Chapter 1568 No problem inside the arena, no bottom line outside the arena

After Li Ye made his request, Tang Xiangui, the head of the review panel, smiled and then turned to look at his colleague.

The colleague immediately retorted, "Deputy General Manager Li, your suggestion is inappropriate. If your drivers are allowed to drive each other, how can we guarantee that they will drive properly?"

While I don't want to speculate maliciously about a driver's attitude, how can the test be fair if a driver is driving with the intention of damaging the car?

Another middle-aged man chimed in, "Xiao Zhan is right. Deputy General Manager Li may not have experience with heavy trucks, so he doesn't quite understand their characteristics."

Don't let the fact that heavy trucks look like big, bulky, and rough metal machines fool you; there are actually techniques involved in operating them. A single mistake can easily break them down.

The middle-aged man's words seemed to be an attempt to exonerate Li Ye, but Li Ye found them unpleasant.

[What do you mean? Are you implying that the light truck company has no experience with heavy trucks, so you're the authorities?]

Normally, Li Ye would just laugh it off, but sometimes kindness is taken advantage of. If you give people the impression of being "good at swallowing your anger," you might end up suffering even more injustices.

Li Ye smiled slightly and said, "When I was in school, the school was expanding. Because I could drive trucks, I worked for the school's transport team for a month, driving an old Jiefang truck."

Our team leader told me that old Jiefang truck was like a grandfather; you had to be extremely careful when handling it under heavy loads. You couldn't release the clutch too quickly, nor too slowly, and you had to strictly control the water temperature. It needed to rest after climbing a steep hill.

So I understand the characteristics of heavy trucks, but we vehicle manufacturers should continue to improve, making the driver's job easier, completing transportation tasks more effortlessly, and making a more efficient contribution to social development.”

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Xiao Zhan and the others didn't look too good.

After all, Li Ye was saying this in front of the seller, complaining that "the goods are not good enough".

If you don't operate the old Jiefang truck properly, it's common to get gears damaged, shafts broken, and clutches shattered. That's why there are so many driving rules. But times are changing, and we can't always expect people to adapt to the truck instead of the truck adapting to the driver, right?

Seeing that Tang Xiangui's smile had also disappeared, Li Ye smiled again and said, "Of course, I understand what the experts mean. If we use a truck normally, we should load it properly and drive it reasonably. That way, it can run for 100,000 or 200,000 kilometers without breaking down."

But we can't possibly run our comparative tests for 100,000 or 200,000 kilometers, can we? Using harsh operating environments can better demonstrate a vehicle's endurance and potential, and also expose hidden flaws, allowing for better improvement.

“.”

After Li Ye finished speaking, everyone fell silent. Xiao Zhan couldn't help but ask, "So, Vice General Manager Li means that you should have your drivers deliberately damage the cars?"

Li Ye said calmly, "To truly unlock the full potential of a good car, it really tests the driver's personal ability."

For example, Formula 1 racing cars represent the pinnacle of automotive technology. If you can break an F1 car, it means you've passed the threshold for becoming an F1 driver. But so far, no one in Asia has reached that level.

Therefore, the quality of a car can only be determined through extreme testing. I suggest that the test teams work together, and I will drive the car the same way you drive it, just to see whose car can withstand more stress.

Under the same road conditions, with the same load, and the same driving style, the one who perseveres to the end is the winner. This isn't about deliberately sabotaging the system, but about figuring out its limits.

Only in this way can we know how reliable this car truly is, and only then can we build even better cars.

Upon hearing Li Ye bring up F1, the expert group, full of theories, fell silent. After all, these days, the grass is always greener on the other side, and the level of F1 is so high that it's hard to reach.

Seeing everyone fall silent, Tang Xiangui smiled faintly and said, "Vice General Manager Li's ideas are indeed wildly imaginative, leaving us completely baffled!"

Hahaha~

"It's normal for young people to have imaginative ideas, it's very normal."

Many people laughed; young people, they just like to daydream.

But Li Ye smiled and said very seriously, "This isn't a whimsical idea; it's based on a historical story that inspired me."

"Legend has it that there was once a wealthy family with three sons. Before his death, the old patriarch left instructions for his three sons to divide the family property. The fields and houses were all divided, but three horses and one donkey were left out last."

The old man said that among the three horses, some were good and some were bad. Whoever got the worst horse would get to add the donkey to their cart as a bonus.

The three horses were divided up, but the ownership of the donkey was a problem, because all three sons said their horses were the worst and that the donkey should be given to them.

The old man then had his three sons race horses; whoever's horse was the slowest was considered the worst.

"As expected, the three sons barely moved their horses; none of them wanted to be the first to cross the finish line."

Left with no other option, the old man had them take turns riding the horses. Each one rode faster than the last, practically whipping the horses until the whips broke – no one was faking it.

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Now everyone's laughter stopped, because Li Ye finally said, "I won't fake it."

This is already a veiled expression of disbelief in so-called fairness.

Since it's a fair test, you must come up with a convincing and fair approach. No matter how eloquent your verbal guarantees are, they are not as persuasive as the method Li Ye proposed.

Whether a driver is gentle or forceful, you have the final say. But if it's about driving each other, everyone will be uniformly forceful and uniformly fair.

"Vice General Manager Li's suggestion is very novel, but it's unexpected. We weren't prepared for it, so we need to study it further before making a decision. Let's stop here for today."

Li Ye's suggestion led to the hasty end of the first day's meeting, and also disrupted the plans of many people.

Shang Bin, who had agreed to not interfere with each other and only to provide fair oversight, said to Li Ye with dissatisfaction, "Li Ye, can you please stop making sudden attacks? At least we should discuss this internally first, shouldn't we?"

[Should we have an internal discussion? Wouldn't that give you time to prepare?]

Li Ye chuckled and brushed Shang Bin off, then called Lu Zhizhang, who was still in the capital.

"Old Lu, the review panel here needs technical documents. Could you have someone send over the appropriate documents?"

Lu Zhizhang paused for a moment, then said with amusement, "What's wrong, Li Ye? You sound like you've suddenly lost your confidence?"

"Sigh, the on-field testing is fine, but off-field... I'm really worried!"

Li Ye sighed deeply, expressing his helplessness.

In fact, Li Ye had already learned about some of the drawbacks of the prototype vehicle in the southwest through Lao Kan's daughter and other people.

Their prototype was a direct import, using mature technology from Jicheng Heavy Truck. However, in order to avoid being discovered that it was a "100% rebadged vehicle," they designed some components themselves, such as the frame and drive shaft.

In this way, it's like "assembling" a car, and many of the spliced ​​parts become potential hazards to its durability.

While the Kamaz of the First Factory made innovations and some modifications based on the complete set of Sugo blueprints and technology, it still retained some Russian style. Everyone knows the Russian style: durable.

So Li Ye was originally very confident, but now it seems that the competition outside the test field may also affect the final result.

In this respect, the first branch factory was at a significant disadvantage.

(End of this chapter)