170-171 Suspiciously Clever
Having just read the Mo City Evening News, Su Qingzhang was so furious he could hardly hold his soup bowl.
Yan Wuxu picked up the newspaper and read word for word: "Mo City’s tallest skyscraper erges dramatically, Parliant Building adds twenty stories, becoming the tallest in Mo City and even the whole country."
Before Su Ziceng’s rebirth, the tallest building in the country was Bianjing City’s Trade Tower, and Mo City’s tallest was the Su Family’s "Shengshi Huasha," which to so extent represented the Su Family’s transcendent status in Mo City. But now things were different, with the Fei Family-backed Parliant Building breaking this presud continuing trend.
"Where does the Fei Family get their financial power?" At the dinner table, aside from Su Qingzhang, only Chang i was unaware.
"That’s what I’d like to know too." Su Qingzhang had lost his appetite for soup; Mr. Fei’s campaign for chairman must have cost a great deal of money, coupled with prior investnts with the Hang Family in the seaside project, the internal liquidity of the Fei Family should have been drained by now.
Building new skyscrapers at that ti in the country was ti-consuming and costly, both in terms of maintenance and returns, there was great uncertainty.
Yan Wuxu carefully concealed the joy in his eyes as he looked at the news; Fei Qing wasn’t bragging this ti, saying that the Fei Family would beco the biggest financial conglorate in Mo City and even the whole country.
Chang Chi just sipped her soup, finding so schadenfreude in Su Qingzhang’s furious reaction. Fei Family’s money ca from Shang Yin. Shang Yin was like an inexhaustible ATM, though Chang Chi, following him all this while, could not pinpoint where his money really ca from, but his extravagant daily expenses and almost no investnt in real business, indeed puzzled her.
"I can’t let Old Man Fei make a mockery of ," Su Qingzhang knew, the Parliant Building was intentionally raised by twenty floors, this move by the Fei Family was to infuriate him to death. After the addition, Parliant Building was exactly eight floors taller than the Golden Coast project invested in by the Su and Wen families, standing at sixty-nine floors.
"So what can we do?" Chang i understood Su Qingzhang’s temperant; he definitely wouldn’t accept defeat now, but the Golden Coast project was already underway, including the cash and engineering designs which had all been finalized.
"We must figure sothing out," Su Qingzhang had the servants clear the dining bowls, pacing anxiously in the hall.
"What else can be done?" Chang i was short of ideas, the Fei Family’s move indeed caught them off guard.
"Add more floors, if the Fei Family can add floors, why can’t we, add thirty more, no, thirty-nine more, since we are building, let’s construct a hundred-storey building, I want the Su Family’s na to be at the highest point in the world," Su Qingzhang was boiling with enthusiasm for this idea.
"Qingzhang, this isn’t a joke, adding nearly forty stories ans re-approval, construction delays, corresponding financial losses due to work stoppage, and where do we allocate the budget for the additional thirty-nine levels," Chang i, having managed finances for a while and being a woman, was more ticulous than Su Qingzhang, she didn’t approve of his engaging in these pointless struggles.
"What do you know? The Fei Family has already bullied us to our faces, do you know about the latest municipal proposal Old Man Fei raised in the City Council? He plans to strictly regulate heavy polluting industries, especially mining. Imposing heavy taxes on the corresponding enterprises, isn’t this clearly a targeted attack on the Su Family," Su Qingzhang had also heard so rumors, he needed to let Mr. Fei know, he, Su Qingzhang, wasn’t easy to ss with either.
"But our inco this year..." Chang i glanced at Chang Chi and Yan Wuxu, gesturing them to leave.
Chang Chi looked reproachfully at her mother, she even had to guard against her own daughter, but Chang Chi also resolved that if she heard any news about the Su Family, she would definitely inform Shang Yin, especially since the future of the Su Family was to be handed to Su Ziceng. Yan Wuxu stood up, saying, "I think I heard the child crying, Qingzhang, he must be missing daddy, rember to co over later," after saying that, she gave Chang i a stern look and went upstairs.
"Stop all pending investnt projects on hand, sell a few small coal mines, and discuss further with the Wen family. The Wen family hasn’t been too close with the Fei Family, now with the Fei Family climbing up to Parliant, it’s also not beneficial for them," Su Qingzhang thought about how to persuade the Wen family to contribute more funds.
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