Chapter Three: Buying a Factory Made of Debt

The System revised its appraisal. [Probability of stable-operation proof failure: 91%.] [Ninety-Day Potential Enterprise Value reduced to: ¥4,200,000.] Shen had control, but the value he had bought was disappearing. Outside, utility workers displayed a termination order from the property owner, citing unpaid pass-through electricity charges. Zhou pointed to the neighboring logistics park. “They have a diesel generator. Is it enough?” “Enough capacity, no interconnection cabinet,” Tang said. An enclosed test bus still linked the two sites, left from before the old machinery works was divided. [Target: Abandoned 10kV Test Bus.] [Current Value: ¥0.] [Restoration Cost: ¥18,000. Estimated Time: 43 minutes.] They had fifteen.