Behind the collapse of textile shoe enterprises: the success of the "Gambler"

In 2008, Zhejiang Yiwu businessman Li Hui (respecting his wishes, here is a pseudonym) regretted doing something wrong: gambling. Li Hui stated: His experience is representative of some businessmen. "I am a vivid example of a good gambling."

One day after the end of 2008, Hangzhou received its first snowfall after winter, and the temperature dropped to below zero degrees Celsius. In a tea room near Hangzhou Stadium Road, Li Hui sipped Longjing while telling reporters about his "gambling prodigal" road, regretting his indifference.

Two years ago, Li Hui was the owner of a textile factory in Yiwu. When the efficiency was good, he employed two or three thousand workers and his life was beautiful and moist. Now, he sold the factory, and the house was sold. He hiked in Hangzhou and rented a house of several tens of square meters. He could not easily return to Yiwu.

First visit to Macau won 8,000

Li Hui said that people gather in groups and people are divided into groups. The boss always likes to be with the boss, exchange experiences, communicate information, and also entertain together. The most common way is to find a place to close the door and “do it” (when local dialects, Ie gambling).

At the beginning, everyone really only "little things done", winning little. However, after some bosses went to Macau, “little tricks” were no longer effective. In the “Eleventh” Golden Week in 2007, Li Hui was the first time to tour Macao with the delegation and was “shocked” by a large bus that transported the newly arrived tourists to the luxury hotels in batches and decorated the beautiful beauty of the United States. The restaurants and shopping malls in the city are full of colorful performances, especially the casinos full of mystery. They are like a Big Mac sucker and they clean up the bustling crowd in a flash. "So many people are gambling, so I was greatly stimulated." Li Hui said that at the time he was like a cat caught, immediately changed the chip for 1,000 yuan, wanted to lose the light, beg expected to bet on the middle of the night It actually won 8,000 yuan. It is also this 8,000 yuan that has completely changed the concept of Li Hui. He thinks that it is not easy to make more money for enterprises, competition is fierce, and every link can't go wrong. Otherwise, it is very likely that all efforts will be abandoned. But Macau's casinos allow him to easily make money.

Infected with gambling addiction

After the tour, Li Hui seemed to have a devil. As long as the business in the factory was not too busy, he would spend a few days running to Macau to bet. Inconvenient with the group, Li Hui went directly to Macau on the Hong Kong-Macau Pass. Afterwards, he simply used the “smuggling” method to go between Zhuhai and Macau.

In a one-year period, Li Hui went to Macau for no less than 50 bets and became a frequent guest in the VIP room of the casino. His bets have also grown bigger and bigger, ranging from hundreds, thousands, to hundreds of thousands, and millions. At first, Li Hui, who knew how to get good, also won some money, but then he lost with a Ma surname boss in Yiwu.

This horse owner runs a large-scale and well-known hosiery company in Yiwu, ranking among the top five in the local hosiery industry. For the first time, the two villagers ran into the casino in Macau and were still somewhat embarrassed. The owner of the horse is obviously a veteran player in the casino. Every time he makes a bet of tens of thousands of yuan and hundreds of thousands of yuan, his brows don't wrinkle. He took Li Shao and gave him a shocking shot. Li Hui decided to join forces with him.

As a result, the owner of the horse was unlucky and lost a lot. The money lost was about tens of millions of yuan, and Li Hui also lost more than 1 million yuan. The unwilling Li Hui always hopes to win back the lost money. In addition to the decline in the profitability of the textile mills in mid-2008, he will lose the red eye and he will run the factory for 8 years to sell for 3 million yuan. With this large sum of money, he went to Macau again, and in the so-called "last battle" he borrowed a 500,000 yuan loan from a casino intermediary (commonly known as "code"). The result was lost together and owed a debt.

Selling the BMW car and selling millions of luxury homes, Li Hui was still unable to fully pay off the debt. He had to go to Hangzhou to rent a dozens of square meters of houses to hide.

Gambling stunners are not individual

Li Hui revealed that in Yiwu and Wenzhou, the number of merchant gamblers who frequently travel to Macau to try their luck is not one or two. Some people are required to prepare millions of yuan of gambling money each time. The money is basically gone. Instead, it will also owe a large amount of usury. "Compared to them, I still have a relatively small gambling addiction." Li Hui ridiculed his own interpretation. For example, the horse owner he met in Macao, his gambling is an indisputable fact. In order to free gambling money, Ma Boss also gave the company a hand to a relative to take care of, and last year when the company broke out with a financial crisis, they owed A total of more than 200 million yuan loans from 67 banks were not returned. Ma Bo is a difficult time to borrow funds from peers.

The reporter also investigated that in late November 2008, Wenzhou's well-known shoe company Xinhua Shoe Co., Ltd. suddenly collapsed and its owner Shi Jianou escaped. The total assets of this shoe company is more than 17 million yuan, and there are 78,000 employees at its peak. According to a senior personage in the Wenzhou shoe industry, Shi Jianou invested in a real estate project in Sichuan and lost nearly RMB 100 million. In order to recover the losses, he ran to Macau and wanted to win one, resulting in a loss of RMB 60 million, and he had to run away. Now.

At the same time, at the same time, Wenzhou Gilda, Dongyi, Feimao, Taima and other well-known shoe companies suddenly closed down or face closures. It is claimed that the bosses of several companies went to Macau to gamble and lost a total of about 1.3 billion yuan. .