This is the autumn of the imminent survival of this sincerity, this sentence comes from Zhuge Liang's teacher's list, countless literati and inkers throughout the ages have made the voice of serving the country and the people, or they are passionate and angry, or they are sad and regretful; how many warriors have done their best to save the country in danger, or to abandon their pens and bathe in bloody battlefields, or to save the country from the curve.
Only when there is a country can there be a home is the spirit that our country has inherited for many years, and it is precisely because of this idea of responsibility that we have forged the great cause of our country.
In the modern history of our country, there is such a patriotic person who saved the country with a curve. Chairman Mao once said that the victory of New China was inseparable from these four people: Zhang Zhidong of heavy industry, Zhang Jian of textile industry, Lu Zuofu of transportation industry, and Fan Xudong of chemical industry.
They made great contributions to the founding of New China, when the life and death of a country's national industry is all in the hands of an entrepreneur of a shipping company, the legend of this story is even stronger, and what we want to talk about today is the entrepreneur Lu Zuofu.
He is the representative of patriotic entrepreneurs, the hero of industry to save the country, and the cause of death of such a benevolent man in his later years is controversial.
Lu Zuofu
Born in 1893 in an ordinary family in Hechuan, Chongqing, Lu Zuofu was diligent and talented since childhood, and due to his family's poverty, he dropped out of primary school and returned home to start his own self-study.
During the Xinhai Revolution, Lu Zuofu joined the League, engaged in the anti-Qing Baolu movement, and later engaged in news editing in Shanghai, Beijing and other places. Not only that, Lu Zuofu knew very well that in order to change the country, we must start with education, improve the quality of the people, and enhance the enthusiasm for revolution. His rich experience laid the foundation for Lu Zuofu's future path, and he knew that saving the country and saving the people could not be limited to the military, but must strive for change.
Working in the Chengdu Popular Education Center, Lu Zuofu accepted the ideas of many humanities and arts, as a political and cultural center, many literati came here to discuss, traditional culture did not play a significant role in the country, and finally in 1925, Lu Zuofu decided to abandon his studies and engage in business and save the country through industry.
But the idea is easy to implement but difficult, first of all, to choose a correct direction, Lu Zuofu after so many years of observation and study, found that the upper reaches of the Yangtze River navigation industry is very depressed, and the facilities are very simple, can not play an effective and convenient transportation effect. Lu Zuofu was keenly aware of this business opportunity and quickly began to raise funds to start it.
Lu Zuofu's ship
Through continuous visits to relatives and friends and field investigations, eight thousand yuan of capital was finally raised, and looking at the hard-won venture fund, Lu Zuofu personally went to Shanghai to buy a shallow-water iron-hulled boat and opened a route in the Jialing River-Chongqing area.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, the purchase of ships and the opening of routes is the first step in the development of the company, everything is ready, he put the attention of transportation on ordinary people, due to the inconvenience of water transportation in the Jiangyu area, it has brought many inconveniences to the people around them. At first people were suspicious of him and did not dare to take his boat.
Lu Zuofu led by example, personally boarded the ship to receive passengers, and put forward the slogan of "everything for the customer", from the management down to the waiter Lu Zuofu.
Customers see him so hard to have no worries, for a time deeply loved by the people, in the community received a lot of praise, so Lu Zuofu's "minsheng" business is getting better and better, customers are overwhelmed, and gradually stepped into the right track. This was his first success in business, and it meant something extraordinary to him. In this way, Lu Zuofu began the first step of his industry to save the country.
Lu Zuofu | fourth from the right
In the summer of 1930, when the monsoon was harmonious, Lu Zuofu led the company's personnel to travel to the northeast and other places, saw what the Japanese were doing in the northeast, and knew that they were so deliberate in order to monopolize the northeast market, but the Chinese people were in a state of ignorance, which was still unknown, and once the northeast was not in the Japanese army, the consequences were unimaginable.
If you want to have a foothold, you first have a strong backer in commerce, but at this time, Lu Zuofu's shipping industry was also squeezed by the Japanese army, and many ships suffered a lot of blows.
In September of the same year, Chinese ships on the Sichuan River were squeezed out, not only the Japanese steamships were running unscrupulously on the Sichuan River, but many foreign steamship companies also tried to monopolize the steamship market, at which time the Hualun Company would face bankruptcy.
In the face of this situation, Lu Zuofu stepped forward, first of all, to solve the fundamental problems, and explicitly ordered that foreign ships entering and leaving the port must show relevant certificates. This can effectively screen those ship companies with bad intentions and can play a role in declaring China's territorial sovereignty.
Since the Opium War, our country has been a little less bloody in terms of territory, which has led to foreign ships coming to our rivers.
As soon as Lu Zuofu's move came out, it aroused the support of the general public, set a precedent for foreign ships to be inspected by the relevant Chinese departments, abolished the convention that Class A crew members must use foreigners, and proposed that foreign fleets must make compensation for damage to Chinese ships. It has boosted the morale of the people, dealt a blow to the arrogance of foreign steamship companies, safeguarded national dignity, and played an exemplary role for national enterprises.
Opium war
In addition, Lu Zuofu also advocated that all Hualun companies unite their fronts and work together to fight together. After this incident, the momentum of the Minsheng Company became more and more vigorous, and under the leadership of Lu Zuofu, the company facing bankruptcy of the Sichuan River Shipping was absorbed, and the example of the unification of the Sichuan River Route was carried out, so that the Minsheng Shipping Company was on the right track.
The reason why Mr. Lu Zuofu can be a representative of industry to save the country is his tenacious and indomitable business spirit and selfless dedication.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mr. Lu Zuofu repeatedly transferred materials to the troops to ensure the logistical work of the revolution, and made great contributions to the cause of the War of Resistance Against Japan in our country. This is also the original intention of Mr. Lu Zuofu to abandon his studies and engage in business, the victory of the War of Resistance is a factor in all aspects of the assembly, any link is indispensable, especially in terms of transportation, Mr. Lu Zuofu's Minsheng Shipping Company company during the entire Period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, rushed to transport more than 1.5 million people of all kinds, and the material reached more than 1 million tons.
What a great feat, when the meaning of a man's success is for the sake of the country, then he is already remarkable. However, it is such a meritorious person, but the cause of death in his later years is controversial.
On the evening of February 8, 1952, Lu Zuofu died at home, and the cause of death was excessive use of sleeping pills. But Mr. Lu Zuofu's life is bright and upright, how can he get to the point of taking sleeping pills?
Minsheng Company
It turned out that the Minsheng Company was not well managed in the later period, the company's income and expenditure were unbalanced, and it fell into a dilemma, which not only appeared internally corrupt contradictions, but also had a negative impact on Mr. Lu Zuofu's reputation, which can be described as internal and external troubles.
The Minsheng Company held a staff meeting in order to expose the corruption of state cadres by the capitalists, but some opportunistic lawbreakers avoided the important and neglected the important, shouted empty slogans, exaggerated their words, and made Lu Zuofu under the stage not lightly angry. In this way, mr. Lu Zuofu was crushed step by step and became the fuse for his suicide in his later years, and such an ending was really regrettable.
After the death of Mr. Lu Zuofu, the contents of the will caused extensive discussion. According to Lu Zuofu's son, the content of his father's will has never been revealed to the outside world, but there are many different versions circulating in society, most of which are rumors that are false rumors, which are basically made up for the eyeballs of the people.
Minsheng Company Conference
According to his son's statement on the content of the will, Lu Zuofu will hand over all the shares of the Minsheng Company to the state after his death, and in fact, Mrs. Lu Zuofu will do the same, which shows his political consciousness. Another point is to instruct children to take care of their mother's life and let them enjoy their old age in peace.
Although Mr. Lu Zuofu is the manager of Minsheng Company, his savings for many years have been used in charity, so that in his later years, his family was in financial distress. Seeing the letter as it was, his son could not help but be ashamed when he saw the selfless spirit of his father in the will, knowing that he did not have the courage of his father.
There is also a father in the will specifically instructed them to take good care of their mother, the family is already economically tight lest his mother's life is inconvenient, so specially left this article in the will. But when his son saw that his father was worried about his mother's life, he couldn't help but feel guilty, it was his own lack of time that would cause his father to have concerns, and then for a long time his son's family was silent and silent.
Mr. Lu Zuofu is well aware that education is the foundation of the country, and in his later years, he invested in the construction of many schools and libraries, providing educational conditions for mathematicians. Ande Guangsha has tens of millions of rooms, for the world's cold people have a place to read;
It has set up a people's livelihood company, opened up a commercial route, provided convenience for the masses of the people, and promoted economic development; dared to challenge foreign steamship companies and set a good example for national enterprises; and made great contributions to the country's industrial salvation for the people and the victory of Our country's War of Resistance.
It can be said that Mr. Lu Zuofu is the most outstanding entrepreneur in China's modern history, who has cleaned himself up all his life and has achieved success and failure in the people's livelihood. His good friend Yan Yangchu once wrote in a eulogy: A righteous gentleman like Zuo fu, a patriot, a great industrialist, should be respected by the people of the country.
Yet his end was so tragic. I grieve for my country, I mourn for my best friend. Yes, the death of such a patriotic industrialist is a loss to the people and a loss to the country. We will always remember this legendary person with reverence and inherit the spirit of righteousness for the country and the people.