It must be said that entrepreneurship is a kind of metaphysics. Sometimes the right time, right place and right people are available, but if you are just a little bit less lucky, you may still fall short. If you are lucky, you can still build a business empire even if you have nothing.

For example, the birth of Coca-Cola was originally a syrup drink created by a country doctor named Pemberton so that after Prohibition was promulgated, there could be a drink to replace alcohol. . At first, the syrup was flat, but Pemberton accidentally mixed the syrup into soda water, and Coca-Cola was born.

Pemberton would never have thought at the time that one of his own mistakes would lead to the invention of the best-selling Coke in human history. Nor would I have imagined that a hundred years later, Coca-Cola would become the world's number one beverage giant.

There are also such bizarre entrepreneurial stories in our country. 132 years ago, an ancient Chinese man forgot to turn off the heat while cooking, and accidentally brewed a black soup. Who could have imagined that this soup would create hundreds of billions of wealth for his descendants 132 years later?

This person’s surname was Li and his given name was Jinshang. He was born in Xinhui, Guangdong in 1862. Li Jinshang's childhood was quite unfortunate. He lost his father when he was young, and he was dependent on his mother very early. In order to survive, mother and son ran to Nanshuiwei. This is a place rich in oysters in Guangdong. The mother and son opened a teahouse here and managed to survive by selling tea and cooking fresh oysters.

Originally, life was lived like this, until an accident happened one day, which changed the fate of Li Jinshang, mother and son.

One day, Li Jinshang was cooking oysters in the store as usual. His mother went out to collect oysters, so he took care of the affairs of the store. It's also because one person can't free up his hands, and the business in the tea house is surprisingly good today. While busy in the front, Li Jinshang actually forgot that the kitchen was still cooking oysters.

It wasn’t until a smell came out of the kitchen that Li Jinshang suddenly remembered. He hurried to the back kitchen and put out the fire. He originally thought that the oysters in the pot had been burnt, so he was about to pour them out. As a result, when I opened the lid of the pot and took a look, a tangy aroma rushed out immediately, without any mushy taste. At the same time, there was a layer of charcoal-black soup floating on the bottom of the pot, and the aroma came from the soup.

Li Jinshang quickly took a spoon and took a bite to taste, but the taste shocked him. After seeing this, some people may have guessed that this black soup is oyster sauce, a must-have condiment in the kitchen today. And Li Jinshang was the discoverer of oyster sauce.

Perhaps some people have always thought that oyster sauce is a kind of animal fat. In fact, its essence is the soup made from oysters. It completely condenses the deliciousness of oysters into the juice. When cooking seafood or braised ingredients, oyster sauce has excellent ability to enhance freshness. Nowadays, oyster sauce has become the main condiment of Cantonese cuisine.