The mention of the intelligent lathe made Xia Lei’s anger flare. 

He had gone to Germany with Long Bing back then, risking life imprisonment and even death to steal the design plans for the intelligent lathe. When he had made it back to China, China Industrial Group was unable to make a machine of the right specifications and he had built Josef’s intelligent lathe with his own two hands. China Industrial Group had turned up again and used their higher status to buy away his lathe when he had been poised to do great work with this intelligent lathe, even forbidding him from copying it. 

What was sold was sold and he didn’t hang onto that bit of the past - it was for the nation after all and he had also received a sizeable monetary reward just at the time that he needed it. It was different now though. His business was on the right track and his future bright, so he was not going to let the fruit of his labour be taken from him again! 

Mu Jianfeng wanted to do the same thing, and repeat the forced buying deal from before - how could this not anger him? 

Before Xia Lei could speak, Ye Kun interrupted to say, “Xia Lei, it was a good thing for you back then to be...