That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1592 Some People Even Believe This Kind of Lie

After hearing Li Ye's words, Ni Dashen asked in surprise, "Xu Lingmiao? Li Ye, you know her?"

"We don't really know each other. My child had a small argument with her nephew a few days ago, and she recognized my sister at the scene."

Li Ye briefly recounted what happened that day, then suddenly changed the subject: "My sister said these past few days that Xu Lingmiao seems to be getting very close to Wu Zhengyan from your team. Did they know each other before?"

"Are you very close to Wu Zhengyan?"

Ni Dashen paused for a moment, then pondered for several seconds before cautiously saying, "Wu Zhengyan and Xu Lingmiao are both technical personnel responsible for technical liaison. They have had some work-related interactions recently, but I'm not sure if they knew each other before."

Li Ye calmly said, "Okay, then keep an eye out for Xu Lingmiao and see if she's deliberately getting close to Wu Zhengyan."

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Li Ye's words were somewhat impolite, but Ni Dashen nodded solemnly, which was taken as an agreement.

The reason Li Ye brought up Xu Lingmiao was because Li Juan noticed that Xu Lingmiao had been frequently contacting technical personnel from the mainland recently. Although there was no substantial evidence, she felt something was off and told Li Ye about it.

Li Ye, who came from decades later, knows a great deal more.

Even without evidence, we must remain vigilant. Today, he informed Master Ni that Wu Zhengyan was at risk of being "infiltrated" by Xu Lingmiao.

Wu Zhengyan is Ni Dashen's right-hand man and one of the important protégés he has cultivated over the years. He knows a lot about the technology and inside information of China Mobile and Fengyu Electronics. If he is turned and infiltrated, it will be a very serious problem, and Ni Dashen will be implicated.

The fact that Li Ye told Ni Dashen instead of Pan Xiaoying was already a way of showing some leniency, hoping to prevent things from going too far.

Judging from Ni Dashen's reaction now, he clearly understands what Li Ye means.

Li Ye said with relief, "Old Ni, thank you for understanding me. I was just taking precautions."

"Ah~"

Ni Dashen sighed, then said worriedly, "People are never satisfied. Think back to when I first arrived at Factory 506, Wu Zhengyan and the others earned less than a hundred yuan a month, yet they all thought they were very rich, eating whatever they wanted and buying whatever they wanted."
"Now Wu Zhengyan and the others have six or seven hundred yuan, but they feel they don't have enough money. They complain to me all day about buying this and that they can't afford it."

Li Ye asked in surprise, "Old Ni, have you also noticed something?"

Master Ni shook his head slightly, then nodded gently: "These days, Wu Zhengyan keeps asking me about my experiences overseas, whether it's really as wonderful as some people describe. I told him not to think about those unnecessary things, but his behavior makes me feel like a stranger."

Li Ye immediately asked bluntly, "You mean Wu Zhengyan longs for life overseas?"

"Heh~, given the current trend of misinformation spreading, who wouldn't yearn for it?"

Master Ni chuckled awkwardly: "While the level of development overseas is indeed higher than ours, it's not like you and I haven't been abroad before. Can it be compared to the current rumors of gold everywhere? But these days, some people dare to say it, and some people dare to believe it."

Li Ye nodded in deep agreement: "Indeed, the unhealthy trends have been getting stronger and stronger in the last two years."

If the accounts of overseas prosperity given by people returning from abroad in the 1980s were relatively objective, then by the 1990s, such accounts had become exaggerated.

Because some people no longer flaunt their upstairs/downstairs apartments, cars, or phone numbers, but instead flaunt subtle forms of superiority.

For example, you can wear leather shoes for a week in the lighthouse without polishing them, and you can walk around the highway in Japan wearing white socks and the soles of your socks will still be clean. Even more outrageous is that a child in the lighthouse was able to make an atomic bomb at home without his parents' knowledge, and he was only missing the nuclear materials to succeed.

The earlier display of leather shoes and socks was a mockery of the backwardness and filth of the mainland, reflecting the self-superiority of a certain group. However, the later boasting about a child tinkering with a nuclear bomb was utterly despicable.

The reason why China has a voice in the world is that it possesses nuclear weapons, which is one of the most important conditions. However, some people use nonsense such as "even a child can build a nuclear bomb" to endlessly belittle China's strength.

[So what if you have nuclear weapons? Even a kid could make one, they just prefer peace and don't.]

Damn it, this is just like the matchmaking market where "every guy has a car and a house." With just a few words, they belittle an ordinary person's life's savings to the point of "nothing special."

But even in the 1990s, countless people still believed this lie.

Let's not even talk about the required precision in the internal machining of a nuclear bomb. How did the little boy manage to buy high-precision machining equipment and use it skillfully without alerting the adults? What happens after you've finished machining it? How do you detonate it?

Do you think that one part saltpeter, two parts sulfur, and three parts charcoal can detonate nuclear materials to induce a fission reaction? Even if a fission reaction occurs, you still need to continuously irradiate them with a neutron beam, okay?
A primary school student from Lighthouse University could make something like this? The FBI would be crazy not to dissect his entire family and study them!

Tell me, from which planet did you infiltrate our Blue Planet? Be honest, do you possess the technology for immortality?

He has absolutely no technical skills.

If it were that easy, why would so many countries still have to hope to find nuclear bombs in the desert decades later in order to become nuclear-armed states?

"Li Ye, the reason Wu Zhengyan and the others are in this situation is because of the recent rumors that Fengyu Electronics has parted ways with the mobile company."

Li Ye was taken aback and asked, "What does this have to do with Fengyu Electronics?"

Ni Dashen chuckled self-deprecatingly and said, "Li Ye, the separation of Fengyu Electronics from China Mobile not only severed the technology, but also cut off the hopes of the technical staff!"
Their salaries always consisted of two parts: one part was the salary from the mobile company, and the other part was a subsidy from Fengyu Electronics.

Li Ye laughed: "Then what should we do? Should we try to raise their wages?"

"What should I do? Cold salad."

Master Ni laughed along: "You know, Li Ye, a few years ago, when our company wanted a college graduate with a relevant major like Wu Zhengyan, we had to beg and plead."
But now we get several every year, and if I just ask Mr. Pan, it's not impossible to get even more.
Moreover, according to Mr. Pan, in a few years, master's and doctoral students won't be so scarce. To be honest, I think the fastest-growing sector in mainland China in recent years isn't the economy, but education.
I can't believe what it will be like decades from now if we continue to develop at this pace.

Li Ye grinned, suddenly feeling a bit sentimental.

Decades later, with undergraduates everywhere, they'll be less valuable than anyone else. Sigh...

Although Li Ye deeply felt the disappointment brought about by the devaluation of academic qualifications decades later, from the national perspective, the continuous stream of young college students provided irreplaceable support in the competition for the "number one spot on Earth".

When the current world superpower is unable to gather the technical talent to build a complete industrial system in a few decades, the core technical force of the mysterious superpower will be in its prime.

What goes around comes around. In the 1990s, the lighthouse was at its zenith, and countless people believed even a child's lie. So what about a certain mysterious Eastern superpower decades from now?

Li Ye was really looking forward to it.

(End of this chapter)