Chapter 348

"Brother, Factory Manager Wang said at the meeting that Changbei Machinery Company can now produce tens of thousands of sewing machines every year.

If we give commissions to sales staff according to your suggestion, then every salesperson can earn tens of thousands of yuan a year... It's impossible for all the workers to agree to that."

"Then if the sewing machines produced can't be sold, does that save money?"

Li Ye said with a dark face: "It's only been a few days since the joint venture? Have they already forgotten the days when they couldn't pay wages?"

"Where is the logic in crying for your father when you're hungry, and cursing your mother when you're full?"

"It's not that, Brother, Factory Manager Wang really isn't that kind of person..."

Li Dayong thought for a moment and said cautiously: "Brother, I was thinking, should we change to a Hong Kong manager with a better temper?

The current Hong Kong manager, Guo Tianyong, is too tough, always walking with his chin up looking at people. It's been less than a month since the joint venture, and he's already argued with Factory Manager Wang and the others three times."

"I've met Guo Tianyong, and I think he's just right," Li Ye shook his head and rejected: "Don't think that just because we put up the money, they feel they owe us a favor. A joint venture is cooperation, and both sides of the cooperation have their own interests.

Dayong, you can ask your grandfather about this issue. Given the current situation of Changbei Machinery Company, if we don't have a tough Hong Kong manager standing at the front, can this partnership business be done?"

Li Dayong's grandfather was a cadre in the power system and must understand the atmosphere within state-owned enterprises. Analyzing the problem from his perspective would probably help Li Dayong understand some truths faster.

Li Dayong grinned awkwardly: "Brother, I've never told my family that I'm doing business with you! I think it's better not to say."

Li Ye said speechlessly: "Is that what I meant?"

Li Dayong was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and began to ponder silently. After a while, he nodded and said: "Brother, what you said makes sense. If we followed Factory Manager Wang and the others, it would be no different from the previous Changbei Machinery Factory, and it would go bust sooner or later."

Li Dayong was still quite smart, just limited by his age and experience, lacking the vision and pattern of a transmigrator like Li Ye.

Li Ye had insisted on keeping technical R&D and product sales in the hands of the Hong Kong side to significantly increase the income of technical and sales personnel.

Therefore, the technical and sales departments of the joint venture factory were personally established and managed by the Hong Kong manager.

But this kind of change, falling on the original Changbei Machinery Factory, which "does not worry about poverty but worries about inequality," was bound to cause intense conflict, so the Hong Kong side had to be tough and persistent.

Li Dayong had no experience and was concerned, so when he saw the argument in the factory, he felt that he had a stake in it and wanted to be a good person to calm the argument, ignoring that the tough Guo Tianyong was the representative of his and Pei Wenhui's interests.

After clarifying the relationship, Li Dayong suddenly became enlightened and started showing off his "greatly improved" driving skills to Li Ye.

It's just that after showing off for a long time, he only got Li Ye's evaluation of "the car is good, but the technique is truly trash."

In '84, it was the time when the 3 Series BMW was sweeping the world. A 3 Series BMW equipped with an inline-six engine was almost a dimensionality reduction strike against all other sedans on the mainland roads.

Let alone Ferraris; given the road conditions in the mainland at this time, a Ferrari probably wouldn't be able to get out of the garage many times.

The two brothers drove around for over half an hour before returning to the courtyard in Zaojunmiao.

It was already pitch black, so Li Ye said to Wen Leyu: "Xiao Yu, it's time for us to go back."

Li Ye and Wen Leyu were already used to their evening strolls by the lake. Whenever they had the chance, they had to enjoy the comfortable feeling of holding hands and occasionally putting their arms around each other's waists.

But today, Wen Leyu shook her head slowly and said: "I want to watch TV."

Li Ye said in surprise: "What TV show is so fascinating to you?"

Wen Leyu giggled and said: "A romance film, it's very good."

Li Ye looked at Wen Leyu's expectant eyes and felt like he was seeing a little cat standing in front of a food bowl, waiting to eat fish.

When the time came, Li Yue, Wen Leyu, and Pei Wenhui sat in a neat row in front of the TV, waiting intently for it to start.

He couldn't help but be a little curious. With Wen Leyu's calm nerves, she could actually be obsessed with chasing a drama? And it was a Japanese TV drama?

However, when the theme song "Watashi wa, sei na nu" played, and the image of a girl full of youthful spirit appeared, Li Ye finally understood the reason.

It had to be said that Japan did have some good things. 17-year-old Momoe Yamaguchi was truly beautiful!

The TV drama "Blood Suspicion" was broadcast by the First TV Station in '84, but before it was broadcast on the First TV Station, the Henan TV Station had already broadcast it.

Then it was the provincial and municipal stations across the country scrambling to broadcast it a second, third, and fourth time, causing a scene where the streets were empty, even more powerful than "Huo Yuanjia" or "Shanghai Bund."

Li Ye believed that the huge success of "Blood Suspicion" had two reasons: first, the cultural identity contained in the drama was relatively strong; second, the mainland audience had never been impacted by romance TV dramas and had no resistance at all.

Teacher Zhang said that the largest island of the Middle Kingdom is the Japanese island, and they were deeply influenced by Middle Kingdom culture, so cultural identity is very important.

In addition, Momoe Yamaguchi's appearance truly conformed to the public aesthetics of the Middle Kingdom people at this time. Anyway, Li Ye thought she was much better looking than Zhang Yu.

Of course, the most important reason was the plot design of "Blood Suspicion," which could be called the ancestor of dog-blood dramas.

Even a rational girl like Wen Leyu was led astray by the plot.

"Li Ye, do you know what leukemia is?"

"Li Ye, do you know what aplastic anemia is?"

After the TV drama finished, Wen Leyu, in order to repay Li Ye for watching TV with her, gave Li Ye an extra half-hour stroll by the lake, and even allowed Li Ye to hold her little waist for a long time.

But the little girl's continuous questioning made Li Ye feel a bit between laughter and tears.

"Blood Suspicion" made the heroine Oshima Sachiko suffer from a terminal illness right from the start, just like the "Golden Three Chapters" of web novels in later generations, tightly gripping the hearts of female audiences.

And after more than twenty episodes of tossing and turning, it boldly ended with a tragic result, fiercely stabbing the hearts of all the audience, verifying the tenet that "tragedy is passed down forever," creating a classic for a generation.

"Li Ye, how do you think Sachiko can be cured in the end?"

"She can, she must be able to. If Sachiko can't be cured, then the screenwriter of this TV drama should be hacked to death."

Li Ye decisively followed Wen Leyu's will and gave an answer that satisfied her.

Looking at the little girl nodding with a smile, Li Ye felt that Wen Leyu might really be like the kind of second generation people talked about in the previous life, "looking like an ordinary person, but very rigorous when doing serious things."

Li Ye was half an hour late, sending Wen Leyu back to the girls' dormitory building.

On the eve of parting, Li Ye suddenly saw Wen Leyu take off the Blancpain watch on her wrist and put it in her pocket.

"What's wrong, Xiao Yu? Why aren't you wearing it?"

"The influence is bad."

Wen Leyu glanced at Li Ye and said: "Although I don't recognize the brand of this watch, I also know that it definitely can't be bought for a few hundred yuan. There are people in our class wearing Enicar, which is far worse than this one. I can tell the difference."

Li Ye: "..."

The capital is full of hidden talents; children from families like Teacher Ke's are indeed not ignorant.

Wen Leyu tilted her head and asked with narrowed eyes: "Do you think that just because you made some money, if you don't spend it on me, you can't show off your status as a big man?"

When Fu Guiru parted with Li Ye at Lijiapo, she choked up and said "give me a little more time," so whether she was willing to come back and when she would come back was unknown, and Li Ye had no way to explain it to Wen Leyu for the time being.

So Li Ye could only smile and say: "This watch needs to be worn at our wedding, so don't mind its value..."

Wen Leyu was stunned for several seconds, and then even her ears turned red.

But she didn't run away shyly, but said seriously to Li Ye: "We are still in school, your proposal is a bit early!"

The next day, Li Ye was discussing the subsequent impact of the big boss's southern tour with his classmates.

"Where are we going to take privatization? Is this still the original Middle Kingdom?"

"Whether the road is easy to walk or not, you have to walk it and try it to know! Anyway, our mainland market is very large, and there are enough opportunities for trial and error. We can always develop step by step..."

"Li Ye, you are wrong. Having the ability to tolerate errors doesn't mean you can make mistakes at will. Every time you make a mistake, it's the ordinary people who bear the loss of the mistake."

After nearly two years of study, the students of the '82 Economics Department had generally grown up. Several monsters were now specifically catching Li Ye to debate,

because they found that debating with Li Ye was the most interesting. As long as they pushed Li Ye hard enough, Li Ye would occasionally blurt out some new terms and new viewpoints.

So Li Ye was also quite troubled now.

Although in the process of debating, he "cherished each other" with several monsters and wished he could cut a rooster's head and burn yellow paper to become sworn brothers, but who could understand the difficulty of trying not to reveal the secrets of heaven while being tense at all times!

For example, at this moment, Hu Man and several other classmates also realized that the chief designer's southern tour in January would lead to a series of changes,

but they couldn't see it clearly in the fog. '84 was actually the "first year of mainland entrepreneurs." The huge wind outlet was already looming in the fog. Only those giant crocodiles with keen sense of smell could bite the opportunity to take off.

For example, because he witnessed the chief designer's trip to Pengcheng, a big boss surnamed Wang who liked his young wife would create the predecessor of the later real estate giant a few months later,

and private enterprises like Jianlibao and Vanke also began to sprout quietly, eventually growing into business giants.

But Li Ye couldn't reveal this level of secrets, because at this time, he was also a treacherous and black-bellied little crocodile hiding on the edge of the pond to prey and develop.

"Li Ye, someone is looking for you."

A classmate's shout from outside pulled Li Ye out of the "encirclement" of Hu Man and the others.

After he left the teaching building, Hu Man and the others said regretfully: "I think classmate Li Ye must have figured out something, but it shouldn't be mature yet, so he is not willing to explain it to us in detail."

He Dazhuang said disapprovingly: "Hmph, maybe he wants to keep it for submission?"

Hu Man immediately retorted: "Then if you have ideas that can be submitted, would you tell us in advance?"

He Dazhuang widened his eyes, pointed to the sky and the earth, and said: "Of course I would! I will never hide it."

Chen Xiaoling curled her mouth: "Forget it! You have no goods in your stomach, what are you hiding? You have submitted articles several times, have you ever published them?"

"You are all fascinated by Li Ye."

Li Ye arrived downstairs and found it was Li Dayong.

"What's wrong, Dayong? Coming to Jingda and not looking for your gentle girlfriend, what are you doing looking for your brother?"

"Brother, news came back from the Canton Fair. Our new sewing machine didn't succeed in earning foreign exchange, so Factory Manager Wang proposed to change the ownership of the R&D workshop, share the costs, and create world-class products."

Li Ye found that the corners of Li Dayong's mouth had signs of fire blisters. Obviously, he was truly concerned about Changbei Machinery Company.

And Li Dayong was very aware of the importance of product development. It could be said that the emergence of Changbei Machinery Company was the result of Li Dayong taking the lead in developing new sewing machines after returning from Hong Kong.

So the Hong Kong capital sealed off a workshop in Changbei Machinery Company as a dedicated R&D laboratory, clearly belonging to the company owned by the Hong Kong capital, and did not allow people from the original Changbei Machinery Factory to enter.

Now this core department was being watched by Factory Manager Wang again. How could Li Dayong not be anxious?

However, Li Ye smiled and said: "He's really not stupid. Then let Tang Mingtai draft a research plan, open it up for research,

must follow the mainland's practice, allocate funds first, and then research. See if they can accept it."

Li Ye looked at Li Dayong, who seemed to have realized something, and said again: "Note, it's brand-new R&D, not simple small repairs and modifications."

Li Dayong took a deep breath and couldn't help but say: "Brother, how much research funding will that cost? We haven't made much money yet!"

He studied machinery and of course knew the high cost of mechanical R&D. It was too normal for hundreds of thousands or millions to go down the drain.

But Li Ye said in a low voice: "Dayong! Don't be stingy with money on R&D, because only by leading in R&D can you have a second Changbei Machinery Company, a third Changnan Machinery Company, a fourth..."

Li Dayong swallowed several times before he understood how big Li Ye's ambition was.

It turned out that the Changbei Machinery Company with a thousand people couldn't satisfy his brother's appetite at all!

"By the way, hasn't the sales commission issue been resolved yet?"

"It's being resolved, Brother. I think it can be resolved."

"Don't waste that effort. If they are willing to be an OEM factory, let them be an OEM factory. You go find Brother Peng, let him set up a trading company, order goods directly from the factory, and let them save trouble and make money."

"Understood, I'm familiar with this routine."

Li Dayong nodded and agreed immediately. Didn't the Pengcheng Seventh Factory develop to this day because of the beginning of "I work hard, you lie down and earn"?

Since you like to earn money comfortably, then let me work more and earn more!