红顶商人胡雪岩 全集（共6册）

by 高阳

大清首富胡雪岩，幼时家贫，替人放牛为生；稍长，入钱庄干杂活，扫地、倒尿壶，得老板赏识，提为跑街；遇贵人王有龄（浙江巡抚），资助其开钱庄，并与官场中人往来，很快成为杭州巨富；王有龄兵败自杀，胡雪岩改投新任闽浙总督左宗棠门下，长袖善舞，眼光独到，囤积居奇，操纵市场，垄断金融，操办洋务，阻击外商，筹措军饷，30年间扶摇直上，直至富甲天下，得慈禧赏黄马褂穿，赐紫禁城骑马，授二品官衔，大富大贵，无人能比；更乐善好施，赢得“胡大善人”的美名。一夜之间风云突变，慈禧下令革职抄家，积攒多年的隐患全面爆发，三天之内一贫如洗，成为政治斗争的牺牲品，两年后郁郁终老，埋骨乱石丛中。胡雪岩一生谨守“戒欺”与“真不二价”的经商原则，所向披靡，显赫一时，其辉煌成就被后人尊为一代“商圣”；但皇权无边，必然无情，商人的命运并不在自己手中。翻开本书，了解官僚体制下，一代商圣的天才与宿命。本书出版40年来，一直被视为胡雪岩研究的至高经典。

Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2012

Reviews

[Barack Liu · Rating 4 out of 5]

422-Hu Xueyan-Gao Yang-Biography-1992

Barack

"Hu Xueyan," tells the story of Hu Xueyan, a famous red-roofed businessman in modern China. The saying that "doing business should learn from Hu Xueyan, and being an official should learn from Zeng Guofan" was once popular.

Hu Xueyan was born in Jixi, Huizhou, Anhui in 1823. He moved to Hangzhou, Zhejiang at the age of 13 and died in 1885. His real name was Hu Guangyong, his childhood name was Shunguan, and his courtesy name was Xueyan.

In the eleventh year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1861), when the Taiping army attacked Hangzhou, Hu Xueyan was appreciated by Zuo Zongtang for transporting arms, grain, and rice from Shanghai to the Qing army. Later, he helped Zuo Zongtang organize the "Changjie Army" and founded the Fuzhou Ship. political situation. When Zuo Zongtang conquered the rebel Agubo in the west, he presided over the affairs of the Shanghai Bureau of Procurement and Transportation. He borrowed foreign funds 5 times in Shanghai, amounting to 11.95 million taels, collected and supplied military salaries, ordered arms, and did intelligence work. Important news from all walks of life is reported to Zuo Zongtang. When it is very popular, the official residence is the second grade, and the yellow jacket is rewarded.

With his excellent business skills, Hu Xueyan used the official bank he had already used to set up a private bank in Shanghai, and later set up "Fukang" bank branches all over the country, known as the "living god of wealth". He founded the "Huqing Yutang" Chinese pharmacy in Hangzhou and produced "Pills to Avoid Plague", "Xingjun San" and "Eight Treasures Pills" for the needs of the military and civilians. In the ninth year of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1883), the capital turnover failed due to the bureaucrats competing to withdraw funds and extortion and was forced to sell at a low price. In the end, Hu Xueyan was fired and his family property was searched, and he died of depression.

Gao Yang, formerly known as Xu Yanpian. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang in 1922, died in 1992. He was born in a prominent family in Qiantang, a late famous writer in Taiwan. He is famous for writing historical novels under the pseudonym Gao Yang. In his lifetime, he wrote about 90 books and 105 volumes, and his readers are all over the world. Among them, the representative works "Hu Xueyan", "The Complete Biography of Cixi" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" series have made him one of the most famous historical novelists in the contemporary era.

Table of Contents
1. Hu Xueyan
2. Red Top Merchant
3. Lighthouse

Birds of a feather flock together. Whether political or commercial, nepotism is unavoidable. People divide factions and circles based on their birthplace, graduate school, and relationship with a certain important person. People outside the faction naturally criticize this kind of nepotism, while those inside the faction receive special treatment and benefit a lot. This is probably what we call a circle today.

A single tree does not make a forest. If you want to gain the support of others and enjoy yourself in the crowd, you need to be popular and popular. Only when people can gather, can talents be found, and things can be accomplished. How can you do things if you refuse people thousands of miles away? Only by "good deeds and small benefits" can others be willing to do things for themselves. Rich people spend money to buy people's hearts, naturally, it doesn't hurt or itches, but if ordinary people want to achieve this effect, they must be careful and use the knife's edge.

The icing on the cake is often there, and it is rare to send charcoal in the snow. And I don't know if Hu Xueyan sent money to Wang Xuexuan is true, but put yourself in the situation, of a person who doesn't know the background of the other party at all, and put it all together, and spend 500 taels of silver to help the other party go to Beijing. How difficult it is. Once this investment is placed, it is actually not binding. Whether the other party will accept or not in the future depends entirely on the other party. When encountering different people, there will be different results, which probably affects everyone's different ideas?

In theory, things that can improve efficiency and gain profits should naturally be done, but in reality, this is not the case. From water transportation to sea transportation, the experimental results seem to be good. However, the people who will benefit in the future and the people who are currently benefiting may not be the same group of people. Those who benefit now are powerful and try to obstruct it; those who benefit in the future have not been assembled yet, and their strength is meager. If you want to promote such change, unless you can motivate those who will benefit in the future, it will be difficult to achieve.

People who have been officials, ruffians, etc., the officials are not willing to take advantage of them. Because this type of person suffers a loss and may cause trouble for the government. The good people were wronged, and they dared not resist and were unable to resist. A person who is capable shows weakness, called forbearance, and a person who is incompetent shows weakness and people think that he is weak. For the former, people appreciate its character. For the latter, people intensified their bullying.

To accomplish something, in addition to understanding the subjective factor of "people", we also need to understand the objective situation. From time to time, the world is used by me, and it is not free to transport heroes. One cannot be without awe, because there are so few factors that one can fully grasp. The time and place are right and the people are right, the first two are elusive, how can we not try our best to grasp the third party?

The same thing can be said both forward and backward, and how to say it depends on the speaker's subjective inclination. Bribes must satisfy the other party, and the other party can talk about things in the right direction. If the bribe is not in place, the other party may talk in a bad direction. Anything has advantages and disadvantages, and the speaker's position determines what kind of tendency the words show. Whether you express yourself or listen to others, how can you be careless when you speak?

Nominally, those in lower positions must naturally obey those in higher positions. But the interests of the top and bottom are not always the same. The lower-ranking person, naturally, cannot directly resist, but he can refrain from acting for reasonable reasons. The game trade-off between upper and lower has always existed. In order to make the upper and lower hands act like arms and fingers, we need to make everyone have the same interests and the same direction as possible so that it is possible to get things done.

so-called "there are people in the DPRK who are easy to do things, and there are no officials in the DPRK." The officials in the capital are closer to the center of power and can know what they want in time. The local sky is high and the emperor is far away, and he has the power of life and death in the local area. With cooperation from the inside and the outside, the power in the center will be realized, and the power in the local area will be protected by an umbrella.

Official business is objective, but it is good or bad that someone with the right to interpret can influence the matter. There have been upright people in history, and many can be listed, but in terms of proportion, they are extremely low. After all, the human nature of most people cannot resist the temptation of material things. Even if you want to die, how many people can grasp the things behind you? Good people die, and wicked people hide from the sky, is there such a thing as not?

[皓月清辉 · Rating 4 out of 5]

认为胡雪岩囤丝更多是出于商业目的，遇到黑天鹅事件，加上政治阻力内忧外患，大佬无力回天，也很正常。
至于为了照顾蚕户生计，书中渲染似乎过多。对胡雪岩坍台之后的冷静处置的描写，倒是确实有大佬风度。

[Liang TianCheng · Rating 3 out of 5]

这是红顶系列的第一部，只是豆瓣检索目录中未将1予以标出。这也是我在kindle上读完的第一本书。本书的特色在于人情世故中的心理描写，但不仅数量过多，而且部分心理描写显得有些小肚鸡肠。尤其是几个大男人，琢磨过来琢磨过去，磨磨唧唧，没完没了，实在是有点“小”了。