"Was it our own people who didn't want me getting List Company's technical support?"
Li Ye had actually been doubtful from the start. Could Qiao Jinfeng alone really have made List Company suddenly undergo such a major change?
After all, List was a well-known technical consulting company in the industry, with an excellent reputation all along. First Branch Factory had clearly stated its cooperation requirements in advance, and the other side had even preliminarily submitted several framework ideas for cooperation. Their early communications could be called quite pleasant.
But once they reached the face-to-face talks, how could the other side offer First Branch Factory such an absurd cooperation proposal?
List Company was no fly-by-night outfit. It was impossible for some random subordinate to write a report and change their attitude toward a client. They must have weighed certain interests before making this decision.
So when Yuli said she could help solve the problem, Li Ye immediately understood.
It had to be certain people on the mainland with good relations with List Company who had put in a word—perhaps several mainland universities that had maintained ties with them for years, or heavyweight clients like the joint-venture factories in Shanghai—raising objections with them.
Having seen through history, Li Ye knew very well that some people on the mainland never considered "benefiting the nation and the people." They only calculated their own interests.
Although the original intention behind bringing in joint ventures had been "trading the market for technology," these people had never intended to honor that promise.
Several well-known joint-venture factories had repeatedly seen disputes during the localization process over "using domestic parts only over our dead bodies."
Because the manufacturers of many important components still had tangled, unbreakable ties to foreign capital, the localization of joint-venture vehicles alone had dragged on