Chapter 853
"Happy birthday." Li Linfei and Li Bingling stood up and raised their glasses and clinked them with Hades.
"Thank you for your blessings." Hades took a small sip of wine and smiled, "I have something to discuss with Mr. Li after the banquet later, I hope you can stay, okay?"
"With great pleasure." Li Linfei's gaze lit up and he nodded without moving his head.
"That would be great." Hades didn't stay long on Su Cheng's side, and after exchanging a few pleasantries with him, he headed towards the guests on the other side.
A few minutes later, Hades arrived next to Ilmand.
"Mr. Ilmand of the Liurik family, what brings you to my birthday party, I really didn't expect you to come, I'm really flattered." After Hades saw Ilmand, he had an exaggerated expression of enthusiasm on his face.
For Hades' person, Ilmand knew it well in his heart, he didn't point it out and said with a smile, "Mr. Hades, happy birthday to you, you don't mind if I come uninvited and then kick me out, do you?"
"Where are the words, I didn't send an invitation to Mr. Irmand before because I was afraid of disturbing your work, if I knew you were free today, I would have sent someone to send an invitation."
"It is an honour to have you here, how dare I drive my guest out of the house, I dare not." Hades snorted, with a smile on his face, so that guys who were not aware of the conflict between him and the Liurik family would really think he was genuinely welcoming Ilmand when they saw him.
Li Linfei had extraordinary ears and still heard the conversation between the two Hades from a distance, from which he also learned Ilmand's name.
"Ilmand, do you recognise this man?" Li Linfei looked at Li Bingling.
At this moment, she was chatting with a noblewoman, and when she saw Li Linfei ask her words, she hurriedly said sorry to the noblewoman.
Li Bingling recalled for a moment and said with a slight frown, "Ilmand? Something rings a bell, it seems to be someone from the Liurik family."
"Oh? That's the family?"
Li Linfei laughed, "They should have some pretty shallow conflicts with Hades, right, how does that guy still dare to come here?"
"Not too sure about that."
Li Bingling said, "I didn't expect that guy just now to be from the Liurik family, so it looks like we'll have to be wary of them next."
"Beware? Oh, depending on the action, we are not easy to mess with either." Li Linfei had a confident smile on the corner of his lips.
If the Rurik family was strong, could they be stronger than him, a man with the system?
Hades' birthday party was rather boring, and Li Bingling left at 1:30 pm because of company commitments, leaving Li Linfei alone here.
After Li Bingling left, many single ladies who were staying here came to hit on Li Linfei.
Not to mention hooking up with him, there were many women who saw that he was strong and fit and were very tempted to have a one night stand, one time or whatever with him.
In response, Li Linfei said that he was a decent man and did not do such immodest things.
To put it bluntly, it was still this guy who couldn't look at these women at the party, although many of them looked pretty, but their scent was too patchy and they were estimated to have slept with more men
He has slept with ten times more men than he has women.
On this side of Europe, the life of the upper class is actually rather messy.
Occasionally there were rumours of a few of the more intimate aristocrats doing something outrageous with a few men and a few women, and for the more open Europe
These rumours were not empty. The men and women here looked glamorous on the outside, but their private lives were disgraceful.
However, Li Linfei was in fact no slouch either, he was just less open compared to these aristocrats and still knew some shame and had scruples at heart.
At 2.30pm, Hades' birthday party, reached a stage where it was about to break up.
At that moment, Hades called the butler over on the pretext of going to the bathroom. "Has everything been counted?" Hades asked.
The butler replied, "Sir, I secretly asked the rich and some nobles who came here, and a small number of them are willing to lend us money, but the amount is not much, it doesn't add up to more than one billion dollars, far from your bottom line."
"These wallflower guys, knowing that the conflict between me and the Liurik family has erupted, one by one they don't want to get involved, and in vain I used to treat them as good friends, unfortunately ...... hearts and minds, friendships without actual benefits are too fragile after all."
Although there is anger in his heart, but Hades also understands in his heart that others are not obliged to lend him money.
"By the way, what did that Li Linfei say?" Candace asked.
"Didn't you say you wanted to talk to him alone, sir, so I didn't ask, and I reckon he wouldn't lend you money for no reason without interest."
The butler said, "However, I heard that Future Technology has quite a lot of liquidity, so he should be very rich."
"Of course I know he is rich, this guy's wealth is ranked in the top three in the world, more than me."
A glint of essence flashed under Hades' eyes, but as the words came to him, he suddenly looked puzzled, his eyes half narrowed in a dangerous pinprick shape.
"Yo, Mr. Hades, why are you hiding here and not going out, did you drink too much wine and are afraid that if you keep drinking, you will get drunk and make a fool of yourself?"
A voice with a teasing tone came from behind, and Hades looked sideways to find Ilmand walking towards him.
"Haven't you left already?" Hades' tone was flat, this wasn't outside and there were no outsiders, he didn't need to pretend any longer.
"Left, and can come back again."
Ilmand said, "Mr. Candace, my Ferrari Rafa was wrecked at your place because I came to your birthday party, tell me, should I come and ask you for this debt?"
"Hey kid, you mean if your wife comes to my party and gets ganged up on, you're going to blame me for that too." Hades gave a mocking laugh.
Chapter 854
There had been a real incident like this in the House of Reulik before, and although it had not happened here in Hades, he had brought it up to say that it could be a very effective blow.
Sure enough, on hearing this Ilmand's face went cold for a moment, changing constantly.
"Don't think that just because your mouth will talk, you can hide the fear in your heart, I tell you Hades, now even if you voluntarily hand over that thing, you are finished!" Ilmand said coldly with a grim look on his face.
"Hey ...... it's only twenty billion dollars, I only need to raise that much money and your plans will all be ruined, even if it's cheaper for others, I won't be cheaper for you Liurik family, a bunch of dirty fools." Hades' eyes showed a crazy look as he sternly mocked.
"Hahahaha ...... Hades, you are still naive, thinking that twenty billion dollars is very little? Tell me, in the whole of Europe, is there any bank that dares to lend you money? Just now at the banquet, you got someone to borrow money, didn't you, and borrowed a billion dollars? I'm afraid not."
"Your struggle is just a clown show before your defeat, it means nothing."
As if he were a king on the verge of victory, he laughed wildly and gave vent to his inner pleasure, and seeing Hades' blackened face, Irmand felt as if he were in heaven, too comfortable.
"We'll see, the more you laugh now, the worse you'll lose later."
Hades sneered, "Get lost, you are not welcome here, get lost immediately or I will have your dog's legs broken."
"You ...... are very good, huh?" Ilmand was choked by Candace's words, and with a cold snort, he was manipulating his hands, drawing his steps and leaving quickly.
When Ilmand's back disappeared, the butler's fists were clenched and he said angrily, "Sir, I just wanted to go up there and kill that guy."
"You kill him, and I'll be the one who dies tonight." Hades rolled his eyes.
The butler lamented and deflated, "So what do we do now, are we really at the end of our tether?"
"Not really, we still have a chance!" The conflict between the Hades family and the Rurik family had been there for decades.
At that time, both sides were entering the automobile industry, and Hades' grandfather had pitted the Liurick family many times, and later Hades' father had fought back and forth with the Liurick family.
However, Hades' family was a single line and did not have a family as large as the Ruriks, so the Ruriks' wealth had actually built up to a very large amount in Hades' father's generation.
When Hades' father died in a car accident, Hades was only eighteen years old and he inherited his father's estate.
For the first few years he was not a good businessman and had to keep abandoning some of his properties, including the car industry, in exchange for friendship with other groups and families as a way to keep his basic properties.
As he grew older, Hades' ambition slowly grew, and time proved that he, indeed, had a well-developed business mind, and as of today, he controls a fortune of over $50 billion, although much of it is fixed assets.
The Liuric family, on the other hand, is a large family family, with designs on the automotive industry as well, and is one of the main operating Fanwells, as well as having a controlling interest in the major European banks.
Originally, Hades had previously given up the automotive field of industry, but this guy struggled for decades and felt that he was strong enough, so he wanted to re-enter the automotive industry and get back those glory that belonged to his father's generation.
So he made a secret share purchase of the Ferrari car company controlled by the Liuric family, a few years ago.
But in the meantime, he played a few tricks to fool the Rurik family, and ended up with 92% of the shares in Ferrari in his hands.
But soon after this was discovered by the Rurik family, they were naturally furious, as Ferrari, their property, could not be handed over to an outsider for no reason, not to mention the fact that the man was Hades, who had used unsavoury methods.
So, they immediately agreed on a campaign against Hades, first in the pharmaceutical industry and then in the aviation sector to exclude him.
Hades did not even think that the Reuliks could get their hands on these two industries, so in a flash, Hades' industry was hit hard.
The pharmaceutical industry was slammed and also sanctioned by the EU. Not only that, but even his position in Airbus plummeted and many of his friends, who had been close to him, cut him off.
It was then that Hades realised the seriousness of the matter. According to what he knew about this Brown Bear family, they were not capable of doing so, so there was only one possible outcome, and that was that the Rothschilds had struck.
A deep sense of powerlessness flooded Hades' heart at the thought of facing this giant family.
But fortunately, the Rothschild family owed a favour to the Rurik family, and the previous move was only to return the favour and not to follow up on him, otherwise Hades' assets would have shrunk several times as early as a month ago.
And now, the dilemma he is facing is the debt collection from the Dutch bank.
He had taken out a loan of US$20 billion from the Dutch bank a few years ago, which had expired a while ago, and he couldn't get that much liquidity to pay back the Dutch bank, so he had to use his fixed assets to cover the debt in the face of the Dutch bank's demands.
Normally, a bank of Hades' calibre would not have been able to call on him so urgently even if the loan was due, but reality showed that the Dutch bank was indeed calling on Hades as if he was in desperate need, giving him no chance to escape.
Later, through the grapevine, Hades learnt that the Reulick family had some connections in the Dutch bank, which was why the Dutch bank kept pressuring Candace.