At the end of the day, Feng Jun's reputation in Yang City was still too small for him to win others' recognition.
The people who knew him were limited to the very top tier of the jewelry and jade circle. Ordinary jewelry and jade merchants might not even have heard of him—after all, information monopolies were still very necessary for major players.
Of course, no design company could overlook such a big order. Only fools turned down money.
So they proposed that they could handle the design, but the design fee had to be paid first—not necessarily in full, but at least fifty or sixty percent.
When dealing with private individuals, financial risk had to be considered. Never mind an unknown person; even with a famous wealthy man, one still had to guard against risk.
Shengtang Construction was famous, wasn't it? Yet it still owed plenty in design fees, and that was a real estate company.
Feng Jun did not object much to paying most of the design fee upfront. He had not intended to default anyway, and the design company had also said that designing such a wall required a detailed survey of the surrounding land and even consideration of geological factors.
That kind of work would consume a great deal of manpower and resources. Together with the relevant design plans, the costs would not be low.
So Feng Jun felt that paying about half the design fee in advance was perfectly reasonable.
But Wang Haifeng refused. "Master Feng may be easygoing, but that doesn't mean I'm easy to fool. Paying half upfront? Don't even think about it! There's no such market practice!"
In Yang City's construction industry, the usual design-fee arrangement was this: a ten to twenty percent deposit, perhaps some phased payments during the design process, and