Huang Ban did indeed want to use tactics to restrict Lin Miao's development, but it's not the government, it doesn't have that kind of social control.
Huang Ban can call upon its subsidiaries and small businesses to stop supplying materials to Lin Miao, but capital will only flow towards where it can grow, if you don't supply, there will be others who do.
This society is rather interesting.
Labor costs are endlessly compressed, yet the industrial raw materials sector is mostly low-level manufacturing, with low profit and low technology, thus it's more driven to extreme competition. Only by compressing labor costs can one make money, but the cyber world has compressed labor costs to the point where there's no room left.
So as long as someone is willing to pay, a slew of companies will engage in frenzied price competition within the industry, even willing to take a loan and incur losses to supply.
