At around ten in the morning, Li Ye and the others finally arrived at Mitsubishi Motors' manufacturing plant in Okazaki Prefecture.
Then, aside from Li Ye, everyone else in the delegation was utterly stunned.
The sprawling workshops stretched toward the horizon like rice paddies across a great plain, with no end in sight.
Ma Zhaoxian's face remained calm, but his voice trembled as he asked, "Is this really only one branch factory of the Mitsubishi Group? Section Chief Liu, are you sure this isn't the entire Mitsubishi Group gathered in one place?"
Looking at the scene before her, Liu Muhan said uncertainly, "I'm not sure whether this belongs solely to Mitsubishi Motors, but it definitely isn't the whole Mitsubishi Group,
because Mitsubishi Shipbuilding must be by the sea, and Mitsubishi Steel and Mitsubishi Chemical should have very tall smokestacks."
Xiao Jingang frowned. "Even you don't know, Section Chief Liu? Then why not just ask?"
"Don't ask. This is only Mitsubishi Motors. Toyota's manufacturing plant is in Toyota City."
Li Ye spoke up and cut off Xiao Jingang's suggestion.
Letting Liu Muhan ask whether this was merely one Mitsubishi factory? Wasn't that practically inviting them to see how ignorant and unsophisticated they were?
I, Emperor Li Ye, have seen the world. Don't embarrass me.
But Old Gu said in a deep voice, "Are you really so certain? Or is it your pride at work, making you afraid to learn how wide the gap between us truly is?"
"Well, of course there's a gap. We came here precisely to find that gap, so why act all coy and hesitant?"
"Exactly. If we sew our mouths shut and say nothing, they won't be able to see through us?"
"..."
Li Ye looked at those "broad-minded and carefree" people, and his gaze gradually turned