Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!-Chapter 649 - 596: Negotiations—How Many Billions?

He deliberately emphasized the word "reasonable," his gaze like a hawk locking onto Yan Yueqing.

Yan Yueqing signaled Lei Ran to place two documents on the table.

One was a freshly issued renewal application receipt, stamped with the acceptance seal of the district’s Ocean Bureau. The other was a copy of the original 15-year sea area usage right certificate, signed by Jiang Yu and with an attached sea area map from back then.

"Please take a look, Mr. Zheng." Yan Yueqing’s voice was calm and steady, "Sea Star Company holds complete legal rights to the usage of the sea area in this block. The renewal procedure has been initiated and accepted, leaving no doubt about its legality, completeness, and exclusivity. Moreover, on this block, aside from the storage and office buildings with full property rights owned by my company before the government planning, most crucial is this area—"

She pointed to the vast, though dilapidated but impressively scaled, network of farming facilities, oxygenation system bases, and feed processing sheds outside the window, "This is the core asset of a modern, large-scale offshore farming operation, which our company has heavily invested in and operated for over ten years. The replacement cost, the expected loss of profits, employee resettlement, and the feasibility of relocation or reconstruction... These are all factors that must be included in ’reasonable’ compensation, not merely the concept of ’young crop compensation.’"

Zheng Guodong glanced at the document, his expression unchanged, but a hint of seriousness flashed deep in his eyes.

"President Yan has come well-prepared." Zheng Guodong’s tone remained steady, but with an increasingly scrutinizing undertone, "Regarding the legality of sea area usage rights and the renewal status, we naturally acknowledge it. As for the compensation plan, we have calculated it based on government guidance standards and market fairness principles."

He slightly tilted his head, and his assistant immediately turned the tablet towards Yan Yueqing, displaying a clearly structured table and the final figure on the screen.

"This is our preliminary compensation plan, including compensation for the remaining years of sea area usage rights, the assessment and replacement costs of above-ground attachments (including the storage, office buildings, and farming facilities you mentioned), as well as certain relocation allowances and compensation for production suspension and business interruption. In total..." Zheng Guodong paused before clearly stating a figure, "870 million."

After announcing this number, the office instantly fell into a subtle silence.

Standing aside, Lei Ran frowned slightly, clearly shocked by this offer.

Sea Star Company, plus the farming facilities, and adding the recently signed East Creek Bay, could at most be valued at 80 million.

The counterpart is indeed the head of Blue Sea Heavy Industry; just one statement tripled the price here?!

He instinctively looked at Yan Yueqing, but to his surprise, found no disturbance on the boss’s face.

She didn’t even look at the detailed items on the tablet, merely retracting her gaze from the large-scale farming facilities outside the window back onto Zheng Guodong.

Her eyes were calm, yet carried a penetrating insight into everything.

"Mr. Zheng," Yan Yueqing’s voice remained steady, but her pace slowed, each word clear and powerful, "Block HZ-07 is the core assembly area of your company’s ’Number One Offshore New Energy Equipment Manufacturing Base.’ This means that piece of land is the heart of your entire project; without it, there’s no talking about your base."

She leaned slightly forward, lightly tapping the sea area usage rights certificate copy and renewal receipt on the table: "And I am the sole legitimate owner with complete and renewing interests in this heartland. The decade of effort I invested in is not merely a few warehouses and offices but a stable annual output, complete industrial chain, and a modern offshore farming industry cluster with mature technology and market channels."

She paused her gaze sweeping over Zheng Guodong, as if saying, "You and I both know the value in this."

"As for the ’replacement cost’ you mentioned earlier," a slight, almost imperceptible curvature lifted the corner of Yan Yueqing’s mouth, carrying a barely detectable hint of mockery, "Are you referring to the cost of repurchasing and reinstalling those outdated net cages, oxygen bases, and feed sheds based on current prices? Mr. Zheng, do you think the value of attachments on a golden plot that will bear the nation-level new energy strategic equipment manufacturing mission can be simply measured by ’replacement’?"

Her voice suddenly turned cold: "This 870 million—let alone covering the replacement cost, expected loss of profits, employee resettlement, feasibility assessment of relocation and reconstruction that I mentioned—fear it won’t even come close to any incremental value premium that will occur in the next five years of this piece of land—no, even in the next three years due to your project’s settlement."