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"Is it just because he's in the metal materials lab?" Zhang Hongtao thought somewhat gloomily.
People are afraid of comparisons.
If Li Rongmao hadn't received a hundred thousand, Zhang Hongtao would have felt that eighty thousand wasn't too little, but with the comparison, he felt unbalanced inside.
In reality, part of the personal bonus came from the coffers of 307 Steel Plant, which offered better treatment to its collaborators, and the metal materials lab was the collaborator, with subsequent R&D also being in partnership with the metal materials lab, not concerning the metal composites lab.
Zhang Hongtao wouldn't follow up on the project and naturally 'missed out' on a piece of the bonus.
The 307 Steel Plant wasn't interested in Zhang Hongtao, but elsewhere, he was still considered an important figure.