Gao Guang didn't know how much a C-130 was worth.
He knew the purchase price from the U.S. Military, which was about forty to fifty million US dollars per aircraft according to previous purchases.
But Gao Guang was unaware of the black market price, as this aircraft would never appear on the black market anyway. Therefore, it was hard to say how much it could sell for—whether ten million or one hundred million was up to him.
The C-130, the most versatile and best-performing tactical transport aircraft in the world today, don't say it's outdated because it has been around for decades. What a transport aircraft needs is reliability, maturity, and easy maintenance with a low failure rate.
This aircraft was only sold to state clients; private individuals couldn't buy it because it was a military transport aircraft, which was a different beast from commercial jets.
If there were two C-130s, plus three Antonov An-12s, and four Mil Mi-8s...