That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1368 You actually have exclusive news?

May 1st, International Labor Day, was a rare day of rest for the older generation of laborers in China during the 1990s, when there were no long weekends.

However, Li Ye couldn't rest. At 10 a.m., the plane he was on had just landed at Beijing Airport.

According to the original plan, he should have stayed in Sugo for a while longer. After all, Sugo was too big. Not only were there plenty of good things to sell in Canada and Ukraine, but there were also many good opportunities in the several republics in Eastern Europe.

However, the sudden summons from home forced Li Ye to rush back. Moreover, he couldn't even spend the May Day holiday after landing. Instead, Lu Zhizhang picked him up and drove him directly to the light vehicle company to work overtime.

After Li Ye got into the car, he asked Lu Zhizhang in a deep voice, "Old Lu, you didn't explain things clearly to me on the phone. What's the situation now?"
I braved minus thirty degrees Celsius in Moscow to finally secure an entire heavy-duty truck production line, and now, just a few months after I got home, it's all being divided up? Who has the audacity to steal my thunder?

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Looking at Li Ye's gloomy face, Lu Zhizhang knew that his usually "generous" partner was truly angry.

"Here's what happened: In early April, we finally streamlined the production process for Kamaz, reported it to our superiors, and began the specific preparations for production launch."
However, last week, the higher-ups suddenly changed their minds, believing that Southwest Heavy Truck was a better fit for the Kamaz project.

"Of course, the ministry doesn't fully support Southwest Heavy Truck, because their performance in recent years has been rather mediocre."

Therefore, there are currently two opinions within the ministry: one is that Southwest Heavy Truck will have exclusive production, while we focus on producing light trucks and light buses.
Another suggestion is to follow the example of Sinotruk, with separate production but shared technology.

Lu Zhizhang reluctantly began to explain to Li Ye.

Anyone would be angry in this situation, including Lu Zhizhang.

Just after the Spring Festival, a complete set of data, molds, and production equipment from the Goose Kamaz Automobile Factory arrived at the First Branch Factory. Professor Zhao, along with Wu Yan and a group of apprentices, began analyzing and studying them.

After several days of research, Professor Zhao and his colleagues discovered many omissions and pitfalls in the data. Then, a group of Kamas technicians were sent over by Li Ye.

Ma Zhaoxian, Lu Zhizhang, Wu Yan, and the others were extremely excited.

Given Li Ye's move, which was almost like "moving house," it was undeniably decisive and extravagant. Coupled with Li Ye's consistently proactive and pragmatic style, the goal of putting KamAZ into production in mainland China is just around the corner.

However, after Wu Yan and his colleagues worked overtime for two or three months and finally sorted out the entire set of technical data, making them ready for the next step of experimental production, someone in the ministry suddenly suggested that the Kamaz heavy truck technology be handed over to Southwest Heavy Truck Company for production.

How can I bear this?

Let alone Li Ye, even Ma Zhaoxian and Lu Zhizhang wouldn't agree!

However, those who made the proposal said that the light truck company has always produced light trucks and has never produced medium trucks, so it lacks "heavy truck production experience" and it is only natural to hand it over to the Southwest Heavy Truck Company.

To hell with your sense of entitlement.

At that time, Liang Furu led an inspection team from his ministry to Su'e, and Kamaz heavy trucks were among the first batch of projects to be introduced.
The reason for the decisive and smooth introduction of the project was firstly because Li Ye clearly stated that the light vehicle company was willing to take over the project, and more importantly, Li Ye helped solve the problem of attracting funding.

It can be said that without Li Ye, there would be no Kamaz project at all. Now that it has been brought back with great difficulty, the first factory has been analyzing and studying it for several months. Southwest Heavy Truck Company says that you are "more experienced"?

Why did you go early?
But reason is reason, and situation is situation; otherwise, how could there be a saying that "situation is stronger than people"?
Looking at the history of Southwest Heavy Truck Company over the past three or four decades, it has repeatedly introduced advanced overseas technologies and received countless amounts of funding, but in the end, it only produced a few hundred heavy trucks. You should understand that it is qualified and capable of taking over the task of localizing Kamaz heavy trucks from Light Vehicle Company.

If the light vehicle company is unwilling to watch others reap the benefits, then it must take action. In such an action, how could Li Ye, who has both money and connections, be absent?

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The vehicle from the First Branch Factory sped along, dropping Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang off at the office building of the Light Vehicle Company's main factory. After they went upstairs to the conference room, they found seven or eight people already seated inside. Even Niu Hongzhang, who had always been at odds with Li Ye, was sitting quietly in the conference room.

Seeing Li Ye enter, Ma Zhaoxian smiled and said, "Sorry, Director Li, you just got back and haven't even had a chance to go home before we dragged you here to work."

Li Ye shook his head and said, "There are priorities. Director Lu already told me the general situation on the way. Now I want to know what our factory's attitude is."

Are you all willing to follow the arrangements made above, or do you believe that we should resolutely and independently complete the localization of KamAZ heavy trucks?

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Li Ye's words caused a brief silence in the conference room.

There are two opinions within the ministry, but Li Ye didn't mention either one. He only said "to complete the project independently," meaning he wouldn't give Southwest Heavy Truck a single penny.

Furthermore, there was another hidden meaning in Li Ye's words—you called me back because you wanted to use me as a tool, right?

You can use me as a tool, after all, whoever is at the forefront benefits the most. But don't always think about hiding in the back and reaping the benefits; you must "resolutely" follow me.

Otherwise, if Li Ye resolutely confronts the higher-ups, but some people "mildly" express their willingness to accept the higher-ups' opinions, and you can be the good guys while Li Ye is the bad guy, wouldn't Li Ye be considered a fool?
After a brief silence, Wu Yan spoke first: "Let me state my position first. Our technical department has completed all the technical preparations and is confident and capable of completing the production of Kamaz heavy trucks independently without the need for anyone else's intervention."

I also agree with Wu Yan's opinion.

"I also support Director Li. Although we lack experience in heavy truck production, we have successfully overcome all difficulties in all projects over the past few years without needing to cooperate or share with others."

Technicians like Wu Yan hate having their achievements taken away, so of course they immediately supported Li Ye's opinion.

Then others also expressed their support. Whether they were from the branch factory or the main factory, they all firmly opposed giving such a big project to outsiders and were unwilling to even share it.

You see, the light vehicle company desperately needs this kind of large project right now, because in recent years, the No. 1 branch plant has accounted for more than 80% of the company's profits, and the head office is practically green with envy.

The commissioning of a complete Kamaz heavy truck project will not only boost the production of one factory, but also allow the entire light vehicle company to expand significantly with investments starting at several hundred million yuan.

Even if the main factory only undertakes a small portion of the production tasks, it will be able to undergo a complete transformation, become extremely wealthy, and significantly improve the living conditions of the majority of employees.

And those managers who are struggling to find a suitable promotion path are even more so. As the company expands, middle-level managers will definitely move up the ranks, and senior managers like Ma Zhaoxian and Niu Hongzhang have also achieved impressive "achievements" in their work reports.

As the head of the light vehicle company, Ma Zhaoxian naturally wouldn't speak easily. He turned to look at Niu Hongzhang, who was also silent.

Secretary Niu, what are your opinions?

Niu Hongzhang glanced at Ma Zhaoxian and said calmly, "I would certainly prefer that we take over this project exclusively, but I heard from a friend in the ministry the other day that there's another opinion. I don't know if it's true or not, but I think we should listen to it and discuss it."

Li Ye and Ma Zhaoxian were both taken aback.

[This old cow has exclusive news? How come I didn't know about it?]

There are some pieces of information that you may not know, but others may, and that information may be the most accurate.

(End of this chapter)