Chapter 98: Energy
Twenty-five million US dollars. One hundred and seventy-five million yuan. This inflexible funding requirement spread at tremendous speed through the senior management of every business in Su Can's network, touching every node and jolting everyone's nerves.
If it could be done, this would be the largest mobilization of funds Su Can and his entire fleet of businesses had ever undertaken together-a transfer of power that would generate countless transaction records and an enormous flow of paperwork.
Money was not merely a number. It had weight. Ordinary people did not know what ten million meant to them compared with one million, because an ordinary person might never possess that much money in an entire lifetime. They had no concept of it.
Even if they occasionally indulged in fantasies, they would probably imagine wearing the most luxurious clothes and enjoying the feeling of truly being treated like God when shopping at a mall. They would no longer face saleswomen's unspoken contempt for their poverty. Instead, those women would bow and smile from the heart, then talk about them eagerly with their friends. Or they could visit the most brilliantly lit restaurants in the city, dining and chatting before floor-to-ceiling windows with the city's nightscape spread out before them, enjoying a high-quality life, surrounded by others, with social status and respect.
Wealth and splendor-this was probably the first, most immediate image money brought to an ordinary person's mind.
And the weight of money could indeed keep a person's proud spine bent for a long time. It could buy beautiful women in droves, their bodies sprawled across a bed, and make those who thoroughly understood the many rules of this society show you due reverence. It could also consume the years of youth that so many people ought to have spent