Lu Zuofu and Mao Zedong, Soong Ching Ling, Liang Shuming are peers, famous industrialists, educators, and social activists in modern my country.
893, Lu Zuofu was born in Xiaojia Town, Hechuan District. He had five brothers and a youngest sister. He was the second child and was from a poor family since childhood. He started his studies at the age of 26, studied in a private school for 2 years, and dropped out of school after 6 years of elementary school.
910, Lu Zuofu joined China Tongmenghui , and later devoted himself to Road protection movement , Xinhai Revolution . After the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Government, he went to teach at Jiang'an County Middle School in Yibin. After the failure of the second revolution, he was Forced to go to Shanghai, we met Cai Yuanpei, Huang Yanpei and other social celebrities; in 1914, he returned to Chongqing, and successively served as a teacher at Hechuan Middle School, a newspaper editor, editor, and reporter; in 1917, through a friend's introduction, he married Meng Xiuzhen (later Lu Zuofu changed his name to Meng Chuyi), and had three sons and two daughters; he actively participated in the May Fourth Movement and participated in the " Youth Chinese Society " organized by Li Dazhao; in
921, Lu Zuofu was highly valued by warlord Yang Sen, and served as the head of the education section of the Luzhou Yongning Office, and worked with Yun Daiying and others to carry out the people. The experiment of popular education and new education influenced the whole of Sichuan. Later, Yang Sen was defeated and died in the middle of the experiment. In 1924, he was invited by Yang Sen again to establish the popular education center in Chengdu, but soon repeated the mistakes of the education experiment in southern Sichuan.
925, Lu Zuofu raised his own funds to establish the Ministry Shipping Company . By 1935, he unified the Sichuan-River shipping company and became the "Ship King of the Republic of China". During this period, he received strong support from the warlord Liu Xiangding. In 1927, he became the director of the Gorge Defense Regiment Affairs Bureau of Jiangba Bihe (Jiangbei, Ba County, Bishan , Hechuan) and was the director of the Gorge Defense Regiment Affairs Bureau of Jiangba Bihe (Jiangbei, Ba County, Bishan , Hechuan) and was the same as clearing out bandits. At that time, rural construction experiments were conducted in the Xia District, and they were called the "Father of Beibei";
938, Lu Zuofu commanded the implementation of the "Yichang Great Retreat" during the War of Resistance Against Japan, completing the national feat of "Dunke in the East";
During the War of Liberation, the Minsheng Company ship was requisitioned by the Kuomintang many times, and suffered heavy losses. Later, Lu Zuofu set up offices in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places and began to operate ocean routes; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lu Zuofu served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Southwest Military and Political Committee, and continued to serve as the general manager of the Minsheng Steering Company in 1952, Lu Zuofu died in Chongqing at the age of 59.
Lu Zuofu is one of the rare "perfect people" in my country's history. Looking back on his short life, I feel that at least the following three points are particularly worth learning and reference for us:
. Being promising and being good at tossing
Lu Zuofu has no family background, no academic diploma, and has achieved self-study. He can eventually achieve a great career, first of all, thanks to his natural motivation to be unwilling to give in.Lu Zuofu's home is still more than 10 kilometers away from Hechuan County. This was quite far away in Sichuan, which was inconvenient at that time. Many people in the village had never entered the county town in their entire lives. His father Lu Maolin was able to become "Lu Mabu" because he impulsively beat the landlord's son and fled to County Town because of helplessness. What about Lu Zuofu? The poor child was a family. At the age of 15, he took the initiative to go out of the house to make a living independently. Because he had no money, he actually walked to Chengdu, and later he went to Yibin , Luzhou , Shanghai, Beijing and other places. During the days of running around, he joined Tongmenghui , doing revolution, being a teacher, submitting articles to newspapers, as a newspaper editor, editor-in-chief, reporter..., doing whatever he can make a living, may not be big in our opinion now, but if we bring the camera back to the Republic of China more than 100 years ago, these behaviors of Lu Zuofu are not something that ordinary people can do, and they will never be able to do without a sense of motivation!
And in the journey of life, Lu Zuofu has accumulated a lot of connections and has met celebrities such as Huang Yanpei, Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao, and gradually has intersections with mainstream social events. As time goes by, he has gradually emerged and has some social popularity and influence, so that he can get strong support and protection from the warlords Yang Sen and Liu Xiang "Two Big Trees", and can achieve his life loss of "education saving the country" and "industry saving the country", and also lay a solid foundation for his promotion to the "Ship King of the Republic of China".
2. Being smart and knowing about operations
Young people can’t do it just because they are determined. When the opportunity comes, they must be able to grasp it. This requires ability and ability, and Lu Zuofu really has no shortage of this. It's strange to say that he is not educated, but he is talented and has a very flexible mind. What he was born in society was something that many cultural people could not do. As soon as he debuted, he actually focused on teachers. He not only taught, but also compiled textbooks and published them publicly. When he founded the popular education center of the people, he built various cultural and entertainment venues such as exhibition halls, museums, libraries, sports fields, music performance rooms, amusement parks and zoos in Chengdu's large and small parks, and also organized national fitness and sports meetings regularly;
After the establishment of the Minsheng Ship Company, Lu Zuofu vigorously promoted the "manager responsibility system" and implemented the "four system" (unified personnel, unified finance, unified fuel consumption quota, and unified technical business by the captain), actively promoted the service concept of "customers are God", and quickly unified the html with advanced corporate management concepts and means. 1Chuanjiang shipping, and drove ships filled with various foreign flags out of the inland rivers. These modern enterprise management concepts that seem sparse and ordinary, I really don’t know if it was inspired by the moment or where he learned it;
and when he was the director of the Gorges Defense Bureau, he also It is to build railways, open coal mines, weaving factories, and power plants in Beibei; build roads, run farms, and drain canals; lay rural telephone networks, establish Chinese Western Academy of Sciences, and open North Hot Spring Forest Park; build stadiums, transform old cities, and set up hospitals in towns, establish libraries, museums and various schools. A series of measures have opened their minds and blossomed in all aspects. The veritable version of the Republic of China version of the "New Rural Construction" has made it a name for its "Father of Beibei".
. Have great righteousness and good character
Lu Zuofu's greatest social achievement in his life was to complete the "Yichang retreat" known as "Dunkell of the East" with the power of the People's Livelihood Department, for China The War of Resistance has preserved its lifeline and won the time: 40 days, more than 1.5 million people and more than 1 million tons of materials, including all equipment and materials from 34 universities including Fudan University, Central University , Central Army School, equipment and materials from hundreds of factories such as the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, Nanchang Aircraft Factory, Wuhan Clothing Factory, etc. These numbers will not be forgotten by Chinese people!
According to the survey statistics of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Government: Minsheng Company rushes to transport machines and equipment into Sichuan. Only grenades can make 300,000, mortar shells 270,000 aircraft bombs, and more than 200,000 pickaxes per month. It is hard to imagine what the later Anti-Japanese War would look like if these substances were blown up by Japanese military aircraft! Here you may think that Minsheng Company should be a business act in transportation, right? That’s right, during the “Yichang Retreat”, Minsheng Company’s transportation was indeed paid transportation, but what you can’t imagine is that Minsheng Company not only did not take the opportunity to raise prices at this time, but on the contrary, the price was even lower than the price in normal years! Why is this happening? Lu Zuofu said to the company's employees this way:
"We must serve the country with our careers, and we must devote ourselves to our careers. Although we cannot go forward to defend the country and take up weapons to fight the enemy, we should take up our own responsibilities and work hard to be a soldier to enhance the strength of the War of Resistance."
It turns out that he has long stood at the height of the survival of the nation and regarded this as the War of Resistance! According to the account check, Minsheng Company's anti-aircraft industry losses were as high as 4 million yuan that year, of which 16 ships were sunk and destroyed, 69 ships were injured, 117 employees died heroically, and 76 employees were disabled.
Such national justice has to be moved by it. The reason why he has such national justice is inseparable from his usual good character. I wonder if you know that the first ship of Minsheng Company, "Minsheng", was not bought by Lu Zuofu himself because he had no money at all! At that time, the 35,000 yuan spent on buying a ship was created by him for "crowdfunding". On the day of the company's initiator's conference, more than 13,100 people attended the meeting, many of whom were Lu Zuofu's relatives, teachers, and friends, but most of them were poor. In the end, the money raised was only 8,000 yuan. In the end, the Education Director Chen Bozun used 8,000 yuan in the county education fund. The gentry Zheng Dongqin and Zheng Litang took out their own "coffin book" to get it done. How could they do it without good character?
. Have power and really no money
As the general manager of Minsheng Company, Lu Zuofu initially did not have the company's equity, but later Liu Xiang and others were really out of sight. Everyone raised some money to invest in him. At the same time, the shareholders' meeting gave him some dry shares to thank him for his contribution to the company. In 1949, the "Shareholder List" of Minsheng Company showed that Lu Zuofu and his family had a total of 2,000 shares of equity, but he had never received a dividend.
Lu Zuofu relies on his salary to support his family and lives a very hard life.In the spring of 1942, many people's livelihood employees moved into the "Minsheng New Village". Lu Zuofu's family lived in the company dormitory of about 40 square meters in Hongyan Village. The toilet was in the vegetable field outside the house, but this was the most spacious and best time when their family lived. At that time, the only high-end utensil in his family was a small electric fan in the early 1930s. The paint had faded. Lu Zuofu did not drink or smoke. When the guests came to their home, they did not even have an ashtray. Yan Yangchu (a civilian educator, from Bazhong, Sichuan) wrote in "Respect for the best friend of Zuofu" when he was 89 years old: "During the War of Resistance, he was sick once. His family wanted to buy a chicken for him to eat, but he didn't even have the money." It is really sad that a generation of ship kings, his private life was in such a situation.
952, during the "Three Antis" and "Five Antis" movements (some say it was because of the Kuomintang spies), Lu Zuofu was framed and could not bear the humiliation. He committed suicide by taking sleeping pills at home in Chongqing. In his will to his wife, Lu Zuofu wrote:
. Borrow furniture from Minsheng Company and give it to him. Return to Minsheng Company;
2. The stocks of Minsheng Company are handed over to the country;
3. Rely on children in the future;
4. The badge of the Southwest Military and Political Committee is returned to Military and Political Committee .
person evaluation excerpt
" Zhangzhidong , Fan Xudong , transportation Lu Zuofu and textile industry Zhang Jian . They are all people who have contributed to the development of our country's national industry." - Mao Zedong
"He is a man who has not received formal education A scholar, a modern entrepreneur who has no personal enjoyment pursuit, a tycoon without money. "— Zhang Qun
"If Lu Zuofu was alive, there wouldn't be my Bao Yugang ." - Bao Yugang
"Absolutely perfect". ——" Southern People Weekly "
"In the era when he lived, Lu Zuofu was a half-Confucian and half-Buddhist figure." ——《Chinese Entrepreneur》
