My American magical life
Chapter 431 - 431 61 Someone acted like a Shabi someone was stingy to the extreme and someone was like a dumbass_2

431: Chapter 61: Someone acted like a Shabi, someone was stingy to the extreme, and someone was like a dumbass_2 431: Chapter 61: Someone acted like a Shabi, someone was stingy to the extreme, and someone was like a dumbass_2 Guo Chongyang was still very thankful to the young lady, Zhao, who pulled him out from under the pressure and allowed him to extricate himself from the recent awkwardness by switching the conversation to the topic of the new company.

Cheng Daqi and Sun Dongxin had clearly reached an agreement with him, yet now the collaboration was being stalled—was this not dishonorable of them?

No!

It was Old Guo who was too damn stingy, offering Sun Dongxin a tiny bit of equity—and Brother Sun still expected Shanhaiguan to arrange resources for him.

The matter was clearly meant to be a mutual effort, yet Old Guo wanted to reap more benefits.

Sun Dongxin’s approach was, “I can give, but you can’t take, the look on one’s face and manner of eating is more important than any dish,” and wasn’t that just clashing head-on?

What Cheng Daqi considered was that if Shanhaiguan moved into the second round of positioning and began national expansion, setting up various branches nationwide was inevitable.

And a company that not only held shares in Shanhaiguan but also had capital outside of the Shanhaiguan system as a dominant force could become a model for replicating the Shanhaiguan pattern.

Commonly known as—internal testing.

Therefore, he also wanted to negotiate the terms well, to turn the new company set up in collaboration with Guo Chongyang into a model for exploring patterns, preparing, and building reserves for Shanhaiguan’s future expansion.

Starting a business is tough, CEO Cheng manages a thousand threads below him; he’s as exhausted as a dog every day and still has to engage in games with such unseemly partners.

Cheng Daqi had a hard time indeed.

At this moment, the value of the COO became apparent.

Pulling Dong Zecheng in for dinner was just a casual move by CEO Cheng, but now his role became evident.

Upon receiving CEO Cheng’s message, Dong Zecheng swallowed and glanced at CEO Cheng, who was sitting diagonally across from him.

Seeing Cheng Daqi signaling with his eyes, he nodded imperceptibly.

Shanhaiguan’s COO, aiming at the insect-like greedy partner, crush his greed, charge!

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He came for dinner with a smile, and he left with a smile too, but only Guo Chaoyang himself could understand what was on his mind.

With Cheng Daqi and Sun Dongxin both sitting there, having Dong Zecheng ruthlessly discuss so many terms with him, he knew all too well that it wasn’t just Dong Zecheng’s doing.

Sigh.

He just wanted to rub off some of Shanhaiguan’s popularity, look how stingy you all are—Stingy Bro feels that if others don’t let him benefit, they’re the stingy ones.

Cheng Daqi’s cooperation with his school was an actual investment of real money.

If it wasn’t for Xiamen University being too difficult to negotiate with, he wouldn’t even have had a chance to get involved!

“Old Guo, this person, really is, haha, what are you thinking?”

Sun Dongxin and CEO Cheng got into a car together; Cheng Daqi was going to make another trip to the office before returning to America.

After briefly explaining his thoughts to Brother Sun, Sun Dongxin shook his head and sighed.

“Xiao Cheng, you’re thinking three steps ahead.

I was just about to teach you something, but now it seems I was overconcerned.”

“Let Old Dong push the collaboration on their end later.

I’ve already put up the money using their school’s name, whether it succeeds or not is up to him.”

“Old Guo, haha, speaking of which, he and I are war buddies, but he found a good wife, and his father-in-law is a senior official in education.”

“All this actually doesn’t matter.

In the future, when Shanhaiguan becomes a group, most of the branches will have to deal with local capital, so this is also an accumulation of experience.”

Cheng Daqi had a clear view of the situation; if you want to hype up local traffic, you need the participation of capable local individuals.

More insect-like partners even worse than Guo Chongyang will appear in the future, plenty of them.

“Xiao Cheng, were you thinking of letting Shanhaiguan go public when you bought shells in Hong Kong?”

Sun Dongxin hadn’t delved into this topic before; he thought Cheng Daqi was too fanciful.

Your company was just established, and you’re already thinking about going public?

Is it because you have such a big face?

Going to the Hong Kong regulatory authorities’ doorstep to use your face to go public?

What are you thinking?

However, during this period, he had seen Cheng Daqi’s marketing capabilities and his sharpness towards traffic, gaining a clearer understanding of Cheng Daqi’s abilities.

If it’s Cheng Daqi, then going public within a year wouldn’t be impossible!

“It’s not necessarily Shanhaiguan, I also have business in America.

When Shanhaiguan’s traffic picks up, having traffic in hand makes it not difficult to do anything.”

Cheng Daqi spoke differently this time, very conservatively yet with a hint of ‘I have the capability’ boast.

Of course, Sun Dongxin could hear the difference.

“Oh?

You’ve already seen the opportunity, haven’t you?”

Sun Dongxin was extremely curious, truly extremely curious.

Cheng Daqi was already one of the most impressive young people he had met, and his capability was validated and realized.

Such a person might see opportunities that are very out of the ordinary.

But if he directly asks, it would make him appear as if he is too eager for quick success and profit, and asking about others’ business opportunities…

well, that’s just not very OK.

“I’ve seen many opportunities, but the timing still isn’t quite right,” Cheng Daqi replied.

He actually used a pun.

The timing isn’t right, referring both to his own lack of strength, not yet reaching the moment to take action, and also to Sun Dongxin not having decided to start Dongxin Group’s new round of reform.

Reform might not sound closely related to business, but when a company reaches a certain scale, changes in its internal benefit rules and structure can truly be considered reforms.

Dongxin’s reform can directly affect over four thousand people, which translates into over four thousand families, not to mention various upstream and downstream partners.

If Dongxin keeps up with its current daily internal strife, CEO Cheng isn’t too keen to take them along for the ride—it would purely be advancing with extra weight.

“Timing…

yes, timing is very important.

Xiao Cheng, I’ve always had high hopes for you, and they’re only growing.

But I am still surprised that you recognize the importance of timing; usually, the insight for such things comes only after a few setbacks.”

“Individual strength is too weak; even the most capable person can only lose if the timing isn’t suitable,” lamented Sun Dongxin.

His sigh was a bit long, but Cheng Daqi very much agreed with him.

He had experienced too many setbacks and been directly shattered by unsuitable timing right when his business was about to take off; his experience was plentiful and unrelated to intuitive aptitude.

“Hiding one’s capabilities and biding one’s time, huh?

My name is Cheng Daqi after all—think about it, it’s like being fed by God, hahaha.”

“Oh?”

Sun Dongxin’s memory was piqued by CEO Cheng’s words.

He prided himself as a Confucian businessman and had perused several tomes on the I Ching—of course, he didn’t believe in ‘Zen Investment Method.’

“A gentleman keeps his talents hidden and acts only when the time is right.

What harm is there?

Acting without restraint leads to action without success, the words of a learned man in motion.

Your name is interesting indeed, so what are you waiting for, the moment or the game?”

Cheng Daqi shook his head and responded as if reciting from a text.

“It is people who shoot the arrows, Sun, I’m waiting for the person.”

Sun Dongxin loved chatting in the way CEO Cheng did; it touched right on the upper limit of his cultural knowledge, fully stimulating his cultural grounding without exceeding it.

Why did he fancy himself a Confucian businessman?

The less one has of something, the more one tends to emphasize it!

So Xiao Cheng’s way of chatting, tapping up to his upper limit, gave him an experience akin to ‘high mountains and flowing water finding its connoisseur’—the emotional engagement was just too satisfying.

People like Brother Sun in middle age lack neither money nor women, what they lack is that bit of ‘fun.’

Because of this lack of fun, he could agree to help CEO Cheng appear in a live broadcast, and because of this lack of fun, when Cheng hit upon something that itched, Sun even became a bit forgetful of himself.

“Hahaha, you little rascal, if you lack people just tell me, Dongxin has plenty,” Sun Dongxin boasted.

Even the smartest people have moments when they cannot hold back, like now, for instance.

Having said this, Sun Dongxin realized he had been a bit stupid—no, extremely stupid, like a complete fool.

How foolish?

Foolish enough that the big brother image he had been maintaining in front of Xiao Cheng might just collapse overnight!

“Of course, it all depends on your thoughts, I…”

After making a mistake, people subconsciously try to fix it, but this kind of subconscious fixing often leads to further blunders.

CEO Cheng stopped Sun from making a bigger fool of himself and cut off his words.

“After I return to America and sort things out, I’ll come to ask you for people.

You better remember what you said today; I’m going to hold you to it, hahaha.”

CEO Cheng was ultimately soft-hearted, not wanting to see his dear big brother make a fool of himself.

“No problem, it’s a small matter!”

Look, Sun Dongxin’s generosity went far beyond Guo Chongyang’s expectations.

But then, such things are relative.

With Xiao Cheng, Brother Sun was truly generous without question.

But as for old Guo with his stingy, laughable antics, he might never witness such generosity.