On March 5, Chu Shijian, former chairman of Yunnan Hongta Group Co., Ltd. and Yuxi Hongta Tobacco (Group) Co., Ltd. and founder of Chu Orange, passed away.
Mandela famously said, "The greatest moment of life is not in never falling, but in the fact that after falling it always rises again." This sentence is most appropriate to describe Chu Shijian.
He can always climb to the top of his life again after falling to the bottom again and again, and his magnificent life, if you use a key word to describe it, can only be "legendary".
Chu Lao went all the way.
Once, he was called the most controversial entrepreneur since the reform and opening up.
The public was silent, the robbery was exhausted, and when he was old, he once again attracted the attention of the people.
However, he still refused to say much about the ups and downs of his life, but only said: I hope that when people talk about me, they will say a sentence:
"Chu Shijian, this person, still did something."
How light this sentence is with him, it is also how heavy it is.
In 1927, Chu Shijian was born in a remote village in Yunnan.
In 1942, when his father was doing business in other places, he was seriously injured by a Japanese plane and was sick and breathless for a year, leaving his wife and six children to go west.
As the eldest son, Chu Shijian took the initiative to leave the school and shoulder the burden of the family with his mother. He was 15 years old.
Fortunately, there is a winery left by his ancestors to survive, and since then, more than 700 kilograms of grain and more than 1,000 kilograms of fuel have all been borne by him. Grain, steaming, stirring, fermentation, slagging, wine,...。。。
The 15-year-old works 18 hours a day, often so busy that he does not know the sunset and the moon rises.
In his later years, Chu Shijian was still very proud when he spoke: other people's three pounds of bud valley roasted one pound of wine, I can do two and a half pounds, and the quality is better than them.
But the following summer, the arrival of his cousin Chu Shijun took his fate to another trajectory.
Chu Shijun is a high-caliber student of Southwest United University and the pride of the entire Chu family.
He didn't want to see his able cousin confined to the winehouse cottage all day.
Say to him: You are so smart, you should go out and see, you don't know how big the outside world is.
The already strong teenager's heart was full of waves, but he couldn't bear to give a heavy burden to his mother.
The mother, who had been silent and stoic all her life, did not treat him for much, only said a short sentence, I know, no matter how difficult it is, I will let you go to school.
But the mother who sends off her son will not know that this is not a simple path to study.
In fact, in that era of broken mountains and rivers and turbulent storms, few young people can fully concentrate on learning.
Two of his younger brothers died of illness, and one younger brother and his cousin, who was like a brother, died on the battlefield.
His lifelong strong mother could no longer hold on and left him in 1950.
People who have seen Chu Shijian in his later years say that he has a strong sense of destiny.
How can there be no?
Since he was a teenager, he has constantly tasted the impermanence and ruthlessness of fate, how can he not know that the rules of fate are high, but never give people answers and mysteries.
So, he said:
"When I was very young, I knew that to arrange every day well was to be responsible for life, to think too much, and there was no meaning."
This became the attitude that ran through his life, no matter what kind of storms and sufferings he faced, he always endured, persevered, buried his head in hard work, and did not ask about the harvest.
But the benefits are endless.
In October 1979, Chu Shijian, who had undergone several twists and turns, was appointed as the director of Yuxi Cigarette Factory.
Like many people in this country, he had tasted hardships and been trampled for many years.
Chu Shijian, who is already 52 years old, hopes to realize the simplest and thickest thing he hopes for at this new station in life: to do more things, to do more meaningful and practical things.
In October 1979, Chu Shijian's family moved to Yuxi.
His glory and fall, pride and shame have been intertwined with this land ever since.
Despite great psychological preparation, Chu Shijian was shocked when he first arrived at the cigarette factory:
Many workers have three generations of grandchildren crammed into 28 square meters of houses, and some even have two families. Equally embarrassing is their pockets, which are paid only half of those of other factories, and many male workers have a hard time finding a partner.
In the tobacco factory area, there are flocks of chickens and ducks running around, tobacco, and scattered cigarettes everywhere.
In 1980, at a large-scale cigarette appraisal meeting in Yunnan Province, the experts only smoked the red plum cigarettes they selected, and the experts only smoked one sip and gave comments: spicy, choking, bitter.
Others laughed: red plum, red plum, first red and then moldy...
It's a chilling sight everywhere.
However, for more than a decade, this twilight tobacco factory, under his administration, has become the first "Red Tower Empire" in Asia and the third in the world, and it is also shocking to find a few numbers.
In the mid-1990s, the annual profits and taxes generated by Yuxi Cigarette Factory reached more than 20 billion yuan, accounting for 60% of Yunnan's fiscal revenue, equivalent to the total revenue of more than 400 agricultural counties.
In the past 17 years, the tobacco factory has generated a total of 99.1 billion yuan in profits and taxes.
In the high-end cigarette market, Hongtashan's annual sales exceed all domestic cigarette brands, occupying 80% of the market.
In 1995, Beijing Famous Brand Asset Appraisal Firm released the "Research Report on China's Most Valuable Brands", and Hongtashan topped the list with a brand value of 32 billion yuan. Changhong, which ranked second, was 8.7 billion yuan.
Many people sighed: this is not a tobacco factory, but a money printing factory, the difference is that the denomination of the printing factory is 100, and the tobacco factory is 200.
Naturally, he has also won a series of honors, yunnan provincial labor model, national labor model, national "May Day" labor medal winner, national outstanding entrepreneur, the national "top ten reform figures" and other titles gathered together.
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Behind these impressive, eminent figures and auras is Chu Shijian's endless efforts and sweat, obsessions and pursuits.
Everyone who walked with him in the tobacco factory knew.
Many times he and the workers took to the streets with cigarettes on their backs, and took them out one by one for someone to try to smoke.
He was in his 50s and did not sleep for 3 consecutive days in order to repair the boiler with the workers.
It is the memory of many people, at five o'clock in the morning when they go to the morning shift, they see the figure of the director of Chu Factory first.
It was an endless number of days of rushing tasks, and he spent days in the workshop every day except for business trips.
Always, he was with them, running with them, running with them.
It was a lot of personnel exclusion and obstruction, and the defendant secretly complained, so that his wife described him: he only knew that he was buried in his head, and someone beat him with a hammer, and he knew that when he looked up, who just hit me?
It is again and again to borrow loans, equipment, running broken legs, grinding mouths, and making "military orders" again and again.
It is a bold reform and innovation, and another stumbling and rising.
Always, he, with them, climbed over a mountain and looked at a higher mountain....
Just for, as he often says, two words that can be heavy or very light: responsibility.
Responsibility to a lot of people.
Just to step towards a bigger vision, the vision when you set your original intention.
However, the Italian thinker Machiavelli warned more than five hundred years ago: "Those who pursue their dreams, if they have already given, they must pay more"
In addition to brilliance, there may be something else.
In 1991, the writer Xian Yanyun received the task of writing an article about Chu Shijian, and in order not to fall into the cliché, Xian Yanyun decided to start with Chu Shijian's emotional life.
But this is a very difficult thing for Chu Shijian's family, his wife Ma Jingfen said:
I've lived with him for so many years, and so far, I don't understand his emotional world.
In her eyes, Chu Shijian is a workaholic who only has a career in his heart, for many years, she has complained about his thick lines, she has been frail and sick for many years, wandering around with him, but he almost never pays attention to her needs and feelings.
His children also received little warmth from their fathers, and in their memories, the father showed them only a tough waist and never stopping steps.
Daughter Chu Yingqun said to Xian Yanyun: I don't know his emotional world, only that his father is never weak.
But Chu Yingqun was deeply worried about his father, who was "never weak", and said to Xian Yanyun: In fact, dad should also retire, you said that he was a man like the sun, and said it well. But the aura is bigger, people will become gods, the sun will bake more, and people will be baked paste.
Chu Yingqun would not have thought that it would not be long before her father, who was as hard as rock in her eyes, had an extremely soft corner in her heart, with tears, which could not be touched.
That's her name.
She would not have thought that the phrase "the sun bakes too much, and people will be roasted" would become a proverb.
In March 1995, a letter of whistle-blowing from Sanmenxia, Henan Province, left the Yuxi Cigarette Factory in an uproar.
The letter reflects that Lin Zhengzhi, an individual tobacco dealer in Luoyang, Henan Province, colluded with the Sanmenxia Tobacco Branch to obtain cigarette targets through bribery.
In May, Ma Jingfen's sister and brother were taken away by Henan police.
In August, Chu Yingqun was also taken away from his home in Zhuhai because of the case.
In September, Ma Jingfen was taken from her home.
When Ma Jingfen was taken away from home, Chu Shijianshi was on a business trip to Hong Kong, and his friends were afraid that he would face a dangerous situation when he returned, so he advised him to postpone his trip.
Chu Shijian shook his head, his relatives are in difficulty, he must be by their side.
Besides, Chu Shijian thought that he had said it all. He had always known how heavy his pen was, so he was extremely cautious.
It is true that some leaders' children come to approve cigarettes, but he really can't escape the time, but he has never given up two principles: the procedures are complete, the amount is not large, and he always does not forget to advise: Doll, understand something, don't harm your old father.
However, no one could have imagined how powerful the storm would be since it was set off.
Chu Shijian's aura was too great, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was very concerned about this case.
After Chu Yingqun was sent to the Henan Detention Center, she reported that she had demanded a total of 36.3 million yuan, 100 Hong Kong dollars and 300,000 US dollars." (The charges were ultimately not confirmed.) ）
Years later, Chu Shijian remembers the cold winter of 1995. The special case team called to say that Chu Yingqun committed suicide in Luoyang Prison, Henan Province, leaving only a two-line suicide note.
This "sun-like man" who never shed tears immediately lost his voice and cried bitterly.
That year, Chu Yingqun was 39 years old, and her only daughter was ten years old.
When Chu Shijian saw the lawyer Ma Jun, he broke down again and said incoherently: "I'm sorry girl, she kept calling me retired, retired." Yingqun committed suicide, I'm sorry girl..."
Ma Jun said: The tears of the factory director fell down in large drops.
Chu Yingqun has been wandering around with her parents since she was a child, and she has suffered a lot with them, and her father, who has been busy, has rarely given her some warmth.
For many years, Chu Shijian felt indebted to his daughter, and when he mentioned the past, he always repeated: I am sorry for the girl....
Ma Jingfen, who was in the same detention center, was unaware of the incident, and two years later, when she was acquitted, Ma Jingfen repeatedly insisted: My daughter must not have committed suicide. She always decided that her daughter was sick.
Chu Shijian inevitably fell into grief, and in various investigations, the complicated work continued.
The honor continues.
A few days after Ma Jingfen was taken away, at the inaugural meeting of Yunnan Hongta Group and Yuxi Hongta Tobacco Group, it was announced that Chu Shijian was the chairman of both groups.
In January 1996, Hongta Group held a board meeting. At the meeting, the leaders of the Yunnan Provincial CPC Committee still praised Chu Shijian.
Chu Shijian is still a consistent style, not talking about individuals, only talking about confidence and prospects for the development of enterprises.
As he spoke, his face was calm, as always.
Some people whispered below: The director's heart is really hard, and the girl just died. But there are also more careful people who find that Chu Shijian, who has always liked to wear a gray suit, was dressed in black that day.
Besides, apart from more silence, no one showed him anything out of the ordinary.
But Ma Jun never forgot that during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1996, he went to visit Chu Shijian. The great tobacco factory was empty, and people were celebrating the festival.
When Ma Jun saw Chu Shijian, he was curled up on the sofa, with a blanket on his body, and the TV was turned on across from him, obviously not watching, his hair was messy, and his eyes were dazed.
Ma Jun said: At that moment, my heart was really uncomfortable.
However, it's not over yet.
In December 1996, Chu Shijian wanted to go to Xinping with his friends to relax, and Xinping was the place where he had stayed for nearly 20 years, just like his hometown.
When Xinping's leaders heard this, they immediately prepared to receive him solemnly, and Chu Shijian, who wanted to be quiet, temporarily changed his route to the mouth of the Red River State.
Lao Cai, a small border town between the estuary and Vietnam, is only one river away. The presence of a person under investigation at the border is too much of a suspicion.
It was here that Chu Shijian truly lost his freedom. The news that Chu Shijian was preparing to flee and was arrested at the border was soon abuzz with the news.
In June 1997, Chu Shijian was transferred to the judiciary and sent from Yuxi to the Yunnan Provincial Detention Center in Kunming.
After two long years of investigation and evidence collection, a press release was issued in January 1998:
Chu Shijian, former chairman of The Hongta Group in Yunnan Province, has made a major breakthrough in the case of serious economic violations and discipline violations after joint investigation and evidence collection. Chu Shijian was accused of embezzling public funds355 in the form of private divisions with several other leaders of the Hongta Group. $10.61 million, Chu Shijian received $1.74 million.
He admits that he is unwilling.
To put it bluntly: "In July 1995, the new president came to take over, but it was not clear who would take over. I think that after the new president takes over, I will have to hand over the right to sign. I have also worked hard all my life, I can't just hand over the right to sign, I have to think about my future, can't be bitter in vain. So I decided to privately divide more than $3 million and said to the people around me, enough! I can't finish eating in this lifetime. ”
He's actually been on the edge of a cliff all the time.
His single note can be worth millions or even tens of millions, and the number of people who try their best to find him has been endless. Even his daughter arrived at the airport and waited in long lines to catch her in the car.
He thought he had been restrained enough. But before leaving, he fell off a cliff.
After all, he was not a god, just a mortal.
After Chu Shijian was handed over to the judicial organs, lawyer Ma Jun got a power of attorney that read: I ask Ma Jun to be my lawyer and handle my affairs with full authority.
Since serving as legal counsel to the Hongta Group in 1987, Ma Jun and Chu Shijian have been dealing with each other for ten years, and have almost witnessed the whole process of the development of the Hongta Group under Chu Shijian' rule.
Ma Jun immediately expressed his position: I want to see Chu Shijian and go through the formal entrustment procedures.
Do your part for the man he respects in his heart.
On the day of the trial, Ma Jun deliberately wore a snow-white suit, and he said for a full hour and a half.
Ma Jun's defense statement contains the following sentences: "The total tax profit of Yuxi Cigarette Factory in 17 years was 99.1 billion yuan, and the distribution ratio of all cadres and workers in 17 years was 500 million, and the distribution ratio was 0." 625%, Chu Shijian's total legal income in 17 years is more than 800,000, and the proportion of personal income is one in 100,000. His entire legal income for 17 years can't even catch up with the income of a movie star's one-time advertisement, and it can't catch up with a singer's two appearance fees. ”
Many people were moved.
However, the law is not merciless.
On January 9, 1999, the verdict came out: Chu Shijian was sentenced to life imprisonment for his frank performance.
Wang Shi said that after many years, he clearly remembered that scene: Chu Shijian's head was meticulous and very neat. In that case, he stood there, very, very straight.
Hearing the results, many people burst into tears.
Many years later he said: I have estimated several sentences, and I never thought of this.
But that day, Chu Shijian just kept shaking his head and didn't say a word.
Say what? From the top of the peak straight to the bottom of the valley.
Then silence.
dignity.
Outside of him, there was a lot of noise.
This trial was later called the "Trial of the Century."
Wu Xiaobo, a famous financial writer, wrote in "Thirty Years of Turbulence": After this case was reported in the newspaper, it caused an uproar in the business circles and the media, and almost all people sympathized with Chu Bao.
Even at the two sessions in Beijing in early 1998, more than a dozen people's congress deputies from the business and academic circles and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference jointly called Chu Shijian to "shout injustice" and call for "keeping people under the gun."
Their sympathy is the same as Ma Jun's sympathy, a state-owned enterprise leader who has made such a great contribution to the national industry, is his income and contribution directly proportional?
What they asked was the same as Ma Jun's question, is chu shijian's crime unforgivable, or is our distribution system not yet perfect in an era of transformation?
Wang Shi said: "Although I think he did commit a crime, this does not prevent me from respecting him as an entrepreneur. ”
Xu Lihua, chairman of Bird Group, also did not hide his respect for Chu Shijian: "The real entrepreneur is Chu Shijian, which is the entrepreneur of China's Tianzi. Which entrepreneur in China has surpassed Chu Shijian? No! ”
After he was imprisoned, the government set up an account for his medical treatment, which contained hundreds of thousands of yuan in it, and soon, the money in the account became several million, who deposited it? I don't know.
Of course, there are different voices.
Lang Xianping commented: "The Hongta Group's Chu Shijian is corrupt, and the media sympathizes with him in every way. If the state did not allow private enterprises to do tobacco, could you have the achievements of Saving Time Jian? If the enterprise does a good job, the credit is its own, with what? Doesn't the state give you treatment and honor? ”
Wu Xiaobo summed it up this way: "The Chu Shijian Phenomenon" is a mirror that can see the ambiguity, contradictions and confusion of the Chinese business community in the concept of legal system and value judgment during the transition period.
This old man, who is positioned as "the biggest controversy since the reform and opening up", is far away from all these disputes and does not make any evaluation of himself.
In 2003, he said to Wang Shi, "Reform will have to pay a price."
It was as if everything had gone down.
In 2010, Yang Jinlin of Phoenix Television interviewed him, talking about the days when he was in prison in the past, Chu Shijian kept drinking water and paused for a long time,...... When referring to his daughter who died many years ago, Chu Shijian was silent for a long time...
Yang Jinlin asked him: "Can you say something from your heart, was the punishment imposed on you fair and unfair in the first place?"
He just said: If you look back today, I personally think that there seems to be some undeserved.
In 2015, in the face of biographer Zhou Hua, he and his wife Ma Jingfen said: "In fact, when I think about it, I should be grateful for that experience." Without that experience, there would be no today. ”
Zhou Hua said that their faces were calm and calm.
Perhaps it is true that the past is no longer making waves in the heart.
But Xian Yanyun said that when facing him, you will feel that everything you know, and when you write, you will find that he is far away from you.
How did you step by step out of the abyss?
He never liked to talk, only he knew.
After the verdict, Chu Shijian never appealed or refuted anything, and those who saw him were surprised by the peace of his face, but his body was honest, and his health deteriorated. In 2001, due to severe diabetes, he fainted several times.
In the same year, he was commuted to 17 years for good performance in prison, after which he was released on medical parole, and his condition was written on his off-prison execution approval form: diabetes, primary hypertension grade 2, and old myocardial infarction.
After his release from prison, Chu Shijian was taken to Daying Street by Ren Xinmin.
When Ren Xinmin and Chu Shijian were in a small way, when Ren Xinmin was the secretary of the Daying Street Brigade, he led the Daying Street Construction Team to renovate the dormitory of the tobacco factory, and Ren Xinmin was conscientious and down-to-earth, thus winning Chu Shijian's appreciation and trust.
After 1986, the tobacco factory in Yuxi local support some manufacturers to produce accessories, Chu Shijian gave some opportunities to Daying Street, the poor Daying Street developed rapidly, in the 90s, Daying Street has been known as the first village in Yunnan.
The outside world is rumored that Ren Xinmin is Chu Shijian's dry son, Ren Xinmin never explains, and as far as he is concerned, these few words are still too light, in his heart, in the hearts of the people of Daying Street, they have been deeply favored by him for generations.
Ren Xinmin said: Before he was in the tobacco factory, there were too many people to repay him, and he didn't need it. He encountered difficulties, and it was time for us to express our hearts.
He hoped that Chu Shijian could raise his life in Daying Street, which of course was also the wish of every family and friend.
But it was not Chu Shijian's wish.
For this man who has been strong all his life and has been running and working all his life, living with nothing to do for the rest of his life is the most important thing, he said that if he is idle, "I will be more sick." ”
Even though he's 75 years old, he says he still has to do something or he won't be reconciled.
Naturally, there are also many opportunities, and many tobacco factories are eagerly awaiting him, hoping to be a consultant for them, and the price offered is not cheap.
But Chu Shijian was determined to say goodbye to the past once and for all, and did not want to have any intersection with the old people.
The farmer's son, Su, was close to the land, and after several measurements, he took out all his family property and borrowed almost 10 million yuan to plant oranges on Ailao Mountain in Xinping Shuitang Town.
Over the decades, he has experienced great ups and downs, and his fate has gone around, as if he has returned to the original point.
In Wu Xiaobo's view, Chu Shijian's walk on the mist-shrouded, desolate and lonely Ailao Mountain was like a self-exile, saying that since the day he ascended the mountain, Chu Shijian's life had decayed with the dead wood on the Ailao Mountain.
Of course
Wu Xiaobo was wrong.
This wounded old man has a vitality that no one can imagine.
Walking up the Mount of Sorrows with him is not self-exile, but a journey to reshape life.
Years later, Wang Shi clearly remembered the situation when he first saw Chu Shijian.
On November 4, 2014, the famous entrepreneur Wang Shi climbed Ailao Mountain for the third time to visit Chu Shijian
In 2003, he walked up mount Ailao with a pilgrimage. When Chu Shijian was found, under the scorching sun, the 76-year-old former smoke king wore a gray white undershirt and squatted on the ground seriously bargaining with a plumber.
"80 pieces is too expensive, 60 pieces!"
The scene that made Wang Shi feel quite shaken was just the tip of the iceberg of Chu Shijian's daily life.
In the early stages of the orchard, he and his wife lived in a makeshift shed, which leaked wind everywhere and looked up at the moon and the stars.
Before going to the Ailao Mountain, he didn't know anything about fruit trees, so he bought all the books about fruit trees in the bookstore, often got up at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night to read books, and often got until three or four o'clock in the morning, and the brand-new books were turned over to a mess.
One of his neighbors recalled that he and Chu Shijian bought chicken manure on the same chicken farm, others were directly carrying bags, weighing, and paying money, he was different, he would pour out chicken manure, lean in front of his face to look, and also put it on the palm of his hand to pinch, estimate the moisture content, and see if there was too much sawdust.
There is a shortage of water in the Ailao Mountains, and Chu Shijian, who has not yet recovered, carries an insulin bag on his back, drips at any time, and spends several months wading through the mountains and waters to find water sources.
Abound.
Little by little, like he had always done, he did it seriously, did it with all his might, did not complain, did not sigh.
On many occasions, Wang Shi was overwhelmed with emotion and said that the 76-year-old stubborn old man, pointing to a small sapling that was only a foot tall, talked with him with great interest about the situation when oranges were hanging fruit four or five years later, when the Ailao Mountain was still full of loess.
The top Chinese entrepreneur, who has also experienced the storms, said: I thought, if I encountered such setbacks as him, at his age, what would I think?
I knew I wouldn't be as brave as he was.
A few years later, Wang Shi went up to Mount Ailao again, looked at the yellow-orange-orange fruit of the mountain, and remembered General Patton's words:
A measure of a person's success is not the height of his ascent to the top, but the resilience of his fall to the trough.
Wu Xiaobo, who is accustomed to seeing too many entrepreneurs sink, sighed: he walked out of the Ailao Mountain with his tenacious personality charm.
He did not hesitate to pay his respects: "A great personality can overcome this era in his own body." ”
Of course, more in keeping up with this era.
The sales volume of Chu Orange has increased year after year:
1000 tons in 2006;
In 2007, 1800 tons;
In 2008, 3000 tons;
In 2012, this number has a breakthrough growth, and Chu Orange has also gone from a corner of Yunnan to thousands of households.
This was a crucial year, when Yu Huafeng, the founder of the "Original Life" website, found Chu Shijian.
"Original Life" is mainly engaged in high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, which was just starting out at that time.
When others recommended "Chu Orange" to Yu Huafeng, it was only because: Chu Orange is so delicious and sells well in Kunming.
But this former famous media operator knows what kind of legend and business opportunities the name Chu Shijian means.
Considering the huge beijing market and the power of Internet radiation, Chu Shijian's niece and son-in-law Li Yaxin made a request for his original life, which could be sold, but it was ordered at 20 tons.
20 tons, which was also a great challenge for the original life with very little trading volume at that time.
Yu Huafeng fixed the tone: Sell!
But my heart was a little worried.
The slogan formulated by Yu Huafeng for Chu Orange goes straight to the hearts of the people: life always has ups and downs, and the spirit can eventually be inherited (orange).
The sweet orange evokes the memories of many people's hearts, and many young people who first learned the name of Chu Shijian also tasted another longer flavor from the orange: an old man in his 70s who fell into the bottom of the valley to start a new business, and succeeded in his 80s, there is nothing more exciting than this.
That year, Chu Orange had a new name: Inspirational Orange.
That year, an orange was hard to find. The sales volume of Chu oranges exceeded the 10,000-ton mark.
The remote and lonely Ailao Mountain also suddenly became a place of great attention, and many people rushed there, and many people treated him with a pilgrimage mentality.
Chu Shijian, who was pure and pure, was a little helpless: Why didn't you forget me?
He said to the endless stream of scripture takers: Where is it so difficult.
Where is it so hard?
If you're willing to peruse these boring numbers:
In February, the canker disease examination, four-year trees and fruit trees according to the standard of 15 leaves / plant, deducting the advance living expenses of 10 yuan / plant
When the buds are budding, use 0. 2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate + 0. 15% borax spraying.
During the full flowering period, 70-100g of nitrogen fertilizer is applied per plant according to the amount of flowers.
After the first victory is over, it is necessary to use 30-40 ppm gibberellin to protect the fruit;
When more than 70% of the trees begin the second physiological fruit drop, use 50 ppm gibberellin to preserve the fruit...
Thousands of words are omitted here.
If you also want to know, from 900 acres of barren mountains and bald ridges to 10,000 acres of fertile land, oranges from bad taste to 24:1 golden sweet-sour ratio, how many trials behind these simple numbers, failures, and how many more complicated numbers, how many footsteps, sweat, how many times can not sleep at night...
Yes, it's not that hard.
There is no leap, no immediate epiphany, no sudden appearance, but it is always as he said:
I don't consider myself a genius, but I've always been a real person.
It's just that every step is done reluctantly, and every step is counted.
Behind the inability to express it in numbers, how many times have they run out of food and how many times have they come back to life?
How many people have been swept away by the waves and cannot return once they go?
He is still there, the iron bones are there, and there is dignity at all times.
It's not hard either.
All the ups and downs, he just endured. No agitation, no resistance.
Never complain about the silent endurance, all the rain and dew, the frost, and stoicly transform them into the power to nurture new machines.
But the German educator Luanke said, "Man's greatest strength does not come from conquest, but from bearing." ”
Isn't it?
As for himself, this man who never wants to talk much, who is only willing to do more, just says: My life has never been defeated.
He's not fighting alone.
Chu Shijian's life has gone through ups and downs several times, the world is vast, people's hearts are cold, and his wife Ma Jingfen is by his side every moment, bittersweet.
When he went up to the Mountain of Sorrow to plant oranges, this old lady, who also had amazing willpower, said: "How much you plant, how much I sell."
She did achieve extraordinary results, and many people said that the old lady had a genius super sales ability.
In 2017, at the e-commerce development summit held in Mianyang, Sichuan, Ma Jingfen told 62-year-old Dong Mingzhu: "Don't retire, we do agricultural innovation and industrial innovation, and together we will promote Chinese products to the world." ”
She said that once I was Chu Mashi, now please call me Ma Jingfen, and more people have begun to call this 85-year-old lady: Ma Girl.
The joy that Ma Maiden tasted in her later years was much more than that.
In 1991, when Xian Yanyun interviewed Chu Shijian, preparing to write about his emotional life, Ma Jingfen felt that it was too difficult, she said: I have lived with him for decades, and even I do not understand his emotional world.
Now Ma Jingfen would never say that.
In 2007, after Ma Jingfen's miraculous recovery from rectal cancer, Chu Shijian, who has always been a thick line of life, began to become trivial.
He personally arranged three meals a day, and always prepared a bowl of rice and a dish for Ma Jingfen's illness. At the table, he paid attention to Ma Jingfen's diet, what he should not eat, what to eat, he reminded Ma Jingfen in time.
This tenderness, she received calmly.
Every time someone asked her, "Will you still marry Chu Lao in the next life?" The old lady always deliberately sold a pass: "I secretly told you, don't tell him." ”
"If there is a next life, I will marry him".
Ma Jingfen often said that without Chu Shijian there would be no her, and without her there would be no Chu Shijian.
But when someone asked Ma Jingfen, "Does Chu Lao Love You"?
Ma Jingfen did not answer the question of love or no love, but said: As soon as we watched TV and saw Grace and Love, we said I love you and you loved me, and immediately adjusted the stage.
For many years, they didn't treat each other much gently, but every time they were in the troughs, they fought together, ran, and faced this rough world side by side...
Always, she lifted his hoe with him, swung his scythe with him, sweated like rain with him, and filled his granary with grain. He was displaced, he was hit by water, and he was rebuilding his home. He gritted his teeth and spent his wind and rain together...
With him, smiling.
They don't sing about the wind and frost on each other's fading faces, but they know clearly where every wrinkle on each other's faces comes from, and how much sorrow and pain are hidden under the calm faces.
After all, the word love is too light, and there is no need to tell.
Not only Ma Jingfen, but everyone in the family felt his heartfelt cherishing and warmth.
He especially favored his granddaughter Yuanyuan (Ren Shuyi), who was the only flesh and bone of his daughter Chu Yingqun, who was only ten years old when Chu Yingqun died.
During the years when Chu Shijian and Ma Jingfen were in prison, Yuanyuan was fostered in Ren Xinmin's family, and thus changed his surname to Ren. In high school, Ren Xinmin sent Yuanyuan to study abroad.
In 2008, after Ren Shuyi graduated from university, Chu Shijian summoned her and her husband Li Yuxin to her side. Cultivate carefully. I also feel sorry for my heart.
Her mother-like face had his thoughts, his debts.
Round round birthday, this dizzy-eyed old man who did not say much, wrote to her with a pen, all kinds of ding-dong.
She and her husband didn't go to dinner for two days, so he came to their house early in the morning and didn't talk, just sat there and waited.
The grandson said that he thought of watermelon, so he immediately called the driver and drove more than 50 kilometers to personally bring back the watermelon.
In 2015, yuanyuan's son and daughter, one only four years old, one less than two weeks old, Chu Shijian gave each of them a book.
It reads:
"Dun Dun, grew up to be a man. We must be broad-minded, lenient to others, and strict with ourselves. Father-in-law ancestor: Chu Shijian. ”
"Tong Tong, Zu Zu likes you." We must study hard, exercise well, and become a person who is beneficial to society. Chu Shijian. ”
The love of licking the calves jumped on the paper.
His son Chu Yibin, when his father's fame was in full swing, did not want to live under the shadow and aura of his father all his life, and insisted on going abroad. In the years when his family suffered great changes, Chu Yibin was worried day and night, but he did not dare to come back, and several countries were displaced.
When Chu Shijian worked hard to start a business in Ailao Mountain, of course, he hoped for the help of his son, but Chu Yibin, who had created a foundation abroad, was a little hesitant.
At the end of 2012, Chu Shijian pleaded with his son and said: I am old and can't run, what do you think?
For thousands of miles, he still wanted his son to be by his side.
Chu Yibin knew how difficult it was for his father, who had never bowed his head in his life, to say this sentence.
Chu Yibin blurted out: I understand.
Soon boarded the plane to return home.
Chu Yibin's three children stayed in Singapore, Chu Shijian often called them, the children deliberately said that he could not understand a Yunnan dialect, when Premier Zhu went to the tobacco factory that year, Chu Shijian, who had not changed his voice, knew that the children were naughty, but he held out a stiff Mandarin for them.
For many years, Chu Shijian, who has been complained about by his wife many times and questioned by his children as too tough and lacks temperature, is there no affection?
If not, Chu Shijian would not say:
"In my life, I have encountered several obstacles of death, and at the last moment, I still have concern for my family that made me choose to live."
If there is no affection, he will not say because an author has written his emotions: "How can you understand us when you are so young?" From today onwards, we will forget to make friends.
But at that time, as he himself said: Our generation cannot escape a great sense of responsibility.
The greater care in his heart, the greater responsibility he shouldered, let him give his affection to more people, but he did ignore his family many times.
When he was exhausted and his hair was in his twilight years, he felt the warmth and comfort of the simple and determined affection of flesh and blood. I also gave more of the deep warmth, and the relatives who struggled with him and lived and died together.
However, it is also this strong family affection that makes this old man who has always been calm and calm for a while.
Since 2008, after granddaughter Yuanyuan (Ren Shuyi) and her husband Li Yuxin came to Ailao Mountain, they have been responsible for the sale of Chu oranges. Li Yuxin is serious and down-to-earth, intelligent and flexible, and is very appreciated by Chu Shijian.
He once openly told others that when he had almost cultivated his granddaughter and son-in-law, he would give them the orchard.
But with Chu Yibin's return to China in July 2013, things became delicate.
Everyone does their best, but their work habits and ways of thinking are different.
During this period, the ideas collided, and outsiders never knew. However, when the reporter asked about the inheritance issue, Chu Shijian smiled lightly: they each managed a piece, which was testing their test. Whoever does it well will take over later.
However, everyone around him could see that Chu Shijian had a lot of irritability and struggle on his face, and he was often angry about some small things.
In 2015, two press conferences with a very close time showed his helplessness and dilemma.
In October of this year, Chu Yibin held a press conference to announce the exclusive cooperation with Tmall Mall. Just 11 days later, Li Yaxin clarified at another press conference that Chu Orange had no plans to cooperate exclusively with Tmall.
The two press conferences were tit-for-tat, but Chu Shijian was present. Chu Shijian, who has been calm all his life, finally lost his composure in the face of his close relatives.
Many people say that this is the "infighting" of the Chu family and the "struggle of successors". The Chu family quickly clarified that there was a disagreement, but it was not so serious. The entanglement in the family, they never want outsiders to beak.
On January 17, 2018, chu Shijian's 90th birthday, this problem finally fell to dust.
Chu Yibin became the general manager of the newly established Yunnan Chu's Fruit Industry Co., Ltd., and Chu Shijian served as the chairman.
He left the last problem in the world for him, and Chu Shijian said: I am old, very tired, I am exhausted.
Chu Shijian autographed Chu Orange
Maybe he is really tired, since then really enjoy the life, 90-year-old him after all, in addition to diabetes, tail vertebrae and lumbar disc herniation has also become serious, to support others, in order to walk slowly.
Maybe he just sighed for a moment, 90 years old, after all, he is still clear and sharp in his thinking, and his waist is still straight.
However, none of this matters anymore.
You see the golden yellow of the mountains and the endless lushness of the Ailao Mountain, and you see the simple smiling faces of the fruit growers, which is enough.
An old bone, raise a million points of spring meaning.
enough.
Chu Shijian said that after his death, five words were written on the tombstone: Chu Shijian, a cow.
Think about his ups and downs, never stop his life, these five words, how to read, have infinite bitterness.
There is also, infinite pride.
There is a saying in him that is almost used by people, but I really can't think of a better word: man cannot be defeated, you can eliminate a person, but you just can't defeat him.
You just can't beat him.
salute. Mr. Chu.
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