Chapter 71: The State and the Nation

Their seats are just above the podium, and it is also one of the best seats in the entire stadium, and next to him is a group of dignitaries from all over the world. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhou You's family has also received special attention, and during the period before the opening, Zhou You has been busy greeting around.

But from the moment the leader entered, Zhou You sat in his place, waiting for the opening. Because he knows better than most people, or even everyone, how shocking the opening ceremony of this session is.

Even those directors and actors, when they don't see the full effect, I'm afraid they don't have a little bottom in their hearts. Only he knew that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games had become an unprecedented event.

In the later London Olympics and Rio Olympics, their opening ceremonies were extremely cold compared to this one. Zhou You, as a Chinese in his previous life, was full of pride when he mentioned the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games, no matter in front of people from that country.

Sure enough, from the beginning of the countdown, the atmosphere of the scene was immediately ignited. The neat lighting control and the rhythm of the sound made the 100,000 people at the scene stunned and couldn't help shouting.

Even if he experienced it once, he watched it on TV in his previous life, and he didn't have the shock of being part of it at all. His heart, which had always been calm in the past, was also moved by the scene in front of him, his nose was sore, and he quickly breathed a long sigh of relief to relieve the excitement in his heart.

But this excitement was irrepressible, and when the shock of 100,000 people singing the national anthem touched the softest corner of his heart, his eyes could no longer be uncontrollably moist.

In the first half hour of the opening ceremony, almost everyone was shocked by this "big scene", whether it was the picture scroll, the text, or the performance of the Silk Road, they all showed that indescribable oriental charm.

Paris and Gracia are constantly amazed by the incomprehensible culture, but it does not prevent them from appreciating the charm and beauty that blooms within.

"My dear, I don't know how to describe my shock, in the future, there should be more oriental charm in my design."

Zhou You smiled and nodded. "You can have such a very correct idea, you know, people here will get richer and richer, and the market here will get bigger and bigger."

Gracia playfully tilted her head and asked, "Then why do you keep wandering away from here?" You know, it's not just me. ”

Zhou You sighed, but he didn't want to discuss with them about the injustice and imbalance of the land and his own complicated state of mind. After a while, he sighed and said, "Maybe it's because I love deeply, but I don't know how to love......

He didn't know how to uncover his scars with two foreign chicks. Maybe it's because they can't help, maybe it's because Zhou You doesn't want to show them his ugliness. Maybe in his heart, he still regards the two of them as outsiders, although they are his wives.

National feelings are a very complex emotion, as if the son does not think his mother is ugly, and no matter how ugly his mother is, he can't let others say or scold him. As a university president said, the alma mater is a place where you can scold casually, but you don't allow others to scold you.

Zhou You has always believed that no matter how unfair the reality is, as long as it is developing, progressing, and developing towards a good trend, it is good. Therefore, he has a love for his motherland from the bottom of his heart. Because here are people with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin like themselves.

No matter how well he mixes in the white society, he is always an outsider. This sense of belonging to national sentiment has never wavered from beginning to end.

Therefore, he is only willing to let other people see the good side, see the progressive side, and not let them see the ugliest side.

Therefore, he wants his children to use Chinese as their mother tongue from an early age, which is to carve a clear national imprint on his children. Otherwise, even if it is to learn kung fu, you don't need to learn Chinese from an early age.

Only by using Chinese as his mother tongue can he appreciate the broad and profound oriental culture, this way of inner and outer, root and root, middle school as the body, and Western learning as the use, so that his children will not forget their roots.

Not only him, but even his children, no matter where they are in the future, when others ask, they can proudly say: I am Chinese.

Luckily, neither Paris nor GrΓ cia had a dispute with Zhou You about this. Perhaps because of their own existence, they also feel the depth of middle school, and they have never objected to children's education, with middle school as the main body of education.

Zhongzhen snuggled in Zhou You's arms, staring at the performance off the stage without blinking. Not only her, but also several other children watched intently, a high-level performance can make them have a deeper sense of oriental culture, and the purpose of taking them to see the performance today has been successfully achieved.

With the experience of his previous life, Zhou You has been constantly introducing the content of the performance to them, because there is a lot of content that they can understand at their age.

Just like in the text performance, the word "and" represents countless meanings. This is the condensed essence of oriental culture, not Chinese, not Chinese who received secondary education since childhood, not Chinese who understand thousands of years of oriental culture, and cannot understand the meaning at all.

During the text performance session, only Zhongxuan could roughly understand Zhou You's introduction, and a few little guys were not in the mood to pay attention to Zhou You's words at all, they were all staring, wondering if there was someone hidden under those words.

It's still too small! However, education should not be rushed, this is a long-term subtle stage.

"Dad, I know, this is Zheng He's trip to the West, right?"

"Yes, before 1850, China was the economic center of the world, and at its peak, it accounted for more than half of the world's total GDP. However, the Manchu invasion left our country backward. In order to stabilize the regime, the management policies they implemented strictly constrained the development of the economy, and the legitimate property of individuals was not effectively protected, and the merchants became the objects of the imperial court's wool cutting. More importantly, the policy of external cruelty and internal cruelty has emasculated our national temperament, and finally made our country the target of aggression by Western countries. But you must know that although we have lagged behind in the past 100 years, we have always represented the most advanced productive forces in the course of thousands of years of history. We are not afraid of being backward for a while, and as long as we make concerted efforts, our nation will soon stand up again. ”

Zhongxuan asked a little puzzled: "But why do most people in Singapore not identify themselves as Chinese?" ”

Zhou You was silent for a while, touched his little head, and said with a smile: "This is caused by historical reasons, but although they don't recognize themselves as Chinese, they all admit that they are Chinese, don't they?" Chinese and Chinese, these are different concepts. ”

Yan Fangqing watched her son discuss the problem with Zhou You one by one, and smiled with satisfaction. This son, who had high hopes for herself, did not disappoint herself at all, she had a husband and a son, she really had no regrets in her life.

Zhou You's touching made Zhongxuan particularly enjoyable, and there were four younger siblings below him, who were smaller and attracted Zhou You's attention more. Since he grew up, it was rare for him to directly feel the love of Zhou You.

In order to get closer to his father for a while, he continued along this topic: "Dad, Chinese is the name of the region, and the Chinese are the name of the nation, right? ”

He didn't expect that his son, who was only a little more than eight years old this year, would be able to understand this concept. He asked with some curiosity, "Who told you this?" ”

"It was the teacher Guwen who said that we and the Chinese are all the same roots and ancestors, which is equivalent to a family. But now it is divided into two countries by the country, which is equivalent to a separation. However, although we are not a family anymore, we are still the same people. ”

Zhou You nodded and said: "When you were first born, you were still Chinese, and now although you have become a Singaporean, you are only from this home to that home, no matter in that home, you have an identity, that is, Chinese." ”

"I know! My grandparents, uncles, and aunts are all still Chinese, and we are actually still a family. ”

Zhou You smiled with satisfaction, patted his little head and said: "Then you will grow up quickly, and when you grow up, you will act as a bridge between the two countries, so that we can become a real family psychologically." ”

Although he was still a little confused and didn't quite understand Zhou You's words, Zhongxuan still agreed simply and nodded firmly.

Nakahara suddenly shouted. "Fifth Uncle, Fifth Uncle......"

On the big screen, the athletes of the host country began to enter, and Liang Hao was also sandwiched between a group of athletes, holding a small national flag and waving it around, looking particularly embarrassed.

He likes the honest and honest Central Plains the most, and every time he buys gifts for Central Plains, he is very attentive, and he often takes him to play together. Zhongyuan also likes him very much, except for traveling, I'm afraid Paris's mother doesn't like Liang Hao more than him.

The next day, the world's major media praised the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and for the first time, many countries in the world reported on the opening ceremony without prejudice.

It is also from this year that this ancient country in the East has really become more and more "normalized" in the world, and is no longer demonized by foreign media.

In the next ten years, not only will it create a great miracle economically, but in terms of soft power, it will also be gradually recognized by Western countries and truly rise.

The Olympics are in full swing, and Zhou You also took the children to watch a few of their favorite events. However, most of his favorite programs are technical events, such as diving, such as gymnastics.

He has no love for basketball, and although he likes football, the level of football at the Olympics does not attract him.

However, there is one event that he has watched almost without missing a beat, and that is boxing. It's not because of the high level of boxing this year, but because Liang Hao and Cai Zhongwei both represented the Chinese team in the competition.

Among the three of them, Yang Enquan's strength is not weak, but he is used to the UFC arena and always unconsciously fouls the rules of boxing matches, so although his strength is very strong, he did not be able to represent the national team in the end.

Liang Hao is still a little smart and black-bellied, after a period of training, he still performed very well in the boxing ring. In the 69kg class he competed in, he made it all the way to the end and won the gold medal.

Cai Zhongwei's performance is more consistent than him, because he has always boxed in the United States, and although the rules of boxing and the Olympics in the United States are slightly different, he can quickly adapt to them.

Although his congenital conditions are not good, his stature is not high, five short and three thick, and his arms are short, but his stocky figure, super resistance to blows, and his family heirloom iron fist still won him the championship in the 81 kg class.

These two championships were not won in the previous life, and to be able to win two more championships, Zhou You was a little complacent that his rebirth had also contributed to sports.

On August 24, the boxing match came to an end, and Zhou You left the capital the next day for New York.

Lehman Brothers went bankrupt as in its previous life, and their bankruptcy brought a strong domino reaction. As a result of Zhou You's actions at the beginning, the U.S. economy was more fragile than in previous lives, and their bankruptcy led to a more drastic reaction.

For example, Warren Buffett, whose $80 billion in reinsurance for U.S. municipal bonds has lost more than 40 percent of its value. He originally thought it was a bottom-pick, but now he found out that there was a basement under the floor.

Although these book deficits can be slowly earned back in the future, at least in the past two years, the funds on hand will be very tight.

After the collapse of Lehman, the financial crisis erupted in full swing, and the world's financial markets suffered an unprecedented shock, and the entire financial market was bleak.

Even the real economy was directly affected by the financial crisis, and the largest car companies in the United States, Ford and General Motors, were hit hard and fell into bankruptcy.

The U.S. Treasury Department apparently did not expect that a single Lehman would cause such a reaction. Their treasurer, Paulson, was originally very tough, and it was he who insisted on refusing to save Lehman, which led to Lehman's bankruptcy, and now he is anxious to save the dire situation he is now facing.

In addition to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are all the hardest hit by the financial crisis. Finance ministers in Western countries have already held a number of meetings even before the Olympics are over.

However, all kinds of rescue measures are like a mantis arm as a car, and a huge amount of money has been consumed, but it cannot restore the confidence of the market in the slightest.

In the name of watching the Olympics, Zhou You turned down many invitations to economic meetings, but when Lehman went bankrupt and his assets were divided, he certainly couldn't miss it anymore.