Chapter 348 - 320: The Ignorant are Fearless (Part 2)
Chapter 348: Chapter 320: The Ignorant are Fearless (Part 2)
"That’s certainly a possibility. After all, plenty of people are envious and jealous of you, Young Master Gao," Li Tian chimed in from the side.
"I don’t think that’s very likely. A figure of that stature wouldn’t just come after me for no reason. This is all because of that punk, Ye Ling."
Gaoxun, however, waved his hand upon hearing their words.
Alright!
It seemed our Eldest Young Master Gao’s brain was finally working for once.
Indeed. Would the person who led Shengding Group to its zenith really be jealous of Gaoxun’s so-called ’shining moments’?
To be frank, Ye Ling couldn’t care less!
If Gaoxun hadn’t provoked him for no reason and triggered a random system quest, he probably wouldn’t have even bothered with the guy.
It came back to the same thing: Ye Ling felt that being treated as an opponent by someone like Gaoxun was, frankly, a little embarrassing!
"But it’s fine. Shengding Group might have hurt my family’s company, but they can’t touch our foundation. The worst-case scenario is we just spend a few more years building things back up!"
Gaoxun took a sip of his drink and waved his hand dismissively.
If Gao Tian heard what his son was saying, he would probably have a heart attack.
’A few more years to build things back up?’
’Was developing a company really that simple?’
Tianxun Group hadn’t been around for long, but it had still been developing for over a decade. And throughout those ten-plus years, its growth had been decidedly average.
The only reason it suddenly shot to the forefront of the market was that it seized an opportunity with Shengding Group and rode its coattails.
Only Gao Tian himself knew just how much effort Tianxun Group had expended to get the chance to ride those coattails.
Being the boss looks glamorous, but behind the scenes, there’s a world of unseen hardship.
Unless...
...you stand at the very pinnacle of your industry!
And now, with Shengding Group kicking Tianxun Group to the curb...
On the surface, it looked like Tianxun Group had merely lost an opportunity to grow. But who could guarantee it would ever get another one?
No one could guarantee that.
And from a probabilistic standpoint, something that couldn’t be guaranteed might as well be treated as having a zero percent chance of happening.
In a way, you could even say that thanks to Gaoxun, Tianxun Group was completely screwed.
"HAHAHA, Young Master Gao, you’re incredible!" Zhang Da and Li Tian, the two sycophants, started laying on the flattery again.
They couldn’t care less about any of that; they only cared about what benefits they could squeeze out of Gaoxun. As for whether Tianxun Group lived or died... what did that have to do with them?
"Alright, alright, enough with the compliments. Just have fun today, it’s on me!"
Gaoxun gave a magnanimous wave and said to a nearby server, "Hey, you got any pretty girls to liven up the party?"
"Young Master Gao, of course! Just a moment, sir!"
Gaoxun was a regular, so the staff all knew him. After answering, the server immediately went to arrange for the girls.
About ten minutes later, a group of skimpily dressed young women arrived at their booth...
...
But while Gaoxun and his friends were partying, a fatal blow was about to land on Tianxun Group.
At five in the afternoon, Ning International published an official notice. The announcement was extremely brief. Just like Shengding Group before it, they had added Tianxun Group to their partnership blacklist.
Compared to Shengding Group’s move, the impact of this notice was far deeper and more extensive.
Shengding Group’s blacklisting could knock Tianxun Group back to square one, but the company still had some core assets. It wouldn’t be completely destroyed.
At worst, they would just regress to the level they were at last year.
But this time, Ning International’s move kicked Tianxun Group right off its pedestal and sent it plummeting from the heavens.
Just how powerful was Ning International now?
To put it simply, their wealth could rival that of a nation.
In its early days, Ning International had dominated a massive share of the market in physical industries. Later, it kept pace with the internet boom, acquiring shares in a series of major tech companies, including Ah Li and Penguin.
Today, Ning International was a corporate leviathan capable of influencing both the physical and digital markets simultaneously.
Being targeted by such a behemoth, one could only imagine Tianxun Group’s fate.
Within an hour of Ning International’s announcement, the phone in the Tianxun Group chairman’s office was ringing off the hook.
Countless of Tianxun Group’s former partners called one after another to terminate their contracts, creating a tidal wave of cancellations.
The entire Tianxun Group was thrown into chaos.
These weren’t partners brought in by Shengding Group; they were business relationships that Tianxun Group had painstakingly built up over years of slow development.
For Tianxun Group, these partners were its true foundation.
While Shengding Group terminating its contract would have a huge impact and cause Tianxun Group’s power to decline rapidly, it wouldn’t destroy its foundation.
Truth be told, even before partnering with Shengding Group, Tianxun Group was already quite strong, ranking at least in the top one percent of all real estate companies in the nation.
And just how many real estate companies were there in Xia Country?
They were innumerable.
To be able to fight its way through the pack and stand out among so many competitors spoke volumes about Tianxun Group’s potential.
This was also why Shengding Group had chosen Tianxun Group as a partner in the first place.
Although Tianxun Group was a relatively new company, it had grown rapidly. Thanks to its unique vision and swift construction speeds, many of its properties had sold at premium prices.
Thus, even when Shengding Group had previously made its move against Tianxun Group, Gao Tian himself, to be perfectly honest, hadn’t been particularly panicked. He just felt it was a shame.
"Why is Ning International coming after us too?" Gao Tian slammed his fist on the table, his eyes filled with a mixture of rage and dread.
’Ning International has actually entered the fray!’
Gao Tian understood perfectly well what this news meant...
If Ning International truly decided to move against Tianxun Group, the company wouldn’t last three days before it was completely finished.
The power Ning International wielded today was simply too terrifying.
Being on Ning International’s blacklist was equivalent to being cut off from nearly seventy percent of all businesses in Xia Country.
Moreover, and most critically, Ning International had never blacklisted a single company before.
In other words...
...Tianxun Group was the first, and only, one.
Under these circumstances, who would dare to work with Tianxun Group?
If Ning International had a long list of blacklisted companies, other businesses in Xia Country might have weighed the pros and cons and chosen to work with a blacklisted entity...
...but with Tianxun Group being the only one?
Well, too bad. No one was willing to offend Ning International over a single, insignificant Tianxun Group.
Within Xia Country alone, there were dozens of other companies that could easily replace a company like Tianxun Group.
Therefore... for most companies, not working with Tianxun Group would, frankly, have little to no impact on them.
In such a situation, the choice was obvious.
Of course, they would abandon Tianxun Group and curry favor with a titan like Ning International!
"Just what kind of person did that damn brat provoke?"
Gao Tian slammed his hand down hard on the mahogany desk in front of him. He was so enraged that he didn’t even feel his palm turning purple from the impact.
’That boy, Ye Ling, is actually connected to Ning International?’
At that moment, Gao Tian’s perception of Ye Ling shifted once again.
’If Ye Ling’s only backing was Shengding Group, Gao Tian might not have been particularly wary of him... But he’s connected to Ning International, too?’
Now, Gao Tian was truly starting to panic.