Pan Xiaoying's support for Li Juan was even stronger than Li Ye had imagined. After Li Juan submitted her written proposal the next day, the project was approved on the third day. Within a week, an inspection team had been assembled and sent abroad. By March, they had completed their investigation, returned home, and begun trial operations.
The efficiency and speed of it all once gave Li Ye and Li Ying the illusion that Pan Xiaoying had also recognized the boundless prospects of the internet, which was why she had taken it so seriously.
But one remark from Wen Leyu woke them from their dream.
"Sister-in-law is in charge of mobile communications now. Setting up a BBS requires telephone lines. If she doesn't reach out and grab it now, it'll become someone else's later. Better to stake out the territory now than fish for food from someone else's bowl later.
"Our sister-in-law's ambitions are huge! The more things she clutches in her hands, the more chances she'll have to advance in the future. She never knows contentment."
"..."
Li Ye finally understood the profound meaning behind the saying, "Where you sit determines what you see." Someone in Pan Xiaoying's position did not necessarily need to consider whether a project had a future, but she had to consider whether it might be used by her rivals.
Anything that might possibly bolster someone else had to either be seized first, or destroyed for one's own benefit.
And from what Wen Leyu meant, Pan Xiaoying even felt that the world of mobile communications was too small to give full play to her abilities.
That made sense. Mobile communications was still only a "small unit" under the Postal and Telecommunications System, but who could have imagined what a terrifying giant it would grow into