Chapter 291 Rejection
Investing in Longwu's company can not only spend the investment, but also bring down Shi Hengliang. This is definitely a good deal that kills two birds with one stone and is very cost-effective.
For Long Wu, the 100 million yuan in start-up capital greatly increased the cash flow of Xinghe Real Estate, enough for him to start planning his own project.
Not to mention that behind Lu Yiming stands a behemoth like Jingwan Group, which may bring greater support to his company in the future.
In this day and age, the brave will die of overeating while the timid will die of starvation. Long Wu is also a rookie who has come a long way. He simply ignored the slight risk brought by Lu Yiming's unknown identity.
In this world, risks and opportunities always coexist. As long as the profit is higher than the risk, businessmen will dare to take a gamble. This is an irrefutable truth.
After having morning tea, Lu Yiming followed Long Wu to his company.
In the meeting room of Xinghe Real Estate, after discussions and negotiations, Long Wu was finally willing to give up 32% of the shares, and Lu Yiming had to invest 120 million yuan in him for this, and the contract stated that it had to be all in cash.
The legal team of Xinghe Real Estate drafted a contract. Long Wu pushed the contract in front of Lu Yiming and said, "Mr. Lu, take a look at this contract first. If you think there is no problem, we will officially sign it in three days."
"Okay, I'll take this contract back and have my lawyer confirm it first. As long as there are no problems, we can sign it at any time and the money can be deposited into the account at any time. By the way, don't forget what I told you."
"Don't worry, as long as the contract takes effect, I will make arrangements there immediately."
"That's more like it."
Although Lu Yiming sometimes seems to be flamboyant and frivolous, that is all for a purpose, either to confuse his opponents or to liven up the atmosphere. But once it comes to serious matters, Lu Yiming will never be careless.
Although he was confident that Long Wu needed such a large sum of money and would not tamper with the contract, trust was the least trustworthy thing in the world. Whether in movies or in real life, the backstabbing of acquaintances was happening all the time.
Lu Yiming today is no longer at the age where he believes in human nature. He only believes in rules, and there is no order without rules.
Long Wu personally sent Lu Yiming downstairs and watched him get into the Audi with a smile on his face.
Holding the contract, Lu Yiming got into the car, looking a little tired.
Although the negotiation and discussion just now did not involve swords and sabers, it was also a battle of heart and mind. Even if the two people seemed to be in harmony, in fact, no one would be generous for money.
Lu Yiming wanted to spend less money, and Long Wu didn't want to give up too many shares. For their own interests, the two sides argued a lot, using all kinds of words and means, both overtly and covertly, to test the other party's bottom line, and then place their own bets.
Fortunately, Lu Yiming has Jingwan Group behind him, which gives him one more bargaining chip than Long Wu, so in this negotiation, Lu Yiming has maximized his benefits.
Zhao Tiezhu saw that Lu Yiming seemed very tired, so he asked, "Mr. Lu, do you want to go home directly?"
Lu Yiming shook his head slightly. Although his body was tired, his eyes were full of energy: "Go to Jingwan Group."
"OK."
Arriving at Jingwan Group, Lu Yiming got out of the car and took a few deep breaths, trying to adjust his spirit. After entering the lobby, he saw the same front desk girl again, so he walked over and teased, "Good afternoon, beautiful lady."
The girl at the front desk smiled when she saw Lu Yiming: "Boss Lu, you're here."
Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows and teased her: "The beauty seems to have a better figure than before. Is she secretly looking for a boyfriend?"
The girl at the front desk said coquettishly, "You're so annoying. I'm looking for a boyfriend openly, okay? Why do you have to be so sneaky?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "It's exciting to do it secretly, and you actually found a boyfriend, so I have no chance, right? I'm so sad."
After saying this, he leaned against the desk with a resentful look on his face, as if his heart was broken, which immediately made the receptionist laugh out loud.
"Where is your CEO Lin? Is he in the company?"
The girl at the front desk stopped laughing and said, "I'm here."
Lu Yiming nodded slightly and said, "Then you go do your thing, I'll go find her."
The girl at the front desk looked at the IWC watch hanging on the wall behind her and said, "I'm afraid that won't work. Usually, Mr. Lin is still in a meeting at this time."
"All right."
Lu Yiming yawned and said, "Then I'll wait here for a while. Do you have coffee? I want to have a cup of coffee."
"I'll make you some right away."
Half an hour later, Lin Shuyi came out of the meeting and saw Lu Yiming sleeping soundly in the reception room. She was so upset.
"Hey, you came to me in broad daylight just to sleep?"
Lu Yiming was woken up, and after hearing what Lin Shuyi said, his face suddenly became darker than hers: "Stop, what you said sounds very indecent. If it gets out, how can I keep my innocence?"
Lin Shuyi rolled her eyes at him fiercely, then twisted her willow waist and sat on her boss chair, raised her chin and asked, "You slept in my office as soon as you arrived. Is it your innocence or mine? Stop talking nonsense and tell me, what's the matter with you coming to see me in broad daylight?"
Lu Yiming smiled evilly when he heard this: "It seems that you don't like me to come to you during the day, how about I come at night?"
Seeing Lin Shuyi raising her hand as if she was about to resort to force, Lu Yiming quickly adjusted his attitude and took out the contract drafted by Long Wu as a shield.
"Don't rush to do anything, take a look at this."
"What is this?"
Lin Shuyi took the contract from Lu Yiming, read it quickly, and frowned: "You took my money to invest in such a company?"
Lu Yiming crossed his legs and sat on the sofa, looking disdainful: "Why, you are not happy?"
When Lin Shuyi looked at Lu Yiming, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she was obviously very dissatisfied with this move: "We, Jingwan Group, have our own boutique residential project, so tell me, why don't I use this more than 100 million for my own use?"
Lu Yiming couldn't help laughing after hearing this. "Big sister, do you know what it means to have a sequence of learning and a specialization in one's field? Although you have your own boutique residential project, it is just one of the many projects of Jingwan Group. They specialize in boutique residential projects. Do you know what specialization means? In this field, your Jingwan Group can't compare with them at all."
Lin Shuyi was immediately displeased when she heard what Lu Yiming said: "You actually look down on our Jingwan Group?"
Facing Lin Shuyi who wanted to go berserk, Lu Yiming still chose to ignore her and even used words to tease her nerves: "Didn't I just say it? Everyone has their own priorities and specialties. I mean, in the niche category of boutique housing, you can't compete with me."
Jingwan Group is Lin Yuantao's life's work, but now Lu Yiming said that in terms of high-quality residential projects, Jingwan Group is not as good as a small Galaxy Group, which makes Lin Shuyi very upset.
"Then tell me, what is it about his Galaxy Group that is better than us?"
Lu Yi knew that if he couldn't convince Lin Shuyi, Lin Shuyi would definitely get angry.
An old leftover woman who doesn't get married and doesn't have a boyfriend is scary just to think about it. Lu Yiming immediately started to explain to her patiently, "I don't know about other projects of your Jingwan Group, but take Bi Hai Long Teng as an example. The quality of the house is really good, but the layout is so-so. It looks like there are mountains and water, but in fact there are many problems."
"Oh? What's the problem? I'm all ears. If you're wrong, I'll make you crawl out of here today."
"Well, you asked me to say this!"
Lu Yiming immediately pointed out many shortcomings without hesitation: "First of all, the landscaping. I want to ask if you have found a garden design team to design it properly. Even if you told me that you did, I think the design is only at the level of a student. It is too perfunctory. It is not convenient for the residents and has no aesthetic appeal. It is a failure."
"Secondly, the interior decoration style of the villa is still from decades ago. I am not saying that retro is bad, but houses are for living, and the first consideration should be the comfort and convenience of the residents. There are several small details in the design of your villa that are particularly anti-human, and functionality is lost purely for the sake of design. Remember, the house you sell is for people to live in, not a tourist attraction. Failure."
As Lu Yiming finished speaking, two consecutive "failures" made Lin Shuyi frown and she fell into deep thought.
However, Lu Yiming did not give up, but stabbed Lin Shuyi's heart like a sharp knife.
"In addition, it's OK that the community doesn't have three-dimensional gardens. After all, most nouveau riche don't pay much attention to these things. But for a high-end residential area like yours, it doesn't even have its own key primary school, bilingual kindergarten, or even various five-star clubs. Isn't that too much? It's not that you can call it a luxury home just because you sell it at a higher price. You have to provide high-quality services that others can't provide. That's called a luxury home. In the community where I live now, if I want to find a place to receive guests, I have to drive to the city center to find a hotel. It's simply a failure among failures."
Although Lu Yiming was not polite at all, Lin Shuyi became more and more calm.
There is no doubt that the problems mentioned by Lu Yiming are real, especially the supporting facilities mentioned at the end, including commercial supporting facilities, school district supporting facilities, and even various high-end service supporting facilities for the wealthy group. These are things that Jingwan Group has always ignored.
As Lu Yiming said, a house cannot be called a luxury house just by inlaying it with gold and diamonds and selling it at a high price.
Without matching service quality, the people who ultimately come to live here will at best be a group of nouveau riche with little background.
But the real bosses with taste and style simply look down on the Blue Sea Dragon Court.
Although she admitted that what Lu Yiming said made sense, Lin Shuyi just couldn't stand Lu Yiming's inexplicable self-confidence. She grabbed the contract in her hand and coldly ordered Lu Yiming to leave: "I will send someone to follow up on the signing of the contract, you can leave now."
"My goodness, I worked so hard to teach you the ropes, so it's fine if you don't pay the tuition, but shouldn't you treat me to a meal to thank me?"
"I'll treat you to fart."
"Oh my god, can't you speak more like a lady?"
"Lady, your uncle."
“…”
Three days later, Lingxin Lane in the north of the city.
In a smoky mahjong parlor, the shouts of dozens of people could be heard one after another.
The fierce collision and noisy sound of mahjong seem to make people's consciousness become manic.
Shi Hengliang's eyes were bloodshot. He picked up a card and rubbed it hard with his fingers, as if by doing this he could rub the card in his hand into the one he wanted.
After rubbing for a long time, his fingers were almost calloused, but he still couldn't get what he wanted. He couldn't help but curse: "Tian! Seventy thousand!"
"eat!"
“I want some too!”
"Hey, I've been waiting for your Jue Zhang 70,000 for a long time!"
"Oh my! Three shots in one go, you gambler, give me your money now!"
"Yeah, yeah, don't play dumb, weigh the water quickly!"
"Ti! Are you kidding me? I've lost all night. Do I have to be so unlucky?"
Shi Hengliang pushed the cards down angrily, his facial features distorted.
In fact, his luck at the poker table in recent days has been so bad that he has begun to question his life. Just last night, he not only lost all the 6,000 yuan he had on him, but he also owed more than 20,000 yuan to his three poker friends.
However, Shi Hengliang was so overwhelmed by the loss that he didn't even think about what 20,000 or 30,000 yuan meant. He rolled up his sleeves and shouted, "Just keep on paying. I don't believe I can't make back my money!"
Several other card-playing friends were also businessmen and often played cards with Shi Hengliang. When they heard that he was going to owe a gambling debt, they immediately became unhappy.
"Gambler Liang, you can owe any money except gambling debts. You know the rules of the game. You haven't even paid the 20,000 yuan yet, and you still want to keep buying on credit?"
Shi Hengliang retorted angrily: "Why, are you afraid that I don't have money to give? I have plenty of money!"
A fellow card player with a mustache teased him, "Gambler Liang, I heard your brother has gone back to nurse his child. Now that Shi Jin Ji has fallen into the hands of your sister-in-law, where can you get the money from?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Hengliang was even more angry than if he had lost the bet: "Ti! She is a woman and she wants to be in charge of our Shi family's business? It's just wishful thinking! I tell you, Shijinji will be handed over to me sooner or later, and I have recently stockpiled a large amount of steel, just waiting to make a fortune. By then, let alone tens of thousands of dollars, I can even take out hundreds of thousands!"
Although it is still 1998, in the southeastern coastal areas, especially in Baiyun, a frontier of reform and opening up, any businessman with some connections and skills is worth millions.
People who do business are often unwilling to settle down and have a strong gambling nature. They gamble big in all kinds of card games, and there are many examples of people losing their entire fortunes because of this.
But doing business is gambling in its nature, so this kind of thing often continues despite repeated bans.
In this era when most ordinary people's salary is only two or three hundred yuan, the money lost by many wealthy bosses in one night is equivalent to their salary for ten years without food or drink.
Don't think this is an exaggeration. In this crazy era, many things have already exceeded the imagination of normal people.
Just like in 1996, a certain thief king of the century lost 600 million in Macau in one night. When he placed the bet, he was too lazy to count and just used a tape measure to measure the height. He was so arrogant.
People like Shi Hengliang who have no self-control are also long-time gamblers. Although he does not have 600 million to lose, it does not prevent him from putting on an arrogant face in public.
Several card players looked at each other and exchanged glances tacitly.
"Why are you hoarding steel? Is there any chance of making a fortune?"
"Brother Liang, we have been playing cards together for many years. Let's make money together. Please give some news to the brothers."
"Yes, tell us. As long as your information is correct, Liang, we can erase the money you lost just now like writing with chalk."
It was just a small amount of tens of thousands of dollars, Shi Hengliang didn't care at all. However, he was very vain, and was flattered by the three people's words. He soon lost himself in the calls of "Brother Liang".
Shi Hengliang smoked the cigarette handed to him by his poker buddy, and with a twist of his mouth, he started talking in front of the three people: "Hey, don't say that Brother Liang has benefits but doesn't take care of you. Have you heard about what happened in Nanwan?"
Several poker players thought Shi Hengliang was going to reveal some shocking secret, but unexpectedly, he was talking about Nanwan, and they immediately lost interest.
"Didn't the government say they were investigating the South Bay issue and haven't made a final decision yet?"
Shi Hengliang said disdainfully: "What a bullshit investigation, this matter has actually been decided a long time ago."
Hearing Shi Hengliang's confident words, several people's eyes lit up and their minds instantly became active.
"Oh my god, no wonder you hoard steel!"
"You are going to be rich. When the construction starts in South Bay, the demand for steel will definitely increase. You can sell it for a good price. That would be great."
Shi Hengliang became more and more proud as they listened to his words.
"No, no, what's there to be proud of? I'm just running a small business. I had to borrow the money for the steel from someone else as a bridge loan. I can only make one or two million at most after selling it. That's nothing. The most important thing for me now is to get my brother's company back. Shi Jin Ji belongs to our Shi family, and there's no reason for outsiders to control it."
