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"I want to kill you!"
A mantra, said for more than ten years, let the national audience remember Feng Gong, Feng Gong, who has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala 33 times, has already become the spokesperson of the Spring Festival Gala, and many people feel that the New Year is coming as soon as they see him. People are familiar with him, but it is vague, and few people know that behind Feng Gong is a family's history of struggle.
(Feng Gong)
His great-grandfather was the president of the Beiyang government, and his grandfather was a famous industrialist in China, and when it came to his father, the development of the family was like a roller coaster, and the history of the struggle of the Feng Gong family was closely related to the development of the times. And the whole story has to start with his grandfather Feng Guozhang.
First, the counterattack of the cold door
Feng Guozhang later became the president, but his early years were a bitter one, compared with several other presidents of the Republic of China, he was a person who climbed up with his ability.
(Fung Kwok Cheung)
Feng Guozhang was born in 1859 in Xishijing Village, Zhili, the Feng family was originally a good family, hundreds of acres of fertile land at home, but the heavens are not beautiful, a major drought directly led to a sharp decline in harvest.
At this time, Feng Guozhang's father went crazy because he didn't pass the exam, and Feng Guozhang, who had just gone to the academy to study for two years, had no choice but to drop out of school and had to go to Tianjin to join his relatives.
At this time, the Huai Army founded by Li Hongzhang was stationed in Tianjin, and one of Feng Guozhang's uncles happened to serve as a clerk in this place.
In the army, Feng Guozhang was loyal, because he knew some pen and ink, he would help the soldiers write family letters, and he was very comfortable in the army.
(Huai Jun in training)
In the third year of his enlistment, Li Hongzhang began to select materials that could be made in the Huai Army and sent them to the academy to study.
This school is not reading the classics of Confucius and Mencius, but the theory of guns and machinery, which is equivalent to a military refresher class. Feng Guozhang was appreciated by the commander Liu Qi and successfully became the first batch of students.
And with Feng Guozhang to study in the academy is Duan Qirui, who will influence China's national fortunes in the future, Lu Yongxiang, Wu Peifu, Cao Kun, Wang Zhanyuan and others are all from this school. Feng Guozhang studied hard in the school, and he knew how important this opportunity was to him, so he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.
(Beiyang Martial Arts Academy)
After coming out of the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy, Feng Guozhang followed the Huai army to Korea to fight with the Japanese, and although he lost the war, Feng Guozhang learned a lot from it and realized the importance of reform. After returning from North Korea, he was recommended by Nie Shicheng to join Yuan Shikai to help him train his troops.
And everyone knows the later story, Yuan Shikai became an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, and Feng Guozhang also followed him to rise to prominence, and Feng Guozhang made a lot of efforts in Yuan Shikai becoming the president of the Republic of China. When Yuan Shikai died, Feng Guozhang successfully became the president through his prestige, and the Feng family has since become a powerful family.
(Yuan Shikai)
Second, the second generation of ZTE
Feng Guozhang is the president, even if he comes down later, the Feng family still needs connections and connections in the army at that time, and his sons and daughters can naturally show their ambitions in the army or officialdom. But what is surprising is that Feng Guozhang's third son Feng Jiayu, that is, Feng Gong's grandfather, took a different path.
Feng Jiayu also studied in the Beiyang Accelerated Military Academy in his early years, and unlike his father, he went directly to Germany to study after graduation, and it was here that he encountered something that he was even more obsessed with - industry.
Feng Jiayu was amazed by Germany's industrial development, and he studied chemical engineering at the Technical Institute of Berlin and wanted to return to China to show his ambitions.
(Today, Technical University of Berlin)
After returning to China, Feng Jiayu was arranged by his father to work in the Zhili Arsenal, at this time Feng Guozhang was already the main leader of the Beiyang Army, Feng Jiayu naturally did not have to do anything in the arsenal to live a peaceful life, but Feng Jiayu was unwilling to live such a "useless" life, he resolutely quit his job and went outside to start a business.
Nowadays, there is a saying called "If you are not afraid of the rich second generation to squander, you are afraid of the rich second generation to start a business", which is about the difficulty of starting a business, even if you have more money, you may be squandered. But Feng Jiayu is not a mediocre person, relying on the knowledge learned in the German Institute of Technology, Feng Jiayu established the Oriental Paint Factory and produced the first barrel of domestic paint in the mainland.
(Oriental Paint Factory)
In addition to painting, Feng Jiayu also invested in the establishment of the Hengyuan Yarn Factory in Tianjin, which greatly developed China's national industry at that time. What is even more admirable is the consistent patriotic feelings, during the Japanese occupation, the Japanese tried their best to win him over as a puppet government official, and Feng Jiayu was all kinds of shirks and stuck to the bottom line.
The Feng family's career has reached a higher level in the hands of this second generation, and its influence has changed from the military and political circles to the industrial and commercial circles, becoming the most glorious family of that era. However, the wheel of history rolls forward, and by the third generation of the Feng family, the story has changed a lot, and why?
(Republic of China period domestic yarn factory)
3. From Decline to Revival
Feng Jiayu had 6 sons and 7 daughters in his life, all of whom were talented people who graduated from well-known universities at home and abroad, and the third son was Feng Gong's father, Feng Haigang. Feng Haigang graduated from Fu Jen University in Beijing, when the whole family was at its peak, and he worked in the Beijing Party Department of the Kuomintang through his connections.
In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, some members of the Feng family followed Lao Jiang to Taiwan, while Feng Haigang's line stayed in the mainland to live. In the special era, Feng Gong's ancestral identity and his father Feng Haigang's former work have become the basis for people to make irresponsible remarks, which is a fact that Feng Gong's family cannot deny no matter how they explain it.
(Feng Haigang and Feng Gong)
Feng Gong was born in 1957 in an exquisite European-style building, but it didn't take long for the family to move from there to a house of only 12 square meters. Feng Haigang was also sent to his ancestral hometown of Xishijing Village to be supervised for his work, and Feng Gong and his two other children could only rely on their mother to live in Tianjin.
In addition to Feng Gong and his brothers, his mother's salary had to be sent to his father, who was working in his hometown, to take care of his uncle who was sick in bed, and to pay a fixed monthly rent.
When it came to Feng Gong, sometimes he couldn't even eat enough, and after arriving at school, he was often ridiculed by his classmates because of the difficulties at home, and his life was very difficult.
When he was young, Feng Gong had the dream of joining the army, but he couldn't enter the army at all, so after graduating from school, he could only enter the machinery factory as an apprentice. It wasn't until 1973 that Feng Gong met the cross talk master Ma Ji, a person who was enough to change his life, and gave him a different path choice in his life - cross talk.
(Feng Gong on stage)
Feng Gong is very talented, and very hard-working, when he was still in the machinery factory, Feng Gong was already famous for speaking cross talk, in 1980, Feng Gong successfully came to the China Railway Art Troupe from the machinery factory and became a literary and artistic worker.
And after that, it was through cross talk that more and more people knew him, and in 1986, Feng Gong appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time that many entertainers yearn for, and he was just 29 years old this year, and in the next 30 years, audiences across the country have known this humorous actor.
From Feng Guozhang to Feng Gong, what we see is the ups and downs of a family, and it is the ups and downs of more than a hundred years from modern China to modern China. In addition to the impact of the times on people, we should also see that in addition to the boost of the times, personal efforts can not be ignored, and only personal efforts can allow people to grasp the opportunity to develop themselves and their families.
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