Did you send the article to Tao Zhugong?
Tao Zhugong is the author of "Twelve Laws on Financial Management in Tao Zhugong" (possibly entrusted by later generations), which reads as follows:
Knowing people: knowing people's good and evil, not looking at their eyes.
Can use people: because money is convenient, you can rely on everything.
Know the timing: make good use of time, no loss.
Ability to advocate speed: practice according to speed, and perception is spontaneous.
Rectifiable: the goods are neat and attractive.
Be agile: He who hesitates will never achieve anything until he is old.
Acceptable: propriety and righteousness intersect, and there are many customers.
Can work with peace of mind: abandoning the old and welcoming the new, businessmen are seriously ill.
Arguable: the way to make money, open its machine.
Can handle goods: random purchase, greater profits.
Can collect accounts: diligent but not lazy, demanding more.
Repayable account: how many times, count it.
According to Tao Zhugong's business thought, Tao Zhugong Business Classic, also known as Tao Zhugong Business Classic, Tao Zhugong Business Training and Eighteen Business Classics of Tao Zhugong, is still circulating in Dingtao area. Tao Zhugong's business is as follows:
Be diligent and not lazy in business.
Spend money frugally, and use up extravagant money.
There are many ambiguities and controversies about the certified price.
The credit of the witness, the debt of excessive blood loss.
The goods should be inspected face to face, and the price should be reduced if the quality exceeds the standard.
Be careful when dealing with each other, and there are many scribble mistakes.
It is difficult to entrust a square face to others.
The advantages and disadvantages should be subdivided, and confusion consumes a lot.
The goods need to be corrected, so it is difficult to inspect them casually.
The deadline should be agreed, sloppy and untrustworthy.
Buy and sell at any time, delay the opportunity.
Be careful with your money, you will get sick when you are confused.
Do your duty in times of trouble and trust great harm.
Accounts should be audited and capital stagnation should be slowed down.
Acceptance should be moderate, and violent transactions are rare.
The main heart should be quiet, and many things go wrong.
Speak according to the rules, and there are many impetuous accidents.
Work should be meticulous, rough and inferior.
It is inevitable that feudal historians will not tolerate Fan Li.
-Read Liu Zudian's new work "Shang Sheng Fan Li Resigned to Do Business"
Zhou Daxin
As a historical figure, Fan Li has always been concerned by historians of past dynasties. As a Nanyang person, Fan Li has always been concerned by us Nanyang people. However, before I got Liu Zudian's Examination of Shang Sheng Fan Li's Resignation and Business, my understanding of Fan Li was superficial and even inaccurate. After reading this book, I feel suddenly enlightened. I have a comprehensive understanding of Fan Li's historical facts and an accurate grasp of many suspicious stories, which has benefited me a lot.
Fan Li was a famous politician, strategist and outstanding businessman during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He is known as "a good minister of governing the country, a wizard of military strategists and the ancestor of businessmen". After becoming famous, he retired heroically and met the sage Si Qi, setting an example for people in the official field. He not only made contributions to North Korea, but also died in battle, and was regarded as a model by later officials. He resigned from his post three times and went to sea, setting an example for later businessmen to get rich quickly, and was honored as "Shang Sheng" by businessmen of all ages. But at that time, his "resignation to the sea" was not respected by the mainstream society, and even violated the mainstream thought of feudal society. China's feudal culture emphasized that ministers must be "loyal", but Fan Li saw that Gou Jian was sinister and diabolical, and "dismissed" the king as soon as he shook his sleeves, which was really unacceptable to feudal moral historians. Most feudal societies in China praised poor hermits, but after Fan Li resigned, he went into business and became a business tycoon. He is "not poor" and "chaotic", and he is naturally a villain in the feudal society of China, which values agriculture over commerce. More importantly, he also escaped from the king's concubine stone and made him go hand in hand, which made ancient historians sneer at him. Therefore, Fan Li's achievements in the political, military and economic fields are not inferior to those of hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin period, but they are rarely recorded in the official history.
In recent years, in the voice of people's doubts, the noble sentiments shown in the rescue have been rudely denied, and the superb business philosophy created after leaving office has also been ignored for a long time. Even the ending of history and the ancestral home have become controversial issues. Seeing that his compatriot Fan Li was teased and attacked by some people, Liu Zudian felt that he had the responsibility and obligation to clarify Fan Li's historical textual research. Therefore, he dabbled in relevant historical materials assiduously and extensively, and wrote this book with perseverance and perseverance.
In the book, the author quotes a large number of ancient historical materials, and makes an irrefutable textual research on his skill of governing the country, business philosophy, spiritual sentiment, ideological realm and the ending of harmony. Based on the historical background at that time, this paper makes textual research on Fan Li's resignation, sailing, business, descendants, cemetery, ancestral home, spirit and value, introduces his life story, and discusses his political, military and economic achievements. With his own strategy and wisdom, he helped Gou Jian, the king of Yue, prosper and destroy the State of Wu. After becoming famous, he changed his role, abandoned his official position and went into business in agriculture. With his concern for society and people, he contributed to economic development and commercial prosperity, showed his love for society, embodied the philosophy of life in which Confucianism and Taoism complemented each other, and showed Fan Li's broad mind and lofty ideological realm.
In the book, the author not only quotes classics, but also reproduces the life scenes at that time with vivid language, and describes many touching stories with interesting brushstrokes, so that readers not only increase their knowledge, but also are infected by art and appreciate the charm of language and words. In particular, the love story he wrote about history is full of twists and turns, fluent in language, touching and fascinating.
Although Fan Li was an ancient man more than 2000 years ago, there are many shining places in his thoughts, which are worthy of further study. As a generation of business sage, Fan Li's business thought is very rich, which has certain reference significance for developing economy today. Carrying forward Fan Li's excellent thought is helpful to promote social civilization and social progress. Therefore, it is a good thing that Liu Zudian wrote this academic, knowledgeable, knowledgeable and literary historical work. I believe this book is of reference value to Fan Li's cultural studies.
Appreciating this heavy manuscript and solid text, I am sincerely happy that Zudian has achieved such a fruitful harvest!
(The author is the executive director of the Chinese Writers Association, a famous military writer and the winner of the 7th Mao Dun Literature Prize. )