For a young man who has just entered his sophomore year, Li Mu is definitely the first in history to give a lecture at Harvard, which has a history of more than 100 years.
Not to mention the Chinese, not even the Americans.
What's more important is that a 20-year-old Chinese speaker at Harvard can make Harvard students fill up the Harvard auditorium. This is even more extraordinary.
What's even more frightening is that the students were so enthusiastic about Li Mu's speech that a large number of students filled the auditorium because they couldn't squeeze in. They loudly protested and asked the school to solve the problem.
The school is also in trouble. In the many years since the school was founded, several US presidents have been here. I have never seen students so excited. Today is really a ghost.
In fact, it’s not surprising.
For these twenty-year-old students, they themselves are the proud ones, studying in the best universities in the world. Their pride is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary college students. Even the President of the United States may not be able to look down on them. As you can see, if some presidents are dissatisfied with their political decisions, they will even organize groups to march on the streets to protest. So who do you expect these young intellectuals to obey? Only a monster like Li Mu could completely destroy their prestige.
In front of Li Mu, college students from Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge are all bullshit. If you don’t accept it, why don’t you just start a business? Who can make more money per unit of time
Therefore, students at Harvard University automatically turned into little sheep in front of Li Mu. Almost everyone regarded Li Mu as a fanatical idol in life. He was so awesome that no one dared to show off in front of him.
It is precisely because Li Mu has gained a large number of fans at Harvard that this speech was surprisingly popular.
Now not only undergraduate students, but also graduate students are here. Thousands of people came early and were lucky enough to enter the venue, but more than 10,000 people who couldn't get in were still waiting outside.
The key point is that more than 10,000 people are not honest owners. If they can't get in, they will yell outside. The noise inside is so mixed that even if the speakers are turned up to the maximum, they can't hear shit. If this continues, the speech will be impossible. .
Lawrence, the president of Harvard, also had an angry look on his face. He came out to speak to the students. He decided to attack them one by one, starting with the graduate school with the largest number of students. So he shouted to the students outside: "Undergraduate students should participate in Li Mu's speech." That’s alright, what are you graduate school students doing here to join in the fun?”
The graduate school students in their twenties or even thirties were immediately dissatisfied and shouted: "Why? The undergraduate school admires Li Mu, but we in the graduate school don't admire him anymore? We are used to pretending to be awesome. We don’t even have an idol, and it’s so easy to find an idol that everyone is convinced of. Are you going to deprive us of the opportunity to listen to the idol’s speech?”
Lawrence became anxious: "If you continue to make trouble like this, this speech will not be able to start, and no one will be able to listen to it by then!"
The student representative shouted: "If you have time to talk nonsense, you might as well think about how to solve it. I heard that students from the MIT next door have organized a group to come. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people will come soon. Let's see what you do!
"My day..."
Lawrence suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem. Damn it, how could you have forgotten those beasts at MIT! Those guys from science and engineering majors are not easy to mess with. If more than 10,000 people rush into Harvard campus and squeeze into the auditorium, why don't they tear down the Harvard auditorium with one brick per person
Hey, it’s demolished!
Day, yes!
Lawrence was suddenly inspired.
It's definitely not possible to really demolish the auditorium, but since the auditorium can't hold so many people, we might as well go to the stadium!
Harvard's 100-year-old stadium can originally accommodate 20,000 people. If it is a lecture, it can be just like a concert. The infield is also opened, and 30,000 people can be crammed into the stadium easily. .
Moreover, it is now November, and the Harvard football team just finished a game here with its rival Yale University team some time ago. The stage in the stadium is fully equipped with sound equipment and can be set up in basically an hour.
So, Lawrence immediately consulted with Li Mu and told Li Mu about the current situation. One was that there were almost 10,000 Harvard students outside waiting to come in, and then there were more than 10,000 MIT students heading to the battlefield. We can't hold the auditorium any longer, so we might as well move it to the stadium for a speech.
Li Mu had no objection to this, but his pretentiousness index suddenly increased a lot.
Good guy, it’s already amazing to fool a top student from Harvard University. When he thinks about fooling more than 10,000 top students from Harvard University, and possibly more than 10,000 top students from MIT at the same time, Li Mu feels that today Perhaps this is the peak of my pretentiousness in the academic world. I must perform well and try not to embarrass the 1.3 billion people of my motherland.
Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief. Soon, the school announced to the students that the speech would be held in the stadium temporarily, and at the same time asked the state government for instructions to send more people from Boston to maintain order. We are going to have a big incident here.
Fortunately, Boston was close by. Before the stage was set up, more than two hundred police officers, FBI plainclothes officers, and a few special police officers poured into Harvard University and began to maintain order in the stadium.
The speech originally scheduled to start at 9:30 in the morning was postponed to 10:30.
At half past ten, Harvard University's century-old stadium was almost full.
Almost all of the 20,000 students from Harvard's undergraduate and graduate schools combined came here. Except for those who had to stay in their posts, all the faculty and staff were here. MIT even came out in droves. Those who didn't know better thought they were from both schools. It's time to go to war.
The scene suddenly reached a state of thirty to forty thousand people, which frightened Lawrence so much that the governor even specifically ordered that all members of the Massachusetts SWAT tactical team be on alert, and helicopters were ready to take off at any time, for fear that something might happen. Damn, it’s only 30,000 to 40,000 students, but the mainstay of the United States for the next ten years will be here.
Reporters from various media did not expect that Li Mu’s speech at Harvard would turn out to be such a large-scale event. Every one of them was as excited as a chicken blood. Not to mention how excited they were. After the CCTV reporter sent the scene back to China, CCTV made a temporary decision to give way to all scheduled programs starting from 10:30 pm, Yanjing time, and broadcast Li Mu's speech at Harvard in real time. It even temporarily hired CCTV's best simultaneous translator who came home from get off work. , to better cooperate with this broadcast.
Domestic audiences are also sleepy at this moment. Tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people are sitting in front of computers, waiting for Li Mu to appear, waiting for Li Mu to make a historic speech that affects a generation of elites in the United States and at the highest academic hall in the world. speech.
Before the speech began, Lawrence was the first to take the stage. As the principal, he was like Li Mu's warm-up guest. He took the stage for five minutes and spoke a lot of praise for Li Mu. He evaluated Li Mu as the most successful person in the world. A 20-year-old young man also evaluated Li Mu as a role model for young people in the world. He said that at the age of 20, Li Mu not only has outstanding talent in the Internet field, but also has amazing skills in the business field. The most important thing is However, he single-handedly created the most influential educational charity fund in China and even the world that benefits the largest number of people.
Lawrence's generous praise of Li Mu successfully completed the preparation and warm-up for Li Mu's next appearance.
When Lawrence announced: "Next, please use your warmest applause to welcome the most outstanding young people on the planet!" The enthusiastic applause of tens of thousands of top students was deafening!
Li Ziwei helped Li Mu tidy up his tie in the backstage lounge. Then, Li Mu took the wireless microphone and strode out of the lounge and walked to the stage.
It was already extremely cold in Boston in November. Li Mu, wearing a smart black suit, walked onto the stage amid the cheers of tens of thousands of people.
With his tall and thin body, cool and unruly hairstyle, and angular Asian face, no one can see the slightest trace of a college student or IT man on him.
This is very different from Bill Gates after he became famous, and Mark Zuckerberg after he became famous. Li Mu looks more like a handsome Asian star with a bit of dandy, with a smile on his face. His cool and confident smile makes people admire him unconsciously.
Li Mu walked to the center of the makeshift stage with a microphone, like a star about to sing. He bowed slightly to the audience, and then said with a confident and indifferent smile: "Thank you Harvard, President Lawrence and Harvard The enthusiastic school leaders, of course, the most grateful ones are the Harvard students.”
The audience cheered fiercely.
Li Mu smiled again and said: "I heard that many students from MIT are here today. You are also welcome!"
More than 10,000 MIT students immediately burst into cheers that were even louder than those from Harvard University just now.
Li Mu said with a relaxed face: "I am very honored to have such an opportunity to chat with you face to face here. Everyone should know that I am a Chinese, but what you may not know is that I come from a very unknown country in China. I am from a small city in China, and I come from a university in China that you may have never heard of. Although the university I study in is considered one of the first-tier universities in China, compared with yours, the university I study in is probably ten times worse in terms of overall strength. Eighteen thousand miles away, so to be honest, when I face you, I feel very scared because you are from two universities ranked first and second in the world, and you are the yearning and envy of college students all over the world."
The audience was quiet. Everyone was looking at Li Mu quietly and listening to his every word.
At this moment, domestic CCTV, although there is a transmission delay of a few seconds, CCTV is still live broadcasting Li Mu's every move, word and deed at this time, and simultaneous translation translates every word of Li Mu in real time. into Chinese and fed back to the audience through television.
Li Mu continued: "I have been thinking about what kind of theme I should choose for this speech. I guess everyone should be people who have experienced great battles. You must have seen the speeches of many big figures. In the process of their speeches, , they may talk to you about the future of mankind, the development of the world, environmental pollution, global warming, political stance, the relationship between developed and developing countries, etc., etc., everything they talk about A topic is a major problem faced by billions of human beings. I do not deny that these topics are very meaningful, but I think these topics are still too heavy for me. It is easy for me to talk about them. , but I hope to put what I talk about into practice, which requires a down-to-earth focus."
The audience burst into applause, and Li Mu's words touched their hearts.
Whether they are students from Harvard University or MIT, they have indeed seen too many speeches by big people, and they have also listened to many topics related to human development by big people. The content of the talks is too empty, so it is difficult to give such speeches. They bring resonance and touch, and the final result is that after the speech, most people forget about these contents and continue their unremarkable college life.
Compared with the future of mankind, college students are more concerned about their own future.
After the applause, Li Mu said calmly: "So this time I thought about it for a long time and decided not to talk to you about the principles of life. I am not going to talk to you about human development, the gap between rich and poor, and world peace. I just want to talk to you. Talk about 'us', talk about the people in the world who are as young as us."
“As-young-as-we-are”
This is the core of Li Mu’s speech today!
(End of chapter)