Chapter 385: Eating Itley
At Grand Wood Manor, located in the heart of Orlando County, luxury cars drove in through the main entrance, parked in a dedicated parking lot, and then the heads of the three major car company families got out of the cars one by one. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
George was waiting here in the parking lot, he watched the three middle-aged people get out of the car, greeted them here with a smile, and greeted them in a friendly manner, and then George took them to the lawn of the manor, where tables and chairs had been arranged, the four of them sat down, George looked at the three of them and sighed: "Richard, Durant and Marshall, three old fellows, how long do you say that our four families have not sat at the same table like this?"
This sentence also made the three major automobile company families feel a lot of emotion, because since they and the Big Wood family completely fell out half a century ago with the introduction of blacks as the fuse, although the business of the four families is close to overlapping, their patriarchs have never sat together and talked about it properly.
Maybe they had contact privately for the benefit of the Itley Consortium, but at least on the surface, these four families have gone their separate ways, and in the memories of the four of them, there has never been a face-to-face contact between their father and the patriarch of the other family.
"Everyone is obviously in the same city, maybe the distance from my house to your house is only one kilometer at most, and there is still a lot of commercial cooperation between our families, but no one can let go of the rift at the beginning, and no one is willing to take that step first, what a strange and unreasonable thing this is, I am afraid that it is difficult for anyone to understand when I say it, but he really happened. ”
Richard, the patriarch of the Tefu family, said helplessly: "Maybe this relationship between our two sides is an important reason why Itley has very advantageous resources, but it has never been able to compete with other consortia, and even Chicago, which sells corn and tractors in the west, and Cleveland, which mines and makes steel and oil in the east, can easily suppress us." ”
"Not only that, but we are almost destroying this beautiful city ourselves!"
This time it was Durant of General Motors who spoke, and he sighed and said: "I remember that in the beginning, Itley was a city founded by Mediterranean and Anglo-Saxons, and only these two peoples lived here, so Yatley could become a car kingdom, but with the continuous entry of blacks, look at what has become of this place?
Finally, Chrysler's Marshall also said: "Yes, our family has always had information in the city government, and the government's financial revenue has been decreasing for decades, and even if it had not been for this incident, it would not have been more than thirty years at most, and Itley would have gone bankrupt." ”
"So speaking of which, the Chinese man named Zhou Ming still helped us make a lot of changes. Richard said.
Looking at the words of the three major automobile company families one after another, George was silent, he really didn't know what to say, and he didn't know what mood to use with Zhou Ming.
After a few more minutes, Mayor Martin also came over, compared to the three major car company families, they had no one to greet them, after all, Martin, the mayor is black first, and his background is completely incomparable to them, so it is very good to have a housekeeper to pick it up.
Zhou Ming was the last to arrive, and Governor Edward came with Zhou Ming, and this time it was George who came with the three major automobile company families and Mayor Martin to greet him.
"Mr. Zhou Ming's arrival is very welcome! This is the glory of the Great Wood family and this estate!" said George.
As a core member of the Kendini family, Edward has undoubtedly seen a big scene, but now he is still very surprised when he sees this scene, because these can be said to represent the whole of Itley's politics and business, and as far as he knows, Zhou Ming has only been to Itley for a month at most, especially at the beginning, he still came with a revenge mentality, and now he has to bring down Itley for the purpose.
With such a person, he could still get this treatment in such a short period of time, Edward couldn't imagine how he could do it.
It turned out that Edward had a high opinion of Zhou Ming, but now, he felt that he was becoming more and more unable to understand Zhou Ming.
Then Zhou Ming and George greeted them, and they came to the lawn table and sat down together, Zhou Ming said directly: "I don't think I need to introduce this friend next to me, he is Mr. Edward, the governor of Massachusetts, from the Kendini family." ”
With Zhou Ming's introduction, George and the others greeted Edward, saying that they knew each other, and Zhou Ming finally said: "Then what I want to say next is that Mr. Edward invited me back to Brighton, and I promised him, so today's lunch, according to our Huaxia statement, is to be eaten to everyone, which means to eat the last meal before leaving." ”
Although George had told them before, they were all stunned when Zhou Ming said it himself.
Because no matter for George or others, their feelings towards Zhou Ming are very complicated, because from the things Zhou Ming did and these ideas, they should hate Zhou Ming to death, and they should set off firecrackers to celebrate when they hear Zhou Ming leaving.
However, no, they still have the idea of not wanting Zhou Ming to leave now, after all, now the Big Wood family is not as good as before with Zhou Ming's several plans, and even they are facing a trend of collapse, so in this case, there are other consortia outside that are pressing step by step, and without Zhou Ming sitting here, they obviously have no bottom in their hearts.
With such concerns, Richard asked, "Mr. Zhou Ming, although I can understand that Governor Edward will personally come to invite you, it must be that Brighton is in big trouble, but our Itley matter is also not over yet, can you stay for a little longer?"
With Richard taking the lead, everyone else also said word by word: "Yes, Mr. Zhou Ming, you also know that Eitley is full of holes now, if you are not here, I am afraid he will collapse immediately, besides, you have just acquired 35% of the shares of Big Wood Bank, no matter what the situation of Big Wood Bank is now, you don't want him to have any accidents, right?"
Edward was dumbfounded when he heard these words, he didn't expect Zhou Ming to become an indispensable person for Itley? This is too weird, isn't it? Is this Zhou Ming a monster?
In the face of these retention, Zhou Ming said to them with a smile: "First of all, I am very grateful for your trust in me, or your needs can satisfy my vanity, but that's all. ”
"Just kidding. Zhou Ming continued, "I think that since you trust me, then there is no problem for me to leave, because no matter what will happen to Eitli in the future, even if it goes bankrupt, it is planned, but your business will not die out because of this, but without the shackles of the city of Eitley, your land use can be more convenient, isn't it? ”
"In addition, there are other consortium families whose capital has entered, which is also a good opportunity for you to transform yourself, after all, you are the master of Itley, maybe after absorbing these foreign capitals, you will be able to transform, and finally squeeze out a certain consortium to promote the top ten consortiums. ”
When they began to get a little excited with Zhou Ming's words, Zhou Ming suddenly changed the conversation: "And you don't seem to be children anymore, right?"
This question confused George and the three major automobile company families, and they didn't understand why Zhou Ming suddenly talked about this irrelevant question when he looked forward to the future just now.
"I know that if you were to answer, you would definitely say that you are not children anymore, so since you are not children, you will be responsible for your own affairs, after all, I can only tell you what to do, but in the end, it is up to you to do it yourself. Zhou Ming said, "Besides, with the current situation of Eitley, I don't think you need to worry about it at all." ”
With Zhou Ming's assurance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Mayor Martin still asked: "Mr. Zhou Ming, we all believe in you very much, but now when we start to sell our property, those consortium families have also stopped acquiring, they won't see any clues, right?"
This concern is also the concern of others, Zhou Ming told them: "Don't worry, the destructive power of blacks is a gradual effect, and even if they are worried, it will not shake their acquisition ......"
Zhou Ming thought for a moment and then asked, "Just like you, did you think that they would destroy the city before letting the blacks in?"
George and the others shook their heads and said no, and Zhou Ming finally spread his hands and said, "Isn't this it?" so you can rest assured, now it's just that they called a timeout, and soon they will start again." And I didn't leave Itley to have contact with you completely, at least if you did run into unsolvable trouble, you could contact me at any time, just like Governor Edward. ”
This sudden joke made Edward feel a little embarrassed, but it also made the atmosphere of the scene very good.
In this way, they ate for an hour at lunch, and Zhou Ming saw Julia at the end, and after explaining that George must take care of her, he got in the car with Edward and left.
Their destination was the airport, as the Kendini family's private jet had been transferred there, which was also Edward's means of transportation when he came to Itley.
In the car, Zhou Ming looked at the backward trees on the side of the road and couldn't help but sigh a little: "I'm finally going to leave here, those guys are still reluctant to go by themselves, you must know that I am the one who bankrupted Itley! I should also be regarded as a wonderful flower here, right?"
laughed and made a joke of himself, and then Zhou Ming suddenly turned to Edward: "Next we are going to Brighton, Mr. Governor, you know that I will not make this decision for nothing, you don't forget our agreement." ”
Edward, who was unprepared, was stunned for a moment, and then he understood that Zhou Ming was talking about an exchange between Zhou Ming and him when they were in the car after they left the cemetery yesterday, and to put it simply, Zhou Ming needed a reason to help Brighton in a hurry.
Obviously, the current Zhou Ming is no longer the Zhou Ming who only came to Brighton and has nothing, not only does he have the support of the Tang family and the California consortium behind him, but it can also be seen from the lunch just now that the Itley consortium also trusts him very much, so he can completely give up Brighton, after all, the investment there is very worthless compared to San Francisco and Ateley.
Zhou Ming needed a reason to go back to Brighton, and as for Xinyi, even if there were, he had already paid it off when he ventured to Iraq, so there had to be another reason.
Thinking of this, Edward exhaled a breath of turbidity and said to Zhou Ming: "Don't worry, I won't forget, the outside world is what I promised you, and after you help me, we will lose the capital of default." ”
Zhou Ming patted Edward on the shoulder and told him, "This will be a win-win deal! ”