Chapter Three: Eight Hundred Sixty Thousand Steals Thirty Million

If we aggregate twenty million in matured employee claims, we can offset the exercise price.” Jiming understood at once. “The 860,000 isn't for the factory. It's for purchasing fragmented claims and covering voting, legal, and notarization costs.” For the next twenty-two minutes, the office became an emergency signing room. Han called former employees through the union directory. Jiming arranged remote legal witnesses and drafted debt-for-equity agreements. Yanqiu stood on a platform in the old workshop and stated the worst outcome plainly: the factory might still fail, and the shares might become worthless. But if the appointed buyer took the assets, the workers would recover only a fraction of their wages.