At the invitation of Wuhan's industrial and business circles, Ge Yunfei came to the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce to give a report on this day. On that day, each ticket at the venue was 1,000 silver dollars, which was still in short supply, and this transaction was very clever. The Chamber of Commerce auditorium, which can accommodate 200 people, is crammed into about 300 people. Ge Yunfei did not wear a military uniform, but a suit, handsome and chic, not to mention, he seemed to have the demeanor of a scholar. He walked up to the podium and found that there were many foreign faces, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart. The thunderous applause lasted for a long time, and the president of the Wuhan Chamber of Commerce made a brief preface, and the venue began to be silent.

"Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests. Invited by the Wuhan General Chamber of Commerce, what can I say about the secrets of doing business? To tell you the truth, my secret is to forge ahead and be bold and innovative, and the topic I am talking about today is enterprising and innovative. The Chinese nation has created a glorious history, the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty all countries came to worship needless to say, the Song Dynasty is even more prosperous, and all these achievements are the result of forging ahead and boldly creating trust. In the 20th century, with the frequent exchanges between countries around the world, the fetters of regions were quickly broken, and the future circulation of commodities in the world will be even more crazy. ”

"In order to make you soberly understand that the Chinese nation is by no means an unenterprising nation, we are just imprisoned and outdated by ourselves in modern times, and our wisdom and talents cannot be brought into play, and it is we ourselves who have buried the footsteps of modern China to the top of the world. In the case of the Manchu Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor followed the strategy of banning the sea in the late Ming Dynasty, which stifled China's contacts with the outside world. When the foreigners used a few warplanes, a few cannons, and thousands of foreign soldiers to open the country to make us succumb, we knew how wonderful the outside world was, and the outside world was unattainable. ”

Yelang was arrogant, sat in the well and watched the sky, and then evolved into a vain self-esteem, unwilling to forge ahead, and willing to be a slave of foreigners. Before the First Opium War in 1840, China's total trade accounted for 30 percent of the world's total trade. The Manchu Dynasty went to the grave, and it was precisely because it could not adapt to the changes in the world that it cut off the grave. ”

"The collapse of the Manchu Dynasty and the birth of the democratic republic are not accidental, they are the result of the unyielding struggle of a generation of literati with lofty ideals who are not willing to lag behind, and they are also the correct choice of the people. If we can defeat the mighty Japanese Empire, the people of the whole country will be united. In just a few years, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, and China's position in the world has risen, which is also the result of the Chinese nation's own correction of mistakes. From the outbreak and even the end of the European War, it was China that really benefited, and in this great historical change, we fought our way out. I can tell you that the era when the Chinese nation was humiliated and oppressed is gone forever, and we have become stronger. ”

The thunderous applause rang out again, and it lasted for a long time. Ge Yunfei waved his hand and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, China's big ship has just set sail, and there are reefs, dangerous shoals, and stormy waves ahead, and we can't take it lightly for a moment. In the future, trade and trade around the world will become closer, and the resulting friction and contradictions will also become more intense. The competition for the world market is a game between countries, and perhaps one day the contradictions will be irreconcilable, and war will come. What I want to tell you is that when you are strong enough, when you are not afraid of any opponent, you will contain aggression and avoid the outbreak of war. ”

"Even if war breaks out, if we have a strong national defense, the enemy will not dare to come. Lasting peace and a strong national defense force require a strong economic foundation to ensure that commercial China will develop rapidly in the future, which will then lead to the development of science and technology and industry. The slogan we put forward is Business China, Science and Technology China, and Industrial China, which is called forging ahead and bold innovation. Historically, we have been a traditional agricultural country, with a strong sense of smallholder farming. How to change the traditional way of thinking is particularly important. ”

"You can think about it, we are a traditional agricultural country, but we have never had enough to eat. Traditional agriculture depends on the weather for food, and in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, a large number of people will starve to death, and the government is powerless to help. Our country is a vast country, and disasters occur every year, and the cycle is endless, where is the root cause? To give an example, the southern coastal areas are densely populated and land is scarce, and some areas have only a few points of land per capita. However, in the coastal areas, natural and man-made disasters have not occurred on a large scale, what is the reason? ”

"The reason is that the coastal areas have developed commerce and trade, and the people are well-off, so in the event of natural and man-made disasters, they can use their money to buy food and tide over the famine. In traditional agricultural areas, once encountering natural and man-made disasters, there is no other way but to escape the famine or government rescue. If the government's rescue is not good, you have to wait for death. We first proposed commercial China, the purpose of which is to hide the wealth of the people, encourage the whole people to do business, and the eight immortals cross the sea and show their abilities. The government accumulates money through commercial tax revenues, which can be used to hoard grain and even buy food from abroad for disaster relief in good years. If the people have money in their hands, they will survive the famine safely. ”

"In addition, when the country has money, it can vigorously develop industry and science and technology. Factories can absorb a large number of laborers and solve the surplus labor force on the land. When I was a county magistrate on the Shandong Peninsula, I encouraged business and the development of real industry on the one hand, and changed land cultivation on the other. Rice is a high-yield crop, and a large number of rice plants are planted in areas with abundant water sources, which not only solves the problem of food shortage in Shandong Peninsula, but also greatly promotes the rapid development of Shandong's commerce and industry, and forms a good development pattern. ”

"At present, Shandong's advanced rice planting technology has been promoted to the entire northern region, especially the northeast rice planting effect is the most prominent. At the end of last year, 5 million tons of rice from Northeast China entered the Guannai. What I said above is directly related to forging ahead and being bold and innovative. All of you here are businessmen and industrialists with a certain strength, and I advise you not to limit your vision to Wuhan, but to focus on the whole country and the world, and to have the spirit of adventure. ”

There was silence below, everyone was afraid of missing every word, and there were many reporters shorthanding. Ge Yunfei continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, with the advent of a new era, our business thinking must also be boldly changed, not thinking about who I will bring down, but thinking about who I can find business opportunities better than others." At present, we are initiating the immigration policy, the northeast is sparsely populated, the northwest is sparsely populated, and the next step is to provide preferential policies to relocate people in densely populated, poor mountains and rivers and encourage them to live in new land. Where there are people, there are business opportunities. ”

"Enterprising and bold innovation are more important to industrialists. With the development of the economy, the people's demand for industrial products is getting bigger and bigger, more and more abundant, from small needlework buttons, to mining, shipbuilding, these fields are the stage for you to display your skills. The government has promulgated a comprehensive development strategy, and powerful industrialists can lay branch railways, open mines, and prepare for the construction of modern large-scale factories. Weak industrialists can produce haberdashery, especially industrial products that are closely related to the common people. The government has promulgated policies that will allow many of the patents developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to be transferred at very reasonable prices. The transfer of patents will be in the form of bidding and public transfer, and there will be no black-box operation, which everyone can rest assured. ”

"At present, the domestic business is becoming more and more prosperous, and the development momentum is very good. But I don't think it's enough, especially since our overseas trade is moving too slowly. Some people may ask, how can we ensure security and commercial interests when we invest abroad, please rest assured that the state will ensure that your legitimate rights and commercial interests are not violated, because the strength of the country must be reflected in ······. On the same day, the major media in Wuhan published the full text of Ge Yunfei's speech, and then the media across the country began to forward it, and a new round of business and factory upsurge was set off again.

The next day, Ge Yunfei and his wife Wenqing had breakfast, "Yunfei, it's the first time I've heard such a long speech, it's very exciting, you are very good at making encouraging speeches." "What is an agitation speech, time is not waiting for me, it is the anxiety in the heart! Ideas are particularly important, but breaking the tradition is not something that happens overnight, and it is even more difficult to dare to be the first in the world. Even if it's a brick throw, I hope it will have an effect. "Yunfei, I heard it with enthusiasm, and they were even more enthusiastic. A gentleman beside me said that if you listen to your teachings in person, 10,000 taels of silver is not expensive. If you pay to speak all over the country, you're making a fortune. ”

"Wenqing, money is a number to me, it no longer has any meaning, what I want to do is to make everyone who has the ability rich." At this time, the guard walked in and said, "Chief Chief, Sheng Pingchen asks to see!" Soon, the guards brought Sheng Pingchen in, "Juniors meet General Ge!" Sheng Pingchen claimed that the junior bowed and saluted, which was based on his father's relationship with Ge Yunfei. When it comes to etiquette, Ge Yunfei has no choice but to accept the honorific title of elder. "Pingchen, due to the busy war, I apologize for not attending your father's funeral."

"General Ge, my father will not blame you, before he died, my father repeatedly told me to obey the general's arrangement wholeheartedly. Yesterday, the Wuhan Chamber of Commerce and Trade arranged your speech, and I am very sorry that I did not attend. The juniors didn't know that you had come to Wuhan, otherwise they would have come to visit a long time ago. Ge Yunfei Yu Sheng Pingchen entered the living room, took out a dozen materials from his briefcase and said: "General Ge, the site selection of Wuhan has been completed, the funds for selling shares of Anshan Iron and Steel Plant have arrived, and I am ready to start work this month." ”

"How did you negotiate with Mr. Seifu?" The agreement has been initialed, and he has a 40% stake in the Wuhan Locomotive Factory, which has machinery and equipment, including engineers and technicians, who are recruited from Germany. General Ge, this is a very good suggestion, Mr. Sefort has returned to China, and he is more anxious than me. "Do you have confidence in the production of diesel locomotives?" "General Ge, your suggestion is a holy decree, and the juniors don't dare to have a trace of doubt. Mr. Seifort said, "Your suggestion will be rich in the future." ”

"Pingchen, as the world's first internal combustion engine factory, the difficulties can be imagined. The preparation process is also the development process, and I have communicated with Mr. Sun Wen that in the future, the government will give priority to the purchase of the internal combustion engine plant you produce. But your eyes are not on the domestic market, but on the world market. I've told Singlet to find the best internal combustion engine engineers in the world. "The younger generation will never disappoint Jiang Jun's high hopes, and in the future, I will sit in Wuhan, even if it is ten or eight years, I will build a diesel locomotive." "Where there's a will, there's a way, and I'm sure you'll succeed."