Chapter 947: The gambling king is deflated

He Youguang's mouth twitched. Although he had a good impression of Xia Yu and was happy to see Xia Yu become his brother-in-law, he was also well aware of Xia Yu's aggressiveness and aggression.

He is the first heir of the He family. In the face of personal emotions and the family, he will definitely stand on the side of the family, not to mention his own interests!

However, over the years, he has been paying attention to and studying Xia Yu, taking Xia Yu as a role model. He has changed a lot and his character has been greatly improved. He suddenly knew about such a big matter, but although he was shocked, he was not flustered and could barely remain calm.

He spoke up and analysed, 'Dad, even if Xia Yu acquires the shares of Huo Yingdong and Ye Han, surpassing our family, but we still have my aunt and uncle on our side, and the three of us together still have 59% of the shares. For the time being, Xia Yu's threat doesn't seem to be great.'

'Unless Xia Yu can acquire the shares of either my aunt or uncle!'

'My aunt and uncle shouldn't favour outsiders!'

Lan Qiongying still said worriedly, 'After all, Wanqi is your father's younger sister, so you can rest assured about that, but I'm afraid...'

Before Lan Qiongying could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Ho Wangsen's rebuke.

'Ah Ying, stop!'

Lan Qiongying shamefacedly shut up. When she saw Ho Wangsen's wandering gaze, she knew that he was already considering this point.

Seeing that his aunt had upset his father, Ho Yau-kwong did not want to jinx the situation, so he waited quietly for his father to finish thinking.

After a long while, Ho Wang-sun said, 'I will handle this matter. Ying, you take your daughter upstairs first.'

Lan Qiongying nodded silently, with a hint of regret, and took her fourth daughter, Chao-yi, upstairs. However, she was thinking about her youngest son, who was only four years old and was sleeping upstairs, and could not help but worry about his future.

After Lan Qiongying disappeared around the corner of the stairs, He Youguang asked anxiously, 'Dad, what are you going to do about this?'

He Hongshan's gaze became deep and distant as he said lightly, 'We must plan for both scenarios.'

'We're not sure what Xia Yu really wants. If he just wants to invest in STDM, that's fine, but I'm afraid he's playing one side while attacking the other.'

'But there is indeed a hidden danger with your uncle.'

As for his sister He Wanqi's stake, He Hongsen was not worried at all.

Even if He Wanqi wanted to betray him, his cousin He Hongzhang would never agree, unless they both wanted the illegitimate child affair to be completely exposed.

Ho Yau Kwong thought for a moment and said to Ho Wang San, 'Dad, our family and my aunt's shareholding is 49%. As long as we can buy my uncle's 2% shareholding, then we'll be safe.'

'I don't think we can hope that Xia Yu won't have evil intentions. After all, he is an outsider, and who knows if his mind will change in the future.'

'And if he sells his shareholding to someone else in the future, there will be other risks as well.'

'By the way, Dad, should we buy back the shares of Xin Ma Si Zeng Deng Yongxiang? Sometimes one percent of the shares can become very important.'

Stanley Ho nodded slightly and said, 'Go find your uncle first. As long as your uncle agrees to sell even two percent of the shares, Xia Yu won't be able to stir up any trouble!'

...

After the father and son had discussed the matter, Stanley Ho called to try to reach Edley, but was told that Edley had already gone to Europe on holiday.

As the matter was very important, Stanley Ho had to make several inquiries to obtain the phone number of Edmond Ip, who had just gone on a trip to Europe. He contacted Edmond Ip and asked him to end his trip as soon as possible and return to Macau.

The next day, Stanley Ho went to Hong Kong, first to his Shun Tak company, and then at noon he arranged to meet Xia Yu.

Near noon, Xia Yu arrived at the agreed hotel and met with father and son Stanley Ho and Ho Yau Kwong.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Xia Yu sat down, and Stanley Ho asked the hotel to serve the meal.

During the interval between courses, Stanley Ho said with a meaningful look, 'Mr Xia, you really gave me a surprise yesterday. I'm not surprised that Fok Ying Tung is not interested in STDM and will sell his shares to you.'

'But I didn't expect you to be able to get rid of Ip Hon, who is like a stone in the toilet. It must have taken a lot of effort, right?'

Xia Yu said with a faint smile, 'It wasn't much effort. It was just my subordinates who put in some effort. I just met with Ye Han once, and he sold me the shares.'

Stanley Ho pretended to be surprised and asked, "He was that easy to deal with? He didn't make any demands?'

Xia Yu smiled and said, "No. He thought that I was buying his shares to compete with you for control of STDM, and that I would fight with you to get back at him. Unfortunately, he was wrong.'

Stanley Ho's eyes narrowed as he seized on the topic and said, 'He thinks you'll fight me for the stake in STDM? That's interesting!'

As he spoke, Stanley Ho's eyes shone as he looked at Xia Yu's face, as if trying to read something.

Xia Yu smiled faintly without changing his expression, 'Who knows why he would think that? Fortunately, he doesn't know about my relationship with Zhao Qiong, otherwise he would never sell his shares to me.'

'As for why I want to buy his shares, the truth is that I heard that Ye Han and you don't get along, and since he's just in the way, I thought I'd help you out.'

'Mr. Ho, you're not worried that I really want to take over STDM, are you?'

Hearing Xia Yu's final surprised question, Stanley Ho's son, Ho Yau-kwong, looked a little unnatural, while Stanley Ho was unaffected and said with a smile, 'Why would I? I asked you here today simply to welcome you to STDM and also to hear your opinions and suggestions for STDM.'

Xia Yu smiled and said, 'I see, I don't think you would worry about that either.'

'Given my relationship with Chao Qiong, I would have to be crazy to try to take over STDM.'

'And I couldn't do it anyway!'

Stanley Ho couldn't help but smile, and said, 'Mr Xia, you've worried for nothing. I don't have such intentions.'

'You really have done me a favour. Ip Hon, who had some shares, caused me a lot of trouble, completely disregarding the interests of STDM and not worthy of being a shareholder.

'Now that he's gone, I'll be comfortable in the future, haha...'

After laughing, Stanley Ho asked without a trace of emotion, 'By the way, Mr. Xia, what are your plans for the operation of STDM?'

Facing Stanley Ho's test, Xia Yu said sincerely, 'I don't know anything about the spinach industry, so I dare not show off my ignorance. STDM has developed very well under your management, Mr. Ho.'

'In the future, I will definitely support your decisions. I believe that without the constraints of others, STDM will definitely develop even better and play an even more important role in the construction of Macau.'

'As for me, how could I not be satisfied being able to make money while lying comfortably?'

'I will just follow the normal company rules and send a representative and the financial officer. It will just be a formality at most. Could it be that Mr. Ho will still be able to get my dividends?'

Stanley Ho was originally listening with a comfortable heart, but Xia Yu's last sentence made him uncomfortable again. His face twitched for a moment, and he glanced at Xia Yu. While secretly cursing Huo Yingdong and Ye Han for slinging mud at him, he smiled and said, 'How could it be less? Shareholder dividends are nothing out of the ordinary, and you, Mr. Xia, have financial personnel there. How could I make a fake one?'

Thinking that he would no longer be able to manipulate the annual dividends from now on, Stanley Ho's heart was bleeding.

At this moment, he felt a little uncomfortable looking at Xia Yu.

Xia Yu could also guess the general state of mind of Stanley Ho, but he didn't care. For someone like Stanley Ho, unless he was willing to hand over the equity to him, otherwise no matter what he did, he would make Stanley Ho unhappy. He had considered this before coming here.

After all, he had succeeded in getting his tentacles into Stanley Ho's SJM, and the rest was just a minor problem.

As time passed, as long as he didn't interfere with the company's operations and thus make Stanley Ho vigilant, Stanley Ho would always relax. Otherwise, if he was on edge for a long time, it was hard to say if Stanley Ho would live a long life.

It is precisely for this reason that although he has a clear vision for the future, he believes that he has countless business insights in the spinach industry, but he just doesn't share them. He says that he doesn't understand the spinach industry, and he doesn't want to show that he is interested in running STDM, so as not to alert Stanley Ho.

After all, the profits of STDM are not important to him. The only thing that STDM can do for him is to exert influence in Macau.

Although Xia Yu had already made his attitude clear, Stanley Ho was still not completely at ease. During the subsequent toasting and drinking, he occasionally asked Xia Yu questions tentatively. Xia Yu pretended not to hear each time and gave answers that made Stanley Ho feel at ease.

Overall, Xia Yu had achieved his goal in this meeting. The matter that Huo Yingdong was worried about, Stanley Ho's embezzlement of dividends, had been easily resolved by Xia Yu.

As for whether Stanley Ho would dare to bypass the financial personnel he had appointed, Xia Yu was not worried. Since the conversation had reached this point, unless Stanley Ho wanted to turn against him and not cooperate with him in the future, he would have to suck it up.

After watching Xia Yu's car leave, the father and son returned to Shun Tak.

'Yau Kwong, what did you think of Xia Yu's performance this afternoon?'

Stanley Ho asked, taking a sip of tea.

After collecting his thoughts, Lawrence Ho said, 'I think although it seemed like he was giving us face, he actually got what he wanted in the key areas. We can't be angry yet, his chat skills are very high.'

Stanley Ho nodded and said, 'You've hit the nail on the head. You've truly experienced his prowess this time. We were prepared, but he still got what he wanted without us knowing.'

'But it's already happened, and there's still a long time ahead. We can't just focus on the losses and gains of this one incident.'

'In the future, I'll let you take the lead in many things. You have to learn to be as shameless as he is. We'll make up for the lost profits in other ways.'

Ho Yau Kwong nodded solemnly: 'Okay, I'll continue to work hard and try to grow up quickly to share the workload with you.'

Ho Wang Sun gave a satisfied smile: 'Well, there's another important collaboration at 3:30 this afternoon. You'll go with me.'

'Okay.'

...

Two days later, Ye Deli rushed back to Macau.

After Ye Deli's return, Stanley Ho immediately found him and, without mentioning Xia Yu's matter, proposed to buy some of his shares.

Although Ye Deli guessed that something must have happened that he didn't know about, in the face of Stanley Ho's repeated requests and the high premium, and considering the face of relatives, Ye Deli still chose to agree and transferred 2% of his shares to Stanley Ho for 80 million Hong Kong dollars.

In this way, Stanley Ho's shareholding ratio rose to 37%.

Together with his sister, Angela Ho's 14% stake, they would reach 51% and continue to control STDM.

At this point, Stanley Ho finally let go.

He just wanted Xia Yu to enter STDM and station financial personnel to supervise, but there was always a thorn in Stanley Ho's heart...