Chapter 21 Fixed Assets

The next morning, after Pei Qian got up, he opened the Aili Island creator backend and checked the video's performance.

It had gotten some views, and there were a few comments and bullet screens, but not many. Overall, it was still quite quiet.

The comments and bullet screens were mostly along the lines of "Holy crap," "Tycoon," "Budget explosion," and "Burning money."

Pei Qian's account was new. After posting to Aili Island's digital zone, he hadn't promoted it or had any followers. There was very little natural traffic, and the overnight exposure rate was practically non-existent.

Pei Qian didn't mind. He hadn't expected many people to watch the video anyway.

If someone actually gave him a charge or he could scrape up a bit of incentive money, he'd treat it as pocket money. It wasn't a bad thought.

Pei Qian was eating snacks and catching up on anime when the system screen suddenly unfolded in front of him.

[Wealth Conversion System]

[Host: Pei Qian]

[Surplus Conversion Ratio: 100:1, Loss Conversion Ratio: 1:1]

[Next Settlement Time: In 93 days]

[System Funds: 2.43 million (↓5.57 million)]

[Fixed Assets: A Mingyun Mountain Villa commercial-residential villa (6.22 million)]

[Personal Assets: 357412.5]

[Special Mission for This Cycle: Profit and loss are the way of business. Host seems overly obsessed with temporary profits, which is not the mentality of a business prodigy. It is recommended to achieve a loss at the next settlement.]

[Reward for Completing Special Mission: A mysterious surprise within the system rules.]

[Special Reminder:]

[Company fixed assets will be included in the system funds according to 10% of the system valuation, affecting the settlement results.]

[Regenerating system funds value...]

[System Funds: 2.43 million + 620,000 (↓4.95 million)]

[Fixed Assets: A Mingyun Mountain Villa commercial-residential villa (6.22 million)]

[Personal Assets: 357412.5]

The potato chip in Pei Qian's hand stopped halfway to his mouth.

What did this mean?!

He carefully read the contents of the system screen and vaguely understood when he saw the fixed assets section.

This was because he had previously rented almost all of his major assets, including office buildings, cars, and so on, so the "fixed assets" item hadn't been triggered.

Of course, the desks, chairs, furniture, office supplies, etc. bought for the company and internet cafe should also be considered company property, but the "fixed assets" item hadn't been triggered.

Probably because these things were too cheap and the system didn't think much of them.

But now that Pei Qian had bought a 6 million villa, the system could no longer ignore it.

According to the system, such large fixed assets would be valued by the system and included in the system funds at a rate of 10%, affecting the settlement results.

Pei Qian had just spent a lot of money buying the villa. The company's book funds were now 2.43 million, and the initial system funds were 8 million. According to the original calculation, he should currently be at a loss of 5.57 million.

However, according to the new algorithm, if the villa's valuation (6.22 million) was discounted by 10%, it would be equivalent to only losing 8 million - (2.43 million + 6.22 million * 10%) = 4.95 million!

The latest displayed system funds: 2.43 million + 620,000. The first 2.43 million was the company's current assets in its account, which was spendable money; the 620,000 was 10% of the villa's valuation of 6.22 million, which was a virtual number after the conversion. It couldn't really be spent, but it would occupy the system funds and affect the settlement.

Pei Qian scratched his head, his first reaction was that he didn't quite understand whether this was a good deal or not.

Obviously, the system's rule relaxed the restrictions on Pei Qian's purchase of large fixed assets.

If similar large assets were not included in the system funds, then Pei Qian could recklessly buy them in the future. As long as he ensured that the capital chain didn't break, he could keep buying buildings to create losses.

(Of course, the premise was that there had to be a legitimate reason. He couldn't speculate on real estate or live in it himself, but had to use it for production and operation, like this time.)

For example, if the system funds were 10 million in the end, Pei Qian could take out 7 million to buy another villa (and find some operating purpose for it), and he would only have 3 million left, which would easily be a loss of 5 million relative to the original 8 million system funds.

This obviously reduced the difficulty of losing money.

Therefore, fixed assets had to be included in the system funds.

But if the fixed assets were fully included in the system funds, there would be big problems.

The initial system funds were only 8 million. If Pei Qian bought a 10 million villa and this 10 million was included in the system funds, then no matter how hard Pei Qian tried, it would be difficult to get the system funds down below 8 million unless he mortgaged or sold the house...

Therefore, the system chose a compromise approach.

Similar large fixed assets were included in the system funds at a rate of 10%. On the one hand, Pei Qian wouldn't be restricted from buying any fixed assets when he wanted to lose money. On the other hand, Pei Qian wouldn't be able to easily achieve large losses by mindlessly buying fixed assets.

"Ah... Thinking about the worst case scenario, another shortcut to getting rich quickly has been blocked by the system. The system is always one step ahead of me..."

"But thinking about the best case scenario, if the system hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought of this so easily..."

Pei Qian suddenly realized that buying fixed assets, although it would affect the settlement, was still a good way to spend money!

Suppose Pei Qian spent the system funds down to about 10 million in the end. At this time, he could directly buy another villa or shop. Suppose he spent 5 million, then the status of the system funds at this time would be:

10 million - 5 million + 5 million * 10% = 5.5 million.

In this way, it would still be considered a loss of 8 million - 5.5 million = 2.5 million!

Of course, there were risks in doing so. When Pei Qian held a lot of fixed assets, the valuation of a certain fixed asset might suddenly skyrocket, which would cause the system funds to skyrocket as well.

Suppose the valuation of the villa in Pei Qian's hand suddenly soared to 30 million, then including 10% in the system funds would be 3 million.

10 million - 5 million + 30 million * 10% = 8 million.

Then he wouldn't be able to achieve a loss!

In a worse situation, if Pei Qian had too many fixed assets, even if calculated at 10%, it would have exceeded the system's initial funds. Then, even if Pei Qian spent all the money in the company's books, he would not be able to create a loss.

Unless these fixed assets depreciated, or Pei Qian sold them all and converted them into money, and then spent the money.

In short...

Opportunity and risk coexist.

After a calculation, Pei Qian felt a bit of a headache.

"What's going on? It takes so much brainpower to lose some money? How are these rules getting more and more complicated..."

Pei Qian decided to not think about this for the time being.

When the amount of system funds increased in the future, such as to twenty or thirty million, it would be cost-effective to spend a few million to buy shops, which would only be converted into hundreds of thousands of system funds.

The current system funds were a bit low, and it would be easy to crash if he bought too many shops, so he should postpone it.

For the sake of stability, it was best to save it until the end to spend money in a rush.

In this cycle, he would just buy this commercial-residential villa and open a high-end restaurant to lose money.

Since the system had already given a reminder, it proved that the villa had already been bought, and the procedures should have been completed as well.

Pei Qian called Assistant Xin and asked her to drive him to the Mingyun Mountain Villa branch of Mo Yu Internet Cafe to take a look.

He would arrange the layout of the high-end restaurant and also see if there had been any unexpected changes in the surrounding business environment.