In the depths of winter, Taiwan is still as warm as spring, and Sun Ziming bathes in the warm sunshine and walks into the auditorium of Soochow University. In the thunderous applause, Sun Ziming, who was smiling on his face, walked onto the podium, still wearing the same T-shirt, jeans, and travel shoes. Looking at the thin figure on the stage and his long gray shawl hair, the young students were excited, adding a little sadness or emotion.

Standing in front of the podium, Sun Ziming knocked on the microphone, and when the audience was quiet, he smiled and said: "My life experience is different from everyone, and my experience and opinions have no reference value for everyone, so I only elaborate on my own views and opinions, and do not answer everyone's questions." ”

The audience laughed and applauded, Sun Ziming's speeches in the past few days have been like this, only expressing what he wants to express, and not answering any questions from the students. Some students at National Taiwan University asked him about his views on the Three People's Principles and some people at Tsinghua University asked him about his views on cross-strait relations, but he turned a deaf ear.

When a reporter from Taiwan TV asked Sun Ziming why, he only smiled, "Everyone must learn to think about problems with their own heads, not others." Those students who ask me questions should seriously observe and think on their own, instead of asking me as a film director. ”

When the audience was quiet again, Sun Ziming delivered what would later be called 'Sun Tzu Ming's Question':

“…… I don't understand, since both sides of the strait recognize one China, why can't they allow their people to move freely on their own territory?

What does the difference between the two sides matter to us ordinary people? The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, the rise and fall of political parties and the rotation of political power, what do we have to do with the people? ”

Thousands of teachers and students in the audience were stunned, but Sun Ziming still gushed endlessly: "I don't believe in the Three People's Principles, nor do I believe in the mainland's political proposals, I only believe in the family and the country, and I am only willing to contribute to the rise and fall of the world!"

Yesterday, when I gave a speech at Furen, I told you that 'how great the ability is, how great the responsibility is', the purpose is to tell you that I still miss half a century ago, when there were many masters! ”

In the confusion of everyone, Sun Ziming suddenly announced: "I think the inheritance of wealth should not be dynastic, but should give back wealth to the society."

Here, in the auditorium of Soochow University, I solemnly announce that within one year, I will donate $300 million to three private universities in Taiwan, namely Furen, Soochow and Tamkang, to establish a scholarship named after my wife to support students from poor families to complete their studies. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Ziming paused slightly, swept his eyes over the stunned teachers and students below, and continued: "If the Taiwan government and the mainland government can agree to exchange and study with students on both sides of the strait like Hong Kong, I will donate one billion US dollars to set up a Chinese youth education fund to fund Chinese students from all over the world to come to Taiwan to exchange and study with everyone!"

That's the end of my presentation, thank you! ”

After the speech, Sun Ziming bowed slightly, and Shi Shiran walked off the podium, and the teachers and students below were still dumbfounded. When he was about to walk out of the auditorium, everyone woke up like a dream, and a tsunami of applause rang out behind him.

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Sun Ziming is not an ordinary person, a contemporary film master, a music master, a business tycoon, a philanthropist... A series of titles shine brightly. He gave speeches at several universities, and Taiwan's major media followed the whole process, and the previous speeches of "feelings for the family and country" and "ability and responsibility" have already made sensitive media reporters guess something, but they didn't expect to wait for such a bombshell!

Sun Ziming's films have won the four most important film awards in the international film industry, Best Film and Best Director, and he is also in charge of the four major film companies of American Light and Shadow, Universal, Hong Kong Light and Shadow, and Mainland Light Media, and has faintly become the first person in the world to make films; The song "The Sound of the Waves" perfectly combines classical Chinese poetry and music, creating a new genre of Chinese music.

His commercial achievements are equally impressive, with the Carrefour supermarket chain, Hanhua Electronics, Guangsha Group, Far Eastern Bank, Hong Kong and North American Light and Shadow Group being among the giants of Asia and the United States. Financial reporters from across the Taiwan Strait and the three places have often made bold speculations that if the above-mentioned companies make their financial situation public, will Hong Kong's Li Chaoren immediately lose his throne as the richest Chinese in the world? As for the future, almost everyone thinks that Mr. Superman may not even be ranked among the top five rich Chinese, because in addition to the main members of the Sun and Hu families, there has been another chairman of Hanhua Electronics and former famous singer Hu Weiguo in the past two years.

Thanks to Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo's opening up of the party ban and newspaper ban eight years ago, the Taiwan media quickly reported the content of Sun Tzuming's speech in various forms, and almost instantly became the number one explosive news on the island.

In 1996, the gold price was US$418 per ounce and the average spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) in the United States was 18. $97/barrel. How much is $300 million worth? How much is a billion dollars? These do not need to be calculated by reporters, ordinary people can directly use their salaries and daily living expenses to figure it out.

Three private universities that will receive the largest private endowment ever? If the Taiwan authorities allow mainland students to come to Taiwan to study, will Sun Tzuming donate another billion dollars?

For a while, the streets and alleys of the whole island of Taiwan were talking, what did Sun Ziming want to do? Because in the eyes of Taiwanese, even if Sun Ziming has a dual passport of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, a world-recognized film master and a Chinese-recognized music master, he is an out-and-out mainlander!

That's right, even if the Taiwanese have gained complete freedom, and even allowed mainland films to be screened in Taiwan and participate in the Golden Horse Awards, they still continue to have a habitual thinking that has lasted for decades -- hostile to the regime on the other side, their first reaction is that it is a lot of $1.3 billion, and the second reaction is whether Sun Tzuming represents the government on the other side? If not, what exactly does he want to do?

Also thanks to Taiwan's freedom of speech and Sun Tzu's popularity, his speech was also passed through the European and American media in Taiwan, and quickly became a global topic.

The media in Europe and the United States are different from the Taiwanese media, they have not experienced decades of hostility and confrontation in the Taiwan Strait, and in contrast to Sun Tzuming's habit of staying away from politics, standing on a relatively fair standpoint, they quickly gave similar views: China clearly wants to replicate the success of the China-Hong Kong Youth Exchange Fund, so that students on both sides of the strait can exchange and understand each other, so as to promote the integration of the Greater China region.

At the same time as the European and American media are mingling, the Chinese media in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia are also mingling, they hold the same views as their European and American counterparts, and stand on the same ethnic standpoint, and vigorously promote the concept of 'Greater China' that has been hyped up in recent years.

What does political party rivalry have to do with civilians? Both sides claim to represent the interests of the people, so why can't they sit down and talk? You in power can fight, but you can't hinder the free movement of the people, right?

Media analysis outside the island fed back to the island, and Taiwan's media was divided.

The conservative continues the old thinking, believing that Sun Ziming deliberately embarrasses the Taiwan government, because the mainland has long allowed Taiwanese to invest, settle down, and study in the mainland. If Taiwan's colleges and universities are opened to mainland students, the mainland government will certainly send spies to disrupt social order and obstruct the island's defense and security.

The radical ones are the opposite, and Sun Ziming is right, why don't you allow your people to travel freely when they claim to be the legitimate government? Will the other side send spies? Cut, this is purely an excuse, you just want to protect the interests of the party! If you don't open up, won't the other party send spies?

The neutral media, on the other hand, are relatively calm, and Taiwan's products need markets, capital, and investment channels, while the rapid economic development of the mainland in the past decade or so has required capital and technology, which complements Taiwan, which has been relatively slowing down. From an economic point of view, the mutual opening of the two sides of the strait is imminent, and from a political standpoint, the Berlin Wall has fallen, and the two sides are still entangled in the old things of decades ago, is there still any point?

After the death of Mr. Chiang in '88, his successor followed the example of Khrushchev in the Soviet era, and successively released a large number of confidential archival documents, and the reputation of the ruling party plummeted, dividing the people on the island between people from local provinces and people from other provinces. Now that the media is divided, the people on the island are looking lively and want to see how the government responds.

The people of this province have been suppressed by the authorities, and they still have hatred, and they wish that they would step down immediately, that someone would give them problems; People from other provinces have a strong sense of family and country, and since the counteroffensive is already a dream, why can't the people be allowed to come and go freely?

After all, blood is thicker than water, and whether it is from other provinces or from this province, everyone's ancestral graves are still on the other side of the sea.

The only ones who find it a little tricky are the Taiwan authorities.

Since Chiang Chung-cheng was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, although he lost most of his country, he regarded the mainland as an occupied area, and always insisted on counterattacking and insisting that the Republic of China is the main part of China. For this obsession, the Taiwan government maintains a huge bureaucratic system at the central, provincial, municipal, county, and township levels, and even its map includes Outer Mongolia. In order to uphold this kind of legal unity, the Taiwan Government resolutely rejected the Americans' one-China/one-Taiwan proposal when the mainland government entered the United Nations, and immediately lowered its flag and withdrew.

Time flies, and now that Mr. Jiang and Mr. Jiang have passed away, the family and country have become a party-state, and will become a republic under the leadership of a new successor. Mr. Jiang's counterattack has long been a dream, but the remaining legal system must be adhered to. Because Kinmen and Matsu are subordinate to Fujian Province, this is a taboo that the Taiwan Government cannot touch -- without the defense line of Kinmen and Matsu, Taiwan will be a big girl without clothes and defenseless in the face of the mainland by relying only on the Penghu Islands.

Now Sun Tzuming's speech at Soochow University can be said to have stabbed the Taiwan authorities in the lungs. Although the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are in a state of civil war de jure, since you think you are the Zhengshuo of China, you can't refuse students from the occupied areas to study in Taiwan? Just like half a century ago, when the civil war was in full swing, Yan'an also welcomed the defection of students from the national control area with open arms.

If this was Taiwan more than 10 years ago, and martial law, party ban, and newspaper ban were still retained, Sun Ziming's speech was a fart, which could not only be ignored but also immediately deported, or even put in prison, waiting for the British government in Hong Kong to negotiate. But the problem is that now is not that era, and the successor of Mr. Chiang, looking at the reporters carrying long guns/short cannons outside the 'Presidential Palace', is eager to issue a decree that will forever prohibit Sun Tzuming, who immediately left Taiwan for Beiping after setting the fire, from coming to Taiwan again!