The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Chapter 105 Who has the problem?
The old director of Factory 780 is almost ready to retire.

The organization is examining the successor to the old factory director.

Ni Haifeng is one of the inspection targets.

Hou Yaojun is another possible successor.

The old factory manager Duan Wusen is more inclined to let Ni Haifeng take over.

But Hou Yaojun also has senior supporters.

Therefore, the competition between the two is still quite fierce.

Hou Yaojun also visited Jiaoben before, and he was impressed by the high-tech production factory of Jiaoben, and he always mentioned Jiaoben when he spoke.

But when negotiating with the foot basin company to purchase the production line, Duan Wusen sent Ni Haifeng to take charge.

This made Hou Yaojun a little dissatisfied.

Before deciding to purchase a domestic color TV production line, Ni Haifeng reported to the factory director Duan Wusen.

Duan Wusen believes that since the technical level of domestic color TV production lines is not low and the price is less than a fraction of the foot basin production line, we must support domestic color TV production lines!

Therefore, Duan Wusen supported Ni Haifeng's decision.

The deal for Factory 780 to purchase two domestic color TV production lines was finalized.

However, after Ni Haifeng returned, Hou Yaojun criticized Ni Haifeng for purchasing a domestic color TV production line during several meetings.

Hou Yaojun had only one reason: domestic color TV production lines could not succeed!

Because, domestic color TVs were produced by the Jinshi TV Factory a few years ago, but until now, is there any news about domestic production lines starting mass production?

Not at all!
The domestic machinery and equipment as well as the technical level for producing color TVs simply cannot meet the minimum quality requirements!

Therefore, purchasing a domestic color TV production line would only cause Factory 780 to waste a few years on the road to transition to color TV production, and ultimately lead to complete failure!
Hou Yaojun said: "If this happens, our 780 factory will have no future! What will happen to our thousands of employees?"

"So, my idea is: domestic color TV production lines can support it! But the premise is that we must ensure that we can mass-produce color TVs within one or two years!"

"I have already contacted Panasonic again!"

"The other party's negotiator, Jiro Ono, told me that they are willing to give us the best conditions! They can lend us 100 billion yen!"

"Moreover, the interest rate of this loan is very low! Their requirement is that the money we lend to us be used to buy their equipment!"

"Their advanced production line can be purchased for only 20 billion yuan!"

"That's the equivalent of 10 million dollars! That's a good deal!"

"Director Duan, for the future of our 780 Factory, it's time to make a decision!"

Of course, Ni Haifeng would also criticize Hou Yaojun's suggestion.

The main points of Ni Haifeng's criticism are:
Firstly, the people from Jiaoben went back on their word. They asked for a very high price at the beginning, but when they heard that a domestic color TV production line was about to be launched, they immediately changed their attitude and reduced the price from hundreds of millions of dollars to ten million dollars!

There is no need to say more about what the Jiaoben people are thinking, right? They just want to attack the domestic color TV production line! They just want to interrupt our industrial upgrading!

Secondly, the important equipment for the domestic color TV production line has been developed. He has seen and felt it with his own eyes. The color TV production line developed by Wang Haoran is definitely not worse than the one provided by the foot basin people! What's more, Wang Haoran has also promised to provide a full set of domestic production lines before June 1978.

Ni Haifeng said angrily: "If we can independently develop important production line equipment, why should we buy it from the Foot Basin Man at a high price?"

"If we continue to rely on purchasing equipment from abroad to develop production, we will always lag behind! We will always be controlled by others! We must not only consider short-term benefits, we must also have long-term plans!"

"Therefore, supporting domestic color TV production lines is our best choice!"

Hou Yaojun said angrily: "Did I say that I don't support domestic color TV production lines? Did I say that I don't pursue independence?"

"But as the saying goes, we should learn advanced technology from foreigners in order to defeat them. We should be brave enough to learn advanced technology from the Lizards! We can't be blindly arrogant! In the past, we developed behind closed doors for decades, but what was the result? Didn't it lead to our widespread backwardness today?"

Ni Haifeng sneered and said, "What a sophistry!"

"Did we take the initiative to isolate ourselves over the past few decades? Didn't we encounter brutal suppression?"

"Also, did I say that I don't support learning from the foreigners to defeat them? I just think based on my own judgment that our domestic color TV production line technology is quite advanced! In this case, of course we should support domestic production!"

"Even if we learn from the Lizards, we can't just learn blindly or introduce blindly, right?"

"Our foreign exchange reserves are already very small, so we must use them where they are needed most!"

"It is a waste of precious foreign exchange to import production lines with inferior technology from the other party at a high price! This is a crime!"

The two men had a heated argument.

During this process, Ni Haifeng obviously had many more supporters.

In the end, Hou Yaojun had to give in and give up his insistence.

Of course, he also said: "Just wait and see! It would be incredible if the domestic color TV production line could be handed over to us in half a year!"

"If the domestic color TV production line we purchased is delayed for two or three years, the opportunity will be lost!"

“This is irresponsible to all the employees in the factory!”

Although Ni Haifeng won the fight with Hou Yaojun, he was also under considerable pressure.

On this afternoon in early January 1978, after Ni Haifeng finished the work at hand, he was ready to leave.

Just at this moment, he received a call from Wang Haoran himself.

Wang Haoran told Ni Haifeng on the phone: The domestic color TV production line has been fully developed! Moreover, 20 samples have been produced! The quality and performance of the domestic color TV samples are very high.

Wang Haoran said: "Comrade Haifeng! When you are free, you can come and experience it!"

"Let Hou Yaojun come over and see if our domestically made color TVs can satisfy him!"

Ni Haifeng was overjoyed.

He knew that the domestic color TV production line was almost completed.

But he didn't expect that it would be completed so quickly!

It looks like the two domestic color TV production lines that I ordered should be delivered ahead of schedule.

Ni Haifeng naturally agreed readily, and he was going to visit Beijing Institute of Technology the next day.

After Ni Haifeng hung up the phone, he went to find the factory director Duan Wusen.

Duan Wusen was also very happy after listening to Ni Haifeng's story.

Because he is a supporter of Ni Haifeng!

"Then let's take a plane this time!" said Duan Wusen.

Ni Haifeng suggested: "Let Comrade Hou Yaojun go with us."

"Hasn't he always been badmouthing domestically made equipment?"

"Let him go and experience it for himself."

Duan Wusen agreed with this and asked someone to notify Hou Yaojun.

Hou Yaojun was also a little surprised.

He didn't expect that a domestic color TV production line could be developed so quickly.

He felt that there was probably something fishy going on.

If there was a problem, perhaps he could find and expose it when he got there.

In that case, he would be able to regain the upper hand in the competition with Ni Haifeng.

Just like that, Hou Yaojun agreed to visit Beijing Institute of Technology. But that night, Hou Yaojun suffered a heavy blow.

Because the national television station once again broadcast the news at 7 o'clock about the successful development of the domestic color TV production line.

Moreover, this news also included comparison shots of domestically produced color TVs and Panasonic's most advanced color TV models.

Domestic color TVs performed very well in the comparison and were excellent in all aspects.

After reading the news, Hou Yaojun couldn't believe his eyes.

What the hell? Domestic color TVs are actually on par with Panasonic's color TVs?

Moreover, the production cost of domestic color TVs has been greatly reduced, and the price of domestic color TVs is expected to be reduced to six or seven hundred yuan per unit?

This, this is a bit unbelievable!
If this is true, the entire global color TV market structure will be broken.

Hou Yaojun didn't believe it. He didn't believe that Wang Haoran's team could be so powerful!
"Maybe he did something fake again?"

"But this is obviously not conducive to my current situation!"

The most urgent thing is to go to the scene and take a look. It would be great if we can find evidence of their fraud.

That night, Hou Yaojun was very upset.

What made him even more annoyed was that there was loud cheering outside the window.

Many people who heard the news on the radio were celebrating another major breakthrough in their country's science and technology.

That night, after reading the news, Duan Wusen felt extremely excited and his heart was filled with emotions.

He thought, it seems that I was right to support Ni Haifeng! We will be the first to take the lead in domestic color TV production line!
Just as Ni Haifeng said: Seize the opportunity first, then you can win step by step!
Comrade Ni Haifeng is a really good person, he is courageous, responsible, and has a good vision!

It is definitely the right decision to choose him as the successor!
After watching the news that night, Ni Haifeng was happy, but he couldn't sleep.

The next morning, they took a plane from Chengdu and arrived in Beijing at just after 10 o'clock in the morning.

Before they set off, they specially asked someone to send a telegram to Liu Xianchao, the president of Beijing Institute of Technology.

The main purpose is to inform the other party that we will arrive today so that they can be prepared.

But what was unexpected was that Liu Xianchao actually brought a 212 bus to pick him up at the airport in person.

After the greetings, Liu Xianchao invited the three to get in the car.

As the car was driving on the road, Hou Yaojun couldn't help but start setting a trap for Liu Xianchao.

"Principal Liu, I heard a rumor that when you were developing the domestic color TV production line, you received strong support from the foot basin!"

"Some even said that you got all the drawings for the foot basins."

"is this real?"

When Liu Xianchao heard this, he frowned.

He had known for a long time that Hou Yaojun had always been singing a different tune.

I didn't expect that the other party would ask such a question.

Before Liu Xianchao could say anything, Ni Haifeng said in a cold voice: "Comrade Hou Yaojun, who gave you this information? I'm afraid it wasn't a rumor spread to you by a spy?"

Duan Wusen was also very unhappy.

Because what Hou Yaojun said was a bit too bad.

This is a blatant accusation that Wang Haoran's team at Beijing Institute of Technology is fraud.

Duan Wusen said: "Yaojun, who told you this?"

Hou Yaojun hesitated: "Oh, that day, I was walking on the street by chance and heard people talking about this."

Ni Haifeng sneered: "Haha! It really is a coincidence!"

"Someone said something bad about Comrade Wang Haoran, and you heard it."

"I see, you made up this rumor yourself, right?"

"Comrade Hou Yaojun, you are really good at trying to use this kind of words to discredit scientists like Wang Haoran and at the same time elevate the image of the Japanese devils!"

"You make me suspect that you might be collaborating with the enemy!"

Ni Haifeng's tone was a bit harsh.

Hou Yaojun was a little embarrassed and a little angry: "I just heard a little news and shared it with Principal Liu. Ni Haifeng, why do you have to put such a big accusation on me?"

"What grievances do we have that you want to kill me?"

Duan Wusen scolded in a low voice: "Stop quarreling! How can you do this in front of outsiders?"

Ni Haifeng quickly apologized with a smile, "Director, I was wrong. I just couldn't stand Comrade Hou Yaojun's attitude of looking down on the domestic color TV production line and belittling himself!"

Hou Yaojun defended himself: "I don't look down on the domestic color TV production line. I just asked an ordinary question, but Comrade Ni Haifeng reacted so strongly! I think this attitude shows that there may be something wrong with the so-called domestic color TV production line!"

Hou Yaojun is now in a difficult situation.

If the domestic color TV production line is really a great success.

Then he probably can't even think about taking over as the director of Factory 780.

Therefore, he had to bite the bullet and muddy the water. Only in this way could he have a chance of turning the situation around.

Liu Xianchao, who had been silent the whole time and was driving the car himself, spoke at this time.

He said: "Comrade Hou Yaojun, do you know what it means to seek truth from facts?"

"Do you know what it means that if you don't investigate, you have no right to speak?"

"What you said has no basis, no source, no witnesses, and is just subjective speculation from beginning to end. This is wrong!"

"I don't know why you are so hostile to our domestic color TV production line."

"Could it be that there is some benefit in this?"

Liu Xianchao couldn't bear it any longer.

Therefore, he speaks very sharply.

Hou Yaojun was suddenly a little overwhelmed.

Because the other party is just short of asking: Have you benefited from the foot basin people? Otherwise, why do you deny domestic products and praise foot basin products so much?
Moreover, Liu Xianchao is the president of a famous domestic university.

His level is also quite high.

Given Liu Xianchao's level and status, he is expected to come into contact with many senior executives.

If Liu Xianchao is angered, I'm afraid there will be no good results.

Hou Yaojun quickly waved his hands and said a little haltingly: "Principal Liu, I just said something casually, just treat it as a joke, don't think too much about it."

"In fact, I am very supportive of domestic color TV production lines."

"I also admire Comrade Wang Haoran."

Seeing that the other party had given in, Liu Xianchao knew that he was a little hypocritical, but he did not question the other party aggressively anymore.

Soon, we arrived at the experimental factory of Beijing Institute of Technology.

(End of this chapter)