Another big reason why the periodical market in December was full of gunsmoke and why Gowen as an author was in the spotlight was the December issue of Reader's Digest.

In the last issue of Reader's Digest, because of Govine's Rise of Great Power column, not only did not lose sales due to the change of title, but went up to a new level because of it. As soon as this issue of "Small Country, Big Cause" came out, readers who had been speculating and arguing with others for a month by the questions left at the end of Gowen's "Ocean Age" finally put their minds at ease.

Looking at the second article on the rise of this great power, the vast majority of readers couldn't help but applaud.

"A Small Country, a Big Cause" tells the story of how the Dutch earned the world-famous title of "Coachmen of the Sea".

In the 17th century, the Netherlands, the size of two and a half Beijing, created a global business empire with a series of modern financial and commercial systems. They formed the world's first joint stock company to gather capital, monopolizing half of global trade at the time; They built the world's first stock exchange, three hundred years before the stock exchange in New York, and the capital market was born; They also pioneered the modern bank and invented the credit system that we still use today.

From this article, readers understand that in order to become a great power, all it takes is an innovative system.

This kind of article that arouses readers' interest and thinking really tickles everyone's itch and makes all readers feel very new.

And those national journals that have never published their views when they saw this "Small Country, Big Cause". He began to hesitate in his heart - it seemed that Govin really had such a talent to write such a brilliant masterpiece by himself.

For a time, the discussion in the editorial offices of these newspapers about whether or not to publish their own views and opinions became hot.

Eventually, the newspapers began to diverge.

For ordinary people, the Economic Daily may be a newspaper that makes them feel a little unfamiliar. But this is the same newspaper that was only launched on January 1, 1983. It embodies the Chinese government's boundless ambition and ambition, and can almost be said to be the window and standard-bearer of the reform and opening up policy and modernization.

Sponsored by the State Council and under the leadership and management of the Central Propaganda Department, this central-level party newspaper is an important public opinion front of the party Central Committee and the State Council in guiding the economic work of the whole country, and is an important channel for the party and the state to issue economic policies.

Therefore, this newspaper focuses on publicizing the principles and policies of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on economic work; The method of continuous reporting is mostly used to put forward major issues and events that have emerged in the course of economic reform, and to pay attention to the exploration of economic theories. Most of the articles on it are articles by influential and theoretical expert scholars in China. Idle writers simply cannot and cannot afford to publish their own articles on it.

Since its inception, the Economic Daily has quickly become the largest comprehensive and authoritative newspaper in China, focusing on economic reports.

The newspaper then became the most important window for readers at home and abroad to understand the trends of China's economic development.

On this day, in the latest issue of the ninth edition of the "Today's Guide," the "Economic Daily" published a long commentary by Zhang Weiying, dean of the School of Economics and Management of Peking University, entitled "I Personally Emphasize Innovation."

Today's Guidebook edition generally publishes articles that analyze news events and news backgrounds in depth. "Readable, fresh, healthy and useful" is its motto.

This edition focuses on the macroeconomic situation and trends, and generally provides an in-depth analysis of economic policies, economic events, and economic figures. Because of the humanistic color of its reports, as well as the characteristics of depth, cutting-edge, professionalism and relaxation, it has always been the attention of readers of this newspaper.

And Zhang Weiying's "I Personally Emphasize Innovation" review is based on Gowen's "Small Country, Big Cause". This has to be said to be a big accident. All readers of this newspaper were dumbfounded.

Here is a brief introduction to Dean Zhang Weiying.

Dean Zhang is an expert in economics of the older generation in China, and before the Cultural Revolution, he had already published articles in public journals reflecting on the theory of "big pot rice" and thinking about the traditional Chinese theory of unitary public ownership. And it was his research that made this old man in his fifties locked up in a cowshed and turned into a counter-revolutionary during the Cultural Revolution.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Dean Zhang continued his own research, and then for the first time proposed the "theory of planned commodity economy", a research and innovation that broke through China's economic theory.

In other words, Dean Zhang was unusually surprised after reading Gowen's "Small Country, Big Cause". Perhaps the average reader has just learned some historical knowledge from this article; Perhaps when other economics scholars read this article, they are more interested in examining whether the economic views in this article are correct; However, Dean Zhang analyzed the true meaning that Govin really tried to express from this article "Small Country, Big Cause". Understood the real purpose of what Govin wanted to express!

So, he enthusiastically wrote this review titled "I Personally Emphasize Innovation".

It happened that a reporter from the Economic Daily interviewed him for other things. So after Zhang Weiying was interviewed by the reporter, he handed the reporter the comment he had written, and then asked if the comment could be published in the "Economic Daily".

Then, through the discussion of the editorial department of the "Economic Daily" and the opinions of the leaders in charge above, "I Personally Emphasize Innovation" appeared in the latest issue of the newspaper.

In the commentary, Dean Zhang Weiying wrote-

The Reader's Digest column on the rise of a great power is very meaningful. China's backwardness is actually only the history of the past 300 years, so in the past 300 years, these countries in the West have risen one after another, but China has become more and more backward, why is this happening?

The series of articles on the rise of great powers can give more readers an understanding of how Western countries have developed and grown up in the past 300 years. This is very important for our country. Especially in many of our understandings, we can agree on a view, like that. Only then can the next step of our country's development be relatively smooth.

If we look at the major changes in various countries in the past 300 years, the first thing we notice is that you have to open up, if you don't open up a country, it will be difficult for you to develop, this is a very important lesson, our history in the past 300 years, has also proved this conclusion in practice.

And then it's like what is written in this article "A Small Country, a Big Cause". You must adhere to a good market economic system. That said, if we're talking about why Britain was able to bring about the Industrial Revolution, it's not really a technical issue. It was actually a constitutional government and then gave more freedom to the nation, so that people could exchange through the market, and that made Britain a powerful country in the world. It's what the economist Adam Smith said, the invisible hand. Very important.

At the moment, though, we've only seen the two articles written by Govin about Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands. But I believe that if Govin were to continue writing this series, he would have written about England!

And I believe that if Govin is going to write about the rise of Britain, he must write about the British market economy!

There is no doubt about it!

In fact, the essence of the market economy is to let everyone take the initiative and be creative, in fact, we see it in any country. Only when we can mobilize the enthusiasm of every ordinary person can the economy develop well.

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Back to the series of articles on the rise of great powers. I think first of all, the topic is very good. Especially when China is implementing the policy of reform and opening up, all people are feeling the stones to cross the river, and even the country is carefully groping and probing, the series of articles on the rise of this great power can not only make everyone start to think about how China can re-emerge in the forest of the world's nations, but also unify the thinking of all of us and let everyone keep moving forward.

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Zhang Weiying's economic research can be said to be fruitful, and his works are endless. As a scholar and expert with great influence in the field of economics in China, he is often invited by national leaders to provide economic advice and opinions to national leaders. So as soon as his comment in the "Economic Daily" came out, it gathered countless eyes.

For Govine's series of articles on the rise of a great power, if at the beginning, the focus of most people's attention was to understand the history of the West, or only the thinking and reflection of ordinary people, or only the examination and attention of Western historians and experts, then starting with Zhang Weiying, this series of articles on the rise of a great power began to attract all intellectuals, elites in all public fields, scholars and masters in various professional research fields, history, political science, economics, sociology, law, international relations... …

Following in the footsteps of the Economic Daily, the Workers' Daily published a special newsletter in the newspaper the next day -- "If you learn the advantages of others, you are the best."

In this newsletter, which represents the official attitude of the "Workers' Daily", it is written-

In the process of reform and opening up, in the current situation of peaceful rise, China must pay attention to having a global vision, have a very sober understanding of world history, and in particular, sum up the lessons and lessons of the rise and fall of the world's great powers, as a good reference for ourselves, and learn from the basic function of history. Then, turning these advantages of world civilization into our own wealth, this is what we should realize through the series of articles on the rise of great powers.

Every nation can exist in the world until now, can be ahead of the world for a while, it has its strengths, it has its advantages, if we can take the strengths and advantages of each country, truly understand, can learn, can turn into our own things in China, then we must be the strongest, must be the best.

You've learned all the good things about others, aren't you the best? China also has its own glorious history, and China also has its own glorious present, and our purpose is to maintain our glory for a long time. At the same time, we can interact with other countries on an equal footing and communicate with each other. Mutual promotion is our main purpose.

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The series of essays on the rise of the great power of Govin combines documentary and history, which is equivalent to the structure of knowledge plus history. There is no doubt that this kind of writing will attract readers. However, a topic that had caused a sensation and heated discussion among readers, ordinary people, and Western historical circles was reported by these first-line newspapers in China, and it suddenly became a hot topic for all strata of the country.

Just as one evaluates Shakespeare's plays, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand spectators. It is believed that with the publication of subsequent articles on the rise of great powers, this reflection and discussion on the rise of great powers will inevitably become more and more prosperous, until it becomes a collective exploration party for the whole of China.

And this-

Exactly what Govin wanted!

The hustle and bustle outside had little to do with Govyn. After sending the rest of the articles from the Rise of Great Powers series to Zheng Yuanxu of Reader's Digest, Govin finally began to devote his energy to his ordinary but fulfilling life.

The hazy poets who had come from all over the country had all left, and the students from Fudan University and other colleges and universities who had come to help were no longer running to Gowen's house. And Gu Cheng is about to leave Shanghai.

In the past two months, this mild-mannered and talented young poet not only helped Govin plan and organize this hazy poetry exhibition, but also fulfilled the biggest purpose of his trip to Shanghai -- all the thousands of copies of "Shu Ting's Selected Lyric Poems of Gu Cheng" were sold, and the poetry tour lectures in various universities and factories were also successfully completed.

On the 5th of December 1983, the weather was fine. The daytime in Shanghai is still so relaxed. Except for a little bit of humidity in the air.

Ge Wenzheng and Lin Yiming were standing outside the crowd, quietly looking at Gu Cheng in the middle of the crowd.

This was Gu Cheng's last poetry speech, which was in a large machinery factory in Shanghai, and Gewen and Lin Yiming specially asked for leave to support Gu Cheng.

The crowd was silent.

Everyone stood there quietly, looking at Gu Cheng standing on a chair in the middle, and at this moment he was reciting his poems with all his heart.

Because of the hazy poetry exhibition of "Harvest", more and more readers have fallen in love with hazy poetry and poetry, and various small groups about poetry have sprung up on the ground like bamboo shoots after the rain.

And now is the time for the hazy poets to enjoy the results!

Gu Cheng is an excellent poet. Naturally, his works were published in the hazy poetry exhibition of "Harvest", plus his previously intermittent published poetry works. At this time, he had already become a representative poet of hazy poetry, and his fame had already surpassed his poetry itself, just like the singers and movie stars of later generations, he was worshiped as an idol and respected by everyone from the bottom of his heart.

After Gu Cheng finished reciting one of his poems, he took a slight breath and lowered his head to look at the dense crowd around him.

Now the place where they are is the big canteen of this machinery factory, although several poetry lovers from the machinery factory have posted advertisements in advance, but when the poetry recital really began, Gu Cheng still underestimated everyone's enthusiasm for poetry.

The large cafeteria of seven or eight hundred people was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and the seats that had been planned were abandoned by enthusiastic people, and they just stood on the ground, and no one was willing to sit down, and everyone's faces were full of excitement, and everyone's eyes were full of enthusiasm and sincerity.

Gu Cheng looked at the lively scene in front of him and was very proud in his heart, not for his own works, but for hazy poetry, for modern poetry; Not for themselves, but for the poets of hazy poetry, but for the authors of modern poetry.

With such lovely readers, what more could you ask for!

"Thank you, I'm thrilled and excited by your enthusiasm." Because of the loud recitation before, Gu Cheng's voice was a little low, "Before the speech began, this cafeteria was empty, very empty, and I was worried that there would be no audience for today's speech. Then I saw all of you, and my nervousness finally became more secure. It is precisely because of you friends who love poetry that we poets have the motivation and source to work hard! ”

"I'm really happy to be here today. When I was reciting just now, everyone was listening carefully, and there was no sound in the whole cafeteria except for everyone's gasps, and I could even hear the beating of my own heart, which was a great experience! ”

Gu Cheng raised his head, looked at everyone, and suddenly an irrepressible emotion surged in his heart:

"Two months ago, I was worried about my life and I was running around for my poetry collection...... Sometimes I wonder, after all, can poetry be a profession? Is it worth my efforts, and if not, should I just leave......"

“…… It was Harvest magazine's hazy poetry exhibition that gave me hope and made me want to persevere. And today, seeing you, I am even more convinced that I must go on the road of poetry, and I want to create better works for you, more works! ”

"A friend of mine, a poet whom I love and admire, once said that man should inhabit the earth poetically!"

"Now I will recite a poem by this friend of mine, this "Wheat Field" is the best work in the "Harvest" magazine hazy poetry exhibition in November, if you have a friend who knows, please recite it with me!"

Brothers all over the world

Hug in the wheat field

East, South, North and West

Four brothers in the wheat field, good brothers

Looking back

Recite their respective poems

Hug in the wheat field

Sometimes I sit alone

In the wheat field of dawn dreams brothers

I saw the pebbles of my hometown rolling all over the river beach

The sky is always curved at dusk

Let the earth be filled with villages of sorrow

Sometimes I sit alone in the wheat field and recite Chinese poems for my brothers

No eyes, no lips

…… (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )

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