Lu is good at weaving, and his wife is good at weaving, and wants to worship Yue as a disciple. Or: "I will be poor." Lu said, "Why?" He said: "Walking is good, but there are more and more people walking; It's also a crown. The more people send it. You can swim in a country that doesn't need swimming. Think infinity, and you will get it.

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There was a man in the state of Lu who was good at playing straw sandals, and his wife was good at weaving white silk. The couple want to move to Vietnam.

Someone said to him, "If you go to Vietnam, you will definitely become poor."

Lu asked, "Why?"

The man replied, "shoes are for people to wear, but Vietnamese people are used to walking barefoot;" Woven white silk is used to make hats, but Vietnamese people like to let their hair hang freely without hats. How can you go to a country that doesn't need you with your professional knowledge? Want to be poor, how to do it? "

Enlightenment of "Lu people migrating to Vietnam"

I don't know if you have heard a story written by Han Feizi: the Lu people are good at spinning, and his wife is good at spinning white silk. When they wanted to cross the border, someone said to them, "You must be broke." Lu asked him what he was talking about, and the man said: wear feet, while Vietnamese walk barefoot; White silk is used to make hats, but Vietnamese people have long hair. How do your husband and wife's specialties work when they cross the border? How can you not be poor? "

After reading this story, people often think that the Lu couple who are good at making up are confused and ignorant, while the persuaders are wise and knowledgeable, which is almost irrefutable evidence. Yes, from a static point of view, Mr. and Mrs. Lu, who are good at textiles, must be "useless" or even "pitiful" after crossing the border, just as the wise persuader said.

But what if you think deeply from another angle? You will get the exact opposite answer to what the persuader said-

After moving to Vietnam, Lu people are not necessarily eager to sell shoes and hats, nor are they necessarily limited to selling shoes and hats. After the couple go to Vietnam, they can do a survey first, get to know the local customs, and then advertise some shoes and hats that are beneficial to health from an aesthetic point of view, so that Vietnamese people can gradually understand and accept the civilized lifestyle of wearing shoes and hats, and business will naturally come. Of course, the lifestyle of the Vietnamese people may not change immediately, and it is impossible for the Lu couple to get rich immediately. However, with the development and progress of society, the Vietnamese people's way of life is not static, and they don't have to wear shoes and hats all the time, just like humans hung leaves and skins at first, and now they wear clothes. Besides, since Mr. and Mrs. Lu are good at spinning, their spinning will not be limited to shoes and hats, and they can spin many things that Vietnamese people like. In this way, the Lu couple are not rich.

The same is true in our real life. There are many people who look at things or do things with rigid eyes, just like the people who advise Lu people in the story. They stick to the rules and don't think about change. They are satisfied with the present environment. When they seem strange to new things, they either take a skeptical attitude and ignore them, or shout "where is the heresy" and kill them with a stick. And the list goes on. The thoughts and behaviors of these people are extremely incompatible with the reform era in which we live. China is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country with relatively backward economy. Although after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to change this backward situation, the state established an economic system suitable for the actual situation at that time, but these old economic systems are no longer suitable for the development of social productive forces. Moreover, today's world is an open world, all countries in the world are implementing reform and opening up, and their economic strength is constantly increasing. China has fallen behind the developed countries in the world. Only by carrying out reform and opening up and learning from each other's strengths can we be invincible in today's fierce competition.

Therefore, at present, we can only create wealth, strengthen national strength, improve people's material living standards, catch up with the developed countries in the world and become one of the world's powerful countries if we dare to break into the forbidden zone and try boldly, just like the Lu people. On the contrary, like the persuader in the story, he can only get poorer and poorer, and finally he will not collapse and repeat the historical tragedy of the late Qing Dynasty.