106: Foreigners just want privileges?!

“These are the order forms. Take a careful look at the requirements on them.”

Inside the office.

Li Mubai pulled out a stack of order forms, ten centimeters thick, from his drawer.

“So many?”

Ruan Xiu was a bit stunned.

She only knew that many companies had been visiting recently, but she never expected so many people to have signed contracts with the Steel Factory.

How much money would all these orders be?!

Only at this moment did she realize how powerful the machine tool Li Mubai had developed was.

“This is nothing. Many orders have been temporarily put off by me. In the next few days, I will expand and upgrade the factory area again. At that time, several automated production lines will be added, and then, orders will only increase, not decrease.”

“There are even more?”

Hearing this, Ruan Xiu, who was flipping through the orders, was extremely surprised.

“There will definitely be more. Not to mention the orders from society. The day before yesterday, Lao Zhao told me that there are still many orders we need to fulfill.”

Li Mubai's expression remained normal.

He felt no inner turmoil regarding the thick stack of papers in Ruan Xiu’s hand.

And indeed, that was the case.

These orders were only a very small portion.

If he hadn't considered the insufficient production lines, he could have signed a pile of orders.

Under the publicity of the National Daily, many companies came to express their desire to purchase Numerical Control Machine Tools, but these requests were all rejected by him.

Numerical Control Machine Tools could not be sold externally for now.

Even if they were to be sold externally, it would have to wait until the Numerical Control Machine Tool was upgraded to the second generation before the first generation machine tool could be sold off.

He couldn't be blamed for being selfish.

He wanted to earn the maximum profit from the Numerical Control Machine Tool, so that he could obtain more exchange points.

Only by having exchange points could he exchange for more technology to benefit the entire country.

After Ruan Xiu left, Li Mubai reclined in his chair, beginning to contemplate how to enter the Internet industry.

Currently, the most basic technology was storage technology, which meant developing USB flash drives with USB interfaces.

This was the most fundamental technology.

At present, mobile hard drives had not yet appeared in China.

Even abroad, only one company had developed mobile hard drives, and the technology was not yet highly advanced.

The memory size of mobile hard drives, their read and write speeds, their physical size, and their portability could all serve as selling points.

Once such technology was developed, it would definitely be loved by a wide range of Internet users.

Of course, simply developing large-capacity hard drives was not enough.

As for the current Internet, even a 1GB mobile hard drive could meet the basic needs of users.

Because currently, there were no games or software that were several gigabytes in size.

Even images on the Internet were only a mere tens of kilobytes each; a 1GB mobile hard drive could store many images.

Therefore, for USB drives to dominate the Internet industry, it would require upgrading computer hardware and simultaneously developing various software programs.

Relying on a single type of item made it difficult to gain a firm footing.

Therefore, it was best to make all products into mutually compatible sets.

This would enhance core competitiveness.

Currently, due to imperfect computer technology, images and even videos on the network were basically of blurry pixel quality.

In such an environment, when a high-definition image or video was presented to users, these people would naturally prefer high-definition images, thereby developing a psychological aversion to the previously normal blurry images.

Driving out the inferior and pursuing the superior—this was humanity's most primitive desire, uncontrollable.

Our ancestors had long summarized this phenomenon with a saying: 'It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.'

To achieve this, computer hardware and software needed to be upgraded, and only then could the goal be reached!

Among these, computer hardware was the most crucial and fundamental technical difficulty.

To make computers operate quickly, it was imperative to modify and upgrade the CPU.

Not only that, but in the face of videos that were hundreds of megabytes or even several gigabytes, the basic network infrastructure also needed to be modified and upgraded.

2G networks were definitely not suitable for high-definition images.

For users to have a good experience, the network's transmission speed also needed to be upgraded.

It could be said that this was an industry where one move affected the whole body!

Achieving this goal was very, very difficult.

There were also far too many things that needed to be developed.

But once he succeeded, his company would surely stand at the pinnacle of the entire Internet industry, becoming an unshakeable giant!

Most critically, this industry could bring a continuous stream of income.

This also meant that exchange points would continuously increase.

At that time, wouldn't it be easy to exchange for aircraft carriers, fighter jets, or even products of a Second-level civilization?

However, it was still too early to talk about these things.

The current task was to recruit and gather relevant talents to prepare for this goal.

Just as Li Mubai was still pondering, the office door was knocked upon.

Knock knock…

“Come in.”

The door opened.

It wasn't Ruan Xiu who entered, but Old Xiao.

Li Mubai sat up straight and asked, “Old Xiao, what’s wrong?”

“Boss, someone else is at the door, and they are a few foreigners. They…”

Li Mubai immediately waved his hand and interrupted Old Xiao:

“It doesn't matter if he is a foreigner or not. I just want to know if they have an appointment?

If they don't have an appointment, I won't see them.

Foreigners are no more noble than us Chinese; everyone is the same.

The company has its rules, and under the rules, everyone is treated equally!

So what if they are foreigners? Do foreigners want special privileges?

As long as it's not Uncle Zhao and his people, no matter who it is, if they don't have an appointment, you know what to do, right?”

Old Xiao was stunned by the words.

Then, his gaze towards Li Mubai brightened.

He hadn't expected Li Mubai to say such words; they were truly brilliant!

Currently, many Chinese people, upon seeing foreigners, couldn't wait to flock to them, as if the other party radiated a Buddha's light, bringing good luck when approached.

Furthermore, these people would show fawning expressions when facing foreigners, as if they had met some extraordinary figure.

Not only that, but even when others pointed out the flaws of these 'foreign masters,' some Chinese people would rush forward like mad dogs, immediately refuting and eagerly protecting their masters.

He himself was a person from the old era.

He most disliked seeing those Chinese people bowing and scraping when they saw foreigners.

That great leader had painstakingly liberated China, allowing the Chinese people to stand tall again.

But what about some foreign slaves?

These people bent their backs again, completely lacking backbone.

All they had was a servile demeanor!

Having received Li Mubai's answer, Old Xiao quickly left the office and arrived at the factory gate.

Looking out, he saw three figures standing outside the gate.

As he got closer, he realized it was two men and one woman.

One of them was a fashionably dressed Chinese man.

He was wearing sunglasses and nodding and bowing to the other two foreigners, speaking words Old Xiao couldn't understand.

“Are you the person in charge of the factory?”

Seeing Old Xiao walk out of the factory, the fashionably dressed Chinese man immediately straightened up and asked with his head held high and chest puffed out.

He wasn't short; he was a head taller than Old Xiao.

So when he looked at Old Xiao, he was directly looking down.

While speaking, his black sunglasses remained on his face, not removed, making him look very 'Westernized'.