Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Hong Dali followed Ling Xiaoyi out of the room and entered a small conference room on the fourth floor. There was a man seated in there, probably the CEO of Hongda Real Estate Company.
As expected, once that person saw Hong Dali entering, he hurriedly got up. “Young Master has come, hehe. Hello hello, I’m the CEO of Hongda Real Estate Company, Li Yuankai. This is my name card.” This Li Yuankai was rather ugly, with a big head and big eyes, with wrinkles all over his face. He didn’t even need makeup to act as an ET. It gave Hong Dali a scare.
“Ah, very well, very well, please take a seat first.” Hong Dali felt that he couldn’t really bear to look at Li Yuankai’s face and decisively decided not to look. Then, he felt much better. “CEO Li, I heard that you’re here to buy land from me?”
“Yes, our company wants to purchase the land under your name and develop it. I’m not sure whether Young Master is willing to sell it?” Li Yuankai stared with wide eyes and asked, with full of hope. “Young Master, you can rest assured, our company’s price offer will definitely satisfy you!”
“Oh, sure.” Unexpected by Ling Xiaoyi, Hong Dali actually agreed without hesitation. “How many pieces of land do you plan to buy? Also, what price are you offering?”
There’s a chance!
Previously, before Li Yuankai came, his new boss, Ko Gohon, had already instructed him to buy the land no matter what, and it was fine no matter if more money had to be spent. Thus, Li Yuankai was very confident. “If it’s housing estate land, I can offer a price of 2,200 yuan per square meter. If it’s a big piece of land, then it would be calculated according to the location and the size.”
“2,200 yuan?” Hong Dali turned his head and asked Ling Xiaoyi, “How much did we spend to purchase the housing estate land at West Fourth Loop at that time? Is 2,200 yuan worth it?”
“Young Master, we spent about 800 yuan or so.” Speaking up to this point, Ling Xiaoyi reminded in a soft voice. “Young Master, you aren’t really planning to sell it, right? 2,200 yuan per square meter is just ordinary, it’s counted as a normal price. But the potential for an increase in the value of these estates in the future is very big, and the price is increasing every day, so it isn’t worth it to sell it now…”
“That’s true.” Hong Dali nodded, and then looked at Li Yuankai. “You heard it. There’s a very big potential for future increase. Moreover, I’m not short of money.”
Actually, the price and whatnots were just secondary. The most important thing was that Hong Dali really wasn’t short of money. To someone who could have tens of millions of pocket money anytime in his bank account, it really didn’t matter much whether or not he sold those estates.
“Young Master,” Upon hearing that Hong Dali didn’t plan to sell it, Li Yuankai became anxious. He’d come today with a mission he had to complete. “Since you don’t intend to develop these estates, it’ll be too much of a pity to just leave them there. Why don’t I increase the price further, how much would you sell it for?”
“How much?” Hong Dali scratched his head. “I’m not very sensitive to figures. Why don’t you round it up to 3,500 yuan? It’s easier to count this way.”
Upon hearing Hong Dali’s words, Ling Xiaoyi instantly burst out laughing. This Young Master was really daring to state his price. The other party offered 2,200 yuan, but instead, he directly said to round it up, and then it caused the price to increase by almost two times the original…
Upon hearing this price, Li Yuankai almost fainted.
Who rounds it up as you do?!
Even though Ko Gohon had asked him to purchase Hong Dali’s lands at all costs, but that didn’t mean he could spend money mindlessly—if he really used this price to purchase these estates, he’d probably get the title of a prodigal in the future as well…
“Young… Young Master,” Li Yuankai frantically said, “You can’t round it up that way! How about this, 3,000 yuan, I’ll offer 3,000 yuan per square meter! How’s that? You can already earn four times as much from the price difference, that’s already very high!”
“3,000 yuan. It’s only mediocre.” Hong Dali glanced at Li Yuankai and seemed to come to some sort of realization. Afterward, he touched his chin. “4,000 yuan per square meter, then.”
“Ah?!” Li Yuankai almost thought that he’d heard it wrong. “Young Master, I said 3,000 yuan just now, not 4,000…”
“Oh.” Hong Dali looked at Li Yuankai with an expression full of innocence. “I hate dealing with troublesome things the most—4,500 per square meter, then. If you want it, take it away!”
Li Yuankai was still thinking of what to say. Alas, after he was stunned for quite a while. “Deal!”
Ling Xiaoyi stared so widely that her eyeballs almost dropped out— That’s possible?! Is Young Master so adept at negotiating?
“CEO Li is a decisive person, hehe.” Hong Dali smiled and suddenly asked, “I can sell you the houses, but what about those dogs of mine? They are all good dogs, I like them very much!”
What the heck, the houses had already been sold, why would a few dogs even matter?
Once Li Yuankai heard that Hong Dali was not as insistent, he instantly grabbed the opportunity and hurriedly set out his terms. “Young Master, you can keep your dogs. When the development of the properties starts, you can move them away!”
Though he could purchase those properties and earn quite a lot of money by renting them out, a little impatience would spoil great plans. He couldn’t make this prodigal Hong Dali change his mind in selling the houses just because of this small amount of money. If not, he’d really be troubled.
“OK, you’re magnanimous!” As expected, once he heard that he did not need to move the dogs away, Hong Dali was instantly very satisfied with what Li Yuankai had said. “CEO Li, you’re a magnanimous person. That’s good. Fine, then it’s decided. You can follow Sister Xiaoyi and do the necessary procedures.”
“Young Master, you rea… really plan to sell it?!” Ling Xiaoyi was dumbfounded.
It was land at West Fourth Loop, and the price was now skyrocketing. In the end, it was being sold just like that? The peak of the increase had not arrived yet, it’d be a big loss if the land was sold now!
“Ah, since CEO Li wants to buy it, and the price offered is fine, then I’ll just sell it.” Hong Dali sounded as if he were selling just vegetables at the market. “Anyway, he didn’t obstruct me from raising the dogs…”
Ling Xiaoyi’s cold sweat trickled down. This Young Master is really… It would be a loss of a lot of money just like that!
However, though she wanted to persuade him, after all, she was only a lackey by Hong Dali’s side. This type of matter was evidently not something that she could intervene in. Thus, she couldn’t help but shake her head. Forget it, she’d do whatever Young Master instructed her to do. Anyway, it wasn’t the first time Young Master had done such an unexpected thing. She was already used to it, so it didn’t matter.
While Ling Xiaoyi was still feeling rather despondent, Li Yuankai had already hurriedly took out a document and placed it on the table, smiling as he said, “Young Master, please take a look, this is the document, it’s made into two originals, and you only need to sign on it.”
“Oh,” Hong Dali didn’t even look at the contract and directly passed it to Ling Xiaoyi. “Help me take a look.”
“O… Ok…” Ling Xiaoyi received the document with some hesitation, and after scanning through it, she said, “There’s no problem with the contract, just that, Young Master, this price…”
“This price is mediocre.” Hong Dali licked his lips. “How about this, 4,588 yuan per square meter. What I like most is to make things auspicious, then I’ll be lucky. CEO Li, if you’re willing to accept it, then I’ll sign the document and stamp my seal. If you’re not willing too, sigh, I’m most afraid of trouble…”
Damn it, who said it just now to calculate the price by rounding it off?!
Li Yuankai felt like scolding him, but now that success was not far away, if he failed to negotiate on this, then there would be nothing left to negotiate in the future. Thus, he fiercely gritted his teeth and said, “Deal!” Li Yuankai hurriedly wrote down the price. “Young Master, is this alright?”
“Deal, CEO Li is a decisive person.” Hong Dali took out his seal from his bag and stamped it—Squandering for the sake of the rise of Heavenly State, Hong Dali seal!
Once the seal was engraved, the deal was considered to have taken effect. There would naturally be professionals handling the procedures thereafter.
After taking back the contract and reading it again, Li Yuankai almost burst his stomach from laughing. Squandering for the sake of the rise of Heavenly State, kudos to this prodigal for being able to come up with such amusing words, hahaha!
Though he was laughing inside, he couldn’t laugh out in reality.
Upon seeing that it was so easy to get those estates that Hong Dali used to raise dogs, Li Yuankai naturally had to seize the chance. Though the price was higher, in the future, there would be great potential for it to rise in value. Thus, he asked carefully, “Young Master, then those other pieces of land, do you plan to sell some of them too? Our company wants to develop those properties very much…”
“Oh, you’re interested in the other pieces of land too? So good?!” Hong Dali’s eyes instantly lit up. Then, he turned towards Ling Xiaoyi. “Xiaoyi, how much are our other pieces of land worth in total?”
Oh God, Young Master doesn’t intend to sell those pieces of land too, right?!
This time, Ling Xiaoyi had learned to play smart. “Mm, according to their current prices, they’re worth at least 6.5 billion and above. Also, Master has gotten people to start developing the area, and the sales are quite good as well. So the price should be 7 billion and above now.”
“7 billion? That’s not a small amount!” Hong Dali was shocked. “This is good, this is good.” As he spoke, he looked at Li Yuankai. “Aye, CEO Li, how many do you plan to buy? Do you plan to buy the land piece by piece, or pack them all up and buy it all?”
Are you treating this like buying potatoes, such that you can buy them all at once in a whole bag?
Li Yuankai felt that he’d never negotiated over business like this before in his entire life. Previously, before Ko Gohon injected capital in his company, it was normal for him to carry out negotiations for half a year to even a year, and negotiations that involved a few million or tens of millions could also drag up to almost half a month. Alas, this time, the other party directly asked, “Do you want to buy piece by piece or pack it all up”, is this world really changing so fast?
“This…” Li Yuankai started to feel that his blood pressure was getting a little too high. “Young Master, what you mean is that you can sell all of them? If I pack them all up and buy all of them, how much would you sell them for? Please don’t lie to me, my heart is not very well…”
“Ah, since I’ve said I can sell all of them, of course, I can.” Hong Dali smiled in a carefree manner, and in Li Yuankai’s eyes, he was smiling like a fool. “Of course, I can sell them all at one go! But the problem is. If I sell them all, will you have enough money? It’s 7 billion, and it has to be cash, or else I’ll not sell them!”
“This… This…” Upon hearing Hong Dali’s words, Li Yuankai couldn’t really bear with it. “Young Master, such a big matter, I need to think about it for a while… How about this, please wait for a while. I’ll go and make a call right away. When I get back, we’ll discuss this matter further.”
“OK. Go, go.” Hong Dali waved his hand. “Try to make it faster, my time is very precious!”
“OK. Sure, sure!” As Li Yuankai spoke, he ran outside.
Ling Xiaoyi was astonished. “Young Master, are you really planning to sell all these lands? All of these have the potential to rise up to tens of billions, won’t it be a big loss if you sell it just like that?”
