Modern times are a cruel era, and its cruelty lies in the chaos of war, the people are not happy, and there are natural disasters and human disasters. Modern times is also an era of brilliant stars and talents, and its brilliance lies in the fact that in this era of frequent wars and chaos, people with lofty ideals have emerged, leaving a legendary life in the picture of history and saving the country from times of crisis.
The Chairman once said that there are many powerful people in China's recent history, but there are four people that we must never forget. The four people are:
Chairman Mao
1. Zhang Zhidong, who engaged in heavy industry, paid attention to education and advocated that the old learning be the body and the new learning be used. In Wuhan, he built the Hanyang Iron Factory, the Hubei Gun Factory and four textile bureaus, and during his 18 years in power, he developed industry, conducted education, trained the new army, responded to commercial warfare, persuaded nongsang, and new cities.
2. Zhang Jian, who is engaged in the textile industry, is a modern Chinese industrialist and educator. He could have chosen to become an official, but he had to rely on industry to save the country. In his lifetime, he founded more than 20 enterprises and 370 schools, and was known as the Industrialist.
3. Lu Zuofu, who is engaged in transportation, went to Chengdu at the age of 15, started a business at the age of 32, and then founded Minsheng Company to become China's premier shipping tycoon, and in 1938, he saved more than 1.5 million lives in just 40 days.
4. Fan Xudong, who is engaged in the chemical industry, is the father of China's modern chemical industry. Founded China's first refined salt factory, let Chinese people take off the hat of "soil-eating people", and he "resisted the British for eight years" to create the first enterprise in Asia to master the alkali production method.
Today, I will talk about the legendary lives of these four.
Zhang Zhidong
Zhang Zhidong, born in the official house of Xingyi Province, was the fourth son of Zhang Zhao. Zhang Zhidong has been talented and intelligent since he was a child. From an early age, he studied hard, thought quickly, and received the influence of strict Confucian education. When he was less than fourteen years old, he qualified to participate in the examination and become a soldier. But it wasn't until the age of 27 that he got to get the first soldier. Since then, Zhang Zhidong has embarked on his own political journey.
As one of the four major local representatives of the Western-style school, Zhang Zhidong established the Western Affairs Office and founded the Guangya Bookstore and the Guangya Academy in Guangzhou. In the fifteenth year of Guangxu, Zhang Zhidong played the imperial court and proposed to build a railway from Lugou Bridge to Hankou Luhan to connect the north and south. He also proposed that the Luhan Railway is "the hub of the trunk road, the beginning of the branch road, and the essence of China's great profits"
The Hanyang Iron Works, a steel conglomerate, was the first large-scale capitalist machine-producing steel industry in modern China, and was the largest steel plant in Asia. In order to cooperate with the revitalization of industry, Zhang Zhidong developed industrial education in Hubei. Among them, the more effective ones were the establishment of agricultural schools and craft schools, which trained a number of talents needed for new agriculture and industry.
Zhang Zhidong also attached great importance to Western learning, advocated the study of Western law, and put forward the proposition that "middle school is the body, and Western learning is used".
William Ailes, a famous American scholar, commented: In Zhang Zhidong's life, the form of Chinese education has undergone fundamental changes, and his efforts are of decisive significance.
Zhang Jian
Zhang Xiao was a modern Chinese industrialist, politician, educator, and calligrapher. He advocated industry to save the country, and was an early pioneer in the field of cotton textiles in China, founding more than 20 enterprises and more than 370 schools in his lifetime, making valuable contributions to the rise of China's modern national industry and the development of education.
Moreover, while developing heavy industry, Zhang Xiao did not neglect the development of commerce. In order to revitalize national industry and commerce, he advocated that the government should establish a protection incentive mechanism. And Zhang Xiao regards the cultivation of talents and the opening of schools as a prerequisite for the development of industry and commerce. He believes that opening schools, introducing Western studies, and cultivating and using all kinds of professional talents are the foundation of a strong country.
Development of heavy industry
"Fame in one fell swoop is known to the world, and no one asks in the cold window for ten years", the well-known Industrialist Zhang Xiao, who knows his bitter history. From 1885 to 1894, in the middle of a whole decade, Zhang Xiao participated in the "meeting test" again and again, and the results were all famous. It was not until 1894 that Zhang Jian won the first prize in the temple examination in April.
Hu Shi, a modern thinker: He has single-handedly opened up countless new roads, pioneered for 30 years, fed millions of people, benefited one party, and influenced the whole country.
Lu Zuofu
Lu Zuofu is a famous patriotic industrialist, educator and social activist in modern times; the founder of Minsheng Company, the pioneer of China's shipping industry, and is known as the "King of Chinese Ships" and "The Father of Beibei".
In the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, Lu Zuofu abandoned his studies to engage in business and organized the Minsheng Industrial Company, which was based on the steamship and shipping industry and concurrently ran other industries, combining industry with education, promoting social reform, and thus achieving the purpose of revitalizing the Chinese nation. More than 70 enterprises and ancillary facilities have been created solely or jointly owned. Thousands of kilometers of inland river routes have been opened. Expanded routes to Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia.
And on the eve of the fall of Yichang, Lu Zuofu commanded the "Great Retreat of Yichang", led the Minsheng Company founded by the leader, and used its own ships to snatch more than 1.5 million people and more than 1 million tons of materials gathered in Yichang after 40 days of hard work, making great contributions and sacrifices to preserving China's political entity, economic lifeline, and educational and cultural undertakings at that time.
The prime minister commented on him: "Mr. Lu is a rare talent, and the party and the government will take on a heavy responsibility to display his talents, but unfortunately he passed away!" ”
Fan Xudong
Fan Xudong is a Chinese chemical industryman, the founder of China's heavy chemical industry, and is known as the "father of China's national chemical industry".
He founded a refined salt company in Tianjin, producing the first batch of refined salt made in China, allowing Chinese people to take off the hat of "soil-eating people". He "resisted the British for eight years" to create the first enterprise in Asia and the thirty-first enterprise in the world to master the alkali production method.
Guo Moruo commented on him this way: "Old age has an end, strong has some use, and young age has growth; the sky cannot die, the earth cannot be buried, and the world cannot speak." ”