The number of people in the wind, also see the five major families.
Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “World Network Provider” ( ID: txws_txws), author Jiang Fei. The original title “China Express Past”
In the history of Chinese express delivery, “Tonglu” is a name that cannot be bypassed.
In the past 26 years, it has become the cradle of China Express, creating four “three links and one” four listed express delivery companies, these well-known express brand leaders, Shen De’s Chen Dejun, Yunda’s Nie Tengyun, Yuantong The “post-70s” peasants, such as Yu Yu and Zhongtong’s Lai Meisong, roared from here, with the simplicity and wisdom of the oriental peasants, all the way to gather Yinghao and attack the city.
The “Tonglu” is equivalent to a family business, and people are relished. Their founders include brothers, brothers and sisters, couples, and alumni. They have woven the most thrilling business stories in the history of Chinese express delivery.
Before you read the article, let’s take a brief look at the relationship between the founders of “Three Links and One”
The Nie brothers debuted
In 2014, China’s express delivery business exceeded 13 billion pieces, surpassing the United States for the first time and reaching the top of the world’s largest express delivery country.
World Express giant FedEx belongs to the United States. Founder Frederick W. Smith was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His grandfather was the captain, his father was a long-distance bus company, and Smith was the mainstay of shipping and motor transport. A family of three generations took over the water, land and air transportation.
Smith entered Yale University at the age of 18, was appointed Lieutenant of the Marine Corps at the age of 22, bought control of the Arkansas Air Sales Company at the age of 25, and founded FedEx at the age of 27.
Refer to the founders of the “three links and one”, their grandfather is a peasant, his father is a peasant, and he is also a peasant.
Nie Tengfei
How do farmers who run on sandals outperform the commercial giants who fly? Miracles, starting from the first year of private express delivery – 1993.
This evening, Nie Yuqing, who had been working for a day, was cool at home. The 21-year-old Nie Tengfei appeared sweatingly in front of him: “Dad, I want to open a company and help people who have no time to visit relatives.” Flowers and gifts.”
Nie Yuqing went to Hangzhou with his son the next morning. After an inspection, he said: “There is a market, OK!”
Nie Yuqing has a high heart and wants to change his destiny from an early age. When he was 18 years old, he walked out of the mountains and dressed in brand-new military uniforms. With the anti-aircraft artillery units swaying to the north and south, who knows that the troops have changed into new regulations, where are the where to go, Nie Yuqing returned to the original point and continued as before. Kind of a few acres of thin land.
聂腾云
He pinned his dreams on the two sons, named the eldest son “Tengfei” and the second son “Tengyun”. The two brothers are 17 months apart, with different personality and appearance. They are 1.65 meters tall, tall and female, character with the father, passionate and unrestrained, dare to fight; brother Tengyun is 1.79 meters high with his father, character with mother, introverted Implicit, low-key work does not love buzz.
After many years, the Nie brothers did not live up to the expectations of his father. His brother Nie Tengfei created Shentong Express, and his brother Nie Tengyun was the founder of Yunda Express. Half of the “three links and one” was taken. Of course, this is a postscript.
Nie Tengfei graduated from junior high school and went to work in a printing and dyeing factory in Hangzhou to meet his wife Chen Xiaoying. In the second year, Nie Tengyun took the Hangzhou Commercial Vocational Technical School.
Expressive prototype “generation travel”
At that time, only China Post’s EMS was a courier, and the shipment was from Hangzhou to Shanghai every other day. On the third day, it was received by Shanghai. Hangzhou’s foreign trade companies are facing difficulties in export declarations, so they have to find someone to send them on: send out a price of 100 yuan per order to Shanghai for customs declaration.
The 21-year-old Nie Tengfei and the worker Yi’an Zhan Jisheng discovered business opportunities. Nie Tengfei calculated an account. At that time, the train ticket to and from Shanghai was 30 yuan. If you send a single 100 yuan, you can earn 70 yuan. If you send a three or four orders at a time, you can earn hundreds of yuan a day.
It is said that Nie>Yu Yu’s family is not good. He graduated from the junior high school and went back to the village to plant land. He dreamed of becoming a carpenter with food. After worshipping a master carpenter, the master did not teach him how much craftsmanship, but he gave the farmland to him, so he still planted the land, but only the land of the master.
After half a year, he left the master in disappointment and started the renovation with the craftsmanship he had learned. He is a tall and industrious person, from making wooden doors to carving and then hand-twisting, all the proficient, 3 months to start.
Yu渭蛟
When 27 years old, the unruly Yu Yu opened a decoration company in Ningbo and gradually accumulated a small number of customers. In 1995, Yu Yu got a 5.6 million renovation big order. At the end of the project, the leader of the project was reported to have been reported for corruption and bribery. The decoration project was frozen.
Yu Yu not only did not make any money, but the person in charge of the decoration construction team was also summoned for review in two days and two nights. After 48 hours of experience, Yu Yu had no choice but to pay the wages of the workers and the materials of the local suppliers. Upper body. A total of 1.82 million debts have been pressed for five years.
Zhang Xiaojuan has done many years of financial work in Shentong, and sees that Shentong is getting better and better, especially Yu’s peers. Carpenter Chen Dejun is already the chairman of Shentong, with a lot of money and boundless scenery. She said to Yu Yu, “It’s better to do the express delivery!”
In 2000, the 34-year-old Yu Yidong walked west, squatting in the pocket of 50,000 yuan, pulling only a few old bicycles, and leading 17 employees of the former decoration company to enter the beach. Tactus was established in the warehouse of a household area.
Zhang Xiaojuan also left Shentong to start a business with her husband.
中通——The person who came from behind
Shentong, Yunda, and Yuantong have successively appeared in the world, and the “three links and one arrival” have been passed.
On May 8, 2002, the big clock of Shanghai Bund Customs ringed 9 times, and the firecracker of No. 290 Pushan Road slammed the ground. When the fog disappeared, a brand was created – “Zhongtong Express.”
As early as a few months ago, the gossip was like a autumn wind sweeping through the Yangtze River Delta’s express rivers and lakes – there is a big boss who is doing the timber business to inject 20 million yuan for express delivery.
The rumored big boss is Lai Meisong, who is very honest, keeps his head, and his skin is black. He is standing in front of the store of Zhongtong Express, wearing a pair of shoes that he has rarely seen, and his voice is not high. His eyes are full of passion and expectation. At the age of 22, heBy being willing to suffer, the brain became the youngest boss in the Hangzhou wood market. By 1999, he had hundreds of thousands of income a year.
Lai Meisong couple
Lai Meisong and Chen Dejun and Nie Tengyun are not only fellow villagers, but also alumni of the Central School of Song and Dance Township. In addition, he and Yu’s wife Zhang Xiaojuan are still classmates. After Zhang Xiaojuan and Yu Yu founded Yuantong, they were a stimulus to Lai Meisong, and he began to consider entering the express delivery industry.
The actual investment is far less than 20 million in the rumor, only 500,000 yuan, Lai Meisong and the three partners standing next to him each account for 1/4 of the shares.
Nie Tengyun named his company “Rhyme” and also took it from “Yunda”; Yu Yu named his company “Yuantong”, and he explained: “The earth is round, my courier will In addition, the ’round’ has a full and complete meaning.” Since its establishment in 1993, Shentong has been known for its name, first Sheng Sheng, and later renamed Shen Tong, taken from one of Shanghai’s abbreviations.
Lai Jianfa, one of the four partners of Zhongtong, took Shentong’s “Shen” word to the middle and became the “zhong”. The word “中” stands for China! In Zhou Dunyi’s “Ai Lian Shuo”, “Zhongtong is straight, not vine,” is a metaphor for people who are open-minded and behave well.
In 2005, Lai Meisong decided to open an inter-provincial network shuttle, which also opened the precedent for private express delivery. In the third quarter of 2018, Zhongtong led SF in terms of market share and net profit. Some media called “48 aircraft lost to 4,800 trucks.” Zhongtong, who was later in the seat, sat in the top of the “Tongda Department” boss in recent years. .
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There was not much business when Yuantong started, sometimes 83 votes a day, and a loss of more than 200,000 yuan a month. What is the point of Yu Yu’s forcedness? He couldn’t move the rice bag to the rice shop to borrow rice. Some people even joked that he was a “professional household”, lest he couldn’t hide, afraid that he would open his mouth to borrow money.
This is a “professional household” that has changed the pattern of “Tonglu Gang”.
Before the Spring Festival of 2005, Zhang Xiaojuan bought a fur coat on Taobao. After the 30th, the leather was not delivered. She complained to her husband that Taobao’s logistics was not reliable.
Yu Yu asked what is Taobao? After figuring it out, he had not finished the Lantern Festival. He ran to Hangzhou to find Taobao and signed a joint “Tongluo Gang”.