Without Them, Our Earth Would Be Better Off!

Gao Yuan slept soundly all night.

After arriving in Nanjing and changing environments, everything around him felt fresh. Combined with his long talk with Dr. Xu Qingzhou, Gao Yuan gradually figured out many things he had never understood before. Naturally, he relaxed as well.

He got up rather late the next day. Gao Yuan and Dr. Xu Qingzhou did not leave their room until nine in the morning, heading to the buffet restaurant for breakfast.

Not long afterward, Boss Xu of Xiyin Group appeared at the restaurant entrance. He looked around, spotted Gao Yuan sitting by the window, and strode over.

"President Xu, why are you here?"

Gao Yuan was quite surprised by this tycoon's sudden arrival.

"I happened to be passing by, so I thought I'd pick you up and take you to the company to continue yesterday's talks."

As a veteran business magnate, Boss Xu hid it well. Rather than showing how eager he was to sign a contract with Gao Yuan, he used passing by as an excuse.

"Sure, then let's get going." Gao Yuan rose to his feet.

This return to Xiyin Group was clearly different from yesterday. Boss Xu personally took charge and summoned the heads of the technical, finance, and business departments, along with seven or eight influential figures inside and outside the company, forming an impressively large negotiating team.

"I considered it carefully last night." After exchanging pleasantries, Boss Xu went straight to the point. "Your company's X Fiber is extremely suitable for our group. The only issue is that if we place a large order, we would prefer to obtain an exclusive contract."

"An exclusive contract?" Gao Yuan was taken aback.

"It means all X Fiber would be supplied exclusively to Xiyin Group and not sold to anyone else," Boss Xu hurriedly explained.

So he wanted to keep it all for himself...

Gao Yuan sighed inwardly. Boss Xu truly was a shrewd businessman. Once he discovered X Fiber's enormous potential, he immediately wanted to monopolize it and prevent anyone else from competing with him.

Back when Boss Xu founded Xiyin Group, he had actually had two partners who had struggled alongside him.

Yet times had changed. The company now generated annual revenue of several billion US Dollars, while those two original partners had long since been forgotten.

"That's impossible."

Gao Yuan smiled and shook his head, flatly rejecting Boss Xu's proposal without even considering it.

"Our sales volume is enormous. We can take all of your production capacity!" Boss Xu persisted.

Gao Yuan curled his lip and said blandly, "Boss Xu, you misunderstand. We do not own factories ourselves. We outsource production to upstream chemical fiber companies."

"According to the Ministry of Commerce's 2020 statistics, there are more than forty thousand chemical fiber enterprises of all sizes nationwide, with an annual production capacity of sixty-two million tons, accounting for over sixty percent of the world's total capacity."

"If X Fiber truly sells around the world, the existing domestic supply chain alone will be enough to support annual output in the tens of millions of tons."

"With such enormous output, I imagine you can't swallow it all, can you, Boss Xu?"

This...

Boss Xu had never expected Gao Yuan, this young man, not to be a businessman in the traditional sense. He did not like dancing around an issue. He preferred laying out the data and reasoning things through directly.

Gao Yuan had calculated it at the beginning of his venture. With domestic production capacity already so vast and conditions so convenient, there was simply no need to build factories himself.

As for the additional expense of outsourcing production, Gao Yuan did not care. There would always be more money to make. If others helped produce your goods, it was only right for them to receive compensation. How could one always think of keeping everything for oneself?

By now, Boss Xu finally realized that the initiative in these negotiations was not in his hands.

The old man from the Southern Tour had once said that science and technology were the primary productive forces!

Right now, it was an unsolvable deadlock.

X Fiber was so cheap and its performance so outrageously powerful that if Boss Xu dared say no today, X Fiber products would appear on his competitors' shelves tomorrow.

Smack!

The signing pen solemnly wrote his name on the contract. Gao Yuan set the pen on the table and warmly shook Boss Xu's hand. Boss Xu, on the other hand, seemed somewhat dejected, his smile slightly forced.

"From now on, we're partners." Gao Yuan smiled. "No matter what, let's point our guns outward together and get through this crisis first."

Boss Xu nodded lightly. He had never expected that Gao Yuan not only refused exclusive supply, but also clearly stated that he would sign contracts with more fast-fashion companies next.

Moreover, companies using X1 Fiber were not allowed to attack one another. They had to join forces first and block the offensive coming from continental Europe.

This kid studied computer science. He must have picked up Qualcomm's bad habits! If you use his product, you have to accept his restrictions? That's completely unreasonable! This is a free-market economy now.

Qualcomm was truly notorious, infamous far beyond its own industry. Even Boss Xu, who worked in clothing, knew of Qualcomm's reputation as a patent troll.

Now that the contract had been signed, Gao Yuan and Dr. Xu Qingzhou did not linger and immediately set off for home.

On the way back, Dr. Xu Qingzhou kept asking questions, wanting to know what Gao Yuan was really thinking and why he had changed so much overnight.

Gao Yuan had not been like this before. His ultimate goal had simply been to make money.

But Gao Yuan's performance today seemed to carry deeper meaning. He appeared to want to use his unique technological advantage to tie Xiyin Group to his own war chariot.

"Say something already." Seeing Gao Yuan lost in thought, Dr. Xu Qingzhou grew anxious. "What exactly are you thinking? I keep feeling like you've changed a lot."

Gao Yuan scratched his scalp. "Although the news media calls those companies that go overseas and fight in foreign markets the Huaxia Legion all day long, in reality, they are still fighting separately. They attack Western competitors, but whenever they get the chance, they also bite domestic rivals hard."

"So I have a somewhat immature idea. Could we use X Fiber's influence to make them unite a little?"

"As everyone knows, our current situation is not optimistic. We are practically being besieged by the whole world. Capital has never had a homeland. To them, whoever feeds them is their mother. They simply cannot be trusted."

"We must use a force that capital cannot resist to control it. Only then can we carry them along toward a more important goal."

Dr. Xu Qingzhou frowned. "Listen to yourself. You make it sound like you aren't a capitalist too."

"Of course I'm not. I'm an idealist." Gao Yuan shot Dr. Xu Qingzhou a look and spoke with complete conviction.

When all was said and done, aside from idealism, Gao Yuan had another reason for thinking this way: the Future Technology System. Carrying such a system, he felt he had to do something worthy of this gift from heaven.

"That's true. You really are quite idealistic, unlike ordinary capitalists." Dr. Xu Qingzhou swayed his head as he asked, "And what is this more important goal of yours?"

Gao Yuan smiled and said in a tone that was half-joking and half-serious, "The famous keyboard politician Shan Gao County once said that the North American slave-owning, genocidal, anti-human gang of bandits must be eliminated."

"Without them, our Earth would be better off!"

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