The History Of Paris'S War Of Leather Bag Merchants In Wenzhou

A 17 year old Wenzhou man who broke into Paris and started to survive under the pressure of survival and prosperity became frustrated and finally became a successful businessman.

His story is the epitome of 150 thousand Wen Shang's survival in Paris.

Cai Liangyong has been swinging in China in the past two years.

Wherever he goes, the first place he goes is always the local electronic product market.

This has become a habit he has developed over the years.

He is 42 years old and has a lion nose and a loyal face. He always walks with his head down in a crowded street.

It's hard for ordinary people to think that he is a Wenzhou businessman who has been in Paris for 25 years. He also owns his own factory, a large number of joint ventures, and invests in the real estate industry.

His complicated experience in Paris made him feel uneasy about fate.

On a recent day, he met a mysterious fortune teller in Paris.

The fortune teller was once a businessman in the business world. He went bankrupt one day and studied divination.

He solemnly told Cai Liangyong two secrets: People's wealth and wealth were predestined, and there were windfalls in your life.

I believe all two things.

Cai Liangyong grinned.

He always stare at your eyes when he laughs. He laughs with his body silently and persistently until he confirms that his happy information has arrived in your perception system.

But 20 years ago, he would never have had such a smile.

"At that time, the streets of Paris were always foggy, and could not be seen far away; when people walked, they were light and flustered.

He recalled.

There is no sunshine in heaven. Cai Liangyong's idea of going to France 25 years ago is entirely due to the agitation and temptation of his fellow countrymen.

He was only 17 years old and worked in a construction company in Wenzhou.

At that time, only 150 thousand people in Wenzhou, Paris, had been sent back by postmen, so that he could not feel at ease.

In 1982, he finally persuaded his parents to scrape their tickets to Paris.

The first time he flew to Paris, he was still nervous and excited. He still had a fresh look in his mind. He said that he still flew around in two places every year, but he had no feeling at all. But what he did not think of was that the long poor days began formally from the moment he left the plane.

In the first year of his arrival, he did not see the "heaven" in his imagination, not even the sun in Paris.

He sat in the dark leather bag factory of his relatives, looking at the scissors, ropes and glue, and finally found the cruelty of reality.

He has also been carrying on the same task as all overseas Wenzhou people.

"My youth is spent in anguish."

Emaciated Cai Liangyong had never touched a car wearing machine before, and could not stand the trouble of working day and night.

His work is of poor quality and slow speed, which makes it impossible for the relatives of the boss to be satisfied.

After all, relatives sent him abroad to arrange for him to enter the factory, which also calculated the cost.

After a year, he said goodbye to the leather bag factory.

First, he borrowed other people's tailoring machine, and asked other villagers to borrow some leather, and he designed a bag and sold it to the street.

But no one bought it at all, so he had to go to the grocery store to sell it.

A boss in Phnom Penh arrived at his hard job. He accepted the bag and paid several francs.

"Out of the shop, I went straight to a food store, bought a pack of Hawthorn slices, and jumped on the road."

This is the first business he made in Paris.

There were no more pactions in the future.

But his wallet dreams soon failed, and the next package he did was nobody.

The pressure of rent and living expenses forced him to turn around in the street.

He first discovered a French clothing factory and ran there to sew clothes, but he was not born to trample on the machine, and he was all thumbs for a few days and was driven away by the boss.

Fortunately, the French Frenchman still gave him 50 francs (a week's salary).

He later found a Phnom Penh factory. Luckily he met the two sisters, Da Ling and Xiaoling, who were workmates. Although the two girls had good skills, they shared the same illness with him. They tried to protect him.

A month later, the boss saw that CAI was in a bad job and wanted to catch him away. The two sisters came forward and threatened to quit their jobs.

The boss had no choice but to stay half a year.

The two sisters happily took him to the dance hall to celebrate. But when he got to the subway, he was embarrassed to stop. Even the money in his pocket was not enough to buy a subway ticket.

Cai Liangyong found that there are many home made garments factories in Paris, so we all need to have work lunch boxes.

So he volunteered himself with his bosses, saying that he was a chef from home and could provide dinner.

Every night when he goes to someone else's clothing factory to deliver vegetables, he is full of energy to tell others that he is driving.

Then, out of the factory gate, when the man did not pay attention, he took a turn and jumped on the bus and went home.

Unfortunately, after a week, the dishes he cooked were tasteless and could not produce any new tricks. He was soon exposed the truth.

I had to face the embarrassment of unemployment again.

Yang Jing: editor in charge