Chapter 15 2. We have all knelt down before——Memorandum of "foreign-funded" enterprises

In my article, I denounced the Korean woman as a "bitch", and wrote in black and white - I am not legally illiterate.I know that the word "bitch" is a great insult to a woman's personality.I understand that I am insulting her, and I am ready to bear the legal responsibility for this consequence.But I am not a rogue literary ruffian who takes open insults to women as his ability and pleasure. The incident in Zhuhai seems to have never been reprinted by any newspaper, or even indirectly reported by any newspaper.Perhaps, there is no "news value" at all.As far as I read the newspapers, after the incident, all major influential newspapers in the country seem to have maintained an ambiguous silence.Especially radio and television, as far as I know, there is no commentary.My impression seems to be that all the media in China, for a while, turned deaf and dumb to that incident.This made me think so—maybe they all received the "news avoidance" instruction?

There is a Korean electronics company in Zhuhai, and the manager is a Korean woman in her 30s.The employees are all Chinese.That Korean woman, who despises the "Labor Law" promulgated by China, often forces Chinese workers to work overtime. In the worst month, she worked more than 250 hours of overtime.On average, more than 8 hours a day, which is equivalent to two days of work in one day.And overtime is unpaid.Anyone who dares to complain will be fired immediately.The Korean woman has a violent and perverted temperament, and frequently reprimands and even beats the Chinese workers.There were hundreds of Chinese workers, but none dared to protest.Again and again, the workers were forced to work overtime.Within a week, day and night, except for eating, not allowed to stop.Even if they eat, they are not allowed to leave the workbench, and they can only eat boxed lunch at the workbench.Within a week, including the time for eating and going to the bathroom every day, all Chinese workers were only allowed less than ten hours of rest.It is not an exaggeration or an exaggeration to say that people are treated in a non-human way.

It was during this week that, after the employees worked continuously for fifteen or sixteen hours, during the ten minutes allowed to go to the bathroom, there was an old employee who did not go to the bathroom, and he really couldn't hold on to the huge Tired, he fell on the workbench and dozed off.And this situation was discovered by the Korean woman when she was inspecting. She picked up an aluminum plate, threw it at the old worker, and hit the old worker on the back. She lost her temper and yelled, and ordered the foremen of each shift to gather all the workers to stand in front of her and listen to her reprimand.

All the staff stood silently in front of her and listened silently. The Korean woman actually ordered all the Chinese workers, including the foremen of each shift, to kneel in front of her and "reflect".This is really a "fault" for one person, and everyone is punished.This kind of barbaric "management" method of modern enterprises happened in our country, which has long been completely independent and fully sovereign, in the mid-1990s. Isn't it shocking and reminds us a lot?This incident, even if it is placed in the global context of the 1990s, is unbelievable!

However, more than 100 Chinese people knelt down together.Not only did they all kneel down, but they all lowered their heads in front of a Korean woman in her 30s! There is only one young foreman exception.Even his knees softened a bit.But after all, he did not finally kneel silently like his compatriots.He looked around at his compatriots who were kneeling around him, and felt a sense of shame and the indignation of being severely insulted by this shame. The Korean woman pointed at him and asked him sharply why he didn't kneel. He said it was an insult to the Chinese... And she was even more arrogant, saying that what you think is an insult is an insult!If you don't want to kneel down, get out immediately! ...

None of the kneeling Chinese stood up in solidarity with him.He was completely alone at the time.He left angrily. We have no way of knowing what kind of thoughts he had in his heart when he left... In the mid-1990s, more than 100 Chinese, with their heads bowed, knelt on the cold concrete floor in front of a Korean woman in her 30s for more than ten minutes... What a silence it was! At that time, I was holding the newspaper with the documentary report of this incident in my hand, and tears welled up in my eyes.So much so that I had to put down the newspaper, quickly grabbed a cigarette and stuffed it between my lips, and smoked continuously.The nicotine didn't immediately calm me down, and tears rolled down my cheeks.Although I am far away in Beijing, my self-esteem as a Chinese seems to have been stabbed with a knife.It was directly inserted by the Korean woman.It was also indirectly inserted by more than 100 of my compatriots who were as tame as lambs in front of that arrogant Korean woman!

I think we Chinese, decades ago, knelt before the Japanese, before the Americans, and before the British and French allied forces. But it is often forced to kneel by foreign guns and butcher knives! Even if they are forced by foreign guns and butcher knives, there are still people who would rather die than kneel! My ideas have been "purified" by some new ideas in recent years and become quite "flexible". I have been able to accept this logic very well - if you are forced by foreign guns and butcher knives, it doesn't matter to kneel down.Life-saving is the most important thing.If the head is lost and the life is gone, what is the point of everything else?

But the kneeling of more than 100 of our compatriots was not forced by foreign guns and butcher knives as it was back then!They are not facing the Japanese invaders back then!Not the American soldiers back then!Not the British and French allied forces!It's just a Korean woman!And our compatriots are in our own country, our own city! Think of the Koreans, who were brutally enslaved by the Japanese back then.In Asia, South Korea and China were brothers in need. But now, a Korean woman seems to think that she has the privilege to openly insult more than 100 Chinese people in a Chinese city, "no discussion"!

After thinking about it, isn't that privilege given to us by our own performance?When I say "ourselves", I include not only some of our weak and deceitful people, but also some of our big and small officials who favor outsiders and insiders.Moreover, when I think about it, first of all, the kneecaps of the latter became extremely weak in front of foreigners, which caused the kneecaps of some of our people to be too hard in front of foreigners.Thinking about it more carefully, the indisputability of the former may not be the result of the latter's constant "prestige".

However, the incident did not end there.There is also the following.Indeed, I don't think it's just a thing, but an "event".Since even a fight between two Chinese hooligans is an "incident", and it is often reported in the newspapers under the title of "incident", why can't it be regarded as an "incident"? The young foreman who didn't kneel down and left angrily at that time was a young man with a head and opinions.He went to the city union.So the comrades of the city trade union listened to his report, and joined hands with the comrades of the city's "foreign capital office" or "joint venture office" to investigate this incident.

During the investigation, the Korean woman said nonsense: "Yes, I beat and scolded Chinese workers, but it was out of love for them." The accompanying reporter asked: "In South Korea, do you treat your workers with the same love?" The answer was: "Yes. What I did is normal in Korea. It's not worth your fuss." Not only is it nonsense, but also plausible, justified, and has no intention of knowing and repenting. As soon as the investigation team left, she threatened the workers: "What's the big deal, at most it's just a fine! They just pay whatever fine they want! But I'm still your boss! Anyone who doesn't obey my discipline will still have to pay a fine." I'll get out immediately!..." He also said: "You Chinese deserve to be disciplined like this!" As soon as the young foreman returned to the workshop, he was immediately besieged and threatened by more than a dozen people. They scolded him: "You have no conscience! The boss gave you the opportunity to work and promoted you to be a foreman. If you don't stand by the boss, you dare to sue the boss! You are simply uncomfortable!" Of course, they are also Chinese. . I can't tell whether they are "evil slaves" or "doglegs" raised by the Korean woman, because it was not written in the report.Although it wasn't written that way in the report, it didn't stop my mind from speculating in the slightest. The young foreman of course ended up being fired immediately. He asked for his wages for working overtime for so many days. The Korean woman categorically refused to give it. She said: "You can sue wherever you like! All the Chinese workers don't give it, so why should I just give it to you? Are you the one who sued me?" The young foreman had no choice but to go to the relevant parties again. In the next two weeks, I have been paying close attention to the various newspapers in the South, but I have never found any reports on that incident.When I was invited to give a "literary lecture" at a certain university, I talked about this incident vividly.I remember what I said at the time: "If a contemporary Chinese writer thinks that such events in China have nothing to do with the writer's mind, if his gaze refuses to pay attention to such events, then his understanding of China The contemporary feeling must be quite numb. Living in China, not only is the contemporary feeling of China quite numb, but the creation is also doomed to lack the contemporary "Chinese characteristics". People 'do not know the goods', the standard is too low. Because in the contemporary Chinese, only the so-called 'pure literature' is enjoyed as a spiritual 'cosmetic series', after all, it is really a 'small group'..." I know how eloquently I spoke. I know how ridiculous I looked in those dull and indifferent eyes. Yes.I am not an idiot.I know it, I know it clearly in my heart, but I still can't help "talking to myself" in public. That is nothing but my "self-talk". Somebody handed me the note.What was written on it was—"Liang Xiaosheng, talk about something else. Don't talk about such irrelevant and meaningless things anymore. Tell us something that can make everyone happy and interesting!..." I read the words above. So there was applause. So I understood that they were already impatient. However, in the applause, I was very confused.I was at a loss for a moment.Not only was it ridiculous, but it was pathetic and stupid.Because I really don't know how to make them happy.If I were a comedian, or a circus clown, I would show them my "funny" talent.But I am not!I don't know how to make them happy, and I don't understand what they consider "interesting" things... When I got home, I spread out the manuscript paper and picked up the pen. I think, some Chinese must stand up and say something fair for our more than 100 compatriots!Although they are so indisputable, they are our compatriots after all.Their indifference, their weakness, is not incomprehensible to my mind.After all, isn't it because they don't want to lose that job that they swallow their anger and fear them like slaves? So I wrote it.The topic is the same as this one.After finishing writing, he sent another article "Knowledge and Women" to Brother Zhou Zhongliang of "Wuhan Evening News". In my article, I directly denounced the Korean woman as a "bitch", and I wrote in black and white - I am not legally illiterate.I know that the word "bitch" is a great insult to a woman's personality.I understand that I am insulting her, and I am ready to bear the legal responsibility for the consequences.But I am not a rogue literary ruffian who takes open insults to women as his ability and pleasure.I called her a "bitch" because she first insulted more than 100 of my compatriots in our country.Not only insulted them, but also ruthlessly destroyed their only capital - physical health.Working overtime for more than 250 hours without pay in a month, and only allowed to rest for five or six hours in one week of continuous work, doesn't this mean a kind of ruthless and brutal torture?She must compensate my compatriots for the huge loss of their "sole capital" for this kind of torture!Due to the large number of Chinese people she openly insulted, I think the quantitative change has constituted a qualitative change.She has actually insulted my country, insulted our laws - at least the "Labor Law", and of course insulted me indirectly.Unless she first publicly apologizes to my 100+ compatriots, and second to my country and myself, I will refuse to apologize to her even though I insulted her!If she goes to court with me, I will stay with her to the end. Knowledge and Women soon appeared in the papers. "Sad Kneeling" is like a mud cow into the sea. About a month later, I found another report of that incident in a newspaper—very short and inconspicuous.The general idea is that the "incident" has been "properly" handled, and the Korean woman is finally willing to apologize to more than 100 Chinese workers.Whether it was publicly "expressed" in the newspaper, or just said a few words of "apology" in front of them, was not mentioned in the report.I want to be sure of the latter "representation".Maybe the report itself was considered a "public expression" for her? As for the young foreman who was fired, the report did not mention it either.It must have been "expulsion without discussion". So I couldn’t help but think again—the relevant party got a fine, more than 100 workers got an “expression of apology”, and Korean women are still domineering bosses… It is indeed the most "proper" way to deal with it. But I always feel that the ambiguous silence of the media during this process means that China and us Chinese have lost something.It even means that it seems to give up something in disguise.Perhaps, China and ourselves have unknowingly begun to get used to it too much.Perhaps, before long, there will be no events or events that deserve our slight shock.And people who still retain the instinct of shock seem, of course, rare, ridiculous, and even stupid. I then thought of my missing article.As far as I know, it has been transferred among various newspaper offices, but it has not been transferred back to me so far.As if a bad breed of dog, homeless and unlovable, had probably been exterminated as a dangerous breed of dog. I think it's good that it hasn't been published in the newspapers.At least for myself, it might not be a blessing. If it is indeed published, who can guarantee that it will not cause a storm that will completely suck me into it and I will not be able to extricate myself? If it really goes to court, maybe the Korean woman will bring in a Chinese barrister from Korea?Even in our mainland China, there must not be a small number of my compatriots who go to bid for 50,000,000,000 or more money "bidding", that is, our first-class lawyers in China, right? What will happen then?I was fully prepared mentally and spiritually, and planned to confront a Korean woman in court, but if the result was a verbal confrontation with my compatriots, I think I will definitely be extremely confused, bewildered, and at a loss Extremely prepared. If more than 100 of my compatriots who knelt down in front of the Korean woman testify with one voice that their bosses have "expressed" their "sorry" to them and they are very satisfied with this, I will In Chinese courts, facing our Chinese judges, what kind of embarrassing and helpless situation are we in?It seems that there is only an apology to the Korean woman, and compensation for the mental loss in name, right? Then, wouldn't my fate be worse than that of the young king who was "dismissed without discussion"? If the Korean woman pays a large amount of money, many newspapers across the country, including radio and television stations, will definitely report on the news that the writer Liang Xiaosheng lost a lawsuit against a Korean woman for insulting others, right?So many second-rate and third-rate newspapers across the country, will there be more "hot spots" of lace news that can be speculated in a certain period of time? I think it must be difficult for that Korean woman to control more than 100 of my compatriots who were seriously insulted by her to stand in her position and testify according to her instructions?She is backed by a company and has a lot of money.As long as she promises to increase the wages of my compatriots by more than ten yuan a month, they will be willing to "fight back" against me, right? And if the local government participates in the joint prosecution against me, accusing me of interfering with the good situation of "reform and opening up and attracting foreign investment" in the local area, I will not add to the crime. Is there a clown? Thinking of these, I can't help but feel very lucky for myself! This article of mine is actually just a tribute to my previous article! Kneeling has become an event, and an event has become a trivial matter.And, hadn't it been quietly "properly" taken care of?So my sadness, isn't it really too self-indulgent, vainly impulsive, and a waste of emotion? It's just that I often think about the whereabouts of the only young foreman who didn't kneel down at the time but was resolutely fired.I don't know what his current situation is?Do you regret that you didn't just kneel down like more than 100 of your compatriots and kneel down together... I sincerely hope that he is not currently in the unfortunate situation of being unemployed.