Chapter 450: I'm Not Humble
Sitting in the back row, Ou Na couldn't hold back, and she took a translator to translate her broken English, which basically meant: "What happened just now." β
Yang Meng replied succinctly: "Rich people bully people, and I have educated them!"
Ou Na was stunned: "There is also the phenomenon of rich people bullying people in the Han Kingdom? I thought it was only in my hometown. β
Yang Meng laughed: "There are such situations everywhere in the world! There are even more such situations in Han Kingdom." β
"More here?" Oni's eyes widened, "Wouldn't it?"
Yang Meng nodded: "Do you know where the people in the world love money the most?"
Ou Na said excitedly: "I know this! You see those rappers are all lyrics like 'I have money, I love money, I have a lot of beautiful women', and eight out of ten songs are like this." β
Yang Meng shook his head: "You are really wrong, the people who love money the most in the world are our Han people." Did you know that in our Han kingdom, there is even a god who specializes in money, and we call it the 'God of Wealth'. Can you find it in your religion? Doesn't that prove how much we Han people love money?"
Ona laughed.
Yang Meng continued: "And we love money here to the extreme, you know the Han Spring Festival, right?"
Ou Na nodded: "Of course I know, many countries in the world have festivals to celebrate the Han Spring Festival, and our national capital will also have such a celebration every year when the Han Spring Festival arrives." β
Yang Meng snapped his fingers: "Then you have to say 'Happy New Year' to celebrate the New Year, right? Do you know what is the most common blessing language that people say during the Spring Festival of the Han Kingdom?"
Erna wondered, "Isn't it Happy New Year?"
"Not really. Yang Meng gave the answer: "The most common blessing we say when we see people is: Wishing you prosperity. This means that you will have more money. β
Erna was dumbfounded: "Why do you people here value money so much?"
Yang Meng nodded and said, "Why is this? Don't deny it, this person is poor, short-minded, thin, and long-term, and a person who is poor will naturally be half a head shorter when he sees a rich person, don't you feel this way when you used to be a 'playmate girl' to accompany those rich people? Ouna, don't think I'm looking down on you, I used to be a food delivery, I can meet any kind of person, all kinds of unreasonable wonders, and they may be very humble to others, but they will be arrogant to us, do you know why?"
Ona shook her head.
Yang Meng gave the answer: "In their eyes, I am poorer than them because I serve them, so they will treat me like this." But if they see me wearing a brand name and driving a luxury car, maybe they will shoot rainbow farts at me. That's human nature. People don't know how much they will be wronged when they make money! The vast majority of people in the world want to make money by kneeling to make money. β
"What about you?" asked Ona rhetorically.
Yang Meng smiled: "If I make money on my knees, I may be the richest man in the world now." But unfortunately, I don't value money. β
Long Teng said: "Master, there are roughly two kinds of people who say that they don't value money. One is that the poor don't make money, and they say that they give themselves a step;
There is an endless amount of money to spend, so what kind of money are you?"
Yang Meng pointed out his middle finger at Long Teng: "I'm not either." I don't want to be a slave to money! Well, I can't make it up, I'm in the second categoryγγγγγγ Do you know how much the municipal hospital gave me a few months' commission on medicines? Tsk, I'm lying down to earn money now, and those prescriptions are cash cows! You said that I played around during this time, but the money I spent was not as fast as I was. Of course, it's a bit shameless for me to say that, after all, I don't have any real luxuries like houses, cars, yachts, and private jets? I can't afford the big villa either. But I'm not in a hurry. β
Ou Na asked curiously, "What did you mean when you said that you were a villain?"
Yang Meng laughed: "Ou Na, the rarest thing for people is to maintain a balanced mentality, we have a saying in Han China, called 'honest children make big trouble', if those who are bullied get power, it is definitely a group of people who bully people more ruthlessly." Why do those 'second generation' and 'nouveau riche' often do things that make people speechless? Just because their lives have suddenly changed drastically, they can't keep their minds normal. I'm one of those people. I'm so poor that I'm going to die, and suddenly I have money, and you want me to keep my heart? I'm sorry, I can't do it, I'm just an ordinary person and not a saint. I also like to show off, and I like to show off. The fact that I can do it without actively bullying people shows that I am kind. But just because I'm kind doesn't mean I'm a bully, and if someone messes with me? I'm sorry, you're messing with the wrong person!"
Ou Na pondered for a moment and said, "As far as I know, Han people are 'humble', but you don't seem to be like that. β
Yang Meng said with a smile: "It is said that the Han people are humble, and there are all kinds of humble chicken soup for the soul on the Internet." But let's be honest, the normal operation of the world depends not on success, not on chicken soup for the soul, but on logic, don't you think it's a bit illogical to be 'humble' all the time?"
"Illogical?" Long Teng didn't understand what Yang Meng meant.
Yang Meng smiled: "'Humility' is just a social attitude, anyone can be 'humble', anyone can not be 'humble', our people have received a kind of 'modesty is a virtue' education since childhood, and dislike people who are not humble, but you tell me, is this 'humility' really useful for people's success? To put it bluntly, too much humility is a kind of 'deception', why am I so humble?"
"I remembered that I was watching the 'memoir series' of Sherlock Holmes, and there was a case called 'The Greek Translator,' in which Holmes said 'his brother is smarter than himself,' and Watson thought he was being humble, so Holmes said, 'Dear Peanut, I object to the notion that modesty is a virtue.'" For logicians, everything is what it should be, and underestimating oneself is as much as exaggerating one's talents. So, if I say that McCroft is more observant than I am, then you can assume that what I'm saying is true
βγ His point of view is very similar to yours. β
Yang Meng glanced at Long Teng: "Show that you read a lot of books, right?" Okay, I do mean that. It's not interesting to be too modest. It's good to have one thing to say. Of course, if you are not modest in the Han Kingdom, you will think that you are an 'alien' and attacked by a group. You are like ridiculing on the Internet, 'I don't know my wife, I am beautiful, Jingdong is strong, I have nothing, I am the king of real estate, I am an ordinary family, Tencent Ma, and Ma's father repents of creating Alibaba', they are the 'four B kings', and in the end, the position they are in is not enough, which is really true for those four people. They now have enough wealth, and if they were to say something that they wouldn't do, maybe someone else would say more than they said!"
Ou Na smiled after hearing this: "Yang, you're right, it's really hard to keep your heart, if I have money, I'm sure I'm going to be full of luxury, well, I'm going to buy a house dedicated to beautiful clothes and shoes! It's all custom-made------ you know, it's really difficult to buy the right clothes for my body type!"
Long Teng nodded and said: "Ou Na, when you go back to Handong, I will introduce you to a tailor and ask her to help you make a few clothes------- we Han people will 'write wheel eyes', what style do you want?" There is a tailor street in Handong, where everyone does this work. β
"Thank you!" O Na asked rhetorically, "Yang, isn't it good to be humble?"
Yang Meng smiled: "No one says it's bad! I'm talking about being too humble." You're a billionaire, do you have to live like a beggar? That's not humility, that's miser. Shall I tell you a story?"
"Yes, yes!" said Ona.
Yang Meng said: "In the Han Dynasty, there is an ancient book called "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which records a 'gentleman's country', saying that in this country, whether it is the ruler or the common people, all of them are well-dressed and elegant, and they have a kind personality, they are polite in their speech, never quarrel with others, they are humble to each other when they walk, and even the tigers of their country are influenced by them, they do not eat people, and even become people's good partners for others to call. It is said that when they do business, the seller sells the best goods and receives the least money, while the buyers desperately pay more for the inferior goods, and it takes half a day to make a transaction. Ona, do you think this kind of world is really good?"
Ona shook her head desperately: "That's definitely not good! It's very similar to Thomas More's Utopia." β
Now everyone knows that 'utopia' stands for 'a good place in a dream place', in fact, the 'utopia' in the mouths of different scholars is different, for example, Plato's utopia is a totalitarian country, people are divided into different classes, and there are even slaves, and people of each class do what they have to do, while the utopia in the mouth of Hippodamus is a country where the inhabitants are equal and there are no slaves, and the Adamian utopia is that everyone returns to the primitive society, and everyone eats fruit without clothes and does not workγγγγγ And the 'utopia' in the mouth of Thomas More, a corrupt countryman, is very similar to the country of gentlemen.
Yang Meng said with a smile: "A country composed of 'humility' sounds good, and people compliment each other, but how can such a country develop? β
Long Teng glanced ahead: "Master, stop talking! Let's turn right and arrive!"
"Okay!"