On July 5, Shanghai, overcast to moderate rain.

The lingering rain that trickles down from the light gray dome shrouds the vast Huangpu River in a thin layer of white mist.

At 12 on the Bund, in the 80s and beyond, the entire center of power and the city's history was condensed in this beige neo-Greek building.

In 1912, the British HSBC bought the properties of Beifa & Co. at No. 11 and Meifeng & Co. at No. 10 the Bund in Shanghai, and with the expansion of HSBC's business in China, in 1920 HSBC invited a well-known British architectural design firm to build its headquarters in the Far East.

At the time of the building's design, the high-spirited HSBC and the equally high-spirited British Empire were standing on top of the planet.

At that time, HSBC set the tone for the building, "no matter how difficult or troublesome it is, as long as there are materials suitable for the building, you have to find a way to get them".

The eight lavish columns in the bank hall made from a single block of Italian marble are one of the building materials that HSBC has spared no expense in transporting from Europe to the Far East.

At the end of 1920, Wilson of Gonghe & Co. completed a draft of the HSBC building, and in 1923, a new neo-Greek building was erected on the plot just north of 11 on the Bund.

The HSBC Far Eastern Bank building adopted the rigorous neoclassical composition that was popular at that time, and the building as a whole adopted a typical neoclassical three-section horizontal and vertical division.

The main body of the building is five storeys high, the central part is seven storeys high, and the basement is one and a half floors. The main body of the building is a steel frame structure, filled with bricks and pasted with granite stone.

The building takes the main gate and the dome above the main gate as the central axis, the two sides form a strict symmetry, and the six copper gates with delicate floral decorations are in the style of Roman stone arch coupons, and the high and low cylindrical lamps are placed on the left and right of the coupon door, and a pair of bronze lions.

The middle section of the second to fourth floors of the main building is customary with six Ionic columns, and the circular dome in the middle of the top floor is a copper frame structure, and the dome base is a triangular mountain flower imitating a Greek temple, and the dome as a whole has become a typical symbol of the building in the following years.

When the building was inaugurated, the British press described it as a Noah's olive leaf, the most beautiful and spectacular structure between the Suez Canal and the Bering Strait.

Due to the low hanging lead clouds and continuous rain, the Bund 12 at this time was lit up early, and the white or yellow lights reflected on the beige exterior of the building through the narrow windows, making the whole building unusually resplendent.

A sudden gust of river breeze blew, and the rain shone through the half-concealed narrow Victorian-style lattice window on the crimson desk next to it.

Feeling the sudden coolness outside the window, Yan Hongji propped up his upper body and slowly closed the window next to him.

After signing the remaining documents on the desktop, Yan Hongji pinched his neck with his hand and stood up, slowly pacing to a gray filing cabinet against the wall.

Opening the unlocked cabinet door and taking out a yellowed document from inside, Yan Hongji did not return to his desk, but stood behind the window and looked at the Bund shrouded in smoke and rain for a while.

In the early 90s, Shanghai was far from being as prosperous as the world's top international metropolis in later generations, and the Bund, built more than 100 years ago, is still the most eye-catching area in the whole city.

Retracting his gaze from the window, Yan Hongji slowly opened the yellowed document in his hand.

The header of the document reads "The Prospect of the Future at the 1958 Shanghai Intellectuals Forum" in bold font No. 1.

Below the title, is an abridgement of two numbers smaller than the title, although the document has been some years, but the slightly faded three-point font can still be seen very clearly, written on the 2000 year after the complete realization of the four modernizations of Shanghai, now organized into the outline as follows:

1. Diet.

All important bus intersections, will set up restaurants, dim sum shops or tea points, every morning someone will automatically cook the guest meal, put it in the thermos bucket, who passes by can come in to eat, see that the food is almost, take out some raw materials from the small warehouse reserved next to it to burn well, for the people behind to eat.

Breakfast is based on rice and several kinds of pasta, with a little meat, and the raw materials for breakfast come from vegetables and pigs in the land on the outskirts of Shanghai, which are automatically killed, cut and picked, and the nearby people's commune automatically delivers them nearby.

2. Dressing.

The color of the fabric will be greatly rich, and the difference between men's and women's clothing will also be greatly reduced, basically polyester fabrics, cotton fabrics will be completely eliminated.

Third, the instrument.

Due to the great development of technology, the original factory is no longer suitable for existence, and after the disbandment, the factory will only retain a few universal machines.

If the people need something, they can go to the factory to see if there is any, there is a spot to take away, there is no and can not be made on the spot, write a big-character poster and paste it at the door, the person who will do it will naturally come to do, if the raw materials needed by the machine are about to run out, the people near the raw material production area will be notified, and they will automatically bring some ore and renewable energy to the warehouse of the universal machine when they come to the factory to do business.

If you need something that the machine can't make for the time being, you can write a big-character poster to ask for help from someone who will see it, and after seeing the big-character poster, the person will help make the thing needed on the big-character poster, and then write a note on how to make this thing, and advertise it in the form of a big-character poster.

Fourth, the aspect of residence.

The original sturdy stone houses were allowed to continue to be used after some decorations that reflected the feudal and capitalist content, the new workers' village was expected to be eliminated in that era, and in the era of communism, the family structure would change greatly and almost completely disintegrate, the people could freely choose to live here today, live there tomorrow, live for a few days at will, all household appliances were automatically sterilized, and broken quilts and daily necessities could be made or collected by themselves at the universal machine.

5. Transportation.

Bicycles can only be used by children, adults all use more fuel-efficient motor tricycles, the elderly because of the longevity medicine, life expectancy will continue to extend, at the age of 100 can still drive vehicles, born in 1958 middle-aged people at that time and young people still have the same strength to work.

The train has been automated and unmanned, like a fully automatic assembly line to go back and forth across the country, taking the train does not cost money, and the people of the country basically rely on the train for long-distance travel.

Yan Hongji flipped through the document several times, then let out a long sigh, returned to his desk to finish it, and took down a black-skinned booklet from the file shelf on his right hand that had been curled up due to frequent flipping.

Putting the booklet in front of him, Yan Hongji adjusted his sitting posture and straightened his body, and after opening the black cover of the booklet, a large title was revealed on the first page of the booklet.

"Sensing City, Data City"

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