Chapter 170: Study for the rise of China

Zhou Ming looked down on ** coldly and said, 'Impossible? You really should open your eyes and take a good look at the world, instead of wallowing in your own fantasies all day.'

'Is it that you think our country should be very poor and backward, and that the people in our country should know nothing about finance and economics? I can tell you very responsibly that this is a wrong idea, and a very wrong one at that!'

Zhou Ming said: 'I admit that the United States is very powerful, whether in the military or in the economy, and is an advanced representative of the world. I also admit that our country is very poor and our economic conditions are much more backward than those of Western countries. But these are only temporary. Because we Chinese are the most adept at learning and changing people in the world, as long as we are given a chance, we can create achievements that will amaze the world.'

'I believe you must have heard of the term "Nanjiang speed" even abroad. This term shows that the construction speed of our special economic zone has exceeded the imagination of the world!'

Zhou Ming changed the subject and continued, 'Then let's get back to the topic of finance. It is true that foreign countries are ahead of us in financial research, but in the end, finance is just that. As long as you understand its fundamentals and then apply the wisdom that has been passed down in China for thousands of years, it is simply not difficult to win against those Western countries.'

** looked at Zhou Ming in a daze and was speechless. If someone else had said this in front of him, ** would have at least nine ways to refute it, but in the face of Zhou Ming, he could say nothing.

It wasn't that these words were difficult to refute, but Zhou Ming was just someone who couldn't be refuted. It was because **remembered what the students in the finance class had just said: that Zhou Ming had gone to Northern Russia and fought against American financial experts, and had even helped the country make a profit of 100 billion US dollars.

** didn't admit it out loud, but he still believed it in his heart. After all, it was a secret, and even he only found out about it due to an accident. How would these mainlanders know? And these carefully selected finance class students were all very proud. They wouldn't even want to gang up on him, let alone make up such a despicable lie, it was simply impossible.

As the saying goes, the winner takes all, and Zhou Ming has already won the Americans in the financial battlefield of Northern Russia, so he can evaluate Western finance however he likes.

**is confused: But why? How can a mainland Chinese person defeat the Americans in finance? Can someone tell me why?

'Do you want to know why?' Zhou Ming asked him in a timely manner, and **looked up at him blankly, 'Because you're stupid!'

Zhou Ming said to **, 'The reason I said that the Analects is the words of the Wealth of Nations is that I knew you definitely wouldn't know. I know people like you too well. You worship the West with all your heart, want to become a foreigner, get into their circle, and even go so far as to desperately belittle and insult your own countrymen for it. But you forget that you are a Chinese person with yellow skin, and you are fundamentally different from them.'

After saying this, Zhou Ming paused before saying, 'The end result is that you forget the things of your own nation, and at the same time you haven't learned anything from the Western world, becoming a motley mix of foreign and Chinese.'

** sat down dejectedly. Zhou Ming's words pierced his heart like steel needles, knocking on his bones and causing him to feel an uncontrollable pain.

At this time, Ye Ning stepped forward and said to **, 'You Western lackey, just watch, our China will definitely take off in the future and be at the forefront of the world. For now, we in the finance class do not welcome people like you, so please leave!'

Ye Ning's tone was sonorous and forceful, and her words aroused the emotions of all the students in the finance class. There was a chorus of boos, and everyone spoke one after the other, saying to **, 'Yes! This is a sacred school, and we are all students studying for the prosperity of our motherland. We do not welcome you, a beast who forgets your ancestors, here. Please leave immediately!'

Others also mocked him with words ** had once said: 'Mr **, why haven't you left yet? Do you think you can still be saved?'

Hearing these taunts one after the other, it made ** feel like vomiting blood. Not only because of the taunts, but also because the students who mocked him were clearly his defeated opponents just now!

However, no matter how painful and unwilling ** was, he was definitely too ashamed to stay in the lecture hall. In the end, the two friends who came with him could only help him up, say sorry, and then leave in disgrace.

As they watched ** and the others leave, all the students cheered again, not only to let off some steam, but also for Zhou Ming: 'Teacher Zhou Ming, you are the best, you are our idol, a true financial genius. If it weren't for you today, that ** would have gotten away with it again!'

Listening to the cheers of his students below, the sound was so loud that it almost made the roof collapse, reaching the heavens. Zhou Ming, however, only gave a shallow smile. He waved his hand to indicate silence before asking, 'Do you all hate **, or rather, do you all dislike him?'

The students didn't need to answer this question, and Zhou Ming immediately said after asking, 'Actually, my question is redundant. Judging from everyone's performance just now, the answer is already very clear.'

The students in the audience laughed, but Zhou Ming's face gradually turned cold. He continued, 'You think that people will cheer for joy, but should they really cheer for joy? I don't think so. In my opinion, having someone like ** is a kind of sorrow, but what I want to say is not just ** his sorrow, but also the sorrow of our country and nation.'

The sudden change in tone left everyone stunned. Zhou Ming continued, 'Why do I say that? Everyone might as well think about how he came to be.'

'He was born and raised in the United States, but he is very different from the mainstream American population. It can be imagined that he must have suffered a lot of exclusion and bullying abroad. But he himself yearned for a Western lifestyle, so he constantly tried to break into the American circle, but it was all in vain. Or in the end, he could only linger in the circle of Chinese people abroad, and the circle of real white people never accepted him.'

After saying this, Zhou Ming paused for a moment before continuing, 'As a result, he began to resent his origins, and even developed a grudge against his fellow ethnic Chinese. He always thought that he was an American, and that it was his own ethnic group that was to blame for the situation he was in. We cannot say that all overseas Chinese are like this, but we can say that he is a microcosm of our fellow overseas Chinese.'

Zhou Ming paused after saying this and asked, 'I don't know if you have ever thought about how this is related to us?'

This question left everyone stunned. Some people thought of something, but more people were still at a loss. Then Zhou Ming gave the answer: 'This ultimately comes down to the fact that our country is still very poor and our nation is not yet strong enough!'

'It is because the country is poor that those overseas Chinese have to leave their homes and go abroad to make a living. It is because our nation is not strong enough that our compatriots are bullied abroad. Not only do foreigners look down on us, but even our compatriots look down on us!'

Zhou Ming thought for a moment and said, 'Let me tell you a story. It's about me in Northern Russia. They were going to set up a stock market there, so I went to open an account and speculate in stocks. They were all very surprised when they heard that I was Chinese. Why? Because they thought that Chinese people were a bunch of barbarians who lived off the land, who only knew how to use an abacus to cheat others. They didn't think that we knew anything about finance.'

'Chinese people want to speculate in stocks? My God, you can't even eat, so don't joke about it. Does anyone in China know what securities and futures are, can calculate numbers other than 1 to 9, and abide by the rules of the financial market? Don't play the bad guy here when you lose money, I'll call the police.'

Zhou Ming said, 'What I just said is exactly what an American said. Why did he say that? Isn't it because of three words, contempt?'

In their twenties, they were at the peak of their enthusiasm. Listening to Zhou Ming's words, the students in the finance class unconsciously clenched their fists, feeling ashamed and indignant that their country and nation were looked down upon by foreigners in this way.

'Ninety years ago, in an ordinary school in the northeast, a great man said the words 'Study for the rise of China'. There is also a line in our national anthem that says, 'When the nation is in its most perilous hour, I want to tell you, it is now!

Zhou Ming said, pointing to the northwest with his hand, 'I think you have all seen the current situation in Northern Russia. It is because they do not understand finance, do not have a sound financial order, and do not even know how powerful finance can be that they have been disrupted by the Americans, who have come in and robbed them of trillions of dollars. Everything they have accumulated over more than half a century has been plundered.'

'Classmates, that is a superpower that can rival the United States! What if this happened to our motherland?'

Zhou Ming's question made everyone shudder. Someone immediately shouted that this would never happen in our motherland. Zhou Ming continued, 'You are all good people with ideals and ambitions, but chanting slogans won't work. You must use your hands, the textbooks in your hands, and the knowledge you have learned to arm our motherland and study for the rise of China!'

With Zhou Ming's words, the students in the finance class and the students from the People's University shouted in unison, 'Study for the rise of China!'

'But abroad, there are many people like ** who will be nostalgic for the prosperity abroad and they are unwilling to return to the poor motherland and unwilling to suffer with the motherland. What about you?' Zhou Ming asked again.

In the face of this question from Zhou Ming, Chen Shu, the head of the finance class, was the first to shout, 'Teacher Zhou Ming! We are all your students, we are all people determined to study for the rise of China, our ambition to serve the motherland and the nation will never change, our idols will always be the patriotic scientists of Qian Lao's generation, not those shameless villains who are nostalgic for the prosperous life abroad and forget their ancestors. Please don't ask this kind of question.'

Under the leadership of Chen Shu, the other students also shouted out, 'Please don't ask this kind of question, we are all for the motherland!'

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