474: Chapter 467 Mortgage Loan Agreement 474: Chapter 467 Mortgage Loan Agreement Over half an hour later, inside an office building, the domicile of Four Seas Holding.
“Boss, this is Zhang Junjie, and this is Li Xiaoxia, both of whom are practicing lawyers and belong to the company’s legal department!”
Beaming with joy, Xiang Dong introduced the man and woman in the small conference room to Chen Hai.
He then continued, “Among the documents you gave me when Four Seas Holding was established, some were in Japanese.”
“I’m not familiar with Japanese characters and can’t understand them.
Initially, I simply sorted and cataloged the domestic company share certificates you gave me.”
“It wasn’t until today that I took out those documents all in Japanese and had someone translate them.”
“Do you know what I found in them?”
At this point, Xiang Dong deliberately played coy and paused for effect.
These documents were the spoils of war that Chen Hai had casually collected into his Storage Pouch after exterminating the Snow Mountain Sect.
The safe where these documents were found also contained Japanese military swords and some medals, among other things, in considerable quantities.
However, Chen Hai wasn’t particularly interested in those items.
His Storage Pouch only had so much space; items too large would not fit at all.
For this reason, he simply took a stack of documents from the safe.
At that time, Chen Hai didn’t understand Japanese, and he didn’t scrutinize the contents of the documents.
After returning from the Great Snow Mountain, though he had gained the ability to speak Japanese from the residual memories of Yukizo Hayato, those Japanese documents were just something he had casually put into his Storage Pouch.
He had never paid much attention to those items, so naturally, he never checked what exactly was in the documents!
The establishment of Four Seas Holding was solely for managing the assets he owned.
Chen Hai had just taken all the documents from his Storage Pouch and handed them to Xiang Dong, telling him to properly sort them out.
Now, judging by Xiang Dong’s demeanor, those Japanese documents that he hadn’t bothered to look at closely and hadn’t paid much attention to seemed to be quite valuable!
“What, those Japanese documents are valuable, and worth billions?” Chen Hai nonchalantly responded.
Wealth was immaterial to him; even if he indulged in luxuries and spent recklessly every day, he could never deplete the tens of billions in his account.
With such financial confidence, he genuinely no longer cared about money.
Just like what Boss Ma had said, he didn’t like money and wasn’t interested in it.
Indeed, that’s precisely what Chen Hai was like now.
If the great news that Xiang Dong was so urgently summoning him for was just that his assets had increased a bit?
Chen Hai felt somewhat disappointed, thinking it might have been more important to buy a packet of Thirteen Spices and perform last rites for his pet chicken.
“Boss, these documents are worth much more than a few billion!”
Sensing his boss’s lackluster enthusiasm, Xiang Dong promptly instructed the two beside him, “Li, Zhang, you two, hurry and explain the content of the documents to the big boss!”
These two lawyers from the legal department had a certain level of expertise in Japanese.
If Xiang Dong had to explain these documents himself, he would undoubtedly mismash them, taking one document’s terms and applying them to another.
“Certainly, President Xiang!” Li Xiaoxia and Zhang Junjie looked at each other and nodded.
Picking up the top document from the stack, Li Xiaoxia began, “Big boss, this document is a mortgage loan agreement.”
“The loan date was 1937, and the borrower was Toyoda Kiichiro.”
“Due to starting his business, that Toyoda Kiichiro borrowed two hundred thousand US dollars, and in turn, thirty percent of the shares of the company he founded were mortgaged to a party named Snow Mountain.”
“The agreement stipulates that if Toyoda Kiichiro cannot repay all the debts within five years, the owed amounts would automatically convert into shares, and will never be diluted.”
“Anyone in possession of this mortgage loan contract automatically becomes a creditor and enjoys all rights and benefits.”
“There are several more such overbearing clauses in the contract.”
“Based on my guess, when that Toyoda Kiichiro signed the contract, he was in an absolutely weak position and was completely grasped by the other party!”
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Speaking of the content of the contract, even Li Xiaoxia, who had already known these details beforehand, became emotionally agitated, her whole body uncontrollably trembling.
After all, this was Toyota Company, the largest automaker in the world, a behemoth of an existence.
If this document was real and she could acquire all the rights and interests that the mortgage loan agreement enjoyed…
Just the thought of it was chilling.
It was no wonder that when Xiang Dong reported this to Chen Hai, he was so excited.
“The ubiquitous bull-head logos on the streets, that company…
it’s actually mine?”
Chen Hai, who had always been calm and composed, paused for a moment after hearing Li Xiaoxia’s explanation.
“Boss, you can’t say it like that.
Even if this agreement is successfully realized, and you own thirty percent of Toyota Company’s shares, you would only be the largest individual shareholder!”
“Since you can’t control the company, if the other shareholders unite against you, you would hardly be able to gain much say.”
“So, you can only say that you are a major shareholder of Toyota Company, but not that the company is yours!”
After exchanging a look, Li Xiaoxia and Zhang Junjie nodded, laughing as they explained.
“Is that so?
I understand now!”
“But although the company isn’t mine, if they earn ten yuan, I can take three, right?”
“I’ve had this agreement for almost thirty years and haven’t seen a single penny; that’s definitely not acceptable.”
“Xiang Dong, put together the most luxurious legal team and sue Toyota Company.
If they dare embezzle my money, I’ll take the lawsuit to the United Nations if I have to, until I get justice!”
Just thinking about how much money the Japanese might have swindled, even Chen Hai, who viewed money as mere dirt, felt a pang of loss.
Without another word, he straightforwardly instructed Xiang Dong,
“Right, we must get on with assembling a legal team to sue.”
“May I ask, Boss, where did you get these contracts from?”
“Can we be sure they are genuine and not someone’s prank?”
Xiang Dong nodded, hesitating for a while before he spoke to confirm with Chen Hai.
“Grabbed them…
no, picked them up.”
“The authenticity of the document is beyond doubt, definitely no issues!”
If it were just Xiang Dong here, Chen Hai would have no problem telling the truth.
Considering that Li Xiaoxia and Zhang Junjie were also present, he quickly began to correct himself after only saying half of it.
The Snow Mountain Sect, when facing Chen Hai, was barely a match, but after all, they were among the transcendent forces, a part of the Yin-Yang Master Sect.
When Chen Hai had approached Great Snow Mountain that day, the Snow Mountain Sect was actually already in decline.
However, in 1937, when this mortgage loan agreement was signed, their power might still have been at its peak.
For a transcendent force, signing an agreement with Toyoda Kiichiro to have him mortgage shares for a loan might not have seemed like much at all!
Hearing Chen Hai’s words, Li Xiaoxia and Zhang Junjie looked at one another with odd expressions.
As for Xiang Dong, he was covering his mouth and giggling.
Knowing his boss as he did, the documents had probably been taken by force from some power, that was most likely the real story.
As for ‘picked up,’ that was certainly just a bluff!
“Alright then, Boss, you’re lucky—all these documents were picked up!”
After a moment of silence, Li Xiaoxia spoke again.
She put down the mortgage loan agreement of Toyoda Kiichiro and picked up the next document that was underneath it.