Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 398 The Foundation of a Great Nation
Liu Tongxiong is actually a few years older than Lü Yao, but he is still a very young CEO who has considerable influence in multiple entrepreneurial fields at less than thirty years old.

From the perspective of his peers, Liu Tongxiong is already an extremely outstanding young person among contemporary youth.

But on the vast stage of Dongda University, even an evaluation like "extremely outstanding" can only appear briefly in the torrent of time and will not be given much attention.

Even with his cheat-like ability to see into the future, Lü Yao is only a half-step Celestial Being now.

To become a true celestial being, sitting at the dinner table eating, one must either cultivate a golden body for protection or receive ancestral blessings.

Liu Tongxiong, who is still standing on the ground and has not even climbed to the peak of the ground, is not qualified to even try to take advantage of Lu Yao, let alone try to take advantage of a celestial being. Even if his ideas and strategies are correct, it is useless.

That's why Lü Yao said so much in his phone call with Liu Tongxiong.

Those words were neither threats nor suppression; they were simply stating a fact.

After hanging up the phone with Lü Yao, Liu Tongxiong felt extremely frustrated.

Although he was extremely unwilling, he had to admit that he had fallen into a dead end in his contest with Lü Yao. He was checkmated and no longer had the will to fight back or stubbornly confront Lü Yao.

What Lü Yao said on the phone earlier seemed to have "imprinted on Liu Tongxiong's mind," nailing away all his courage.

After remaining silent in his hotel room for a long time and smoking many cigarettes, Liu Tongxiong booked a flight back to Hangzhou.

After returning to Hangzhou, Liu Tongxiong called over some of his drinking buddies. Although they were just drinking buddies, these people had genuinely been on his side and cared for him while he was still powerful and wealthy.

When Liu Tongxiong saw this group of drinking buddies, he didn't say much, only saying lightly, "Don't ask anything, just drink."

These drinking buddies, or rather, cronies, didn't ask any questions and started to use their talents to recruit others or showcase their skills.

Some people are very good at singing, and some are very good at telling jokes, which makes the atmosphere very lively.

Although Hangzhou is within the Yangtze River Delta region and is considered to lack nightlife, this "lack of nightlife" only applies to ordinary people. For the wealthy in the Yangtze River Delta region, there is plenty of entertainment to be had.

Especially in Hangzhou, Jimei people from all over the country gather here.

In the early years, these girls in Hangzhou worked as print models and Taobao models during the day and as live streamers at night. When they had a job, they would go and accompany the big shots. Here, girls from all over the country with different styles could be chosen at will. In a sense, the paradise on earth in the Pearl River Delta has quietly moved to Hangzhou.

Especially in the years around 2017, with the continued boom of e-commerce and Taobao, wealthy big shots are being born here every day. Where money is, there the "clucking" and "gagaga" groups will be. These two groups are practically the barometer of capital flow.

So in no time, Liu Tongxiong's drinking party grew from four or five people to seventeen or eighteen. The people invited by Liu Tongxiong's drinking buddies were all incredibly good-looking; they didn't need beauty filters or editing, and any casual snapshot would make them look like internet celebrities.

In 2017, a golden age, these girls disdained becoming internet celebrities because the competition was too fierce, the chances of success were too high, and it required brainpower to manage the internet. These girls, who frequented the entertainment districts of Hangzhou, were all too aware of the "survivorship bias" on the internet, a place even more brutal than the entertainment districts.

In offline entertainment venues, these girls can easily earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a month, so why bother suffering in the filthy world of the internet?

Under the soothing influence of perfume, alcohol, and dim lighting, Liu Tongxiong, who had been feeling suffocated for several days, finally recovered as if he had narrowly escaped death.

"call--"

After downing a cocktail, Liu Tongxiong suddenly felt a sense of liberation and open-mindedness.

Then I felt a little more grateful to my fair-weather friends, but that was all.

The term "fair-weather friends" sounds unpleasant, even suggesting a lack of ambition, but people in Liu Tongxiong's social circle absolutely need a group of such friends.

These drinking buddies are not only helpful in business negotiations, but also indispensable companions for relieving boredom and entertaining people in their social circle. As for becoming addicted to them and losing everything, if someone in this circle is led astray by their drinking buddies, then no matter what they do, they will be a complete mess.

These friends who are good at eating, drinking, and having fun are like tools; how well they are used depends on one's own ingenuity.

When his frustrations had finally subsided, Liu Tongxiong got up late at night to go home. His group of cronies immediately started clamoring for him to take a few girls home with him.

But Liu Tongxiong had no interest in that. After giving a few perfunctory replies, he said goodbye to the group and got into his driver's car to go home alone.

When Liu Tongxiong returned to his residence, he found the lights on. In the spacious living room of the villa, a man in his fifties, with a ruddy complexion and a heroic air, yet exuding a refined demeanor, was sitting on the sofa, playing chess by himself.

Upon seeing Liu Tongxiong return, the old man sitting in the living room looked at Liu Tongxiong and smiled, "You're back."

Liu Tongxiong quickly composed himself and greeted his father with a hint of respect, "Dad, why didn't you tell me you were coming?"

Liu Tongxiong's father smiled faintly and said, "Why do I need to inform you beforehand when I come to see my son? Do you want to play a couple of games of chess with me?"

Liu Tongxiong waved his hand: "Forget it, my mind is a mess."

As he spoke, Liu Tongxiong sat down on the sofa and lay down not far from his father.

Liu Tongxiong's father continued playing chess with himself, saying as he played, "I've heard some things about you recently."

Liu Tongxiong, his eyes half-closed, said, "Are you trying to criticize me?"

Liu Tongxiong's father laughed out loud and shook his head, saying, "You've been quite smart since you were little. Among the young people in our Liu family, you're the smartest and most self-disciplined. So you're also the most promising among the younger generation in our family."

"From childhood to adulthood, you have handled everything well, whether it was family matters or things around you. It's as if all problems can be easily solved in front of you. This has fostered your humble yet proud personality."

For someone like Liu Tongxiong, outward humility is both a weapon and a survival strategy.

Beneath this humble facade lies Liu Tongxiong's arrogance, which stems from his disdain for heroes across the land.

Therefore, this blow from Lü Yao was actually a good thing for Liu Tongxiong's father.

After slapping himself in the face, Liu Tongxiong's father lay down on the sofa and began to speak in a nostalgic tone: "You've had it too easy growing up, and you're very good at handling things and dealing with people. You have excellent judgment and sound ideas, which has made your life smooth sailing. But life can't always be on your side. Learning how to survive in adversity is an even more important thing."

Learning to recognize our own insignificance, even accepting that our lives are but dust in the mortal world, is an essential lesson we must all learn. This world is small, so small that one careless step could lead to being trampled by truly remarkable figures. Yet, this world is also vast.

At this point, Liu Tongxiong looked at his most proud son and said, "Even people like you and me may never reach the forefront of the times in our entire lives."

"It does sound a bit sad that the youthful spirit is gradually worn down, but the iron wall of reality is something that no one is chosen by heaven. Even if you crash into it and get hurt, you still can't get through it."

Liu Tongxiong simply listened to his father's earnest teachings, but how much of it he actually absorbed was unknown to his father.

Having said everything he needed to say, Liu Tongxiong's father reached out and patted his son's knee to comfort him before getting up and leaving his son's villa.

Only after his father left did Liu Tongxiong's seemingly slumped body, which had actually been tense all along, gradually relax completely.

He went to the courtyard of his villa, took out a cigarette, and looked up at the night sky.

"Are we really going to accept our fate?"

Even now, Liu Tongxiong still cannot truly make up his mind.

For a young man like Liu Tongxiong, it's still too difficult to personally sever the pride in his heart.

……

Two days later, in Mianyang.

Lu Yao bought a villa here as temporary office space.

They have been screening local high-tech companies and looking for technology companies to invest in and cooperate with. However, Mianyang, a sub-provincial center city in Sichuan, is still too mysterious and has too high a threshold. Many companies have official connections and are very cautious about accepting external partners.

Therefore, as the screening process progressed, Lü Yao expanded the scope of the screening to the entire country.

Based on his experience studying abroad, Lü Yao has narrowed down his choices to two companies. One is a local Sichuan drone technology company called Kongdun Technology Co., Ltd., which is mainly engaged in technology promotion and application services. Its main businesses include engineering and technology research and experimental development, and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing.

The company currently possesses substantial technological expertise in large, twin-engine, modular, multi-purpose, medium-altitude long-endurance fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. It also has ample funds and no plans to seek external financing.

However, their technology also urgently needs to be applied in the market.

We are already seeking channel partnerships with external partners.

Although Lü Yao is not very capable of investing capital, he can get involved in channel cooperation.

The company that Lü Yao remembers was also a key player in the large-scale industrial survey that later became a hot topic on the internet. At that time, it was widely rumored online that SF Express's delivery drones had been recruited into the military. However, in reality, SF Express itself did not have the ability to design and manufacture drones. The Twin-Tailed Scorpion drone was designed and manufactured by AirShield Technology on behalf of SF Express, and then it was shown off and caught the eye of big shots.

Now, Lü Yao also has a way to get involved, which is to commission Air Shield to design a large drone that can carry a large number of small drones and act as an airborne signal node to control a swarm of small drones. Ideally, it should be equipped with an AI intelligent computing module to conduct adaptive self-analysis and automatic on-the-spot command for the battlefield.

This requires access to the intelligent computing model of the Luoma Lake AI Data Center.

Lu Yao believed that once this thing was designed, it would definitely catch the eye of some big shots.

Although Lu Yao's side of the Illusionary Mechanics Technology has already been incorporated into the organization, there's never too much of anything that can enhance one's own foundation. Lu Yao also knows that his side has definitely attracted the attention of some big shots.

After his wild ideas began to take shape through the efforts of all parties, many behind-the-scenes bigwigs must have provided some protection to Lü Yao. Otherwise, how could there have been only one wave of attacks since they revealed their intention to enter the software ecosystem?
As for why they never came forward to contact Lü Yao, Lü Yao didn't know.

He didn't want to try to figure out what those important figures were thinking.

He believed that if he did his job well, when the time was right, the light of righteousness would surely shine upon him and bestow upon him a golden image.

of course.

In China, this kind of design cannot be directly targeted at the military market. Therefore, Lü Yao positioned this drone for the agricultural market, mainly for collecting information on farms and for targeted management of different farmlands.

This starting point is very sufficient and abundant.

Because Huasheng Life has its own planting land, this is to better ensure the quality of the fruit and vegetable supply of Huasheng Life supermarkets. Now, Lu Yao wants to use high technology to empower agricultural development. This reason is simply too noble and righteous!
Besides Kongdun Technology, Lü Yao also specifically searched for some high-tech companies that he remembered as having been identified through a "comprehensive investigation," such as Guangwei Composite Materials. After a thorough investigation, Lü Yao discovered that they had actually joined the National High-Tech Research and Development Program more than a decade ago.

Although Guangwei Composites is still a private enterprise, it is essentially a state-owned enterprise by nature, as its largest customer has always been the procurement of military supplies.

Aside from these, the stories about anti-radar detection stealth coatings, forestry bureau laser cannon teams, and phased array radar for wild boar control are all similar. They're not the result of "villagers" actually creating some incredible technology; rather, they're the culmination of research by domestic institutions, companies, and market applications.

This achievement will be solemnly and ceremoniously displayed in the future, giving the world a small shock.

After looking around, Lü Yao realized that there weren't actually many areas where he could get involved.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Even if he has experience studying abroad, the development of high technology in China is never something that can be achieved overnight. How can his vision of studying abroad for more than ten years compare to the nearly thirty years of preparation of a great nation?

As Lü Yao was looking at the documents with deep emotion, Lin Yongzhen brought over her hand-drip coffee: "Hasn't that General Manager Liu contacted you yet?"

If Lin Yongzhen hadn't mentioned it, Lü Yao would have almost forgotten about it.

Trademark registration is something that is important in some ways and not important in others. Lü Yao didn't really take it to heart. He had already made relevant plans for Li Ziqi's future development, and had been in contact with Weinian. He had also prepared a team specifically for Li Ziqi.

Therefore, regardless of whether Liu Tongxiong is willing or not, Lü Yao's plan for Li Ziqi will proceed as scheduled.

Lu Yao took the coffee, took a sip, and smiled, "I haven't received any news. Perhaps it's still too difficult for President Liu to humble himself."

(End of this chapter)