Reborn in the red age

When the production line entered the factory and began to be installed, Zhang Yapeng learned that the Hafei Automobile Factory next door was going to send an inspection team to Chuncheng FAW for inspection.

Speaking of the Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Co., Ltd., it has a very impressive background. It is a subsidiary of the Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Co., Ltd.

As early as 1982, Harbin Aircraft Industry chose the automobile industry in the tide of military-to-civilian transformation. Harbin Aircraft Industry Corporation was established that year, and it introduced technology from Japan and began to manufacture automobiles.

In 1986, Hafei Automobile bought a Suzuki van for reverse research and development, and the famous Songhuajiang brand van was born.

Zhang Yapeng, who was not familiar with FAW's background, could not miss such a good opportunity after getting the news. He shamelessly asked Mayor Han to help coordinate to let Fei Chi Automobile join the inspection team.

Under the coordination of Mayor Han, Hafei gave 5 places to Feichi Automobile. Zhang Yapeng took Li Qingfeng, who didn't want to go, and found three mechanical engineers from the factory to join Hafei's inspection team and go to FAW together.

"Tsk tsk tsk, FAW is worthy of being FAW. Look at their scale. How can Mercedes-Benz compare to them?"

Standing at the gate of FAW in Chuncheng, looking at the endless factory wall, worried about being recognized, Li Qingfeng, who was wearing a mask, couldn't help but sigh to Zhang Yapeng who was standing beside him.

After taking a look at the huge factory, Zhang Yapeng retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Flying Chi Automobile has just been established. FAW has been developing for many years. Give me 30 years, no, 20 years, and our Fei Chi Automobile can also become this big."

"I believe this, but we can't just compete in terms of factory floor space, we also have to compare in terms of technology." After saying this, Li Qingfeng looked back at Zhang Yapeng and continued, "It's easy to surpass FAW in terms of factory floor space. It's nothing more than spending some money to buy some land and build a factory. But if you want to surpass FAW in terms of technology, that's not just a matter of money."

"The state-owned enterprise system is rigid, so it is not difficult to surpass FAW in technology. The technology purchased from Moscow has laid a solid foundation for Mercedes-Benz. As long as we are willing to invest in research and development, even if we cannot surpass FAW in technology within 10 years, the gap will not be too big."

"It's great to have this drive, so go for it boldly. As I said before, the headquarters will always be your strong backing when it comes to R&D funding."

There was no long conversation at the door. After the Harbin Aircraft Industry Group's inspection team and the people from FAW finished their greetings at the door, Li Qingfeng and the other five people followed the inspection team and walked towards the interior of FAW.

During the tour, Li Qingfeng didn't see any heavy vehicles like trucks. As for cars, FAW at this time gave him the impression that it was just an assembly plant.

But this is understandable. After all, whether it is the Audi that has already started to be assembled and sold, or the Jetta that is waiting to be assembled on the production line, they are all joint venture cars, and localization has not yet started at this time.

More than 95 percent of the parts need to be shipped from Germany, and all FAW can do is assemble them.

Looking at the FAW staff pointing at an Audi being assembled and enthusiastically talking about the advanced technology of Audi, Zhang Yapeng whispered at the back of the crowd:
"Hey, Mr. Li, after my inspection at FAW, I feel that our Feichi Automobile Factory has surpassed FAW in technology. FAW is just a large assembly plant and has no technology at all in terms of small cars."

"How can you say that? Don't we still have Hongqi, a long-established luxury car brand in our country? How can you say that FAW has no technology?" Li Qingfeng glanced at the people around him and teased calmly.

Zhang Yapeng curled his lips in disdain and said angrily: "Don't mention that. They said they would stop production but continue research and development. You have also seen the Hongqi car they recently developed. Isn't it just a design based on mature foreign models? Except for the shell, which is made in China, what else is made in China? It really ruins the Hongqi brand."

"Okay, stop talking. We are in someone else's factory. If someone hears us, we won't be able to leave today." Hearing Zhang Yapeng's voice was a bit loud, Li Qingfeng hurriedly pulled on the corner of his clothes and reminded him in a hurried voice.

However, Li Qingfeng's reminder was still too late. His comments on FAW happened to coincide with the moment when the FAW staff stopped speaking and the scene became quiet.

Zhang Yapeng's words were heard in full, without missing a word, by everyone in the inspection team who were near the rear.

All the people from Harbin Aircraft Industry Group nearby turned their heads and looked curiously at Zhang Yapeng who made the sound. Many of the members of the inspection team who moved closer and heard it clearly had admiring looks in their eyes, and it was obvious that they agreed with what Zhang Yapeng said.

The staff of FAW in front did not hear it clearly and asked in confusion: "What did the two comrades behind just say? I did not hear it clearly. Are they discussing Red Flag?"

Li Qingfeng, who was originally worried that the other party would be unhappy if they heard the scene, felt relieved after hearing this inquiry. Well, the possible trouble disappeared into thin air.

This time we are here to take advantage of Harbin Aircraft Industry Group's inspection team, so we must not cause any trouble to Harbin Aircraft Industry Group in any way.

Li Qingfeng rolled his eyes, bullying the other party for not hearing what he had just said, and started to talk nonsense:

"Yes, yes, yes. My colleagues and I were discussing the excellent design of your new Hongqi car. Its performance is no less than that of Audi 100. It is worthy of being the representative of the highest-end automobile brand in China. In the future, Hongqi will definitely prosper under the leadership of FAW, and will go abroad and march towards the world."

The leader in charge of reception at FAW smiled shyly after hearing Li Qingfeng's praise, and said modestly: "Comrades from Hafei Motors are exaggerating. The new Hongqi car designed by our FAW does have certain advantages in China, but there is still a certain gap between it and the international luxury car Audi 100."

Hearing this guy's shameless remarks, Qingfeng Li pursed his lips and did not respond.

What kind of bullshit is this about certain advantages? It's all nonsense. Whoever buys it will be fooled. I was just talking, do you really believe it?

The inspection trip was originally planned to be three days, but after touring FAW, Zhang Yapeng didn't want to stay for even a day.

In his words, what's so good about a shabby assembly plant? Even if it introduces backward equipment from abroad and goes the route of independent production, it is better than assembling for others.

Li Qingfeng had no objection to this. He didn't really want to come in the first place, so he could just leave if he wanted to.

At the end of the first day of the investigation, Li Qingfeng said goodbye to the people in the speeding car and the investigation team, and took a train back to Harbin from the train station.

Along the way, Zhang Yapeng was quite disdainful of FAW's behavior and criticized it in Li Qingfeng's ear: "What a bullshit joint venture car manufacturing, I thought it was so good, but it turns out to be just importing other people's auto parts and assembling them with our own workers."

"Oh, that's wrong. Joint ventures in car manufacturing still have advantages. Can we continue to assemble now? The localization rate of Santana in Shanghai has reached 40 to 50 percent. Gradually, all of them will be domestically produced," said Li Qingfeng.

"It's hard to say when we can achieve full localization, so it's better to buy a production line and produce it ourselves. At least it's a one-time deal. With this joint venture car, I think most of the money in the domestic auto market in the next decade or so will be earned by these foreign automakers."

"So, this is where you are needed. As long as you make Fei Chi cars well and produce excellent domestically produced three major auto parts, with excellent quality and lower prices than joint venture cars, you can at least keep half of the funds." "Come on, my friend, you have to carry the banner of the domestic automobile industry and set an example for all domestic car companies. Tell them that only independent research and development is the only way out for the development of enterprises. Borrowed and bought ones are unreliable. Fight against joint venture cars and imported cars and boost China's automobile industry. Start with you, start with Fei Chi cars."

After the PUA, Qingfeng Li stood up from his seat, bowed solemnly to Zhang Yapeng in front of everyone in the car, and said seriously: "The burden of the development of the domestic automobile industry falls on your shoulders, Lao Zhang, you have worked hard."

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Zhang Yapeng touched his shoulder, and at that moment, he felt as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on his shoulder. It was so heavy that it almost bent his shoulder.

As soon as the train arrived in Harbin, Zhang Yapeng hurriedly got off the train carrying his luggage. After saying "time waits for no one", he quickly got into the Volga car that came to greet him and headed for the Mercedes-Benz Automobile Factory.

Sun Aidang, who was carrying his luggage, looked at Zhang Yapeng who was leaving in a hurry and asked in confusion: "Brother, has something happened to Director Zhang? Why are you so anxious?"

"So many things are always urgent; the world is changing and time is pressing. Ten thousand years is too long, we must seize the day!" Li Qingfeng did not answer directly, but recited a poem by a great man.

After listening to this poem, Sun Aidang, who was not well educated, became even more confused. He scratched his head and said, "Why are they reciting quotations for no reason?"

"Quotations are bullshit, this is a poem, let's go, get on the train, and go home"

Li Qingfeng instantly lost interest in chatting with Sun Aidang because of his lack of education. He picked up his luggage, turned around and got back on the train.

Sun Aidang, who didn't understand what was going on, hurriedly followed Li Qingfeng after he left, and dutifully performed his job as a bodyguard, paying close attention to everything around him, fearing that someone would do anything to harm Li Qingfeng.

The installation of a production line is not an easy task, especially since the scale is so large that it would take at least half a year to complete the installation.

It was impossible for Li Qingfeng to wait in Harbin for half a year. It was also not worth it for Li Qingfeng to waste half a year to win over more than 300 mechanical engineers from Moscow. He could just leave this matter to Zhang Yapeng.

Despite the huge investment in the Huachi Automobile Factory, in the final analysis, the automobile factory is just a sideline business. What's more, this investment in the semiconductor industry can only be described as a small amount of money.

As the 1990s began, Lemon took the lead in developing the www (World Wide Web), and proposed HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).

At the beginning of the year, he designed the first web browser and established the world's first web website, opening the door to a new world for people all over the world and triggering a technological revolution on a global scale.

As the initiator of this change, Lemon Company will certainly not miss the feast of the Internet, and Li Qingfeng is destined to focus his main energy on the Internet and chips in the future.

After all, whoever controls the Internet controls the future.

As for cars, we can only say that we will do our best. After all, making cars is just an accidental idea, and the original intention is just to provide a job for laid-off workers in Northeast China. It would be best if we can make a luxury car, but there is nothing we can do if we can't. Anyway, as long as the car is made cheaply enough, it can always be sold.

After returning to the familiar city of Beijing, Li Qingfeng took a day off at home to spend time with his wife and children, then drove to work at Huaxin, leaving the Lemon Company to develop freely.

Li Qingfeng is now very relieved about Lemon Company. The company has been operating very maturely and its market share is there. As long as the United States does not intervene at the official level, Lemon Company will always be the leader in the industry.

After working at Huaxin for a month, Li Qingfeng received bad news from America.

After receiving this news, Li Qingfeng called Fang Wanzhen and asked her to come to Sijiu City in person with the information.

"What did you say? Microsoft is going to develop a new operating system? And it's based on Unix? Is the news confirmed?"

Li Qingfeng personally drove to the airport to greet them. After picking up Fang Wanzhen, Li Qingfeng frowned and asked.

"Yes, according to information from our internal corporate spies at Microsoft, Bill Gates is currently trying to develop a new operating system based on MINIX." Fang Wanzhen nodded, took out a stack of documents from her handbag and handed it over.

Li Qingfeng did not continue to ask questions, but carefully read the information sent back by the commercial spy.

There are actually many types of corporate spies, especially in today's technology companies, where there are too many to count.

It is normal for companies to send commercial spies to each other. Even within the Lemon Company, no one knows how many commercial spies there are. In the past two years alone, several cases of spy leaks have been discovered within the company.

Fortunately, the company did a good job of keeping secrets, and with Huang Kening, the supervisor of the supervisory department who had worked in the procuratorate for many years, there were no serious leaks.

After reading the information in his hand, Li Qingfeng sighed deeply: "I still underestimated Bill Gates. He actually set his sights on the fully open source MINIX."

Strictly speaking, MINIX is a simple operating system for teaching purposes. Its source code is open to the world. Computer students all over the world understand the MINIX operating system running on their computers by studying the MINIX source code.

The later Linux operating system was written based on the essence of MINIX.

"I know MINIX. This system is open source. If Microsoft develops a new system based on this operating system, it should also need to be open source, right?" Fang Wanzhen asked doubtfully after Li Qingfeng finished reading the information.

"It's hard to say. No one knows what Gates is thinking."

Li Qingfeng tapped his fingers on the armrest of the back seat of the car, thought for a long time, and then spoke: "Well, the reward for the spy from Microsoft will be doubled. You ask him to keep an eye on the development of the new system and report immediately if there is any news."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away" (End of this chapter)