When Jasper said that, Zachary, who had already informed him about the situation, felt his eyebrows tremble. Unexpectedly, Jasper’s opinion was so direct and pessimistic.
Were the four rich families in Harbor City so weak even after joining forces?
Zachary felt that Jasper was underestimating the influence of all of the big shots in this room.
The other four heads’ expressions did not change, and one could not tell how they were feeling.
After a long time, Spencer said, “Why do you say that? You must know that we’re much stronger than the locals in the Mainland, whether it’s capital or experience we’re talking about it. We’ll still have a great advantage, no?”
Jasper laughed and said, “We can’t simply calculate this sort of thing based on the advantages we have in our accounts. Naturally, I believe that the strength of those locals can hardly compare to the four rich families. However, the problem right now is that since this is such an important matter. It would be such a headache even for the higher-ups to distribute the profits.
“You must know that the way we do things in the Mainland is different. A lot of things cannot be summed up based on experience in doing business abroad. Moreover, once commercial interests are sufficiently involved, political forces will also leave the playing field. This happens even in the west.
“Regardless of whether it’s the local groups or the four rich families of Harbor City, whoever wants to dominate this huge profit will inevitably attract dissatisfaction from the higher-ups.”
Jasper’s fingers made a circle in front of him and then he cut it from the middle, saying, “The technique of checks and balances is also the technique of the emperor.”
After hearing these words, Joe laughed and said, “Your opinion is the same as the result of our previous discussion.”
Jasper looked at Joe. He did not think that Joe was forcibly acting like a poser with his remarks.
Would the four rich families be fools if they had status and wealth of this level?
Each of them was smarter than anyone else. Naturally, there was no need to say more about this kind of unsound truth.
Jasper knew that the truly intractable problems for the heads were yet to come.
Sure enough, Joe immediately said, “So in your opinion, how do we approach this and how much is reasonable?”
Jasper sighed in his heart. This was a difficult problem, and it would be difficult to predict no matter who answered it.
If it was just the Laws, then it would be easy to solve.
However, the problem now was that there were four rich families and there were many problems within this unformed alliance.
What was more, they were talking about sharing this with the locals now.
This was what the higher-ups had to consider, so how could it be Jasper’s turn to rack his brains about this?
However, this question was brought to Jasper now and he could not pretend that he did not hear it. After a moment of silence, he said, “My opinion is to take less.”
The words ‘take less’ caused the heads of the four families to frown.
Jasper’s answer was obviously not in their interest.
However, everyone stayed calm and was waiting for Jasper to explain.
“Now our greatest advantage is the wealth in our accounts or so-called experience. These people are not lacking in those as well, at least the gap is not too big to be considered incomparable.
“Our real advantage is that the higher-ups hope to establish a good cooperative relationship with us so that we can return to the Mainland to invest. On one hand, it’s to drive the economic development of the Mainland. And on the other hand, it’s also to accelerate the integration of the two places.
“This is our real advantage, and to maximize this advantage, what we need to do is not to compete with others, but to take what we can and then put more energy into other regions and industries in the Mainland.”
With a confident smile on his face, Jasper said, “As long as we reveal this, we will gain a favorable impression from the higher-ups and the local faction will owe us a favor.”
