On the right, there was a pile of luxury goods, including antiques, calligraphy and paintings, gold and jade Buddhas, and oil paintings created by various foreign art masters.
Because Luo Taiming didn't know what Ye Chen liked, he prepared an unusually large number of gifts of all kinds. The total value of these gifts was at least several hundred million.
Both the female translator and Daniel were stunned to see something worth hundreds of millions of dollars just casually placed there.
At this moment, the female translator finally understood what Ye Chen meant: the owner of the Four Seasons Hotel West Lake was really not short of money.
The female translator repeated the message to Daniel, who glanced helplessly at Ye Chen, turned and left, not wanting to make a fool of himself.
In the end, Daniel and his group only booked a top-tier suite at the Four Seasons Hotel West Lake. An hour later, Daniel and his party left with the female translator to attend to their business.
Ye Chen stayed for a while before leaving the hotel and heading to Sheng Hai Entertainment Group in Hangzhou. Having come to Hangzhou once, he also wanted to inspect his company.
Ye Chen inspected Sheng Hai Entertainment Company. While he was in his office looking at the company's recent financial reports, someone suddenly came to report that an international company had taken a liking to Sheng Hai's development potential and wanted to invest in them. The person was already downstairs at the company.
"Invest in us?"
Ye Chen was somewhat surprised.
"Bring them in."
Ye Chen nodded.
A few minutes later, staff members led several familiar yet unfamiliar people into Ye Chen's office.
To say they were strangers was because Ye Chen didn't know them at all before; to say they were familiar was because Ye Chen had just met them about half an hour ago.
These people from the international company were the same people from Bain International Capital Group who had just wanted to rent President Ye Chen's villa.
"It's you?"
Upon seeing Ye Chen sitting at the chairman's desk, the female translator screamed first.
Daniel and his companions were extremely surprised, never expecting that Ye Chen was the boss of Sheng Hai Entertainment Company.
"I'm sorry, sir, I lost my composure just now."
The female translator realized what had happened and apologized to Ye Chen with utmost respect.
Despite their surprise, Daniel and his companions still wore expressions full of superiority. They felt that as investors, every company should be asking them for investment, so their arrogance was perfectly reasonable.
"Speak, what do you mean?"
Ye Chen asked.
"It's like this, Mr. Ye. Mr. Daniel's Bain International Capital Group believes that your company has great potential and therefore wants to invest in it. Mr. Daniel has already brought the money with him."
"That's a huge sum of money."
Daniel suddenly spoke up, saying a few words to the female translator and stating his request.
“Mr. Daniel’s Byrne International Capital Group is willing to invest 10 billion US dollars in your company, but requires a 60% stake in your company.”
Ten billion US dollars for 60% of the shares is indeed a normal price given the current situation of Sheng Hai Entertainment Group; the demands are neither too high nor too low.
However, if the other party obtains these 60% of the shares, then Ye Chen will lose control of Sheng Hai Entertainment Group.
Ye Chen has put a lot of effort into Sheng Hai Entertainment Group. How could he possibly give away the company he has worked so hard to build up for 10 billion US dollars?
"Tell them to stop daydreaming; I can't possibly agree to their demands."
Ye Chen shook his head.
The female translator repeated it to Daniel.
“Mr. Daniel said that your company’s development has reached a bottleneck. If you want to break through and become a larger company, you need a large amount of capital investment, and our 10 billion US dollars can meet this need.”
The female translator relayed Daniel's words to Ye Chen.
Since Bain International Capital Group decided to invest, they had thoroughly researched the situation of Sheng Hai Entertainment Group before making the investment.
Indeed, Sheng Hai Entertainment Group has now reached its peak in the domestic market. If it wants to expand its scale and go further, it needs to keep an eye on the international market.
However, to open up the international market and gain a foothold in the world, a large investment is needed, at least tens of billions of Chinese yuan.
That's why Daniel and the others didn't give up after Ye Chen refused.
"First, I can come up with the funds; I'm not short of money. Second, even if I can't come up with them, I can take out a bank loan. That's much better than accepting your investment."
Ye Chen waved his hand.
He was unwilling to let others take over his business, especially foreign capital.
The female translator continued to communicate with Daniel.
Daniel looked at Ye Chen in a different way.
“Mr. Ye, Mr. Daniel said that if you are unwilling to accept our investment and want to take out a loan, we can act as your intermediary and help you contact major banks.”
The female translator relayed Daniel's words to Ye Chen.
“Even the big banks don’t get loans of tens of billions of dollars so easily.”
Suddenly, Daniel spoke up, saying in extremely broken Chinese:
“I… know… Sandade… sound… the person who bears the burden…”
Even though Daniel did his best, Ye Chen still couldn't understand.
The female translator quickly explained, "Mr. Daniel said that his company has a partnership with the head of Santander Bank, and as long as Mr. Ye agrees, Byrne International Capital Group can help make the connection."
Santander Bank, a super bank ranked among the top 20 globally, possesses exceptionally strong financial resources.
After the female translator finished speaking, Daniel showed a smug and arrogant expression. He thought that by demonstrating the strength of their Byrne International Capital Group, Ye Chen should bow down.
Hearing this, Ye Chen smiled and said calmly:
"Putting aside whether I need a loan or not, even if one day I really need to find a major international bank to take out a loan, I can easily do it myself. I can find a bank that is even better than Santander Bank. Why would I need you to be the middleman? Isn't that redundant?"
The female translator relayed Ye Chen's words to Daniel.
Daniel looked incredulous. Ten billion US dollars, such a huge sum of money, which major international bank would easily lend to a young person?
Seeing this, Ye Chen didn't say anything, but instead placed a special bank card on the table—a Mastercard Black Card from the First Royal Bank of the Oil Country!
Looking at this extremely unusual black card, Daniel and the others were filled with astonishment.
The Royal Bank of the oil-producing country is indeed no less powerful than the Santander Bank they mentioned, and may even be stronger!
Just as they were astonished and wondering why Ye Chen had a Mastercard Black Card from the First Royal Bank of the oil-producing country, Ye Chen took out an even more terrifying special bank card!
A decisive victory!
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