909: 661 Strong Opponent 909: 661 Strong Opponent The siblings walked out of the tea restaurant side by side.
Several gangsters in suits were waiting at the door.
“Shall we walk together?”
He Hongtu turned his head to ask.
He Yihui nodded silently without making a sound.
The siblings, who hadn’t spent much ti together for a long ti, strolled down the old street.
“You heard everything, right?”
He Hongtu spoke in a soft voice.
Just now, He Yihui was sitting at the table next to his, and the two tables were close enough that it wasn’t hard to overhear his negotiation with Jiang Chen.
He Yihui didn’t deny it and rely humd in acknowledgnt.
“Don’t bla others, the matter with the photo was my decision, so.
If you want to bla soone, bla .”
He Hongtu took the initiative to confess.
“I’ve brought sha upon our family.”
He Yihui understood perfectly well.
He Hongtu laughed and turned to her, “That’s not like you at all.”
He Yihui tilted her head to look at her elder brother, “What do you think my personality is?”
He Hongtu looked ahead and continued walking, chuckling softly, “According to your past personality, shouldn’t you be gritting your teeth and demanding an explanation from ?
You might even take this opportunity to try and blackmail .”
“What do you an by ‘the past’?”
He Hongtu was montarily stunned, then his expression turned nostalgic, “Indeed, it has been a very long ti.”
You see.
He and this younger sister of his are nearly twenty years apart; she was still a child when he was already an adult.
“Whenever dad was busy in the past, he liked to leave you in my care, but now it seems you’ve grown distant from .”
He Yihui didn’t deny it.
Denying it at this point would be overly hypocritical.
Not to ntion in a prominent family like theirs, even in regular families, siblings who shared everything in childhood could drift apart over ti.
A family that was close in childhood often becos just “relatives” after growing up.
“Are you really not blaming ?”
He Yihui shook her head again and then asked, “Brother, did auntie really agree with what you did?”
“Are you talking about the negotiation with Jiang Chen?”
He Hongtu said calmly, “It’s not about agreent or disagreent, but the fact that we had no choice.
It’s better to preserve so than to lose all, don’t you think?”
Three gambling chips, and now only half—or perhaps not even half—can be kept.
From now on, the He Family might be greatly weakened.
He Yihui remained silent,
“After we lost the first gambling chip, there was a lot of criticism from outsiders, many waiting for a chance to laugh at us, but I feel, perhaps this isn’t necessarily a bad thing for our He family.”
He Hongtu continued nonchalantly, “Zeng Guofan once said, ‘Wealth should be shared, not monopolized, strategies shared with few, not with many.’ It’s no longer dad’s era.
Everyone knows that the gambling industry in Haojiang is controlled by our He family.
If it were still dad’s ti, there would be no problem, but unfortunately, it is not.”
“You probably know that with dad’s death, many of the previous relationships and friendships have also disappeared.
Moreover, the gambling business itself has always been a not-so-respectable industry in Shenzhou, full of excessive profits, naturally filled with a lot of strife and competition.”
“A tree that stands out in the forest is often the most attacked by the wind.
Or to put it another way, the leading goose gets shot.
Whenever soone thinks of gambling, they subconsciously think of our He family.
This is actually a very dangerous situation.”
He Hongtu paused.
“So, it might be better to use this opportunity to gradually fade our family out of the public eye.”
He Yihui quietly listened without a word.
She understood what it ant.
It’s just that this brother, nearly a generation older than her, rarely spoke such long and serious talks; and in her mory, he seldom discussed these matters.
“It sounds like an excuse.”
He Yihui said pointedly.
He Hongtu smiled and turned to her, “Of course.
You can think of it that way if you like.
Even though it’s unwilling, losing the gambling chip is inevitable, but at least for you, it is definitely a good thing, isn’t it.”
He Hongtu grinned, “I won’t talk about myself, but consider your sister Junru.
Her business focus isn’t in Haojiang, being able to establish good relations with people like Jiang Chen and Lan Peizhi through this could only be beneficial for her future career.”
He Yihui didn’t take the bait.
This was a sensitive topic to continue discussing.
“‘Long-term benefits should not be sought, contentious places should be avoided,’ after dad’s death, many eyes were on us, and this ti many ca running at the first whiff, which is a clear sign.”
He Hongtu tily stopped, then said gently, “We should also start to ally with so external forces.”
He Yihui remained silent, looking oddly at her elder brother who was usually “not committed to serious matters.”
“Why are you looking at like that?”
He Hongtu was puzzled,
“What’s that word again?”
He Yihui pondered, “Acting foolish despite being wise?”
He Hongtu burst into laughter,
Just right.
The siblings reached the end of the old street,
Several suited thugs followed silently,
Vehicles had already stopped at the roadside,
“Get in the car.”
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After leaving the tea restaurant, Jiang Chen imdiately found Lan Peizhi and laid out the negotiation with He Hongtu,
“There really isn’t a simple person in the He Family, to have the courage to make such a choice.”
Jiang Chen comnted.
“Being the eldest son of the Gambling King, did you really think he only knew how to write and paint?”
“He paints too?”
Jiang Chen was surprised.
“What do you think?” Lan Peizhi asked.
Jiang Chen looked at her, “Is there a reason to refuse?”
“Did the application co through?”
Jiang Chen fell silent for a mont, “You haven’t given an answer yet.”
This response naturally pertained to the earlier invitation for Lan Peizhi to join Tianci.
“Still haven’t decided?”
“If I can secure the second casino license, I’ll join.”
Lan Peizhi didn’t evade further.
“Really?”
Jiang Chen’s tone was somber.
Lan Peizhi nodded,
“Alright, it’s a deal.”
Jiang Chen seed very confident.
It made sense.
Now, with the He Family joining, securing the second casino license seed within easy reach,
“Just don’t be too careless.”
Lan Peizhi cautioned, “Your scandal with the He Family’s daughter and Song Chaoge definitely knows it by now, he must have guessed that the He Family would collaborate with you.
If he indeed wants to secure the casino license, he’ll certainly prepare more thoroughly.”
Financially speaking, the adversaries weren’t really a match.
Of course.
Jiang Chen wouldn’t appear so “arrogant.”
“The He Family is willing to invest forty billion, together, can he really compete?
The first auction, he already gave up at five hundred and ten billion.”
“The third casino license, no one will compete with the He Family, so the second one is the last opportunity, can’t he find soone to ‘invest’?”
Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow.
For soone like Song Chaoge, finding money was far too easy, he wouldn’t even need to ask himself; many were willing to bring money to him, depending on whether he wanted it.
“What institutions would invest in Song Chaoge?”
Hundreds of billions is no small amount, not just anyone could offer it.
Jiang Chen was indeed curious about the backers or more precisely, the ATMs behind Song Chaoge.
“Not few,”
Lan Peizhi briefly said, “For instance, Hippo Group.”
Hippo Group?
Jiang Chen’s gaze sharpened.
In Shenzhou,
Hippo Group could be said as being a household na,
On its own, it pushed society into the era of online shopping and mobile paynts, a behemoth enterprise valued at over a trillion.
A trillion!
Indeed, a formidable opponent.
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