Although Duan Yun was a little tired just off the train, he still didn't even eat lunch, so he and Cao Dong went to the center of Shanghai to investigate, the time was urgent, he only left himself two days, and then he had to rush to Shenzhen immediately to deal with the matter of setting up a factory.

After coming to Nanjing Road, Duan Yun felt a little shocked by the scene in front of him, it was Sunday, and the entire Nanjing Road was crowded, with shopping malls and billboards on both sides, a prosperous scene.

Shanghai has long been China's most important economic center, and although it is far from the skyscraper skyline of later generations, Nanjing Road is undoubtedly the most prosperous commercial street in China today.

Cao Dong has been in Shanghai for more than a month, and he is still relatively familiar with the situation in the city center, and under his leadership, the two of them came to Shanghai No. 1 Department Store first.

As the largest department store in China at that time, the traffic inside can be described as terrifying, in addition to Shanghai locals, there are many people from all over the country also come here to shop, especially in the household appliances area on the 2nd floor of the department store, many people hold TV tickets and refrigerator tickets in their hands, and the queue of people has been lined up from the door to the counter, the scene is very hot.

In the past two years, the purchase channels of state-run stores are still very strict, and it is very difficult for private enterprises to sell their goods in such large stores, and the country's top stores such as Shanghai No. 1 Department Store have even stricter purchase channels.

But I have to say that the shipment volume of this kind of large shopping mall is indeed considerable, in this era of no e-commerce and no online shopping, it is a recognition and honor to be able to put goods on the shelves of such a large shopping mall.

Feeling that there were too many people, Duan Yun finally withdrew from the household appliance hall.

"Brother Duan, you are eloquent, or shall we talk to the mall manager now?" Cao Dong suggested.

"Forget it, it's useless to say that I'm talking about the sky, there is no shortage of good supplies in this kind of shopping mall, let's talk about this later. Seeing the crowded scene in the store, Duan Yun shook his head gently, and then left the mall with Cao Dong.

In June, when the weather in Shanghai was unusually hot, Duan Yun and Cao Dong bought a bottle of soda on the street and began to walk slowly along Nanjing Road.

After walking not far, Duan Yun saw a very chic building in front of him, and on the wall of this building facing the street, some movie posters with exquisite floristry, such as "Shaolin Temple", "Burning the Old Summer Palace", "Wrangler" and other popular movie posters were displayed in the most conspicuous position.

"This is the Daguang Cinema, the largest cinema in Shanghai, but the ticket price is very expensive, let's watch a movie in Daxing is one or two cents, and a movie ticket in this place costs about a piece, last week I and my daughter-in-law came here to watch a "Shaolin Temple", it was very cool, and the screen was quite big...... "Cao Dong on the side said to Duan Yun.

"There are quite a lot of people. Duan Yun glanced at the crowd queuing up to buy tickets at the entrance of the movie theater, nodded and said.

Founded in 1928, Daguang Cinema enjoys the reputation of "the first cinema in the Far East", and was once the first widescreen cinema, the first stereo cinema and the first four-star cinema in China.

It can be said that Daguang Cinema has always been a business card of Shanghai, although the ticket price is more expensive than the general cinema, but there is still an endless stream of people who come here to watch movies, and there are even many outsiders who are proud to go to Daguang Cinema to watch movies, which shows how famous this cinema is.

However, after Duan Yun saw the crowd gathered at the entrance of the movie theater, he seemed to think of something, so he also stepped forward to join the queue to buy tickets.

"Brother Duan, do you want to watch a movie too?" Cao Dong asked as he followed.

"I just wanted to go in and have a look. Duan Yun said with a smile.

"Okay......" Although I don't understand why Duan Yun suddenly remembered to watch a movie, Cao Dong still is.

Later, after the two bought movie tickets, they entered the Great Light Cinema.

Compared with domestic movie theaters, the interior decoration of Daguang Cinema is obviously much more upscale, and Duan Yun even saw a small fountain inside, which was very cool and comfortable.

The two bought tickets for the movie "Wrangler", but not long after Duan Yun entered the screening hall, he walked out alone.

For Duan Yun, who is accustomed to watching many blockbusters at home and abroad in later generations, although some movies in this year are classics, they are not very attractive to him, and he came to the theater today for other purposes.

The 1st to 5th floors of the Da Gaoming Cinema are all screening halls, but Duan Yun saw a staircase leading to the underground at the other entrance on the first floor.

At this time, several theater workers were holding carts with boxes full of various soda on them, and they were sent down the gentle ramp of the stairs into the basement.

After going down the stairs, Duan Yun saw that the basement area below was very large, and it was like daylight under the light, and there was a diesel generator room with a logo in front of it, and on both sides of it were warehouses, and there were several locked houses in the distance, but judging from the area of the warehouse in front of it, the space inside was still very large.

Duan Yun was about to step forward to take a closer look at those warehouses, but was directly stopped by the staff of the theater, so he could only give up and return to the theater.

However, Duan Yun did not leave, but chatted with the staff of the theater in the corridor.

After Duan Yun stuffed the half-pack of cigarettes in his pocket to the staff member, the theater staff told Duan Yun about the situation in the basement.

It turned out that there was an underground air-raid shelter at the beginning of the construction of the Daguang Cinema, and later after reconstruction, it gradually became the basement of the Daguang Cinema, which has a very large area, with thousands of square meters, in addition to being used as a warehouse office, there are many places that are idle.

This is similar to Duan Yun's initial expectations, generally speaking, there must be an air-raid shelter or basement under this kind of large old building before liberation, and in terms of the area of Guangming Cinema, his basement will not be small.

If Duan Yun can rent a part of the basement here, then it can be used as a sounding room and a warehouse for storing speakers, which has a large flow of people and a large space, which is an excellent place to use as a sounding room and warehouse.

Shanghai is every inch of land, at present, Cao Dong found a warehouse far away from the city, if the basement here can be used as a warehouse for the transit of the urban shopping mall, it will be very convenient to replenish the goods.

It's just that the current Daguang Cinema is a subordinate unit of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture, and it is not easy for Duan Yun to rent the basement of the Daguang Cinema.

However, Duan Yun was still ready to give it a try, so after asking the employee, Duan Yun immediately went to the manager's office of the Great Light Cinema......