"Uncle Huang, what's wrong? Why are you so angry?"
Wang Yu asked Huang He with a smile, pouring him a cup of water.
For some unknown reason, the former director of the bicycle factory had a look of discontent, as if he had written his displeasure on his forehead.
Ignoring the water Wang Yu poured, Huang He appeared determined to get to the bottom of it, "No matter what, you have to give me an explanation."
"An explanation? What explanation?" Wang Yu was a little curious.
"What explanation? Do you know what your significant other did?" Huang He slammed his teacup on the table in anger and said to Wang Yu furiously.
Hearing him mention "significant other," Wang Yu was stunned at first. He subconsciously wanted to say he didn't have one. Then, a fleeting image of a beautiful woman suddenly flashed in his mind, and he asked thoughtfully.
"Are you talking about Lingling?"
"That's right, who else could it be but this girl?"
"What exactly is going on? Uncle Huang, the more you talk, the more confused I get." Wang Yu found it a bit amusing.
In everyone's eyes, he and Wu Lingling were practically a couple.
He didn't object to this, nor did she deny it. In fact, they had a tacit understanding and neither of them brought it up.
Because they both knew that neither of them was the type to focus on such matters.
As long as their cooperation was smooth and tacit, it was enough.
Huang He, with a furious expression, took a deep breath before slowly saying, "Little Wang, if you had any objections to our prior agreement to modify the contract, you could have just said so directly. There was no need to resort to such despicable tactics!"
Regarding the contract modification Huang He mentioned, Wang Yu smiled. He had indeed benefited from it.
Before he had subdued Tiger Brother's gang, he and Huang He had initially agreed on mutual cooperation. The bicycle factory would provide the main body and other parts of the assisted bicycles, while the automobile factory would handle the engine production and assembly, and they would share the profits.
However, later, seeing Wang Yu giving away vehicles for free to develop the market, Huang He, unwilling to bear the losses, proactively requested a change to the cooperation agreement.
The bicycle factory withdrew from sales and profit sharing, switching to a buy-out processing fee for each fuel-assisted bicycle. They would only be responsible for product processing and supply, guaranteeing a steady profit.
The remaining sales and profit issues would then belong to the automobile factory. Whether they made money or incurred losses, it was Wang Yu's own affair and had nothing to do with Huang He.
Wang Yu readily agreed to this.
Huang He was overjoyed at the time, thinking that Wang Yu, being young and inexperienced, was unaware of the vastness of the world. He believed that Wang Yu would realize his mistake after suffering losses, and perhaps he could then seize the opportunity to take over the fuel-assisted bicycle industry.
But who would have thought that later, the market for fuel-assisted bicycles gradually opened up, and the automobile factory's performance became increasingly prosperous. Not only did it gain fame in Jiangyang County, but it even began to radiate its influence to surrounding cities and counties, and even across the entire province.
This made Huang He restless, and he wanted to go back on his word.
After all, watching others eat meat while he could only have soup was not something anyone could easily accept. So, after much deliberation, Huang He approached Wang Yu again, hoping to amend the contract once more.
However, this time Wang Yu did not agree. You were the one who wanted to protect yourself and withdraw when the situation seemed unfavorable, and now you want to come back when you see the benefits? How could you possibly get all the advantages?
Therefore, Wang Yu very straightforwardly refused Huang He's request.
Perhaps feeling that he was in the wrong, Huang He didn't dare to say much more to Wang Yu.
But he unexpectedly brought it up now?
"Despicable tactics? What happened to Lingling?"
Wang Yu was confused. What exactly had this unpredictable woman, Wu Lingling, done to make this elder, who was almost ready for retirement, so furious?
"Hmph, weren't you the one instigating her behind the scenes?" Huang He looked at Wang Yu suspiciously. "Forcing her to sell your fuel-assisted bicycles to other bicycle manufacturers?"
"What? Sell to other bicycle manufacturers?" Wang Yu spat out the tea he was drinking, completely stunned.
Selling products to competitors?
This kind of unconventional and surprising move was indeed very much like something Wu Lingling would do!
"That's right! I don't know what means she used, but she attracted a large number of bicycle manufacturers. Minghuang, Yongwang, Leiniu... all of them are well-known and established enterprises," Huang He said with a bitter expression. "They were all companies we used to look up to! Now, the entire Jiangyang County, and even the whole province, is buzzing about us committing this foolish act of 'buying the casket and discarding the pearls'!"
"It's become this big?" Wang Yu was a little curious. No wonder the orders for fuel-assisted bicycles had suddenly increased significantly recently. It turned out that major players had entered the game.
Given the production capacity of these nationally renowned leading enterprises, their small-scale operations were merely a drop in the bucket for them!
"Now all the manufacturers have placed large orders with her, and we're almost unable to keep up with production," Huang He said indignantly.
"Isn't it a good thing to have orders to produce?" Wang Yu chuckled, making a rare humorous remark. "When our automobile factory was struggling to make ends meet, I truly wished for orders to pour in and overwhelm me!"
"You... you! This is short-sighted! You only see the immediate profit. Don't you know that competitors are enemies?" Huang He pointed at Wang Yu, looking exasperated. "Those big enterprises take our products, seize the market development with all their might, and then they can quickly imitate and develop similar products, perhaps even better than ours. What future will we have then?"
After finishing his tirade, Huang He panted heavily, picked up his teacup, and drank it down in one gulp.
"You're still happily smiling here! That girl has stirred up a huge storm, and orders are flying in from all over the country. We'll be out of business before long!"
Huang He's face was filled with heartache. After finally experiencing a few days of good life, such a situation had suddenly arisen. But he couldn't push away the incoming business, which was like a rat in a bellows – getting nowhere and pleasing no one!
"Out of business is an exaggeration, perhaps," Wang Yu said, not looking as worried. "Actually, this is not bad. It's indirectly promoting us."
"Promotion? That's promoting those big companies. When they copy our designs and can produce them themselves, they won't order from us anymore! Then, looking at other users in the market buying from them, who will come to us to buy?"
Huang He sighed, wondering why this young man Wang Yu didn't understand.
"Don't order? Don't buy? Then we won't sell," Wang Yu laughed carelessly, his demeanor strikingly like a spendthrift from the old society.
"You..." Huang He opened his mouth to say something else, but Wang Yu's next words left him utterly speechless, his mouth agape for a long time.
"When that time comes, we'll just sell new products. Isn't it enough to stay ahead of the competition?"