"Of course! I heard that ninety years ago, a fortune was spent just planting the trees here!" Uncle, who always knew a little bit about everything, explained to Aunt.
"How much was spent?" Aunt asked. After being overwhelmed by the financial might of the Shieki Eight Families all day, she felt she was pretty much immune to being shocked by big numbers.
"Money back then isn't the same concept as money today, you know." Uncle recalled a popular and somewhat exaggerated online claim. "One hundred thousand trees, plus real estate in the heart of Tokyo where every inch of land is worth an inch of gold—such a massive tract of land. If you calculated the price based on the currency of that time and the current commercial value of the land, that sum of money could probably buy a less affluent state in America."
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