Chapter 418 The Finn Group Should Change
“Replace our own people up there?” Hunter froze, puzzled, “You have a preferred candidate?”
Levi narrowed his eyes, a smile flashed in his pupils, but his tone was light.
“Over the years, although I haven’t been in charge of real power at the Finn Group, nor have I accepted any projects, but it’s not all half-hearted action. Before grandpa passed away, he gave me a list of people who could be trusted, so over the years, I’ve been in touch with some of them privately.”
At these words, Hunter was surprised: “So, the Finn Group has quite a few of your people now, right?”This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
“You could say that.” Levi nodded, “It’s thanks to my father.”
Hunter didn’t understand, “What do you mean?”
“At first, once he came to power, didn’t he suppress those people who used to follow grandpa? He lost a lot of people’s hearts for this reason, so these people were able to work as my spies in private. Over these years, they did not obey my father, because he could not tolerant with others, and he wants everything under his control. And his relatives are not competent. There was a lot of discontent, but my father automatically ignored it all and thought he could do whatever he wanted just because he was the president.”
With his words, Hunter recalled the time when Ralph was in full control of the Finn Group after the chairman’s death, and indeed, it was in a bad situation.
He couldn’t help but sigh and shook his head as if in regret, “It’s a pity that your father never took that to heart.”
Levi snorted, “He is the most conceited person, always thinking that no one can do anything to him.”
“Well……” Hunter hesitated and took the initiative to ask, “Who are you trying to push to the top? Although the company’s people are uncertain now, but the president has quite a few people, and it’s not an easy thing to shake him.”
There was a brief silence as Levi’s slender fingers tapped the desk, seemingly in deep thought.
“This person to be pushed up must be a veteran of the Finn Group, and also hold a fairly good amount of shares in it, and must have a certain amount of say, and also have a group of advocates to support him, of course, let him replace my father’s position, that is impossible, the president of the company can’t be changed easily, or it will cause too much turmoil, which is not good for the company. We have to take a step at a time, first push this person into the position of acting vice president to assist my dad with matters of the company.”
The word “assist” was a euphemism, but this was an attempt to empty Ralph of his power.
At this rate, Ralph would not be able to make decisions on his own.
Hunter pondered his words, “This person you are talking about, wouldn’t it be ……”
He seemed to think of something and his eyes lit up, “Dante Byrne!”
Dante Byrne, who was also a member of Martin’s inner circle back in the day, and the two were considered to be the right-hand men of the former chairman.
Only later, after Martin’s death, Dante quickly defected to Ralph’s tutelage.
So while Ralph was vigorously suppressing the past patriarchs, he was the only one who didn’t take a shot at him.
Not only that, Dante had held more and more shares in the company over the years and was very well placed and vocal, with many of his own supporters and inner circle.
At the time, Hunter thought what he did was a betrayal of Martin, and had a big fight with him over it and broke up.
But he still remembered the last words Dante had said to him when he looked him in the eye with a complicated expression.
“Hunter, I can understand you can’t forgive me now, and I don’t intend to justify myself, but time will tell and afterwards you will understand why I did what I did.”
At the time, he was in a fit of anger, but now, in retrospect, it dawned on him.
“Is he one of your people?”
Recalling all this, he looked at Levi at this moment with anticipation, hoping to get an affirmative answer.
And Levi didn’t let him down, looking him in the eyes, his eyebrows raised and he nodded, “That’s right, he’s my man.”
At these words, Hunter’s eyes suddenly turned red, seemingly too excited to contain himself.
“So that’s how it was …… so that’s how it was!” He said it twice in a row, as if blaming himself, “I was the one who failed to understand him, thankfully. ……”
Understanding how he felt, Levi was good-natured as he soothed him, “You don’t have to blame yourself, after all, he didn’t explain in the first place, and it was me who told him to do so.”
Hunter froze, somewhat confused, “Mr. Levi, why did you have him hid it from everyone? All these years, he has suffered much ostracism from us old friends, everyone thinks he’s a villain ……”
Levi said, “This is the effect I want, Ralph is such a shrewd man, if he is not accused by a thousand people, if he is not ostracized by you old friends and completely cut off, do you think Ralph will believe him?”
Upon hearing this, Hunter immediately reacted, “You mean you want to fake it for real as a way to gain Ralph’s trust?”
“That’s right, Ralph must have examined the matter for a long time and confirmed that all of you had completely fallen out with Dante before he could really believe that he had defected to his discipline for the sake of profit, otherwise, there was no way he would have promoted and trusted Dante.”
At this point, Hunter came to a complete understanding.
When he thought of how much misunderstanding his former friend had endured over the years, he couldn’t help but feel saddened.
However, he understood: “If you want to achieve great things, sometimes you have to make sacrifices. Dante has endured humiliation over the years and has indeed gained the trust of Ralph, so it is not in vain, and now he has made his mark.”
Levi poured himself a cup of tea, picked it up and put it to his lips and blew lightly, tasting two sips, “Now it’s time to stand out, Ralph must not have thought that the dog he thought he was keeping around was actually a vicious wolf that had been dormant for a long time.”
At the end of his voice, he put down his tea and picked up this document again, and his narrow eyes flashed with shrewdness.
“Tomorrow is the monthly AGM, just in time.”
Hunter couldn’t help but be excited, “Will you come tomorrow?”
Levi said: “Sure, tomorrow is the main event, it’s time to change the Finn Group.”