Once everyone had arrived, Gu Sheng walked straight onto the stage, took the microphone, and said, "Apart from a few irrelevant people, everyone here is an old acquaintance... and even if we aren't acquainted, that's fine. You certainly know me."
His very first words were loaded with hostility, aimed at the Swire Group, of course.
Their late arrival had clearly displeased him.
"I heard you held a meeting a couple of days ago. I don't know what you said or discussed, and none of it matters."
"Because I wasn't there!"
That remark made quite a few people frown instinctively.
But a frown was all they gave him.
Arrogant as the bastard was, he really wasn't someone they could afford to cross.
Even if Gu Sheng pointed in their faces and cursed eighteen generations of their ancestors, they would be furious, but they still wouldn't react.
The man simply wouldn't listen to reason, and his methods were brutal.
Right now, they just wanted to know what he was up to today. Was he doing this purely to challenge the Governor?
If so, he was getting far too full of himself!
After all, Hong Kong Island still belonged to the Brits.
But they had heard Gu Sheng had visited the North a couple of days ago?
Everyone present had thoughts racing through their minds.
Gu Sheng didn't care what they thought. He continued:
"You should all know my long-standing attitude toward the real estate industry... a couple of days ago, hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets in protest. That demonstrated the severe, acute conflict between the current state of Hong Kong Island's real estate industry and its citizens' needs."
"The purpose of today's Hong Kong Island Real Estate Summit is to pool our ideas and work out some solutions