In order to let those obsessed with technology geeks understand the core of the capital market, Rui-Liu clearly expressed his views on the capital market in his article:
In the capital market, there are only two criteria for any transaction, namely: you are willing to do so, and it is reasonable and legal. As long as any transaction meets these two premises, there should be no doubts.
Everything Li Mu does follows the premise of "you are willing to do what I want" and "reasonable and legal", so he can be called bright, upright and aboveboard.
As for the "robbers" and "bandits" at the door of Western technology, Rui-Liu said in his article: In the history of world business, the real "robbers" and "bandits" are not any companies or individuals, but some former Evil country.
In order to support his argument, Rui-Liu used the two Opium Wars launched against China by the imperialist powers led by Britain from 1840 to 1860 as actual cases.
He wrote in the article: "In the early 19th century, in order to reverse the trade deficit with China, the British government blatantly used the country as the main body to smuggle opium into China. Even from 1840 to 1860 because of the anti-smoking campaign of the Qing government in China, In the past two decades, two wars of aggression were openly launched against China. If we use the legal principles of today's world to summarize what the British and other powers did back then, it should be: state drug control, state drug trafficking, and state armed trafficking. Drugs, state armed aggression and protection of state drug trafficking, I wonder how those elites in Silicon Valley who think Li Mu is a bandit view and evaluate this period of history?"
Strictly speaking, the United States can be regarded as descendants of the British. Most people in the United States are very friendly to the British and even have a strong affinity for the British. Many Americans believe that their ancestors are British, at least they were the earliest descendants from the British. Rui-Liu, a first-generation immigrant who went to North America for large-scale development, used the "Opium War" as an argument in his article, which immediately stung the hearts of most American elites.
Most Americans basically have no idea what Britain did to China in the early 19th century, so when they read this article, their first thought was: Britain really did this kind of national armament back then. Is it a bad thing about making and selling drugs? Bull-Shit! I don't believe it at all.
Later, they used Google to discover that Holy-Shit is really what it is!
It’s just that in Western history books, the war of that year is packaged as if they were to bring advanced civilization to the East and to defend Christian culture from ignorance and violence in China. But if a discerning person really looks at that period of history, he can see it at a glance. It's okay for you to defend yourself, but what kind of thing is selling opium while you're defending yourself
As a result, a large number of netizens who clamored against and boycotted Li Mu knew they were wrong and shut up, leaving only a handful of extremists still clamoring.
What’s interesting is that the United States is generally a multi-ethnic country of immigrants. There are a large number of Indians, Africans, South Americans, and people of Southeast Asian descent. The motherland of these people once humiliated dozens of people under the iron heel of the West. A century-old colony, if we really talk about the historical scars of the nation, they are the ones that suffer the most. Therefore, a large number of colonial descendants responded to Rui-Liu’s argument, saying:
The crimes committed by the great powers back then were not limited to armed drug production and trafficking. They expanded colonies around the world, plundered colonial resources, and massacred colonial people. They committed many heinous crimes. But now they put on suits and ties and suddenly become The most civilized nation in the world, that's fine. The key is that the descendants of these guys are so disdainful that a company in their own country just spent more money to acquire a company. They all have to run away. Calling the seller a bandit, how fucking stupid is this
A comment made by a person of Indian descent in the UK sparked a lot of agreement on the Western Internet. He said:
“Our ancestors were enslaved by the British for two hundred years. They robbed our resources, slept with our women, captured our men as slaves, and even changed our place names. Our city, Mumbai, was originally called Mumbai. It is the name of a god in Indian legend. After the British came, they changed Mumbai to Bombay. It was not until 1995 that we finally plucked up the courage to change Mumbai's name back;
The British never felt that this was a mistake. Instead of feeling guilty towards the Indians, they began to discriminate against the Indians in the UK. They felt that these Indians had usurped their resources and taken away their employment opportunities. Last week, I While on duty at the 711 convenience store where I worked, a British man suddenly pointed at me and yelled: "Go back to India, you damn thief." I thought that those Americans who called Li Mu a bandit and a robber were the same as those who called me a thief. The British should be all the same! "
Descendants of colonial countries continue to expose on the Internet the crimes that many Western civilized countries have committed against their motherland. This has caused public opinion to be swayed by the indignant descendants of colonial countries. They have set off waves of denunciation of colonial countries on the Internet. As for those radicals who were hostile to Li Mu, they were immediately attacked by a large number of colonial descendants. Because the firepower was so different, these radicals quickly began to die down.
No one in the market calls Li Mu a bandit and robber anymore, and because of those angry colonial descendants, Western netizens suddenly made up for centuries of world colonial history.
Rui-Liu, who has been working at the Wall Street Journal for more than ten years, became famous because of this special article.
His article aroused great repercussions in the West, and those who were most touched were the elites.
Financiers who had originally admired Li Mu's operation praised Li Mu even more after reading this article. Some even believed that Li Mu might become the only entrepreneur in the world who can do this in a truly meaningful way. A perfect combination of east and west.
In the true sense, the combination of East and West must not only cater to the needs of Eastern and Western people, but also be compatible with Eastern and Western cultures, concepts and values. In the business field of today's world, apart from Li Mu, there is really no other person who meets the conditions.
As for those technical geeks who originally regarded Li Mu as a robber and bandit, they suddenly understood that there is no right or wrong in the capital market, only pros and cons.
This article also suddenly opened up the curiosity of Wall Street and Silicon Valley about Eastern philosophy. For a long time, Eastern philosophy has not been recognized by the West because it does not have a true system, and the ideas of various schools of thought have also been politically charged. It is too strong to be included in the scope of philosophy in the West. However, this time, talents in the Western financial community and high-tech fields have begun to study Eastern military philosophy, and it has even become a hot topic among high-end talents.
The two Chinese words conspiracy and conspiracy have also become the core of research and discussion among Western elites. The reason why these two words are so popular is largely due to Westerners' familiarity with the "Yin and Yang" theory.
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After Li Mu heard about the series of discussions surrounding him in Western society, he published a short article on his personal blog:
"Talents in the business field always emphasize various costs, direct costs, indirect costs, visible costs and invisible costs, and even intangible risk costs, stress costs and mental costs... What top financial experts are best at doing , which is to use complex arithmetic problems to fool the public and make the public think that something that costs one penny is sold for ten yuan not because the capitalists are evil, but because it is worth the price itself.
In the same way, Microsoft will never feel that Windows is priced too high, even if it has earned hundreds of billions of dollars in market value, and Chinese vendors will always be in two fixed positions: "not making money" and "selling at a loss." He earns a lot of money due to his self-promotion.
For myself, my first driving force in the business field is: making money; my second driving force is: making more money. There is nothing to hide about this.
In my opinion, the ancestors of China are the wisest. In 100 BC, Sima Qian once pointed out the essence of all human commercial activities: the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. "
After this article was published on the YY blog, within just a few hours, it received tens of thousands of likes and over 10,000 comments. Chinese netizens highly praised Li Mu’s candid self-confession. Entrepreneurs, no one in public will admit that they run a business to make money. Some of them do it to revitalize national brands, some to promote national culture, some to improve the status of Chinese manufacturing in the world, and some to develop local high-tech industries. Even real estate developers who are driving up housing prices say they are trying to help people live in better houses.
Only Li Mu, in this era when all entrepreneurs have to package a higher pursuit in the goal of making money, he frankly stated that he started a business just to make money. Apart from making money, everything else is nonsense.
If you want to revitalize national brands, you must first make money; if you want to promote national culture, you must first make money; most companies that rely on their mouths to revitalize national brands and promote national culture are taking advantage of the national sentiments in consumers' hearts.
What should I do if my Coke can’t beat Coca-Cola? Compatriots, come and drink a bottle of Chinese Coke...
It’s just a bottle of Coke. Is it really necessary to rise to the national level? Of course not for ordinary consumers, but for entrepreneurs, the answer is unquestionable.
Soon, Li Mu’s 300-word blog became popular all over the world, and even Westerners came to his blog to like and leave comments, because even in Wall Street and Silicon Valley where elites abound, someone as calm as Li Mu can There are not many entrepreneurs. The big guys in Wall Street and Silicon Valley are the same as Chinese entrepreneurs, and even entrepreneurs all over the world. They all want to gain fame and fame while making money. It seems that among the top rich people in the world, only Li Mu does it to make money, and the others Every rich man in the world is not interested in making money. You can tell who is real and who is fake at a glance.
Along with Li Mu's blog, which has become popular all over the world, there is also Sima Qian's sentence: The bustle in the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit.
What Li Mu didn't expect was that his article would be called the father of "MicroBlog" by the Internet industry in the near future...
PS: Ever since I started typing, there have always been nights like yesterday. I told myself: "Lie down and squint for a while, and then go to typing." But when I opened my eyes, I realized that I had already It's the next morning...
In addition, I will make up one chapter tonight, two chapters tomorrow at the weekend, and two chapters the day after tomorrow...
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