Chapter 80 It turns out that Taiwan is on the belly of the mainland (1)

In the last program, I mentioned that many of us are opposed to total Westernization.This is basically a good thing, based on our China's standard, but if we make a list and look at our daily life, we will find that, in fact, we are completely westernizing without realizing it.For example, we say that capitalism belongs to the West, and we want to avoid total Westernization, but we often forget that Marxism is also from the West. It is not native to China, it is also imported.In my last show, I talked about the glasses we wear.These glasses are not a Chinese thing, they only came to China during the Ming Dynasty, so, whichever minister the emperor of the Ming Dynasty likes, give a pair of presbyopic glasses, no matter whether the degree is right or not, ouch, I am happy to wear them, I feel good Glorious and rare.Today some people oppose total westernization, do you smoke cigarettes?Don't smoke, cigarettes are westernized.Cigarettes are treasures brought back from the Americas after Columbus discovered America. In this way, cigarettes slowly spread to China.

In the year before the death of General Chen Cheng, the so-called vice president of the Republic of China and the vice president of the Kuomintang, he suddenly had a whim and asked me to have a chat.When a person is about to die, his words are also kind.He respected my cigarettes, and I quit smoking, so he said a word, he said: "If you quit smoking, you are a good person, but you are not a good citizen." I said: "Why?" He said: "If you quit smoking, you are a good person. Wrong, but if you don’t smoke, the government won’t get the tax for selling cigarettes.” Taiwan’s tobacco and alcohol follow the Japanese system, which calls for the public sale of tobacco and alcohol. The government sells cigarettes, and the government sells alcohol. No one else is allowed to sell.The tax collected from tobacco and alcohol can pay the salaries of the labor and education personnel in the entire Taiwan area, so it is a considerable income.Therefore, the Kuomintang government has an institution called the Tobacco and Alcohol Sales Bureau.I still remember a passage he told me. I still remember it to this day. He said: "Our Kuomintang has only now realized that the failure of the Communist Party does not mean the victory of the Kuomintang." This sentence is very painful.Finally, these senior members of the Kuomintang know that you are anti-communist and anti-communist all day long, and you shout "tyranny must die" all day long, but even the failure of the Communist Party does not mean the victory of your Kuomintang.If the KMT collapses, it will die, and if it collapses, it will die.

I mentioned in the program that the president of the United States was the commander-in-chief of the European coalition forces during World War II. He was General Eisenhower. This general later became a five-star general. He was a smoker.Once, he announced that he had given up smoking, saying that he would stop smoking if he did not smoke.After he stopped smoking, reporters asked him once: "In a room where everyone is smoking and puffing, and you are the only one who doesn't smoke, do you feel sad?" As a general, he is worthy of being a soldier. He said: "I don't feel sad. I just think I have the willpower to quit smoking. They don't."

There is an association in Taiwan called Dong's Foundation, which celebrates its 20th birthday today.What will this be doing?It is to do everything possible to teach others to quit smoking and persuade others to quit smoking.I saw this meeting, I always thought it was funny, is it so troublesome to quit smoking?I, Li Ao, quit smoking for 30 years. If I say quit, I quit. In a word, it’s as simple as that.People ask me: "Why quit smoking?" I like to joke, I said: "I don't want to let the bad government of the Kuomintang get my taxes, I don't want to be sold by the tobacco and alcohol companies, so I quit smoking." People said: "Then you You can smoke foreign cigarettes." I said, "You can't smoke foreign cigarettes either, because I oppose imperialism, so I don't smoke foreign cigarettes." It can be seen that if a person does not do something, he can find a good reason.

Everyone, look at this photo. Chairman Mao is so leisurely holding a cigarette. Do you see that?Followed by Lin Biao, and the generals behind, each holding a little red book of Mao's quotations, praising him.However, I think this photo has set a bad example, that is, Chairman Mao smokes openly like this. Let's look at Liu Shaoqi, then President of the People's Republic of China, see?Meeting with so many people, I held a cigarette in my hand.I think it's a bad demonstration. Look at the statistics, mainlanders smoke two-thirds of the world's cigarettes every year, see?However, more than 100 million people are engaged in tobacco planting, processing and production, wholesale and retail and other related industries.Now comes the challenge.Because two-thirds of the world's tobacco is consumed by mainland smokers, see?Foreign tobacco tariffs were lowered from the current 40 percent to 10 percent in 2004, and cigarette tariffs were lowered from 70 percent to 20 percent.In other words, it will encounter the challenge of foreign cigarettes.We admit that these industrial and agricultural enterprises related to smoking are related to the lives of 100 million people and their livelihoods, but I must say that this is a bad habit brought about by the past leaders of the Communist Party of China. Just smoking in public.In my opinion, they should give the whole people a standard of health, and it is better not to set such a bad example.

Look at the horrific depiction of cigarettes in this foreign artwork, do you see that?A skeleton died with a cigarette in its mouth.Why are you talking about these things, Li Ao? Just to tell everyone: first, cigarettes are completely Westernized products, and cigarettes are imported from abroad; Third, national leaders take the lead in smoking, and what the past leaders did was wrong.Does Li Ao believe in religion?Nor is it.Thirty or forty years ago, I smoked, drank, and played poker, and I knew it all.My good friend, Mr. Ju Haoran, graduated from Tsinghua University and later went to the Central Military Academy.At that time, he also printed a rule for playing mahjong, and I read it to everyone: "Twelve rules for fellow friends: 1. Don't be late; 2. Don't leave early; 3. Don't complain about the sky; 6. Do not throw cards hard; 7. Do not overthrow other people's cards; 1. If you win, you don’t go first, if you lose, you don’t extend it; 12, if you win or lose, you will pay in cash.” There are also eight words printed on the back: “All rights reserved, welcome to reprint.”