He is still in prison at the age of 74 and has made a comeback at the age of 84 and now has a fortune of hundreds of millions, even for Wang Shi

Wang Shi, chairman of Shenzhen Vanke Group, was asked: who is the entrepreneur you respect most? Wang Shi mused for a moment and said a person's name. Not the global tycoon Warren Buffett, Bill Gates or Li Ka-shing, nor some successful person in real estate, but an old man, a person who fell and fell miserably.

His name is Chu Shijian

Born in 1928, Chu Shijian was born into a peasant family. In 1955, 27-year-old Chu Shijian served as the head of the personnel Section of the Yuxi District Administration of Yunnan Province. At the age of 31, he was beaten as a rightist and took his wife and only daughter to the farm to take part in reform through labour. After the Cultural Revolution, Chu Shijian took over Yuxi cigarette Factory as factory director in 1979. At that time, Yuxi cigarette Factory was a dilapidated small factory on the verge of closure. He was 51 years old! To take on this responsibility.

Thinking: and now we have many people in their 20s and 30s who no longer want to work, afraid of pressure, afraid of taking on, afraid of hardship and tiredness. By the age of 40, I already felt that this life's struggle was over. Chu Shijian's struggle story has only just begun at the age of 51.

After 18 years of efforts by Chu Shijian and his team, the Yuxi cigarette factory, which was on the verge of closure, was built into the largest cigarette factory in Asia and China's famous brand: Hongta Mountain Group. Chu Shijian also became a tobacco king in China. It has become the pillar of local finance, generating 99.1 billion of tax revenue for the country in 18 years.

When Chu Shijian reached the peak of his life in China, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for financial problems in 1999 (later commuted to 17 years in prison). Chu Shijian was 71 years old that year. When the national figure of the Hongta Group, who has been in power for 18 years, has suddenly become a prisoner from a popular man in a state-owned enterprise, the blow to life can be said to be doomed. The next blow was fatal to an old man. His wife and daughter had been jailed three years ago, and the only daughter committed suicide in prison.

How cruel the game of life is, as most people think: at this time, the old man in his dying years encountered such misfortune in his later years and could only spend the rest of his life in prison.

Three years later, Chu Shijian fainted several times in prison because of severe diabetes and was later hospitalized outside the prison. After months of recuperation, Chu Shijian went to Ailao Mountain to farm, and later he contracted 2400 mu of wasteland to grow oranges. He was 74 years old that year.

Wang Shi said with emotion: after I learned that he was seeking medical treatment outside the prison, I made a special trip to the mountainous areas of Yunnan to visit him. He unexpectedly contracted 2400 mu of mountain to grow oranges, and it took six years to hang oranges. He was already a 75-year-old man at that time. Imagine a 75-year-old man wearing big sunglasses and a torn T-neck shirt. Talk to me excitedly about what oranges will be like six years later. So Wang Shi said: the biggest shock of life is on Mount Ailao! It was Chu Shijian, 75, who was wearing a torn T-shirt, big sunglasses and a straw hat, talking excitedly about orange fruit hanging six years later.

Six years later, he was 81 years old.

These seemingly insurmountable difficulties did not stop Chu Shijian, who took his wife to the barren mountains, and the former entrepreneur became an authentic farmer. In a few years, he used his efforts and sweat to turn barren mountains into orchards, and the ice candy navel oranges he planted could not be bought for 8 yuan a kilogram in Yunnan. it turned out that as soon as these products were picked and shipped to Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities, the benefits were amazing. Because Chu Shijian sells inspirational oranges.

When Wang Shi visited Chu Shijian again, he saw a dark but healthy and cheerful peasant uncle. What he introduced to Wang Shi was the orchard, the temperature and the growth of the seedlings. During the conversation, he naturally talked about a core question: how to manage the 2400 mu of barren mountains? He used the previous method, a method that was mutually beneficial to the fruit growers. He set a standard for each tree, and he set a number on the yield, saying that he would harvest as much fruit as he could, because too much would affect the quality of the fruit. In this way, the fruit growers take the initiative to pick off the poor fruit as soon as they see it, and never shoddy it. He formulated an incentive mechanism: as long as the task is completed, a farmer can receive 4000 yuan, a year-end bonus of more than 2000 yuan, a farmer can receive more than 10,000 yuan a year, and three people in a household can earn 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, which is more than working outside to earn money.

When he was in charge of the tobacco factory, he thought of the people who worked in the factory, and now he thought of the people who worked in the orchard. The 85-year-old man regarded the fall as getting up. In the face of the waves of life, he shed tears and was once sad.

Today, after evaluation, Chu Shijian is worth more than 100 million yuan.

His calmness in the face of any tribulations of life makes his temperament and mind as an entrepreneur come out. Wang Shi said: if I encountered setbacks at his age, I would not be like him, but on an island, far from the city and living alone. Chu Shijian did not hear Wang Shi's feelings. The three apprentices he brought with him in the Hongta Group are now the leaders of Honghe Tobacco Factory, Qujing Tobacco Factory and Yunnan China Tobacco Group. For him, he fell in the most glorious time, but once again created a myth after the fall, this is enough.

Chu Shijian, the most controversial figure, gave us an answer.

A measure of one's success. Not to see him reach the height of the peak, but to see the resilience of his trough-General Patton!

On the way to the future, no matter how difficult it is, please think of this old man!