“I know. I will be passive if I go after him, but the fact is we are passive. It is we want to get into the French market and then move into Europe. Just like he said just now, if I want to enter the French hotel industry, working with them is the best choice, we have no other choice, which determines our passive situation.”
“I’ll go talk to him again and hopefully they’ll lower their demands a little bit. If the project succeeds, it will be worth the effort.” Emma said firmly.
Carl shook his head after hearing this, and then said, “It is not wrong and necessary to work hard, but we should have a plan first and then put it into action after we have determined our methods. If you see him now, the result would be no better. Since he said you can talk in the afternoon, then go there afternoon, you will get the same result anyway.”
“Linda, you go back first. Emma, I take you to a place to drink a cup of authentic French red wine.”
“Carl, I beg you don’t make a mess. I now have no mood to drink red wine.” Emma said distractedly, she felt that it was a bad day, and she did anything wrong.
“You go back first, and don’t tell anyone what happened today.” Carl ignored Emma, said directly to Linda.
Linda nodded and looked at Emma. Since Emma said nothing, she took the first step to leave the Aril Company.
“If you really don’t want to go I’ll buy you a cup of coffee downstairs. It’s not the right place to talk about these things.” Carl lightly said, and then took the lead to go downstairs.
Emma was agitated. Before she came here she was confident, but she did not expect that the result would be like this, which had never met by Emma. But the reality was that they Sanyuan Group need this cooperation, because it was related to the group’s future development. This sense of frustration and helplessness let Emma feel blue.
Seeing Carl left, Emma finally kept up with Carl’s footsteps.
The two people walked into a cafe in the downstairs corner, sat by the glass window. Carl did not asked what Emma would like to drink, he order two cups.
“Have a drink. According to common sense, western coffee is better than Chinese coffee, because they have been drinking coffee for a long time.” Carl lightly said, but he did not drink.
Emma was upset, casually drank a little. Since the mood was not good, naturally she felt nothing in it. It was just so-so. She looked at Carl, and then asked, “Why don’t you drink?”
“I don’t like coffee. I prefer tea to coffee.” Carl lightly said.
“Why did you order then?” Emma said angrily.
“There’s no reason not to drink coffee in a cafe. Even if you don’t drink, you should order a drink. It was like Ravel wanted to make it happen, but for the sake of the company, he had to act like he wasn’t too enthusiastic about it.” Carl stirred the coffee with a spoon and said slowly.
“What do you mean? You mean Ravel did it on purpose?” Emma raised her head to look at Carl.
“That’s for sure, and you must have noticed it, but you are nervous and only focus on them. If Ravel wasn’t passionate about this project with you, why did he spend so much time talking to you? And why did he invite you over for an interview? And even a reception specially prepared for you?”
“Western wine parties are not as casual and simple as Chinese dinners. You should know this after studying in the United States. So if Ravel wasn’t the kind of guy who has much time, then he was just pretending.” Carl still lightly said.
“You mean he’s pretending he does not care and waiting for me to beg him to lower my requirement?” Emma said with a frown.
“What do you say? In fact, you have already known it.” Carl looked up at Emma and then said.
“I have. The problem is that we need to work with them more urgently than they do now. Without Sanyuan Group, they can find any consortium that can invest 10 million to break into the European hotel industry. If we want to enter the French hotel industry, the best choice is their group. So, he has the right to raise the price, while we are in a passive position.”
“But, to my surprise, Ravel went so far as to ask for 50 percent of the shares. I couldn’t think of a better way to do it than to go back to him.” Emma shook her head and sighed.
“There is a way.” Carl continued to stir the coffee.
“What way?”
“Wait, you can do as Ravel does. It is a trick in Sun Tzu’s art of war. There’s no reason you can’t beat him, right?”
“What do you mean? I don’t understand” Emma said with a frown.
“We’ll see Ravel this afternoon and talk more about it, but remember, he won’t back down a step from you, and it’s bound to end in acrimony. When you leave, tell them you’re ready to visit France to have a good time for a few days, then ask Linda and other people go back to China. You can relax and go to famous site to have a look, take it as a travel. If no accident, in five days, Ravel will definitely take the initiative to come to you. As long as he takes the initiative to come to you, everything will be fine, the initiative is returned to your hands.” Carl lightly said.
“What makes you think Ravel will definitely come to me? What we have in our hands is actually money, and there are too many people with money. Moreover, internationally speaking, our Sanyuan Group is just an obscure small company, and they have too many choices. Now we can attract Ravel, in addition to our interest, only by my personal sincerity. We have a bottom line to the interest, but if I leave, they will think I lost the sincerity, then the project will really be ruined. I can’t afford the consequences.” Emma said, shaking her head.