Lu Chengwen said, "This money has been transferred too many times, and there are still loopholes in the paperwork. It has to be routed back into the country through Tianzhu."
"Oh, oh, oh. Sure, sure, sure. Go on."
"But the transfer has to be conveyed through negotiable instruments."
"Negotiable instruments?"
"Yes. It's a way of... bypassing international financial laws, and it's also an internationally accepted method. But it's very risky. This is the only solution I can think of right now."
"Can't we just transport it back directly?"
Lu Chengwen glanced at the phone and nearly started cursing.
Are you a fucking idiot!? Twenty billion! US Dollars!
Who the hell would let you transport that back in comfort!? Even if they did, how would you transport it!? Do you even know how much space twenty billion takes up!?
"Dean, twenty billion! That weighs as much as forty African elephants! If it's loaded into shipping containers, with nothing but loose banknotes and no outer packaging, it would take more than a dozen containers! Would anyone let you transport it? Would anyone transport it for you? Who would pack it? Who would guard it? Who would insure it? How would it be unloaded at the destination? How many people would be needed for all that? If anything went wrong along the way, who would bear the responsibility? If one of the containers caught fire, who would take the consequences? What the hell are you thinking?"
The Dean nodded. "Yeah, that does sound troublesome. Then those negotiable instruments you mentioned..."
"Electronic transfers are internationally standard, but we can't use them."
"Why not?"
Lu Chengwen said gloomily, "It's complicated! An electronic transfer of that size would immediately trigger an alert, then get frozen and investigated. Once they investigate, our entire process will be exposed,