Chapter 157 Dining Table Politics: Giants Join Forces

In Manhattan's Chinatown, the restaurant of Li Jie's family was booked out again today. This time, it wasn't that the Li family had something to celebrate, but Harry paid for the entire restaurant.

Because there are more important things that need to be done in this restaurant today.

Li Jie invited Tony and Pepper to come here for dinner under the pretext of trying dishes, but apart from Tony and Harry, only Harry was invited.

Li Jie's excuse was that he had vacated the entire restaurant, and only received Tony and two tonight, while Harry came in early in the morning when he was mixed in the car buying ingredients.

Li Jie didn't want to leak the news of the private meeting between Harry and Tony. The secret meeting of the leaders of the two super-large groups was enough to cause a storm on Wall Street.

In order to arrange this meeting, Li Jie also dismissed all the other employees in the restaurant and asked them to take a day off today but their wages will still be paid.

When Tony came to the restaurant with Pepper in his own car, Li Jie had been waiting at the door of the restaurant for a long time.

"Welcome, Miss Pepper and Mr. Stark." Li Jie opened the car door for Pepper very gentlemanly.

"Thank you." Pei Bo smiled and returned the courtesy to Li Jie.

The status of Peibo is different now. Since Obedia's death, Tony has handed over the responsibility of running the Stark Industries Group to Peibo.

Now this woman has become a representative of strong women in the workplace. Both Time Magazine and Vanity Fair have used her as the cover character and published special reports on Pepper.

"This is your family restaurant?" Tony looked at MR? LI. The size of this restaurant seems to be ok, and it is considered a good location in Manhattan's Chinatown.

"Yes, thank you Mr. Tony for accepting my invitation." Li Jie nodded with a smile, pushed open the door of the restaurant and invited the two in.

"Oh, Jason should be thanking you for the invitation. Have you finally decided to open a formal restaurant now?" Pepper smiled warmly.

In fact, Pepper Pepper is very kind to people in normal times. Only when she is dealing with urgent matters or matters related to Tony, she will appear decisive and even a bit ruthless.

"If you really want to run a restaurant, I believe you can get a Michelin rating soon, and I can even ask Michelin gourmets to send someone to visit you directly."

As a woman who has already stood at the pinnacle of business, there is a kind of domineering in Pepper's words, the Michelin star that chefs all over the world dream of.

In her opinion, it was not difficult at all. Of course, it was also because Li Jie's dishes conquered her and Tony's taste buds.

"Thank you Miss Pei Bo, but at least now is not a good time." Li Jie shook his head and declined politely. Because he knows how busy he is.

Today, because of special arrangements, the entire hall has been processed in advance, and many countertops have been withdrawn to the side.

An open hearth and all the materials are in the center of the lobby, and of course there is a beautiful dining table for two.

Since Tony and Pepper were asked to try the dishes today, it is probably impossible to use Chinese food with a lot of oily smoke, because it is not suitable for today's purpose.

Because once you want to cook Chinese food, you must go to the back kitchen, so the subsequent plans and Li Jie's preset talks cannot be carried out.

Apart from Li Jie and the other three, there was only one waiter who was neatly dressed and dressed in clean clothes. In order to prevent hair from falling into the dishes, the waiter even wore a baseball cap.

"It seems that you prepared well today." Tony nodded, and he strode towards the table, and the waiter pulled out the chair for him professionally.

Then, because Pei Bo was a step late, she opened the chair, and Pei Bo smiled and said thank you.

"So, what did you prepare today? Is there a menu?" Tony asked, looking at the empty dining table.

"Today's menu is all behind me." Li Jie pointed to the materials prepared behind him. "All the main dishes and vegetables are here, you can mix and match as you like, and I will make the most suitable dishes."

"The tone is not small." Tony raised his brows and said.

"It's a kind of self-confidence." Li Jie said with a smile.

Because Tony came by car, he didn't drink. Although Tony used to be a heavy drinker, he has much better self-control now.

Li Jie made red venison stew for the two, mussels roasted in white wine, bouillabaisse and hummus, which Tony liked very much since the last time he ate it. and some vegetables.

"I still think that you should open a formal restaurant rather than a fast food truck." Tony held a glass of mocktail that the waiter had just made in his hand, well, why can mocktail be called a cocktail?

Tony's internal complaints were the same as when Li Jie drank it for the first time.

However, the prepared taste is not bad. Now the meal has reached the final dessert part. What Li Jie provided is rum scented cake.

Pepper likes the whole flavor of dessert very much, she said while tasting the cake with a specially prepared drink. "This drink is well prepared, and I think I should give you a special tip."

Pei Bo smiled and said to the waiter who had been serving her attentively, and said that she wanted to take out US dollars from her wallet as a tip to pay the waiter.

The waiter who had been working with his head down looked back at Li Jie, and Li Jie nodded his head.

"Thank you very much, Miss Pepper. You see, my father keeps saying that I shouldn't do this. He thinks it's a waste of time." The waiter smiled and took the tip from Pepper.

At the same time, he also took off the hat he had been wearing all the time. Only at this time did Pei Bo see the waiter's face clearly.

"Oh my god, it's you!" Pei Bo stood up in surprise.

A head of beautiful blond hair, handsome and handsome face, but this is not what surprised Pepper, the real surprise was the identity of this young boy.

The son of Norman Osborn, who is also the new chairman of the Osborne Group, is a super rich man worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and the helm of a super company that can almost keep pace with the Stark Group.

And my good Tony actually finished a meal under his service? And I even tipped him? God! This is so ridiculous that even Hollywood screenwriters can't write this kind of plot.

"I seem to have seen you there." Tony looked at Harry's face with a thoughtful expression. Well, Tony has a poor memory for men, and he hasn't really had a relationship with Harry.

"Tony! This is the chairman of the Osborne Group, Mr. Harry Osborne. I'm sorry Mr. Osborne, I'm sorry for my faux pas just now. And I'm sorry about what happened to your father,"

Pepper would not despise Harry because of his age, now Pepper understands that today's dinner may not be so simple.

She glanced at Li Jie with a vigilant look, and Li Jie stood up immediately. At this time, he must explain the matter clearly, otherwise it will be self-defeating.

"I'm sorry, both of you. I arranged this informal meeting to keep the information a bit more secret." Li Jie stood up and explained.

"Harry is my friend. I think everyone knows about the major events that have happened in the Osborne Group recently."

"Harry's current situation is not easy. He doesn't even have anyone he can trust to help control the company. As a friend, Harry needs my help, so I specially arranged this dinner. I'm very sorry to both of you."

Li Jie said with a little apology that he was actually a bit tricky in introducing him this way, and Harry's situation now is very similar to Tony's back then.

It's the same as when his parents died when he was a teenager, leaving behind the burden of a super enterprise, but it's different from Tony's wandering outside for several years before he recalled his own burden.

Harry picked up the burden directly, and Harry didn't have Tony's excellent scientific research intelligence, so he faced more problems.

So he wanted to use this method to arouse Tony's sympathy. Although there are no fathers and sons in the mall, according to Li Jie's understanding of Tony, he knows that Tony is more emotional than rational outside of science.

"So you came to ask the chairman of the Osborne Group to mix drinks for us?" Tony said a little annoyed, but he didn't get up and leave immediately. This is a good sign, which means he is willing to stay and communicate.

"I don't think this will help him manage the company, especially if the Stark Group and the Osborne Group are still in a competitive relationship."

"It won't happen in the future, Mr. Stark." Harry said the language he had already organized as he had rehearsed with Li Jie before.

"What do you mean by no more?" Compared with the unrestrained and unrestrained nature of your trust, Pepper is more sensitive to business sense.

Harry knew that the real key this time was Pepper, the real manager of the Stark Group, so he explained.

"Currently, the competition between the Osborne Group and the Stark Group is fiercest, one is military weapons, and the other is energy."

"The Osborne Group can withdraw from the competition in the field of new energy." Harry said the lines he had prepared.

This is the result of repeated analysis. Although bioenergy is not helpless in the face of Stark's new energy, it will also become unprofitable in the competition.

Rather than lingering in the future, it is better to just abandon it now as a gesture of goodwill.

"What do you want to get?" Pepper didn't believe that there is a free lunch in the world.

"Stark Group's share in the weapons field and customer base recommendation." Harry said. "In exchange, the Osborne Group will exchange its energy channels to the Stark Group."

This young man didn't look like he was just a handsome boy, and the corners of Pei Bo's mouth were slightly upturned. She didn't know that behind Harry, there was a seemingly harmless cook advising him.

"Is there room for privacy, Jason? I want to have a good chat with Mr. Osborne." Pepper asked.

"Of course, there is a safe office on the second floor, and Harry knows where it is." Li Jie pointed upstairs.

"Tony, do you want to come with me?" Pepper asked Tony who was sitting on the seat drinking mocktail.

"No need, just make up your mind." Tony has always shown little interest in business negotiations.

Pepper and Harry turned around and went upstairs. This kind of business meeting, which is very private and may cause global financial fluctuations, must be known by as few people as possible.

Harry can trust Li Jie, but it doesn't mean that Pepper will completely trust him.

"So that's why you invited me here today? To connect the Stark Group and the Osborne Group?" Tony said, looking at Li Jie who was cleaning up the stove.

"In a small restaurant in Manhattan, two super giants held a secret meeting under your arrangement, and then the two super companies reached a secret deal."

"If you really succeed, what you did today may become a legend in business." Tony put the wine glass on the table and said a little playfully.

"Are you really just a cook? Not a corporate spy?"

"Of course, I'm a good cook, and everything else is just a part-time job." Li Jie mixed another non-alcoholic cocktail for Tony.

Tony looked at Li Jie for a while, then shook his head with a smile.

When Pepper and Harry came down from upstairs with smiles on their faces, Li Jie already knew that the agreement between the two might have been reached.

"I hope to have a good cooperation in the future, Harry." Pepper shook hands with Harry before leaving.

Harry also shook hands with Tony, saying that Stark Group and Osborne Group will form a tacit understanding in the future, and even a strategic alliance to a certain extent.

Today's dinner was a success, and both groups got what they wanted.

Harry originally wanted to stay and help Li Jie clean up, but was driven away by Li Jie. Harry was in a state of overexcitement right now.

If you stay here and accidentally show your feet and be photographed, you will be in trouble. You must know that Tony is the most dazzling character under the spotlight, and I don’t know how many paparazzi followed him.

"You'd better leave now, my car is at the intersection, don't let people recognize you." Li Jie gave Harry the keys to his second-hand Ford car.

He signaled him to take a bag of garbage from the position of the back kitchen and pretend to be an off-duty chef to leave here quickly.

After everyone left here, Li Jie looked at the somewhat empty restaurant and felt a little complacent.

Who would have thought that what an important event he had done today, the heads of two multinational groups had a cooperation under his auspices.

Moreover, such cooperation has a far-reaching impact, and a giant-level strategic alliance has already taken shape.

When looking back at this story from a historical perspective one day, who would have thought that it was an unknown little chef who promoted all this?

When Li Jie finished cleaning and was about to leave here, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Nightcrawler, the Supreme Mage wants to see you."