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A post on the forum also went viral because of Taishan's actions.

"Taishan's announcement makes a good point: the internet is not a lawless zone. The internet is an emerging industry that has brought tremendous changes to society, but the chaos it has caused should also attract the attention of many people."

"Moreover, a lot of content that is prohibited in reality is widely published and commented on on the Internet. I urge relevant departments to strengthen the supervision of the Internet, implement real-name registration reform, and ensure that the Internet is no longer a lawless place. In particular, an Internet celebrity should be held accountable for some of their remarks."

Not long after the court summonses were issued in various places, lobbyists from all walks of life called Taishan Group hoping that Xiaoshan would let certain people off the hook.

But Xiao Shan never budged, and those who truly have influence wouldn't waste their favors on these so-called public intellectuals.

Meanwhile, Taishan Group's law firm filed a lawsuit against the companies involved in the alleged infringement in the courts of Japan.

This international infringement case has garnered significant attention in China.

Currently, people in China do not have a deep understanding of patents.

In the years since the reform and opening up, due to the lack of attention to relevant patents, countless technologies that were painstakingly developed have been patented by foreign countries, and the research results of our people have been plagiarized.

This situation would occasionally occur until the Xiaoshan crossing.

Taishan's patent lawsuit has served as a lesson for related domestic companies.

The uproar on the internet lasted for more than a month before gradually calming down, and Xiaoshan also shifted its attention away from these ridiculous matters.

Taishan's main development direction is still technology; everything else is just secondary.

At the monthly meeting, Xiao Shan asked his assistant to distribute the documents to the heads of each department.

"The new fully automated welding machine will be available for sale this month, and we've already received many inquiries. Next, Taishan plans to establish a high-precision research workshop."

"Our automated welding machines have made breakthroughs in the miniaturization of parts, but this is not the limit; there is still huge room for improvement. It is even possible for our welding machine research workshop to collaborate with the optical research center to develop micron-level welding technology, or even further, nanon-level welding technology."

"Of course, this is just my idea, and it represents the direction we will strive for over the next few decades. Now that we have laser welding machines, could we make the laser infinitely small to perform microscopic welding? This is certainly a topic open for discussion."

After the meeting concluded, Xiaoshan convened engineers from various research centers in the conference room, bringing together Taishan Group's top technical talent.

"Everyone, you should have heard what I said in the meeting. Do you think it's feasible?"

Upon hearing Xiao Shan's question, an engineer immediately replied, "Mr. Xiao, if we want to conduct research on more miniaturized welding, we can only start with automatic welding machines. Even the most stable welder cannot guarantee that their hand will not tremble during welding. For this kind of high-precision welding, even the slightest tremor can make a world of difference."

Xiao Shan nodded and said, "That's right."

Li Ming, head of the laser R&D center, said: "Mr. Xiao, in this case, we will have to study even smaller lasers. We can infinitely reduce the aperture, but we cannot reduce the laser power, otherwise the welding efficiency will be greatly reduced."

“This is indeed a direction.” Xiao Shan nodded slightly.

Li Ming looked at Xiao Shan with some surprise and asked, "Xiao Sheng, are you planning to assemble an industrial machine tool using micro-welding and the laser cutting technology you are currently researching?"

Xiao Shan smiled and nodded: "That's indeed the idea. Without our own high-precision equipment, our later development could be greatly hindered. Welding machines are becoming more and more advanced, and it's only a matter of time before we have to deal with high-precision equipment. I don't want to be held back by these things in the end, and for Taishan to fall from being number one in the world."

The crowd nodded in agreement; many high-ranking officials were used to Xiao Sheng's distrust of the so-called free trade proposed by some developed countries.

In Xiao Sheng's words, they are currently in the lead, so they propose free trade in order to seize your market with their products.

Once China's technology surpasses that of these countries, the so-called free trade will inevitably become a mere formality.

This actually happened twenty years later, in the era before Xiaoshan traveled back in time.

The original fully automated welding machine research center was renamed the high-precision research center. All the equipment can continue to be used, saving the time of building a new research center.

In Xiaoshan's office, Qi Siyuan, the general manager of the administration department, knocked on the door and walked in: "Mr. Xiao, the background investigation on Nandu Business Daily has been completed. The owner of Nandu Business Daily studied journalism and media in Japan. Later, he returned to China and founded Nandu Business Daily, which has shares held by Japanese businessmen."

Xiao Shan nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Taishan Group also has its own publicity department, but it focuses more on promoting products and rarely gets involved in public opinion in mainland China.

It now seems that simply promoting the product is not enough; public opinion in mainland China should also take it seriously.

Xiao Shan picked up the phone and dialed the group's publicity department. "Zhongping, come to my office."

"Yes, Mr. Xiao."

Soon, a middle-aged man in his thirties walked over: "Mr. Xiao, you were looking for me?"

The middle-aged man is named Feng Zhongping, General Manager of the Publicity Department of Taishan Group.

Xiao Shan said to Feng Zhongping, "Zhongping, I need the publicity department to establish a public relations department for our group, in addition to product promotion. Like this terrible incident, a single piece of false information caused many people to jump out and smear Taishan. Even though the situation was later turned around, some people paid the price for their words. But our initial passivity was really unacceptable."

“I’m allocating 200 million yuan to the public relations department. Zhongping, you’ve worked in the publicity department of Taishan for many years. You must have come into contact with a lot of online trolls. Taishan should also have its own public opinion personnel. The business world is like a battlefield. You’re in publicity, so you should know better than me.”

Feng Zhongping nodded and said, "Xiao Sheng, I know what to do."

"Okay, you go ahead and get busy. I'll be waiting to see your results."

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The case went to trial quickly. Because Taishan Group provided sufficient evidence, several online celebrities lost their cases, began to publicly apologize online, and paid a certain amount of money in compensation.

With this, the domestic affairs have come to an end.

The lawsuits abroad are still in full swing, and international lawsuits are inherently difficult to win.

New automated welding machines have also begun to be advertised extensively around the world.

The Japanese are crying wolf.

In recent years, with the strong rise of Taishan Group's welding machines, the most severely squeezed are the Japanese welding machines.

Welding machines from other countries can increase sales by lowering prices, but Japan, fearing the leakage of core technologies, has kept many advanced components in its home country.

Because of its own resource shortage, it relies entirely on imports, which inherently increases its costs compared to other welding machine manufacturers, but its selling prices are about the same.

Others can earn less by lowering prices, but they risk losing money.

Taishan's welding machines are also significantly squeezing the market share of local welding machines in Japan.

An assistant quickly walked in and said, "Mr. Xiao, we just received a message from Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Commerce is urging domestic factories to support domestically produced welding machines. They say that Japanese welding machines are sufficient to handle all welding needs of the country's industry, and there's no need to spend more money pursuing so-called high-end machines."

Upon hearing his assistant's words, Xiao Shan laughed and said, "I understand. It's because Japan's welding machine business is about to lose."

The assistant continued, "In addition, some welding machine manufacturers in Japan have also announced massive layoffs and released information that they may close their welding machine production plants in China."

Xiao Shan scoffed, "They're trying to put pressure on us by laying off employees. What a low-level tactic. Right now, our welding workshop is about to recruit a lot of people and expand aggressively."

"We can issue a notice that Taishan Group is recruiting a large number of experienced welding machine production personnel and skilled welding workers. The benefits are excellent, and the five social insurances are included. If they lay off employees, we will take them all."

"Yes, Mr. Xiao."

Soon, similar sentiments began to emerge online.

Why are foreign companies fleeing the country? Is the world's factory about to shift?

I saw these posts on some forums in Xiaoshan. The content of these posts was all over the place and was completely fabricated.

However, someone quickly posted an explanation for the recent layoffs and relocation of workers at Japanese welding machine factories in China.

"The so-called escape is a joke. The fundamental reason is that they can't compete and are about to go bankrupt. What's the point of escaping? They've been beaten so badly by Taishan Group that they can't find their way out and have no choice but to lay off employees and cancel the welding machine business."

Seeing these comments, Xiao Shan nodded in satisfaction. It seemed the publicity department was starting to put in the effort.

Meanwhile, there is also a lot of information online about the global standing of Taishan Group's various research centers, which helps Chinese people better understand Taishan's current position and has boosted morale.

Meanwhile, new large-scale automated laser welding machines began to be sold in stores around the world.

The price is listed at 160,000 RMB, but the actual price will vary depending on the exchange rate and customs duties in different regions.

In just one month, the inventory was sold out, and with pre-orders, the total reached 30,000 units.

Taishan Group initially estimated that it could only sell 5,000 to 7,000 of these large welding machines per month at most.

Sales of 30,000 units would amount to nearly 5 billion.

Sales only started to slow down in the second month.

After all, large factories are the ones that use such large welding machines; most small factories still use manual welding.

"Mr. Xiao, the military region just called and said they want to purchase our new large-scale automated welding machines. They'll come over tomorrow for a detailed discussion, and they expect to buy 500 units."

Xiao Shan nodded, somewhat understanding why the large welding machines sold so quickly as soon as they were released; they were probably bought by military regions of some countries or armed groups in war-torn countries.

With this welding machine, the time spent training welding personnel is saved. Some gun parts can be automatically welded and then simply assembled.

The next morning at nine o'clock, Xiao Shan met with the military region's procurement personnel in the conference room.

It was an old acquaintance, Colonel Chu, who had come to Mount Tai to purchase supplies before.

"Xiao Sheng, the research and development speed of your Taishan is even keeping up with our military region."

Xiao Shan smiled and said, "Colonel Chu, we meet again. Let's go to the conference room for a cup of tea and chat."

In the meeting room, the two sides exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Xiao Shan then asked, "Colonel Chu, how many large welding machines are you purchasing this time? Let me clarify, we still have an order of 20,000 units that we haven't completed yet. Even at the fastest speed, it will take two months to deliver them to you."

Colonel Chu smiled and said, "I know that many factories are currently lacking technical personnel. The technical personnel of the large state-owned factories before the reform and opening up are now mostly retired. Because of the reform and opening up, the younger generation has more choices, so it is actually harder to find skilled workers."

"The appearance of Taishan's fully automatic welding machine came at just the right time, which solved our urgent problem. This time we plan to purchase five hundred large fully automatic welding machines. Mr. Xiao, please give us a favorable price."

Xiao Shan nodded and said, "Our relationship goes without saying. I'll charge you the cost price, round it up to 100,000 per unit."

Colonel Chu quickly shook hands with Xiao Shan: "Thank you for the discount, Mr. Xiao."

Taishan Group's new machine tools have a globally unified price. The price in domestic stores is 160,000 yuan, while the price in overseas stores is the same as the shipping cost plus customs duties plus the amount of 160,000 yuan converted to local currency.

Xiaoshan essentially gave a 62% discount on the original price, which is a huge favor.

Xiao Shan was also aware that in those days, the country's military budget was not ample, with the majority of funds being used for aerospace and domestic economic development.

Not long into 03, the laundry detergent scandal that shocked the world broke out.

The US military's modern, high-tech strike directly destroyed one of the world's leading military powers, showing the world what modern warfare and high-tech warfare are all about.

It drew worldwide attention and brought the nation to its senses, leading to a new understanding of modern warfare.

At the monthly meeting of Taishan Group, Xiao Shan looked somewhat serious: "The victory achieved by the United States teaches us a lesson. Whether it is military or corporate development, we must have our own core advanced technologies. Otherwise, we will only be bullied by others, and we will not even know how to fight back."

“We have made new breakthroughs in optical lenses. Previously, Xianguang told me that they wanted to produce SLR cameras. Although we are not as good as the first and second tier, our prices are cheaper and we can capture a part of the SLR market.”

“These days I’ve been thinking about another item that can be widely used with our lenses: a photography drone. It can not only use our own cameras, but also our automated equipment, operating system, memory, battery and so on.”

"Therefore, starting today, Taishan Group officially establishes a Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Center. Xiao Jingsi's laboratory, affiliated with Taishan Group, will also join the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles."

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Everyone looked at Xiao Shan, somewhat puzzled. It was truly remarkable that he could connect a DSLR camera to the manufacture of drones.

It's probably because they were provoked by the US.

Seeing the somewhat bewildered crowd, Xiao Shan smiled and said, "Are you all wondering why I'm setting up a drone research center? This is a completely new field, and there isn't much research on it worldwide. Drones appeared a long time ago, but there's very little, if any, private capital that has invested heavily in research on them."

"But as the internet gets faster and people's lives become more exciting, drones will inevitably become one of the choices for many young people who want to pursue a colorful life. We at Taishan already have a lot of readily available parts for drones, which saves a lot of time."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and even those who wanted to object chose to remain silent.

Xiaoshan holds 100% control over Taishan Group, and Taishan's development over the years has proven that Xiaoshan's choice was correct.

Almost every step has been on the right track; otherwise, Mount Tai wouldn't have so many of the world's top three high-tech core research centers.

After the meeting, the administrative department of Taishan Group reported to various important departments in China and applied for a research and development and production license for civilian drones.

Almost immediately after the application was submitted, Xiaoshan received a call from the military region.

"General Wang, what made you decide to call me?"

"Haha, Xiao Sheng, I've seen your application to research and produce civilian drones. Drones are a completely new area of ​​military development for countries around the world, and currently, none of them are paying much attention to them."

“We have also conducted long-term strategic simulations in China. The simulation results show that drones will inevitably play a pivotal role in modern warfare in the future. But Mr. Xiao is well aware of how tight our domestic funding is. Seeing Mr. Xiao’s application this time has made me sigh.”

Hearing General Wang's words, Xiao Shan smiled and said, "General Wang, our Taishan research on civilian drones certainly cannot be used for military purposes. But all things have the same goal. Once our drone is developed, we can give you a copy of the core technology for free. It might be helpful for your future drone research. This is just a small token of my appreciation as an ordinary citizen, and General Wang cannot refuse."

General Wang said on the other end of the phone, "Mr. Xiao, you're too kind. I can feel your good intentions. The license should be issued in about a week. Also, we have a batch of telescopes that we hope Taishan can process."

"General Wang is delivering an order to me. I'm so grateful. Don't worry, it will definitely be delivered on time."

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Shan was in a good mood. When he got home, his wife, daughter, and son were already there.

"Jingsi, your lab has joined the Taishan UAV Research Center, which deals with physics, allowing you to utilize your expertise. The balance problem of UAVs, in particular, is somewhat similar to the gyroscopes you previously planned to research. You should be able to shine there. By the way, is there any progress on that charger I mentioned before that can charge all mobile phone batteries?"

"Dad, the lab has made a new breakthrough in gyroscopes, so I've basically had no time to work on chargers. As for joining the drone research, I'm quite interested."

Xiao Shan shook his head and said, "Alright, since you don't have the energy, then forget it."

The universal charger has only been on the market for a few months, and it became an instant hit across the country. However, the inventor did not earn much money; he gained a great deal of fame.

"Honey, has Jingyan called recently? How are things going with his girlfriend? Any new developments? Jingyan isn't getting any younger; it's time to prepare for marriage," Xiao Shan asked Ding Qiunan.