That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1021 I Don’t Believe Them
As soon as Li Ye finished speaking, Wen Qingsheng put down his crossed legs.

Xue, who was toasted, was stunned for a moment, did not drink the wine, and put the glass back on the table in surprise.

Then he smiled and said, "I was wondering what was wrong! Your father-in-law usually praises you as being extremely smart, mature at a young age, with great ambitions and extraordinary talents, but what you did today caught me off guard."

"Don't say you were caught off guard."

Wen Qingsheng pointed at Li Ye seriously and said, "Tell me in detail what's going on."

"It's like this. Our first branch has been focusing on cultivating its own R&D team since the year before last. I begged my mother for graduates and poached people from everywhere. I finally gathered less than 200 researchers, but we were targeted by the Japanese."

Li Ye sat up straight and said, "This time when we introduced our new production line, the Japanese sent technicians to help us debug it, and then said they would provide us with engines, but the price would be so high that even Sun Erniang, who sells human meat buns, would feel ruthless."

"We ignored them and invested our own money and manpower in researching our own engines. At first they laughed at us, but now that we have some progress, they took the initiative to reduce the price for us, by 30% in one go."

Li Ye held up three fingers and said with a little resentment: "A 30% price reduction for an industrial product, how much profit is that? But we still didn't agree.
Then the Japanese spared me and approached Niu Hongzhang, saying they could provide technical support to help us solve the bottlenecks in R&D."

“But will they be so kind?”

Li Ye asked back, and continued, "When Niu Hongzhang first arrived at the Light Automobile Company, he said that the wages of the technical workers in our first branch were too high, and asked me to reduce their wages equally. I did not agree at the time. He did not understand the value of an excellent technician at all."

"But the Japanese know the value of technicians. If we are allowed to continue research and development and eventually form the habit of self-sufficiency, who will they sell their high-tech products to?"

"That's why they are trying to help us for no reason. If a technician gets used to having food delivered to him, he will have no motivation to do research on his own in the future.
We have finally gathered two hundred diligent technicians, but they may become lazy at any minute and eventually turn into idlers."

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Li Ye said a lot in one breath, which made Wen Qingsheng and Xue Bu serious.

Xue Bu said: "This issue needs to be taken seriously. Please write a detailed report and I will discuss it at the meeting."

But Li Ye shook his head and said, "Uncle Xue, I can't write this report because it doesn't match the current trend."

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Xue Bu was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized something and fell silent.

Wen Qingsheng was much more straightforward, saying disdainfully: "Speak clearly, don't be so fussy."

Li Ye had no choice but to say, "We are now exchanging market for technology, and this direction is also very good. However, I personally do not believe that developed countries will really give us technology, so I will probably be criticized if I write this report."

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Everyone in the restaurant fell silent, because exchanging markets for technology is indeed the current dominant direction. If Li Ye doesn't trust developed countries, then he doesn't trust a large group of people!
Xue was silent for a moment, then asked in a deep voice, "Why don't you believe them? Dazhong in Shanghai has made a good start, and the workers said they have learned a lot of new things."

Li Ye shook his head slightly and said, "We can indeed learn something. For example, the workers also feel that they have gained a lot from the two production lines we introduced.
But Professor Zhao and I have analyzed that we can figure out these things even if we figure them out by ourselves in time, but they will not give us core technologies like engines that we can't figure out. They also understand the principle of teaching apprentices to beat their masters."

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No one in the restaurant spoke again. The problem Li Ye mentioned was very serious, but he was just a young boy after all, and the current situation was very good, so his credibility was questionable.

But Li Ye, who came from decades later, knew that when it came to core technology, there was no other way but to be strong oneself.

Decades later, in 2019, Nanbei Dazhong's sales in mainland China reached a staggering 423 million. It had no rivals and crushed all its competitors into pieces, making a fortune.

At that time, everyone admitted that it was the domestic market that supported the automobile giant Dazhong, but how did this guy repay us?

In 2019, Dazhong did not recruit graduates majoring in automobiles in the campus recruitment of Chinese universities. Even in the peak years of Dazhong, it only recruited a few graduates a year. High-end R&D positions were extremely exclusive to mainlanders.

Are mainland graduates not professional enough? Are mainland graduates not up to the task?
However, BYD recruited tens of thousands of campus employees in 2004 and 2005, with a total number of employees reaching hundreds of thousands or nearly one million, and the number of engineers even exceeding 100,000. How could they be considered useless?

Dazhong Group has more than 43 employees, of which nearly are in Germany, accounting for % of the total number of employees.

However, the German market only accounts for 1/10 of Dazhong Group’s sales, and the number of employees in China is just over 1, less than a quarter of that in Germany and only about 10/ of the entire company.

However, the Chinese market accounts for one-third of Dazhong Group's sales.

In other words, they took huge profits from us, enriched a few executives and shareholders, but did not boost employment and development of the mainland's automobile industry.
In the end, it was Di Zi, who had emerged step by step from industrial waste, who pulled them down from the altar.

A car worth 200,000 yuan was sold for 130,000 yuan. You can tell me that Di Zi made a great contribution to this!
Finally, it was Mr. Ke who broke the silence and asked, "If you think the market cannot be exchanged for technology, what do you want to do?"

Li Ye said calmly: "I will learn from them while developing. I will try to get the skin of a tiger and take advantage of the fire. Anyway, I have to be more careful when dealing with them."

"Stealing skills?"

Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng both laughed. Li Ye was really honest enough to tell them this "trick".

Li Ye said: "It's just stealing skills, it's not shameful, but most people can't learn by stealing, so I still need more technical personnel."

Teacher Ke and Director Xue both laughed. Director Xue asked, "According to your idea, how many people will be needed in the R&D workshop of the first branch?"

"Two thousand people, at least two thousand people."

Li Ye said confidently: "Even if we lose money, we have to reach a scale of 2,000 people. If uncle thinks losing money is not right, I can also think of other ways.
You don’t know that Changbei Machinery Company now has a technical department of 500 people. They used to be a small factory with only a thousand people in total.”

“Stop, stop, stop~”

Wen Qingsheng waved his hand to interrupt Li Ye and scolded him, "Public technical personnel are not allowed to flow into private enterprises. Not to mention 2,000 people, even if it's 20,000, it's not up to individuals to support them."

"Yes, yes, that's what I said."

Li Ye said embarrassedly that he had said the wrong thing, but in fact he really wanted to pull the technical team away and turn it into a high-tech R&D team where he had full control.

Anyway, in the end, the meat is rotten in the pot. Whether it is public property or Li Ye's, it will not end up in other people's mouths.

(End of this chapter)