12 Mindfulness Lessons Listened to at Tsinghua University

Chapter 23 Money and Love (2)
58000 taels of red gold; 55600 silver ingots, 583 million Jingkui, 315 million Sukui, 58000 yuan in foreign money, and 150 million Wen in coins.

Ginseng weighs more than 600 catties in total.

13 jade tripods, 20 pieces of jade chimes, 130 jade ruyi handles, 1106 gem inlaid jade ruyi handles, 48 ​​jade snuff bottles, 130 jade heads, 2 jade screens with 24 leaves, 13 jade bowls, 30 jade vases, and jade basins 18 pieces, 1 Jade Shou Buddha, 1 Jade Guanyin, 1 Jade Horse, and 93 other miscellaneous items made of jade.

There are 10 big longan pearls, 230 pearl bracelets, 10 big rubies, 80 small rubies, 40 sapphires, 90 ruby ​​caps, 80 coral caps, and 10 engraved gold eight-treasure screens.

72 tables of silver bowls, 200 pairs of gold inlaid chopsticks, 500 pairs of silver inlaid chopsticks, 60 gold teaspoons, 380 silver teaspoons, 108 silver mouthwash bowls, 40 gold falan mouthwash bowls, and 80 silver falan mouthwash bowls indivual.

There are 20 ancient bronze vases, 21 ancient bronze tripods, 33 ancient bronze seas, 2 ancient swords, and 716 ancient inkstones.

There are 7 coral trees and 1 clock inlaid with gold and jade.

A total of 14300 silk and satin lenos, 800 boards of scarlet wool, 450 boards of five-color wool, 600 boards of feathers, 25 boards of five-color serge, 52 pieces of white fox fur, 500 pieces of yuan fox skin, 50 pieces of ermine skin, 800 pieces of sable skin, and others A total of 56000 pieces of various furs.

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These are not all of Heshen's property.According to the latest research, He Shen has 2750 billion worth of assets that can be valued alone—about the same as the former richest man in the world, Bill Gates—but He Shen’s money is almost all obtained through corruption and perverting the law.

The only one who can compete with him is Yuan Zai, who was once the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. When his house was ransacked by the Tang Dynasty, the treasures and money seized from his house were also piled up like a mountain.If it's just more property, it's not surprising.Strangely, people actually copied as many as 800 shi of pepper from their homes!Someone calculated an account, 800 stone pepper, equivalent to 64 tons today.People can't help but ask: If Yuanzai didn't die, how many lifetimes would it take him to eat the eight hundred shi peppers?Perhaps it was only at the moment when the executioner raised the butcher's knife that this Yuan master realized that no matter how much he loved pepper, he would not be able to keep any pepper in the next life.

Zhao Benshan once summed it up in the sketch "Heart Disease": a person's life can be counted in the world, at most [-] days; a family has tens of millions of houses, and it needs to be three feet wide to sleep!We also need to summarize at the end of this section: life is like a bowl, it is good to be able to save some surplus food, but regardless of its volume, it will only break it.Your bowl can't hold the whole ocean, and your life should not be guided by a bowl.

4.Caring about people more than money

To run a business is to run people.Suppose you are nice to everyone, and everyone is your friend.Why can mother-child relationship and father-son relationship be called mother-child relationship and father-son relationship?Because the emotion is thrown there, the emotion is thrown on the son, on the daughter, because it is indeed a kiss, if you kiss her, he will definitely kiss you.Therefore, the cultivation and investment of feelings is very necessary.We must treat the people around us very kindly, including people in our company and society. As long as there is input, there will be output.you get what you sow.

——Niu Gensheng (Founder of Mengniu Group, once gave a speech at Tsinghua University)
When I went to school in my hometown, there lived a widowed old lady next door. She was a very unfortunate person: she lost her husband in middle age, lost her grandchildren in old age, and two of her three sons were not filial, but the youngest son who was filial because of The public died in the line of duty!On this day, the old lady was cooking at home, and the second son who was the most unfilial came to the door and opened his mouth to ask the old lady for his brother's pension.The old lady was very reluctant, but finally gave a portion.But the son was not satisfied, he put away a few thousand dollars first, and then asked for more. The old lady said that I didn't get much pension at all, and most of it was left to your hard-fated siblings and nephew, son Then he yelled at him, threatened to make a clean break, and never communicate with each other until he died, so he slammed the door and left.After the unfilial son left, the old lady became more and more sad when she thought about it. She sat down at the door of the house and cursed hundreds of times: "Bastard!"brute!What sin did I do in my previous life to give birth to such a beast!

The old lady is really pitiful, but she is not right in scolding.Not only is she wrong, many Chinese people are wrong.The Chinese are the most emotional nation in the world.People have always hated cold-blooded and ruthless people, and directly denounced them as "beasts" or "animals". In fact, this is wronging animals.Animals are emotional. If a mother dog gives birth and you want to take one away, its bark is worse than anyone else; although tigers are vicious, they do not eat their offspring; some animals know how to support their parents, such as crows... Human beings, as the spirits of all things, of course have to be humane.Therefore, to describe a person as ruthless, the correct way to say it should be "better than a beast".

There is a famous allusion about the sage Confucius: When Confucius was serving as the chief military officer of the State of Lu, one day a fire broke out in the stable at home and the loss was serious. When Confucius returned home, seeing the mess everywhere, the first sentence he asked was: "Why did the fire start?" ?Did it hurt anyone?without first asking about the horse.

Some people think that this is the realm of a "sage".However, I think that this is not some kind of "feelings of benevolent people", but something that every human being should do.No matter how expensive a horse is, it is still a horse, and no amount of money can replace people.

For example, when we do business, should we care about people or money?This question seems to need no answer, and many people often talk about "being friends first, then doing business", but at critical moments, what they really care about is always the money of their "friends".Such a person, of course, will not have real friends.

As the saying goes: "An insight into the world is knowledge, and a mastery of human feelings is an article." What is "sophisticated human feelings"?To put it simply, it is sensible and familiar with the world.In the past, people tended to associate "expertise in human relations" with being tactful and tactful in doing things. In fact, "expertise in human relations" must be based on "human relations". People who talk about human relations are easy to do things, popular with others, and have a wide range of ways. Sometimes they can even respond to everyone. , no matter the good times or the bad times, you will not fail too much.Those who don't eat human fireworks, are cold-faced and ruthless, and even don't recognize people except Qian Liu's relatives, their roads can only become narrower and more bumpy.

In contrast to this is the Western world represented by the United States, a world that does not talk about anything but the law of the jungle.I have a friend who has lived in Europe for more than ten years. He once said bluntly: "Anyway, I don't like the West. I am unpopular and human." After all, he has not yet fully returned to China.After all, for him, it is easier to make money in Europe now.I also once asked him the question of caring about money and people, and his answer was very Chinese: he cared about money when he should care about money, and people when he should care about people?

What is "the time to care about people"?It's simple - when someone needs help.Human affection, to put it bluntly, means you help me and I help you.What is the "time to care about money"?It should be said that, as a businessman, one should always care about money, but caring about money and caring about people are not contradictory.Carnegie, the American steel king, said: "If you have a certain right, it is nothing; if you have a compassionate heart, then you will get the hearts of many people who cannot be obtained by rights." What is the human heart?The heart is everything!He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world!Of course, it is not difficult to earn a few "little money".People's hearts are made of flesh.If you care about others, others will naturally care about you.If you help others, others will naturally help you.If everyone around you can care about you and help you, what else in this world can't be done?What money can't be earned?
Love, of course, is something common to all human beings.Although Westerners are far more indifferent to each other than Chinese people, Westerners are not all cold-blooded animals—see the following story:

Many years ago, a country girl who grew up by Lake Mississippi in the United States came to the metropolis of New York with her dream of becoming a singer.Due to poor family conditions and poor living conditions, in order to realize her dream, she had to study music during the day and work as a waiter in a small restaurant at night.

One evening, an old man with a haggard face and a miserable expression walked into the restaurant to avoid the strong wind.Everyone ignored him, and some people even wanted to drive him out. Only she felt compassion. She brought a soft chair for the old man to sit on, sang an American country song to the old man, and warmly invited him Go to her party with friends.Gradually, the old man felt better.

One day two months later, the girl received an urgent email.The sender is the old man who met once, and the content is as follows:
Children: When I was young, I adopted 3 Vietnamese orphans, for which I have never been married.But after I worked so hard to educate them to grow up and support them to build their own businesses, they abandoned me as an adoptive father.Before I retired, I worked as an engineer in a company and had a good income, but money meant nothing to me, an old man who had gone through many vicissitudes and was about to die. What I needed was the love and warmth of my relatives.Boy, only you have ever given me this feeling that money can't buy.Now, I have returned to the countryside to return to my roots. I want to leave all my life savings and house to you. I hope this money can help you realize your dreams.Enclosed are the keys to the house and a check.

The girl's heart was surging, and she couldn't calm down for a long time.In order to comfort the elderly, she used the money to make a music album, which became famous and became popular all over the world.She is Madonna, a well-known singer in today's world music scene.

Madonna can have today's achievements, the old man's funding obviously played a major role.What Madonna did was to meet the most basic requirements of an old man, to sit with him, chat with him, and give him some care. This request is so simple, but before that, no one did it.

Of course not all help is reciprocated, but it's clearly not about the money - people are used to taking from others and being indifferent to their needs, even if it's just a matter of talking to him, walking around...

5.love is productivity
When Liu Yong interviewed a successful entrepreneur, he asked him how to lead the company.Entrepreneurs said: "My way of leading employees is very simple. There are only two sentences: your life is mine, and my company is yours. If an employee's life is not good, how can he work for the company? A good boss must We should regard the life of employees as our own, solve all difficulties for them, and make the life of employees stable and satisfied. As for the company, it should of course belong to all employees, because the company is composed of employees, and the work of each individual affects the entire organization. It is necessary to make employees have a strong sense of participation in the company, and distribute the profits to everyone reasonably, so that everyone can work together for the company. When every employee arrives, I will say to him: Your life is mine, My company is yours, please let it go."

——Tan Xiaofang (a well-known enterprise management expert who gave a speech at Tsinghua University)

Let's start with the historical allusion of "killing his wife and asking for a general":
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