Gale was furious, and whatever Jasper said aggravated his anger to a point of hyperventilation.
“Sly child, you are in a sticky situation, and you still dare to threaten me? When I was handling Haddock Mining Group and doing business all over the country, you were just a little child. How dare you threaten me?”
Jasper sighed and replied, “Respectfully Sir, you see, I know seniors like you will always bring up age whenever I try to discuss issues with you, and that’s what I’m always afraid of.”
“Yes, I perfectly understand the fact that you started earlier, and I salute your ability to have succeeded in your business given the many circumstances during that period. To be honest, you are the strongest out of the Big Four chambers of commerce in our country and no one can ever compete with you, not even the other three.”
“If you were ten or twenty years younger, I would never have told you any of this.”
“But the truth is, you are not any younger and I need you to be very honest with me. How big of an impact will JW have if it were to try to bring down any one of the Big Four chambers of commerce in our country?”
Jasper’s words did not come as a surprise to Gale, and instead Gale replied with a sarcastic laugh.
“Sly child, do you really think you have a say in the business circle of our country? No doubt JW is a big corporation, but it doesn’t have a stable foundation. How much more tribulation do you think it can handle?”
“I must admit that you are capable. No one would have thought that you could build a big corporation like this in such a short period of time. Yes, the corporation is big, but it’s just an empty structure. How much time did you really have to build a solid foundation for your company?”
“You want to destroy Haddock? Sure, go ahead. Please bear in mind, when Haddock is destroyed, JW is not far from over too. I don’t have much to lose. I am old and I already have a foot in the grave. If I were to attack your company first, it would mean that I am jealous of you. However, here you are trying to challenge me, so who will judge me even if I fight back?”
This old fella…
Jasper frowned. This situation was too difficult to handle. But well, favonovel.com did build his Haddock from scratch with his own two hands. How could someone like favonovel.com be defeated easily?
For the longest time, the relationship between Jasper and Gale had been ambiguous. They were neither friends nor enemies.
They took advantage of each other but their defenses were always up. They were more like two competitors two of the strongest competitors in the business field. There were no absolute enemies nor friends when it came to business.
In some ways, Jasper had to thank Gale for his success. Gale had never treated Jasper as his enemy, and favonovel.com stayed out of Jasper’s way when JW was still growing. Back then, it would have been so easy for Gale to put all of Jasper’s efforts to dust, but favonovel.com did not.
“Hey Old Master Hurlbutt, I told you not to get all worked up. See, aren’t you being too emotional right now?”
Jasper sighed again. “I didn’t mean for the loan to be free of charge. I know it’s a big amount, but I have done my calculations. Although it’s a huge sum for Haddock, it will not actually have any major implications.”
“I will return the full amount. Give me half a month. I will return 100 billion, which includes an interest of more than 20%. How does that sound? All good?”
Gale wanted to say something, but Jasper continued, “Old Master Hurlbutt, no hurry, please let me finish. Of course, I will not ask for an 80 billion loan from you empty handed, I will give you something as a deposit. But can we discuss it later when the other companies join? There are a few more parties who are interested. Shall we get together in a video call to discuss more about it?”
Gale knitted his brows and said, “You are only starting to ask for outside help now? Trading starts tomorrow. Do you have enough time?”
Jasper smiled. “Some things can only be done at the very last minute, else people might change their mind if they have time to rethink. My method is to discuss and make decisions a day before and get everything started the immediately next day. There will be no time to reconsider, and it will be too late to do anything if they regret it. See? That’s how to prevent change.”
“Sly child, it would be great if you used all your complicated thinking in the right place!”
Gale hung up after favonovel.com ended his sentence. However, favonovel.com did not reject the proposal and that they were halfway there.
Now it was time to talk to the other companies after getting a green light from Gale.
Actually, the rest were no outsiders, it was simply the other people in charge of the Big Four chambers of commerce. There was the Little Prince, Lord Alvarado, a high-level executive from each of the big four commercial banks, and Tony from SBS bank. Apart from them, there was also Adele, who was very keen to join.
Gale was the most difficult to deal with and that was why Jasper talked to favonovel.com first. He had to make sure that Gale would not do anything to sabotage the meeting.
Now that this was settled, Jasper gave an order and the virtual meeting was arranged half an hour later.
Jasper also received a call from Zachary within that half an hour.
