Chapter 37: The Factory Director (2)

  The Eastern Secretary's soft hum seemed ordinary, but a layer of cold sweat instantly appeared on Fan Secretary's back: the boss is angry! The reason for the boss's anger was simple. You knew about my niece's matter, and I didn't even know? Do you want to give me an explanation?

  As for his boss, Secretary Fan was very familiar with him and knew that although the boss had strict requirements for Dongfang Xiaoling, he actually loved this girl deeply. If he couldn't give his boss a satisfactory answer today, he would probably...

  "A few days ago, wasn't Xiaoling saying that she wanted to make a motorcycle with the child of Lin's family? I reckon this car is something they came up with themselves, there's no such model on the market." Secretary Fan's heart was racing as he hastily explained to the boss, this matter had to be made clear, otherwise if the boss misunderstood him as not being loyal enough, it would be a very serious problem.

  "Oh, now that you mention it, I remember," Secretary Dong nodded his head. It was probably about half a month ago, around dinner time, when his daughter mentioned to him that she wanted to build a motorcycle with Lin Hongfei. At the time, he didn't think much of it, but unexpectedly, the two kids actually managed to make it happen.

  Assistant has been carefully and secretly observing Secretary Dong's assistant, Fan, and felt a sense of relief in his heart: if the boss thought he was not loyal enough, or did not pay enough attention to things that the boss cared about, it would be big trouble.

  Put your mind at ease and take another look at the little Ling in front of you. Secretary Fan's heart suddenly moved, this period of time, the boss has been very worried about the city motorcycle manufacturing plant, and so far there is no solution. At that time, Lin Hongfei's method could only temporarily calm down the workers, but if it was true, it would be true, and if it was false, it would be false. After a while, the real situation will inevitably be discovered by the workers, and when things get to that point, they will really be troublesome. Since Lin Deputy Chief of Staff's child is so capable, why not...

  "Boss, I didn't expect that the child of General Lin's family would be so formidable. Look at this car he designed, it's quite majestic and beautiful."

  "Ah," Secretary Dongfang looked at his daughter in front of him with warmth and affection in his eyes, feeling very pleased. "Not bad."

  As the secretary of the leader, it is essential to understand the leader's intention at all times. Secretary Fan immediately grasped the implicit meaning and said, "Secretary, look, since this car is so beautiful, if we make it a new product for our city's motorcycle manufacturing plant, wouldn't that be...?"

  In 1991, people's concept of patents was very vague, and there was no awareness of infringement in their minds. They thought that if something was good, they could just take it and use it. As for whether using someone else's thing would harm their interests, nobody cared about that. Especially in government departments, this concept was even more vague. If you invented something, the country wanted to use it, that was a recognition of your achievement, how dare you ask the country for money?

  Secretary Fan's suggestion is not bad, since our city's motorcycle manufacturing factory is now launching new products to revitalize the factory and open up sales channels, and you Lin Hongfei have just come up with this thing, so it's reasonable for our municipal government to take it over and use it.

  Dongfang Secretary seemed to be a bit of an "outsider", but he still had some sense of patent awareness. Upon hearing the secretary's words, Dongfang Secretary furrowed his brow, "This thing was invented by Lin Hongfei, this kid has a patent."

  Secretary Fan immediately understood the meaning of Secretary Dong: That's right, whether it's patented or not is not a big problem. The key issue is that if Lin Hongfei were an ordinary person's child, it would be fine. But Lin Hongfei is the child of Deputy Commander Lin of the Military Region. Everyone is colleagues after all. During holidays, they still need to give some lucky money to their colleague's children. Now, are they going to snatch things from their colleague's child?

  How dare you?

  This will be terrible if it gets out, you even snatch things from your colleagues' kids?

  But the words can't be heard just from this point, Secretary Fan naturally heard another layer of meaning in Secretary Dong's words: The boss doesn't agree with his own proposal, but at the same time, he didn't oppose it either. Since the boss didn't oppose it, that means the boss thinks this idea is correct in essence, what's lacking is just some minor details.

  Secretary Fan immediately acknowledged his mistake. "Yes, yes, I was too hasty. Then I'll go ask Lin Hongfei if he has any plans to transfer the patent for this car."

  That's right! Secretary Dong naturally meant that, and he had a good impression of Lin Hongfei. When the conditions were suitable, he would not hesitate to help him out. More importantly, through Xiaoling's recent dealings with Lin Hongfei, he thought it was good for the two children to interact more. Secretary Lin didn't say much, only saying: "Now those foreign countries are criticizing many of our country's policies, thinking that we don't respect talent, don't respect knowledge. We can't just talk about it, we have to let foreign friends see in a real and practical way how we respect knowledge, respect talent, and respect intellectual property rights!"

  "Yes, boss. I'll coordinate this matter carefully afterwards." Secretary Fan nodded with a smile and solemnly took note of the matter in her notebook to show that she attached great importance to the leader's instructions.

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  Lin Hongfei didn't know that his invention almost got seized, after Dongfang Xiaoling left, he had a smug look on his face, just about to get on the car and show off in front of his friends, when the little warrior who helped Lin Hongfei for a few days gathered up his courage and spoke up timidly, "Hongfei, can I ride this car for a bit?"

  For the past half month, Little Warrior has been helping himself every day. This request Lin Hongfei could not refuse. He nodded and said straightforwardly, "Alright, how about it? Can you ride?"

  "I'll ride with our 750 troops." Hearing Lin Hongfei didn't refuse, the little warrior let out a sigh of relief and said.

  At that time, the most common vehicles in the troops were 212 jeeps, Liberation Army cards and 750 three-wheeled motorcycles. Basically, every soldier could drive one, especially those from the repair factory, who were even more likely to get their hands on them first.

  "That's all right, you can ride this bike without any problem." Lin Hongfei generously handed the bike over to the little warrior.

  Although in terms of static stability, a two-wheeled motorcycle can't compare with the three-wheeled 750cc, but as long as you know how to ride a scooter, and also know how to ride a bicycle, then there's no problem at all.