What Is Chinese Business Road?

Business way from Confucianism

In the spring and Autumn period, the most common couplets of businessmen were: Tao Zhu career, Duan wood career.

Tao Zhu and Duan Mu are two key figures in the origin of Chinese business.

As we all know, Tao Zhu Gong is Fan Li, who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam and Wei state. He resigned himself as a prime minister after the resignation of his official title. He was a businessman in Shandong.

But Duan's business and people are rarely known. Duan is a compound surname. The single name is Confucius Gong Sheng Gong, who twice served as prime minister and later became rich by business.

In the Analects of Confucius, Confucius nominated the most Yan Hui, followed by Zigong or Duan mu.

Confucius said, "if you are not given orders, then the value of the goods will be repeated.

Good waste, when the value of the pfer, the family is in great trouble.

It is said that the value of Zigong is calculated at purchasing power parity, which is higher than that of Li Jiacheng, the richest Asian today.

In ancient prose, "guess" is the prediction. "Abolishing" is buying and selling. Why does Zigong follow Confucius? Why do I think "repeatedly"? I think it is because Zigong follows Confucius to travel around the country. Wherever he goes, he sees all the nobles and nobles, so he can know which country and country are going to fight in advance.

In the early days, the grain and grass were sold in the war between the two countries. After the war, Zigong knew in advance that the nobles and the nobles of the defeated country fled to where they were waiting for food and gold and silver, and this was "loss of state assets". If the ruler of the defeated country restored their country, Zigong went to the door and asked for money.

In the era of insufficient information flow, Zigong is good at making profits by information, and using Confucius as the "information terminal", can be called the ancestor of Chinese investors.

Zi Gong relied on Confucius to get information and become rich, and he was apprentice under Confucius's door. From then on, the merchants went from Confucianism to city, and this was "Duanmu career". Even Lao Tzu once said to Confucius, "if a good family is hidden, it will be empty."

In the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ye Shi, the representative of the Yongjia school, shared with the Confucianists the mercantilist theory of "deeds of merit". At one point, he was tied with Zhu Xi's Neo Confucianism and Lu Jiuyuan's mind as "three saints".

This is a short time when Shang Dao returned to the orthodox school of Chinese learning in China, but it was soon squeezed out by Zhu Xi's Neo Confucianism.

Since then, until Deng Xiaoping changed China with "development is the absolute principle", Shang Dao has entered the orthodox Sinology once again in China.

Disadvantages of small profits

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The culture of "people-oriented" and "heavy benefit" has spread to China. It should be popular among the people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In a few university's training courses recommended by the Ming Dynasty, there was a nameless name in the Qing Dynasty: "anyone who is good at Jia must have broad knowledge."

This sentence embodies the universal value of modern commercial way, that is, intelligence, wisdom and faith.

Businessmen do not talk about business, such as women do not observe women's way, seemingly elegant but contrary to integrity and dislike.

It is bound to be complacent and not innovative if we do not pursue profits for business.

Businesses with small profits and quick profits are always willing to sweat and sweat factories because they are always facing losses.

Since ancient times, the Chinese commercial road has advocated "deep hiding", so it repels the openness and pparency of modern business.

There are two characteristics of Chinese commercial road: one is small profits, the other is deep. The source may be Tao Zhu Gong's "one advantage" and Duan Mu's "deep conceit".

In my view, this is the limitation and hypocrisy of Chinese business. Therefore, it is hard to support the expansion of enterprises' scale and the growth of innovation.