wolf road

Chapter 4 Wolf Spirit (4)
The king of Chu arranged a banquet for Yan Zi.Just as they were eating happily, two warriors escorted a prisoner and passed by under the hall.The king of Chu saw it and asked them: What crime did the prisoner commit?Where is he from?The samurai replied: "I have committed the crime of theft, and I am from the state of Qi."The king of Chu smiled and said to Yanzi: Why are the people of Qi so useless to do such a thing?When the ministers of Chu State heard this, they all laughed triumphantly, thinking that Yanzi would be humiliated by this.Unexpectedly, Yanzi stood up without changing his expression, and said, "Why doesn't your majesty know?"The citrus in Huainan is big and sweet.But when the orange tree reaches Huaibei, it can only bear small and bitter trifoliate oranges. Isn't it because of the difference in water and soil?In the same way, the people of Qi State live and work in peace and contentment in Qi State, and work hard, but when they arrive in Chu State, they become thieves. Maybe the two countries have different climates and soils.After hearing this, the king of Chu had no choice but to apologize, saying: I wanted to make fun of the doctor, but I didn't expect the doctor to make fun of me instead.

Relying on his outstanding talent and great courage, Yan Zi resolutely fought back the actions of King Chu, leaving a well-known story in history.

When it comes to defying power and daring to speak out, Wei Zheng is also a typical representative.

After the Xuanwumen Incident, someone reported to Qin Wang Li Shimin that there was an official in the East Palace named Wei Zheng who had participated in the uprising army of Li Mi and Dou Jiande. He once persuaded Jiancheng to kill King Qin.After Qin Wang heard this, he immediately sent someone to find Wei Zheng.

When Wei Zheng met the King of Qin, the King of Qin asked him with a straight face, "Why do you want to sow discord among our brothers?"When the ministers on the left and right heard King Qin's question, they thought it was Wei Zheng's old account, and they all sweated for Wei Zheng.But Wei Zheng was calm, and replied calmly: "It's a pity that the crown prince didn't listen to me at that time."Otherwise, such a thing would not have happened.After hearing this, the King of Qin felt that Wei Zheng's words were straightforward and courageous. Instead of blaming Wei Zheng, he said kindly: "This is already a thing of the past, so don't mention it again."

After Tang Taizong succeeded to the throne, he promoted Wei Zheng to be an admonishing doctor, and also selected a group of Jiancheng and Yuanji's subordinates as officials.It turned out that the officials of Prince Qin's mansion were not convinced, and murmured behind their backs: How many years have we been with the emperor.Now that the emperor confers officials and worships nobles, but let the people in the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion get the honor first, what kind of rule is this?Prime Minister Fang Xuanling told Tang Taizong these words.Tang Taizong said with a smile: The purpose of the imperial court to set up officials is to govern the country, and talents should be selected. How can relationships be used as the criterion for selecting candidates?If the newcomers are capable and the old ones are not, then we cannot reject the new ones and appoint the old ones!After hearing this, everyone had nothing to say.

Wei Zheng was very thoughtful about the important affairs of the court, and he would speak up in front of Tang Taizong if he had any opinions.Tang Taizong also trusted him very much, and often called him into the inner palace to listen to his opinions.

Once, Emperor Taizong of Tang asked Wei Zheng: Why are some rulers in history wise while others are stupid?Wei Zheng said: Listen to the opinions of all sides, and you will be wise; only listen to one side, and you will be stupid.He also cited historical examples such as Yao, Shun, Qin II, Emperor Wu of Liang, and Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, saying: If a ruler who governs the world can adopt the opinions of the following, then his feelings can be conveyed to the higher level, and his cronies have One day, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty finished reading the anthology of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, and said to his left and right ministers: I think Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty is a man of profound knowledge, and he also understands that Yao and Shun are good, Jie and Zhou are not good, why did he do such absurd things? Woolen cloth?Wei Zheng interjected: An emperor can't rely on intelligence alone, he should also listen to the opinions of his courtiers with an open mind.Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty thought he was talented, proud and self-confident. He said what Yao and Shun said, and did what Jie and Zhou did.Tang Taizong was deeply touched when he heard this, sighed and said: "Oh, the lessons of the past should be our teacher!"Tang Taizong was very happy to see his rule consolidated.He felt that the ministers' advice to him was very helpful, so he said to them: Governing the country is like curing a disease. Although the disease is cured, you must take a good rest and not relax.Now that the Central Plains are stable and the Quartet is under submission, such a day has seldom been seen since ancient times.

But I have to be very cautious, lest I can't keep it for a long time.So I need to listen to your advice more.Wei Zheng said: "Your Majesty can think of critical days in a stable situation, so very happy."

Later, Wei Zheng put forward more and more opinions.When he saw that Taizong was wrong, he fought directly face to face.Sometimes, Tang Taizong listened to it very unpleasantly, and his face darkened, but Wei Zheng continued to talk, which made Tang Taizong unable to step down.

Once, Wei Zheng had a heated argument with Tang Taizong in the lobby.Tang Taizong couldn't stand it anymore, wanted to get angry, but was afraid that he would lose his good reputation for accepting opinions in front of the ministers, so he reluctantly held back.After retiring from the court, he returned to the inner palace full of anger, met his wife, Empress Changsun, and said angrily: One day, I will kill this country bumpkin!Empress Changsun rarely saw Taizong get so angry, and asked him: I don't know which one your Majesty wants to kill?Tang Taizong said: It's not that Wei Zheng!He's always insulting me in front of everyone, and I just can't take it anymore!After hearing this, Empress Changsun returned to her inner room without saying a word, changed into a dress for an audience, and bowed down to Taizong.Tang Taizong asked in surprise: What are you doing?Empress Changsun said: I heard that only a wise emperor has an upright minister. Now that Wei Zheng is so upright, it shows His Majesty's wisdom. How can I not congratulate Your Majesty!Empress Changsun's words were like a basin of cool water, extinguishing Taizong's anger.

Later, instead of remembering Wei Zheng's hatred, he praised Wei Zheng and said: "Others say Wei Zheng's behavior is rude, I think this is where he is charming and lovely!"

In 643 AD, Wei Zheng, who was outspoken and dared to advise, died of illness.Tang Taizong was very sad. He said with tears: If a person uses copper as a mirror, he can see whether his clothes and hats are properly dressed; if he uses history as a mirror, he can see the reasons for the rise and fall of a country; Get the bottom right.Wei Zheng's death made me lose a good mirror.

Because Wei Zheng dared to speak out and was not afraid of offending others, his name went down in history and was praised by later generations.

Mr. Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, has long been familiar to Chinese people all over the world because of his wealth ranking first among Chinese in the world, and because of his generosity for the construction of the four modernizations of the motherland.

Li Ka-shing was born in a scholarly family in Chao'an County (now Chaozhou City), Guangdong Province. His father, Li Yunjing, was a primary school principal and his family was poor.Li Ka-shing was smart and eager to learn since he was a child, and he started studying when he was less than 5 years old.Later, the iron hoofs of the Japanese invaders invaded the land of China and trampled on his hometown. When he was 12 years old, his father and his family fled to Hong Kong. In the winter of 1943, Li Yunjing, who was worried about the country and the people, was exhausted physically and mentally. Unfortunately, he contracted lung disease. Because he had no money to afford expensive medical expenses, he died young at the age of 45.The young Li Ka-shing poured out the first bitter rain in his life infinitely, and he began to forget his age, thinking instead of sorrow-poor!What a painful and shameful word, it is simply the law, the cruelest, most realistic, and harshest law in the world.Because of poverty, one can lose sovereignty without nostalgia; because of poverty, one can lose dignity without shame; because of poverty, one can lose life without nostalgia.Being poor means failure, means death...

No!I don't want to be poor!Li Ka-shing let out a cry from his heart.As the eldest son, he resolutely took on the family burden of taking care of his mother and raising his younger siblings.Since then, he left school and embarked on a long road of life.This handsome young man, who is not afraid of tigers like a newborn calf, threw himself into the sea-like dreamy and sinister Hong Kong business world when he was only 14 years old.

The first job Li Ka-shing got was as the lowest salesman in a toy manufacturing factory.Running 16 hours a day.Because of his hard work, strict self-serving, quick-witted and capable, he was quickly appreciated by his boss.When Li Ka-shing was 20 years old, he was promoted to the manager of the factory.Li Ka-shing was not satisfied with this. He still worked during the day and studied hard at night school at night.At the same time, he lives industriously and frugally.After 8 years of hard work, he finally saved a sum of money. In 1950, with 5 Hong Kong dollars, he founded the Changjiang Plastic Factory, specializing in the production of toys and household products, and later changed its name to Cheung Kong Industrial Company.

In the first few years of starting a business, Li Ka-shing endured countless hard days and nights.He took on several jobs, managing factory affairs, supervising production, contacting the outside world, running sales promotion, and working [-] or [-] hours a day.

After suffering endless hardships, Li Ka-shing began to rise!In his glorious entrepreneurial history, the most striking chapters are as follows:
In the mid-to-late 20s, when Hong Kong’s economy took off, Li Ka-shing stepped into the plastic flower industry one step ahead, emerged in the plastic flower craze, and then monopolized the oiran in the international market with dignity; Stepped into the real estate industry quietly; in the 50s, he began to rise in the upsurge of real estate; in the late 50s, he crossed the real estate industry and became a real estate freshman and billionaire.

Li Ka-shing wrote a song of the Yangtze River with his unique accurate and wonderful prediction ability and quick-witted and decisive adaptability!
In Li Ka-shing's personal files, there are several things that should be recorded in the annals of history: the US "Fortune" magazine's billionaire list, among the 98 billionaires in the world, Li Ka-shing's assets are 25 billion US dollars (about 200 billion US dollars) Hong Kong dollar), ranked 26th; among the world's top 10 Chinese billionaires selected by the US "Forbes" magazine, Li Ka-shing ranked first. In 1980, Li Ka-shing was jointly selected as the man of the year by Radio Television Hong Kong and Citicorp Bank of the United States; in 1990, he won the South China Morning Post Business Achievement Award of the year.As a business tycoon, Li Ka-shing has such a premonition: From today to the 21st century, what we can expect is the era of Asians and the era of Chinese people.With his fearless spirit, Li Ka-shing bravely challenged life and finally achieved success in his career.In the history of foreign revolutions, when it comes to people who are famous for their fearless spirit of sacrifice, Paul Korchagin has to be mentioned.It can be said that when Paul is mentioned, everyone who knows it can't help but recite that shining famous saying-one's life should be spent like this...

Paul Korchagin experienced the hardships of life and cultivated a revolutionary spirit and a rebellious character.After the outbreak of the October Revolution, he was only 16 years old, and he joined the Red Army. No matter in the war or during the recovery period of the national economy, Paul Korchagin showed a fearless spirit, steel-like will, and strong patriotism. and infinite loyalty to the people.His infinite love for life, incomparable loyalty and selfless dedication to his cause, his fearless struggle against difficulties, and his merciless contempt and ridicule for the dirty and small have won people's respect and love for him, and These also explain the connotation of heroes to us, so we should keep in mind how to write life.

The Russian poet Shevchenko was summoned by the tsar, and all the people in the palace bowed to the tsar respectfully, only Shevchenko stood awe-inspiringly and looked at the tsar coldly.The Tsar angrily scolded him why he did not bow.Xie Fuchenke said: It's not that I want to see you, but you want to see me.How can you see me if I bow down in front of you like everyone else around me?Shevchenko is a spineless poet who defies power. In front of the supreme tsar, he dares to despise and ridicule him.There are many literati in ancient and modern China and abroad, but his fearless spirit of defying power and not bowing to the ruler is admirable enough.

The world's most famous entrepreneurs, such as General Electric's Jack Welch, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson, and Hewlett-Packard's Lou Pratt, will also encounter all kinds of unpleasantness, sometimes even No effort can bring a lot of value to the enterprise.

How do they deal with these problems?That is fearlessness.If you succumb to the pressure of fear, it will have a greater impact on you, often with consequences you would never want to avoid.

For example, your fear of rejection can lead to a condescending stance, which is exactly what people hate, and when you fear failure, you lose confidence and perform even worse.

Before you have a full understanding and grasp of your own abilities, you must face and overcome these fears and be fearless, and only fearlessness can keep these problems far away from us.There are also many examples of missed opportunities due to fear.

In 1967, Swiss watchmakers invented the electronic quartz watch at their research center, yet they rejected the proposal to produce such a watch.Who wants a watch without a winding?But 10 years later, this decision has caused the market share of Swiss watches to drop from 65% to less than 10%.The main reason for this result is that the Japanese company used the invention of the Swiss company to mass-produce and promote electronic watches, but the Swiss company got nothing in the end.

Therefore, we must challenge our spirit of daring, daring to be the first, daring to act, daring to fail, and daring to take risks, that is, the spirit of being fearless and going forward.

There is such a story:
A young man wanted to be a hero wholeheartedly, but he didn't know how to become a real hero, so he decided to seek advice from a wise man who lived in seclusion in the mountains.After three months of wading through mountains and rivers, the young man finally found a wise man who was thinking day and night in a small wooden house in the deep mountains.But the young man knocked on the door of the wise man's residence five times to ask for advice. The wise man said that you came too late, you came too early, you came too late, come back tomorrow to prevaricate the young man, and closed the door.When the young man knocked on the wise man's door for the sixth time, the wise man said again: I am going to rest, come back tomorrow!The young man became angry and said loudly:

Every time you push and push like this, when will I be a real hero?After speaking, he kicked the wise man's door open and rushed in aggressively.The wise man looked at the angry young man with a smile and said: I have been waiting for you for six days to see if you dare to open my door.If you want to be a real hero, you must first dare to break all kinds of doors that separate you. Everything in the world is hidden behind a door.Today's move proves that you are taking the first step towards becoming a true hero.Yes, if we want to do things, accomplish things, and do great things well, we must have a certain amount of courage, and we must have a fearless spirit of daring to take risks and bravely overcome difficulties.You will never see the most beautiful scenery if you are timid, timid, and dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool.Without the courage to open the closed door, one can only wander outside the door forever, stamping one's feet, never getting the true essence of being a hero, and never taking the first step on the road to success.

A person is alive, increasing his own memories; a person is alive, and is forced by the form and troubled by more and more confusion.In this center tightly surrounded by layers of memories.It is our real and concrete existence.We are to dig in the darkness of our being, so we should be fearless in the daylight.

We are longing for passion, that momentary impulse that makes our blood pumping, that irresistible fearless pride, will ignite the spark of our life and illuminate our life path.

Life is like an endless struggle. For ideals, we must resist the pressure of the world and overcome the difficulties of nature. Once we embark on the journey of life, suffering, setbacks, and misfortunes may come one after another. The anguish, hesitation, struggle, and despair in the future may appear from time to time. Let us get the enrichment of strength and the strength of will from the fearless spirit. Let us stand on the shoulders of heroes and break through all the mundane world firmly, bravely, and confidently. Let's create a brand new future of our own!

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