry", and continue to create the world's first.

The success of Shanxi merchants can be categorized into two parts: first, the righteousness is the word, the integrity is the first; two, the strict and scientific management system.

But after careful investigation, there were more doors and roads.

We should not be surprised at the innovation and scientificity of the new financial management system created by Shanxi merchants.

These are all involved in the silver empire.

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No need

No Shanxi people do not need it.

This is actually the first important principle for the Shanxi merchants to "manage" the number of votes. The finance ministers and managers must be separated from each other. They can be shareholders and can manage the bank numbers.

Basically, it can be understood as one of the legal systems of Shanxi Merchants Bank.

It must be Shanxi people, and there must be wealthy businessmen who have business with them to make recommendation guarantor. If this person has problems, they will directly affect the business and reputation of the sponsor.

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In the movie, Kang Lao always focuses on finding the right successor from his son, but in the eyes of "shopkeeper", he definitely looks out of the eyes and looks out from the outsiders.

This clear concept of personnel system is still in use today.

Two no

Probationary period is three years, and no job hopping for life.

Besides teaching you abacus, doing accounting and doing business, you need to conduct considerable moral education, as well as to learn martial arts fitness in films.

As for 3 years, outstanding people can gradually come out to be a treasurer, but not only can not quit job or part-time job, so they are very demanding on their professional loyalty.

It can be said that at that time, the famous shopkeeper in Shanxi was basically a professional manager with both ability and integrity.

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In the movie "silver Empire", the contradiction between Kang Lao and his three sons is not only reflected in his wife's occupation, but also in the differences of employing people.

But in the play, we can see that there is no fundamental conflict between the father and the son on this issue, because two people agree with one reason: we must select professional professionals who are red and expert, and such talents can be met without demand. Therefore, no matter how prudent it is, we must not be too careful.

Three quit

Money does not interfere with management, do not intervene in business, at the end of the year accounts, the loss is the owner of the business, making everyone's money.

This can be said to be the first Chinese business management system created by Shanxi people. Basically, it can be said to create a very advanced and terrible shareholding system -- unlimited liability shareholding system, that is to say, if the business owners encounter problems, even if they want to get their money out of their own homes, they should also compensate their customers.

At that time, in 1900, the eight nation allied forces entered Beijing, and the Shanxi vote number suffered heavy losses in the war. Not only was the bank number stolen, but also the books were burned. However, the Shanxi draft, headed by "RI Sheng Chang", decided that as long as the depositors took out the fold, no matter how large the amount was, they would immediately exchange money.

All these losses are borne by the owners.

As for making money, in addition to the profits made by the owners, the treasurers with important contributions, such as those who have served for many years and whose profits are ranked, can receive dividends according to their achievements.

Accounts and rewards follow the principle of fairness and justice.

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The movie fragment -- the super long abacus, accounts for dividends and a happy scene, is a scene that has been imprinted in the silver empire.

One of the details is that the family who committed a mistake has been held accountable and punished, but the dividends paid by the whole group still pay a lot of money. This is exactly the interpretation of the principle of "fairness and justice".

Four not allowed

The resident deacon is allowed to go home to visit his relatives once every three years, and he will never allow him to go to a house or concubine.

In a word, the so-called four is not allowed to be a rule for the foreign shopkeeper in the field. In accordance with the provisions of the Shanxi exchange number, the shopkeeper can go home for three years to visit relatives. No drinking or smoking, no prostitution, concubinage or wife's divorce is allowed. Therefore, in the shadow of the film, madam Kang can not marry, so the master must use his wife to die, so that he can marry a new wife.

In the movie, the shopkeeper hangs himself up in a brothel because of the fact that it is revealed. It is a full reflection of this system.

Such a system is almost harsh, and even makes people feel indifferent. But considering the background of that era, such regulations still have advantages outweigh disadvantages, and the law of mercy and mercy strengthens the moral self-restraint and the public opinion supervision function of social conventions.

Five do not do

Better to be an official in business than to make money, but not to a county magistrate.

Fifth not to do is not a rigid rule, but it reflects the great difference between Shanxi merchants and some other business associations, such as Hui merchants. Shanxi merchants are very pure businessmen. They also do business with the government and invest in the imperial court. Compared with the nine governors and Huguang governors at that time, Qiao family had a deep friendship with Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai.

But there are no businessmen in Shanxi who are going to take official careers with money.

There is a saying in Shanxi Folk: the dragon is the official, the shut up dragon is the businessman, the mouth shut person gains the benefit, is the commercial interest.

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A movie in which there was a plot in which the shopkeeper came up with money in the war to help his family to "move to Fujian". The plot had a real historical background. In Pingyao, "Zhang Qing", the chef of the Beijing branch, was informed in a chat that a Muslim banners wanted to win the position of general Fujian, and there was a shortage of 6 silver coins, so he immediately lent him.

Shortly afterwards, Mu Mou was indeed appointed as a senior official in Fujian. When he took office, he announced to local officials that he had to pay the full amount of private money in public funds.

So, wearing a shopkeeper to his employer, he promised to consult with the Fuzhou dignitaries, and to keep the tax and silver in the local area, and to deposit the capital of silver in the Department of the household, is definitely a matter of his ability, not a movie exaggeration.

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Honesty and morality in the silver Empire

In the "silver Empire", the Shanxi merchants said that they talked about honesty, and the number code was "sincerity to trust, righteousness to the sky". This is not the movie's deliberate beautification. In the past 500 years, the Shanxi Merchants in their commercial circles have always carried this belief.

The credibility of Shanxi Merchants is good because they know that good faith can bring more people's trust and gain benefits in larger business activities. Therefore, honesty is the most important prerequisite for business success.

But how can we maintain this kind of "good faith" in a long-term and effective way? We can say that Shanxi merchants are not just not as human beings as we think they are, but on the contrary, they have a deep understanding of human nature, so they will come up with such a series of advanced mechanisms from management to human selection to management.

Indeed, in the face of the financial crisis, every lost collective and individual are making new thinking and exploration, while the silver Empire, which is the protagonist of Shanxi merchants, provides the answer in the most accessible way.

As a result, the Chinese silver Empire has a new effect. It is even called "a textbook" that teaches you how to defuse the threat of financial crisis.

Contracts and moral "greed are good" under the financial crisis and Wall Street is in crisis. Then, the director of the silver Empire, Yao Shuhua, made a decision to shoot a film about "financial ethics".

It not only interpreted the "commercial hegemony culture" of Shanxi Merchants in 500 years, but also conveyed the financial supervision system, business philosophy and business ethics of Shanxi merchants to the financial sector.

Whether in business or business ethics, Shanxi merchants are a paragon of the global business community.

In my view, although the system design of Shanxi Merchants is far less than the policies and regulations of modern commercial society and the perfection of rules and regulations at different levels, Shanxi merchants have effectively restricted the practitioners through the internal rules and regulations of "rules and regulations" on the basis of "integrity and benevolence".

As a film, the silver empire can not and cannot shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving the global financial system. However, the film can at least serve as a mirror, so that we can see some problems from it so that we can always wake ourselves up.

There are salvation and Enlightenment in the film, and we have to reflect and examine the precious wealth left by Shanxi merchants.