In truth, Bai Su did not actually spend that much money to purchase the City Trade Center. However, as the project had taken five years to complete with a total investment exceeding 500 billion, the purchase price was naturally higher than the total investment cost. Even Lin Yi had assumed that it would be impossible to secure the City Trade Center for less than a trillion.
Tang Chuchu was completely stunned by that figure. Being an ordinary citizen, she had never seen the world, nor had she seen such vast sums of money. A trillion was an astronomical number to her. What did a trillion in capital even mean? This wasn't virtual wealth. Take the Tang family, for example. Though they claimed to have assets worth over a billion, that was the valuation of their company, a sum of all their various industries combined. If one were talking about actual cash, for a family like the Tangs, having a hundred million in cash would be considered quite remarkable.
As for the Qianjun Group, it had a market capitalization of 100 billion. But that 100 billion was virtual wealth. Once the Qianjun Group encountered problems—if its capital chain broke, for instance, or it could no longer operate normally—that market value would plummet. That 100 billion could easily turn into 10 billion, or even a single billion, or perhaps become worthless, or even leave them buried in debt.
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