Factory closures, business closures, and industry thunderstorms. In the past few years, or in the next few years, everyone is going through a tough time.

Original Nanyang Rich Business Nanyang Rich Business Yesterday

#1

The epidemic in India has suddenly soared. The crematorium was overcrowded. People did it themselves, cremating their dead relatives with firewood.

Indians are different from other people.

Even though experts have repeatedly reminded them of the dangers of gatherings, even though Indian police often chase and beat citizens who violate the ban without wearing masks at parties, even if they see many people die, they still hold hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. People's traditional holiday party.

No matter how many people remind Indians that the Ganges water is full of bacteria, it cannot stop Indians from loving the Ganges water.

The Spanish flu of 1918 killed the most people in India. In that outbreak, India killed 17 million people, accounting for 5% of the country's total population.

When the U.S. epidemic was spreading, international experts were not worried about the United States. They were most worried about India. Whether the global epidemic can be brought under control, and when the world will restart, the key lies not in the United States, but in India.

The experts' predictions were right.

#2

I have a foreign trade friend named Murong Yi, who is a pessimist. He was so pessimistic that he no longer cared about the epidemic.

He believes that the world cannot be restarted, and the days when one can travel around the world with a passport are gone forever. In the days to come, depressions will be the norm.

What brought difficulties to Murong Yi was not only the difficulties in international trade, but also the impact of new local policies.

The area where his factory is located is a tourist spot. Perhaps a small manufacturing company like him is not suitable for introduction. The current saying is that "there is no need to keep small businesses below 20 million."

20000000. The total assets of a factory are less than three houses in Shenzhen, of course it is a small factory.

This is the state of Murong Yi's factory. I don't know how many other employees he has, maybe a dozen, maybe seven or eight. Sometimes there is a shortage of mold workers in the workshop, so he himself has to go to the workshop at two in the morning to repair the molds and adjust the machines.

His products are nothing fancy. It is a one-time cheap sunglasses, the ex-factory price is more than 1 yuan.

Although the product is small, the profit is okay, and you can earn 20 cents for a pair of glasses.

A few years ago, he had to move the factory from the city to the island. Now he has to find a new foothold, perhaps moving to Taizhou. But he thinks it will not last long, and Taizhou may also let small factories move out or merge in a few months.

In the eyes of those tall people, this kind of 1 yuan a pair of sunglasses is really unpopular.

Financial commentators will say a lot of hard truths: the industry needs to be upgraded, the foundry industry needs to learn marketing, and more importantly, it needs to build its own brand.

They would point out what mistakes Murong Yi made one by one.

Murong Yi's level is much higher than those of financial reporters. He will never be stupid enough to build his own brand, nor will he give up his field to engage in industrial upgrading.

Whether it is financial and foreign trade knowledge, management ability, insight into the situation, or IQ, Murong Yi is far superior to those writers who write financial reviews.

Murong Yi was born in a family of martial arts. He often posted videos of wielding Miao Dao, Double Dao and Iron Ruler in his circle of friends. His office is a cold weapon training hall.

#3

In the eyes of the local government, Murong Yi is only the owner of a small workshop, and his contribution to the local finances can be ignored.

However, a few years ago, Murong Yi still had several factories. In addition to the glasses factory, there is also a luggage factory, which produces a large number of soft luggage and hard luggage, all of which are large factories with hundreds of people.

Why don't you do it? Murong Yi said: "My soft bag business was taken away by the Taiwanese, and my hard bag business was taken away by the Dutch. If it was a high-end product, I would recognize it too, but it was a 40-yuan hard case suitcase. , 30 yuan a soft-shell suitcase. If the Vietnamese, Indian, and Mexican are stealing my business, I have nothing to say, but they do it in high-wage areas like Taiwan and the Netherlands, and it costs more than I do in Mainland China is still lower. ”

Various factors make the cost of manufacturing higher and higher. The price advantage of Chinese manufacturing may be fading away.

Murong Yi talked about the predicament he encountered at the beginning, because he owed a lot of debts to suppliers and could not pay wages for several months. Once he encountered a few local snakes who were domineering and provocative, so he had a fight, showed off his martial arts, and was invited to the police station.

When he was detained at the police station, 200 workers went to the police station to ask the police for someone. The worker said: Your police have taken the boss away. Who wants the salary that you owe us for a few months? Don't let him out, we won't go.

Later, those local snakes were polite to Murong Yi. They think that there are 200 followers who go to the police station to ask for people, and they are definitely awesome people.

When Murong Yi was in debt, there were also some executives with extremely high salaries. If they didn't get paid, they went to the underworld and threatened to kidnap their family members. In those days, Murong Yi slept on the sofa in the living room at night, guarding his family, holding a sharp Miao knife, always vigilant.

Employees will not share weal and woe with the company. When companies are booming, they take high salaries for granted. In times of business downturn, they still count on high salaries. If you can't get it, you will report it to the labor department. Not just reporting unpaid wages, but something else. The most extreme is to find the underworld to blackmail the boss.

This is a fact.

Maybe you've been angry that your employees were underpaid. But few are outraged that bosses encounter ungrateful employees.

Ten years ago, the Murong family used to be very prosperous. There were a lot of large enterprises in different fields of glasses, luggage, building materials and real estate industries. Home", "Distinguished Alumni of xx School".

His third uncle once represented China's glasses industry and launched an anti-dumping case against South American countries, winning a big victory and making a sensation.

After 2011, in just a few years, the entire family business declined rapidly. Go abroad, go abroad, give up give up.

It's not that the boss doesn't work hard, and people can never fight the situation.

Nowadays, when local supervisors suggest that small factories like Murong Yi with "less than 20 million yuan" get out of the way, they may not know that Murong Yi was once a "Wenzhou Outstanding Young Entrepreneur".

#4

When the business of the Murong Yi family was in decline, one of my old classmates, Lao Chen, was also in decline. In the 2017 alumni reunion, he said that he has not earned a penny for 6 years, and he is losing money every year, all relying on the money he earned six years ago.

He is in the auto parts business. Many auto factories owe debts, relinquish their debts, or swear that they will use your spare parts. When you spend a lot of money to develop them, make molds, and buy equipment, you find that the other party has said the same thing to many auto parts factories, and then ask you to lower prices for each other and everyone. No money to make.

Those famous brands may have created good products for consumers, but to these auto parts factories, they are unblinking guys.

The new labor law, five insurances and one housing fund, rising prices, and environmental protection storms have made his business even worse.

"Big demolition, big renovation, big building big beauty", he first demolished the shed he built, saying it was an illegal construction. Then there is the demolition of the entire factory, because the planning has changed, and all these low-tech small factories have to be relocated.

This relocation is a cross-county. Old employees can't be retained, technicians can't be recruited, and cooperative manufacturers are moved to various places. After restarting, customers and business have been lost.

I don't know how he has been in the past few years, so I don't dare to ask. In today's epidemic era, it should be even worse than before.

Maybe the money he earned in the past can be supported for a few more years, after all, he is not willing to close his life like this. Perhaps he suddenly became disheartened and did not want to hold on any longer, so he closed the factory.

But I felt that it was impossible, and it was very difficult to close the factory. If you've been in manufacturing, you know how hard it is to shut down a factory.

After the family members went abroad one by one, Murong Yi took over those businesses one by one and closed them down one by one. Now, his ideal is to completely shut down his last factory one day.

Maybe they were lucky too. Murong's third uncle, a former industry leader and the permanent honorary chairman of the National Industry Association, has been dead for nine years. Newspapers say it was a heart attack, and folks say it was forced to hang herself. In their family, it is said that there are more than one person who committed suicide by hanging.

One of my high school classmates also committed suicide by hanging. I can't remember how many years he killed himself, maybe 9 years, maybe 8 years.

#5

While Murong Yi and Lao Chen's industries were declining, some industries were surprisingly good.

At that time, there were people talking about entrepreneurship and investment in every coffee shop in Shanghai and Beijing. There are many entrepreneurs on the subway begging you to scan the QR code to download their APP.

My friend K is a rich second generation. His father's net worth is one percent of Jack Ma's. A few years ago, he decided to quit the industry due to a sudden incident.

In the tide of entrepreneurship with capital everywhere, K resolutely dropped out of school, suspended his doctoral career, and became an entrepreneur. Different from others, first of all, he opened an entrepreneurial coffee shop and an investment salon, serving investors and entrepreneurs, and met many investors and entrepreneurs.

He started his own business several times in a row, attracted several investors, then closed down again and again, and started again and again.

He has not been successful recently, and not long ago his business hit a certain minefield with many difficulties.

I wanted to ask him how he was doing, but after thinking about it, he stopped asking. Recently, the remedial education industry is being rectified, and giants such as Xueersi and Yuanfudao have been severely criticized and rectified for "marketing at below cost prices". This kind of small tutoring should not be much better.

A few years ago, when colorful shared bicycles filled the streets and alleys, one of my fellow villagers, L, started a business with great success. He stood out from countless competing products, and raised several million dollars in investment and more than 40 million in investment. The office has been relocated again and again, and the shared space of INNOSPACE has occupied an entire floor of the office building. There is even a gym and cafe.

I asked L why he needed such a large office, an Internet company with 60 people doesn't seem to need such a large office. He said: To leave room for future development.

At that time, the company was thriving, and the goal was to become a large company with hundreds of people, and it might even grow to the size of Zhihu.

L's brightest moment is to become a student of Ivy League University together with a large number of outstanding young entrepreneurs.

At that time, there were more than countless p2p enterprises, like mushrooms after a rain. You will receive a text message on your mobile phone every three days, telling you about an excellent investment opportunity.

Thousands of regiments fought, and everyone threw money crazy for subsidies. Finally, a company called Meituan stood out from the crowd.

Didi Taxi was already the boss, but suddenly another Uber came. They threw money like bombs, beat them to death, and suddenly became a family.

A few years later, L's company did not become another Zhihu. Instead, offices are moved again and again. Moved from an office occupying one floor to an old building, the staff has been reduced one by one, and now it is moved to a new location. It is said that the number of employees has returned to the scale of the start-up era.

In an age that is not suitable for writing, any kind of literary youth feelings are weak.

According to several friends of Zhihu.com, Zhihu didn’t make any money either and lost money every year.

#6

I haven't seen a former beauty friend x for years. She is a rare and capable woman.

Her fate is to earn money alone to pay off the debts of the whole family.

Her family used to have no shortage of money. The whole family is not lazy.

Her sister worked hard to represent a famous cosmetics brand, but she didn't make any money for a few years, maybe she was in debt.

Her parents believed that there was a mysterious legacy buried by the Kuomintang, and they raised a lot of money and were defrauded. Although they may not believe in being cheated until now.

Her brother's job was to collect debts. Later, her brother was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, illegal restriction of personal freedom, and perhaps underworld charges.

The family sold the house to reduce the risk of jail time.

Later, her brother was released from prison and had nothing to do. He took drugs and was arrested again and again. And because of drug addiction, he fell ill with organ failure and spent a lot of money, but he couldn't save it in the end.

x is a travel agency. I dare not ask her how her business is going. Travel agencies in the epidemic era can be imagined, whether they are international or domestic.

Many years ago, I said when she opened a self-guided tour to India, I went to play with the group a few times, and had enough of India. But now India is probably impossible to go to.

I also dare not ask her if her parents are still alive. If he is still alive, he may be defrauded of a lot of money by those p2p.

I know that she is working very hard, and she always keeps borrowing money, borrowing from the owner and returning it to the west, so that she can barely survive. It is not known whether her employees will be paid on time each month. Being a tour guide in a travel agency is not so easy. There is a tour guide who has just graduated from college. She cried all day on her first day at work. Because of various obscene language and sexual harassment from a few greasy middle-aged people on the tour bus, she could not accept such a working environment at all. , and this is what every Girl Guide has to face.

I know many tourists will scold the black-hearted tour guides for always cheating them to buy things and then get kickbacks themselves, but few people know how much sexual harassment those tour guides have endured.

Nowadays, those shops that are trapping tourists are also deserted, and there is almost no loss of money. The employees of those stores may also have not received their wages for several months.

#7

80% of the employees of L's Internet company have to find another way out, hoping that they can all find good jobs.

Murong Yi shut down those factories one by one. Today's college students are never willing to go to factories that are dying and will still be owed wages for a few months, but for those workers, it is a source of income for them to support their families.

Workers who brought dozens of fellow villagers to violently ask for wages, bosses who owe employees several months’ wages, creditors who invite triads to collect debts, desperate bosses who protect their families with long knives, arrest “malicious wage-seekers” and "Professional Debt Collection Underworld" police officers, as well as the online writers who support salary collections who say "debt and repayment of debts are just right", everyone has a just cause.

Today's streets are less congested, and most shared bicycles have entered the cemetery. Most investments go to waste. The money owed to the bike factory will never be repaid. The owner of the bicycle factory may also be asked to be paid by the workers. Only the bike-sharing company supported by Boss Ma seems to have survived.

Boss Ma just paid 18 billion.

In the Thousand Regiments War, thousands of startups were crushed by Meituan. Today’s Meituan is also under investigation for its monopoly.

Most of the Internet companies created in the craziest years of venture capital have gone out of business. It was as if a gust of wind blew through the sky, and the leaves flew up all over the sky, and then disappeared without a trace. At that time, there were so many entrepreneurs and CEOs who didn’t know what they were doing today.

Boss Ma said: 996 is a blessing. Maybe you don't believe it, and you don't need to believe it. Until that day, you will naturally believe.

In India, people light piles of firewood to burn dead bodies. Their epidemic may have nothing to do with you and me, or it may bring about an unpredictable chain reaction that puts you and me in trouble.

The past few years have been tough for many people. In the next few years, it may be difficult for everyone.