"Are they a new company? Could they be some kind of shell company? Can they meet our project requirements?"
"That's a problem. A new company, a small company, with an incomplete system—they might not even pass the review. Getting them into the resource pool would be difficult."
"I don't think that's the issue. As long as they have the technology, factories, workers, qualifications, production capacity—those can all be bought with money."
"That's true. Better to let us profit than someone else. How about the few of us invest in them?"
"The technology is too incredible. With our little bit of capital, we can't swallow something this big. Only a company of our scale can get involved. I'll report this to the boss, so you don't need to worry about it."
Inside Hua Long Technology, a small discussion was underway in the Project Department. There were only three attendees: Project Director Wu Feng, Zhongzheng client project manager Wang Wei, and Oupai client project manager Liu Liangwei.
There was only one topic for discussion: the optical material "FY-01" recommended by Zhou Feiyu.
That morning, the three of them had witnessed the formidable performance of the material.
Afterward, they did not discuss the material's performance or development. Instead, they began discussing its practical application, as well as the more important matter of cooperation.
As employees, their first thought was to bring Zhou Feiyu's Fei Yang Technology into Hua Long Technology Company's resource pool to facilitate project development.
But as the project director and one of the company's core leaders, Wu Feng's considerations were not so simple. He also had to consider the company's development.
Simply purchasing Fei Yang Technology's material was only low-level cooperation. Investing in Fei Yang Technology and jointly expanding the market to make big money was far more important.
Ding-dong!
At that moment, Wang Wei's phone suddenly chimed.
Wang Wei picked it up and saw that Zhou Feiyu had sent him a voice message. He quickly converted it to text, only then learning that Zhou Feiyu had already taken the High-speed Rail home.
"Well, he's already taken the High-speed Rail back to Nanjiang."
Wang Wei gave a bitter smile and showed the message to Wu Feng.
"Who went back to Nanjiang? Your classmate?"
Liu Liangwei immediately asked.
Wang Wei nodded and replied, "Yes. Now we can't negotiate with him. If we want to talk, we'll have to send someone over to meet him."
Wu Feng frowned at first, but quickly relaxed. "There's no need to rush. Once the R&D reliability test results are out, we'll figure something out."
Liu Liangwei asked, "President Wu, for the Oupai client's dual cutout screen project bid, should I calculate the costs using this material and participate in the bidding?"
Wu Feng did not hesitate. "Use it first."
That morning, R&D had demonstrated the FY-01 optical material to him, and its powerful performance had deeply shocked him. Setting everything else aside, its light utilization rate and thickness alone were even better than the foreign King Material. That was enough to give him tremendous confidence in the material.
Foreign King Material bore the name "King," and it truly was kingly. It had been around for at least thirty or forty years, yet among the hundreds of countries in the world, not one had managed to reproduce a material with comparable performance. Forget replicating all its properties—even in terms of light utilization alone, no country had replicated it. They were at least five percentage points behind, not to mention its powerful and stable reliability.
With this technology, it was undoubtedly unrivaled.
And now, FY-01's light utilization rate had actually surpassed King Material's, breaking through the impossible chasm of five percentage points and exceeding King Material by another percentage point. It was simply unbelievable!
It was like a peerless demon king that had rampaged for decades. People had grown accustomed to its power and had even come to believe it could not be surpassed, that they could only submit to it. Then suddenly, a young man appeared and battled the peerless demon king, his strength steadily crushing the demon king's. For people accustomed to the demon king's immense power, the shock was imaginable, as was the confidence it inspired.
If the other tests had already been completed, Wu Feng would have rushed to recommend it strongly to the boss.
How could they possibly not use it for this bid?
Liu Liangwei agreed, "All right, President Wu."
"Keep this confidential. I'll also speak with R&D."
In the end, Wu Feng gave them a special reminder.
"Understood."
Wang Wei and Liu Liangwei exchanged a glance and answered in unison.
Both were smart men, so naturally they understood Wu Feng's intentions.
After the meeting ended, Wu Feng left the conference room and immediately headed for the chairman's office. Wang Wei and Liu Liangwei merely glanced at each other, tacitly agreeing not to discuss the matter.
As they walked, they chatted about other things. Liu Liangwei teased, "Wang Wei, you're going to make it big this time."
"Not at all. It's not my material."
Although Wang Wei said that and showed nothing on his face, he still had his own calculations in mind. Such a good opportunity... should I really let it go?
Liu Liangwei smiled. "If he were my classmate, I'd cling to him and insist on investing. You can't be an employee forever. Starting your own business and becoming your own boss—especially with a startup that has exclusive technology—that's the real deal."
Wang Wei shook his head. "If only it were that simple!"
The next day, Wang Wei continued keeping an eye on the testing of FY-01, while also following Liu Liangwei's bid for the Oupai client project.
Director Wu Feng and Liu Liangwei had not come in that morning. They had reportedly set out directly from their residences for the Oupai client, so as not to waste time.
Wang Wei sent Zhou Feiyu a message, telling him the good news.
Dongwan City, Oupai client!
Wu Feng and Liu Liangwei, along with R&D manager Xie Youming and business director Huang Haixin, formed the bidding team and arrived early before the bid.
But the moment they entered the Main Conference Room, they saw the Zhong Wei Technology team that had also come to bid and was preparing to take their seats. Leading them were Li Bo, Zhong Wei Technology's business director responsible for liaising with the Oupai client, project director Feng Zhongfa, and two other technical staff members.
Wu Feng knew Li Bo and Feng Zhongfa. They were peers and old rivals, and everyone else more or less knew one another as well. After all, the circle was not that large.
The two sides greeted each other with smiles, then fell silent.
Besides the two of them, bidding teams from several other Oupai DM factories gradually arrived. They exchanged a few polite words, and the atmosphere between them remained fairly amicable.
Only when the Oupai client's team entered the Main Conference Room did the atmosphere finally become tense.
"Welcome to Oupai Company. Everyone basically knows what today's bid is about. I won't waste words. I'll have our R&D staff introduce the project first. You may ask any questions, and once everything is clear, you can begin bidding."
The speaker was Xiang Jinbo, the head of procurement for the Oupai client. He was clean and direct.
Soon, a young R&D employee stepped onto the stage and began introducing the details of the project up for bidding that day.
In truth, everyone had already learned the details quite thoroughly before coming, so after he finished, practically no one had any questions.
Then the main course officially began. Each company started bidding, with the results announced on site to ensure fairness and impartiality.
"With this configuration and this price, we're definitely taking the bid this time."
Within the Zhong Wei Technology team, project director Feng Zhongfa spoke quietly to business director Li Bo. He had calculated the cost and pricing several times and had also sounded out Xiang Jinbo, the Oupai client's head of procurement.
But Li Bo glanced at Wu Feng and the others from Hua Long Technology. "Don't let your guard down. I heard Hua Long Technology wasn't planning to bid before and was only sending a project manager. Yet now even Wu Feng has come personally."
Feng Zhongfa smiled. "It is a little strange, but their business is even bigger than ours. They can't get the costs down unless they take a loss."
Li Bo thought about it and immediately relaxed.
If Hua Long Technology took the project by doing it at a loss, then it would not matter much if Zhong Wei Technology failed to get it.
Half an hour later, the bidding ended. After Oupai Company's team reviewed all the documents and prices, Xiang Jinbo, the head of procurement, announced the result on site.
"The winning bid goes to... Hua Long Technology!"
The expression on Xiang Jinbo's face was slightly unnatural, but he still announced it loudly.
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