222: Chapter 222: Holy Shit!
Looting in the Chaos!
222: Chapter 222: Holy Shit!
Looting in the Chaos!
Wang Taixiong cried his heart out, at a loss for words.
Huang Siwei grabbed the phone, turned on the speakerphone, and replied:
“Sorry, Mr.
Wu, we’ve had a little accident over here and might not be able to make it for now.”
“An accident?
Was there a car crash?
Did you call an ambulance?” Wu Jie asked in an anxious tone.
Huang Siwei gritted his teeth and said, “No, it’s sothing else.”
“Damn it!!”
Wu Jie roared:
“Everything was agreed upon yesterday.
Six billion seven hundred million to purchase eighty percent of the shares.
How could you suddenly go back on your word today?”
“If you wanted to renege, you should have said so earlier!
The negotiation eting is about to start, and you tell you’re not coming?
Are you playing gas with ?”
“It’s one thing to toy with , but to ss with the company, have you grown tired of living?
Damn it, do you not realize that until the acquisition is complete, you’re still subordinates?
Are you trying to rebel and reach for the heavens?”
“Where’s Wang Taixiong?
That son of a turtle just knows how to cry.
Is he sobbing his heart out?
Tell him to pick up the phone right now; he must give an explanation, or else, I’ll order the company to be shut down this instant, and everyone will be suspended for an investigation!!”
Suspension!!
As he cried, Wang Taixiong felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
Money lost can be earned again.
But if the company shuts down, how will they continue to produce films and launder money?
If they went further and fired Wang Taixiong and others, years of hard work would completely go to waste.
“No!
Please, Jie!
I’m begging you!”
Suddenly, like a man driven mad, Wang Taixiong stopped crying, stood up, snatched the phone, and cried out as he pleaded:
“Jie, it’s all my fault, brother.
I didn’t an to play you or the company.
I really ran into an accident!”
Wu Jie asked coldly:
“What kind of accident?
Is soone backing out, or did you suddenly have a disagreent within your ranks?”
Wang Taixiong straightened up.
With tear-filled eyes, he looked around at everyone—Xu Changshan, Fang Guozhi, Mu Huan, Mu En…
All of them were staring at him with different expressions.
The three major families are major money launderers, and naturally, they contributed the most to the fundraising.
A fire turns everything to ashes; can one not feel utterly heartbroken and pained?
But what about Wang Taixiong himself?
Wasn’t he betting all his assets too?
Heartache surged from deep within as Wang Taixiong clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
“We…
we have so minor differences for the ti being, but please believe , I will resolve them soon!”
Without waiting for Wu Jie to speak, Wang Taixiong imdiately hung up.
“What should we do, everyone?”
“The group is already prepared for the acquisition negotiations, but they’ll only wait for us until nine-thirty!”
“It’s eight fifteen now, we have a little over an hour!”
Wang Taixiong, clutching the phone, looked around with a mournful gaze.
Nobody spoke; everyone was silent as if they had beco mute.
“Don’t just stand there!”
“I’m begging you!
Brothers!”
“This is a rare opportunity.
Without this company, laundering money will beco much harder in the future!”
“The money is piled up at the venue, and you all have people guarding it.
I haven’t embezzled nor set any fire!”
“I want to complete this acquisition more than anyone else.
You all feel the pain, but I feel it even more deeply!”
“I’m begging you all, for heaven’s sake, say sothing!”
With a thud,
Wang Taixiong dropped to his knees, his eyes pleading as he looked at the powerful figures surrounding him.
Tanglong Culture dia was a company he’d single-handedly brought back from the brink of bankruptcy to its current grand scale.
He had deep emotional ties to the company, was full of confidence about its future, and was keen on going public for fundraising and rampant money laundering.
Alas…
How could he possibly co up with several billion for the acquisition now?
Ti was slipping away…
Wang Taixiong’s heart bled with every passing mont.
Suddenly!
Xu Feng, who had co to watch the excitent, strolled around and ca back.
“Damn, tens of billions burned clean!”
“It’s just a pity I arrived one step too late, otherwise I’d have to see just how spectacular it would be to watch several billion burn!”
Xu Feng’s mocking words were like a bayonet, viciously poking at everyone’s sore spot.
Mu En’s face turned iron blue as he roared at Wang Taixiong, who was kneeling on the ground without getting up:
“Billions have gone up in flas and you still want to acquire the company?
So, by our calculation, wouldn’t that be tantamount to spending over a hundred billion?”
“Yeah!
67 billion to buy an 80% stake is still a sure win, but to add more, it becos 134 billion…
that’s…
that’s way too expensive!”
Mu Huan said indignantly.
Wang Taixiong imdiately retorted:
“Even if it is over a hundred billion, so what?
Once we beco the majority shareholders, with plenty of hype and thes, it would be easy to reach a valuation of hundreds of billions.
Those internet companies just need to set up a website and within two or three years, they can hit a market value of twenty or thirty billion.
What are we afraid of?”
“If you all have reservations, then I’ll join you in this gamble with my life!
If the company doesn’t go public within three years, if I haven’t made everyone’s investnt back with a huge profit, I’ll pay with my life.
Can you trust now?”
Gamble with his life?
Several people’s faces tightened.
Wang Taixiong was really going all in this ti!
But still, many people remained silent.
However, Xu Feng, who had been enjoying the commotion, stood up.
“Get up, Mr.
Wang.
You’re known as a big shot in the entertainnt industry.
How can you dean yourself by kneeling?”
“Talking nonsense with these short-sighted fools won’t persuade them to give you more money.
It’s because when people are poor, their ambitions are short!”
“But the Xu Family is different.
We’ve successfully invested in several Internet startups, all of which have gone public in the US!”
“Any one of them has a valuation over tens of billions, so if they don’t see your potential, I’ll invest!”
“Isn’t it just 67 billion?
As long as you’re willing to cooperate, I can get the money to you quickly!”
As he spoke, Xu Feng glanced coldly around him.
“As for those present, if you want to co to us for money laundering in the future, sorry, but there will be a 20% handling fee.
Not a penny less!”
As soon as his words fell, soone imdiately objected:
“What the fuck!
You’re really exploiting the situation!
We also put in money; we’re shareholders too!”
Xu Feng sneered, “Your money has already been burned to ashes before it could go towards acquisition.
What kind of bullshit shareholders are you?”
Xu Changshan and Fang Guozhi exchanged glances, both sensing trouble.
If Xu Feng beca the behind-the-scenes major shareholder, the money laundering channels they had operated for years would be completely out of control.
In dealing with Xu Feng, not only would the fees be high, but the risks would be greater and they would be at his rcy.
To rebuild the money laundering channel would require ti and a sufficiently strong backing.
Everyone present, since they could earn dirty money, was certainly no fool.
They knew full well that they couldn’t let Xu Feng have control over their lifeline, or else the future trouble would be endless.
“Wang Taixiong, don’t forget you cooperated with us first!”
“Yeah!
We’ve already raised money once.
Even if it’s burned, we can just transfer funds again, right?”
“We joined the first round of financing.
If you, Mr.
Xu, want to co in, then wait for the second round of financing!”
“Give an account number, I’ll transfer the funds imdiately according to last night’s figures!”
“ too!
Hurry up!”
…
The mood was heated, every second counted.
Ti is money!
Wang Taixiong had no ti to go ho to shower.
He washed himself off with a hose and found soone of a similar build to swap clothes with.
Various powers recomnded each other, forming a negotiation team led by Wang Taixiong, who hurried to the group’s headquarters.
However…
On the way to the downtown area, they encountered the morning rush hour, moving stop and go—it was terribly congested.
Ti kept slipping by, and the 9:30 AM deadline was drawing closer and closer.
In the car, Wang Taixiong was sweating profusely; he was truly frantic.
He made several phone calls, but Wu Jie didn’t answer, so he sent urgent ssages.
“Bro, please don’t cancel the eting!
I’m bringing people over right now, I’m begging you, hold the eting for !”
“Could you do a favor?
Let catch this negotiation eting, and I’ll throw in an extra ten million as your fee!”
“Bro, can you reply?
You there?”
Buzz!
The phone vibrated faintly as Wu Jie replied.
“Transfer twenty million to this card, and I can hold them off for one hour!”
Following the ssage was a photo of a bank card.
An hour?
Twenty million?
Fuck!
That’s really taking advantage of soone’s misfortune!
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