That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1209 It turns out there is a traitor!
In mid-September, the engine development project of the first branch factory encountered an annoying bottleneck again after a series of "leaps forward".

There had been blisters on the corners of Wu Yan's mouth for three days, and his eyes were red. He looked like a hungry wolf that had been hungry for eighteen days, looking for some unlucky guy to bite.

However, the research and development of electronic fuel injection engines in the entire mainland is still in the pioneering stage. No one has any experience. If something goes wrong, they don’t know what went wrong. They can’t even find the cause of the failure. How can they find the “culprit”?
However, Li Ye was quite open-minded, because even if there were some directional technical guidance deliberately revealed by Kimura Yasai, the research and development process during this period was still very difficult.

Wu Yan and others worked an average of no less than twelve hours a day, but no one was passive and lazy. They all maintained great enthusiasm and high morale, gained a lot of valuable experience and progress, which made Li Ye quite satisfied.

So he revealed a "good news" to Wu Yan.

"Okay, Old Wu, people from Lister's company will be here next week. If you have any questions or difficulties, just communicate with them then. There's no need to make your colleagues so nervous."

Wu Yan looked up at Li Ye and asked, "Do I have to pay a technical consulting fee for every question I discuss with them?"

Li Ye pursed his lips and said helplessly: "That can't be helped. We can't always work in isolation. It's more cost-effective to spend some money to find a teacher to understand the principles."

Wu Yan said sullenly: "I just want to try to understand as many questions as possible. If I understand one more question, I will have to consult the teacher less and spend less money."

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Li Ye sighed and patted Wu Yan on the shoulder: "The internal combustion engine technology has developed too fast in recent years. Time is running out. I will take care of the money issue.
But you have to digest the skills you bought. We can’t just copy homework for a few years and then know nothing when it comes to the exam.”

Wu Yan pushed his glasses up, a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes.

"Don't worry, I can't copy the homework. I'll eat it."

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On Monday, people from Lister Company arrived in Beijing. However, just when Wu Yan and others were thinking about finalizing the cooperation plan with the other party as soon as possible, the other party said that they had to adjust to the jet lag first and rest for a few days before commencing negotiations.

Wu Yan and the others were a little anxious: "How many days of rest? How many days is a few days? Three days? Or five days? Staying in this high-end hotel costs a lot of money per day!"

But Li Ye said calmly, "Don't be anxious! We must not let them see that we are in a hurry at this time. People coming from far away are all guests. Let alone staying in a hotel for a few days, even if they want to climb the Great Wall or visit the Forbidden City, we have to entertain them, right?"

Since Li Ye had spoken, no one said anything. After all, Li Ye was the cash cow of the first branch factory. If they didn't have enough money, they could just look for Li Ye.

But no one expected that Li Ye would become the crow's mouth this time. His words came true. Those technical personnel of Lister Company actually started to travel around Beijing.

After a week of playing, I couldn't even see the person, let alone discuss technical matters. It felt like they were not here to do business but to travel.

Lu Zhizhang was puzzled and asked Li Ye quietly, "Are they playing hard to get with us?"

Li Ye thought about it and was not sure, because the relationship between the Lister Company and the flower growers has always been good, unlike other Western companies that ask for exorbitant prices.

Apart from anything else, Ludwig also introduced Li Ye to a medium-sized engine workshop. These Germans were rigid and black-hearted.

Li Ye had to pay a large amount of related fees for every hour a negotiation team took, starting from the moment they boarded the plane from the mainland. Li Ye was confused by the various names of the fees, and it felt like the other party was asking him for money just to breathe in the air of the mainland.

The people from Lister Company only proposed that one of the branches bear the basic guarantees such as accommodation and transportation during the negotiation phase. No matter how you look at it, they are a conscientious company.

Of course, there are his reasons for this.

Lister Company is also known as AVL Company. Its founder, Professor Lister Sr., taught at Tongji University in Shanghai for six years from 1926 to 1932.

Moreover, after 49, Lister Company donated technology and equipment to Tongji University, Jilin University and other scientific research and education institutions for many times, and also established scholarships to support outstanding Chinese students.

In addition, Lister has also been providing technical assistance in development, design, modification and optimization for automobile, train, marine and industrial engines in the mainland.

Two thousand years later, Chery also cooperated with Lister to successfully develop the ACTECO series of engines, achieving breakthrough progress in the field of high-performance engines in the mainland.

That's why Li Ye invited the other party with great sincerity, hoping to achieve long-term strategic cooperation.

However, Li Ye never expected that in the second week, the other party suddenly claimed that they had no objection to the "backward technology" that the first branch was developing, and then submitted an "extremely advanced" technical support plan to the first branch.

Li Ye didn’t know how advanced the solution provided by the other party was, but after an emergency analysis by Wu Yan and others, it was determined that the price of this technical solution was “extremely advanced.”

Because the other party not only provided technical support, but also specified the procurement plan for the production line.

The engine's cylinder block, cylinder head, crankshaft, camshaft and other parts all require separate production lines and advanced processing equipment.

If the other party uses equipment from well-known companies such as German CROSS HULLER, MAUSER, HELLER or JUNKER, Li Yehua will accept any amount of money.

Because you may not be able to buy these equipments even if you spend money now, Wen Leyu has been trying every possible way to import machine tools and equipment to support Li Ye in recent years, and the difficulties involved are numerous. However, after Li Ye gave the materials provided by the other party to Professor Zhao and Wen Leyu for comprehensive research, he was so angry that he cursed on the spot and even felt that he could not eat dinner.

Full of anger.

Because the production equipment specified by the other party is not much better than the level in the mainland, and in the West it is junk that is about to be eliminated.

[You bought me a carrot and put two baskets of dirt on it. Are you treating me like a fool? ]

Li Ye will never tolerate this kind of "bundled sales" behavior.

It is not yet the time, decades later, for the world's four largest engine technology consulting companies to all move into the mainland. These guys are all wealthy and powerful, and they look down on a backward small factory like Yifen Factory.

Force is not a good deal, so let's not force it with a shameless face. There are so many small and medium-sized engine workshops in the West, can't we find one that is "short of money"?
Li Ye immediately informed the other party: "You can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the flower-growing country in the mainland, and you can return to Europe after the tour. I wish you a happy trip."

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The day after Li Ye notified the other party, Lister Company said it could start discussing the details of the cooperation.

However, things have changed. Li Ye directly refused and said rudely that the first branch was already considering the technical solution of another technical service company.

But what Li Ye didn't expect was that Lister Company did have connections in the mainland, and they actually went through many twists and turns and worked their way up to the ministry.

The department found Li Ye and said without much ado: "Deputy Director Li, since you have already put in a lot of preliminary work, there is nothing to lose by talking now. Maybe we can even bargain for a lower price!"

Well, we must give the department face, and Li Ye agreed that everyone should have a frank talk.

It was not until the day of the formal talks that Li Ye found out why all these unexpected things had happened.

There are not many people in Lister's team, only seven in total, but there are actually two yellow-skinned "insiders" among them, and the woman among them has met Li Ye once.

"I said that people in Lister Company don't have so many tricks up their sleeves. It turns out there's a traitor inside!"

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After the people from Lister Company arrived, one of the flower growers smiled and shook hands with Li Ye.

"Hello, Director Li. I'm Qiao Jinfeng, and I'm currently a test engineer at Lister. I've heard that Director Li is young and promising, and I'm sure you're extraordinary when I see him today."

Li Ye shook hands gently, then smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Qiao, are you an engineer at Lister? Are you a Chinese who has lived abroad for a long time? Or a Chinese who has recently become a naturalized citizen?"

Qiao Jinfeng raised his eyebrows, chuckled and asked, "What's the difference between Chinese and overseas Chinese? They won't affect our cooperation this time, right?"

Li Ye smiled faintly: "Whether it has an impact or not, we will know later."

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Qiao Jinfeng clearly felt Li Ye's disgust and turned to look at the other woman.

The woman walked up to Li Ye and sneered, "Muzi Li, the wild one, Mr. Li Ye, we meet again?"

Li Ye glanced at the other person and said in surprise: "Sorry! Who are you? Have we met before?"

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The woman's face suddenly froze.

You are angry and challenge others, but they don’t recognize you. Isn’t it like punching the air?
But just as she was about to explain to Li Ye, Li Ye suddenly realized, "Oh, oh, oh, I remember now. You were the one who went down to the river to bathe with those foreign guests on the plateau. Your name is... Youli, right?"

The woman's face turned dark.

At that time, she was serving as an interpreter for several foreign guests. When she was returning to Golmud from Nikko City, she had a traffic accident with Li Ye's test fleet. Li Ye forced the foreign guests to expose all the film in their cameras on the grounds of "military secrets", which made Yuli, the interpreter, feel very embarrassed.

Because it was Yuli who negotiated with Li Ye throughout the whole process, but this barbarian Li Ye did not take the foreign guests seriously at all, so she, as the translator, felt even more embarrassed.

So when they were leaving, Youli made some harsh remarks to Li Ye. Now it was finally time to "wait and see", but Li Ye did not play by the rules from the beginning. In front of so many people, he actually said that he and the foreign guests were bathing in the river.

Yuli doesn’t really care whether to take a shower or not, but does Qiao Jinfeng next to her care?
(End of this chapter)