Chapter Four: The Negative-Value Order

minimum-purchase commitment to an overseas miner at above-market nickel prices; and a personal repurchase letter Ma had signed when he sold twenty percent of Dongrui to management. “Environmental inspectors return Monday. A shutdown triggers the bank’s cross-default clause. The freeze then lets management demand that you repurchase its shares for twelve million. If you refuse, they can enforce against control.” Ma’s smile vanished. “Where did you get the repurchase letter?” “Management once priced it for a microloan. The financing registry preserved an abstract.” The full amount came from the System. The public abstract made Shen’s inference credible.