"We've also been looking through overseas journals lately, but we haven't found anything. Who would publish that kind of technical bottleneck in a journal?"
Although Wu Yan took the journals from Li Ye, he still voiced his own opinion.
Although the engine replicated by the First Branch Factory was ten-year-old technology, companies like Mitsubishi and Volkswagen, with their usual temperament, would classify even twenty-year-old technology as top-secret information strictly forbidden from leaking, all to keep developing countries with potential like the mainland from surpassing them.
Li Ye smiled. "Old Wu, you're not someone who gets discouraged easily. Keep at it a little longer. As long as we make a breakthrough, even a tiny one, we'll be able to fight for greater benefits in the coming negotiations with overseas technical service companies.
"If we don't have any R&D capability at all, they'll treat us like pigs ready for slaughter."
"I know, I know. Don't worry. Even if I have to stake my life on it, I'll win us some pride."
Wu Yan and Old Xie naturally understood Li Ye's reasoning. Ever since they had successfully replicated the Isuzu engine, Mitsubishi had lowered its engine supply prices again and again.
But if the First Branch Factory had lacked the capability to manufacture Isuzu engines, Mitsubishi's prices would certainly have risen again and again.
"That's enough. Don't make overseas technology out to be so mysterious. We're all human. Never look down on yourselves, and don't listen to the nonsense spouted by those people whose brains have been washed. I'm leaving. Work hard. We have plenty of time, and we're not short on money. What's the rush?"
Li Ye patted Wu Yan on the shoulder and left with easy grace.
Wu Yan waved at Li Ye's retreating back, thanking him for his trust.
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