The acquisition of Haoyang Technology had previously been handled by Jiang Mingfan, a senior partner at Tiansui Capital. At the time, Pan Haoyang had relied on his absolute controlling stake of 59.1% in Haoyang Technology to hold out for a higher price, pulling plenty of disgusting stunts. He had angered Jiang Mingfan so much that Jiang often called Zhongli Sui in the middle of the night to complain.
This time, after Zhongli Sui received word from Gu Chen and confirmed through other channels that Pan Haoyang's bottom line for selling Haoyang Technology was indeed 7.8 billion M dollars, he personally flew to Hu City to take over the negotiations. He settled Pan Haoyang within a week, signing the contract at 7.85 billion M dollars and securing actual control of Haoyang Technology. Not only had he saved Tiansui Capital several hundred million M dollars from its project budget, but Pan Haoyang was also deeply grateful to Zhongli Sui for the extra fifty million M dollars.
"...If you ask me, Pan Haoyang was just blindly making trouble." Assistant Lin scoffed. "If he'd signed the contract when the price reached 8.4 billion M dollars, none of this would have happened. Even if we'd found out afterward that we'd overpaid, there would've been nothing we could do."
Yet Pan Haoyang had been insatiably greedy and insisted on adding another two hundred million M dollars at the signing ceremony. And his luck had been terrible—when President Jiang was discussing the offer with the boss, Gu Chen happened to overhear it.
Even now, Assistant Lin had no idea where Gu Chen had gotten the information. But that did not stop him from feeling fortunate for Tiansui Capital, nor from taking pleasure in Pan Haoyang's misfortune.
It really had been satisfying.
"Don't get complacent." Zhongli Sui said