The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 503 Who doesn't want to bring glory to their ancestors?

When guests arrive, Liu Hua, the host, naturally has to meet them. At first glance, he doesn't recognize them, and upon closer inspection, he still doesn't recognize them.

"Hello, who are you?"

Liu Hua politely extended his hand and shook hands with the other person before asking, "Do we know each other?"

"I don't know you, I'm your neighbor," the visitor said politely.

His politeness carried a hint of obsequiousness.

"My name is Han Jiahua, and I'm in the import and export trade." The man handed over his business card. "Our company's main business is raw materials and processing machinery. We hope Mr. Liu will take good care of us in the future."

Liu Hua frowned: "Oh, okay, but our company generally doesn't import machinery. As for raw materials, most of them are iron ore. Now, domestic steel companies have formed an iron ore import alliance, so they probably won't use trading companies like yours."

"Don't you have a machinery company? Don't you need to import those advanced machine tools from abroad? Our company has business in Japan and Germany, and we are happy to serve you."

"Thank you for your kindness. The high-precision machine tools that interest us are not exported from abroad. For ordinary machine tools, we can just buy them from China."

Han Jiahua immediately retorted, "Mr. Liu, the quality of domestic airports is very poor, and their precision is also insufficient. Your Taiyi Heavy Industry is an internationally renowned engine manufacturer, so naturally the requirements are higher."

Liu Hua smiled, shook his head and said, "If you do business with this mindset, you'll be begging for food sooner or later. It's a bit offensive to say this to me."

"what?"

Han Jiahua was a little confused by Liu Hua's actions. Liu Hua smiled and said, "I am a member of the domestic machinery industry. Isn't it a bit offensive for you to belittle domestic machinery in front of me?"

"You say that the precision of our domestically produced machine tools is not enough. I led the development of our country's CNC machine tools, and I was also the technical advisor for Shenyang Machine Tool. You are belittling my abilities."

Han Jiahua was so regretful he wanted to slap himself; he had tried to flatter the wrong person.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Liu, that's not what I meant."

Liu Hua, sitting opposite him, said, "Of course, what you said has some objectivity. Our machine tools are sometimes indeed not as good as those abroad, but you have to analyze the specific reasons."

"What do you mean?"

Han Jiahua now feels like he is facing a teacher, just like when he was in elementary school, and he can never answer the questions the teacher asks.

"What do you think are the reasons for the lack of precision in our machine tools and other related issues?"

"Because we started developing late, our technology is lagging behind."

Liu Hua shook his head: "That's a superficial problem. In the past, we didn't have market support, and machine tool factories couldn't get enough research and development funding, so of course we couldn't develop anything good. Our intelligence is no less than theirs, but now it's different. Our machine tools have a huge market."

"The market is big, and foreign products also make money."

"That's because they sell them at high prices. When you see them making money, you're ignoring another statistic: the market share of domestically produced machine tools is increasing year by year." Liu Hua shook his head and said, "Market share is a very interesting statistic. The higher the market share, the more readily domestically produced machine tools can be sold. As long as we can make money and invest it in research and development, our products will only get better and better." "I was wondering why the demand for imported machine tools is decreasing."

"Of course, our machine tools are not the most advanced, and we still need to import some. However, I estimate that these kinds of machine tools are basically not something a trading company like yours can get involved in; you have to deal directly with the manufacturers."

Han Jiahua nodded vigorously. He felt that what Boss Liu said was absolutely right. He was very envious of this kind of machine tool business. Basically, each machine was worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, but unfortunately, he couldn't get involved.

"Mr. Liu, your company also produces carbon fiber. I wonder if my company could be of service to you?"

Liu Hua shook his head: "Right now, I have a monopoly on carbon fiber manufacturing. It's mostly foreign trading companies that come to me; I don't need to go through the trouble of promoting myself."

Han Jiahua was envious again; this is the advantage of technological leadership.

So, he came to visit with gifts today but didn't get any benefit at all. However, he couldn't get angry. Whether in terms of strength, status, or social standing, he dared not show any dissatisfaction in front of Liu Hua.

This guy is cunning; if he can't get any benefit himself, he's determined not to let anyone else make a profit.

So he embellished Liu Hua's words and told them to the neighbors, meaning that Boss Liu was too high-end, and although they were also rich, they couldn't get involved, so they should just give up.

To be fair, most of the first residents of the Asian Games Village were not high-end, although there may have been celebrities and big bosses among them.

However, most people are simply benefiting from the era's advantages. Their industries aren't necessarily that impressive, and they really can't get involved in high-level situations like Liu Hua's.

Later, although some people still visited Liu Hua, they would never discuss business; they would only try to get close to him.

Because people like Liu Hua are very sophisticated, and if you get along well with him, he might be able to help you in the future. Sometimes, what is a huge problem for them can be solved by Liu Hua with just a flick of his finger.

They also witnessed Liu Hua's entourage. Whenever Liu Hua wanted to go out, a driver would immediately come out of the villa next door, with cars in front and behind him.

The people in the car were clearly skilled in martial arts, and they definitely had a distinguished background; they weren't ordinary people, unlike the amateur bodyguards they brought with them when they went out.

A sharp-eyed soldier could vaguely spot that these people were carrying weapons. You have to understand that our country has banned guns, so these bodyguards must be quite special.

Taiyi Heavy Industry is already producing the all-electric propulsion system according to Liu Hua's design, which is an unprecedented and exciting development.

If Taiyi Heavy Industry can secure this order, perhaps in the future our nuclear-powered slab propulsion system will also be awarded to Taiyi Heavy Industry.

Liu Hua didn't say it explicitly, but everyone from the workers to the engineers knew exactly what was going on.

Taiyi Heavy Industry has been involved in many of our country's major projects, so it has the qualifications. In addition, this time it is working on a nuclear-powered comprehensive propulsion system. Furthermore, Taiyi New Energy of Taiyi Group has the world's safest nuclear power reactor. So this is equivalent to training. Our country will definitely have nuclear-powered giant bricks in the future. When that time comes, who else can compete with us?

Once they understood this, the workers selected to produce the all-electric propulsion system were full of enthusiasm, striving to do every task perfectly and leaving no regrets.

Which man doesn't want to go down in history? Being able to participate in the construction of our country's nuclear-powered mega-project would be an absolute honor for one's ancestors.

(End of this chapter)