That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1378 Chicken talking to duck
When Li Ye shouted to open the door, Wu Yan instinctively wanted to "resist from below," but seeing Li Ye's cold eyes, he immediately stopped hesitating, took out his key, and opened the workshop door.

The workshop doors opened, revealing two semi-finished models, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Shang Bin squinted and looked at it strangely, saying, "Huh, what kind of shape is this? It looks like a van, but the front doesn't look like one."

Yao Ting, who had been hesitant just now, walked up to the model to take a look. Although it was just an exterior model, it was very eye-catching because its design was absolutely novel for this era.

However, one of Shang Bin's men seized the opportunity to explain: "This semi-convex front design has precedents on Jinling Iveco vehicles. It's a design method that originated in Italy and is beneficial for protecting front-seat occupants in the event of a collision."

"Oh, Jinling Iveco! No wonder it looked familiar."

Yao Ting suddenly realized what was going on, put his hands behind his back, circled the model twice, and nodded occasionally, looking fairly satisfied.

However, Wu Yan and the others were already annoyed.

There are always some smart people who like to seize opportunities to climb the ladder, regardless of whether they understand it or not, they just show off first.

The design of the "miracle vehicle" presented by Li Ye had already won the approval and praise of all the technicians, but in this person's mouth, it was "plagiarism" of Iveco.

Li Ye couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

If we follow this clever person's logic, even if the patent application for this "miracle car" fails, it has nothing to do with Director Yao, right? You really are dedicated to solving problems for your superiors!
Ma Zhaoxian subtly pushed the "clever man" aside and smiled at Yao Ting, saying, "Our model has nothing to do with Iveco. We had a patent company in Hong Kong conduct a patent analysis beforehand and confirmed that there are no similar models overseas."

Yao Ting smiled faintly and said nothing.

But the clever man persisted, saying, "But isn't this semi-convex head exactly the same as the Iveco? Look, look, it's just a smaller size."

Wu Yan sneered, "That's right, you know it's been shrunk, so why don't you shrink one down and show it to us?"

The clever man raised an eyebrow, about to continue "showing off," but was stopped by Director Yao.

"Alright, in any case, the First Factory is making every effort to move forward, which is commendable. Now that we've looked around, let's go discuss the heavy truck issue!"

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After Yao Ting spoke, no one dared to utter a sound, and everyone turned and walked out of the workshop.

The technicians from Southwest Heavy Truck were even more "reluctant to leave," their eyes shining as they looked at the model. Only after Wu Yan's cold reminder did they reluctantly walk out, turning back every few steps.

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Once they arrived at the conference room, the group of people started with a bunch of pointless chatter, until finally the most cunning Shang Bin broke the deadlock.

"General Manager Ma, although we only had a brief look this morning, we did get a general overview. To be honest, your company's current focus and strengths lie in light trucks and light passenger vehicles."
Especially now that you've started a minibus project, and foreign exchange reserves aren't so plentiful, do you still have the resources to develop the Kamaz heavy truck? I think it would be better if our two companies cooperated.”

"Yes, yes, that's exactly what we were thinking."

Ma Zhaoxian nodded repeatedly and said with a smile, "When the delegation from the ministry first contacted Kamas in Sugo, they needed to first identify a unit in mainland China to receive him."
Although we've been focusing on developing light trucks, we also have plans to develop heavy trucks, so we readily agreed to take on the task. I made a promise to Director Liang beforehand that no matter how difficult it was, we would support the nation's grand plan.
Although we are facing some difficulties, with such generous help from our brother unit, Southwest Heavy Truck, no difficulty is insurmountable.

After Ma Zhaoxian finished speaking, he gave Li Ye a wink.

Li Ye took a list of personnel and handed it to Shang Bin.

"President Shang, we're all industry insiders, so let's not stand on ceremony. This is a list of engineers recommended to us by Mr. Zhao Xiangchu. He said that if we can get one-third of the people on the list, our heavy truck project will be a piece of cake. Southwest Heavy Truck happens to have seven or eight senior engineers on the list. How many of them can you help us with?"

Shang Bin took the list of personnel, and the smile that had been on his face finally turned cold.

He was gloating over the intelligence he had gathered about the factory, only to find that the other side had also infiltrated his territory.

The technical experts I brought today are all on this list.

[Damn it. You guys are trying to poach my boyfriend?]

Shang Bin's plan was to use the technicians from the First Branch Factory to help Southwest Heavy Truck solve its technical problems, but the First Branch Factory beat him to it and borrowed people from Southwest Heavy Truck.

Aren't you going to talk about cooperation?

Then why don't you cooperate?
Seeing that Shang Bin's expression had changed, Li Ye couldn't resist adding insult to injury: "President Shang, you want to see our new car, and we'll show it to you right away, right?"

"We've already shared everything, so surely General Manager Shang shouldn't hold back either? Southwest Heavy Truck has extensive experience in heavy truck production; providing support shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Once you have money, how do you refuse requests from "smart" people to borrow money from you?
The best answer is—I'll borrow money from you first.

Moreover, as long as Shang Bin dares to send those senior engineers over, Li Ye is confident that he can keep them. When it comes to poaching talent, Li Ye has never been afraid of anyone.

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Shang Bin ate a simple meal at the canteen of the No. 1 factory and left, seething with anger.

As soon as the car drove out of the light vehicle company's gate, that "clever man" offered Shang Bin some advice.

"Mr. Shang, our trip today wasn't a complete waste, at least we saw their new car design model. How about we ask the patent office for their opinion? They did indeed copy Iveco!"

President Shang glanced at the other person, then turned to the person next to him and asked, "Director Han, what do you think?"

Director Han said very seriously, "I don't think that counts as plagiarism, because the Iveco is much larger. Scaling down a vehicle isn't just about simply reducing its appearance."
The corresponding engine, transmission, suspension system, and so on all need to be redesigned. From a professional perspective, accusing them of plagiarism is unfounded.

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Shang Bin and the clever man both fell silent.

No wonder the technicians at the first factory looked at me with disdain! They were just amateurs pretending to be experts, and ended up making a fool of themselves.

Director Han continued, "However, I believe this new car project at Plant One is just a smokescreen, because they have no chance of success."

They needed to design a completely new set of chassis components. As far as I know, there are no similar precedents in mainland China, so they are truly innovating.
Even if a design could be successfully created and put into production, without a sufficiently high output, it would ultimately result in losses.
"Now, Tianjin Dafa vans have captured the national market, and our branch factory, burdened by high costs, cannot compete with our rivals."

The clever guy immediately perked up: "I knew something was off! A light truck company, why are they suddenly getting into minivans? It's completely frivolous. Hmm, their involvement in heavy trucks is also frivolous."

Director Han glanced at the clever man, then simply closed his eyes and pretended to sleep as the car bounced and swayed.

People who understand technology hate talking to people who pretend to know what they don't; it's like talking to a brick wall.

(End of this chapter)