Chapter 1855 - 769: 40

Chapter 1855: Chapter 769: 40

Chen Jinyang seemed to have planned in advance. While a group of male waiters were still busy cleaning the pool, a few female waiters had already filed in to start serving drinks to the private room.

The drinks were still the usual Hennessy XO and Hennessy VSOP.

As for Hennessy V, now considered the new darling in nightclubs and bars, it’s nothing special, you see it everywhere.

As for XO, many people mistakenly think XO itself is a brand, but actually it’s just a category of foreign liquor. Simply put, you can liken it to "ten-year aged" or "fifteen-year aged" in Chinese liquor, indicating that the liquor uses very old base liquor for blending, which is considered a "high-end symbol" in brandy.

The entry-level XO brand commonly thought of is the 500 yuan or so French Emperor XO, the mid-level brands are around a thousand yuan like Godet, and the XOs like Hennessy, Martell, and Remy Martin, often seen in films and TV shows, are high-end brands, usually starting from one or two thousand yuan.

But that’s the price for buying it yourself. In nightclubs, the price of a Hennessy XO like this generally triples to quadruples, starting from three or four thousand yuan per bottle, and a package with some soft drinks would typically be 5888 or 6888 yuan, something like that.

It’s generally considered the ceiling for mass consumption.

But tonight at Skyline, with Young Master Zhang hosting, Hennessy XO obviously wasn’t good enough. So soon, a waiter came in with a cart, bringing six bottles of Hennessy Richard.

Seeing those bottles with geometric sculpture shapes, like artworks, Zhou Wang immediately jokingly teased Young Master Zhang:

"Yo, our Brother Yuan is being so extravagant today, what’s up, hit a bull market?"

Hennessy Richard, named after its founder, has a standard retail price as high as fifty thousand yuan a bottle in e-commerce channels, and in a setting like this, it starts at eighty-eight thousand yuan; selling for a hundred thousand yuan or more is quite reasonable.

Zhou Wang knows that Young Master Zhang has always been trading stocks, and the initial capital investment was substantial, starting from tens of millions, so it’s not a small-scale operation, hence the comment.

"You really hit the mark!"

Guo Bing immediately laughed out loud, "On the way to Hang City, Brother Yuan was still bragging to me, saying he plans to get a Pagani to play with."

"Pagani?"

Zhou Wang was quite amazed at this moment, "You’re really making it big, aren’t you!"

Pagani, like Bugatti that Zhou Wang just saw at the airport, belongs to the supercar brands at the pinnacle of this era’s pyramid. The common models start at over twenty million yuan, and from what I recall, Young Master Zhang was relatively "frugal" with vehicles, having only driven that Ferrari 488 before, priced at just about four or five million yuan.

"Don’t listen to their nonsense, if stock trading could earn that much, wouldn’t I become the stock god of Huaxia?"

Young Master Zhang waved his hand in a mix of amusement and helplessness, then lightly coughed, "It’s that the family gave me a lot of support, now I finally have some significant leeway..."

This remark might sound quite plain, but Zhou Wang still sensed some meaning from the obvious joy in Young Master Zhang’s brows. He then tentatively asked:

"Is it from Sister Shiling’s side——"

"Hey hey, Brother Dog, how could you address my mom like that?"

Young Master Zhang first spoke in displeasure, but knew that his mother probably privately accepted this address too, so he quickly turned to resignation.

"Well...you guessed it right."

As he spoke, Young Master Zhang’s expression turned into a mix of reservedness and pride.

"Damn!"

Zhou Wang was truly caught off guard this time, immediately moved to sit beside Young Master Zhang, and gave him a hearty pat, "You rascal, when did this happen, and you hid it so damn well!"

Shao Xiaoqi and Guo Bing probably rarely saw Zhou Wang being so unsettled, and their curiosity was instantly peaked to the extreme.

"No, uncle, what are you talking about!"

"Exactly... what great news did Brother Yuan receive, please tell us too!"

At this point, Zhou Wang glanced at Young Master Zhang, seeing that he had no intention of hiding it, he then smiled and said:

"You shouldn’t call him Brother Yuan anymore; you should call him Master Yuan. If my guess is correct, Young Master Zhang’s mother has successfully secured the inheritance right to the group."

"What?!"

"Oh my gosh!"

The two immediately gasped sharply, both a bit out of sorts.

After all, this is truly a major development!

Zhang Group is an enormous entity with assets exceeding ten billion yuan, ranking prominently nationwide.

A long time ago, Young Master Zhang already mentioned to Zhou Wang about the internal power struggles in Zhang Group.

The group’s founder, Old Sir Zhang, who is also Young Master Zhang’s grandfather, has been in declining health these past two years, spending most of his time in the hospital. Hence the matter of selecting the group successor naturally became a priority long ago.

Old Sir Zhang has six children, except for Young Master Zhang’s fourth uncle who is considered a playboy, the rest are all formidable. For example, the second uncle, Zhang Shihao, self-made and established Wuyou Media, now a well-known mogul in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai media circles.

Young Master Zhang’s mother, Zhang Shiling, as the eldest sister, is also a business powerhouse, having secured her footing in the challenging Magic City. In terms of skill and capability, she is exceptional among the six siblings.

The only issue is that she is female.

To change this, Young Master Zhang’s father married into the family, hence Young Master Zhang bears the Zhang surname. But this was obviously not enough to completely dispel the concerns of the traditional-minded Old Sir Zhang, which led to the subsequent "special assessment" for the third generation.

Zhang Shihao and his cousins each received a hundred million yuan in start-up funding, and whoever’s project yielded the highest return and greatest impact would come out on top.