Wu Sunfu's main personality characteristics are shrewdness, ambition, daring to take risks and being an iron hand. He is rich in money and talented. He has studied in Europe and America and knows a set of knowledge and skills of business management. He is ambitious to develop national industries and compete with foreign goods dumped in China market.
The other side of Wu Sunfu's personality is weakness and emptiness, and the plight of national industry is difficult and has no future, which makes Wu Sunfu, who is smart and strong, confused, empty and weak.
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Wu Sunfu was dissatisfied with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic comprador bourgeoisie, but he was inextricably linked with them. He once collaborated with Zhao to speculate on public debt. He was dissatisfied with the Chiang Kai-shek government's exorbitant taxes and warlord wars, but relied on the Kuomintang military police to suppress the workers' movement and the farmers' movement, and he was extremely afraid and hostile to the workers' and peasants' Red Army.
At home, Wu Sunfu acted arbitrarily, showing the feudal side. The creation of images is Mao Dun's outstanding contribution to China's modern literature.
Wu Sunfu is ambitious to develop national industries and compete with foreign goods dumped in China market. To this end, he established a trust company with transportation capitalist Sun Jiren and mining capitalist Wang Cheng, which also operated finance and industry. I dream that one day, under his control, Zhong Yi Company "has a chimney as tall as a forest, emitting black smoke, a boat braving the wind and waves, and a car passing through Yuan Ye".
The products of many of his factories are sold all over the country and go deep into the hinterland. By lending money to his peers to create a trap, he swallowed up eight factories that produced daily necessities for light industry. His theory is to mercilessly overthrow those mediocre entrepreneurs, take their enterprises into his iron fist and realize his dream of Wu Ji's capitalist kingdom.
In the competition, he fully demonstrated his ambition, courage, adventurous spirit and ruthless personality. The contradiction between Wu Sunfu and comprador capitalist Zhao is a main thread running through the book. Wu Sunfu dared to fight Zhao, United and inspired Sun Jiren and Wang with his strong self-confidence and optimistic spirit, and made the company an important stronghold against Zhao.
The night tour of Huangpu River profoundly revealed Wu Sunfu's inner anguish, and Wu Zhao nightclub even wanted to surrender conditionally and finally went bankrupt.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Sunfu