Ren Zhengfei: My father and mother

"My Father and Mother"--Ren Zhengfei

I read this article more than once with tears.
Yes, it is the self-confession of an entrepreneur's soul. It is a ritual of a filial son who is crying; more importantly, it is a portrayal of the hard history of the Chinese business leaders!
My father mother
——The president of Huawei Group Ren Zhengfei I was in a youthful age with my parents. The most impressive thing was the difficult period of three years of natural disasters. I want to come back today. I was 14 or 5 years old, and I was the boss. The other younger brothers were smaller than one and not sensible. Dad sometimes has the opportunity to attend meetings to improve his life. The mother is so humble, not only has to work like other people, but also has to bear the cultivation and life of seven children. Cooking, washing, and coal-burning stoves... everything is done, and consumption is so big, but I never eat more. At that time, our family implemented a strict distribution system for each meal to control the distribution system of all people's desires, ensuring that everyone can survive. If not, there will always be one or two younger siblings who can't live today. I really understand the meaning of the sentence of living.
When I was in the high school exam, I sometimes went home to review my homework. I was so hungry that I couldn’t stand it. I used rice bran and vegetables and a bit of it to eat it. I was touched by my father several times. He was distressed. In fact, at that time, my family was so poor that there was no lockable cabinet. The grain was packed in a cylinder. I didn't dare to grab it at random. Otherwise, one or two younger brothers could not live today. The college entrance examination is approaching. My mother often gives me a small tortilla in the morning. I want to review my homework with peace of mind. I can go to college, and the small tortillas are huge. If this is not the case, maybe I can't build a company like Huawei. There is one more pig-raising expert in the society, or one more skilled craftsman on the street. This little tortilla was taken from the mouth of my parents and younger siblings, and I can't repay them.
His father was cautious and cautious in his life. He knew that his status was not high. He never confided himself and immersed himself in his studies. In the movement of the "Cultural Revolution" sweeping all the ghosts and gods, he was still thrown out, reactionary academic authority, capitalists, and historical problems. People... can’t escape. He was first locked into the cowshed.
When the Chongqing Wudou was fierce in 1967, I took the train home. Because there was no ticket on the train to beat the Shanghai rebel team, the ticket was not available, and I pushed the train down. I also smashed the station staff and went home. I didn't dare to get off directly in the city where my parents worked. I got off at the previous stop, Qingtaipo, and walked back a dozen miles. When I got home in the middle of the night, my parents saw me coming back. I didn't have time to feel so distressed. Let me go early the next morning. I am afraid that people will be affected and will affect my future. The next morning I left. When I left, my father took off his old pair of shoes and gave it to me: "Remember that knowledge is power, others don't learn, you have to learn, don't follow the flow." Helping younger siblings. "With this kind of trust, I have done two times in the high-level mathematics problem set of Fan Yingchuan in the environment of Chongqing bullets and rain, and learned a lot of logic and philosophy. I also learned three foreign languages ​​myself. At that time, I was able to read college textbooks. I was not a language genius. In addition, I couldn’t use it in military service. I have been ruined for more than 20 years and completely forgotten. I used to wear my father's shoes. I didn't think that my father was doing hard work. In the mud, it was cold and wet. He needed shoes more. Now recalling, I feel that I am too selfish.
In the "Cultural Revolution", the economic situation of my family fell into a difficult situation than during the natural disaster. In order to economically fight against the capitalists, the Central People's Cultural Revolution Group should not exceed 15 yuan per capita living standard. Moreover, the rebel factions at all levels are overweight, and the average price of the real party is about 10 yuan. I have classmates working in the street office, introducing my younger brothers to the river to dig sand, repairing the railway, and lifting the earth... When my brothers and sisters got married, everyone gathered together and sent me 100 yuan. This is because they are sifting sand in the cold river water, risking being buried in the earth landslide when repairing the railway... earned. The hardships of that time were tolerable, and the heartache was much more serious than the physical pain. Due to the background of the father’s censorship, the younger brothers and sisters were denied the admissions again and again, and the loss to them in that era was that they did not have the opportunity to receive higher education. In addition to the Cultural Revolution that I started after three years in college, other younger brothers and sisters did not finish high school, middle school, high school, and junior high school. Their skills to adapt to life were self-learning. Judging from the current review, the hard life of material and the suffering of the soul are a mature and precious treasure of our later life.

The "Cultural Revolution" is a disaster for the country, but it is a baptism of life for us, which makes me politically mature, no longer a mere nerd. Although I also participated in the vigorous Red Guard movement, I am not a Red Guard, this is also a spectacle. Because the father was affected by the trial, which faction did not approve me to participate in the Red Guard. Later, after I joined the army, it was also because of my father’s problem that I had never applied through the party until I smashed the "Gang of Four."
In October 1976, the central government smashed the "Gang of Four" in one fell swoop, which enabled us to be liberated. I suddenly became a reward "upstart". In the "Cultural Revolution", no matter how hard I tried, all opportunities for meritorious service and awards were not available to me. In the collectives I lead, the soldiers have three equal merits, second-class merits, and collective second-class merits, and they have emerged in large numbers almost every year, and only this leader has never received any awards. I am used to the calm life that I should not win, and this is also the psychological quality cultivation that I do not fight for honor today. After smashing the "Gang of Four", life has turned over, because I have filled the gaps in the country twice, and there are technical inventions and creations that meet the needs of the times. Suddenly, "models, heroes..." troops and local rewards Stepping over the sea and pressing over. I can't heat up this person. Many of the prizes are returned by others. I gave it to everyone.
In March 1978, I attended the National Science Conference. Only 150 of the 6,000 delegates were under the age of 35. I am 33 years old. I am also a rare non-party person in the military. Under the direct care of the party committee of the branch, the troops did not wait for my father to rehabilitate and went directly to find out the history of my father, negated some untrue words, and sent their findings to the local organization where my father was. . I finally entered the party. Later, he attended the Twelfth National Congress of the Party. My father made a big picture frame of photos taken with the leadership of the party Central Committee, hanging on the wall, and the whole family took pride.
My father was also rehabilitated shortly after smashing the "Gang of Four." Since then, the party organizations need to resume some key middle schools as soon as possible, improve the college entrance examination rate, and let him be the principal. Before the "Cultural Revolution" he was the principal of a college. He did not care about the rise and fall, and did not care about gains and losses. He only thought that he had a job opportunity and invested in it wholeheartedly. He quickly seized the quality of teaching, and the rate of enrollment reached more than 90%, making him a well-known school. He did not retire until he was 75 years old in 1984. He said that he finally caught up with a tail and did something. He hopes that we cherish the time and do it well. Since then, we have been busy with each other and can't care for each other. I am proud of the political behavior of the older generation. They are released from the cowshed and work hard to restore organizational life. They are not happy with things, not with their own sorrow, regardless of honor and disgrace, patriotism and love for the party, and the spirit of loyalty to the cause is worth learning for our generation, the next generation, and the next generation. There can be no setbacks in life, but the will of one to fight for the people cannot be shaken.
I had the privilege of listening to his speech to the military representative of the National Science Conference three months before the death of Comrade Luo Ruiqing. He said that the next decade or so is a rare period of peace. We must pay full attention to economic construction. I was young at the time, lacked political mind, and did not understand its meaning. After two or three years of great disarmament, all of our entire arms were laid off, and I understood what is a predictive leader. After transferring to the place, I didn't adapt to the commodity economy, and I didn't have the ability to control it. At the beginning, I was also a manager in an electronics company and I was cheated. Later, when there was nowhere to be employed, it was forced to create Huawei. Huawei's previous years started under very difficult conditions. At this time, my parents and nephews lived in a small room of ten square meters with me and cooked on the balcony. They worry about me everywhere, and life is very economical. Some money is said to save me in the future. At that time, the vendors selling fish and shrimp in Guangdong handled the dead fish very cheaply. Parents specially bought dead fish and died of shrimp, saying that these are still fresher than the mainland! Go out to buy vegetables and watermelon at night, because it is cheaper. I have no time to take care of their lives, so that my mother's diabetes is serious, I don't know, it was told by my neighbors. After Huawei's scale development, the pressure of management conversion is very huge. I can't take care of my parents, and I can't take care of myself. My body is also tired for a while. My parents then turned to Kunming and my sister settled. I also understand that there is sacrifice for struggle. Huawei's success has made me lose the opportunity and responsibility to honor my parents, and it has also eroded my health.
Looking back at the history I have gone through, I ask myself, I have no life in my country, I am worthy of the people, I am worthy of my career and my employees, I am worthy of my friends. The only thing I have is that I am sorry for my parents. If I have no conditions, I will not take care of them. Did not take care of them.
Mom and Dad, I’m calling you all the way, and I can’t call back.
The dead have passed away, and they are still alive.