"Dishwasher" was admitted to Oxford University as a "down and out" lifelong aristocrat.

"Dishwasher" was admitted to Nat Wei's ancestral home in Zhuhai, Guangdong, and his parents immigrated to Britain in the 1970s. 1977 65438+1October19 He was born in a slum with narrow streets and dense houses in east London, England. Most of the people who lived here were poor coolies and immigrants, which was the most dangerous area in London.

Slum schools in Nat Wei are free, but the environment is terrible. Some students often fight and smoke cocaine in the classroom, and one year even burned down a corner of the school. In this crazy atmosphere full of eschatology, Nat Wei has developed a kind of "special function": even if the classroom is in a mess, he can still study calmly at his desk without any interference, and he also teaches himself French and German after class.

Nat Wei's father worked in a Christian clergy with a small income. His mother works in a Chinese restaurant. After entering middle school, Nat Wei realized his parents' hardships and went to wash dishes and cars after school every day. During the holiday, he went to work on a farm dozens of kilometers away to subsidize his family.

Once, when Nat Wei was washing dishes in a western restaurant, his stomach suddenly twisted like a knife, but he was afraid that his boss would say that he was "cheating" and did not dare to ask for leave. Twenty minutes later, he fainted to the ground. It turned out that he had acute appendicitis. The restaurant owner, who is famous for his strictness and meanness, was moved by Nat Wei's efforts and perseverance. Not only gave him half a month's paid sick leave, but also brought him gifts many times, and they became friends.

Two months later, the boss asked him to tutor two children, and his salary was three times that of a dishwasher. Many years later, the boss's beautiful daughter was admitted to Cambridge University and became Nat Wei's wife after graduation.

From 65438 to 0995, Nat Wei was admitted to Oxford University, majoring in modern languages and German. During her college years, Nat Wei took an active part in group activities, and also led her classmates to participate in off-campus volunteer activities to show her super organizational skills.

Mr. Big Society won the favor of the Prime Minister.

1999 After graduation, Nat Wei joined the famous McKinsey Company to take charge of public welfare venture capital and venture capital, and was also sent to branches in Asia, the United States and Africa.

Three years later, his annual salary and bonus have reached nearly one million dollars, but he has made a decision that surprises everyone: to quit his high-paying position and devote himself to social affairs! "I've been thinking about it. When I look back on the past when I am old, what traces can I leave in the world? We already have Bill Gates and Buffett, but someone has to do social welfare work. I can use my talents to solve social problems and make the world a better place. "

In 2002, 25-year-old Nat Wei and his friend Wei Daoci founded the "Teaching First" public welfare organization to attract and train university graduates with excellent academic performance, encourage them to engage in education in remote areas, and change the low quality of local education. Nine years later, "Education First" is recognized as the most famous education and training institution in Britain, and almost all the top 65,438+000 listed companies in Britain have sponsored it.

The present situation that people in British society are increasingly alienated from each other and neighbors are strangers has also caused Nat Wei to think deeply. "How can we make every citizen actively integrate into society, be passionate about life, feel happy at work and feel glorious at work?" He analyzed the disadvantages of the system and gradually formed the concept of "big society". He thinks that it is not only costly for the government to undertake all social responsibilities, but also will weaken people's enthusiasm for participating in social work, and should "delegate power to the people". In 2005, they set up a series of non-profit organizations related to education, people's livelihood and humanistic care, guiding everyone to help each other and communicate more, forming a harmonious neighborhood society. Nat Wei is called "Mr. Big Society".

At the end of 2005, David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party, met Nat Wei for the first time. Cameron has always described Britain as a "broken society". The individualism of "sweeping the snow in front of the door" in modern society and the "dependency culture" accustomed to high welfare make him unhappy, so he appreciates this young talent with the same political views very much. Soon, Nat Wei joined the Conservative Party and became Cameron's brain trust.

"Down and out" lifelong aristocrat

In 20 10, the conservative party launched the "great society" project as a campaign platform nationwide, which was widely recognized and won the ruling power. Cameron, who became prime minister, took the "Great Society" project as the official decision of the government and implemented it at home. Nat Wei was appointed as a government adviser to promote the project.

Every weekend evening, a small green container truck will come to the railway station in Sutton, a southern suburb of London. The car body is covered with lovely vegetable cartoons, selling tomatoes, celery, broccoli and other vegetables 10, all produced by a community farm in the town. Vegetables are grown and sold by volunteers, and the money earned is invested in the purchase of agricultural materials and farm tools and the maintenance of trucks. This "big society" project has been promoted in many towns in Britain.

In addition, people can clean the street in front of their homes after work, or volunteer in community service centers, libraries and welfare homes, which not only reduces expenses for the new government with financial constraints, but also fills the whole society with the human touch of helping each other and arouses people's love for life.

On June 20 10, on the recommendation of Cameron, the Queen made Nat Wei a baron, and he became the third Chinese nobleman in British history after Baroness Dunlian and Lord Zeng Qiukun. The first two were both over 500 years old when they were knighted, while Nat Wei was only 33 years old, the youngest lifelong aristocrat in British history. Subsequently, Nat Wei became a lifelong member of the House of Lords.

Adviser to the Prime Minister, lifelong aristocrat and MP, the advantages of these three identities are that they only have 86.5 pounds of transportation subsidy for each meeting of the House of Lords. In the worst case, there is only 65,438+0,000 left in Nat Wei's bank account. 20 1 1 February, Nat Wei announced that he would shorten his working hours in the cabinet by two days a week and find another job to support his family. In order to reduce expenses, their family of four moved out of the villa and rented in the welfare room provided by the government.