Chapter 5: Through the Beginning and the End
Yang Zhiquan didn't notice the shock he brought. After greeting the driver and thanking him, he ran to the door of his house in a few steps. After entering, Yin Zhimei and Yang Dachang were there. "Dad, you're off work? Mom, this is a lunch box. After saying hello, Yang Zhi walked to his hut.
"Why did you come back at this time? Later than your dad? Yin Zhimei will not let it go lightly, and Yang Dachang also cast an inquiring look. Yang Zhi didn't want to explain the original flavor slowly at the moment, and it also saved his parents from worrying: "No, I met my former classmates on the way, so I chatted for the next day." "Because, Yang Zhi has been obedient since he was a child, and he will never mess around, and he will believe it when he hears the second elder.
Lying on his bed, Yang Zhi's heart fluctuated. It's not that the problem was solved just now, and it's not that I'm flattered by the red flag car. But just now I had the opportunity to feel the pride of this national car, so that Yang Zhi, who was associated with cars in his previous life, couldn't help but recall his experience before and after the crossing.
Walking on the street that day, looking at the endless stream of cars beside him, Yang Zhi sighed lonely, tightened the scarf around his neck, and walked forward slowly.
It is said that as a senior automotive engineer who understands cars and loves cars, Yang Zhi should not be like this with cars. However, just before getting off work, the boss of the group talked to Yang Zhi and asked Yang Zhi to temporarily disband the independent brand automobile research and development team led by him, and take the young technical backbone to fully assist foreign experts to prepare for the localization of the group's latest joint venture brand models, which is a fatal blow to Yang Zhi, who is determined to build a national automobile brand and finally has a little eyebrows after several years of unremitting resume.
At this time, looking at the colorful streets of this first-tier city in China, the cars with different shapes are full of joint ventures or imported foreign brands, Volkswagen, General Motors, Toyota, Logo, Citroen, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Porsche, Land Rover, Jaguar, and even a lot of South Korea's Hyundai and Kia, but there are not a few of China's own national brands, Yang Zhi is difficult not to be depressed. I finally saw a few independent brands on the street corner, alas, but it set off their niche and downfall.
The difficult start of the 50s, the hard work of independence in the 60s, the hesitation and chaos of the 70s, the boom of joint ventures in the 80s, and the independence of the heroes at the end of the last century, every step of the Chinese automobile industry is noisy and hard. The occasional flash of self-design does not shine brightly under the haze shrouded by "plagiarism", and the bitter hatred of the "joint venture" enterprise presses the gold thread every year but cannot exchange it for the golden clothes of the national industry, and the joint venture and independence of the new soup and old medicine may be another moon in the water. China, the world's largest automobile market, when will it run full of "Chinese cars"?
It was easy to return home, but his wife pulled Yang Zhi out again, "Today we have a party in our branch, and the leaders let the family members liven up the atmosphere."
"Don't go!" Yang Zhi was not in the mood at all. "No, you always shirk any activities you usually have, but it's okay today anyway, come with me!" The wife insisted. "Who's to say it's okay, I'll have to review a few body and exterior designs in a while!" Yang Zhi shirked.
"Whom! As far as you tinker with that independent brand, not to mention that no one buys it after it is produced, even your company leaders will not let the project be launched casually! I told you a long time ago not to mess with those who don't, to put it nicely, he is the person in charge of the project, but he is actually a commander of the light pole. If you had gone to the joint venture branch at the beginning, it would have been a long time ago" His wife's words made Yang Zhi's already frozen face darker, but he didn't bother to fight, this topic has been the fuse of many husband and wife wars. To put it mildly, his wife pulled Yang Zhi out of the door.
got on his Geely Emgrand, Yang Zhi habitually turned on the radio, and the news happened to broadcast the latest car production and sales figures. "20xx China Automobile Industry Co-production and Sales 2002. 350,000 units, continuing to rank first in the world! Among the brands, the market share of German cars is the first, with production and sales of 5.59 million units, the American cars are second, with production and sales of 5.18 million units, and Japanese cars continue to rank third, but the production and sales volume has dropped sharply to 3.11 million units due to the impact of the boycott of Japanese goods after the ****** incident, and the Korean car table Xiàn stands out, rising to fourth place with production and sales of 2.2 million units, and French cars and domestic brands are tied for fifth place, both with 1.7 million units
Hearing this, Yang Zhizhen wanted to roar to vent the depression in his heart, 20 million independent brands are only 1.7 million, a fraction of them! At this time, my wife said: "I see when we should change the car, drive this auspicious out, no face!" Let's buy a Volkswagen! His wife's words completely angered Yang Zhi, "What to change, this car is a little worse from the appearance to the interior, the power is good, and the fuel consumption is also very good!" You know foreign brands in one day, and you think that foreign moons are rounder! ”
"Hey, Yang Zhi, did you eat gunpowder or what, what a roar! Originally, my friends and colleagues around me all bought Volkswagen, GM, Toyota or something, and you want to buy a Geely, so that every time you go out in your car, you don't have face! ”
Yang Zhi really didn't want to listen to it anymore, pulled over the car, opened the door and left, and ignored how his wife screamed in the back.
Anger is followed by endless confusion, Yang Zhi does not know where he is going to be a person who wants to engage in his own brand of cars, master the core technology instead of being controlled by others forever, and break China's success into a dumping market for other multinational auto giants.
Continue to work hard for your own brand? But whether it is the small environment of their work or the overall environment of the entire Chinese auto market, they are like heavy confinements, which make people unable to move; Or do you simply feel at ease working for a joint venture brand? Whether it is in his current group or other joint venture car companies, Yang Zhi believes that he can enjoy first-class working conditions and salary levels as a Ph.D. student who graduated from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, one of the world's top automotive majors, with these years of R&D experience and unique technology.
But is this the life of your dreams? When I politely refused the invitation of my university tutor to stay in Germany for development, gave up the preferential treatment of other multinational car companies, and resolutely returned to China, didn't I just want to contribute to the revitalization of the national automobile industry?
The more Yang Zhi thought about it, the more confused his head became, and he couldn't figure out a clue at all. Suddenly, Yang Zhi heard a rapid whistle, and then was instantly hit and flew up. It turned out that when Yang Zhi's thoughts were confused, he had unknowingly walked to the zebra crossing with a red light and was hit by a speeding car. At the moment of life and death, Yang Zhi saw that the car that hit him was also a joint venture brand. "Is this fate?" Thinking about it in the end, Yang Zhi lost consciousness.
Slowly opening his eyes, Yang Zhi woke up, "Ah, it turns out that I'm still alive!" Yang Zhi happily wanted to sit up from the bed he was lying on, but he only felt a sharp pain in his body. Hey, Zhi'er, you're finally awake! At this time, a middle-aged woman opened the door and walked in, and when she saw Yang Zhi waking up, she hurriedly rushed to the side of the bed and shouted outside the door: "Dad, come on, Zhi'er is awake!" As he spoke, he pounced on Yang Zhi, who hadn't figured out what was going on: "Son, you finally woke up, you didn't know that I heard that you had an accident that day, my mother was really scared to death, and my mother has been asking you to worship God and Buddha for the past few days, asking to bless you with safety." It's okay, you're finally awake, otherwise Mom wouldn't want to live, woo! As she spoke, the middle-aged woman began to cry again.
"the child, don't cry, as long as the child is awake!" At this time, a sturdy middle-aged man walked into the room, and then said to Yang Zhi: "You kid is always a fortune teller, this time you can be regarded as picking up a life from the hands of Lord Yama, and your mother has been so anxious these days that her eyes are swollen from crying!" ”
Yang Zhi came back to his senses at this time, and dared to love this man and woman as his parents? ! It's impossible, why did Yang Zhicai notice that the middle-aged men and women were dressed very well? It's old-fashioned, it's like the seventies and eighties of the last century, the seventies and eighties, ah! At this time, Yang Zhi saw the old-fashioned mechanical clock on the table not far away, wasn't it the common style in the seventies and eighties?
What's going on? Could it be? Yang Zhi suddenly remembered the recent very popular online novels and TV series, could it be that he had crossed over?! You won't be so teasive! Yang Zhi was a little hard to believe it for a while, but the two big living people around him and the furnishings around him were reminding Yang Zhi of this authenticity.
I couldn't accept this shocking fact for a long time. Parents, wives and friends, career hobbies, all of them have come to naught, and there will never be a chance again. Even if Yang Zhi was so depressed before and couldn't see the hope of life, but now he has completely bid farewell to his world for thirty years, in this strange place, in front of this strange people, what will he do in the future? !