Chapter 251 — Arrange an Accident for Her
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This time he had truly hardened his heart. Gu Pengzhan had already grown suspicious and begun to guard against him; the power he held in the company was shrinking, and if this continued, it would spell nothing but trouble for Jin Gubang.
"Understood, Dad! I'll get in touch with Zhang Yuzhou right away and have him tamper with something." Jin Maosheng nodded.
"Be careful of that Wei Zhao — that brat has ruined our plans twice now!" Jin Gubang warned.
"I'll think up something that kills two birds with one stone this time." What Jin Maosheng had in mind was whether they might arrange an accident for Gu Mengyao. He was a more cunning and vicious man than his father, and he liked to solve his problems through accidents.
Just like that business with the chandelier crashing down in the Gu Group parking garage — he had meant to solve Gu Pengzhan with an accident. And the electrician who did the job had conveniently died by electrocution afterward.
Jin Maosheng was a ruthless man. As for the kidnapping of Gu Mengyao, he had never much approved of it. In his view, simply killing that girl Gu Mengyao outright would throw Gu Pengzhan into chaos, leaving him no mind at all for managing the company's affairs. Then the Jin family could slip in through the opening and take the chairman's seat in one stroke.
Once out of his father's room, Jin Maosheng called Zhang Yuzhou directly. This Zhang Yuzhou was one of Li Cihua's men; Jin Maosheng would have liked to speak with Li Cihua himself, but he knew he was not yet worthy of that.
The Jin family was still not enough to catch the eye of the man behind Li Cihua. Everything they were doing now was only to pave the way in Songshan City for Young Master Bing's thinly staffed company once the Jin family controlled the Gu Group. Otherwise, that man would never trouble himself over their internal scramble for power.
And the price of the Jin family taking power was this: they would cede the real estate business and hand it over to Young Master Bing — that man's illegitimate son.
The Gu Group had its hand in trade, real estate, department stores, hotels and entertainment, and garment manufacturing. Ceding the real estate business would mean some loss, but compared with becoming the true master of the Gu Group, such a concession was nothing at all.
To think that he, the son of a sitting shareholder of the Gu Group, amounted to nothing in that man's eyes — the thought filled Jin Maosheng with a wave of sorrow. Was that family really so powerful?
"Young Master Jin, is there something you need?" Zhang Yuzhou was nursing a grudge against the Jin father and son. The last operation had failed entirely because Jin Gubang had not investigated the people around Gu Mengyao clearly, and that failure had cost them dearly. And now they had the nerve to say the men he had found were no good?
It infuriated Zhang Yuzhou. He was, after all, one of Brother Cihua's men — not someone Jin Gubang could curse at as he pleased.
Listening to Zhang Yuzhou's sinister, chilly tone, Jin Maosheng grew irritated too. It wasn't as if we're not paying you — we're ceding the company's entire real estate business, a branch worth three or four hundred million!
Rebuilding a branch like that from scratch would cost no small sum. Handing over an entire branch lock, stock, and barrel — was that a small price?
"Mr. Zhang, I hope you understand that ours is a partnership, not a relationship of master and subordinate! Once this is done, Young Master Bing gets what he wants — and so do I!" Jin Maosheng was no easy mark; he played a much harder hand than his father, and this whole power grab had been his doing from the start. "But if it falls through, I lose nothing — things simply stay as they are. Our Jin family is still a shareholder of the Gu Group. But will Young Master Bing let you off the hook?"