The Most Creative Boss Who Ran Away in History, Sun Fucai: This Mid-Autumn Festival, Sun Fucai, the boss of Wenzhou Omicron Fluid Equipment Company who is usually stingy, surprisingly invited all 300 employees to visit Yandang Mountain. Those who did not go would be fined 200 yuan, and what was originally a one-day round trip tour was specially extended to two days. However, when the employees returned after playing for two days, they found that all equipment worth tens of millions in the factory had disappeared, and the boss had also run away.
To run or not to run? That is the question.
Wenzhou has run away, Hulunbuir recruitment network has also run away, Shenzhen has also run away. The boss of Shenzhen LED company Jun Duoju ran away with his family, Erlianhot Talent Network.
We often see in martial arts dramas where someone is pursued by enemies and escapes everywhere. Killing requires compensation, and debt requires repayment, which are unshakable truths. This is the basic rule of the江湖 (jianghu).
Where there are people, there will be a jianghu. Wenzhou is a big jianghu. In this jianghu, there is a set of its game rules. Relying on trust between people and the boss's control over the enterprise, Wenzhou has created the characteristics of a familiar person economy and a jianghu economy, which undoubtedly improves production efficiency. Therefore, in the early stages of reform and opening up, Wenzhou could quickly rise from obscurity nationwide, grow strong and form a unique Wenzhou model.
However, as reform and opening up entered the 30th year, China's economy entered a growth bottleneck, with problems such as the global financial crisis, high CPI, insufficient innovation capacity of Chinese enterprises, etc., bursting out collectively, making Zhejiang enterprises known for their labor-intensive and low manufacturing costs lose their advantages. As a result, Wenzhou capital shifted to coal mines, real estate, solar energy, and even borrowed money to get involved in usury to patch holes.
Capital is profit-driven, without controversy. The sharp drop in profit margins in the manufacturing industry, the huge profits in coal mines and real estate attracting private capital, conforms to the law of capital allocation in the market economy.
Humanity has feelings, but the market is ruthless. Just like Microsoft President Bill Gates always warns his employees: Microsoft is only 18 months away from bankruptcy, any enterprise will face the crisis of going bankrupt. When the Giant Group's capital chain broke, it owed more than 200 million yuan, but Shi Yuzhu didn't have to run away, he could still make a comeback and several years later repaid debts that he didn't have to repay. Because under the system of the market economy, if an enterprise's assets are less than its debts, it can legally apply for bankruptcy and does not need to hide.
But there are no "bankruptcy" words in the eyes of Wenzhou people. They don't believe in bankruptcy, they don't believe that lending carries risks, they don't believe that "owing money requires repayment" could be wrong. Just like in martial arts novels, they don't believe that a sect could be destroyed. Haven't you seen, in "Smiling Proudly at the Rivers and Lakes," Senior Master Dingyi risked breaking the sect rules to let Linghu Chong become the successor of Hengshan Sect to preserve it.
The essence of the market economy is a legal economy, in some ways, it is incompatible with the jianghu economy. The jianghu values human relationships, while the market values laws. A mature market economy relies on commercial planning and credit systems to sustain and develop, rather than relying on friendship.
Therefore, the jianghu economy is bound to fail, destined to be a fleeting guest in history.
When bosses run away, governments at all levels take it very seriously and discuss countermeasures, which is understandable. However, to fundamentally solve the problem of running away, it is necessary to eliminate the deep-rooted problems of the jianghu economy. How to eliminate it? Currently, the most urgent thing is to let guarantee companies and bank staff participating in high-interest loans share the risks, handle things according to market rules, and let them learn lessons in harsh realities.
From the jianghu to the market, though just two characters apart, the road to successful transformation is still long.