The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 550 Pig teammates

"That's a good thing." Liu Hua chuckled. "The Indians have another particularly good quality."

"What advantages?"

"They especially like to form cliques. Once someone enters the management level, they will recruit all their relatives and friends to the company, and then squeeze out the truly hardworking employees, filling the entire management and technical levels with these boastful people."

Liu Hua couldn't help but laugh, recalling the analogies used by those old-timers in his previous life: "It's like cockroaches. When you find one cockroach in your house, it means there are a bunch of cockroaches in places you can't see. When you find an Indian manager in a Western company, you'll gradually find that most of the management in that company will eventually be Indian."

"So, according to you, this phenomenon should be a good thing for us?"

“Absolutely great news.” Liu Hua said cheerfully, “It’s not the god-like opponents we fear, but the pig-like teammates. During World War II, Italy fully demonstrated what a pig-like teammate is. Now another pig-like teammate has been matched with our opponent. Don’t you think that’s a good thing?”

"What a vivid analogy!" Expert Li said with a smile. "The Hans country was badly ripped off back then, so you mean the Americans won't get anything good this time either."

Liu Hua nodded: "A lack of historical foundation is a lack of historical foundation. We can always find examples of mistakes in history. The Americans are still too young and don't know what's good for them. Because they don't have such experience in their history, it's inevitable that they will make some mistakes."

Expert Li felt he had gained a lot and said with a smile, "Hearing your words is better than reading for ten years. I now have many more research directions."

This expert, Li, later published several papers, mainly about the personality traits of Indian family members and their harm to the workplace.

Unfortunately, such papers only garner applause in China and serve no other purpose, because there are very few business leaders or Indian family members in China.

Suddenly, a news story from Xiaodongyang went viral online. If this were the Weibo era, it would definitely have been at the top of the trending topics list for a long time.

Several companies under Xiaodongyang have announced the suspension of motorcycle engine design and production, and the closure of related business units.

As a result, reporters couldn't help but investigate why these companies would close their vital departments. After in-depth investigation, they discovered that all the engines these companies produced in recent years were imported from China, and their domestic production lines had long been shut down.

Actually, this is not big news at all internationally, because the international motorcycle industry has long been aware that nearly 60% of the world's motorcycle engines come from China.

Consequently, some media outlets questioned whether such operations implied a monopoly.

Unfortunately, in order to prepare for possible future foreign monopoly investigations, Liu Hua had already split up his motorcycle production base and even sold most of his shares to state-owned enterprises.

There is a company in China that also produces motorcycles, but this company is state-owned, which is a case of keeping the profits within the family.

To handle all possible legal issues arising from overseas, Liu Hua hired Pu Wei at a high price to assemble a legal team for him abroad. Therefore, in this era, Liu Hua is arguably the first to master foreign law. Someone once asked Liu Hua, "In recent years, there have been numerous lawsuits against our country's products overseas, why has no one ever sued your company, especially since your company is in the high-tech industry? It's practically stabbing the Americans in the back."

"It's very simple, use their own shield to defend against their own spear." Liu Hua said casually, "I spent real money to hire a team of American lawyers to serve me. This money was not wasted. They were more worried than I was about whether our company's business could continue."

However, the domestic media took a gloomy attitude towards this matter, and vigorously promoted words such as "enhancing my country's prestige".

Of course, some people have expressed concerns. Their concerns are not about the country or its people, but simply about whether the quality of engines from Japan can be guaranteed since they are no longer being produced and are being used domestically.
These people's knees are always so weak; they will never realize that we are constantly developing. Perhaps our products weren't that good in the past, but with the development of technology, we are now the world's best industrial producer.

After Xiaodongyang released this news, a reporter interviewed Liu Hua: "Academician Liu, as we all know, Taiyi Group is the largest motorcycle engine manufacturer in China, so your words are quite authoritative. Xiaodongyang's motorcycle engines have been replaced by our motorcycle engines. Is there any risk of Gresham's Law?"

"Didn't you do some research before you spoke? There are two major motorcycle engine production bases in China, one is owned by our Taiyi Group, and the other is owned by a company in which Taiyi Group has a stake. Both of them use our technology." Liu Hua shook his head: "You asked me this question, of course I have to say that our engines are world-class."

"Does this sound like you're just peddling your own wares?"

Liu Hua sneered: "Then isn't your question a frame-up? The people who announced this news are capitalists from Japan. Capitalists know better than you what's most advantageous for them. What they want is to reduce costs, not to lose customers."

The reporter was getting impatient, but Liu Hua scoffed at his attitude: "I feel like a reporter like you is still living in the Qing Dynasty. You have no professional spirit at all."

Later, this reporter launched a scathing attack on Liu Hua in the newspaper, arguing that he was not a professional and could not find the problem with the engine, so he criticized Liu Hua for lacking the virtues of humility and prudence that Chinese people should possess.

This is a classic case of me talking to you about morality, you talking to me about law, me talking to you about law, and you talking to me about ideals. We just can't seem to find common ground, but that doesn't stop me from launching a scathing critique of you.

However, his territory didn't affect Liu Hua's mood; Liu Hua is now throwing himself into a new job with great enthusiasm.

The Jiangnan Tea Factory encountered a bottleneck in its research on cutter suction dredgers, so they activated their summons mode, calling upon Liu Hua, a powerful figure, to help solve the problem.

After all, this project was originally started because of Liu Hua.

When Liu Hua arrived at Jiangnan Shipyard, he discovered that it wasn't just people from Jiangnan Shipyard and Dani Shipyard who were there, but also experts from many research institutes across the country.

This is a vital national asset, so we must gather the best talents for it.

(End of this chapter)