Chapter 22 The purpose of the revolution is to treat guests to dinner (1)

I have a cold, so the voice is very unpleasant. In Beijing dialect, you can just make up for it. First of all, please take a look at an antique, which is a seal engraved by the Chinese artist Zhao Zhiqian in the 19th century. There are eight characters engraved on it, which are called "the ambition of life is not to be food and clothing".Who is this talking about?He was a prime minister in the Song Dynasty. He took the number one scholar exam. After he passed the exam, everyone congratulated him, saying that you will never have enough food and clothing in your life.This great figure in the Song Dynasty said: The ambition in life is not to have enough food and clothing (my lifelong ambition is not to have enough food or wear clothes, I have other ambitions).That is to say, we can see that in Christianity, people live not only for a piece of bread, but also for other things.What do I mean by telling this story?It is to tell everyone that the problems we encounter in the process of growing up are sometimes so miserable that they are the lowest standard of life, that is, the problem of food and clothing.

Let me show you a passage from "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping". He said: We have been delayed for 20 years since 1957, and these 20 years are a period of vigorous development in the world. This is a pity.This includes the "Cultural Revolution" and the "Great Leap Forward". China has been delayed for 20 years.He said: Reform and opening up is the means. The goal is to develop our economy in three steps. The first step is to achieve the level of food and clothing.Do you see it?This is what Deng Xiaoping hoped for during his lifetime. Our first goal is to reach the level of food and clothing first.

Let's look at it again. Deng Xiaoping said that this reform first started in the countryside. Farmers, who accounted for 80% of the country's population, did not even have enough food and clothing. I have read a survey report on Gansu more than ten years ago. A group of professors went to Gansu for investigation. They were thirsty and went to a farmhouse to ask for water.After entering the farmhouse, an old farmer in ragged clothes gave them water to drink.They saw a broken quilt on the bed, and the quilt was moving inside.They asked, "Is there someone inside?" The peasant woman said, "That's my daughter." The professors asked, "Is she sick?" "What's the matter?" "No clothes, no pants."——A big girl has no pants.I tell everyone.No pants to wear, do you blame the Communist Party?Let me tell you, the head of the Executive Yuan of the KMT was the father of my good friend Li Qinghua.Before he came to be the executive president, he met me once, and he told me a story: When the Kuomintang ruled the mainland, he also went to the Northwest, and found a pair of trousers hanging on the door curtain, and the whole family only had one pair of trousers.When Dad was out, Mom had to stay at home with her butt naked.When my mother went out, my father was at home with his buttocks naked.why?Only one pair of pants.How come you are so poor?That's how poor he is.Therefore, the problem of not wearing pants cannot be blamed on the Communist Party.Who is to blame?It is a phenomenon caused by our entire motherland after years of wars, a large land but little resources, and a large population.Therefore, wearing trousers, being able to eat enough to keep us fed and clothed has become a basic human rights issue.

It's funny to say, dogs are like this, but when people are not as good as dogs, this is a problem that has always been in China.Therefore, it is very important for us to have enough food and wear warm clothes.This phenomenon existed in the time of Confucius. The poor sage, the quilt (cloth) he covered was short, his feet were exposed when he covered his head, and his head was exposed when he covered his feet. He was so poor.Long, long ago, it was an old problem in China. When we look at Africans, we see this phenomenon. This woman's milk has collapsed in such a way that the child has nothing to eat.We have seen the hard work of children in Africa. You see, the war is so chaotic, and the children are pitiful. We see this kind of poor people, they are already skinny.This is a girl, and she has become like this.However, if we look at ourselves, poor people in China are seldom completely naked. The reason is that they have a rag. The reason is that the temperature (in our place) is too low, otherwise they will freeze to death.Let's look at our early poor people, this is an original photo, please see, this is our early poor people, before the Communist Party ruled China, our little girl looked like this during the Great Famine.Let’s see, during the famine in Sichuan in 1925, do you see that these are Chinese compatriots, how hungry are they different from those Africans? These phenomena tell us: the problem of food and clothing has indeed become a basic problem in China. human rights issues.

Everyone said it was funny, saying: Isn’t human rights freedom? Isn’t it democracy? How come running out to eat and wear clothes is also a human right?However, we have to ask, what kind of freedom is there when a person is too poor to eat, cannot wear clothes, is a big girl, and cannot walk out of the house with bare buttocks?What is democracy?That's why we know that there are some human rights standards, and now we need to amend them, and if we can't amend them, we find that: indeed, the right to food and clothing is a basic human right.It's very ashamed to say it, but people who have enough to eat don't understand our pain.

I once said that China is vast in land but not rich in resources. Strictly speaking, the products of the whole of China cannot catch up with California in the United States. However, the population is already so large. What should we do when we face this problem?Everyone hopes, that is to say, let’s have a full meal first, and let’s not talk about other things.However, there is a major prerequisite for having enough food, that is, the country should not be beaten—it is very important not to be beaten by foreigners, and only by not being beaten can we not starve.How not to get beaten?We want to make the country rich and strong, right?Be stable.How can it be stable?Just don't fight.However, do you know how many years of war we are facing?Especially now, our compatriots, especially the young children, they don't understand.

I'll show you a picture.Did you see it?We are fleeing during this war, see?Everyone is sitting on the train, fleeing, and there are people on the top of the train.Do you see it?There are people on the front of the train.When many people are fleeing, these people are the lucky ones who can be on the train, but sometimes, when there is wind or when they pass through a cave, many people are often blown down and die, and those who can escape are the lucky ones .Please pay attention to the bottom of the train. Look at the bottom of the train. These are the wheels of the train, and this is the carriage above the train.There is a connected steel plate between the wheels of the train, and there are crowded people inside. When the train is running at high speed, these people are all moving at the same speed. Think about it, is it scary?Horrible of course.This is what the Chinese suffered in times of war.