Li Ye's remarks caught not only the surrounding gawkers off guard; Ma Zhaoxian and Dong Shan were equally blindsided.
Ma Zhaoxian had always understood Li Ye's thinking well. He knew Li Ye had a powerful obsession with production scale—"expand production; the more, the better" was Li Ye's unwavering creed.
Take the Light Vehicle Company now, for example. After several years of "training" at the First Branch Factory, they had thoroughly tapped the potential of nearly ten thousand workers at the main plant, together improving light-truck capacity and costs to the point of despair for comparable domestic manufacturers.
So now that Dong Shan was willing to bring Southwest Heavy Truck Company into the First Branch Factory's standard system, allowing the two units to advance and retreat together and drive heavy-truck costs and scale to the limit, it should have been exactly what Li Ye wanted.
Yet Li Ye had actually echoed Shang Bin's opinion and rejected Dong Shan's proposal. What was going on?
Dong Shan hurriedly explained, "Deputy General Manager Li, I meant implementing at Southwest Heavy Truck Company the same standards used at the Light Vehicle Company's main plant. Since we already have a precedent, Secretary Shang's concerns shouldn't arise, should they?"
Li Ye said in surprise, "I already told you! Southwest Heavy Truck Company and the Light Vehicle Company are not in the same situation. If you rashly change the existing production management model, there really are too many obstacles. So you need to be cautious, and then more cautious."
I'll be cautious my ass!
Dong Shan pursed his lips, swallowed, and stared at Li Ye for quite a while.
When he had drunk with Li Ye the day before yesterday, he had already felt that Li Ye's attitude was different from before.
When Dong Shan had just become