"First Branch Factory won't lose, will it? I compared the R&D situations at Southwest Heavy Truck Company and First Branch Factory. Southwest Heavy Truck Company only has a few dozen technical staff, and only a dozen or so are engineers, while First Branch Factory has more than a thousand technical personnel."
After Dong Shan was stunned by Li Ye's question, he frowned and pondered for a long while, yet he still did not think Li Ye would lose.
But Li Ye repeated his earlier question. "But what if we lose? Southwest Heavy Truck Company adopted a 'reskinning' plan. All its parts have already been mass-produced for four years.
"Four years of practical testing is enough to eliminate all kinds of fatal flaws, but First Branch Factory's Kamaz Project has only just entered the road-testing stage. Problems are perfectly normal.
"So comparing the prototype vehicles from the two factories is fundamentally unfair. More importantly, if we adopt Southwest Heavy Truck Company's technical plan, we'll be at someone else's mercy.
"We gathered hundreds, even thousands, of people for R&D in order to develop for the long term and hold the initiative in our own hands. Yet in the end, we'd become contract manufacturers for someone else? What would we be doing it for?
"To lose money and make noise, or to use hollow achievements to gild our own faces?"
What Li Ye said at the end was already rather aggressive.
The "reskinned" prototype Shang Bin had come up with had been a fraudulent project meant to deceive those above and below. If Dong Shan supported that plan too, then he was no one who did real work either. He had simply come to gild his résumé and climb the ranks.
Yet after hearing Li Ye's sarcastic words, Dong Shan smiled. "So that's