At most, the Southface River’s North Bank project was an unexpected win for Jasper.
With it, he would attract more attention to the South Bank project, and the villa district in the North Bank would also be greatly anticipated in extension.
One could imagine that once the South Bank became the economic center of the province, the North Bank’s villa district on the other side of the river would thus become a place where the top wealthy people in the area, or even the entire Southeast Province, would gather.
It was the same piece of land, yet it churned out completely different results in the Hull family’s and Jasper’s hands.
Not that the Hulls had not thought of turning the North Bank into a villa district. Since the Hulls had managed to make a name for themselves among Haddock’s businesspeople and even found their footing in Waterhoof City, Jasper had never taken the Hulls to be idiots.
“The main thing is that both our families have different goals. The Hulls plan to develop the North Bank mainly to pick on our development in the South Bank. That’s why they decided on a business center plan like the South Bank to compete with us. They were only trying to overwhelm our project in the south.
“But with the North Bank’s development also up to us, we can have a business district in the south and a wealthy residential area in the north, so to shift the focus onto the Southface River. With developments on both left and right of the river, we’ll create a high-end district within Southeast Province.”
Jasper and Dawson came to a tacit agreement.
The North Bank project had thus fallen into JW Real Estate’s pockets.
“But the most important thing right now is to completely destroy the Hull family,” Jasper spoke calmly as he looked at the lush green land in the villa’s backyard.
“I’m afraid that’s something we can’t do on our own.”
Wendy had already retired for the night, and Jasper had sent Julian out on an errand. Dawson was the only one by his side.
Hearing Dawson, Jasper replied calmly, “Undoubtedly. After all, our power only goes as far within the Southeast Province, and our influence will only lessen once we’re outside.
“To completely crush the Hulls, we’ll need to get into Waterhoof City. That’s where they’ve set up camp. They’ll be the hosts there while we’ll be their guests. It’ll be much more difficult to follow out with our plan over there.”
Dawson furrowed his brows. “With the information that we have now, the Hulls have completely given up their traditional business of tea-making within the country these two years and are focusing all their manpower into import and export trade.”
“The economy of the country has been flourishing these years and there’s a lot of goods with more demand than supply. They’ve earned a lot more from that, but there’s still no increase in the supply of said goods. That guarantees the wealth of people working with import and export trade,” Jasper spoke calmly.
That was the truth. According to his memory from his past life, the following eight years since the new millennium were classified as the golden eight years of the country’s import and export trade.
As long as one had the connections to import goods from overseas, then even idiots could earn money without doing anything else.
Such a profitable business was then greatly sought out and its wave only receded when the Mainland started to use the real estate industry and railway-like foundational developments as its pillar to divert attention to domestic demand, bringing the country on a path of infrastructure frenzy.
“I don’t think there would be anything I could do if they’re making a fortune in a different industry, but I might have an idea if this is the import and export trade we’re talking about,” Jasper replied.
Dawson looked at Jasper in surprise but did not comment on it.
After a series of events, he knew that Jasper was no longer the humble stock genius he knew before.
The man now had his forces and secrets, and this was all the necessary development a business hero had to go through.
Even this fight with the Hull family was an experience he had to go through.
If it were not the Hulls, it would just be another family by another name. If it were not because of Wendy, then it would be due to some other reason of the sort.
No hero made a name for themselves with peace. The birth of a new force came with the downfall of a few, if not many, old forces.
“As long as you have a plan, then I won’t give too much input on it. Like I said, do what you think is right, and ask if you need it,” Dawson told Jasper.
Jasper nodded seriously. “Got it.”
Smiling, Dawson clapped Jasper’s shoulder and stood to leave.
Dawson had a change of heart after this incident for he realized that he did not have many opportunities to spend time with his daughter.
Perhaps it was to make up for it, or perhaps so that he could watch over Wendy as she recovered from her emotional trauma, but as long as he was free during these two days, he would spend time with Wendy.
By doing so, he had also managed to find time for Jasper.
Jasper was deep in thought for a moment after Dawson left. He decided to call Zachary who was far away in Harbor City.
With Zachary, there was no need for Jasper to speak too politely or apple-polish. He went straight to the point. “Uncle Law, would you be interested in doing a business in the Mainland that guarantees at least 500 million Somer Dollars per year?”
Dawson was right. They were not strong enough to completely destroy the Hull family themselves.
This was not called having an inferior complex but rather having a clear understanding of reality.
Not to mention that it was no easy feat to destroy the Hull family in such a short time while ensuring that the Hull family had no chance to fight back.
Jasper never had the plan to fight them alone with his bare hands.
It would be a shame not to use the resources the Law family could provide.
“What’s the plan?” As expected, Zachary’s interest was piqued by Jasper’s proposal.
“As of right now, the Harbor City Group is fighting both openly and in secret with the local factions in Swallow Capital. It’s going to be a long war, so there won’t be any sign of wins or losses for a while.
“The part where Harbor City lacks the most is that they have no roots in the Mainland, so I’ve come to provide you a place where you can set foot in the import and export trade. Do you remember the Hull family, Uncle Law?”
Jasper smiled brightly and confidently.
Jasper alone was enough to pull the Law family into a partnership.
However, Jasper was still very aware that the Law family was not his. He could not take advantage of all the help they provided if he wanted to maintain this working partnership with them.
Everyone would only be satisfied and happy if both sides reaped benefits and rewards from the partnership.
Zachary smiled. “Of course, I do. What do you have in mind?”
“By getting rid of the Hull family, there’ll be an empty spot in the import and export trading market. The Law family can take all of that since I’m not interested in that industry. But I want all of the Hull family’s wealth!”
