Early the next morning.

"Get up, get up, you big sloth. ”

Li Huayong hurriedly dressed: "Hey, I said Director Lin, you are addicted to sleeping now, right? By the way, how can you have a room card for my room? Tsk, the service of this Peninsula Hotel seems to be very ordinary, and you dare to call yourself a Far Eastern lady?"

5 people opened 3 standard rooms, Deng Chaoqun and Li Er were stunned to live in one, Li Huayong originally wanted to live with Li Mingda, and let the eldest Master Du live alone. But Master Du refused to live or die, and the reason for his refusal was also very strange, saying that this room was too high-end, and he couldn't sleep alone. There was no way, Li Huayong had no choice but to swap with him.

Lin Wei proudly shook a room card in his hand: "Don't you know that there are two room cards in a room?"

"Then you can't just break in, by the way, if you came in last night, then I'm welcome, but now it's not welcome. ”

Lin Wei blushed: "Stinky rascal." ”

Li Huayong smiled: "Okay, no kidding, what about the others?"

Lin Wei glanced at Li Huayong, "Everyone is waiting for you, otherwise you think I'm willing to enter your stinky room." ”

When he came to the dining place downstairs, he saw that almost all of them had dark circles under their eyes, and Li Huayong said in surprise:

"What are you?"

Li Er was stunned and smiled bitterly, and he replied on behalf of everyone: "I can't sleep." ”

Li Huayong laughed. After breakfast, Li Huayong waved his hand:

"Let's go, let's go, today we hillbillies go into the city to see the rotten capitalist fancy world. ”

Today's visit to Central was decided yesterday. After arriving in Xiangjiang, visiting Central is like going to Tiananmen Square in the capital and visiting the Bund in Shencheng, which is one of the natures, so everyone has no objections.

The Peninsula Hotel is in Kowloon and Central is on Hong Kong Island, but the two are not too far apart, separated by Victoria Harbour. Moreover, Xiangjiang now has an undersea tunnel, which is convenient for transportation.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, everyone came to the famous Queen's Road in Xiangjiang, and everyone got off the bus and started sightseeing.

Xiangjiang is known as a shopping paradise, but for this group of mainland guests, no matter what kind of paradise it is, it is useless. The reason for this is very simple, everyone has no money, they can't afford to spend, and no one is ready to come to Xiangjiang to shop this time. And Lin Wei obviously understands this matter, so she didn't take everyone to those shopping places, mainly to browse the cityscape.

Even so, everyone except Li Huayong was deeply shocked by the prosperity of Xiangjiang.

"I opened my eyes, and today I finally opened my eyes. Master Du muttered silently while looking around.

Of course, this shock is also very easy to understand, at present, the economy of Xiangjiang is too much ahead of the country, and the place where everyone is now is the most prosperous area of Xiangjiang, the core area of Xiangjiang business, which is the most essence of the entire Xiangjiang. In later generations, Central gathered more than two-thirds of the world's top 500 companies. Although this era is not as good as that of later generations, the effect of "opening your eyes" is still easy to achieve.

Everyone walked around, and unconsciously, maybe everyone was a builder, and everyone was attracted by a building that seemed to have just been completed, even Li Huayong was attracted.

"Tsk, this building seems to be a lot taller than our Pengcheng World Trade Center, right?"

When Li Mingda first said this, Deng Chaoqun, Li Erzi and others made visual inspections, and after visual inspection, they came to the conclusion: "That's right, it should be a little higher, this building should be close to 200 meters, but it should be less than 200 meters." ”

You must know that the "visual inspection" of architectural engineers is the real visual inspection, especially for those who study architecture, with the help of some very simple tools, such as a pencil, or even just two fingers, using this method to judge the approximate height of a building, which cannot be said to be very accurate, but at least it is not too outrageous.

"Let's go, go over and have a look?"

Li Er's suggestion was unanimously approved by everyone. It's not just the height of the building that attracts attention, it's also the fact that when viewed from afar, the building is truly magnificent. In the words of later generations, this is a very "local tyrant" building, which is the main reason for attracting everyone's attention.

Li Huayong also walked towards the building with everyone, and when he completely saw the whole picture of the building, Li Huayong smiled, and said in his heart No wonder everyone was attracted to it, it turned out to be this local tyrant building.

"What are you laughing at?"

Lin Wei, who was not far away, suddenly asked. With so many people out shopping, Lin Wei didn't get very close to Li Huayong, but I don't know if she has a special function, Li Huayong can always see any change in his expression.

"Tuhao, I'm laughing at this tyrant building. ”

"Local tyrant?" Lin Wei sneered.

Li Huayong is right, this is indeed a local tyrant building, it can even be called the most local tyrant building in the whole world, there is no one!

Because it is the Xiangjiang HSBC Building, the only civil building in the world that has cost more than $1 billion so far.

What is the concept of $1 billion in this era? Don't talk about anything else, just take the "Pengcheng World Trade Center," the tallest building in China, as the total floor area of these two buildings is actually about the same. Although the HSBC Building is a little taller, it has only more than 40 floors in total, while the Pengcheng World Trade Center has more than 50 floors. But just such a local tyrant building, its cost is almost more than 20 times that of Pengcheng World Trade Center.

Although it is said that if you build a house in Xiangjiang, considering the factors of materials and labor, its cost must be much more expensive, but if it is 20 times more expensive, it is really a bit outrageous.

So what is the main price of this building? The most important keyword is, of course, only the word "local tyrant".

The owner of the local tyrant, the designer of the local tyrant, and the style of the local tyrant, all kinds of factors have come together to achieve this most tyrant building in the world so far.

The owner of this building is, of course, HSBC. As a veteran British bank, HSBC, which has the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, is simply awesome in this era. When they decided to build a head office building in Hong Kong. Especially when they decided to "build the best bank in the world". The willful side of the local tyrant is reflected.

The conditions were both generous and challenging: the architect had absolute freedom to "do whatever he wanted" regardless of budget, but the building needed to be a work of art that would reflect HSBC's financial prowess, reflect the nobility of the British, and be a "highly skilled" architectural character.

In fact, there is no need to say anything else, as long as you see such conditions, even ordinary people can think that if you meet this kind of owner, then the house built is destined to be extremely expensive. Such a tyrant style can only be compared with those oil nouveau riche in the Middle East in later generations.

But the matter is not over, the design of this building was finally won by the famous British "high-tech" architect Norman Foster. The so-called "high-tech school" in architectural design is a very influential school in this era. The core of this genre is to try to implement a kind of "technology first" architectural aesthetics, and strive to use architectural forms to express the rapid development of science and technology in the industrial age.

Of course, the above is a more official statement, in layman's terms, this genre is also known as the "dazzling school", their favorite practice is to reflect a lot of "high-tech elements" in their own design works, with high-tech show-offs, with new materials to pretend.

The design style of this school was very popular in this era, and it is currently one of the most dominant and influential schools in Western architecture. There are many designers of this genre. However, there are only two of the most famous or representative. One of them is Richard Rogers, who is internationally famous for designing the Centre Pompidou in France and the headquarters of Lloyd's Insurance Company in London, and the other is the Foster guy who designed the HSBC Tower in Hong Kong.

Interestingly, the two were previously partners, but the former began to become more famous, and the latter did not gradually surpass the former until the completion of the Hongjiang HSBC Building, and established his status as a top international master in one fell swoop.

It's just a pity that this genre of architectural design didn't last long. After entering the new century, this genre gradually declined and declined.

The reason for the decline of this genre is also very simple, just take the local tyrant building in front of you as an example, you look cool and stylish in this era, but it is likely to be limited to this era. Because the so-called "high-tech" has a time limit, will you still be "high-tech" in 10 years? Will you still make people feel cool in 20 years?

Even ordinary people want to get it, which is obviously impossible. Therefore, in later generations, this genre is no longer the mainstream of architectural design. The "high-tech" school was gradually replaced by an architectural design style called the "naturalism".

For example, it was also during this era that there was another building in Xiangjiang that attracted as much attention as the HSBC Building, and that was the Bank of China Building, which was designed by the famous Chinese-American designer I.M. Pei. Mr. Pei is a standard "naturalist". The two buildings with the same function built in the same city have virtually become a contest between two of the world's top architects.

The HSBC Tower is known for its flexible interior spaces with excellent views, while the Bank of China Tower has been praised for its triangular support structure, material savings and flawless architectural form.

But even so, no matter how much praise the HSBC Building receives, judging from the evaluation of later generations, the Bank of China Tower is undoubtedly better than the HSBC Tower.

"Bank of China Building, Bank of China Building...."

Li Huayong muttered silently, his eyes habitually looking in the other direction of Central.

Li Huayong was suddenly shocked. Because the place where Li Huayong looked should be the location of the Bank of China Building in Xiangjiang.

But now that place is empty!

"The construction of the Bank of China Tower began at the end of '85, and the bidding began shortly after the completion of the HSBC Building, and it was completed in '89...."

Li Huayong quickly summoned this information about the Bank of China Tower in real history in his head.

"Lotus, lotus. ”

Li Huayong's abrupt voice startled Lin Wei:

"You, what are you doing?"

"Can you get someone to buy me some newspapers now?"

"Buy a newspaper, what newspaper, which issue, and what are you going to buy a newspaper for?"

Faced with several questions thrown by Lin Wei in a row, Li Huayong smiled bitterly, this question couldn't be explained clearly, so he had to compare it casually;

"You all need mainstream newspapers in Xiangjiang, such as Sing Tao Daily, Ming Pao, and by the way, the letter newspaper, which is good at finance and economics, as for which issue, you'd better buy all the newspapers of the last month. ”

"Huh, you're crazy!"

Li Huayong also felt that he was a little stupid, but he couldn't say it clearly at this time.

"You help first, I'll explain it to you later. ”

That afternoon, Li Huayong did not go out shopping, he had been reading the newspaper at the hotel.

When it was about to take the evening, Li Huayong smiled:

"Found it!"

"What did you find?" Lin Wei snatched the newspaper in Li Huayong's hand and looked at it,

This is a "Ming Pao", and in the advertising column of this issue of the newspaper, Lin Wei saw such a message:

Tender notice for Bank of China Building.