Chapter Three: Buying a Factory Made of Debt

Use three benches in parallel, synchronize the clocks, and merge the evidence chain. Four hours and fifteen minutes.” “Regulators do not accept stitched data.” “It is not stitched. Use three parallel samples with a licensed third party witnessing remotely. The statistical evidence is stronger than a single continuous sample.” Tang began to object, calculated silently, and stopped. This part belonged to Shen, not the System. The System could identify where value waited. Converting value into trusted data still required skill. At five p.m., twenty-two small suppliers approved the restructuring. Five demanded a higher payout. The bank remained neutral. Employee representatives placed their fingerprints on the wage-to-equity agreement.