wolf road

Chapter 5 Wolf Spirit (5)
Born to be a great man

The wolf family is also divided into two types: high-level wolves and low-level wolves. The latter is usually a male wolf and is the smaller guy in the group.This poor little one is often abused and excluded by other members of the wolf pack, especially when eating, it is often the last one.But this humble little guy has the power to turn things around: When they pull through and survive, these wolves naturally become very resilient animals.

After a period of time, these wolves will leave the wolf clan and become lone wolves after they have taken risks in a cruel environment and proved their true survivability.

These lone wolves end up either joining other packs, or finding mates and starting to run their own packs—this is the integrity of wolves.

From this we know that wolves are not willing to be mediocre, they have their survival value and goals in their existence, and they search for the true meaning of existence according to their values ​​and goals—do what they want to do better.The tenacity and integrity of wolves must be positive for the common well-being of the group: if they join a new group, they will inject new blood into the new group and reduce the probability of inbreeding.If they become the leader of their own group, the group will have a leader who can stand up to a strong enemy and win.In the life of wolves, they have incomparable perseverance, which can make them resist all powerful enemies when they survive.

Speaking of heroes, let's talk about Xiang Yu first.

Xiang Yu was born in the noble family of Chu State.In 209 BC, he and his uncle Xiang Liang killed the prefect of Qin Kuaiji, responded to the uprising, got 207 elite soldiers, and crossed the river to the north to fight.After Xiang Liang died in battle, the Qin army besieged Julu, and Song Yi and Xiang Yu led their troops to rescue.In 20 BC, Xiang Yu killed Song Yi, the general who was fearful of the enemy and brave, crossed the Zhang River, and finally defeated the Qin army after a fierce battle.Xiang Yu was promoted to be the general of the princes. From then on, Xiang Yu became an all-powerful hero and leader in the anti-Qin struggle.Xiang Yu repeatedly defeated Zhang Han, the leader of the Qin army, and finally Zhang Han surrendered to Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu killed [-] soldiers and wiped out the main force of the Qin army.

After attacking Xianyang, he killed Qin Prince Ying, burned the palace, divided the world, and established himself as the overlord of Western Chu, with Pengcheng as his capital.Xiang Yu's enfeoffment aroused the dissatisfaction of some generals with heavy troops, among whom Liu Bang, king of Han, was the main one.Xiang Yu's struggle for hegemony with the kings was mainly between Chu and Han.

In the early days of the Chu-Han War, Xiang Yu repeatedly defeated Liu Bang and captured Liu Bang's father and wife.In 203 BC, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were at a stalemate. The two sides used the gap as the boundary. Xiang Yu led his troops back to the east, but Liu Bang took advantage of the situation to attack.In the second year, Liu Bang, together with other armies, surrounded Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu lost a series of battles and retreated to Gaixia.Someone took him across the river by boat. Xiang Yu thought that he led 8000 Jiangdong children across the river to revolt, and now he was the only one left.

Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, is powerful and overwhelming. He is a hero in life, but the time is unfavorable and he will never die. Wujiang slays himself.What about Han Liu Bang?Vega returned to his hometown at home and abroad, but he still could not live forever.Although Xiang Yu's life was short, looking at his whole life, he was extremely brave and outstanding.Otherwise, how could Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess in the Song Dynasty, praise Xiang Yu's integrity with the poem that he is a hero in life and a hero in death.The reason why Li Qingzhao remembers Xiang Yu is also closely related to the environment he was in at that time.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial court was in the south of the Yangtze River, and the country was weak. In 1271, the northern Mongolians ended the internecine struggle for the throne, established the Yuan Dynasty, and then directed their aggression to the Song Dynasty.The Southern Song Dynasty was facing the serious threat of national subjugation and genocide. Wen Tianxiang was a great national hero who appeared in this situation to resist aggression.

The court of the Southern Song Dynasty was dominated by the capitulation faction for a long time.Wen Tianxiang was serving as the magistrate of Ganzhou at that time. He wept in tears and acted immediately. Within two or three months, he organized the first Qinwang team of nearly [-] people. After many twists and turns, he rushed to Lin'an.Among the tens of thousands of local officials, he, Zhang Shijie, and Li Tingzhi were the only ones who led the army to serve the king.

On January 1276, 1, Boyan's soldiers came to Gaoting Mountain, and the left minister Liu Mengyan had already surrendered and rebelled.Other ministers have also surrendered.Although Boyan was willing to accept the surrender, he wanted Chen Yizhong, the right minister, to go to Yuanying to negotiate. How could Chen have the courage?

He fled that night.The only person Empress Dowager Xie can send is Wen Tianxiang.He resolutely accepted the order in the face of danger, but he did not surrender. He considered that it was too late to fight, defend, and relocate. With the state affairs at this point, he could not love himself. He even took this opportunity to observe the reality of the enemy camp to find a way to save the country.But he didn't expect that just as he accused Boyan of being detained and unable to return to Songying, his volunteer soldiers were ordered to disband by the surrender faction at the same time.The ferocity of the enemy never trapped Wen Tianxiang, but the fatuous court and the shameless capitulators made him suffer his first serious setback.

On February 1276, 2, Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Dadu, and with the help of righteous men, he escaped from the tiger's mouth.

Soon, he was ordered to Fuzhou to serve as prime minister of the right and a member of the Privy Council, and later he was appointed as the governor of the same capital.

In March 1277, Wen Tianxiang led his troops into Jiangxi, regained dozens of states and counties in the south, and besieged Ganzhou at the same time. Both Hunan and Hubei responded, which shocked the south of the Yangtze River and inspired the people's will to fight against aggression.This panicked the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, and hurriedly dispatched 3 troops to break the siege of Ganzhou, and sent another 40 troops to pursue Wen Tianxiang.There were only more than 5 people in the Ministry of Culture. In August of this year, the battle of Kongkeng was defeated, and several generals died.His wife and children were all captured by the Yuan army.

But Wen Tianxiang was not discouraged, he made up his mind to fight against Yuan to the end. In November 1278, he packed up the remnants of the army, expanded them, and moved to Chaoyang, Guangdong. Unfortunately, he was defeated in Wupoling on December 11. Wen Tianxiang could not escape the siege, so he immediately swallowed the borneol that he brought with him in order to die , from being insulted, but he did not die, but was captured in a coma.This was his last serious setback.From then on, Wen Tianxiang could no longer lead the rebel army to fight the Yuan army on the battlefield.

After Wen Tianxiang was captured, he made up his mind that he only wanted to die instead of living.The Yuan army sent several senior officials to persuade them to surrender, but Wen Tianxiang refused.On the eve of his execution, Emperor Kublai Khan personally went out to persuade Wen Tianxiang to surrender, using the position of prime minister as a bait in an attempt to make Wen Tianxiang surrender, but Wen Tianxiang sternly refused.Kublai had to ask him, what do you want?Wen Tianxiang replied: I wish that one death is enough!Wen Tianxiang's great spirit of sacrificing himself for the country and seeing death as home made the enemy helpless and helpless.In fact, this is tantamount to declaring the victory of the anti-aggression war, the victory of justice and the victory of righteousness that he himself praised.

In 1283, Wen Tianxiang died heroically in Chaishikou, Dadu.After his death, he left a large number of poems and essays, among them, the life in "Crossing Ling Ding Yang" has never died since ancient times, leaving his loyalty to reflect the history; Poems (Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Mencius said to take righteousness, but the righteousness is exhausted, so benevolent, read the books of sages, what have you learned? From now on, the common people have little shame) have become the swan song that illuminates the sun and the moon, and the majestic mountains and rivers, and become the preciousness of the national spirit wealth.Wen Tianxiang has thus become an immortal national hero.

Some people may think that Wen Tianxiang's behavior is too pedantic and belongs to the stupid loyalty of feudal courtiers. Because looking at history, it is not difficult for people to find that to achieve a career, it is not necessary to cling to the tail of a doomsday dynasty. Those who are successful and famous.Comparing the two, it is indeed difficult for us to say which is right and which is wrong. We can only say that people have their own aspirations and cannot be forced.

Although people have their own ambitions, it sounds grand, but if you don't have great ambitions, you will be laughed at.Why is this?Because those who have no ambition must be short-sighted. There is a famous fable in "Zhuangzi Xiaoyaoyou" titled "Kun, Peng and Yan Yan", which talks about this truth:

There is a fish in Tianchi, thousands of miles wide, no one knows how long it is, only its name is Kun.Kun turned into a bird with a body as tall as Mount Tai and wings like floating clouds covering the sky and the earth.Riding on the wind, flying [-] miles, going straight up to nine days, and then intending to fly to the southern sea.The parrot living in the small swamp smiled and said: Where are you going?I jumped up, but only a few meters down, flying freely among the basil, which is the ultimate of flying.And where will you go?The parrot's mocking of Gao Feiyuanju just shows the insignificance of the short-sighted.Zhuangzi used this fable to express his admiration for those who aspire to the nine heavens and his bitter ridicule for those who aspire to be among Penghao.

There is also a fable that says that one must have great ambitions in order to have great gains.This fable is entitled "Let the Young Master Fish":
Mr. Ren made a big hook and giant line, used 50 cows as bait, squatted on Kuaiji Mountain, stretched the fishing rod into the sky above the East China Sea, and fished every day. A whole year passed, but he didn't catch a single fish.Finally a big fish was hooked.The fish bit the big hook and sank to the bottom of the sea, its tail swayed violently, its fins fluttered, and it rolled up huge waves.After Mr. Ren caught this fish, he cut the fish into pieces and dried it in the sun, so that all the people living in the east of Qiantang River and north of Jiuyi Mountain would have a full meal.Zhuangzi said with emotion that if you hold a small pole and a small line and go fishing in a small irrigation ditch, you can catch small fish and crucian carp, but it is difficult to catch big fish.Although it is possible to exaggerate shallow theories, it is possible to gain a false reputation, but it is far from achieving great success.

This fable tells us: If you are limited to immediate interests and pursue small goals, you can only achieve small gains; if you want to pursue great success, you must set up lofty ambitions and pursue lofty ideals.

When Chen She was a servant, he set up a great ambition.And when Daze rose up, he made an impassioned statement: If a strong man does not die, he will be famous, and if he dies, he will be famous, and the kings and generals will be kind to each other!In one word, he expressed his ambition and pride in pursuing big goals despite being unwilling to be poor and humble. Finally, he was honored as King Chen Sheng with a commoner and established the Zhang Chu regime.The overthrow of Tyranny should be remembered as Chen She's first contribution.

When Xiang Yu was young, he saw Qin Shihuang on his way out and said to Xiang Liang: This man can be replaced.This kind of pride is overwhelming.However, Xiang Liang was frightened by Xiang Yu's words, and it is reasonable that his achievements are not as good as Xiang Yu's.Liu Bang went to Xianyang on a business trip, attracted by the majesty of Qin Shihuang, and suddenly aroused the lofty ambitions that were sleeping in his chest: "Oh, it's true for a man!"From then on, he changed his lazy and rogue nature of a drunken and lustful person, worked hard to become stronger, and achieved great achievements as an emperor.

It is often said that a soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier.The meaning of this sentence does not mean that soldiers must be marshals.It means that soldiers must have lofty aspirations.There is a Chinese proverb that goes, if you take the law from the top, you can only get the middle, and if you take the law from the middle, you can only get the bottom.A soldier, if he only wants to be a good soldier, he must not even be a good soldier.Throughout human history, all those who achieve great things eventually start with the establishment of great ambitions.Without the arrogance of being a hero, without the domineering arrogance of others, one can only be like a little bird, flying among the basil all one's life.

Chen Tianqiao, the chairman of Shanda Group, China's largest game maker, is a man with deep wolfishness and fearlessness.At the beginning of Shanda’s founding, China was still the world’s largest. From a blank area of ​​.com, Chen keenly saw its huge market development space from online games. He took community games as his main business and established a virtual community. In just a few months, he had about 100 million registered users. , thus obtained a venture capital investment of US$300 million from CDC.This is an excellent opportunity for Chen Tianqiao to be fearless.

At the end of 2000, when the Internet entered winter, Chen Tianqiao faced a crisis and made a choice again: from community games to role-playing games.Although his community game was doing quite well at the time, in the spring of 2001, the boss of South Korean company Actoz went to China with the game "Legend" in his arms to find a network operator. He hit it off with Chen Tianqiao, and Shanda bought "Legend" for $30. "Legend" exclusive agency rights in China.Chen Tianqiao completed another adventure.

CDC could not accept Shanda's choice and proposed divestment.

At that time there was no back-up, which was a very great psychological pressure. We broke the boat and fought here.

Chen Tianqiao's hole card is: the film industry has developed for so many years, and the total box office revenue in 2002 was only 9 million yuan. In 2002, the entire online game was launched for only one year, and the total output value was 9 million yuan.This is a very big gamble.

But as the cards of "Legend" were revealed one by one, Shanda won, and the win was also very big.Our core competitiveness lies in providing high-quality services in a timely manner. Some game agents sell you the disc for 15 yuan, and they don't care about anything.However, Shanda, having made a profit at the beginning, immediately spent 500 million to set up a call center to accept complaints from players.We have also set up a customer service system across the country, and generally solve customer problems within 24 hours.Another example is our online sales model and our password protection system, which were rare in the video game industry at that time. Players felt that they finally regarded them as human beings.

Either don't bet, bet big if you want to bet; or be a winner if you don't do it.A big gamble requires boldness, and a constant victory requires caution. There are seemingly contradictory elements in Chen Tianqiao's character.

He often said that Shanda is a conservative company.Although the company has taken extremely bold steps in the key steps, he is fearless before taking the step.

In the second half of 2002, the source code of Actoz in South Korea was leaked, and the private server incident caused Actoz and Shanda to go to court. At that time, Shanda’s own game "Legend World" was in the intensive development stage. Alleged plagiarism.

The lawsuit has been involved for about a year, during which Shanda's R&D team worked desperately.At that time, we worked very hard, and we all felt that if "Legendary World" was not made into a successful product before the end of the contract on September 2003, 9, and the contract expired, it would be a disaster for a young company.When I saw our software architecture in July, I knew that the two companies had completely different things.After negotiating with the Korean company for 28 months, Chen Tianqiao's fearless and tough character is doomed that he will not admit defeat, and he will never lose.

"Legend" has accumulated resources, experience and capital for Shanda. Softbank's investment of 4000 million US dollars, as well as the hundreds of millions of dollars raised from the listing, have allowed Shanda to accelerate the speed of acquisitions and mergers.

After investing in online game company Bothtec in Japan and acquiring Zona, a core game engine research and development company in the United States, Shanda has turned its attention to its domestic counterparts, acquiring casual game provider Bian Feng, e-sports battle platform Haofang, and the leader in mobile platform games Digital Red. Chen Tianqiao half-jokingly half-seriously said that the purpose of the series of actions is only one, which is to kill potential future competitors in the bud.

This series of capital operations also improved Shanda's own industrial structure, and Chen Tianqiao's interactive entertainment empire began to become comprehensive and three-dimensional.

As a low-key man, he only dares to do everything for his status as the leader of China's online entertainment industry:
Shanda currently accounts for 60% of the online game market in China.I don't know who the second child is. What Shanda cares about is not the competitors behind him, but how to develop himself well.You know, in the sprint stage of the [-]-meter race, the person who runs first thinks about how to run faster, and will never look back to see who is chasing behind.

The rise of Shanda is a good proof that being born as a hero is a truth that is universal in ancient and modern times.

§§§Section [-] Wolf Endurance

Wolf's statement:

I was doomed by fate to be alone, desolate and lonely. I learned to be patient. I occupied a corner of the wilderness, recharged my energy, and waited with bated breath. At last, my passion and physical fitness would burst out to support my brave blow.

(End of this chapter)