Great Responsibilities Had Fallen to This Man

The car drove farther and farther, until they reached the outskirts.

Empress Dowager Ye said, "A lot of real estate companies are transitioning into other industries. Our group is doing the same. See that plot of land? Our group bought it and plans to invest 260 billion yuan in building a high-tech industrial park."

Shen Qi looked out at the vast empty land and said, "Mom, you're incredible!"

Some major real estate groups had started diversifying their businesses years ago. Evergrande had invested 160 billion yuan in building a new-energy vehicle base in the Nansha Free Trade Zone. To this day, the Evergrande base there was doing quite well.

Years had passed, and prices had risen. The 260 billion yuan Empress Dowager Ye's real estate group was putting into this project would fund something about the same scale as Evergrande's investment in Nansha back then.

What did 260 billion yuan mean?

It was just a little less than the GDP of Xihai Province and a little more than the GDP of Tiancang Province.

Spent on peaceful endeavors, that money would benefit the people and serve the country. Spent on war, it would be enough to launch a limited conflict.

Empress Dowager Ye casually dealt in business worth hundreds of billions. The thirty-odd billion Shen Qi had invested really wasn't much by comparison.

"I'm already fifty-nine this year. A woman my age really doesn't have the energy she used to." Empress Dowager Ye traced a circle on the car window, then continued, "That plot of land outside the car will all belong to you in the future."

Shen Qi wasn't unfamiliar with money; he just hadn't seen several hundred billion before. "Y-ours?"

Empress Dowager Ye calmly replied, "That's right, yours. I have only one daughter and one son-in-law. What's mine is