Losing money year after year, and being the "number-one land owner in Taiwan," TSC was like fallen nobility, possessed of rich ancestral lands but unable to maintain them and consequently causing others to cast covetous eyes on its property.
長年虧損，再加上「全台第一大地主」的身分，台糖猶如祖產豐厚卻無力守成的沒落貴族般引人覬覦。