However, his dreams were pleasant, but reality no longer afforded him that opportunity.
"Chairman Huang, it appears you have forgotten that to purchase that batch of rough stones, Fu Lin Group has already mortgaged all its fixed assets, even the Fu Lin Building has long been pledged. What do you think you have left that’s valuable enough for the bank to lend you money?" Liao Jinglin said softly.
The chairman of Fu Lin Group’s face turned ashen, his mouth moving for a long time without being able to utter a single word.
"You, give me some time to think, yes, time to think. Three days, give me three days!" His eyes lit up as if he had grasped at the last straw.
Watching the chairman of Fu Lin Group’s frenzied demeanor, Liao Jinglin didn’t say much, but simply nodded lightly, "Fine, three days. I’ll give you three days. If you cannot come up with double the price to buy back the stocks, then Fu Lin Group will completely belong to Xuanjin Yu Jade!"
Liao Jinglin gently tapped the table with his hand, his deep gaze sweeping over everyone before turning to leave, with An Zhifeng and his group following behind.
A group of people arrived with haste and left just as quickly. In just half an hour, a significant change had taken place from top to bottom within Fu Lin Group, with the chairman and shareholders’ status hanging by a thread!
In the following three days, all the senior executives of Fu Lin Group started frantically seeking connections, trying every trick in the book to obtain loans from banks.
However, it was as if the presidents of all the major banks had agreed among themselves; they had only one answer, no!
No matter how they pleaded or how they exhausted their lips, whether they gave red envelopes or even offered villas, these bank presidents still replied with two words, no!
Little did they know, as these presidents refused them, their hearts bled incessantly. A great villa, a fat red envelope, they could only watch and not touch. But compared to those fearsome and sinister Gods of Slaughter, their own lives were more important.
Thus, Fu Lin Group tried everything for three whole days, but couldn’t wring a single penny out of the banks.
On the fourth day, Liao Jinglin arrived with An Zhifeng and others as promised. By now, all the employees of Fu Lin Group had heard the news and stopped their work in progress, watching them as they entered the elevator.
This was their future boss! Fu Lin Group was about to change hands!
The meeting room on the top floor had already lost its previous clamor; it was now deadly silent, with all shareholders’ faces ashen.
A burst of footsteps approached, and the meeting room door was pushed open with force. Liao Jinglin and An Zhifeng, bathed in sunlight, entered, casting an oppressive feeling over those who watched.
"Three days have passed, gentlemen, have you gathered the money?" Liao Jinglin got straight to the point, his voice light.
The meeting room was dead silent, all shareholders including the chairman of Fu Lin Group shut their mouths and looked gloomy.
"Since that’s the case, gentlemen, please sign here," Liao Jinglin said with a light chuckle. "You see, I’ve never liked having freeloaders in a company, especially among the senior executives—the management has always been strict. I’m offering you two choices. First, Xuanjin Yu Jade will buy out your stocks at triple the price, after that, we go our separate ways, no connections whatsoever. The second option, you can linger on here, but I must warn you, I am not known for being lenient, and I may offend you in the future without meaning to, so please bear with me."
The others understood that Liao Jinglin was covertly threatening them to sell their remaining stocks to him. This way, Xuanjin Yu Jade could dominate the scene, and Fu Lin Group would thoroughly become his possession.
Excellent, very clever tactics. This was not giving them a choice; it was compelling them to climb Liangshan!
But even though the shareholders seethed with hatred, they had no other choice. Better to sell the stocks to Liao Jinglin at triple the price and be done with it than to stay here and suffer humiliation.
So, under the desperate gaze of Fu Lin Group’s former chairman, all the shareholders swiftly signed the contracts.
From that moment on, Fu Lin Group formally came under the ownership of Xuanjin Yu Jade!