That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1212 Our ancestors have already tried it for us

"Hahahaha, two levels in one year"

Ma Zhaoxian heard Li Ye's ridicule and immediately said, "That definitely depends on whether he is good enough.

If he is a drag, no one can find fault if he does not get promoted for eight years, let alone two years.
The atmosphere that has been formed with great difficulty in the first branch factory, Uncle Ma can’t destroy it even if he is foolish.”

"but."

Ma Zhaoxian thought for a moment and said, "He is a returned overseas student. He can't be without some real talent, right?"

"If he has the real talent, why would he need to use a backdoor? Shouldn't I be eager to get it?"

Li Ye smiled gently, and then suddenly asked: "Uncle Ma, does my brother Xiaobo want to study for a doctorate now?"

Ma Zhaoxian smiled awkwardly and said, "That silly kid has only known how to study since he was young. I have always wanted him to start working earlier, but he... Alas."

Li Ye did not respond, but just nodded slightly.

Ma Zhaoxian is also a cunning old thief. It is true that his son wants to study for a doctorate, but he certainly does not want his son to study for a doctorate under Yuli's gang.

With the way those people try to trip up Li Ye, wouldn't it be a matter of minutes to delay his son's graduation?
Ma Zhaoxian knew Li Ye's temper. How could he offend so many technical staff in a factory for the sake of a relative?
So Ma Zhaoxian "embarrassedly" conveyed this news to Li Ye today, actually he just wanted Li Ye to "lend a hand".

When it comes to studying for a PhD, who around you has the most successful path?
Need I say more? Li Ye's mother-in-law!
But it's lonely at the top, and Teacher Ke is not easy to talk to now. It's not easy for Ma Zhaoxian to go directly to his old leader. If Wen Qingsheng blocks him with one word, there will be no second chance.

So Ma Zhaoxian first stated, "I personally have no opinion," and then expressed his request, "Your brother Xiaobo wants to pursue a Ph.D.," and then Li Ye, you can do whatever you want!

Is it okay? As a father, I have done my best for my child. After all, doctoral studies are not based on grades! No matter how good Xiaobo is at studying, he can't do anything without exams!
Li Ye was also sighing helplessly in his heart.

If Li Ye went to Teacher Ke to ask for help through the back door, although Teacher Ke always liked him as a son-in-law, he would definitely ridicule him.

But if Li Ye lets that "outstanding young man" in, there will be endless trouble!

For people like that, don't tell them to work hard and rely on their own strength. Such words are just nonsense to them.

Since they have come here from across the industry, what they want is promotion, promotion, and promotion again.
And it is a foreseeable promotion, a reliable enough promotion.

From the moment they entered the unit, they had already set a promotion timetable for themselves, with a promotion of one level every two years and two levels every three years. It was a perfect schedule that fits the bill perfectly, taking into account all factors, whether they are in line with the rules or not.

Ordinary people can't even get their hands on the pie in the sky after twenty years of drawing it. The leaders who appreciate you are transferred away at any time. You are too old to meet the "younger" requirement. Anyway, if you want to be promoted one level, it feels like it all depends on God's mercy. Once you are promoted, you must burn incense and kowtow eight or ten times.

But if someone's promotion is delayed for three months, it would be a fatal mistake, and if he is not promoted for half a year, that would be a big deal.

And this is just the gold-plated kind. If it's the kind of devil, then it's really terrible~
They have resources in their hands, unlike Niu Hongzhang who only comes with a transfer order. Today your child wants to study for a Ph.D., and tomorrow his nephew wants to study abroad. In no time, they can get a small hill!
By that time, will he be responsible for all technical work? Now they can persuade Lister to change its mind, and in the future they can form alliances and collude with each other to strangle the technical research and development of the first branch. It is not impossible.

So, let him go.

"Okay, Uncle Ma, I'll make note of this. I'll talk to Brother Xiaobo about it some other day."

"Okay, I'll make the arrangements in a few days."

[Damn it, it's so hard to stay clean after rolling around in this world all day long! ]

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Although Lister Company said it would come up with a new technical solution as soon as possible, Li Ye was unhappy and simply advanced his trip to Detroit for inspection. Before leaving, he said that if Lister Company had a new solution, they could meet at the lighthouse.

[Don’t you think we are bullying you in the mainland? Then let’s go to the Lighthouse and have a fair and just discussion! ]

There were more than a dozen people in the inspection team going to the lighthouse, mainly technical personnel, with a small number of management cadres. This is also the usual practice of the first branch.

Since we are going out for an investigation, the purpose is to learn advanced experience. If after we go there, only a few people are doing the work and a dozen people are watching, and not only watching but also giving orders randomly, it would be better to just form a tour group and let you go on your own!
But when the list was announced, Qu Qingyou and Jiang Shiqi stood out.

One of them is a driver and the other is a salesman, so logically speaking, neither of them is qualified.

However, Li Ye has behaved in too many "arrogant and domineering" ways in the past two years, and even Niu Hongzhang did not stand up to find fault with him this time.

On the contrary, many employees praised Li Ye for his vision: "Director Li, you really have a good vision. Master Qu and Master Jiang both know foreign languages, which just came in handy this time."

"Director Li, you finally look like a director. You always kept to yourself before, and people who didn't know you would think you were a clerk!"

Li Ye seemed to understand how those people who seemed so wise and brave at the beginning eventually lost themselves.

Being complimented and praised every day is like a chronic poison!

With people surrounding you, when you swing your cloak, someone will catch it from behind you. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, it would be strange if you are not poisoned.

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One day in early October, Li Ye and others finally arrived in Detroit.

In his previous life, Li Ye had heard many legends about this city from his youth to middle age.

When he was a teenager, this place was the dazzling "Automobile Capital of the World". General Motors owned more than a dozen well-known brands, and each brand was something that the young Li Ye extremely desired.

And in every issue of the must-buy car magazines, there are always Bumblebee, Hellcat, Viper supercars and other men's exclusive toys that are secretly coveted.

At that time, Detroit was a powerful symbol of beacon industrial civilization, and it quietly penetrated into the minds of Li Ye's generation.

But when Li Ye reached middle age, Detroit went bankrupt.

The fact that a city could actually go bankrupt really shattered the three views of Li Ye and others.

Then, Detroit became a well-known crime city and the backdrop for gangster movies, even scaring away fearless international students.
Due to word of mouth, the University of Detroit was even rated as the most dangerous university in the United States. Experienced students all suggested that everyone either live on campus or drive dozens of kilometers away to live.
This shows how troublesome it is when a heavy industrial city declines.

But Detroit was still doing well in the 1990s. It had just experienced a severe recession in the 1970s and 1980s and was in a slow recovery process.
Although the recession severely weakened Detroit's status as a heavy industrial manufacturing center, the broken ship still had 3,000 nails. The family heritage left over from nearly a hundred years shocked a group of factory staff who came to visit.

The plane gradually descended, and the vast industrial areas were so shocking.

"Director Li, how does this place compare to New York?"

"You are talking nonsense. New York is the capital of the country, which is equivalent to the capital of our mainland. This is an industrial area, which is equivalent to Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning. Which one is more prosperous and more important? Do you need to ask?"

"You are talking nonsense! Is the capital of Lighthouse New York? I don't even know how you graduated from college."

"My freaking Lighthouse capital is not New York, so where is it? It's definitely not New York."

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People around were chattering, but Wu Yan and Lao Jie both swallowed their saliva.

Both of them had been to Hong Kong Island and were not surprised by the tall buildings, but what they saw now was an industrial city.
As an engineering and technical personnel, they understand too well the significance of this industrial behemoth city.

Wu Yan asked dryly, "Li Ye, you once told me that we would eventually catch up with them. Is that true?"

Li Ye exhaled and said in a deep voice: "From an economic point of view, this city is in a state of continuous decline, and financial cities like New York are the current development focus of Lighthouse, so we have a chance."

The rise and fall of Detroit is also a clear proof of the transformation of the lighthouse from industrialization to financialization.

The manufacturing industry makes money by "creating value", while the finance industry makes money by "transferring value". Do you make money faster by running a business or by cutting other people's leeks?

Therefore, once Lighthouse tasted the sweetness of financial harvest, the focus of its development was no longer on these hard and tiring industries.
Although decades later, Lighthouse's high-tech chips, machine tools, precision instruments, etc. are still at the world's top level, it is a pity that the supply chain in each field cannot be concentrated in one country.

The world's division of labor ensures that the lighthouse will control the part with the highest profit margin, but when certain moments come, disadvantages will appear.

The Lighthouse imagines that all countries work together to crush the flower growers, but this is logically not feasible because the entire industry chain needs to distribute profits in a dispersed manner.

The National Development and Reform Commission of the Mainland is powerful, isn't it? But they have a headache when coordinating the supply and demand relationship between power and coal companies.

So can you still expect multiple countries around the world to work together and join hands to strangle a flower grower whose manufacturing industry accounts for 30% of the world's total?
Our ancestors have already given the answer.

If a group of forces with ulterior motives could completely unite, then the Qin Empire would not exist and the First Emperor would never have been able to conquer the six kingdoms.

(End of this chapter)