That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1219: Give up in front of a strong opponent?

Pei Wencong's words angered Wang Lie.

However, before Wang Lie came to find Pei Wencong, he was mentally prepared to "endure the humiliation for a while", so after the intense anger, he still began to explain to Pei Wencong.

"Mr. Pei, please forgive me for being blunt. Although you are a successful businessman, you don't know much about Lighthouse. Even if I sell Wang Laboratories to you as a whole, can you make it brand new and defeat IBM?"

"We have been in Lighthouse for decades and have good connections with all kinds of customers. We are just having some problems with cash flow now, and we don't need to sell the company at all."

Pei Wencong listened patiently for a few minutes, then waved his hand and said, "Brother Wang, why do you think I can beat IBM?"

Wang Lie was stunned and said puzzledly: "Because we are competitors with IBM, only by defeating our competitors can we win all."

Pei Wencong shook his head and said, "Brother Wang, we in business all believe in making money through harmony. It is not advisable to adopt a one-or-the-other approach."

Wang Lie couldn't help but feel a strong sense of contempt in his heart.

[A nouveau riche is a nouveau riche. He has no entrepreneurial spirit at all. It is really unfair that God allows people like Pei Wencong to obtain huge wealth. ]

"Mr. Pei, that's why I said you don't understand Lighthouse. In Lighthouse, everyone competes actively and fairly. This is also an important reason why Lighthouse can become the world's number one."

Wang Lie was a good speaker. He said a lot and sounded very knowledgeable.

But both Pei Wencong and Li Ye were secretly shaking their heads.

"I have risen alone, and I will fall alone." This is how his peers outside the company judged Mr. Wang An, a genius of his generation.

But talent cannot be inherited, and Wang Lie is really far inferior to his father Wang An.

He was unable to fully integrate into the Western crowd, and he lacked the forbearance, tact and patience of a flower grower.

Wang Laboratories' products have never been compatible with those of other Lighthouse Computer companies. Is it really because they are arrogant?

Could it be that they were excluded by others?

Wang Lie kept saying that he understood Dengta, but did Dengta consider him one of its own?

Before the 1990s, computers were not a pillar industry of Lighthouse, so you could still thrive.

However, as the prospects for computers become better and better, the big sharks hidden behind the scenes are beginning to take a fancy to this piece of fat meat. How could they let outsiders get involved?
Therefore, even though GF's computer R&D center had good technology, it did not compete with IBM for the market share in Lighthouse. Instead, it quietly developed technology and exported it to Hong Kong Island and the Mainland, looking for food in overseas markets.

According to Li Ye's plan, by the year 2000, computers will probably become the pillar industry of Lighthouse.
By that time, Fengyu Computer in Hong Kong and the Mainland should have passed the stage of "importing technology" and possessed strong self-research and development capabilities.

By then, even if the lighthouse wanted to launch an attack, it would be too late.

After Wang Lie talked for a long time, he found that Pei Wencong showed no signs of being persuaded at all, and he felt a little helpless.

So he changed his strategy and asked Pei Wencong: "Mr. Pei, if I really sell the company to you, how will you run it?"

Pei Wencong said naturally: "I will eliminate some bad debts and unsuitable employees, and then actively develop civilian computer technology, and try to occupy a larger share of the global civilian computer market."

This strategy was discussed by Pei Wencong and Li Ye, but the original plan was to wait until Wang An Company went bankrupt and then acquire some of the technology and technicians.

But Wang Lie smiled contemptuously.

"Mr. Pei, you are indeed a businessman. You don't take risks and don't offend anyone. As long as you can make money, you don't mind admitting defeat to the strong."

Pei Wencong's face finally darkened. He had been restraining himself today to keep a smile on his face, but at this moment, he wanted to slap Wang Lie in the face.

It's true that the people in the lighthouse speak frankly, but who do you think you are and what qualifications do you have to speak to me like that?
“Tuk-tuk-tuk~”

Li Ye knocked on the table lightly and said calmly: "Mr. Wang, we are just having breakfast together, there is no need to say such unfounded words, right?"

"Unfounded words? Haha~"

Wang Lie sneered at Li Ye and said, "You are from the mainland, right? In recent years, how many scientific research projects have you stopped in the mainland and turned to buying similar products from Dengta?"

"It is said that your Y-10 was successfully tested, but you gave up. And your computer chips in China are no longer able to be produced by yourself, right? And so on. Isn't this just admitting defeat in the face of a strong opponent?"

"Harmony brings wealth to flower growers, which means admitting defeat"

Li Ye also wanted to beat someone up.

If this wasn't a lighthouse, he would have knocked out two of Wang Lie's teeth.

Because this guy's words directly hit people's lungs.

As for the chip, Li Ye has been quietly catching up with the development through Pan Xiaoying.

But there is really no way for the Y-10.

Many people in later generations would feel sad and angry when talking about the Y-10.

The aircraft had already successfully completed its test flight, but there was a lack of funding, which resulted in the Y-10 having to make money by trafficking in cabbages.

But in the end, the Y-10 was reluctantly discontinued.

There were many reasons at the time. For example, from a technical point of view, as a civil aircraft, by the 1980s, only an aircraft at the level of the 1950s had been produced. It would take until at least the 1990s for formal large-scale production to begin.

From the market perspective, the mainland civil aviation industry, which had already been commercialized in the 1980s, did not want the Y-10 itself, so relying on foreign customers was even more wishful thinking. Its safety, stability, reliability and economy made it difficult for foreign countries to purchase it.

From the perspective of operational management, the Y-10 was still in the planned economy era and had no understanding of the market economy. Its R&D, production and sales teams did not have any understanding of the market and could only rely on the planned economic system to operate.

But what is the real reason?
Many aviation enthusiasts said that as long as they replaced their engines with advanced ones, they could definitely persevere. At least when manufacturing early warning aircraft, they needed to look at the mood of IL-77 Corporation.

But it was only after Huawei was sanctioned that Li Ye began to understand some things.

Do you really think that ordinary people can have the strategic vision of the top bosses?
In the 1980s, Lighthouse's pillar industries were Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

They need the domestic market, and they won't allow you to develop large aircraft.

They want to exchange a plane for your ship's worth of shirts.

What would have been the consequences if the mainland had insisted on research and development at that time?
There is never a shortage of talented people with strategic vision in the flower-growing industry, nor is there a shortage of executors with a sense of the overall situation.

If we look through the fog of history and unfold the historical picture scroll, we may be able to see clearly that some great people saw the outcome thirty years later thirty years ago.

They showed weakness to the enemy, slept on straw and tasted gall, and at the cost of a generation of resentment, they silently moved forward with a heavy burden, and finally waited until the day when the clouds cleared and the blue sky appeared.

(End of this chapter)