That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1150 I Just Won’t Give Up
The third or fourth day of the Lunar New Year every year is the busiest time at Li Ye's home, because members of the "Qingshui Gang" and the "Hong Kong Island Faction" will gather in Beijing to wish Li Ye, the "invisible boss", a happy new year and discuss the direction of development for the year.

However, this year Li Dayong, Pei Wencong and others arrived a little late. Hao Jian, Jin Peng and others had been here for a while, but they had not arrived yet.

Li Zhongfa said worriedly, "Could it be that the flight was cancelled? Planes are not as punctual as trains. They are not allowed to fly when it rains or snows. The last time I went to France, I had to go back and forth several times.
One moment they said the flight would take off in three hours, the next moment they said it was cancelled, and the next moment they said it could fly. This is pure nonsense."

Jin Peng smiled and said, "Master, this should be said in two parts. It takes eight hours to get from Qingshui County to Beijing by train, and six or seven hours by car.

But it takes Pei Wencong at most four hours to fly here from Hong Kong Island. If everything goes well, he will be faster than us. But if not, he will have to wait. There is nothing we can do about it!"

Li Zhongfa shook his head slowly and said, "I still prefer to take the train. It's safer."

Li Zhongfa has been running instant noodles business in recent years and often goes abroad for inspection, but when it comes to airplanes and trains, he still prefers the latter.

At this time, Hao Jian suddenly said, "In fact, if the train is faster, I think it's not worse than the plane. I took the Shinkansen in Japan, and it took more than two hours to travel 500 kilometers. Our Qingshui County is only more than 400 kilometers away from Beijing!"

Li Zhong was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Five hundred kilometers in more than two hours? How can it be so fast? Did you calculate it wrong?"

Hao Jian said with certainty: "No, I have carefully studied the Japanese Shinkansen. When they first started running in 1964, the fastest speed was 200 kilometers per hour. Now the fastest speed can reach 280 kilometers per hour."

"Hiss~, if our train could be that fast? Then wouldn't it only take us one or two hours to get back to Qingshui?"

“It sounds like that, but I don’t know when it will come true.”

Li Zhongfa, Wang Jianqiang and others took a breath and then felt a little disappointed.

Because Li Ye has been instilling the theory of "self-improvement and catching up" to the people around him, when they heard that overseas technology far surpassed that of the mainland, they did not simply "envy and admire" it. Instead, while acknowledging the other party's advancement, they also thought about how to catch up.

Especially Li Zhongfa, he came from the era of "those who lag behind will be beaten". Although they fought barefoot and carrying broken guns and won the battle, who doesn't want their country to be advanced and prosperous?
But building a train is not as simple as producing shirts. It is so difficult for Li Ye to copy an engine now. It is not easy to increase the average speed of trains in the mainland from 60 kilometers per hour to 280 kilometers per hour.

Seeing that everyone was a little disappointed, Li Ye smiled and comforted them: "Our railway is actually already discussing a speed-up plan.

Given our country's nature of concentrating its efforts on major tasks, it is only a matter of time before we catch up with them or even surpass them."

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"Yes, yes, yes. When we were young, there were only a few cars in a county town. Now everyone has one, so fast trains should not be far away."

Jin Peng and others echoed, as if using Li Ye's words to cheer themselves up.

But judging from the looks in these people's eyes, Li Ye knew that they still lacked some confidence.

Jin Peng and Hao Jian are both people who "went out" in this era. They saw the advancement and prosperity of overseas countries and realized the gap between them.

But they cannot see their own potential.

If it's anything else, it's fine, but when it comes to railways, the mainland attaches more importance to it and is more obsessed with it than any other country in the world.
A few years later, the mainland had a project to build a high-speed railway. Construction began in the second half of the 1990s and was completed and opened to traffic in 2003, with a running speed of 250 kilometers per hour.

From then on, the construction of high-speed railways in the mainland became unstoppable, and the high-speed railway mileage ranked first in the world.

This is also something that many people don’t understand, because high-speed rail “loses money.”

Are railway workers fools for building a lot of money-losing railways?
Could a flower-growing strategist, who has been cultivated through thousands of years of history, be a fool?
If you can’t figure it out, think about how Emperor Qin Shi Huang built the Qin Straight Road thousands of years ago, and maybe you will understand.

The reason why those developed countries overseas build railways is that they are driven by profit, just like Dengta used countless Chinese workers to build the western railway network for the purpose of western development.
Japan's Shinkansen was originally designed to connect several large cities with the largest passenger flow and to obtain huge operating profits.

The purpose of building railways in the mainland is to make this huge country more "united". Even in the economically backward mountains, railways have to be built foolishly. However, it is this "foolish" behavior that has enabled the mainland to have a strong railway construction capability.

When flower growers of later generations become accustomed to opening a railway today and completing a highway tomorrow, they do not know that there are only a few countries on the planet that are capable of building long-distance railways.

Even if all of them were tied together, they would not be enough to defeat the flower grower alone.

Because the flower growers have too many opportunities to practice and become proficient, their proficiency is 100% when they start.
Asking five dollars for a three-dollar project was already considered a bit too mean, but when the opponent calculated his own costs, it turned out to be twelve dollars.

What would you do? Apart from scolding the flower-growing family for not following martial ethics, what else can you do?

Well, it can still do bad things.

The flower growers offered 2 billion, the Japanese offered 1.8 billion, and then they dragged it out for 20 years until you die.

"Xiao Ye is right. We don't have anything else but the spirit of not admitting defeat."

Li Zhongfa said in a deep voice: "Back then we seized a batch of Type 38 rifles and Type 99 rifles. When everyone tried them out, some people felt there was no hope. They were much stronger than our Hubei police."

"But what happened later? Didn't we drive the enemy out with our Type 38 rifles?"

"So it doesn't matter if the enemy is more advanced than us. We should acknowledge their advancement and learn from their advancement. As long as we don't give in and don't admit defeat, sooner or later we will learn the skills to defeat our master!"

"Hahahaha~, Master still put it clearly. They are more advanced than us, so we just need to learn from them. The disciple is better than the master."

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"Boobobo~"

Just as everyone was laughing and chatting, a loud horn sounded suddenly from outside the door.

Li Ye was a little surprised because he recognized the sound of a truck horn.

When everyone went out to look, they saw Pei Wencong, Luo Runbo, Li Dayong and others had arrived. In addition to several cars, Li Dayong also drove a van of his own.

Li Ye asked with a smile: "Just now we were all talking about whether your flight was cancelled. Speak of the devil and he will appear."

Li Dayong jumped off the truck and pointed at the carriage and said, "We arrived a long time ago, but these things delayed us a little bit."

Li Ye asked curiously: "What delayed the time?"

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Li Dayong excitedly opened the door of the van, revealing a row of wooden boxes more than two meters long inside.

"Wow, did you bring me a New Year's present?"

Li Ye smiled happily.

Although there was a box between them, he could tell what it was at a glance.

It's a motorcycle.

(End of this chapter)