Proven

It was dinnertime again.

Lu Zhou finished dinner quickly. On his way back to the office, he called Chen Yushan and told her about the equipment.

After hearing him out, Chen Yushan sighed.

"You should have called me about this. The price you quoted was obviously too low."

Lu Zhou made a helpless face. "I realized that afterward, but it was too late to change my mind."

Chen Yushan was speechless. "Why would it be too late? You're running a business, not saving face. If the quote was too low, just give them a new one."

"Uh, that wouldn't be right. I already agreed to it."

"All right. If you can't bring yourself to do that, we can try something else."

"What?"

A mischievous smile tugged at the corners of Chen Yushan's mouth.

"The million is just the installation fee for the complete machine. We haven't discussed service fees for future system updates."

Lu Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "...Don't fleece them too hard."

To be honest, although the two executives from Shenyang Machine Tool had annoyed him, he still hoped domestic machine tools could gain a foothold in the international market.

He might have been an outsider who knew next to nothing about the field, but industry and research were inseparable. If either fell behind, the other would suffer.

One day, he wanted to build a collider and an outer-space laboratory, and pursue high-tech projects that made his heart race. All of that depended on the strength of the country's industrial base. If everything had to be imported, he would end up doing all that work for someone else's benefit...

"Now you're feeling sorry for them?" Chen Yushan scolded. "If you really care, that's even more reason not to set the price so low! Falling behind