章節 670: Chapter 670: The Big Stick Deterrent
Looking at Xia Yu, who was sitting across from him, Giuseppe Aicardi was shocked.
He never imagined that the person who had left him unable to deal with the situation and caused the family to suffer such a great loss was such a young Chinese.
A feeling of extreme unwillingness suddenly welled up in his heart.
As Giuseppe Eskenazi's face kept changing, Xia Yu smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, 'Mr Giuseppe, you seem surprised?'
Xia Yu's words drew Giuseppe Eskenazi's attention back, and he said with a cold face, 'I am very surprised. I know you are not trying to buy my company. What do you really want?'
He hasn't lost his head yet!
As soon as he opened his mouth, he unsuspectingly dug a pit for him, undermining his initiative.
Xia Yu thought to himself.
'Mr. Giuseppe, do you really look down on your company? In my opinion, your company has a high value and is a very good acquisition target.'
'You make an offer and sell the shares held by your family to me,'
Xia Yu said indifferently.
Giuseppe Eskenazi immediately refused, 'This is impossible. Eskenazi Co., Ltd. is not for sale to our family. Our family's shareholding ratio exceeds 50%. You don't need to waste your time. You will never succeed!'
Xia Yu said with a smile, 'There is no such thing as non-saleable goods in the world. Everything has a value. Mr. Giuseppe, you might as well name a price!'
Seeing that Xia Yu kept on harping on this point, Giuseppe Eskenazi felt suffocated inside, with a lot of pent-up anger that had nowhere to go.
He still didn't believe that Xia Yu really wanted to buy the family company. Now that Xia Yu kept saying this, it was simply because of what he had just said. He was hitting back at himself in the same way.
Realising that if he didn't change the subject, it would probably go on forever, and that dwelling on it would do him no good, he therefore jumped straight over the topic and got to the point.
'Mr Xia, that Hua Shengshi is your subordinate, right?'
Xia Yu's face remained unchanged, and he nodded slightly and said indifferently, 'You could say that.'
Seeing Xia Yu's attitude, an unknown fire rose in Giuseppe Eskenazi's heart. He took a deep breath to suppress the fire, and asked slightly interrogatively, "Our company's acquisition of cultural relics is a regular business. Can't we compete with him for a batch of cultural relics?'
Xia Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, his body leaned slightly forward, and he said with a cold face, "Are you questioning me?'
Giuseppe Eskenazi was at a loss for words and didn't know how to respond. His common sense told him that it would be best to avoid conflict with Xia Yu in order to resolve the problem, but he didn't think he had said anything wrong.
Seeing that Giuseppe Eskenazi was silent, Xia Yu regained his composure, leaned back in his chair again, and said with a slight sneer, 'Since your family's company has gone public, it has to abide by the rules of business. Our acquisition of your company's shares is also in accordance with normal business procedures.'
'Mr. Giuseppe, Bright Fund now holds 34.7% of the shares in Eskenazi Co., Ltd. According to the law on listed companies, we will have six seats on the board of directors. As long as we acquire an additional 0.3% of the shares, we will have seven seats on the board of directors.'
'In our opinion, there are certain drawbacks in the current development strategy of Eskenazi Co., Ltd. As partners and people with common interests, we will make our due contribution and explore a better development direction for the company than the current one, so as to create a brighter future for the company.'
Hearing this, Giuseppe Eskenazi's face suddenly turned black.
Xia Yu was blatantly threatening.
It was just a matter of time before he tore his face off and pointed his nose and said, 'We have so much equity, we must fight for our corresponding rights. In the future, I will fight you to the end in the company.
Although due to the issue of equity ratios, as long as they don't sell their equity, Xia Yu's side cannot seize control of the company.
But he could not accept the idea of Xia Yu's side opposing everything his family did in the future, causing chaos within the company.
If Xia Yu's side was determined to set the company back even at the cost of losing profits, his family would definitely suffer heavy losses, and Eskenazi Ltd. could even go bankrupt!
Faced with Xia Yu's rogue behaviour, Giuseppe Eskenazi was so angry that he wanted to spit blood, but there was nothing he could do.
He couldn't possibly verify whether Xia Yu dared to do it or not!
He didn't dare to gamble, and his family couldn't afford to gamble either!
In a verbal battle with Xia Yu, he was completely defeated!
Hey...never mind, just admit defeat!
After making up his mind, Giuseppe Eskenazi forced himself to remain calm and said to Xia Yu, 'Mr Xia, there is no need for us to say any more about the future, which has not yet happened.'
'The Chinese cultural relics market in the UK has been hit hard. Eskenazi Ltd. will cut ties with this business. Are you satisfied?'
'I hope you will sell your shares to us on terms you set, but they can't be too outrageous!'
Hearing this, Xia Yu finally revealed a smile, looking at Giuseppe Eskenazi with a teachable look in his eyes and smiling, 'That's right, we can negotiate calmly, why make things unpleasant?'
Giuseppe Eskenazi could only choose to ignore Xia Yu's words in order not to lose his temper.
Looking at the other person's cold stare, waiting for him to make a counteroffer, Xia Yu smiled and said, 'As I said, there is no such thing as non-negotiable. If you want to buy back the shares, we are of course willing to sell as long as the price is right.'
'But I want the Chinese cultural relics that your family has collected, oh yes, all of them!'
Giuseppe Eskenazi's face suddenly turned pale, and he reacted very strongly, refusing without hesitation, 'Impossible, the value of these shares in your hands is far less than all the Chinese cultural relics in our family collection. I will never agree to this, and I can only replace them with some of them!'
Xia Yu was unmoved, saying indifferently, 'Don't be so nervous!'
'Apart from those shares, I will make up the difference in cash, but I need all the Chinese cultural relics!'
Giuseppe Eskenazi fell silent, his face changing constantly. Just as he was about to argue, Xia Yu's words resounded again.
'You also said earlier that the future Chinese cultural relics market is destined to be sluggish, and I will also make it clear to you that as long as I am here, no one in the UK will be able to speculate on the price of Chinese cultural relics. I have plenty of capital to waste with you!'
'The Chinese cultural relics in your family's collection were originally looted from my country by you bandits last century, and now they are simply returning to their rightful owner.'
'If I were you, I would never keep a pile of Chinese cultural relics that are destined to remain unsold. It is better to exchange them for cash and develop other businesses. If you want to speculate, you can completely speculate on the cultural relics of the island countries. You should know very well that the people of the small island countries are much richer than the Chinese!'
Every word Xia Yu said struck home with Giuseppe Eskenazi. Although he didn't like what Xia Yu said, his common sense told him that the best option was to agree to Xia Yu's request.
After a long while, Giuseppe Eskenazi said, 'How can you guarantee that you won't target our family's company again next time?'
When he said this, Xia Yu looked at him with a look of contempt and laughed lightly, 'Our company didn't acquire Sotheby's because we had too much money to spend! In fact, aside from Chinese cultural relics, I think we can still cooperate very well!'
Giuseppe Eskenazi suddenly woke up with embarrassment. He admitted that he had just been confused and had gone down a blind alley, not even thinking of such simple logic.
To cover up his embarrassment, he quickly said, 'I have no authority to agree to your request. I need to go back and discuss it with the family.'
Xia Yu made a gesture of invitation and smiled faintly, 'I believe your uncle Vittorio is a sensible man. Tomorrow afternoon, I will have someone go to Eskenazi Co., Ltd. again, hoping to get the answer I want.'
'It's getting late, and I have things to do, so I'll excuse myself!'
After saying this, Xia Yu got up and left with his subordinates, leaving Giuseppe Eskenazi sitting there in a daze.
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