Chapter 595: I bet on the national fortune

After Li Ye finished speaking, Teacher Ke smiled and said: "Li Ye, your words sound a bit inspiring! If I don't treat it as an outsider and borrow it, I can use it directly as a draft for the next report."

Teacher Ke is in the education system, and when making reports, she must inspire the power of readers to "struggle." Li Ye's words just now were relatively on the right track.

"What's the outsider between you two?" Wen Qingsheng smiled, deliberately straightened his face and instructed Li Ye: "Write a draft for your Ke Auntie tonight. It must make the people listening to the report feel more inspired and confident."

"..., I'll polish it tonight, and I must satisfy Ke Auntie."

Li Ye nodded with a smile and agreed modestly.

However, Li Zhongfa frowned and asked suspiciously: "Little Ye! You said the Lighthouse wants to transfer its low-end and even mid-to-high-end industries abroad, and it's irreversible. Then if their industries are transferred away, what will their domestic workers do?"

Li Ye nodded: "According to my observation, the Lighthouse will retain cutting-edge technology industries and focus development on other high-profit industries. And these high-profit industries, we can't develop, at least we can't develop now..."

Li Zhongfa asked in surprise: "What high-profit industries can't we develop? Digging gold from the moon?"

"..."

Li Ye was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but ask with a smile: "Grandfather, who did you hear about digging gold from the moon?"

Li Zhongfa said frankly: "Many people say so! Just a month ago, that Challenger space shuttle exploded, and some people said they were preparing to go to the moon to dig gold..."

"No, no, grandfather, don't listen to them talking nonsense."

Li Ye was very embarrassed, because Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng were both on the side! Although they are almost his own people, don't they laugh in their hearts even if they don't laugh on their faces?

However, Wen Qingsheng also followed up and said: "I have also heard people say this, and it was scientific researchers who said it."

"They said there are rich precious metals on the moon, and the Lighthouse's moon exploration level is the best in the world. If they develop the moon first, the wealth value will be immeasurable..."

Fine! Now it's the 1980s, and there are countless people deceived by the Star Wars plan, and even the think tanks in Soviet Russia were deceived.

The success of the Lighthouse's moon landing made people admit that it is a technological power leading the whole world, allowing countless scientific researchers and scientific research funds to flock to it.

They poured into the Lighthouse one after another, pushing the further development of Lighthouse technology like a snowball, and also making the Lighthouse a top global talent harvester.

Not to mention other places, there are 250,000 Chinese engineers in Silicon Valley alone, and the graduates of Tsinghua University alone... exceed 10,000.

It can be said that in the 80s and 90s, everyone in the world, even Soviet Russia, was thinking, "How should we learn to keep up with the Lighthouse's footsteps?" and no one was thinking, "The Lighthouse is wrong."

You say there is such a siphon effect, damn it, even if the Lighthouse's moon landing is fake, doesn't it have to be true?

Li Ye said helplessly: "Wen Uncle, I really haven't thought about this. The other high-profit industries I mentioned are actually financial service industries based on powerful capital."

"Capital is not responsible for production; they are only responsible for buying and selling..."

"We can compare the Lighthouse to a very rich landlord, and we are assigned to be small farmers, or even tenant farmers. He sells us seeds and tools, and after our harvest, they will take away a large batch of grain, and then sell it at a higher price..."

"Isn't this exploitation?"

Li Zhongfa frowned and said: "I thought you said high-profit industries were exploitation? If it's exploitation, who can't do it? And you said we can't develop? We don't have that black heart."

Li Ye smiled awkwardly and said: "Grandfather, you have also seen landlords. Landlords don't just know how to exploit; they also know how to farm, how to trade, how to lend money at high interest... Being a landlord is a science."

"..."

Li Zhongfa was stunned for a moment, subconsciously wanting to scold Li Ye a few times, but thought of something, frowned and began to ponder.

In the end, he said somewhat reluctantly: "Most of the landlord's skills are empty and blind, at most they have a little bit of skill."

"But they have money, they have land."

Li Ye said seriously: "Small farmers don't have enough to eat for the next meal, and no matter how smart they are, it's hard to turn over, but landlord families have money and land, so they have the capital for exploitation."

"Now the Lighthouse wants to transfer the good irrigated land to Japan and South Korea to plant. We want to rent their irrigated land, but they won't give it, only willing to rent us the dry land that doesn't produce much grain."

"We produce a ship of shirts to exchange for one of their planes. This is the difference between irrigated land and dry land."

Li Ye's tone became deep: "Grandfather, you haven't asked what I've been doing blindly outside these years, and I haven't said it either, but I'll tell you today."

"I just want to grab their irrigated land. I want to develop more high-end industries. I want to engage in the industries they allow us to develop, and I also want to quietly engage in the industries they don't allow to develop."

"..."

Li Zhongfa was silent for several seconds, reached out to touch the cigarette case, and then realized that Teacher Ke and Watching Wen Leyu were also there, so he took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

But Wen Qingsheng took out a cigarette case, handed a cigarette to Li Zhongfa, and even lit it for Li Zhongfa.

This is the 1980s. If it were decades later, Watching Wen Leyu could pinch them both.

Teacher Ke looked at Li Ye with a stern face and asked in a deep voice: "So this is the risk you mentioned? You grabbed their irrigated land and are afraid of being threatened by the other party?"

Li Ye nodded: "It definitely won't be threatened for a while, and this is not a day's work, but based on the spirit of our Chinese people not admitting defeat, I think we will bump into each other sooner or later."

"Bump into each other, then bump into each other. Who is afraid of whom? It's not like we haven't fought landlords before."

Li Zhongfa pinched the cigarette he had smoked for a few puffs, then looked into Li Ye's eyes and asked: "Then what are you thinking? Your Ke Auntie told me that you said there was danger on the phone, and we flew over immediately."

"You hooked us over, and you don't have any plans in your heart?"

"..."

"I certainly have some plans in my heart..."

Li Ye smiled and asked Li Zhongfa: "Grandfather, when I heard grandmother say it, the strength of your guerrilla team was not very good."

"There were at least a dozen groups of bandits, self-defense forces, etc. around. Why were they all recruited by you in the end?"

Li Zhongfa laughed: "Because we have an organization, we have a backer!"

"Right, have a backer."

Li Ye let out a long breath, looked at Teacher Ke and the others, and said frankly: "From an economic point of view, doing business has various modes such as speculation and investment."

"I have mostly speculated and invested in a minority in the past few years, and my luck is not bad, and I have earned a lot of money. Many financial tycoons and investment businessmen in the Lighthouse have similar paths to mine."

"To tell you the truth, with the money in my hands now, our family can squander it for eight lifetimes."

"But if we go on this path, I will have to stop in a few years, because earning too much money is bound to attract disaster. After all, money is something that can attract disaster."

Money is something that will definitely attract disaster after reaching a certain order of magnitude. Those two surnamed Zhao in later generations are examples.

Zhao's bodyguards are not few, right? Otherwise, things like Bali Island wouldn't have happened to him, but in the end, he couldn't play with others?

If he can say that the one who plays with coins is not on the table, then the other one who drives the car into the water, the family business is in the top 100 of Lighthouse enterprises... is it not on the table?

And when money reaches a certain order of magnitude, it is a string of numbers. What is more attractive than numbers?

Li Ye knows very well.

Li Ye gasped and said: "So I want to take another mode—betting on the national fortune. The money I earned from speculation will all be invested in the manufacturing industry in the mainland. I want to increase workers' wages, and I want to update factory technology and equipment..."

"The high-tech industries that the mainland needs, I will try my best to steal. We will prosper together and suffer together... And some enterprises in the Lighthouse are also on this path."

Li Ye sighed and continued: "But this path is easy to say, but very difficult to implement. It is much harder than making money from speculation..."

"..."

Teacher Ke looked at Li Ye and asked seriously: "Where do you think the difficulty lies?"

Li Ye said straightforwardly: "Lack of people. I lack enough suitable people in my hands, scientific research talents, management talents, and talents who are of one heart with me."

"My original intention is to invest in high-tech industries in the Lighthouse first, and then through complex international commercial operations, after dispersing risks, think of ways to transfer them to the mainland. Every process needs people, capable people of our own..."

Li Ye spread his hands and said helplessly: "But where can I find so many people of our own? Besides, with my appearance that hasn't grown hair, do they believe me? Conversely, how do I know if they are reliable?"

The composition of a large enterprise, capital, technology, and equipment certainly cannot be less, but "people" are the key.

A management team that operates smoothly cannot be built overnight just by spending money.

The Fenghua brand clothing that Li Ye is engaged in is the enterprise with the lowest threshold, but it relies on digging walls and digging many old masters from various state-owned clothing factories to barely operate and expand.

How many people does mid-end manufacturing need?

And now Li Ye wants to pour high and new technology from overseas to home. Where can I find such people? How to believe him?

The problem is that Li Ye is not investing in one industry or one enterprise. Where can I find people to fill so many CEO vacancies?

To put it bluntly, maybe a core management staff's eating inside and out can make a plan fall short, and even Li Ye can be brought in.

If there is no backer, a detention in overseas will not be able to return.

But when Li Ye finished saying this "huge difficulty," whether it was Teacher Ke, Wen Qingsheng, or Li Zhongfa, they all laughed.

Teacher Ke said: "If you want to talk about foreign exchange, we lack it, but if you want to talk about people, we don't lack it."

Li Zhongfa said in a deep voice: "What is called not having grown hair? You yourself are young, but aren't there still us! We don't know anything else, but we have a set of methods for screening reliable talents."

Wen Qingsheng also smiled and said: "The risks you mentioned are actually nothing. We had rich enemy-behind-the-lines struggle experience before, and we haven't lost our old traditions now, right?"

Li Ye looked at the three elders who had all expressed their positions, and his heart was suddenly steady.

Certain difficulties for individuals are nothing for a powerful organization.

Someone in later generations said—the official career is treacherous, and this land is full of talented losers.

As long as you give him a chance, he can play flowers with his life. ===== CHAPTER 596 =====