After getting the arrangements of Yang Shoucheng, Liang Jiahui, Andy Lau and others.

Later that day, Gu Biao took advantage of the good mood and the fact that he still had some time to spend the weekend in Xiangjiang, so he asked the driver to drive to Baijia Road to see what the mountaintop mansion that had been renovated for more than half a year looked like.

The house harvested from Kong Han's traitor at the end of last year, after all, the garden and foundation are good, but the above-ground part of the building is reorganized, so it is completely possible to finish the work in more than half a year.

When Gu Biao went, of course the great designer I.M. Pei was gone, and they only designed it, and they wouldn't stare at the supervisor the whole time. And the work of designing the drawings was completed before the Spring Festival.

However, there was still an assistant from Master Pei's office at the scene, supervising there. Fax the on-site photos and progress back to the U.S. every day, so that the people there can confirm that the construction effect has not deviated from the design.

In the field of luxury housing development, there are still some phenomena such as Li Xiaotong in conceptual design, Liu Yifei in renderings, and Baozi Chen in the as-built drawings. The real big bosses want the design unit to keep an eye on the whole process, and don't complain that the middle construction party can't realize it and then compromise and change it.

"Gu Sheng, welcome Gu Sheng to inspect our work. The assistant designer of I.M. Pei's office, surnamed Shi, saw Gu Wei's convoy coming to inspect and immediately came out to greet him, which was very polite.

Gu Biao didn't bother to say anything like "I was an uninvited guest" - this was originally his home, where did he say uninvited words.

He just walked straight to the platform on the highest floor, looked at the mountain view, as well as the transparent hollow pool, the three-level fountain, and roughly saw the completion of each part of the main body.

"When can I call it a day?" Gu Biao didn't bother and went straight to the point.

"The main building has been completed, and it is currently being renovated, and it will take another month. Assistant Shi replied neatly, while taking out the form of the construction progress to show Gu Biao.

Gu Biao pushed slightly, he was not interested in looking at these.

He asked without question: "Can we speed up the work with more money?" At the end of this month, I will finish work. Then as soon as possible, I will have a feast here at the end of next month to celebrate the bankruptcy of the Emperor and the official takeover of the Emperor's business. ”

Assistant Shi said embarrassedly: "Then you can only add more people, and each room section will be contracted out separately, and the overtime pay will be hundreds of thousands more." There are too many people to clean up later, and all the inner locks have to be changed for safety, which is our responsibility to customers. The overconsumption of materials is all added, the construction period is shortened by more than ten days, and the purification behind it will cost nearly one million Hong Kong dollars. ”

"Plus. "Gu Biao is just one word.

More than 100 million houses have been bought, tens of millions of design fees have been spent, and the money for reconstruction is several times the design cost.

Gu Biao just felt that on the day when his Baijiadao mansion was officially completed and relocated, it was very meaningful to catch up with the sign of "Emperor" to declare bankruptcy in Xiangjiang, and then he officially collected the body and officially accepted the original emperor's big boss as his younger brother.

On that kind of day, a big feast is held here, and the declared value is very obvious.

Of course, Gu Biao still pays great attention to environmental protection and hygiene, even if he takes accelerated purification measures, Gu Biao will not come to live in the house that has just been renovated for a month. It's nothing more than a banquet for a few days, and then two months of idleness, and then come back to live for a long time in autumn.

"Then let's deal with it. Assistant Shi immediately eagerly adjusted the progress plan.

"Busy with you, I'll watch here for a while. ”

Gu Biao drove away his entourage and stood on the terrace alone, admiring this work of art that belonged to him.

Master I.M. Pei's handwriting is still very ingenious.

For example, in this transparent swimming pool, Gu Biao originally just asked him to make a swimming pool, but now he has made a drainage baffle that can be controlled to fold slightly inward on the edge of the empty side of the pool.

Once in a state of release, the current is not very fast, and it is impossible to wash the swimmer down. However, it can form a small waterfall with a three-story drop and rush directly into the large, horizontal ordinary swimming pool on the ground floor.

It feels a bit like the famous Kumano Stream Villa designed by Frank Wright in later art textbooks.

It's just that Kumano Stream Villa relies on natural mountain streams to form this vertical and horizontal effect, but I.M. Pei cleverly optimized the transparent swimming pool required by Party A.

Similar to the ingenious design, you can also see another place in the mansion - the main building was originally designed by I.M. Pei in a hollow-shaped atrium pattern for better lighting.

However, compared with the traditional Chinese "patio" atrium, this atrium in Gufu is equipped with a retractable tempered laminated glass ceiling, which can be fully extended and closed when it rains, or form an atrium like a sun room.

Here, however, I.M. Pei cleverly designed the expansion scale of the glass ceiling in the atrium into several levels, once it expands to a half-concealed and looming position, it can achieve the effect of the traditional Chinese inner eaves to collect rainwater. It just so happens that there is a delicate lotus pond in the middle of the bottom of the atrium, which can achieve the artistic conception of "leaving the residual lotus to listen to the sound of rain".

In winter and spring when there is no residual load, you can use the pump power of the electric pump room next to you to lift the water to the back of the roof and sprinkle it down along the inner glass eaves to form an artificial waterfall in the atrium, which is more beautiful and subtle than the ordinary vulgar fountain.

There will be a culvert under the lotus pond in the atrium, which will drain the collected water to the next platform outside the house, forming a winding pond between the rockery gardens, and finally forming a natural cycle with the mountain springs and streams of Taiping Mountain. As for the discordant-looking pump room, it is all excavated and hidden on the side of the mountain, and there is no artificial chisel on the outside.

This kind of design not only appreciates the endless circulation of water method, but also does not see the fountain in the open place, which can be seen at a glance to be made by manpower - more than 100 years ago, the "water method" in the Old Summer Palace is this kind of atmospheric design.

Including the top hotels now, they all pay attention to the effect of the fountain to achieve and have a water curtain wall, but it is best to see the unnatural and harmonious scene of "water spraying high" in any place where the guests can see with the naked eye. The water should be endless, but the part that flows against nature should be hidden in the back where it is not visible.

This is the subtlety of the Chinese royal atmosphere, compared with the 19th century pure exposed Western-style fountains have become nouveau riche, without the "hidden but not exposed" part, but purely showing off that human beings have just conquered nature, and have not sublimated to the realm of harmony and casualness between man and nature.

I.M. Pei's thoughts on the design of Gu Biao's Washington Mansion are obviously not under the renovation project of the Louvre, and the eight-figure design fee is not taken for nothing.

He knows that Gu Biao represents a turning point of an era, and the projects he helps Gu Biao do will definitely be in art history textbooks in the future, and if such works are not careful, they will be disgraced in history.

In the future, the mansions of other top richest people in Xiangjiang will also be pressed out of the outward release of the nouveau riche. Including Er Li, the Zheng family, and even the charter boat king, their Baijiadao mansions all have explicit fountains that spray upwards.

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Gu Biao was very satisfied with the masterpiece of Master I.M. Pei and the effect of this trip to Xiangjiang.

After a weekend of relaxation, he returned to the SAR to begin his work as the head of Huaxing Communications.

The rest of the things can only be commanded by international remote control in the dead of night.

There is a bit of a dual sense of identity of being a civilized person during the day and Zorro at night.

Anyway, the harvest on the Xiangjiang side, the listing of CD players in the American market, the official establishment of Tiankun Music's record company, and even the fight against Texas Instruments with Peter Peterson of the Blackstone Fund will not be the peach picking season until the end of July and the beginning of August.

Let's just settle down and endure it a little longer.

A month and a half was spent in daily dormancy.

At the end of June, Gu Biao received a call from Ye Kun, saying that she was at the embassy in Huashengton, all the work had been handed over, and she was ready to return to China.

Gu Biao said something of concern, saying that if he had time to go back to the capital or Jinling, he would definitely get together with her.

At the same time, in the past month and a half, Huaxing Communications has also faced some external pressure that is inconvenient to disclose more specifically - the office they opened on Qionglan Island, which is responsible for import and export bonded business, has also fallen into the pull of various forces.

However, Vice President Fei personally went there to sit in town and strictly implemented Gu Biao's order that he would never buy and sell imported materials other than electronic materials.

However, if you don't fit in, you will always be excluded. After a month or two, as the time entered July, more than 870 new companies nominally operating various businesses appeared on the island in a month, and nearly $2 billion in foreign exchange poured in from various channels, and they did not know what import and export business they were doing.

Of course, Gu Biao was going to make a mistake with Yan Zhi. More than two years ago, when he was still working in the Foreign Investment Commission, did not transfer to the Ministry of Electronics Industry, and did not go to Kissinger to study, he was known for "strongly supporting the bonded zone model and opposing the duty-free island model when the committee solicited opinions, and felt that duty-free islands were prone to loopholes".

Although it has changed its location now, since Huaxing Communications also has an office in the south, it can also be written and said.

Bao Chengcheng in the capital, after knowing what Gu Biao reported, also knew what he was going to do, and symbolically persuaded a few words.

"Xiao Gu, if you really want to leave, I won't stop you. At present, we are also going to adjust, and I am going to go to the local area with the leader, and I will not work in the capital. If you leave now, as long as the accounts are clear, you can be regarded as cherishing your reputation and leaving because you are not adopted. Others will also think that you are a righteous person. ”

So, in July of this year, Gu Biao submitted his resignation on the grounds of "inability to handle the company's import and export business relationship".

It has only been two or three months since he turned positive. Huaxing Communication has just realized the localization of pagers and paging base stations.

The ministry happened to be changing teams, and there were indeed people who wanted to take over, so they didn't obstruct it. The most important thing that China lacks is talent. So he was given a one-month handover inspection period, and as long as the accounts were clear, let him go.

Of course, if the accounts are not clear, they must be reviewed separately and slowly.

Fortunately, Gu Biao's accounts must be very clear. Because all the import lists of Huaxing Communications that enjoy tariff-free and preferential use of foreign exchange are strictly checked for preferential reasons and re-export directions. Gu Biao originally insisted that no other things should be imported in the past six months.

What's more, only if Gu Biao leaves early, the successor can adjust the business.

In the tacit understanding, at the end of July, Gu Biao smoothly and completely left the system at the level of the department.

Finally, I was relaxed and could do whatever I wanted.