Less than two weeks after Li Ye arrived in America, he had already settled seventy or eighty percent of First Branch Factory's various needs. In light of the mainland's actual circumstances, Veal An came up with the optimal technical plan.
Only then did Detroit, the Automobile City that had flourished for more than half a century, finally reveal the depth of its foundations.
From producing a technical plan to gathering component suppliers and processing equipment, everything could be handled within a mere week or two.
That speed left Wu Yan and the others deeply shocked.
They could never have imagined that one might casually walk into an unremarkable factory and find heaps of half-new, half-old production equipment waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. Yet in the eyes of Chinese engineers, those same machines still had to wear the hat of "advanced."
And a great deal of the advanced technology introduced by the mainland at the time was basically like this.
After looking around for several days, Wu Yan could not help asking Li Ye worriedly, "Li Ye, has overseas development already reached this point? In a few more years, will these high-quality machines be treated as scrap metal?"
"Not necessarily. The automobile industry here has been developing for more than half a century, and they've accumulated far too much family wealth."
Li Ye thought for a moment, then explained to the people around him, "Let me give you an example. If you visit the mainland's four great porcelain capitals, the situation is much the same.
"For instance, in Jingdezhen, any random nook or cranny has a kiln capable of firing porcelain, capable of producing masterpieces that leave these foreigners marveling. But those things aren't worth much in our country."
Wu Yan froze for a moment and said awkwardly,