Chapter 21: Declaration of War
If the previous remarks showed Bai Yu's attitude, then what he said just now showed the attitude of the southern government represented by Premier Bai.
Although Gu Shuhan thinks that he has excellent technology and is not afraid of the provocation of foreigners, it is always a happy thing that the local government is willing to support himself instead of foreigners. Gu Shuhan's tense cheeks eased a lot: "Thank you, Premier Bai, for me." This time, her tone was much more solemn.
Bai Yu's help can be said to be the care of the partner, which is private; Premier Bai's statement is the attitude of Premier Bai, Qin Lao and other high-level officials, and it is public, and the attitude is naturally different.
"Finally, Bai Shao asked me to tell you that not only Mr. Gu Zhenghong has a newspaper under his name, but he also has it. If you need to, you can always post a message. ”
Is there a war of public opinion?
Gu Shuhan was stunned and didn't rush to refuse. Anyway, she owes Bai Shao a favor this time anyway, so it's better to be generous. If the two cooperate in the future, she can repay the favor in the form of concessions.
Public opinion, if used well, is indeed a sharp blade. Besides, she really needs it at the moment, and she has no reason to refuse.
Seeing that Gu Shuhan nodded, the person who came to deliver the message left satisfied.
He successfully completed this task, Bai Shao has to give him a generous bonus, after all, running errands and sending people to find out the news is also very tiring, and being Bai Shao's assistant is simply exhausting.
Gu Shuhan didn't expect that Gu Zhenghong would get involved in this matter after making a bunch of promises in front of Bai Yu just now, probably in his mind, the Bai family would not abandon the skills of foreigners and choose her.
That's it, after this incident, find an opportunity to publish in the newspaper and sever the father-daughter relationship with Gu Zhenghong, since he can't understand people's words, then he has to take some means. According to Zhenghong's temperament, if she doesn't do things perfectly, I'm afraid that he will always have illusions. Before severing the relationship, he has to make Gu Zhenghong's reputation bad, he likes to do the way of villains, so it's no wonder that she uses these to attack him.
However, these are the things that need to be considered later, and at present, Gu Shuhan is focusing more on the affairs of the factory. She first went to a newspaper under Bai Yu's name, and asked the newspaper's reporter to record all the contemptuous attitude of the person in charge of the foreign factory towards Huaguo industry and even the whole of Huaguo, and printed many copies overnight.
The next day, the intellectuals who saw the newspaper were furious. Although they recognize the strength of foreign factories, they are all very bloody, foreigners not only insult Huaguo technology, but also insult them, in the territory of Huaguo, especially in B City, they dare to be so arrogant, they absolutely can't bear this breath!
All of a sudden, countless literati rose up, wrote articles, wrote poems, and criticized these lawless foreigners, and found fault with them to the point of being useless. A certain famous composer wrote a song about this incident, and let the newspaper boys on the streets and alleys sing it, not only to wave the attitude of ridicule towards foreigners, but more importantly, many ordinary people who do not read newspapers also know about it!
If a few days ago, there were countless people who ridiculed Gu's factory for its incompetence, then today, a few days later, no one speaks for the foreign factory anymore. Once an idea is formed in the minds of the masses, although it is deeply ingrained and difficult to change, if something provokes their rebellious mentality, they will not hesitate to defeat it without hesitation and without reason.
――You say that the things produced in your factory are good, but I want to say that the things produced in Gu's factory are good, what can you do to me? The mouth grows on me, and I have the final say! You scold me, and you want me to praise you? There are no doors!
Soon, the foreign factory, which was originally proud and waited for Gu to be scolded and shut down, found out that they just said a few words of "truth", and these fools turned around and scolded them, how ugly and ugly the scolding was! Completely ignoring the fact that the industry of the Great X Empire is hundreds of times stronger than theirs!
Deeply angered by the noble citizens of the Great X Empire, who had been insulted by the "inferior people", he began to fight back against the stupid untouchables. However, after all, he only has one mouth, and all the foreigners in the factory combined, there are only dozens of mouths in total, how can he be able to compete with thousands of mouths and those ubiquitous hateful pens?
In the first round of the battle, the glorious and great citizens of the Great X Empire were defeated.
However, the factory owner believes that the truth will not be obscured by lies, and he will fight to the end against the factory that cheated and the stupid people who support it!
The aftermath of the first public opinion war has not subsided, and the second public opinion war has been quickly set off.
I don't know where the reporters searched for a number of private enterprises that once had great potential, but eventually collapsed tragically under the suppression of foreign factories, this time light industry, heavy industry, etc., are involved, and the enterprises are wide and spread all over the country. The people who had just had a round of fight with the factory owner found out that there were so many good seedlings in their own country, and if they had the opportunity to develop again, maybe now the momentum would catch up with the foreign factory! It's a pity that this qiē has all been ruined by despicable foreigners! What do you say about the industry of the big x empire is strong, and the industry of China is not good, it is clearly a good thing they do!
The enraged people poured all their anger on the heads of foreign factories, regardless of the actual possibility that "if those enterprises continue to develop, they may be able to catch up with and surpass the empire", anyway, all mistakes are the fault of the empire!
Recently, several high-level executives in the factory have not dared to travel blatantly, otherwise they will be caught and smashed vegetables. wanted to invite the soldiers of the Great X Empire to maintain order, but all the soldiers of the Great X Empire were driven away. As businessmen, they had no choice but to use their own strength to fight against these barbarians.
Soon, the third round of newspapers came out again. Unlike the first two rounds of hard artillery - bombardment of foreign factory owners, this time the report is quite sensational.
"Gu's factory, will it become the next hope to be stifled by foreign factories?"
People who read this title are moved and bitter, anyway, believe it or not, the quality of the things produced by the Gu factory is higher than that of the foreign factory, psychologically, most people have begun to support the Gu factory.
Once people have feelings, they have tendencies, and what Gu Shuhan did was not just to gain sympathy from public opinion, but to erase the preconceived judgment of his own people about Gu's factory and foreign factory, so that the two could return to the same starting line.
Public opinion has taken the lead, and next, you can officially declare war on foreign factories from the technical level!
This time, the foreign factory will face a situation where no one favors it, and no one even expects it to win.
Gu Shuhan quickly rushed back to her factory to mobilize. Her three factories, including an expanded cement and steel plant, as well as a new weapons factory, are now mostly idle because of frequent cancellations by employers who placed orders.
To be honest, when they first heard that they were going to fight in a foreign factory with mature technology, they were very desperate.
Although they admit that the technology of Gu's factory is much more advanced than before under the leadership of Gu Shuhan, they are naturally lacking in self-confidence in the face of foreign factories and foreigners. It's not that they don't believe in Gu Shuhan, but these psychology caused by the historical environment are really difficult to change.
Later, when they saw the three waves of newspapers published by the newspaper office, public opinion completely fell to them, and their hearts were also dark.
Although he has been oppressed for many years, who doesn't want to be able to stand up and proudly say "I am Chinese" when facing foreigners? Who doesn't want to fight for face in front of this group of people who have long despised them and ridiculed them?
However, they dare not have extravagant hopes, so they can only bury this wish deep in their hearts, afraid that if they say it, they will be ridiculed for being whimsical, and they are even more afraid that they have always had such hopes, but they will never be able to realize it.
It's an ambivalence of hope and despair.
Even if someone sues them that they have mastered a technology that is not inferior to that of foreigners, they probably don't dare to really believe it.
However, standing in front of them now is Gu Shuhan, the Gu Shuhan who brought them to stand up from the predicament, and the Gu Shuhan who created the current Qiē!
It was she who turned the tide and brought new life to the factory, she knew the factory best, she was skilled in those complex techniques, and she knew a lot of knowledge that they had never heard of before. Since she thinks she can fight, she should fight, she must fight, what reason do they have to be afraid before fighting? Since many Chinese people are now expecting them to fight with foreign factories, what reason do they have to flee without a fight?
If they lose, the biggest loss will definitely not be them, but the owner of Gu's factory, Gu Shuhan.
She wasn't afraid, what were they afraid of! The worst outcome is nothing more than starting all over again! And what if you win...... In case they win, they can win back the dignity they have been deprived of for many years!
At this moment, everyone's body was full of fighting spirit.
Gu Shuhan walked in front of each of them with her backbone straight like a fearless female warrior.
Perhaps, there is a spirit that can really be contagious; Perhaps, there is a kind of courage that can really make people fearless.
In the end, Gu Shuhan stood still in front of everyone, and his tense face showed a smile that seemed to be proud and gratified.
"Good." She said: "Since you trust me Gu Shuhan, I will definitely bring you a satisfactory answer." ”