Mid Mountain Residential Area in Harbor City. Kayden pushed open the door to the study in the J. Langdon’s villa.
In this villa, only two people were allowed to enter Half the Harbor Langdon’s study without knocking. One was Half the Harbor Langdon himself, and the other was his successor, Kayden. Even Kayden’s siblings did not enjoy such privileges.
“You’re here…”
Half the Harbor Langdon, who was reading the file, raised his eyelid, glanced at Kayden, and said quietly.
“Father, tonight’ s dinner went smoothly. After you left, I sent all the wealthy businessmen home, but they never made any promises.” Kayden sat across from Half the Harbor Langdon and said.
Half the Harbor Langdon smiled, took off his glasses, and said, “This is normal, but even if you don’t say it, they have already proven their position with actions. This is enough.”
“Just now, I received a call from the United States. Our plan was a success. Now we only have to wait for the announcement tomorrow.”
Kayden pondered slightly and said, “Is it really okay for us to do this?”
“No, and we’ll have a pretty big problem too,” Half the Harbor Langdon answered directly.
“So..?”
Seeing his son’s hesitation, Half the Harbor Langdon said gently, “When we’re doing business, we’ll either do business in the east of the city or the south of the city. In many cases, we can’t do business on both sides together because there is a problem in terms of strength. There is also the problem of the east and south sides of the city not liking each other.”
“But aren’t we opportunists if we do this?” Kayden asked unwillingly.
“Yes we are, but so what?”
Half the Harbor Langdon did not care about this and asked straightforwardly, “If the business in the east of the city is not good, then we’ll go to the south of the city. If the business in the south of the city is not good, we’ll go to the east of the city. A businessman doesn’t look at relationships when they’re doing business, but interest.”
“But father, you said before that we should focus on investing in the mainland market…” Kayden was still hesitant.
“The mainland is more realistic than businessmen.”
Half the Harbor Langdon’s eyes shone with wisdom. He said, “The mainland needs investment. They need businessmen from Harbor City or Somerland descents from overseas like us to bring back US Dollars and boost the mainland economy.”
“Under such a premise, the mainland will not care too much if we act out on our own.”
While talking, Half the Harbor Langdon walked around Kayden, patted him on the shoulder, and said, “Kayden, you are the successor I cultivated. Among my sons, I have always been most satisfied with you. You resemble me in all aspects.”
“However, there’s one thing you lack. You’ve never been poor or experienced hardships. You’ve never experienced the toil of attracting customers in the train station only to get looked down on because you need to sell plastic flowers that’ll only make you a profit of 5 cents. Your throat would have started smoking because you’ve been hollering for the whole day, and yet, you’d still be too poor for food and can only eat bread or starve.”
“Hence, you’ve not savage enough. You have to be savage if you’re in this line of business.”
“The mainland needs us to stimulate the economy and we can make a huge sum of money too, so why not? Why wouldn’t the mainland welcome us?”
“At the end of the day, if we have enough strength, we’ll have enough chips to play with the dealer on any betting table. If we don’t, of course, the situation would be different, but now…”
“We can, and we have to do it with great fanfare. Who can do anything to us?”
Kayden nodded his head slowly and replied, “I understand, Father.”
