The Young Master ultimately accepted the figure of forty billion. A little cleverness was fine, but taking it too far could easily hurt himself!
However, preparing forty billion in silver notes was truly arduous.
He had already begun collecting them earlier, but Shui Corporation's current situation had left him with very little to show for it.
Now Shui Corporation's crisis had been resolved, but most people did not know that—Dyson would not spread such an embarrassing matter around either.
Since they could not scrape together that much cash, they could only take out mortgage loans, but that was still quite troublesome.
There was no need to mention the low valuation of the collateral. Shui Corporation did not care—it would reclaim the collateral sooner or later.
The key problem was that it was difficult to convert loans into silver notes on a large scale, much less the unregistered kind.
—Within the Core Circle, "anti-money laundering" was taken very seriously, and inspections were especially strict.
In fact, the lenders had even demanded the right to supervise how Shui Corporation used the loans. Shui Xisheng refused without hesitation—Shui Corporation might be in a bit of difficulty, but it was not yet their place to act so presumptuously!
In the end, most of the loans still went through the Underground Bank—the interest was extremely high!
But the Young Master had no choice. His constant delays had already made Qu Jianlei and the others impatient.
Fortunately, he had kept explaining and communicating with them, so they had not exploded.
Even so, after five days, he had only managed to obtain thirty-two billion.
Even adding the 2.8 billion worth of supplies Qu Jianlei had purchased earlier, there was still a shortfall of more than five billion.
It was not that the Young Master had not worked