Lu Chengwen stopped Chen Yong.
"Director Chen, disagreements aren't a problem. We can talk them through slowly!"
Chen Yong said, "Fifty percent of the profits... If CEO Lu finds out I negotiated business like this, he'll send me to Africa to watch giraffes!"
Lu Chengwen grinned. "Whatever ideas you have, just say them!"
He turned to the Strategist. "Right, Strategist? Sect Master?"
The Strategist smiled. "That's right. There's no need to get angry, Director Chen!"
"I'm not angry," Chen Yong said. "I just feel that the Sect Master and the Strategist don't seem particularly sincere about doing business. We handle the development and construction, provide the blueprints and planning, run around for all the approvals and permits, procure the materials and equipment... We build the property, do the work, and take responsibility for management, leasing, operations, publicity, accounting, and taxes afterward... Yet all you have to do is provide a plot of land, and you want half the profits. Wouldn't that mean I'm working here for you with Lu Chengwen holding me down? Would CEO Lu not skin me alive?"
Chen Yong said, "To be honest, there are only two major shopping malls in the area right now. The biggest is Genius International, followed by Xiangyun Tower. If Great Sage Group's commercial complex enters the market, it has to take the top spot! Its annual sales must surpass theirs, reaching at least twenty-five to fifty million a year, but the net profit would only be between 4.2 and 8.5 million at most."
"If half of that is cut away, our annual income would only be a little over two million! We'd invest forty million and earn two million a year... It would take twenty years to break even! CEO Lu wouldn't agree to that, and neither would CEO Leng. Forget