Everyone in the audience looked at Fang Chen quietly without saying a word. The entire banquet hall became almost completely silent, with no sound at all.

But if you observe carefully, you can find that there is something different in these people's eyes.

Fang Chen's words made them think of some things that they usually ignored or even didn't think of at all.

To be honest, their primary motivation for starting a business is that they feel that life is too hard and their families are too poor. They want to live a good life eating meat every day, drink good wine, ride in luxury cars, etc.

Almost all of them have never thought that they are carrying something called a "national enterprise". At this time, they also think of things like "boycotting foreign goods", "developing industry" and "saving the country through industry".

As Fang Chen said, during the late Qing Dynasty and the previous dynasties, various foreign products were rampant across the land of China, plundering almost all the wealth in China.

It can be said that in the face of the industrial age and powerful ships and artillery represented by the Western powers, China, which was backward and decadent at the beginning, had no power to fight back and was completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, becoming a dumping ground for Western goods and a supplier of raw materials.

Because China cannot produce these foreign products itself and can only import them from abroad, the prices are naturally very high and the profits are huge.

These Western countries then use the earned money to purchase basic raw material products such as mineral deposits, timber, grain, and even jewelry, jade, antiques, etc. from China at very low prices.

Western companies use this method to quickly plunder the wealth of the Chinese people.

It is precisely because of this kind of wealth plunder that even though the Chinese people at that time worked hard, they still ended up in the miserable situation of not having enough clothes to cover their bodies and not having enough to eat.

Thinking of this, Fang Chen couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, this phenomenon still exists in China at this time, and even in China in later generations.

For example, the Chinese worked hard to produce 800 million shirts before they could exchange them for a Boeing airplane from the Americans.

Even if you think about it with your toes, you probably know that the labor that Chinese people put into producing 800 million shirts is definitely not comparable to the labor that Americans put into producing one Boeing airplane.

It is not an exaggeration to even say that the labor put in by the Chinese people to produce 800 million shirts is equivalent to ten or twenty Boeing airplanes.

There is a huge labor gap and unfair labor.

Why is American labor more valuable than Chinese labor?

In other words, through such unfair transactions, the labor of Chinese people was exploited by Americans.

Do the Chinese people know this?

Do you know that it is not worth exchanging the 800 million shirts you produce for a Boeing airplane?

Got it.

But there is no way. Whoever prevents China from producing this kind of aircraft will have no choice but to let the United States exploit it and earn excess profits.

However, when China's own large aircraft can officially fly, I believe that the prices of large aircraft such as Boeing and Airbus will inevitably fall accordingly.

And this case is not limited to aircraft, chips, cars, machine tools, ships, aerospace thrusters, and even previous switches, etc.

Whenever China cannot produce or produce usable products, foreign companies can obtain excess profits from it.

And why are Foxconn workers sweating and working twelve hours a day to assemble an Apple phone and can only get two or three dollars in assembly fees, with a profit of no more than 0.3 dollars, while Apple employees wave their hands and a group of people

By sitting in an office, working no more than eight hours, eating, drinking, and cheating, you can earn a gross profit of more than 200 US dollars per unit, a profit a thousand times that of Fujitsu.

From the perspective of labor equality, the happy life and high welfare life of Americans, and even Europe and other Western countries at this moment are actually based on the exploitation of China and other developing countries.

China produced a large number of necessities for them in life, but what they paid to the Chinese people was very few products with very high prices and huge profits.

Sometimes it's just a blank check.

A large part of the dollars China earns from foreign trade cannot be spent, so in order to preserve its value, it can only give them to the United States and purchase U.S. Treasury bonds.

Thinking of this, Fang Chen sighed quietly, and he suddenly felt a little sad. It seemed that one hundred and fifty years had passed, and China was still under the exploitation of Europe and the United States.

But immediately, he smiled self-deprecatingly. Isn't this the point of mentioning national enterprises now?

After all, if there are no national enterprises, if we cannot even produce shirts, what we are considering is not exchanging shirts for airplanes, but exchanging food for shirts. This is obviously more fatal and sadder.

Although airplanes are very important and are an indispensable product in modern society, there are still 80% of Chinese people who have never flown on an airplane. However, food and clothing are indispensable for all Chinese people.

Furthermore, when foreign products are sold to China, they create jobs for foreigners, but when national enterprises produce products, they create jobs for Chinese people.

However, only by having a job can you earn money and live a better life.

If the products on the market are all produced abroad, it will naturally mean that all Chinese people have been laid off. Going back to a hundred years ago, 95% of the population was agricultural and could only make a living by farming.

"Only when we have our own national enterprises that can produce a variety of products, our enterprises, and even our entire Chinese nation, will not be exploited by the Western world, and the labor we contribute will be equal and fair.

"Yes." Fang Chen said seriously.

"This also means that if companies like ours collapse, the future of the Chinese nation will be completely bleak and will forever fall into darkness." Fang Chen said slowly and slowly.

Hearing Fang Chen's words, in line with Fang Chen's tone at this moment, everyone couldn't help but feel a cold wind blowing by, and their whole body was instantly trembled.

They all looked at each other with a chilling feeling of desolation.

To be honest, they rarely raise their ideological realm to such a high level to think about problems.

Even subconsciously, we think that higher prices for foreign products are reasonable and natural.

After all, these products were invented by others, and their knowledge innovation also requires investment. Since there is investment, wouldn't it be natural to make some extra money and make more profits?

But after thinking about it carefully, I realized that this is actually the Western world, and the rules of capitalism are not inherent to human beings. Or, as the Western world advocates, it is the ultimate form of human society and the most perfect life.

If we follow the socialist rules of more work, more reward, and distribution according to work, we can provide corresponding remuneration for knowledge innovation, but it definitely should not be such high remuneration and profits.

After all, we are all human beings. When the two skill levels and working hours are equal, the remuneration should be equal.

But in real life, in terms of reward for labor, China and even developing countries as a whole are not equal compared to developed countries.

Thinking of this, almost everyone feels a deep sense of powerlessness.

"I believe everyone is feeling the same as me at this moment. They are hopeless and helpless. They clearly know where the problem is, but they don't know when the problem will be solved." Fang Chen spread his hands and said helplessly.

"But as the saying goes, you can't reach a thousand miles without accumulating small steps, and you can't build a river without accumulating small streams. What we do is to change the world bit by bit, and strive to produce all the products in the world as soon as possible, and combine this kind of national and

All inequalities, unfairness and exploitation between countries, races and races will be eliminated." Fang Chen said slowly, with hope shining in his eyes.

In fact, this is just the first step. What really needs to be broken is the set of rules set by capitalism.

After all, if China still implements this set of rules, it will be nothing more than a story of a brave man defeating the dragon and then slowly growing scales.

But Fang Chen believes that China will not.

We have a glorious and splendid civilization history of five thousand years. Different from marine civilization, nomadic civilization and other civilizations whose survival instinct is to seize other people's resources, Chinese civilization originated from the inland and farming. It is a restrained and defensive civilization that relies on self-sufficiency.

Self-sufficiency and self-reliance are survival patterns and ways of thinking.

We have a noble moral sentiment of "to achieve harmony, the heaven is in its place, and all things are nurtured". Since ancient times, we have believed in the concepts of "do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you", "the world is for the common good" and "harmony among all nations".

"Okay, let's not go that far. What I said is nothing more than telling you that whether it is for ourselves or for our nation, we must fight and hold on to this battle!" Fang Chen said impassionedly.

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"Furthermore, you don't need to worry too much. Judging from Qingtian's experience in competing with foreign companies, especially going out of China and sailing overseas, although foreign companies cannot be called paper tigers, they are not that powerful. They

The only thing it has, apart from some financial and technological advantages, is the first-mover advantage, as it only entered industrialization a hundred or two hundred years earlier than us." Fang Chen said frankly.

After hearing this, everyone felt excited and wanted to roll up their sleeves right now and have a big fight with those foreign companies.

But when I thought about it again, I felt something was wrong, and looked at Fang Chen with a strange expression.

They felt that Fang Chen was deceiving them. It was not like they had never dealt with those foreign companies. How could they not know how powerful those foreign companies were? How could they defeat them so easily as Fang Chen said.

To put it bluntly, if it was so easy to defeat these foreign companies, they would have rushed out of China, out of Asia, and into the world.

Fang Chen looked at everyone calmly, not caring at all about the doubts and strange looks in the audience.

It didn't take long before everyone was defeated when they looked at Fang Chen.

They discovered that now it was really up to them whatever Fang Chen said.

After all, no matter what Fang Chen says about these foreign companies, the result remains the same. They have no way out, and they will die if they do.

Some people even decided to follow Fang Chen's example when they went back to the company for a meeting.

After all, putting it lightly and belittling the enemy will help improve morale.

If these foreign companies are described as too scary, they will be destroyed without even starting a fight.

"I will talk about one last question, which is probably the one that everyone is more concerned about. Since they know that foreign companies entering China will cause such great harm to us, why do the higher authorities let these companies go?" Fang Chen said suddenly.

Everyone's eyes lit up and they nodded repeatedly. This was indeed the question they had always had in their minds.

Foreign companies are so powerful. If they don’t open up restrictions and tariffs, isn’t it possible that Western countries can imitate the Opium War and use strong ships and cannons to blast away China’s coastline and force entry?

Fang Chen told everyone again what changes he had explained to Wu Maocai before "restoring the customs" would bring to China.

"It can be said that whether it is returning to isolation or joining the WTO, it is the path we must take, and it has been decided by the higher authorities. We have no way to comment on it. We can only find ways to be ourselves."

"And to be honest, let's not talk big words, lies, and empty words. The resumption of customs is both a danger and an opportunity. Haven't you ever thought about selling your products to all over the world one day? Let your company be among the top 500 in the world.

Do you have a place among the powerful? Do you qualify yourself to be ranked among the world’s richest people?”

Fang Chen's face was filled with a smile, full of bewildering thoughts.

Everyone suddenly felt that their hearts were uncontrollably pounding, and they even felt like their blood was surging up, their blood was boiling, and they were going crazy!

It’s really exciting!

To be honest, they didn't even dare to dream about what Fang Chen said.

It's not that they don't want these, they just feel that they can't do it. Selling products all over the world, making their own companies become Fortune 500 companies, and becoming one of the world's richest people is just too far away.
To be continued...