Chapter 28 Talk about "going to sea"

I don't know where the term "xiahai" came from. I heard that in Shanghai before 1945, young women and girls who went to dance halls to become dancers were called "xiahai". Become a Peking Opera actor, also known as "Going to the Sea".In short, it seems to have nothing to do with business.After 1949, the word was silent for many years. In the 1990s, "xiahai" suddenly appeared in mainland newspapers, and "xiahai" became a fashionable verb again, just like the beep of BP, resounding everywhere in the streets and alleys.However, after historical changes, this "going into the sea" is no longer the other "going into the sea", but refers to writers, professors, scholars and other cultural people engaged in commercial activities.

I don't know who was the first to transform the meaning of this word. I think this person must have a linguistic genius.Workers engaged in commerce, farmers engaged in commerce, and ordinary citizens engaged in commerce are not called "going to the sea", but cultural people are only called "going to the sea" to engage in commerce.There is a deep meaning in it.Now, this "sea" is not that "sea", it no longer refers to a small dance floor but a "sea of ​​business" that can really destroy people.You refer to the commodity market as a "business sea", I think it is probably because people will drown if they are not handled well in the commodity market.However, can other people not drown?Why do other people not need to highlight the "sea" when they go to the business world, but why do cultural people have to specifically indicate that the commodity market is a "sea" that can drown people when they go to the business world?

I have only been "going to the sea" for more than ten months. Apart from other characteristics, the biggest characteristic of the business I run is that I lead a group of cultural people who are more laymen than me to engage in business activities.For more than ten months, my troubles did not come from the shortage of funds, the sluggish business, or the troubles of industrial and commercial taxation. On the contrary, the situation in these aspects was good. Caused! "Go to the sea" "Go to the sea"!I have a deep understanding of the fact that many of the cultured people transferred will be wiped out as soon as they arrive in the business world.Forty years is a glimpse in the long river of history, but it is a decisive shaping process for people.Chinese cultural people are different from workers, peasants and ordinary citizens. No matter how poor they are, they always live a secure life in administrative or public institutions.In this way, in the long forty years, Chinese cultural people have transformed, or have been shaped into rabbits, or at least acquired some characteristics of rabbits.

First of all, many cultural people have no risk awareness at all and have lost the courage to take risks.It is said that being content with poverty and being happy in poverty are the traditional virtues of Chinese cultured people.In my opinion, this is just a self-consoling Ah Q-style propaganda because many cultural people have long lost the courage to strive for a prosperous life, and can only shrink in the snail shell and lick the dew.Secondly, over the past ten months, extensive observations have shown that many cultural people do not have the ability to handle affairs independently. In this regard, they are not as good as ordinary administrative cadres or even car drivers.It is fascinating to listen to them sit down and talk, but ask them to do a practical thing, and you will be waiting for bad luck.

Another feature that distinguishes rabbits from other animals is that they have no sense of community and teamwork.They are not like sheep, and even less like wolves. If you keep a rabbit alone in a cage, it will live happily.Therefore, you must not expect them to handle the necessary horizontal connections in shopping malls or "business seas".Rabbits are good at contemplating in cages, imagining "creative freedom", sitting in a study or office looking forward to the future, constructing blueprints, but not dealing with immediate interpersonal relationships. The term "behavioral science" is so foreign to them that you can only ask them to understand a little bit about the effectiveness of behavior.At the same time, just because they lack teamwork and the courage to take risks, don't expect them to "carry the shoulders" for the company as the Shanghai saying goes.If the building shakes a little, the rabbit must be the first to make a hole and escape.

In this way, my business did not go bankrupt and was able to make money.It should also be said that cultural people have a group of old relationships and friends after all, and when old relationships and friends become customers of enterprises, another characteristic of Jiafang is exposed again, namely: in the fiercely competitive market They do not have the ability to compete. The difference between domestic rabbits and wolves is that domestic rabbits are not a little bit aggressive and cannot forage for food by themselves.Everyone knows the idiom "waiting for the rabbit", but I think there should be another idiom - "waiting for the rabbit".It turned out that the rabbit-like cultured people could only stay in the office and wait for business to come to their door.

Rabbits are the most docile animals, but I have also met rabbits that look like wolves. In addition to the characteristics of rabbits mentioned above, they also have the greed of wolves.It's pitiful to say that Chinese intellectuals have lived in poverty for decades, and the idiom "seeing money with eyes open" couldn't be more appropriate for some intellectuals.Nowadays, most people think that money can make people fall, but they don't know that poverty can also make people fall.The degradation is doubled for the man who has been impoverished for years when he sees the wads of money passing through his hands.When you go to feed the rabbits that have been hungry for many days, the rabbits that don't bite will even gnaw your fingers and grass together.Bitten my finger, I often don't know whether to be sad or disgusted.

Unlike wolves, dogs, cats, cows, horses...not even sheep and hares, domestic rabbits are completely insulated from water.Other animals can still jump a few times when they fall into the water, but the rabbit sinks when it hits the water, and it doesn't even have the ability to stretch its claws.How terrible the sea is to them! However, the construction of China's market economy cannot be discussed without the participation of cultural people.In an article, I divided the Chinese market economy since the reform and opening up into three stages and three types of businessmen: the businessmen in the first stage are those who "ride motorcycles and carry scales, and follow Deng Xiaoping to make revolution" Small merchants and peddlers, now the best of these people have become 100,000 yuan households and million yuan households. The second stage and the second type of merchants rely on the dual-track system of prices and use their special social status from the intermediary circulation. Those who gain benefits from the market are about to transform or decline. The third stage and the third type of businessmen are cultural businessmen who rely on knowledge and wisdom, and the future Chinese market will definitely be dominated by such businessmen.However, if a cultural person wants to become a cultural businessman, he must get rid of the rabbit habit in himself.In the "sea", they are not required to become sea wolves or sharks, at least they must gradually adapt themselves to the stormy sea and become good swimmers.

The above is a little bit of my personal experience, but I spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy it, and it is definitely not something that can be realized by squatting in a rabbit cage and meditating.Originally, I was almost domesticated into a domestic rabbit. Fortunately, I have been reformed through labor for more than 20 years, and I still have the wildness of a wolf and the ability to forage for myself. Otherwise, my company would declare bankruptcy in less than half a year.The consolation is that now I have returned the rabbits to their accustomed cages.They might say to you: "Don't 'go into the sea'!"