“What’s the situation now?”
Henry managed to lift half of his body from the couch and asked Jasper.
“Mitch, that idiot, colluded with Conrad to transport hundreds of tons of aluminum ores from Harbor City just to trick you?”
Jasper nodded and said, “Something like that.”
“F*ck!” Henry cursed with displeasure. “Why has no one paid such a huge price to trick me before?”
“It only takes a few women to trick you,” Jasper shot back mercilessly.
“F*ck, I don’t like to hear that!” Henry roared grumpily.
“Stop shouting. It hurts my head.”
“This is all thanks to the Laws’ great influence. Your family was able to find out about this in just a few hours.
“Since they’ve spent so much effort preparing a good show, it would be such a pity if we don’t go along with their performance, don’t you think?” Jasper said meaningfully.
…
The next day, Conrad took the initiative to make a call. This time, Jasper agreed to meet him at a location.
“I think the partnership can go on,” Jasper said with a smile while looking at Conrad who was sitting across the table.
“Before that, though, I have a question.
“Aren’t you afraid that working with me will irk you when you have enmity against me?”
After hearing what Jasper said, Conrad said indifferently, “Enmity and business are two completely different things. If I can’t even draw a clear distinction between them, then why bother doing business at all?”
“Okay.” Jasper nodded, seemingly impressed by this answer.
“How will this partnership work?”
Conrad’s eyes twinkled as he said with a faint smile, “Like what we mentioned earlier, we will establish a company. I’ll hold 60% shares and you 40%. We’ll invest according to the ratio. You will contribute 2.3 billion while I will fork out the remaining three billion.”
“The interests that belong to the company after that will also be divided according to equity.”
Jasper nodded and said, “Not bad. This is a standard and reasonable way to distribute it. However, I don’t know anything about the mineral industry. What about the sales channels?”
“Don’t worry about the sales channels. I’ve already contacted several state-owned mining companies. As soon as the company is established, we can then sign a business contract with them as our suppliers and operate according to the market price.”
“In other words, you’ve done everything from exploration to mining to sales and I only need to fork out money before waiting for my share of profits?” Jasper asked.
Conrad looked at Jasper and asked indifferently, “You’re afraid that I’ll set you up?”
Jasper laughed. “Would you believe me if I say I’m not afraid?”
“I don’t believe you.” Conrad shook his head and raised his brows, saying, “I explained the reason to you earlier. Had it not been for insufficient funds, I wouldn’t have shared this with anyone—let alone you.
“At present, if I want 60% of these benefits, I will have to let someone have the 40%. In addition to that, I don’t have many candidates to choose from. After deliberating for a very long time, I think you’re the most suitable candidate of all.
“If you’re worried, then I can let you handle the aspects of legal representation, management, and even the signing of the sales contracts.”
“In that case, I can kick you out anytime. You’re not afraid of that?” Jasper asked.
“Would you believe me if I say that I’m not afraid?” Conrad replied to Jasper with his own words.
“I don’t believe you.” Jasper laughed.
“I’ll be in charge of setting up collateral,” Conrad said.
“Collateral? We have enough money. Why would you still need to set up collateral?” Jasper asked, raising his eyebrows slightly.
Smiling, Conrad said, “Do you think we can just cash out three billion so casually? I don’t have a listed company to be my backer like you. I need to put up the entire company’s equity as collateral. The loan will be at least 2.5 billion.”
The company was short of funds, and it seemed perfectly normal to apply for bank loans.
Jasper looked unruffled when he listened to Conrad’s words and said, “I thought you’d fork out three billion yourself and inject it into the company, but from what you’re saying right now, I will be the one forking out a large sum of money whereas you won’t have to pay anything?”
Conrad replied calmly, “You can’t say that. Is it not enough that I have put up the entire aluminum mine as collateral? You must know that the only reason why our partnership can work and the bank loans can be approved is that fundamentally, this aluminum mine exists, no?”
Jasper pondered for a moment and said, “I need to do a field trip.”
“Of course.” Conrad agreed readily.
“We can go anytime as long as you’re free.”
“I won’t be there. I won’t understand anything anyway so I’ll be going there for nothing. I’ll send relevant experts, though. I just need a bit of help from you when the time comes, that’s all,” Jasper said.
Conrad replied flatly, “Inform me when you’re done with the arrangements. I’ll be ready at any time to serve your men.”
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