Endless journey
Cultivator
The years are hurried, looking back on the road, thousands of emotions, the atrium of the heart is always engraved with eternal aftertaste. A seeker of literature and a dreamer who founded an industry, he began his entrepreneurial trek and the endless journey of literature in the 1980s.
- Author's Notes
In a lifetime, everyone has to face choices that can affect your whole life. "Zhuangzi Health Lord" said: "My life also has an end, and knowledge has no end." With no end, there is no end, and it is gone. In the early spring of 1986, I resolutely chose the profession of "perishing" as a hard journey in my life, which is literature and business. The deceased is like Sifu, looking back on this endless journey, the past rushes to the heart...
One
With the cold spring of early 1986, I resigned from a small clerk who ate "public meals" and became a self-employed person. In those days, it took courage to make such a choice. My hard-working, frugal parents in the countryside, as well as my wife, who is pregnant with Liujia, did not approve of my choice. In particular, my wife advised me with tears: "Where is it bad in the administrative department, the risk of running your own business is high, what if there is a mistake?" "I have been passionate about literature since I was in middle school, and I always romantically associate the beautiful description of life in literary works with reality. I comforted my wife: "Since you came out, what are you afraid of?" Where is there no herb at the end of the world? I make the tide stand at the head of the tide! "With a beautiful vision of my choice, I used my savings of less than 10,000 yuan plus a loan of 20,000 yuan to set up a plastic color printing factory, when I was 23 years old. Saying that it is a factory is actually a family workshop. Using a few pieces of wood as support and cowhide felt as a roof, a simple workshop was built and hand-screen printing was carried out. I am not only the director of the factory, but also a purchaser, but also a salesman, but also a porter, as a "job", I have tasted the hardships of life for the first time. The wind is cold and the water is cold, when will the waves of the merchants and the sea be returned? In those days, I often recited Lermontov's Sails in silence:
In the pale blue clouds of the sea
There is a lone sail shining with white light!
What does it seek, in a long distance?
What does it leave behind,
In its homeland?...
In my bag, there are always three indispensable things, one is a covered contract book, the other is a sample of the product, and the third is a literary book such as a subset of the history of the classics. The first type of stuff is basically unchanged, and the latter two types often change content. At that time, the sales objects were mainly knitting factories, down factories, and blanket factories. It is common to take an all-night train in a hurry, and it is common to eat lunch and dinner together. Although the business sea is hard, the boy is bitter first. After several years of tempering and unremitting efforts, my color printing factory not only did not collapse, but also gradually became popular, and by the early 90s of the last century, it had become a small reputation in its peers. During those days, I insisted on reading and writing, and from time to time there were tofu block articles published in newspapers and periodicals. I have a feature that reflects the cultural life of township enterprise employees, "New Spring Poetry", which won the Chongqing Daily Good News Award... After experiencing the pain of budding, the bitterness of entrepreneurship, and the beginning of my life, I also began to think newly in life, that is, to enter China's security technology prevention industry and develop bulletproof supplies, in fact, this is the real purgatory journey and brand dream of my business life.
Two
In the early summer of 1992, through the mediation of the local government, I signed an agreement with a certain research institute to jointly develop protective equipment. Because personal protective equipment is the world's cutting-edge scientific and technological products, he also dreamed of "leapfrogging" in his career, and signed the agreement with great hope. I am mainly responsible for marketing and market development. However, the developed products are very technical, and the customers are "experts" in equipment, and a person who does not understand technology and product performance is incompetent. I had to learn from scratch. With their own Chinese foundation, with the enthusiasm of reading literary works to familiarize themselves with technical information, nearly half a year, I can not release the paper, ask can not leave the mouth, the experts on my inquiry is also particularly enthusiastic, looking at my seriousness, they are deeply infected, often give me "open a small stove", after their careful guidance, I gradually entered the "role", some ordinary questions raised by customers I can also cope with freely.
In the early 90s of the last century, most domestic departments did not prepare protective equipment. For the development of new products, I went north to Liaoning and south to Shenzhen, and for more than a year, the money spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the product did not sell a single piece. I was stuck in a difficult situation and felt anxious and confused. If you continue to develop, the road ahead is slim, I don't know how much money it will take to see the dawn, if you give up, you will abandon your previous achievements, and the cost that has been invested can only be adrift. That night, I couldn't sleep all night, looking at the sky dome and bending the crescent moon, "looked at the Wu hook, and the railing was patted all over!" (Song Xin Jiaxuan sentence) ... Where is the Yunheng Qinling home? Snow and blue are not moving forward. Reciting Han Yu's poems, I lamented the brilliant pen of the literary master, how similar my situation is more than a thousand years later! In those days, I used to walk around on the balcony and chant Tang poems and song poems aloud to dispel sorrow. Read the classics in your hand, looking for the most beautiful encounters in life, looking for the spiritual support in your career.
When I floated in the commercial sea on the "classic boat", I was pleased to find that the classic is an untied boat, which allows you to enjoy the boundless literary scenery; at the same time, the classic is an unsinkable boat, it is not afraid of the deep sea, it can avoid the bright reef and the dark fortress, resist the terrifying waves, let you listen to the sound of the mountains and rivers in the reeds of thought. Let you in the confusion and sleep, surging out of the heroic passion. When I read, "Weep in our eyes, not called a boy" (Don Du XunHe's sentence), "Perseverance and abandonment, decaying wood does not break; perseverance and perseverance, gold and stone can be skeletonized." "(Xunzi Persuasion Chapter) When the spirit is lifted, life can have several beats. Without the hammering of autumn frost and the forging of autumn wind, how can autumn maple leaves be red all over the body? Only maple leaves like autumn fire dye themselves bright red in the wind and frost of life! I had no choice but to persevere.
To find a breakthrough in the market, you must prove that your products are first-class in terms of cost performance. Through the introduction of a comrade from the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Public Security, I chose to hold a live demonstration meeting in Shanxi Province, for which I went to Taiyuan for six times. Every time you leave from Chongqing, take a train, get off at Shijiazhuang, and transfer to the direct express train from Hankou to Taiyuan. Trains arrive in Shijiazhuang at 12:00 p.m., while trains from Hankou to Taiyuan don't arrive until around 3:00 a.m. After getting off the bus in Shijiazhuang to ensure that I could transfer to the car in Taiyuan, I had to wait on the platform for nearly 3 hours, and the biting wind penetrated my shirt and cold my heart. I tried to find a leeward place to crouch down, and took out the books I carried with me to the ancients. "Although I have not changed my mind, I can be punished." As I read the sentences on "Leaving sorrow", I was deeply infected by Qu Yuan's firm persistence and righteousness, and with a long whistle, I stepped on the train to Taiyuan, Shanxi...
On December 25, 1994, the shanxi provincial public security department's on-site demonstration meeting was successful, and the audience resounded with unceasing applause... Up to this time, I have invested nearly 1 million yuan in the development of bulletproof supplies, and in addition to my own savings, I also owe nearly 300,000 yuan to the bank. In 1995, the security department of the headquarters of the People's Bank of China recommended the use of the "King of shields that can prevent internal injuries" body armor to the national financial system, and the People's Bank of Shanxi Province ordered 602 pieces of our products, and I broke out of the siege and gained a new life. The beautiful rainbow is in the sky after the rain. "Looking at the exam papers alone, there are still many green mountains and trees." (Zhu Xi sentence). In the days that followed, with the launch of the market and the new injection of funds by banks, I firmly grasped the main theme of quality and technological innovation, and unremittingly developed new products with independent intellectual property rights. Gradually improve the marketing system, while establishing a technical exchange platform with foreign raw material suppliers and scientific research institutions. Shield King bulletproof products have gradually gained fame in China's security industry. On a bright spring day that year, I wrote a set of "Self-Made Songs", and I remember one of them was like this:
One window of mountains and seas, two eyes of cloud river. Thousands of miles of pine waves gushing blue waves, thousands of turbid waves drunk red snails. What a song to heaven.
Winding business travel, there are dreams like shuttles. The hot and cool world has passed, and the spring flowers and autumn moon have been abandoned. The horse staggered.
Three
People's attachment and preference for something is sometimes like an innate character. The Buddhists believe that a drink and a peck can not be predetermined. There are many things in life that are difficult to say clearly, and can only be said to be fixed. Just like marriage, the crowd looked for her a thousand times, and suddenly looked back at the person who was in the middle of the light. Therefore, the emotion did not know what to do, and went deeper. The kind of "death and life are broad, and the son is said; the hand of the son is in the hands of the son, and the son is old." "The realm that can be touched for life. I think that I am similar to literature, and literature gives me philosophical warnings, so that I can abandon the customs and impetuosity, and make me cheer up in the midst of difficulties. It is a distant shore remote light, illuminating my life in exploration, growing in struggle, harvesting in cultivation, and getting the sublimation of the soul in the sudden looking back...
In 1998, I was invited to visit Western European countries. In Germany, Mr. Fields, the general manager of a multinational group, asked me: "Are there any special requirements?" I said, "I am a lover of literature, and I have long loved the poets of your country, Goethe and Heine, and I love their works." When Fields listened to the translator's words, he was both excited and surprised, and very politely shook my hand and said: "Very good, very good, I am also a literary lover, and I also admire literary giants such as Goethe and Heine." "We drove to Goethe's former home, Weimar, Germany. In front of the poet's tomb, I offered a flower basket to pay tribute to a young man of oriental literature. Standing in front of the grave of the literary giant, I felt that his soul was continuing, and the song was passing. After visiting the Heine Memorial at the University of Bonn, I wrote in the guestbook the following sentence: "Literature belongs to the world, and the poet's spirit is immortal." "After the trip, we had less business exchanges, talking about Goethe and Heineto, talking about the European Renaissance, talking about China's new cultural movement, although the dialogue had to be translated, but from the eyebrows of German friends, I deeply felt that literature can cross language barriers and communicate with each other. At the time of parting, Fields gave me two books—Selected Poems of Goethe and Lyrics of Heine, all in German and signed. In these years of business dealings, I have cooperated very smoothly with Fields' company, and he has provided a lot of useful help for the development of my company.
I know very well that I do not have the blood nature of praising my father day by day, and it is difficult to sharpen my soul into a sharp blade that cuts off the edge of dust. Therefore, in literature, I had to be an amateur "walker", desperately going on the road in business time, singing all the way to the wind and dust, chewing the pleasure of walking, and chasing the distant mountains and Xiahui. I see it as a pure land of the spirit, a piece of grass of the soul. There is a reading plan every year and a writing plan every season. Flipping through the manuscript in his hand, there are hundreds of thousands of words of poetry, words, essays, and essays. Although it is not a superior work, it is all a true confession. Borrow a pen in your hand, express the block of the heart, so that you can always maintain a pure heart in the professional business trip.
A red sun burst out, and the brilliant sun poured into my study. Bathed in the brilliance of the morning sun, I was tired all over the night, and my spirit was invigorated, and there was a way: To be a strange man in the world, you must go through thousands of miles in the world. So, the short poem "Persistence" rushed to the tip of the pen, and I chanted it, accompanied by a new round of sunrise, to continue my endless journey...
Wandering around in search,
I learned what a bump is.
In the midst of ups and downs,
In the face of life – I chose to be persistent.
Attachment is a wordless song,
It contains the joys and sorrows of life.
Why be afraid of the wind and rain?
Persistence is a kind of perseverance, a kind of courage!
Persistence is the best friend of the cause,
The heart of the sword is bold, and the lei is falling.
Thanks to life, thanks to literature,
Gave me unrepentant attachment!
(The author is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice president of the China Prose Literature Association)
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